With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable.

So I think at the start of the 3rd year, that's when the character became sort of more like myself than it was about the original interpretation.

I'd done a few jobs, but not much, and I'd come from a family that exercises caution when it comes to anything to do with job security.

I think the writing on the wall is definitely there this year that this is probably our last year.

I think I'd certainly be lying to say I would have wanted to play the character in somebody else's interpretation for 8 years that way.

We never thought the show would last this long.

You know, if it doesn't work, we can always cut it.

There's one right now that's sort of a Canadian independent film that Don Davis and I are working to put together, and that's kind of a labor of love.

It's fun to play the character and then watch him later.