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RW: February, after 9/11. I lived right down on Worth and Mulberry. I heard the first plane come in.
GS: You heard it live?
RW: Yeah, I was still in bed. It was 8:46 or 8:47. I heard a plane at a low proximity. I thought it was such an odd proximity to hear a jet plane. And I didn't hear any impact. I just heard it arc around.
GS: There was no sound of it crashing?
RW: Not where my building was. And 30 seconds later I heard an ambulance go toward that direction. I said, “There's something up, something wrong.”
GS: Where were you relative to the Trade Towers?
RW: Three-quarters of a mile north on Worth Street. It's below Canal, Chinatown right near the Federal Courthouse building.
GS: Did you move from New York so as not to have to deal with the commotion?
RW: No, it wasn't that. I stayed in New York for a while after that. It was just time to move on.
GS: Was it more convenient in L.A.?
RW: Yeah, I just felt I was missing out on meetings and stuff like that.
GS: It's surprising that you lived in New York until February of 2002. As an actor you need to work with Hollywood all the time.
RW: You can get cast out of New York just as easily as you can in Hollywood.
GS: But aren't all the casting meetings here?
RW: Some of them, not all of them. You can get cast out of New York just as easily. I have in the past. I mean there are more meetings out here of course, but I liked the coaching and the teachers in New York anyway. I though they were better. I just liked the energy in New York. In LA you get a little bit complacent.
GS: Were you doing any live stage there?
RW: No, just [getting] coaching and my photography and some martial arts. It was just a phase, but I would always travel outside and go to China, Beijing.
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GS: How do you spend your free time these days?
RW: I just got married, so we were really preparing for our wedding for the last month. And now we're going to Beijing to network. There's this director over there I want to meet. Two weeks, then I'm going to do an independent feature when I come back.
It's called Inside Out. Eric LaSalle is one of the actors. He plays a psychiatrist who gets fired from some hospital. He does things very unconventionally. He moves into this neighborhood and the neighbors are trying to greet him, but he's very offbeat and he's kind of odd. He has a way of showing the neighbors how odd they are and how dysfunctional they are. But his real motive is that he had a wife who died and this son he had given up is actually being raised by one of the neighbors. The neighbors adopted the son but didn't tell the son he was adopted. And they keep sending the kid to see shrinks to see what's wrong with him. But the fact that they never told him was what's really wrong. The film's also kind of erotic and suspenseful.
GS: Who are you playing?
RW: I play one of the neighbors, a gambling addict. [putting on a voice] There are no small parts, only small actors.
GS: How do you stay in shape?
RW: I take my modern dance class and I've been going to the gym and doing my wushu. I alternate -- it's my cross-training.
GS: Do you still do photography?
RW: Yeah, I'm a camera buff, a shutterbug.
GS: What kind of subjects?
RW: Portraits, landscapes on trips to China. I like using available light, natural light.
GS: Are you and Flora planning on having kids?
RW: Flora already has her career. We may have a kid, but I'm not really sure when.
GS: So your life will be centered out of LA?
RW: For right now, yeah. We got a house together in Encino so we're quite content.
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