Q: I read that your role as Elliot Spencer was written especially for you, how did that come about?

Christian Kane: John Rogers and me were really close to working together before on a different project. We always wanted to work together and I can't believe he has been wanting to work with me, I am very blessed for that. He had me in mind when he wrote this role and I was in Nashville recording an album at the time and he gave me this pilot. I was like your kidding me your involved with it, where do I sign up? And he goes by the way Dean Devlin is involved and I was like Jesus Christ I will do it for free.

Q: On the show you are always doing fight scenes, do you do your own fight scenes?

C.K.: I have done all of my own fight scenes since Angel. It's what I do. I do all of my own stunts. I always have and hopefully I always will. It is starting take a toll on my body. I just got 17 stitches taken out of my forehead from a fight that went wrong. I am very fortunate. I can't believe that Dean and John are still letting me do the fights, but it makes for better television because you don't have to cut away and have a stunt double fly in. I do all of my own stuff and choreograph most of the fights and stuff. It's a blessing.

C.K.: It was awesome. Me and Mark Roskin directed. They will come in and shoot a master and then they will go away and film other stuff. Then Mark Roskin and I will stick around on set and clean up the fight. So Mark Roskin has pretty much directed every fight that I have done and he directed this episode. That was great for me because we knew each other and knew how to direct the fight and the moments of the fight. He was the best person of all to have direct it and I think it turned out well. It was a lot of work. I had to put on a bunch of pounds because we were trying to find guys that were more my size to fight in the ring. We got a hold of Matt Lindland who is a UFC veteran and I was like Jesus Christ this guy is big, a totally different weight class. So I had to put on a bunch of pounds; I put on about 20lbs. You know not all of it was muscle, then I had to take my shirt off. But the fact is I had to match this guy pound-for-pound. It was one of those Deniro moments. I just needed to gain weight so I gained about 20lbs and I think it worked.

Q: You get to play lots of different roles with in the role of your character, which one has been your favorite one to do so far?

C.K.: There is one coming up in which I play a body guard. It was fun for me because it was kind of a Native American Harley Davidson riding guy and it is probably the closest thing to me that I have played so far. I had my braids in, I had some turquoise in my hair, I had some turquoise on my body, it's really a cheesy look, but it's kind of what I do in real life. The ones that are closer to home are pretty fun for me. But I am also never going to forget the I.T. guy from the pilot of the first season, just because it was my tribute to Kurt Russell in Big Trouble in Little China and I am a huge fan of that movie.

Q: You played a tough guy on Angel too, what was it like to be on that set?

C.K.: Well I went to work everyday and tried to kill my best friend, David Boreanaz, so that is always fun. We would waste so many takes because he would be like 'I'm going to kill you' and I would be like 'I'm going to kill you.' If you watch the overshots which is when a camera comes in over my shoulder, the other person that is talking, their shoulders are always bouncing because we are laughing so hard. We blew so many takes just because we knew each other so well. When you show up to kill your best friend everyday, that's a good day.

Q: You have also been working on a country album, what was that like?

C.K.: It was great. I was with Sony for a while then we parted ways because we didn't get along. I am back now with Bob Ezrin who did all the Kiss albums, Jane's Addiction, Pink Floyd's The Wall--I mean come on he did The Wall by Pink Floyd--and his first country project is me. We are having a great time and I am going to release a single. Thank God fro my fans who I love to death and have always been the best. They have stuck around for a long, long time and I am going to finally give them some music. I didn't screw it up, other people screwed it up. On the 22nd of July my single comes out it is called "Let Me Go." I am very excited about that and it is going to coincide with the UMA episode "The Tap-Out-Job."

Q: Do you write most of your own songs?

C.K.: I do write most of my own songs. I have for a long, long time. You know I don't want to be a writer, I don't want to be a director and I am really happy with being an actor. I think the reason I am happy with just putting the work in as an actor and not wanting to go some other place in life is because I get that I am a writer--I am a songwriter. I can reach other people. They are always like why don't you write a script, why don't you direct something and I am like well I don't have to. The toughest thing about being a songwriter is you have to write a movie in three minutes. That is the joy that I get--taking people to so many levels in a matter of three minutes and hopefully leave them with a smile.

Q: Do you think you will get to show off any of your vocal talents on Leverage?

C.K.: I guarantee it. I don't know if it is going to happen this season because the scripts just haven't allowed for Elliot to sing. It is just going to be a weird move when they do that, but John Rogers has promised me that Elliot will be singing so I will get to showcase some of the music and stuff like that. And you know last season I got a song in one of the episodes and we are trying to do it again this year so it's nice.

Q: I read that before Leverage you were kind of taking a break from acting, what made you decide to do that and what made you come back?

K.C.: Well it was not so much me taking a break. I was on a television show that left me with a bad taste in my mouth and I just decided that I was going to concentrate on music. It wasn't like I took a break from acting because I did four films in the time that I was doing the album. But I just knew that if I was really going to be a singer and if I was really going to do country music they just don't let an actor come in and take over Nashville, they just don't put up with it. So I had to really concentrate on that and I moved to Nashville and lived in Nashville for four years. That's what I did, I worked on my music and I think my music is better because of it. I think more people will accept it now because I put my time in it and I am not lying to anybody; I am a kid from Oklahoma, I grew up on country music and my dad used to ride in a rodeo. But they are like 'you're an actor so you must not be country' and I am like 'I will stop you there.' So I moved to Nashville and that's what I did.

Q: I read that you also enjoy cooking, did you ever think of pursuing that as a career?

C.K.: If I had nothing else to go off of, I probably would to be honest with you. I really want to put out a cookbook and I want to do a cooking show. I think that people would get a kick out of it and I thought about bringing in Steve Carlson, my guitarist, because he actually went to culinary school. When we have BBQs it's not hot dogs and burgers, it is like Ganache and some good prime ribs--it is unbelievable the BBQs that we throw. I thought it would be fun to do a cooking show and just bring Steve in, and we cook on the show and when we get done we play a little music while people are eating the food. I think that would be a good one.