I grew up Irish Catholic with a bunch of kids at Catholic school.

I worked a lot with Mark Frankel, and he was really just an incredibly tender soul. He liked his hair just so and his suit. He was a good-looking man, and he cared about looking together.

Aaron Spelling was a huge fan of vampires, and everything in that genre. He just really loved the entire subject of vampires and he was really passionate about it. If you really like the idea of this other world and the intricacies of it, because there were a lot of them, and once you're hooked, it's always something that's a fascination to you.

I remember that I auditioned with the scene where I pull the grandfather out of the coffin. I just loved it so much.

Mark Frankel was just a very tender, thoughtful person, and that was really nice. At that point in life, I hadn't met a lot of people my senior who were that tender, and still doing well and making a real go of it. That was a treat, for sure.

I'd worked for Aaron Spelling before [Embraced] and I always felt like we had a nice connection. I pretty much walked in and looked at him like, This is mine! And by the time I was done with the audition, he was already speaking to me as if I had the role.

When I went in for the [ Embraced] DVD interviews, I thought, Good lord, it's 17 years later! I thought that maybe I should do my make-up differently and put extra effort in, or I'd look like a different human being. It's very strange.

A lot of people have a dissatisfaction or an anger in them, so as soon as something goes awry, they flip out.

I guess I just take things as they come now, as far as that goes. I get really excited to do the project, but I don't think too much beyond that.

When I get excited about a character, I'll start doing things as the character and thinking about what the character would do.

I like everything that has to do with ghosts. If I see it, I'm all over it. We all have our thing.

I've done different conventions and had smaller roles in different sci-fi things.

The role always attracts me. Sometimes I can read something and I can barely see the rest of the script.