I kind of hid acting from my dad because I knew what he thought about acting at the time. His advice was Don't do it, basically.

Having my parents be divorced, you're forced to realize, Sooner or later I'm going to be on my own and have to figure it out. I have so many brothers that are younger than me, so I have to have that mindset of, Okay, what am I going to do now? I have to show them what growing up is - it's not me living at dad's house until I'm 25.

I knew nothing about hockey when I came to Chicago and then became the biggest fan - went to every playoff game.