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www.MOSTmag.com || FASHIO N MAG A ZINE || 135The charming leading man may not have a passion for cooking, or sports for that matter, disclosing that %u201cHonestly, I%u2019ve never understood sports fanaticism because to me it%u2019s arbitrary %u2013 like where you happen to be born dictates what team you root for. I think you should root for whoever you want.%u201d But he divulges that, %u201cI do play sports. I play dodgeball-more than any adult should.%u201d In fact though, it is music he loves, and as a zealous concert goer, he finds singer and song-writer Mike Patton, best known for being the lead singer of the alternative metal band, Faith No More, to be his longest standing idol. %u201cHe%u2019s hands-down the greatest vocalist in rock music right now and ever as far as I%u2019m concerned. He%u2019s also had a tremendous influence on my musical and artistic tastes.%u201d s an artist from a young age, Nick headed for Hollywood immediately following high school graduation, to pursue his dream of acting. Shortly after arriving in L.A., his dream was fulfilled when he was cast as Kevin %u201cTrek%u201d Sanders, a child prodigy conceived at a Star Trek convention, in the syndicated series Team Knight Rider. With his career gaining momentum, he then landed his breakout Teen Choice Nominated role as Kyle Valenti in the WB series Roswell. After the show wrapped, Nick went on to land recurring roles in such series as: It%u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Without a Trace, and Vanished, as well as guest starring roles in Crossing Jordan, Cold Case, Chase, Malcolm in the Middle, and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. His work on the big screen includes roles in the feature film Fling, and independent films Chick%u2019s Man and Lie To Me. owever, it is still Nick%u2019s current show Revenge which is responsible for giving him what he considers to be his most memorable moment in his career so far-the moment when Jack%u2019s dog Sammy died. %u201cI%u2019ve gotten more compliments on that moment than I got in anything in my career. Emily, his co-star on Revenge, and I talk about it, we both talk about it in the press because we both felt it. It%u2019s where we most lost ourselves and felt true. She herself said that she%u2019s never felt that since. It was just this beautiful thing %u2013 where we lost awareness of the set and the camera. It%u2019s the most real that I%u2019ve ever felt, and I%u2019ve been chasing that feeling ever since.%u201d Nick makes every scene feel that real, yet as easy as he makes it look on camera, he dishes that upon arriving at the set each day, he gets there %u201cin a blind panic to cram my lines into my brain hole. Despite having studied for many hours before each scene, I still get there and blank the moment they say, %u2018Action.%u2019 I have jitters that I have to get rid of by cramming lines.%u201d Whatever his process is, it obviously seems to work for him and his sense of humor is never far away as he always attempts to make the main character, Emily, laugh when the director yells %u201ccut.%u201d His own character has not had an easy life, and Nick has done superbly at portraying Jack%u2019s numerous ups and downs and emotional scenes, as he has had to live through loved ones dying all around him at the hands of the powerful, amoral characters whom he and his friends work hard to take down. >>>>>