In interviews, you seem to really want to spread the word about woodworking. Is that important to you and why?

It is. When people started interviewing me, I immediately recognized that the last thing I wanted to do was what a lot of actors do, which is just talk about things like acting and movies and the makeup trailer, things that I find really boring to talk about.

I thought, “Well I don’t want to just talk about making a TV show. This is an opportunity, if I’m reaching a lot of people, to try to promote woodworking and even more generally just making things with one’s hands”, which is something that’s my own little soapbox.