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I definitely was a big comic collector as a kid.
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Comic
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Even when I'm playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being.
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Doctor
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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Involve
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I really enjoy working in genre series, because you really have to create the characters.
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Genre
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When you're doing superhero stunts, the objective is to look as cool as humanly possible.
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Superhero
Cool Look Doing
Objective
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I was in fittings for the first costume even before I knew I was even going to be 'Deathlok.'
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Costume
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I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.
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Correctly
First Name
Pronounce
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I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.
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Art
Fans
Kicks
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Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.
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Hero
Take Care
Family Me Children
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Marvel makes you feel like 'Iron Man' will show up at your front door to kill you if you say the wrong thing.
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Iron
Iron Man
Man Your Will
Door
Front
Marvel
Wrong Thing
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I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!
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Two People
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I absolutely love working with David Boreanaz, and Charisma Carpenter I completely adore - she teaches me to dance.
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Dance
Adore
Carpenter
Charisma
Absolutely
Love Me Dance
David
Teaches
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The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.
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Pilots
Test
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When we wrapped 'Angel,' I definitely had a moment where I thought, 'Wow, that was the best job I'm ever gonna have.'
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Wrapped
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The interesting thing for me is, if I met Michael Peterson in person, I'd want him to let himself off the hook just a little bit.
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Hook
Me Person Want
Michael
Interesting Thing
Just A Little Bit
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Gunn, like me, has a James Bond obsession. He would love to be James Bond, and it's a great role that I would love to be, someday.
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Obsession
Roles
Someday
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I believe that I'm an actor to this day because of 'Star Wars.' I saw 'Star Wars' as a child, and I was completely enamored by it.
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Enamored
Believe Day I Believe
Believe I Believe Day
Wars
Star Wars
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I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
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Paint
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In the 'Angel' days, all there was was a community that was like a chat room. If you were looking for feedback, you had to look for it.
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Angel
Feedback
Chat
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I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
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Love Character Hate
Effortlessly
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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Paradigm
Turns
Love Imagination Me
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I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.
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Thrive
Best Character Always
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To steal a term from one of my Twitter followers, 'Deathlok' is the 'anti-villain.' He's on the side of the bad guys, but he obviously doesn't want to be there.
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Bad Guys
Followers
Term
Steal
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As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.
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Science Fiction
Wars
Favorite Movie
Favorite Show
Star Wars
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I went right to the 'Guide to the Marvel Universe,' which has every Marvel character from A-Z, and fortunately, I had every issue. I found 'Deathlok,' read about him there.
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Fortunately
Guide
Marvel
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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Diverse
Sci Fi
Love Community People
Inclusive
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I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own terms. There's a freedom in that, so that's why I love to paint.
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Paint
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Everything I've ever learned about acting - and I went to theater school - was about playing what the character wants and throwing yourself fully into going after what the character wants.
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Throwing
Fully
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Their crew for 'Arrow' is just one of the most wonderful crews that I've worked with. I know that actors say that all the time, and it sounds like trash coming out of my own mouth, but it's so true.
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Crew
Just One
Trash
Arrow
Mouth
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Oddly enough, I've always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn't use enough was Phoenix. I just thought her story line was so tragic. I was just really drawn to that character as well.
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Phoenix
Tragic
Drawn
Oddly
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My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.
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Astronomy
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I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'
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Something New
Arrow
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I thought, 'Oh, this is great,' because maybe someone who does look like me will watch 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and realize that they can be an actor if they want to be, or they can be a superhero. They can have a hero that looks like them as well.
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Agents
Hero
Superhero
Great Hero Me
Great Look Me
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Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.
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Caribbean
Country
Great Things
Huge
Influence
Latin
Latin American
Panama
Tourism
Wonderful
Lot
African
Brings
Canal
Mix
Obviously
Spanish
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Everything with Marvel is on a need-to-know basis, so I didn't officially know until the second episode I did, which I think was the 10th episode in the season. Information is carefully guarded over there. I definitely didn't know that I was 'Deathlok.'
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Guarded
Basis
Carefully
Episode
Marvel
Officially
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Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!
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Management
Work World Me
Audition
Management Team
Meeting
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I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.
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Black Family
Burned
Life Experience
Moved
Neighborhood
Panama
Life Family Experience
Cross
Explain
Lawn
Outsider
Previous
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Once I found out that I was playing 'Deathlok,' I unearthed my old comic book collection. I was going home for Christmas, and I have a collection of thousands of comics. I was surprised to see that 90% of them were Marvel. So, I wanted to go through my collection and start there.
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Christmas
Comic
Comic Book
Going Home
Collection
Marvel
Surprised
Thousands
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The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con - and there are always a lot of attendants of color. And I think some people believe that black people or people of color are not into science fiction or hero shows or genre shows.
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Comic Con
Conventions
Genre
Hero
Science Fiction
Cool Thing
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