Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes.
And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.
It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.