Thanks to Julia and Fraz for this:<\/p>\n
Wednesday January 31 12:03 PM ET
\nFive Questions With Nick Wechsler<\/strong><\/p>\nBy CHELSEA J. CARTER, Associated Press Writer<\/p>\n
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Nick Wechsler admits he’s baffled by the “Hollywood thing” – fame, fortune and having somebody bring you a bottle of water.<\/p>\n
At 22, the actor has had an early taste of success as one of the leads on the WB’s teen alien-ation drama “Roswell” about the fabled 1947 spaceship crash. The show airs Mondays (9 p.m. EST).<\/p>\n
“It’s kind of strange. There are people who bring you water all the time. Why can’t people get their own water? I don’t get it,” he said during an interview on the set at Paramount Pictures studio.<\/p>\n
Wechsler left his very un-Hollywood home of Albuquerque, N.M. – where his father is a sheet-metal worker and his mother works for the U.S. Forest Service – after he graduated from high school.<\/p>\n
He soon landed a small role as a purse-stealing punk in the 1996 TV movie “Full Circle” and a supporting role that same year in the TV series “The Lazarus Man” In 1997, he was cast as Trek, a child conceived at a “Star Trek” convention, in the short-lived series “Team Knight Rider.”<\/p>\n
But the sporadic work wasn’t enough to support himself, so he went to work at a video store before landing the role of Kyle Valenti, the scene-stealing smart-mouthed jock who makes life difficult for the teen aliens on “Roswell.”<\/p>\n
1. When you landed this role, how was it pitched to you?<\/p>\n
Wechsler: It was like, `Do you want a job?’ It didn’t matter what the pitch was. I had to get something because I was doing nothing. It sounded all right to me. I initially read for the role that Colin (Hanks) got. Then they called me back for the role that I ended up getting. … I know it sounds kind of funny. OK, they’re aliens and they’re walking among us and they’re in high school. My good friends are always picking on me about it.<\/p>\n
2. Are people starting to recognize you on the street?<\/p>\n
Wechsler: Occasionally, one or two people. But nothing much yet. I’m not really looking forward to it becoming an issue. There are probably a lot of people who like that kind of stuff. But I don’t. I haven’t gotten anybody who is crazy enough to confuse me with my character yet. I’m a little afraid of that. I try to accommodate people as much as I can. Handshake. Hug. Whatever they ask for. A couple of times, they’ve asked for an autograph. I don’t think of myself like that. So when people ask, it’s kind of a strange feeling. I’m like, `Who me?’<\/p>\n
3. What’s the hardest part about acting?<\/p>\n
Wechsler: You’ll be better for it, if you can just have confidence. That’s something I’ve always known. I know I’ll be better. I know plenty of actors who are arrogant and don’t deserve to be. But because they are arrogant, they just perform better because they don’t believe they can fail. I know I’m mortal and I explore it constantly, and because of that I get down on myself.<\/p>\n
3 1\/2: So you’re saying that you are your own worst critic?<\/p>\n
Wechsler: Yes, I guess I am.<\/p>\n
4. Where do you go from here?<\/p>\n
Wechsler: I don’t want to really go to school. But I probably should. If you’re asking what I’d ideally like to be doing, I’d love to be doing movies and pretty much nothing but. Who wouldn’t? Whatever I do, I want to give really good performances. Who knows how long this acting is going to last for me? I don’t want it to sound like I’m threatening to leave. I’m excited about going to work. I love acting. But I have yet to like one of my own performances.<\/p>\n
5. What do you think about the spate of reality programming?<\/p>\n
Wechsler: I don’t like it when there’s a wave of anything. It just seems everybody is trying to beat everyone else to the punch. … But there are things I get hooked on. Seriously, I enjoyed `Survivor.’ I didn’t get to watch all of it. But the little bit that I did, I was like, `This is pretty good.’ I like to watch people actually argue. I like to watch people actually get along. I like to watch people flirt. It’s different when you see it in a movie. It’s all the best take of the flirting or whatever. It’s really interesting to fumble and trip with the things they do in real life. I just like to watch people do it the way it’s really done. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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