Q.  What are some of the recent projects that you've been working on?

A.  There are two other film projects, one called Your Name Here and one called Gardens of the Night.  There is an animated feature for Garfield that I play a small role in.  There is also a pilot on CBS called "Demons" that I participated in.  So, there are a lot of things.

Q.  You also worked on the film 28 Weeks Later that is just being released.  What can you tell us about the premise for the film and about your character?

A.  It's a sequel to a movie called 28 Days Later which is about a virus that winds up ravaging the city of London.  28 Weeks Later picks up with the American armed forces showing up and quarantining off a section of London to help repopulate it while the rest of London they are trying to irradiate the disease.  I play a helicopter pilot who is part of a team to help keep that quarantined area safe.  Because it's a horror film, we don't do a good job of that!

Q.  Since you play a pilot in the movie, did you have to go through any kind of flight school training for the role?

A.  I did for about three or four days take helicopter flying lessons.  It was quite a bit of fun and it was sort of an accelerated flying school.  I think normally they require eight hours of classroom work or something like that.  I did like an hour and then I jumped in the helicopter and started going.  It was really accelerated and I got to work all of the different mechanisms in the helicopter.  The idea was that Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, who was the director, instead of using gadgets or a blue screen, really wanted me up in the air flying and they would film all that stuff.  It was real, it was in real time as much as possible, so the idea was to really make it look like I knew what I was doing out there and I had a real pilot next to me who really helped.

Q.  Was learning to fly the most challenging aspect of filming for you?

A.  No, learning to fly was a lot of fun, it was challenging but it was a lot of fun.  All the while I was always going to have a pilot there. Mark Wolf who is the stunt pilot, he's an amazing pilot, was always going to be there.  So, there is a part of it that I could not think about.  The most difficult thing was trying to figure out how to create a relationship with somebody that you're not really talking to in a circumstance that you're not really connected to.  Keeping the energy of the virus breaking out and the people going crazy and the army calling a code red, which means to irradiate the entire population.  So, keeping the energy of that in a consistent way that would match things I had never seen, that was sort of the trickiest part.

Q.  What drew you to want to be a part of the film?

A.  I saw the first film and I really, really loved the first film and I'm a big fan of Danny Boyle and Andrew McDonald and all of the films that they had done.  When the possibility of being a part of this film came up I was really, really excited about it.  I went in and was like, "Whatever you've got going, I'd love to be a part of it."  I really liked being a part of the team and even though Danny Boyle didn't direct this one I got to meet Juan Carlos really early on.  I saw a film that he had done called Intacto that is just great so I was really excited about working with him too. 

Q.  How was it getting to work alongside Juan Carlos Fresnadillo?

A.  He's fantastic, his passion for filmmaking was really helpful.  So, the language barriers were there, we could kind of get through them because he had really strong ideas about what he wanted.  I felt like, because he had such strong ideas, I could trust him because he was really looking for something, he wasn't just winging it and letting the actors do whatever.  He really had great ideas about it and you could see it when you see the film.  You can see that he really had a passion for it. 

Q.  Recently MTV aired an episode of the show "Punk'd" in which you were featured actually "Punk'ing" Evangeline Lilly.  Did you get a chance to view the episode?

A.  I did get to see the episode and it was pretty funny.  Evangeline was pretty funny and I had forgotten that so many people watch that show.  I did it and then completely forgot about it and so lately people are like, "Dude, I saw you on 'Punk'd'!"  I thought the stunt was pretty funny and Evangeline was a good sport about it. 

Q.  There have been rumors that you might be appearing in the "Lost" season finale.  Is there any truth to that rumor at all?

A.  It's not true so far, I had heard those same rumors myself.  They are not true so far but I imagine in the next few weeks as the studios start laying out their seasons for next year I'll find out really soon whether I'll be there next season or not. 

Q.  What would you like to say to your fans and suppoters?

A.  I would just like to say thanks.  I've had people who have been really, really supportive of me and my career.  I've made some hopefully not so dimensional choices in my career.  It seems like people always like my work and have really followed it and hung out and they sort of weren't conventional choices to make but I just want to say thanks.  People have really, really been supportive of me over the years and it's been a long haul.  Hopefully we keep going and making really interesting things and putting really interesting people on film.