Every Actor Has Periods Of Their Life

I Think They [tv Productions] Were Just Kind Of Drying Up. I'd Done A Couple Of Episodes, But Nothing Was Happening. So I Went To Vancouver To Visit A Buddy And See What Was Going On, And That Year Was Crazy. Vancouver Was On Fire At That Point. It Was All These Stephen J. Cannell Productions - The Commish Being One Of Them - And In One I Was A Bartender, And I Think I Had Five Lines.

When We Started The Show [lonesome Dove], Suzanne De Passe - Who Had Done The Original Miniseries And Still Owned The Property And Was Turning It Into This Series - She Brought In A Lot Of Old Friends - Diahann Carroll And Billy Dee Williams And Dennis Weaver. And We Had An Interesting Collection Off The Top Of These Old Seasoned Actors. Billy Dee Was Lovely And Iconic.

The Thing You Realize Pretty Quickly, Though, Is That Being In Front Of An Audience Whose Job It Is To Laugh Is A Big Pressure If The Writing Is Not Hilarious.

I Think We All Realize That Anyone Can - And Has - Gotten Aids. So There's Obviously Still A Lot To Be Done.

I Was Going To Be The Hero Of The Movie [the Lost World]. I Had To Speak Up And Be Like, "shouldn't I Be The One Doing That?