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" What&amp;#039;s it like being a married man with two daughters playing a married man with two daughters on TV? It&amp;#039;s great because it&amp;#039;s the first time I&amp;#039;ve done it! I get to bring so much of my own experience as a husband and a dad \u2014 the love and the anger, the conversation and cooperation, the knowing when to take the lead and when to give in \u2014 it&amp;#039;s all there. But it&amp;#039;s still pretend. Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.  How is being in a marriage like being part of a football team? You can&amp;#039;t just have one star \u2014 it&amp;#039;s a team effort. To make it work, you&amp;#039;ve got to be honest and keep a dialogue going. My wife, Kathryn, and I have been married for 12 years, and we&amp;#039;re always open and honest, so we trust each other to the nth degree. Hmm, unless she&amp;#039;s been lying to me this whole time. Uh-oh.  Taylor&amp;#039;s marriage hit a rough patch when he moved away for a new job. Have you ever been in a long-distance relationship? I&amp;#039;m in one now! My family lives in Los Angeles and the show shoots in Austin. Separation does make the heart grow fonder, and stronger, but marriage is hard work to begin with, and this is harder. Austin is such a free and creative place, but I can&amp;#039;t enjoy it as much because everyone I love is back in L.A. I fly home every weekend.  Your own girls are young \u2014 ages 11 and 6; what&amp;#039;s it like to father a teenage daughter, Julie, on the show? Powerful. I lost my father when I was 14, so in my scenes with Julie, I feel like I&amp;#039;m talking to my teenage self, teaching the lessons I never got. Although when my daughters are older, I&amp;#039;ll have to make sure I&amp;#039;m original with my talks. I don&amp;#039;t want them saying, &amp;quot;Hey, I&amp;#039;ve heard this before on your show.&amp;quot;  You grew up in Georgia. Do you consider yourself a Southern gentleman? I do have the accent. And I think pretty highly of myself. But a gentleman? No, ma&amp;#039;am. Do you agree with so many people who think Eric and Tami&amp;#039;s relationship is one of the most realistic portrayals of marriage on TV?  Absolutely. I&amp;#039;m not going to argue with the fans of the show \u2014 we need &amp;#039;em! But to tell you the truth, I don&amp;#039;t have much of a basis of comparison because I&amp;#039;m not watching other TV marriages right now. But we do shoot the show a bit differently than most other shows. We&amp;#039;ll usually shoot the first few scenes as written, then we start to play around and break down the material to try and locate what else we want to find. Sometimes we end up in a different place than where we started. When you don&amp;#039;t know what&amp;#039;s going to come up next, that makes for little moments of surprise and a genuine feeling of realness. Our show offers that reality, which I think is so interesting.  This season, the Taylors hit a bumpy patch when your character briefly moved to Austin and the marriage became long-distance. How are you handling your own long-distance relationship with your wife?  I would never presume to try to do this for the rest of my life. It&amp;#039;s hard work. Marriage is hard work period. My greatest concern in life is my relationship to my wife and my kids, and my greatest fear is that this long-distance commute would have any adverse affects on the kids. I fly home every weekend to see them. They visited the beginning on the year but now they&amp;#039;re in school, so I don&amp;#039;t see them as much. What do you feel are the key ways to keep a relationship strong through such a trial?  I wouldn&amp;#039;t be doing this right now if wife and I didn&amp;#039;t sit down and agree to what it&amp;#039;s going to entail for our relationship. We weighed all the options. There was definitely discussion about how it will affect our family, how long it will last, and how we&amp;#039;ll end up in the long run. Then we came to an agreement. One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without my wife&amp;#039;s consent. You play a football coach on the show \u2014 are you yourself a fan? What team do you root for?  I grew up in Chicago, so I&amp;#039;ve always been a Bears fan. Dad used to take me to Bears games and Cubs games. My brother used to ride me over to Lake Forest College on his Honda Supersport and we&amp;#039;d watch the Bears practice. I remember those guys out there as monsters \u2014 they were the biggest things I&amp;#039;ve ever seen! And that my brother would always say to me, Don&amp;#039;t tell dad I bought you here on my motorcycle! I also played two years of high school football but I wasn&amp;#039;t very, how shall I say it, talented. Does it ever get tiresome to play such a good, decent guy? Do you sometimes wish that Eric would just do something totally terrible and bad-guy for once?  Yes, most definitely. Every actor wants to be everybody \u2014 play all the roles. Eric&amp;#039;s not supposed to do any wrong. But I like it when he fouls up and does wrong. And I&amp;#039;ve got plenty, just plenty, of background in that \u2014 in real life. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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