AMC has a track record for finding actors who have been working actors but not names yet and casting them.
“I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.”
“I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it.”