Credit: Eric Alt (writer), Chapman Baehler (photographer)
Did you regret it once the needle started going to work?
No, I was quite disappointed that it wasn't as painful as I thought it would be. I thought to do it would be much more of a baptism by fire, meaning you were in much more of an exclusive group because it was so excruciatingly painful. People would think, Holy shit, you've got a tattoo, that's fucking hard-core. But I was disappointed. To me it felt like a bee sting. It's an annoying pain but it's not excruciating.
No, I was quite disappointed that it wasn't as painful as I thought it would be. I thought to do it would be much more of a baptism by fire, meaning you were in much more of an exclusive group because it was so excruciatingly painful. People would think, Holy shit, you've got a tattoo, that's fucking hard-core. But I was disappointed. To me it felt like a bee sting. It's an annoying pain but it's not excruciating.
Now that you're initiated, how do you view tattoos? Are they spur-of-the-moment things or do they document important moments in your life?
I think more than anything else it's a way of documenting change in my life. When I go through a transition, I like to mark that transition on my body so that I know that it's happened and I can look back at that tattoo and think, "Oh yeah, that was the time when this happened." That's the main reason why I get tattoos now.
Can you spoil something-anything-from Lost? Like, why is Hurley still fat?
I don't know-they don't tell us! If you think about it, if they're telling an actor, chances are the actor's going to tell his family. If he tells his family, chances are he's going to tell his girlfriend. If the actor tells his girlfriend, he's probably going to tell his friends-so that means his friends tell their families and everyone knows immediately. So they don't tell us anything. I know that's something people don't believe, but we don't know. And all these actors on the show that make out like they do know something-it's bullshit. They're just trying to come from a place of power where they're like, "Oh yeah, I'm on the inside." They don't know shit. It's all ego posturing.
It seemed like, for while there, a DUI arrest occurred every week on the set of Lost. What the hell were you guys up to down in Oahu?
It was overblown. It's just a very small island with three highways. You're on one of three highways and the police, obviously, frequent those highways. If you're driving, you will pass a police officer at some point on your trip. If you're going over the speed limit they are, quite rightly, very strict about that in Hawaii. But there was this impression that we were all speeding all the time, but it wasn't like that. It really wasn't a partying group. In the early days, season one, when we were doing the pilot there was a little more partying than there is now. But everyone has families and everyone does their own thing now.
Next up, you appear in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. According to fan rumor, you're playing a character called Beak-
No, actually. Everyone thinks I am, but I play a character called Barnell. He can control electricity.
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