'Prison Break' actor likes flip-flop of roles

[MickBeth]

The article is spoilerish

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Actor Wentworth Miller found himself behind bars in the third-season premiere of Fox's Prison Break.

It was a turnabout from the first season, which found Michael (Miller) trying to free imprisoned brother Lincoln (Dominic Purcell). Now, Michael is in a Panamanian prison, and Lincoln is trying to free him.

Miller talked about the show's new season in a recent call with reporters.

Q: Did you know you were going to end up back in prison so soon?

A: Well, I thought to myself, it's there in the title, so chances are things will come full circle. What I'm most appreciative of is that there is a reversal in that chain of events where you have Michael on the inside and Lincoln now, the brother, on the outside. I think that's goosed things up considerably.

Q: This year is the first time Michael doesn't have a plan. Is that going to change the way you play the character?

A: Well, that's the good news about a show like Prison Break is that it's not a procedural drama. It's not a show where the only thing different from episode to episode is how the victim was murdered, and that's good news for the actor because it means that your character is constantly changing, constantly evolving.

And the question becomes how far across the line can a good man go before you can no longer call him good? And that's really rich, exciting territory for me to claim. . . . I'd like to think that, over the course of the past two seasons, Michael has become someone to be reckoned with, not only from the neck up but now, finally, from the neck down.

Q: Was there a pivotal moment in your life that compelled you to become an actor?

A: I had always wanted to be an actor. As a kid I participated in every play and musical that my parents would allow me to. But then in college I fell off that path. Suddenly, acting seemed very risky. I wasn't sure how I'd be able to make a go of it. I heard stories about how 99.9 percent of the Screen Actors Guild cannot afford to live by acting alone, and that frightened me.

But I still loved entertainment, and after graduating with a degree in English, I moved out to Los Angeles to get a job behind the scenes. I was working in development in a company that made movies for television and was promoted at one point and actually got a job offer to move over to the networks, which was the brass ring, everything that I had been working toward.

And I suddenly realized that I was not going to be content sitting behind a desk for the rest of my life. . . . That realization is not only what prompted me to make the leap into acting in a serious way but also forced me to stay the course (through failures and roadblocks).

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[aloha]

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[joshartnettfan]

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[Mo]

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