Was landing a role on As the World Turns a big moment for you, then?
It was a tough thing because the day that I got that job, I had no money. As in N-O. The day that I got that job, I got a job at a regional theater in Portland, Maine, doing Lanford Wilson’s Fifth of July for a few hundred dollars a week. That was a really tough call. Doing a play for seven weeks, or doing this contract on a soap. I didn’t want to — I thought, “Oh man, I’m gonna be a soap actor forever!” and it freaked me out. Actually, there was a real silver lining in that because you work in front of a camera all of the time, you get to be comfortable with it, in a good way, where you’re not concentrating on that but concentrating on other things. But I don’t know if there ever was a moment. I’m not sure I’m there yet, of feeling like I’ve had the moment, like, this is it.
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