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When I look back at my career, I was always trying to be this particular 'Celtic Warrior' character.
I just don't play a character for the heck of it. Rather, I always look for a human element in every character that I play.
When I look at a character, I never look at the size of the role. I always look at the whole person, no matter how much they're featured in the movie.
I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things.
When I started working on 'Battlestar Galactica' in Canada, I was told to get as fit as a marine for my character Lee 'Apollo' Adama. So I did. But now I have a problem with suits, because I'm 5 ft. 9 in. with a 40 inch chest and a 31 inch waist, so I'm rather too big for that very tailored British look, and they always have to be altered.