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 pretty freeing within itself.
That's kind of been one of the things that I've always been able to do. In fact, my impressions when I was a little kid - that's kind of what got me into acting. This was a little different than an impression. This was like a portrayal of a character, had to be a little bit more than an impression.
You can't get out of the cage, but you can move within the cage. So that's how I looked at it. I mean, you can take that up with one of the producers to give you a more Stargate-esque answer, but that's how I see it.
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 was so hard to do that!
He claims that his best friend would describe him as "crazy, wacky, silly and fun."
He was writing a one-man show in 2003 but has since moved on to other projects.
He is a skilled drummer and plays in a band with fellow actor, Joey Zimmerman.
Michael Welch: "I always thought it'd be fun to go to a sci-fi convention, watch a bunch of Klingons walking around, all of that kind of stuff."
He is a huge fan of Family Guy.
He played the younger version of Colonel Jack O'Neill in the Stargate SG-1 episode "Fragile Balance". His Joan of Arcadia co-star Mary Steenburgen has been mentioned numerous times on that series as O'Neill's heartthrob.
He has played both a mentally retarded person (in
He got his first car, a Toyota Prius, in October 2004.
He has an older sister, Sarah, who is studying to become an optometrist.
He is a close friend of Aaron Himelstein and Christopher Marquette, both of whom he appeared with in Joan of Arcadia. He had known Himelstein since 1997 but they did not become good friends until the series began in 2003.
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