One of the difficulties of not knowing for so long whether we were doing a fifth season or not was that we weren't really allowed to go out shopping for work.

People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment.

Being on the DL and knowing that you are not coming back the rest of the season is not fun at all, ... It was a really tough pill to swallow. Not being able to go on the road trips [stinks]. It's rough.

I wouldn't call it an antagonism as much as one not knowing anything about the other.

This is only about the fifth one of those we've had this year. So it's not our first rodeo when it comes to these things, and we know how unpredictable they can be, and we know how dangerous they can be.

We came out knowing that we had 16 minutes or our season was over.