- How do you think starring in The Pacific will alter your professional life?

Y'know I've been acting since I was a little kid. Five years old. I had a lot of success growing up and I kind of went away from it for a little while and did kind of the normal things, high school and SATs, the Prom and girls and college. Y'know, I wanted to do all that.

I went to USC film school and learned about the other side of the camera. I graduated and just said, 'Y'know, I'm not done with this yet'. I think acting is something that I am innately the best at, more so, I'd say, than the other things in my life.

And I knew that I just wanted to keep doing and I was so fortunate to be able to be in such an amazing project and hopefully it will lead to good things for me. You never know.

- How interesting is it for you to get lost in someone else's life like this?

That's why I do it. It's about that moment where you lose yourself completely. And you make it real for you. You actually experience what's happening and you can feel it.

You feel yourself hitting that. It's so rewarding because you almost kind of smile inside your own head knowing this is authentic, this is actually happening. It's that rush that makes you want to do this job.

- What about attending boot camp? Would you want to repeat it?

Never in my life. Never, ever, ever, ever (laughs). I think that's the point though. I mean, it was so tough. I lost 12 pounds in ten days at boot camp, if that is any indication of how it is. I was kind of like, 'C'mon, we're a bunch of actors y'know'.  'You have to be up before 11 o'clock every morning, y'know. Fillet only once a week!'

I thought it was going to be easy. It was not. It was insanely challenging. We were in the middle of the jungle. Boy, I would never want to go through that again. I'm sure many people are happy to hear that.

- How did you find working with many different directors on The Pacific?

Oh, it was really interesting because we had some days where we would be with three different directors in one day. And the entire tone of the set was different based on who the director was.

Yeah, it was challenging because I'm there the whole ten episodes, from the beginning to the end. And I have to make sure that my character kind of follows a certain line.

And so it's a delicate balance between what the director wants you to do and your own feelings of how the character is supposed to go and the arc. And so I found it really interesting and I enjoyed it. It was kind of a challenge.

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