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"I've been eating a lot of Tabasco sauce…a lot of Tabasco sauce. In the beginning, we tried to…Brendan Fehr plays one of the other aliens on the show…in the beginning we tried to tough it out and be men about it and 'oh yeah, yeah…give us the real stuff, give us the real stuff'…In the very first take, we were in the middle of our conversation and putting on the Tabasco sauce and we kept on talking and putting on the Tabasco sauce... he'd put the taco in his mouth and I'd sip on my drink…our eyes started to water…we had these boogs coming out of our nose…and just continued to try to talk and continue the conversation. By the end of the scene, we were just wet everywhere, we were sweating and shaking…so we don't use real Tabasco sauce anymore."

Q: A few of the fans online commented about how much they loved your ears. Do you get that a lot?
A: No. I don’t really think they stick out that much, but if they like them, then that’s a good thing.

"If I could be in any band, I think it would have to be the Beatles. That would have been a lot of fun."

"I can be hiking a mountain with my dog or going down to Krispy Kreme doughnuts and hanging out at Malibu Speedway and ride on the go karts or have a nice time sitting at home watching movies, it's just the company that I keep I think really that makes my day."

"The first time I got some, I had this epiphany, like, ‘Where have you been all my life?’ It’s like I can’t get enough. Every Sunday for months, my buddies and I would drive for over an hour to the nearest Krispy Kreme. Once there we would watch the donuts from conception to birth on this huge apparatus, the donut-birthing machine. Then, as soon as we bit into them, the trumpets would blare, the angels would sing and the sun would shine."

Q: I can’t get over your donut obsession. How many do you put away in one sitting?
A: A box of 12 easily, in the blink of an eye. I’ve gotta watch it. I can go overboard.

Q: Where did you grow up?
A: All over, from Minneapolis to Arizona to California. My parents liked to move around a lot. After they split up, we settled down in Richfield, near Minneapolis, where I went to high school.

Q: Did your being on "Dawson’s Creek" contribute to your getting the "Roswell" job because they’re both on the WB?
A: It had nothing to do with it. "Roswell" was originally going to be on Fox.

Q: What made you want to be on "Roswell," besides the fact that it was a major gig?
A: When I first read the script I immediately understood what they were going for-the mystery, the suspense, the relationships, the unrequited love story. I related to Max’s search for the truth about himself, about life, about his place in this world, which I think everybody goes through.

Q: This season you had some heavy make-out scenes with your costar, Shiri Appleby. What are those like to shoot?
A: It’s always an odd thing, but Shiri and I have gotten to know each other so well over the last nine months that there’s nothing uncomfortable about it.

Q: ...are you dating anyone now?
A: No. I’m so focused on "Roswell," it’s kind of unfair to anybody to get involved. I say that now, but I could go off tomorrow and meet the right person; you just know when you know.

Q: What kind of qualities do you look for in a girlfriend?
A: Someone who has convictions, yet is open-minded enough to appreciate others for theirs.

Q: If you could be a girl for a day, what you want to experience?
A: [Laughs] I can’t answer that, my mother would kill me.

Q: What would happen in your fantasy episode in your fantasy episode of "Roswell"?
A: We would go to the Bahamas where we have our own private beach, then Max gets lost in the jungle…only to be rescued by Catherine Zeta-Jones. [Laughs]

Q: Tell me a behind-the-scenes secret from the set.
A: Well, the Tabasco sauce that we eat all the time is V8 juice, but the first time we tried to tough it out and use the real stuff. Then during the scene, our eyes started watering and our noses started plugging up, but we just kept going. As soon as they yelled, "Cut," we all ran for water.

Q: Your character’s a virgin, right?
A: Oh yeah. The first time he’d ever kissed somebody was when he kissed Liz [Shiri Appleby] and they had such an intense connection. I can’t imagine what would happen if they ever had sex.

Q: Do you ever bring your Akita, Ronin, to the set?
A: Paramount Studios, where most of "Roswell" is filmed, doesn’t allow dogs, but I sneak him in every now and then. He loves it when we’re on location in the desert.

Q: You started performing when you were five. What was the first thing you did?
A: A "Seasons Greetings" spot for one of the local channels in Minneapolis. I was on a sleigh and for some reason, I thought that our sleigh driver was Abe Lincoln. He looked exactly like him.

Q: Were you popular with girls?
A: At first, not at all. I remember being very short. I felt like a little boy walking among men. It was like I was in the wrong school. Finally, when I was a junior, I shot up.

Q: How’d you learn about the facts of life?
A: I overheard my big brother and his friends talking about it.

Q: What’s a day from your childhood that you’d like to go back and relive?
A: The day my brother Aaron was born. I was three and I remember being so happy. I already had an older brother and maybe I thought now I had someone to pick on. [Laughs] He became my best friend from that moment on.

Q: You used to be a ski instructor, right?
A: No. Where’d you get that from? [I just wanted to interject that this has been spread all over the net... so there you have it straight from the man...]

Q: When "Roswell" premiered there were billboards up all over the place. What’s it like to see your face on the side of a bus?
A: Very surreal. It almost feels all made up, like my mother went around paying people to put my face on billboards.

Q: When you’re not working what do you like to do?
A: I like to sleep, play basketball, ride go-carts, spend time with my family, go out with my buddies on the weekends and have a good time.

Q: Have you ever taken trips with your friends?
A: The farthest I’ve gone is Cancun, Mexico. It was my senior trip. I don’t think I slept more than 12 hours the entire week. None of us had much money, and I remember bringing a suitcase of food but that went pretty quick so we’d go to happy hour for the free food.

Q: What’s your idea of the perfect day?
A: At this point, the perfect day would be to get up in the afternoon, grab a bowl of Cocoa Pebbles and watch Thundercats and Robotech on the Cartoon Network for four or five hours.

Q: Have you ever actually been to Roswell, New Mexico?
A: No. I was going to go to but instead I read a lot of books and watched a lot a videos.

Q: Whats the creepiest thing you found out in your research?
A: That it's not just a couple of people who said they saw UFOs here and there. It was a lot more than you'd venture to guess.

Q: Do you have to work to stay in shape or is it natural?
A: I like to play basketball and run but I eat a lot of crap. Like doughnuts, of course.

Q: When you first moves to L.A. did you have any connections?
A: I'd met a manager in Minneapolis and he said, "When you get out to L.A. give me a call." So I came out here with 200 bucks to my name, called this manager and he referred me to an agent. I met this agent and the day after that I was auditioning for stuff. I really lucked out with the way it all happened because I got here in the middle of pilot season and they were seeing anybody who looked under 18.

Q: You had a small part in Pleasantville. Were you in black and white or color?
A: I was in color.