I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.
Whenever there was a pause on the 'Hercules' set, everybody whipped their Blackberries out of their skirts - 'Are you texting the King of Thrace to tell them we're on our way?'
When you're doing a medieval show like 'Pillars,' it starts off a bit like a school play. You're all in funny costumes; you've had your coffee, and you say, 'Good morning'. Then you go on set and, if you've got good actors and directors, it takes on a life of its own.
You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.