B.L. How difficult or not difficult was it to get into the mindset of Radio?
C.G. It took a little bit for me to find exactly the guy I wanted to be in the movie. I had to get the physicality of him right. He had problems with his teeth cause he had lost a few in accidents and what not so I knew I wanted that to be a reflection of how I looked. The hair was a certain thing and the walk. More importantly when I do a character piece like this I like to take different personalities. When I did the football movie there were pro athletes who I fashioned the Rod Tidwell character after.

B.L. Was this a challenging role for you?
C.G. This was particularly challenging because I couldn't hold a conversation with him to get into his mindset. So I watched a lot of tapes on people who took care of him and how they had affected his life and heard stories about him and the thing that kept coming to me was a childlike innocence so it was like kids that I fashioned him after.

B.L. And you didn't have a lot of dialogue really.
C.G. Yeah.

B.L. It must have been a little refreshing?
C.G. Yeah, it always is. (laughs).

B.L. When you first read the script, what was it that moved you about it?
C.G. There were a lot of things, specifically with him that he didn't have that thing about him that would hold people accountable for their actions. He was just about pure goodness and it didn't matter how negative you were to him, he just wanted to love. He was love. There was the aspect of the organized sports and the athletic director coach Harold Jones played by Ed Harris. I thought that character and the fact that he overlooked all of these young men and he brought this element into their lives to help shape their perspective on things. I thought that was a really beautiful statement to make.

B.L. Your scenes with Ed Harris were outstanding; I would think working with him must have been awesome.
C.G. Yeah, it was.

B.L. This movie is all about inspiration and mentors. Has there been anyone in your life who really inspired you?
C.G. Oh yeah! When I was in football there was a guy by the name of Scott Munson who was kind of my guardian when I was younger. He was my age and one of the members of my team but he really got me into lifting weights and eating right and stuff.

B.L. Next we are going hear you in the animated feature, Home On The Range where you play a pony?
C.G. I'm the Pony Express horse so he's a buck still, yeah.

B.L. Is it more fun to do voice work, not having to worry about you look like?
C.G. Oh yeah and that's also another high energy character but this time it's in a cartoon so you can just be as silly as you want. It was a lot of fun.