He had a weather-beaten look about him. He wasn’t going to look handsome for long. The situation was assessed and it made sense to all involved that he should go into television instead of movies. Everyone was making something in television; surely someone would hire him.

Someone did. He went on to do great roles. The one he was most noted for was the one where he seemed to not being paying very much attention to anyone. This was sort of the whole plot of the show. That introspective look on his face, his ability to convey tsunamis of stories and grief–all while looking extremely sexy–was a great big draw.

The show lasted one season. Fans were incensed and wanted more. They petitioned on social media. He ignored everything. So it was a great big suprise when he wrote a book. A book about birds of the Pacific Northwest. “So it turns out,” he wrote in his Preface. “I wasn’t ignoring everything.”