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Q. How did you get started professionally?
A. I began as a "Jet" in the musical "West Side Story" when I was
twenty-one. I was a dancer in the chorus.
Q. Do you see a relationship between dancing and acting?
A. It's all a dance. It's all about creating a flow and a rhythm with
your partner. I look at acting scenes as dance numbers.
Q. What attracted you to the role of Matt Mann?
A. I liked the idea of playing a volatile, high-strung character who is
an athlete, and a rebel, and a bit of a goof.
Q. How did you prepare for the part?
A. I played tennis every day with my friend Clint in New York. I wanted
to get better at tennis and I also felt that the character's explosive
personality paralleled the game itself. Matt Mann is tightly-strung like
a tennis racket.
Q. What advice do you have for young, aspiring actors?
A. Keep building your skills and adding on to what you have and what you
know.
Q. Who have been the biggest influences on you as an actor?
A. Actors with whom I've worked. I did a movie with
Adam West who at the end of the day would kick back
with us and say things like "as an actor you gotta
find the music." People have made fun of him, but,
in my opinion, he started the revolution in acting
of humanizing the comic book super-hero.
Q. Is acting important?
A. Yes, absolutely. All the world's a stage, isn't it? We all have a
role to play. If we didn't, it would be a lot harder to get up in the
morning.
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