So I have to ask, and I know you’ve been asked before. This isn’t your first lawyer role and it’s probably your third main lawyer role on TV in recent years. Is this a purposeful career choice, or are you just happening into these?
Well, that’s a good question. It’s funny because, you know, on Angel, I think that sometimes I get a rap of, like, playing a lawyer on Angel, which I played a lawyer for half a season of the four seasons that I was on there. It was for half of the last season, and then my character went back to the sort-of street-fighting, vampire-fighting avenger that he was. And on the one hand, I have to really thank Joss Whedon for putting me in those suits and showing me in a courtroom because I guess it gave some other people an idea as well, which has kept me working, which is great.
And then between Conviction and this character, I think that even though these people do the same job, they have different motivations and very different personalities. And that’s how I kind-of see these two guys, and then I can look at these two characters as completely different people because, you know, I’ve been very close to both parts.
So, listen, if I were approached to play another lawyer at after, you know, at another point in my life, I would gladly do it. I think there’s definitely worse things that I can be typecast as. [Laughs] But I think I have a lot of other sides to my personality that I look forward to showing as well.
So, that being said, including Gunn, if all of these lawyer characters ended up in the same courtroom, who would win?
Wow. [Laughs] Oh, man. Well, you know if it was strictly court–see, that’s hard because Gunn knows laws in every dimension, every species known to man. So if we’re going to stick with this… And then Gunn was a defense attorney as well… Geez, he’d be a very tough opponent, but Marcus is so scrappy. You know, I’m going to have to say Marcus.
Awesome. So speaking of Marcus, what do you want next for him? I see that there’s a possibility of a love interest on the show.
Yes. You know, when I think about Marcus, I feel like Marcus is one of those people who is never going to get what they want in life. Marcus to me–and this hasn’t been explored yet in the writing, per say–but I feel like Marcus is trying to find some sense of justice that was taken from him. And I think you can spend a lifetime trying to correct that wrong in your life, so I want to continue to explore how his character finds justice, both personally and professionally.
Ok, so, you might not exactly have anything to do with this, but it’s a related question. The active Twitter accounts during the show are really interesting, and I’m definitely signed up to follow Marcus. Is there any chance we’ll see you, the actor, on Twitter?
At this moment in time, no. I am very anti-Twitter at this specific moment in time. You know, I feel like we have all of these ways to communicate, but we say very little. So at this moment in time, I’m against Twitter. That may change because I was against Facebook, too, but now I’m on Facebook. But you know, I personally feel like my mind is so scattered with so many different places where I have to respond and communicate that I can’t even take on another form of it.
That makes sense. I know that’s actually [an issue] across celebrities right now is whether to or whether not to.
Right.
Switching gears a little here, as an Angel alum, you’ve basically been lumped into the “Whedonverse,” so to speak. How’s it feel to have such a cult following around you—especially as you pursue other things and have this great new show?
You know, it’s great, honestly, because you know, just the other night, the fans of Buffy and Angel and all of Joss’ projects are extremely respectful and really cool people. The other night I was at dinner, and you know, I sort-of noticed two people kind-of like tuned into my table a little bit, and I didn’t know why. And mind you, I always forget that I’m on TV, so I don’t–it’s the last reason why I would think somebody was staring at me. We left dinner, and they casually approached us in a very nice way afterward and said that they had just come from a talk that Joss had gave, and they thought that it was so ironic that they would bump into me. I thought it was cool that they waited the entire time to approach me after, you know, my date and I ate.
So, it’s like that all over the world, quite honestly. Whenever I bump into people who are Joss Whedon fans and fans of the entire universe, they’re just always very cool and always very respectful, so it’s really an honor to be associated with them.
That’s great, that’s really great.
Yeah, and like I said, it happens all over the world, too. Last time I was in the U.K., I wasn’t even in London, I was in some–I don’t remember where exactly–and this dude just comes up to me and says, “Hey, you’re the geezer on Angel.” It was cool, you know, it was just no big deal.
