Kevin: I'm doing pretty well, thank you.
Seamus: What are you doing with furniture?
Kevin: We don't have that much time and I'm trying to make it short. My wife and I spent a lot of time in Europe, at the same time but not knowing we were both there. I have a love affair with the architecture over in Europe and the furniture that I found and my wife and I designed our own furniture in our house. We met a guy that's in the furniture business, Boyd Furniture, and we just sort of for three years knocked heads together and said let's do it. So we did it. It's kind of weird, I know, but it's fun.
Seamus: I'm looking at this list. Were you surprised when you found out that Regis Philbin and Oprah Winfrey beat you, but you were the third most bankable television star. You beat Judge Judy, Bart Simpson, beat them all.
Kevin: Hard to believe, isn't it?
Seamus: No, actually it's not.
Kevin: I've been lucky to have been on two shows that have been successful worldwide. I don't have Regis' or Oprah's bank account, but --
Seamus: Forget them, Judge Judy's bank account. She's making 25 mil a year?
Kevin: I'm not. It was nice to be part of that. It was an interesting list that came out. I thought it was a lot of fun and I appeared on Regis about a week after that came out. It was good that he was ahead of me on the list.
Seamus: How are you doing with "Andromeda?"
Kevin: We finished a third year of shooting in Vancouver. I live outside of Las Vegas in Nevada. The show's going great. And it's in 155 countries, still doing very well. We got picked up for a fourth, and there's talk about a fifth and sixth. I'm going to become Canadian before you know it.
Seamus: You play hockey, don't you?
Kevin: Minnesota is probably the most Canadian State we have. it's a big hockey State. I've played it since I was a little kid.
Seamus: On ponds?
Kevin: Yeah. On a lake.
Seamus: Give this man his passport. Why do you think -- I mean, "Andromeda," "Hercules," you're the third most bankable star for a reason. These shows do incredibly well in syndication. What is the the draw, do you think? It's phenomenal acting.
Kevin: That has to be it. [Laughing] With "Hercules" I think we hit a note with people that wasn't out there in television. We started filming that show in '93 down in new zealand, and it brought what I'd like television to be from let alone watching a news program but what I'm watching t.V., I want to escape to a different place in time that I can't be in. That's what the whole idea of entertainment was for me who was growing up as a child. Watch "Hercules" with the humour, good moral message, we had fun with the show. You could see that behind the scenes there was always a lot of joking going on, which there was.
Seamus: Sam Raimi, the Director of Spiderman has become a household name. You knew him.
Kevin: He was our Executive Producer on the show. Him and Rob Tapert combined together. Rob was a little more hands on than sam was, but sam was certainly there. Generally overseeing everything. it was neat. We met peter jackson and most of my crew wept on to work on "Lord of the Rings". So I go to the movie, that stunt guy, I know him.
Seamus: Those elves, i've worked with those elves. You must be delighted with "Andromeda" that you get to wear clothes.
Kevin: I get to wear clothes. My wife says I went from Herc to Kirk. Gene Roddenberry created the show in 1969, "Andromeda." He wrote it and the idea for the character I play is a character that he always loved. They actually did a movie called "Genesis II" with an actor, John Saxon who was a big actor then. it was -- it's neat to work on something that he created. Because I was a big fan of the original "Star Trek" series, to now be at an age, I was obviously a little kid when he first wrote this show, now when I'm playing the second Captain he created after Captain Kirk is a neat honour.
Seamus: Is there any talk of an "Andromeda" movie?
Kevin: Tribune owns the show and Fireworks is the other owner out of Toronto. Who knows? it may happen.
Seamus: I think we just teased people. [Cut Off]