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MM: If you could go back in time and star in any film ever made, what would it be?
MC: Without thinking if I could do it justice, probably Fisher King, The Panic in Needle Park, there’s so many. It’s funny when you’re trying to think about all the films and you just go blank. Mrs. Doubtfire would be funny. It’d just be kind of funny to put on a woman suit. I was able to do a fat suit at one point. I was doing a sitcom in Canada and they put me in a fat suit, as a futuristic what my character would have been. That was a lot of fun to kind of feel that out. I think the two immediate ones would be The Fisher King and The Panic in Needle Park, Al Pacino’s character.
MM: Both great choices. You continue to bring these dynamic characters to life on screen. Is there a genre you haven’t done yet that you might want to tackle in the future?
MC: I think there’s a lot that I haven’t tackled yet. Right now, given how young I look and how young I am, right now it’s been a lot of high school stuff. So I’m excited for, if the industry allows it, and if I’m able to do it, to grow up and be a little older and tackle some older roles and tackle some really more mature roles and kind of do some silly stuff. I would love to do theater at one point or tackle musicals or tackle something like that, just challenge myself. I’m always looking for something that’s going to give me a challenge, that I think “this is going to be exciting for me. Can I do something with this and is this going to give me a nice challenge?” If it allows me to, I never want to plateau. A lot of actors want that and you never know what’s going to come tomorrow. You have a mindset of always discovering new parts yourself and new areas of the industry and never being afraid of it, and tackling that. I think you can hopefully go far.
MM: I think a lot of actors kind of get stuck in one area and get comfortable and don’t challenge themselves so the fact that your personality is you want to keep mastering your craft is a really a great thing to hear in the business. Now, to continue about personalities, if someone close to you was asked to describe you and your personality, what do you think they would say?
MC: I’m a very eccentric, silly person. I try not to take things too seriously but on the other side I am a very serious perfectionist. When I’m working, I take things seriously. I want to make sure things are fun and everyone’s having a good time but I also want to make sure I have a certain work ethic on set. And so I think there’s certain things where they see my silly whacky side but I also take things very seriously on work. I’m that kind of perfectionist.
MM: That’s a good trait to have, I think.
MC: I hope so.
MM: So now, a random question: if there were a zombie apocalypse, do you think you’d survive it?
MC: I’ve thought about a zombie apocalypse more times than I’d care to admit. I think I’d be very fine. I’ve thought about what I would do, the weapons I would have, the people I’d keep around me, the places I would stay. I’m very sure of it and I dare the zombies to come at me. I’m more than willing and available to tackle that head on.
MM: That’s awesome. Switching gears a little bit, you’re involved with a great organization called Feed the Children. How has that experience been and what can we do, as a society to help end childhood hunger across the world?
MC: It’s Degrassi again, one of the many things I took from Degrassi. They have a great partnership with Feed the Children. Going there, was a weird thing because I’ve never done that before, never really thought about it, never thought about going and helping. I’d always heard about it in high school and elementary school. But when I went there, what you take from it is what your experience is. It’s so hard when you come back, when someone goes “what are your stories? What did you learn? What did you take from it?” You can’t really describe it. It’s kind of a weird thing. It comes across like you didn’t learn anything because it’s so hard to verbalize. The main thing is you realize some things that you’re taking for granted here. In our minds they have nothing. But really what’s nothing to us that they don’t have is cell phones, purses, Xbox, clothes, these materialistic things. But they have so many more things with them like family, religion, community, that bond, that’s why we go there to help them with education and clean water filtration systems. So going there and allowing them to let us into their community and experience what they go through every day and learn who they are, realizing that they’re just like us and you see little kids getting into an argument or having the time of their life throwing a ball around or rolling the grass. That’s something I did as a kid. To be there you realize they’re no different than me and my friends, they’re just living on the other side of the world. They’re just not living around a community that has a lot of money. You come back, I think, with a new perspective on your life and what you shouldn’t take for granted.
MM: Would that be your message to people, to not take things for granted and help out when you can?
MC: Yeah, I think that is. Everyone should try to conserve water, not run so much, don’t waste food. Everyone’s guilty of you get something and “can I get it to go?” And then you don’t eat it, you throw it out. Now it’s more I should finish this meal. You’re very lucky to be served this delicious meal, so maybe I should finish it when there’s people who are going out hunting every day, going fishing, and trying to find meals for their family and may not come back with something. You can’t — we live in a completely different world than that which is great so we should just realize what you have and not take it for granted.
MM: That’s a great message for the fans, I think. Now, just lastly, what’s coming up next for you? I saw that the project you’re in Riftworld Chronicles was successfully funded on Kickstarter. Is that something that’s going to be coming out soon?
MC: Yeah, I heard about that! That’s great. I can’t really discuss too much because I don’t know but we did that in December. I think it’s going to be airing relatively soon. It’s a really fun project. It’s kind of a fantasy world about a wizard who finds himself through a portal in our world and he’s trying to find his way back so that’s a very fantasy, fantastic kind of world. There are a couple things I’m going to do later this year but again I can’t talk about it right now because it’s not completely set in stone but hopefully I’ll have something to show you guys.
MM: Wonderful, we’ll keep an eye out for what’s coming next for you and I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to chat with me. It’s been a pleasure.
MC: No problem. Thank you for having me.
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