SAM

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LISA: Had you gone in the control room and look at the room?

SAM: Actually, I did. I went down with them Thursday night, and then Friday I spent the day setting up…and set designer…I should get a little credit. I laid down the carpet and I painted a lot of stuff in there. So, I was helping them with it and had almost an unfair advantage of the space. But it is still a lot different and it didn't change my perspective. It totally changes, when the doors are open it is not that big of a deal but when they shut and lock down, you think oh my gosh. So, I don't think that it made me more familiar with that feeling of being shut in, I just got to see the space more.

L: Do you think that this experience has changed your philosophy about life?

S: Uh, Not really. Maybe I see things are…because I saw it, as we are not really stuck in here. When you are in it, you try to put yourself in that position, but once you're out of it, you think, "Oh, we were just acting." It made me see things and think about things…and what if that did happen, which you usually don't think about. People usually try to avoid the thought of dying at all, especially in such a way as that. Suffocated and being confronted with yourself for the last time, you don't know how long you have to live but you can't escape it and you can't divert your attention to anything else. You are there and you are dying with yourself and other people. The only thing I could say that changed was my perspective on thinking about the kind of stuff. Considering a little more, but I am not really living my life any differently after that.

L: Did you feel anything different in your character when people were running by and they were banging on the doors and no one stopped and no one even yelled at us? Remember at one point we could hear other passengers thundering by…

S: Oh yeah. It sprung hope subconsciously that we might get out of here. (laughs) Even just get out of the acting thing, ya know? It is like, "we might get out of here." That would be cool, to get out just for a little while. It kind of made you focus…so you weren't having to strain to act. It really got me excited about the possibility of getting out.

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