And if I can make you care about him a little bit, that makes you hate him even more. It’s a very short-lived story! So what I wanted to do was find some level of truth to him and empathy. So how do I make this guy not a villain? And to me, we’re all the heroes of our own story. This is something that, while I’ve done on-camera before, it still is like, how does this translate? Can I do this? And I was lovingly guided through not only by Neil and Craig, but everybody on our cast, everyone in our crew that just worked so hard for this.įor me, the challenge was apparent: I don’t want to play a villain. I’ve gotten very adept to walking onto a performance capture stage and acting inside of that environment boxing in that ring, if you will. I got this opportunity to challenge myself. And then I got the script, and I was like, “Oh, there’s meat here.” Pardon the pun. I thought I was gonna get a walk-on role.

Neil came to me like, “Dude, we’ve got a role for you” I’m like, “No shit!” He said, “Dude, you get to play James!” And I’m like, “Oh my God, dude…who is James?” And it was like, “Oh, it’s buddy boy! Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.” And I’ve been graciously welcomed now to the table of this extended family that we now have.

When did you first find out you’d be part of the series, and how did you feel about being cast as James?