They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history.
“I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.”
“I think when your parents are as rebellious as mine were, it's difficult to top them. So what's the point?”