Matthew Rhys on his enormous TV cranium and kissing Kathleen Turner

Brothers & Sisters' show blog has started featuring cast interviews. Happily they're starting with the man who plays our favorite Walker, Matthew Rhys, in a two part interview.

He gives us a few memorable quotes, like when he discusses not feeling famous, despite being on a hit show:

I’ve never been recognized at home. I’ve been recognized twice, here, and one of the times was a woman who said, “How do they make your head look SO BIG on TV?!” If that’s being famous – it’s not that great.

On his worst day on the Brothers & Sisters set:

The worst was my first day, when all these rewrites came flying in and I was so insecure about the accent. I was panicking and sweating and not really getting it. Ken Olin was gingerly trying to get it out of me and I was just having a meltdown. Finally, Rachel Griffiths said, “Come on, I’ll take you for a drink.”

Apparently Rhys thinks far less of his performance than we do:

Actually, if you were to go back to the beginning of last season you’d see how much I floundered. The great beauty of doing TV is that you have the luxury of time. TV gives you the opportunity to explore and develop and nurture and fine tune.

Rhys also says that Californians have the most challenging dialect:

Different dialects like New York or southern are easy because they’re so distinct. But California is hard because it’s more about tone than sound. It’s hard. In drama school you do a lot of dialogue work. Playing American characters in the past has helped.

On kissing Kathleen Turner for the London production of The Graduate:

We were in a little rehearsal studio in London and I wasn’t really kissing her properly – because I was nervous. I could tell she was getting really frustrated. As we were getting through the scene, and I was gingerly half kissing her, Kathleen interrupted – “Okay! Stop! Stop! Come with me outside.” I was like, oh my god, she’s going to ball me out. She took me outside in the corridor and demanded, “Kiss me.” I told her I was sorry, I’ll do it properly. She said – “No! Kiss me. Now!” I hesitated and she kept yelling, “Kiss me!” and I kept saying, “I’m sorry, I won’t screw up!” “Kiss me!” “Oh god!” “I’ll do better!” “Now!” She finally grabbed me and (Matthew makes a loooong sucking face noise). When we pulled apart she looked at me and said, “Okay, now do it like that.” And that’s how we did it from then on.

We also get some pix. Check out this pic of Matthew dressed to play Welsh poet Dylan Thomas in The Edge of Love...

He does turn into a sexy, sensitive poet rather naturally, doesn't he?

And there's just something adorable about this picture of Rhys playing softball:

Or maybe its just Rhys making the photo adorable.