It happens sooner or later on every shoot. The long hours, the pressure from production to finish the day and stay on time and on budget…people start to lose their patience, and they get cranky. It happened today. We’re tired, and, we’re all trying to make a “bigger” movie than the budget will allow, so…

You’d think that, after working as an actor for 23 years with some pretty impressive people, I’d just stop feeling star struck, just take it in stride when I have a scene with someone who I really admire. Of course, you’d be wrong. Each time I have a scene with Isaac Hayes, I get this…

The alarm was brutal this morning, and I moved through the first half of the day on autopilot. Well, that’s not entirely true. When I was on the set, my mind would wake up long enough for me to be present in the scene, from action to cut. Until after lunch, though, all the other…

Today was a very routine day working on a film, and the only really interesting thing that happened wasn’t even related to the movie! There’s a great show on NPR called “Marketplace,” and one of the producers emailed me a few weeks ago, asking if I’d be interested in participating in a program about how…