I did dream of those things. And then I saw them in the movie and I was like, "What the fuck?"
[laughing] This is like my psyche! What the hell?
This is INSANE!
[laughing]
Then I said, "You know, screw it! I'm still gonna wear the sweatshirt with the shoulder hanging out..."
You know, because, I bet you looked GOOD.
And it worked, man. It worked.
Yeah. I'm sure the auditions you went on were reaaaaallly interesting.
Luckily, that was pre-audition.
That was just your youth.
Yeah. I was just workshoppin' shit.
Yeah, what is UP with that, by the way? Like, when I was growing up, it occurred to me to wear the off-the-shoulder sweatshirts even though I wasn't a welder by day and a dancer by night?
That's what my sister did.
Like, the big hair and the layered skirts and all the Madonna jewelry? The hell?
She did all that.
That's good stuff.
It woulda been weird if I'd done all that.
Well, kind of. Or, like, you might have gotten different kinds of dates in high school.
Exactly.
How did you get the role on Alias? Did you just audition for it?
Yeah. I auditioned in New York. J.J. happened to be out in New York, so I met him. And we just hit it off, like, boom! And he flew me out and then I tested the next week and then I got it.
That's so cool.
Yeah.
It sounds like he picked people...not just based on talent, like, obviously you're talented, because you have to know that we think you're all just great, great actors but --
Yeah, but no one was like a name or anything. I mean, even Michael Vartan who had, like, probably the most notoriety coming in, I mean, Never Been Kissed had been, like, five years before that.
That's right.
Yeah, he wasn't --
He wasn't a household name.
No, not at all! I mean, J.J. really picked people that he thought, you know, that he just thought would work. Which is really great that the network allowed him to do that.
I know. Well, of course, he is Armageddon boy.
Right. But, like, Jennifer Garner...the now iconic Jennifer Garner --
I know! She's everywhere now! I think she's getting to the point where SHE'S sick of herself.
It's pretty crazy.
Did you see the SNL with her on it?