Actor Spencer Maybee Talks About Role in New X-Files Movie

I was able to speak with rising actor Spencer Maybee about his work on the pending "X-Files" movie as well as his experiences as an actor. I want to thank Spencer and Sara for organizing this interview for Skewed and Reviewed.

GVK: What drew you to acting and who are your greatest influences?

SM: I kind of grew up acting, putting on absurdist, plotless, action/adventure/slapstick comedies in my aunt's basement when I was six, to playing the lead in a middle school musical opposite the girl I had a huge crush on. She was way cooler than me, but in the play it was her who had a crush on me, so I always kind of liked how acting took reality and flipped it on its head, making me cool when I very clearly (and objectively) was not.

As far as influences go, it really was Tom Cruise who made me decide that I really wanted to be an actor, because before seeing him in The Color of Money, Top Gun, and Days of Thunder, I had wanted to be the best pool player in the world, the most amazing fighter pilot ever to buzz the tower, and the most fearless race car driver on the circuit. I was really torn - I mean I also wanted to be a cop, firefighter, revolutionary, Navy SEAL, and astronaut - but Tom made it all clear to me.

That planted the seed, but I didn't really get that you could make a living at it until I walked onto my first film set one cold November afternoon in Winnipeg.

If by influences you mean actors I admire and look to for inspiration, I'd have to say Gary Oldman, George Clooney, Daniel Day Lewis, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, and Cate Blanchett all for different reasons. Some because of the way they disappear into their work, some because of the projects they choose, and some because of the risks they take.

GVK: What was your big break as an actor?