You have to believe in hope, not only from an acting point of view but also from an audience perspective.

I’ve been here for five years, maybe four. I was doing [the Fox series] `John Doe,’ and I was working ridiculous hours on that, and I was speaking American all day and then I’d get...

It’s a very depressing, dark place, … And the walls are just stained with sadness.

There are a lot of people on death row, and I’m trying to convey that sense of a man knowing his due date,

I think that’s one of the central themes for [the character] Lincoln,

Whoever it was that set me up wants me in the ground as quickly as possible,

It seems to be the second coming for Fox, … They’re throwing everything into this thing. And it’s great that they are. It’s a great, great story. … It reads like a high-concept feature film.

The other guy’s skull came apart, … There was shanking and all that kind of stuff going on. You weren’t allowed to have [chicken] drumsticks because they just turned the bone into a shank.

It’s a very depressing, sad kind of place. It just adds to the atmosphere of the show.