“When you’re training, you try to stretch and do characters that you may not have known in real life. I’ve played some older men before. I feel that prepared me for what is, for all intents and purposes, a period piece. Michael takes place in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. To play someone who’s older than me, in a time before I was born, I had to tap into my imagination, dig deep into my actor’s toolbox.”