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For actors, you've gotta sometimes fill in your backstory.

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

When I develop a character, I usually start by creating a backstory with whatever information I have access to.

You wanna do a lot of backstory for your character - as an actor, you wanna research that. But on the show, it's fun to remain in that naive place as you go along, and be able to continue to discover things about your character as the writers come up with them.

I do build my own backstory as an actor. It's important to know where your characters have come from in order to know where they're going - in order to exist in that state of being.

The beauty of 'The Walking Dead' and the beauty of being on a television show for a while, is that, it's your backstory, it's part of what you are, it's what you carry with you every day.

Other people's lives come at us without a backstory most of the time. The present is like that.

It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.

My characters are all made up of pieces of people I have known, their backstories pieces of mine.