My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business.

There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination.

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background.

When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then.