Ben McKenzie

Like, what happens if people know who I actually am as opposed to the tough kid from the wrong side of the tracks that I'm playing and I'm just like this econ dork guy?

Dude, I had spent so little time on a set.

I had done like a guest star, a co-star,

I maybe spent three days on the set prior to getting the lead of this pilot.

It was so bad that I was shooting the first day.

I think I was method because I didn't know what else to do.

I was just so terrified that I was like, I'm just going to stay in this.

Exactly.

We rehearsed the scene.

We break to light.

And this guy comes up to me who kind of looks a lot like me.

And he just sort of stands there awkwardly.

And he's like... Waiting for you to move over.

I had never had a stand-in.

As a guest star, a co-star, you do your own stand-in.

You do the standing, yeah.

Yeah.

Which was hilarious, too, because then I got this reputation as a really intense actor.

So we were trying to find a Hades movie, and I think I literally got offered a script where the main character...

wore a white t-shirt and a choke chain and did fighting.