Aaron Stanford

I never read too many comic books when I was growing up, but I think everyone loved Wolverine, you know what I'm saying?

I worshiped Judd Nelson in 'The Breakfast Club' growing up. I must've seen that movie 100 times.

I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.

The show is '12 Monkeys,' and I'm playing the role that Bruce Willis played in the original film '12 Monkeys.' It is a show about time travel. My character is from a future post-apocalypse, and he has been given a mission to go back in time to essentially set things right and stop the apocalypse. No big deal.

Viola Davis, she does have a lot of TV acting jobs, and she's also a very, very accomplished stage actress.

As a fan, when I hear that a film is going to be turned into a television show, I do go to that place immediately of, 'Is it going to be any good? Is it going to be a waste of time? Why are they doing it?' It's '12 Monkeys,' and '12 Monkeys' is awesome, so I wanted to be a part of it and work on it.

Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.

I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

That's just part of being in 'X-Men.' There's, like, 20 main characters, and 15 of them are household names, so obviously you're happy for anything you can get.

Obviously, you're always happy when you can tell a story completely from beginning to end and tell it in a satisfying way, where you're able to make yourself happy and make the audience happy.

It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.