I remember going through school and doing art, which was the only thing that I actually found fulfilling, and I couldn’t really figure out why. Then I got into college and started messing around with...

I went to drama school in the U.K., where we did endless Chekov plays.

When you read something in script form, there are some subtleties that stand out with far greater gravitas than sometimes what you see on screen.

With ‘The Crazies,’ we had a lot of room to play and manipulate and change things. When you get something bigger, you have less control in that sense unless you’re one of the three stars.

I’m completely dyslexic, so academia was never really my path.