You were also scheduled to appear on an episode of Glee in September. What happened?
Ryan
Murphy wrote the part of the choreographer the glee club hires with me
in mind. When I got off the plane, they took me right to the set for
some costume fittings, but I felt totally miserable. They took me back
to the hotel and the doctor came and said I had a fever of 103. I’m kind of
a tank and I don’t normally get sick, but it turns out I had the flu,
so I stayed in California for two days watching $14 movies in my hotel
room. I didn’t even see that episode because it was too painful for me,
but they went a totally different way and hired a funny
character-looking guy for the part. It was pretty heartbreaking because
I love the show, but hopefully I’ll be on it at some point in a
different part.

None of your photo shoots in recent years have quite compared to the revealing pictures from your 2007 reFRESH magazine spread. When are you going to treat fans to more beefcake pics? You’re not going to have that body forever, you know.
That’s true. I actually did a shoot less than a year ago for Vanity Fair
with Bruce Weber, and you know his stuff is always sexy and shows some
skin. They had shot a bunch of theater people like Liev Schreiber and
Stockard Channing, but my section was cut. Then they were going to run
them in German Vanity Fair, but that went out of business. So I
never even got to see those photos. They’re still floating around
somewhere. I’d do another beefcake shoot, but I’m 34, so at this point
there’d have to be a really good reason for me to just lie around on a
bed in my underpants.