It's been a pretty amazing experience, getting to go from 'Bosch' to 'The Vampire Diaries' back-to-back, with a little 'Castle' in between.
— Annie Wersching
It's always fun to come in and mix up a show that's been on for awhile.
No one truly understood what it is to exist as someone who has to do the things that Jack Bauer does.
'Bosch' itself - it has a huge fanbase already from the Michael Connelly books, so it was definitely intriguing because you know going in that there's all those people who will want to watch it, and I knew it was going to be a down-and-dirty, gritty, no-make-up part, so that was scary and yet so exciting.
I was a fan as well, and I knew it would be a difficult task to come into '24.'
I knew I'd love being a mom, but it's so much cooler than I even thought it would be.
I went to a really small school, and it had a really small theater department. They didn't talk about Broadway. I learned about it through watching the Tony Awards.
I tend to stay away from the big tourist traps.
My parents went to Italy a lot, but I didn't go with them. I can't believe that!
We shoot a lot of pilots that don't get picked up, and no one ever sees them at all.
My father was sick when I was little, and we had a woman, a nanny-type, who was from Ireland. Her daughter was in Irish dancing, so she put me in it, and in the summertime, every weekend was filled with traveling somewhere to dance in competitions.
I'm always taking behind-the-scenes photos and stuff.
In '24,' you spend so much time with your faces really close, eye contact with such intensity.
I'm a huge '24'-head and have watched every episode of every season.
'Bosch' was a really cool experience.
Luckily with '24,' for the most part, each moment is so intense, and your objective is all about that moment right then.
'24' was so serious that it was nice to join 'NCIS' and even be able to smile once or twice.
The pace is so fast in summer stock. In college shows, there is more time for rehearsals.
Portugal has amazing seafood with all the eyeballs staring back at you.
You always look ahead to what you'll do next.
As an actor, I know roles go away. You get another job.
I was a diehard fan of '24' since the beginning. But being on the show, there was stuff I never thought about as a viewer, like, wow, it's going to be a single day for 10 months out of your life - you have to look exactly the same every day.
The first time I made a mold of my vampire teeth, I took pictures of that.
My '24' death obviously sent Jack Bauer into a huge downward spiral.
It feels as though, with all of these cable series or Internet shows or limited series events that are only 10 or 13 episodes... the quality is really rising.
The standard that '24' is held to is higher than at other shows. A weaker episode of '24' would be an amazing episode for a lot of other shows.
'24' is such a unique show. I've done a lot of television, but the real-time aspect - where we're shooting over 10 months and actually only doing one day - it's just crazy.
I definitely love to work, and I'm loving being a mommy, so I'd like to try to balance both.
I was such a tomboy as a kid, and I'm a dancer.
I really wished I had done the backpacking-through-Europe thing when I was younger, but I was busy doing musical theater.
Different cities have different vibes to them, and New York is such a huge, thriving metropolis.
A huge part of Irish dance is balance, which is so good for any kind of combat - just being aware of your body.
