But Doug Savant, who plays Matt Fielding on the FOX television drama, is busy on the telephone. But when my agent said it was in regards to Adam, I called back in a heartbeat. Back then, Savant was an 18-year old UCLA dropout whose parents refused to stoke his acting fire. But what Adam saw in me was the level of my passion, and he saw a great deal of commitment, and he just keyed into that and encouraged that level of passion in my work. And once you're in this business and working, you see how rare that is.
People make a lot of safe choices.
But Adam encourages bold work. Savant says Hill's training prepared him well for the rigors of a weekly television series, where time requires that actors arrive on the set ready to shoot. You don't have the time that you have in a film, and you better not expect the director to give acting direction, because there isn't the time. They expect competent actors to come in and deliver the performance. And you'd better come prepared.