Angel

Is that really you swapping blows with David Boreanaz in Destiny?

Oh yeah! Toe-to-toe the whole day. Both David and I have done enough fights that it’s pretty much like working with another stuntman. You know, the concerns are the same. Neither of us are professional stuntmen - we’re not that good - but for actors, we’re pretty damn good. And pretty experienced at this point.

What’s great about working with David is that you get the acting stuff as well. And I feel like we have a really good trust between the two of us. It’s never, "Oh, he’s going to do that to me - I don’t trust that!" If I had to do a cliff scene and the only thing keeping me from falling over the edge was David, I’d be cool with it. Seriously. You could count on it.

On David Directing:

David is a great director. He came in and he did better than any first-time director I have seen - stage, movies, TV or anything. He impressed everybody!

Has working on Angel turned out to be everything you hoped for?

I knew David Boreanaz was a great guy, but I also knew that he’d been doing the world fame thing for six years, and that can really play with your head. But the man is more a man now than when I first met him, and he was a great guy when I met him. He is a really great guy to work with. He just wants to do it and go home to his kid. He’s so respectful.

It’s a much happier set than I expected. I expected kind of the norm for television and what I walked into was a really supportive group of people. I’m really lucky to be in this situation and I think it’s coming across on screen too. I think my work is better than it’s ever been. I’m just happy.

What’s the hardest part of playing Spike?

The pressure to look the same as you did seven years ago, like a vampire would, becomes enormous. You just hope the audience likes the acting well enough to forget what you looked like originally.