Is it true that your first role came about when an actor failed to show up on a film where you were P.A.-ing?

Collateral Damage, yeah. The actor was stuck in traffic, and they had to shoot the scene.So they put me in as the pilot in this uniform. I wasn’t supposed to have a line, but my bosses, the first A.D. and second A.D., though it was so funny that I was in there that they said, “Well, maybe we should have him tell Arnold Schwarzenegger this…” And the director, Andrew Davis, was like, “Yeahyeahyeah, you say this…” So they were laughing behind the camera because they thought they were going to get me a line. And they did! I got Taft-Hartley on the show. If you rent Collateral Damage, there’s a scene that takes place on a plane, and I’m the pilot. My line is, “Three or four hours, depending on the weather.”