A lot of feature films do two pages a day.
Even though I was concentrating on that two-week period from September 11th to September 20th, I was seeing the policy for real, happening, that we were talking about in the film.
Every night I'd come home to try and rest, turn on the tube, and there was George Bush leading the charge into Iraq, so I was inundated with him.
I didn't do this for the President. When I had this opportunity, not only was it work, but it was something that I could do, as an actor, for the victims and their families. Something I could give back.
I have a nephew in the Marine Corps right now who we're praying for; we want him to come home; I don't want him over there.
I haven't heard anything from anyone in the administration.
I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary footage of the President speaking to people.
I'm a little bit shocked that we went into Iraq and we didn't go into Saudi Arabia, but it's not my job-I'm just an actor.
The DC 9/11: Time of Crisis film was hard to get the part; I had to audition three times. It was very serious and very sobering. We studied and tried to re-create all the stuff that we all saw that day.
The one that was most fun was That's My Bush; the part that I did for Comedy Central. That was a hoot. That was more fun that one should be allowed to have.
We all remember where we were and we all remember what we were doing. I had a brother in New York, an uncle, lots of friends in New York. It made me angry, it made me sad; what could I do.
We exaggerated a lot of things; we had prosthetic ears, used a bit of Southern drawl. We made George very likeable. We may have done him a favor with that comedy.
You're dealing with your real life, and you're trying to play this President to re-create September 11th. I'm just an actor.
He was married to Alicia Cory from 1975 to 1975 (they were divorced), they had 1 child.
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