On his character: "I said yes, then I called Brad — he was in Ireland to see Bruce Springsteen — I said, 'What am I doing? I'll do anything.' He said, 'You play a doctor.' I said, 'Cool, I've done that on ER.' You know. He said, 'But, you know, you're the recipient of the world's first complete hand transplant . . . you may have a hand from a surgeon, or you may have a hand from a squash player who killed his opponents and then ate them.'"