In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot.
Crises have a way of thrusting into the limelight hitherto obscure persons, and giving them, for a long or short period, a leading role.
On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. So it's hard to get used to, and it's really sometimes hard to understand.
I became famous almost before I had a craft.
I went from a guy, kind of a working actor, a supporting player, to magazine covers and being offered the studio pictures really quickly. Nobody was comfortable with it. I wasn't really comfortable with it.
Cocktail' happened overnight for me. I didn't have the time to think about it, I suddenly got into films without even realising what I was doing.
You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.
I still don't know how I became famous. It all happened so fast.
So many people have to struggle for years, very few bands get success with their first record, but I was instantly successful and famous on a very large scale, which was scary.
People thought we were a joke because we got noticed so fast.
