Looking back on it now, he mostly remembers how inexperienced and broke he was at the time.
“I was still finishing my last couple of quarters of college.
I didn’t know anything,” says the UCLA graduate.
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“I didn’t even know how I was going to eat.”
I didnt even know that was the word for extras background.
So, the cook he looks at me and hes like, What do you want?'
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And I just kind of sheepishly said, ‘I guess Ill take the background breakfast.’
He must have sensed something, and hes like, ‘What do you do here?’
Im like, ‘Im an actor?’
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He kind of shook his head and said ‘you could have whatever you want.’
I was like, ‘Really, for free?
In that case…'"
And the day only improved from there.
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There’s a way to show a passionate kiss without using tongue.
“It was just like being a kid,” he says.
But by the end of his run, “I was ready to feel again,” he says.
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“I was the biggest champion of him dying a horrible death once he killed a kid.”
If that meant changing lines, it meant changing lines.
If that meant cutting half your lines, it meant cutting half your lines."
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he says, pointing to a specificscene he shared with Kyle Chandler in season 5’s “Fracture.
““It was kind of a big scene where I let him know that I’m in charge.
He came up to me and he cut out well over half his lines.
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He’s like, ‘I’m not gonna say these.
This scene is not about me saying these things.
This scene is about you telling me these things you should probably tell me.'”
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Williams found Chandler’s lack of ego incredibly inspiring and educational.
“It was great to know that you had a job to come back to.”
There’s always something going on, between fight sequences [and] being in the suit.”
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