Gary Sinise

type role because i mean i i don't think you were you went and every role is significantly different you're not just like the army guy in every movie were you concerned no i wasn't worried about that okay now um i ended up you know you might get offered some things but i i just was looking for the the best projects that were coming my way at the time and

Ended up playing Harry Truman in a movie for HBO.

That was an interesting project because it's a historical figure.

Footage of him, lots of documentation, a lot of books.

So the trick there is you're creating an impression of somebody who really lived, right?

So you've got to do believable enough impression that people kind of go with it and forget it's you.

So that was a good acting challenge

I started shooting that right after the Oscars for Forrest Gump.

I left like the next day and went and started shooting Harry Truman.

So some really good projects started coming my way at the time.

The 90s were very, very good.

Good time.

I'm curious, what got you into acting?

Well, I was a bad student in high school.

I'm among friends.

I'm among friends here now.

Yeah, bad student in high school, failing a lot of classes, not doing well, playing in a rock band, getting into trouble, all that kind of stuff.

And I just stumbled into auditioning for a play.

for the hell of it.

I saw all the pretty girls walking in and I followed them in and I thought, okay, give me the script, I'll try it.