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I guess because you study the character and you do all those things. But when it comes down to it, it's still my performance, it's still my interpretation. I'm not going to, you know, be a clone - well, I was a clone of Richard Dean Anderson!
I know a lot of actors don't watch themselves on TV, but I think it's good to see how else you can improve.
It was more freeing, mainly because he's so free anyway. He just is in his performance. So to mimic someone doing a free performance, well, that's ... (more Michael Welch quotes)
His favourite food is cheese.
Michael Welch: (on some of his favourite roles) I played a Buddhist monk on Chicago Hope. I was eleven at the time. They shaved my head, and I got to be a Buddhist! It was interesting! There was also CSI, which was some of the hardest acting I've ever done. It was like a three minute autopsy scene, and there's this master shot that had every actor in it. I'm dead, so I can't move or breathe for three minutes. It ... (more Michael Welch trivia)
| "Forest Beatniks" and "Urban Thoreaus": Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, Lew Welch, and Michael McClure by Rod Phillips, Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, and Lew Welch |