But there’s a place called Bartell's, and thank God for those guys — there was a guy who sort of put me on a bike. I trained and I got to keep that bike for six months. Then the bike that I got in Another 48 Hours, myself and David Anthony Marshall ended up buying them. I actually ended up having that bike for a while. But yeah, long story short, I do ride.

Running Cool was a good movie. You know, it showed the other side, everybody sort of said Another 48 Hours was the so-called one percent of the bikers, and that’s how they are. I would say most of them are like Bone in Running Cool, who went out of his way — this was kind of about doing a run to save the wetlands, and you can see that he had a heart. It’s funny you bring that up, I really haven’t heard that a whole lot.

One of the other characters that you play quite a bit in your movies are actually Russians. Now I’ve noticed that you also speak and write eight different languages fluently, and that’s absolutely amazing. Can you name some of those languages you speak and how they’ve actually helped out your acting career?

Absolutely, it’s funny you said nine. I actually spoke nine. My ninth language was Romanian. And I did a movie in Romania. I knew I was going to be over there so I started studying with the books, you know, got the phrase books out. So by the time I was there for some two and half months, I left and I was doing my interviews in Romanian. But I must say, because of the fact that I had nobody to speak with, (and I never believed that this would happen), but I actually forgot. I literally forgot it!

 

So it’s now eight. Those include, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan (I lived in Barcelona for a while so I learned that language). Then, of course, Russian. As you say, I have played quite a few Russian characters — and as a matter of fact, my first role was “Screaming Russian Guard” for a show called Blacke's Magic which was a short-lived show that starred Hal Linden and Harry Morgan. They were a father-son team, he was a magician/private eye. So that was the first time I got to go on there, and I think I was screaming, “Stop that truck”. And it sort of snowballed from there. I do play accented characters — a lot of those, a lot of characters that speak other languages. I’ve even had the great opportunity to learn languages phonetically in order to use them — those include Arabic and Chinese. So any time I can get a challenge like that, I love it.

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