He told Extra“I’m no stranger to hard work. I’ve always sort of lived by this idea that hard work is good work. I really enjoyed it, but then again, the show did break me. There did come a time where I was sort of like, ‘I need to have a break.’ I disappeared. I went to Mexico for a week and had some time on a beach.”
Previously, he told Entertainment Weekly“I’m no stranger to the physical aspects of the job doing the whole action movie thing. But the mental aspect, it really beat me up and it took a long time for me to recover afterwards, to sort of get back to reality…I was seeing myself in [Danny]but in my personal life. I remember having a bit of a meltdown at home and thinking, like, ‘I’m going to shave my head. I need to shave my head because I need to get rid of this character.’ And, obviously, we were mid-shooting, so I decided not to…It was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before.”