I can’t tell you how good it is to go from ‘Homeland’ to be lucky enough to find ‘The Blacklist’ at the right time. It literally came at the very end of pilot season when I thought there was nothing left. – Diego Klattenhoff
I got two older brothers and two younger sisters, and we grew up in the country, and we were a little feral. So as long as the car didn’t end up in the rhubarb and you didn’t get caught for doing whatever you were doing, you were fine. – Diego Klattenhoff
You’re always just trying to create opportunities and be ready when those opportunities present themselves. I can’t look at anybody and think ‘I want to be Damian Lewis’ – I’d be setting myself up for failure. – Diego Klattenhoff
I grew up playing hockey and baseball, so I wish I had time to get back into it, but living in L.A. and North Carolina, you have to take advantage of the golf. – Diego Klattenhoff
You have to get the casting right. You have to get the people behind it. Your director might not be the right director for the project. And then, it has to test and those people in that room, wherever they are, have to turn those buttons the right way at the right time. – Diego Klattenhoff
I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I’d literally come from an area with dirt roads and stuff like that, right to the centre of a city of about five million people. It’s been great. I’m based in New York, and every day, it’s amazing. – Diego Klattenhoff
It’s all about learning your craft and honing it in and really paying attention to people who are doing it and what their advice is. It’s like anything: it takes years and years and years. A lot of it comes down to work ethic. – Diego Klattenhoff
I’m so happy with ‘The Blacklist.’ Give me more people to shoot and throw them off buildings. – Diego Klattenhoff
You put on the military outfit, and it definitely tightens everything up and makes you stand up straighter. – Diego Klattenhoff
Charlotte is a very interesting place – I’m Canadian, but I’ve lived in Toronto, Vancouver, and I’ve been living here in L.A. for years. – Diego Klattenhoff
I grew up working on farms. You’d do anything for money. You’d pick blueberries in the summertime for weeks; you’d cut down, like, spruce and fir trees for pulp. – Diego Klattenhoff
Cable is a great medium. It’s something I respond to. I’m not doing sitcoms. People don’t find me funny. That’s just the way it is. – Diego Klattenhoff
I’m from a very, very rural place. There’s really nobody out there, just roads and farms. – Diego Klattenhoff
Luckily, I had that experience on ‘Homeland,’ to work with these unreal people who are unbelievably talented, great actors. – Diego Klattenhoff
