MB: Speaking of seeing...and being seen...you've got a recurring role on two popular shows. Have you started getting recognized on the street?
MP: I get stopped every now and then, and it's always a mix. Some people watch Weeds, and some people watch 30 Rock. I actually find that a lot of Weeds watchers watch 30 Rock. I think it's part of the same demographic of people who watch smart comedies.
MB: Well, I went online and found some things that people are saying about you, and it seems like that you're becoming something of a sex symbol.
MP: What?!
MB: Yeah. On your IMDb profile, which...do you ever look at your IMDb profile?
MP: I try not to.
MB: Really? Because if I had one, I would look at it three hundred times a day.
MP: I just feel like...once you get sucked into that, of course there's going to be negative things said about you and, so...
MB: Well, at this point you have nothing but positive things on your page. If you don't want to visit, just trust me. There's a thread about you that's titled "Delicious," and inside it, someone describes you as being "madd sexxy." And it's with two ds and two xs, so you know they mean it.
MP: That's hilarious.
MB: Do you ever get that kind of feedback?
MP: You know what's funny? No one's ever said that to me in person. I guess it's easier to write it online than to say it to someone's face. Because I have gotten a couple of e-mails from girls who track me down and say, "I'd love to meet you." It's kind of fun. The thing is, it's super-flattering, and you're like, "Wow, thank you!" But I don't know that I'd ever really follow up on any of that.
MB: Yeah, you can just have your assistant do that for you.
MP: My Jonathan! My own personal Jonathan.
MB: So when you look at the direction of your career, do you have a sense of what you want it to become?
MP: It's hard, because things come at you that it's so hard to plan for. I'd like to keep doing television and film, and I'd love to do theater. But it's a little bit hard to commit to being somewhere [for a play] for two or three months, just because the television and film jobs have been coming at a nice pace. Mostly, the goal is to keep working with interesting people, but to have characters with more complex storylines. I'd like to be able to carry something.