On his previous hit show Lost... “It was a great experience and a really wonderful chapter in our lives. It was also really wonderful for our two young children, who aren’t so young anymore. We really enjoyed the six years that we spent there. Working on the show was fantastic. I really enjoyed the story and the character that I played on the show. I thought that I was given a really good opportunity to work on a role that was very complex, which gave me the chance to do a lot of different things. It was a fantastic experience all around.”
On whether he enjoyed living the island lifestyle...I enjoyed it very much for the first couple of years. But, you know, I was raised in the mountains and I really love four seasonal climates and wide open spaces. So Hawaii became a little bit constricting for me, personally, so I was ready to move on to a different environment when the show was finished.
On his 14-year-old cousin telling him she just finished watching all six seasons of Lost, and realizing he will still have new fans catching on to the show...Oh that’s great. You know, my daughter is actually 15 and she’s watching it with her friends right now. We wouldn’t have let the kids watch it before because we thought they were a little too young, but now that my daughter is 15 she is watching it with her friends and enjoying it a great deal. I think it’s the kind of show that will keep getting discovered by new generations of young people who are going to find it on DVD and that’s really cool.
On stating in previous interviews that Lost would be the last thing he would ever do on television... No, not at all. I mean, I have said that [I wouldn’t do TV anymore] but it’s not because of anything I have against TV. I think some of the very best writing is happening on television and it’s a fantastic medium for storytelling. The reason I said that is because I just want more flexibility in my life. I’ve done two television shows and I spent 12 years of my life working on those two projects for six-year periods of time. It’s a very demanding venture and you know exactly what you’re going to be doing for the next six years. You know what you’re going to be doing for anywhere from 7 to 9 months of the year and all of that time is going to be focused on that one project, that one role, that one story. And at this point in my life, I’m just looking to have more personal flexibility in terms of when I’m working and when I’m not.
On preparing for his upcoming film Alex Cross... “I lost 35 pounds, which was difficult, but I had really expert help. I met a man in London who had done this for several people — helping them radically change their look for a specific role. We got together and he asked me what I imagined the character looking like. Afterward, he came back with a strategically laid out workout plan that involved us training together on top of a structured nutritional plan. I was very disciplined, I never cheated and I worked really hard on it. Some of the first images that were leaked from the movie made me very happy because I felt like I had re-created the image I had in my mind of what the character would look like.”
On his present state of mind... “I’m a little anxious right now because I’m going to be traveling a lot soon. I have three films coming out over the next eight months, which means a lot of traveling, moving around and doing press while staying in hotels. I’m usually a little anxious about that stuff because it’s always kind of a whirlwind and it takes me away from my family. But at the moment, I could not be happier with where we are now in Oregon, settled into this home that my wife and I spent three years building. We are very happy here and so I’d say I’m in a very good state of mind.”
On having worked in TV, theater and film, and what he would say is his favorite medium...I just like to be involved with groups of people trying to tell a good story. It really doesn’t matter to me what the medium is. I look at film and television as the same thing essentially. It really just comes down to how big the screen is because the process is pretty much the same. But when you’re talking about theater versus film, they’re both very different animals and they take different kinds of energy. I like both a great deal.
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