1. Have you ever been on national television?
Apparently, yes, although inadvertently. When I used to work as a newspaper reporter for a Denver political weekly, I attended a lot of press conferences and on a few occassions, they were covered nationally. And as the camera panned the room, there I would be, a local reporter, notebook in hand taking notes.
2. Socks, slippers, shoes or barefoot around the house?
Currently barefoot. Usually slippers or socks, however. My feet can always feel a draft.
3. What are the advantages of your height?
I am of average height, so it is hard to really focus on the advantage. I guess the fact that I can usually find pants that fit.
4. Give an example of your absent mindedness?
In the past few weeks, I have suffered from forgetting my badge to my office building when returning to work on Mondays. I have a pretty solid Tuesday through Friday routine but apparently I have neglected to kick start that routine on Sunday evenings and ensure my badge is with my wallet and cellphone in the basket on the bookcase, after a festive weekend.
5. Given only these choices, what do you prefer: horseshoes, shuffleboard, croquet, archery, or darts?
Tough choices, each are fun in spurts, but given the list above, I pick croquet. You can play in the yard with friends over a few cocktails.
Also, in High School, you appeared momentarily on an edition of the PBS hit Nova. I saw it recently. Man have you gotten old!
1. My agent has consistently told me not to do television. She feels that it’s hard to be taken seriously as an actor after you’ve done so. Thus, my television appearances are generally limited to publicity junkets for my various film projects. Rarely do they appear nationally (my high-profile feud with Mary Hart doesn’t help matters).
2. Shoes, or barefoot. I have a unique propensity to break a toe about once every 18 months. Invariably, I exercise this talent around the house. Thus, wearing shoes at all waking moments is usually advised. If you recall my brief appearance in the Merchant-Ivory bomb, “Slaves of New York,†I’m sporting a limp—from accidentally kicking a wall at my parent’s house.
3. I’m of slightly above average height, which has several advantages. Foremost, because I’m taller than average, I never worry about height (Fun Fact: Where women worry most about breast size, men are most concerned with their height). Also, in my film career, it’s useful to be tall, as so many of my leading ladies can be quite tall on the set. Remember my makeout scene with Geena Davis (in the big budget flop, “Cutthroat Islandâ€)? I didn’t even need to wear lifts to film that scene. *That’s* the power of height.
4. About six or seven times a year, I’ll close the front door behind me, check to see if it’s locked, and then realize, “CRAP! MY KEYS!!!!!†I remember one time a few years ago, I left the house without my keys, *and* my cell phone. And who do you think called me that moment? My agent of course, telling me that I had to decide, “this instant†whether I wanted the lead in the Meg Ryan disaster, “In the Cut.†Needless to say, Mark Ruffalo took the part, so I guess forgetfulness can sometimes be a good thing. (You’d think I’d have a “key buddy†but I’ve never actually gotten around to having a key made. Maybe now that Adam and Sage live so close I’ll become key buddies with them.)
5. Definitely not horseshoes. I had a bad experience with horseshoes while filming the indie-bomb, “The Black Stallion Returns. Again.†Shuffleboard and croquet both bring out people’s bad sides—as both games reward vicious passive-aggressive behavior. Archery is also off limits (see “Cutthroat Island†to see why—my archery scene took over 80 takes and wounded 4 aboriginals). That leaves darts. Relatively dangerous, but convivial, competitive, and perfectly suited to being played in bars. My answer: darts.
1) Yes and I blew the roof off the joint (not Oklahoma City or any other terrorist type activity).
2)Feet need to breathe man.
3)I am 6’4″ and would much rather be tall and robust than dainty and weak. Plus I can hide the special things out of reach of you average to below average people.
4) I’m a keys guy, like Ed. Locking them in the car is my specialty, but only once while it was running. Unfortunately, it was during a horrible snow storm and I was just close enough to home to have to walk, instead of calling someone. Poor me.
5) I would love to say Archery, but who actually has the stuff and the place use the stuff? So, I would say Horseshoes have the most good times attached to them for me.
Croquet Roy? It’s like I don’t even know you anymore.
!) I think we were briefly on the Today show on June 13th, 2003. Annie Lennox was performing & we just “happened” to be NYC at the time!
@) It depends on the season. Summer months are spent barefoot whilst winter months are spent in house shoes. Socked feet are simply lethal on hardwood floors.
#) The advantages to my height are that I don’t have panic attacks on the subways during rush hour because I can generally see over everyones heads.
$) My absent mindedness happens when I’ve had far too much to drink. Any example of this is confusing Thom’s office with the bathroom.
%) None of these really sound like fun but I suppose if I were drinking, horse shoes would be the least deadly.