Question:  What was it like working with Dakota?  Is she aware of some of the mocking stuff that people do on SNL about her?

Chris:  I'm sure she is, but she's like an alien.  You forget that she's 13 years old.  She is so mature.  She is wonderful, she is a phenomenal actress, phenomenal actress, and nothing is lost through her age.  She is not going to be one of the ones that are going to fall off after puberty.  Her parents are unbelievable.  Her heart is unbelievable.  She is so kind to everyone and it's so genuine.  It's not this rehearsed, forced, façade, she is just an unbelievable human being.  You forget when you are speaking with her that she is a child.  You start saying things you probably shouldn't so you have to really monitor yourself because you start looking at her as a peer, as an equal.  Like we are going through the same thing because I'm 26 but she's 13.  She is unbelievable and she's the real deal.

Question:  Would you do a 3rd 'Fantastic Four' movie?

Chris:  They got me if they want me, we are all contractually obligated, and so I'm shit out of luck there.  I don't think there is going to be one.  I think if there was going to be one we would have heard about it by now.  I tend to think that they are probably going to let that one go.

Question:  What about 'The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond'?

Chris:  I did that right after this, I went to Louisiana, and then after that I went to Hong Kong.  That's a Tennessee Williams piece.  It's one of the only screenplays he's ever written.  It's one of the only pieces he's ever written that hasn't been turned into a film yet.  It was a real treat.  I come from a theatre back ground, and a lot of the people involved are theatre crazy, so it was pretty much everything an actor who likes rehearsals would love.  We were down there, Bryce Dallas Howard is the lead off of me, and she's unbelievable.  She will rehearse until you cannot rehearse anymore.  Our director loves Tennessee Williams, loves the piece, and is from the south.  It's a period piece that takes place in the 1920's in Memphis.  We got to have dialects, fun wardrobe, and it's a part I haven't played before.  He's this kind of very internal, very troubled, poor, farm hand whose father is an alcoholic.  His mother is committed.  He has a lot of social difficulties and issues in a nutshell.  That was just a treat.  It was so much fun.  It was wonderful.

Question:  What is it like being part of the whole young Hollywood thing?  Have you had to deal with any paparazzi or anything?

Chris:  No, I really don't. I'm never in the 'UsWeekly' or anything.  I'm not really.  It's been great, I'm in the sweet spot right now.  I'm able to work and I get to do what I love, but no one is waiting outside my door.  I can go out and have a few drinks and not worry about someone popping a photo of me smoking a cigarette.  It's not a big deal.

Question:  Are you hanging out at 'The Ivy' or on Robertson?

Chris:  I guess I don't go there, and that's probably why.

Question:  In terms of young Hollywood there are the kind with really gilded careers and those who are in it for the fame.  When you are all shoved in the same room is it weird to see that?

Chris:  I'm sure there is, I don't know if they can be categorized by how they spend their off hours.  You could have somebody who enjoys going to clubs and drinking and partying, who is actually a phenomenal actor, and in it for all the right reasons.  By the same token, someone who never leaves the house, who wants nothing to do with paparazzi but they are fame hungry beyond belief.  I wouldn't necessarily judge based on 'UsWeekly' pictures.

Question:  How would you describe Disco?

Chris:  He's got a chip on his shoulder.  The back story that David and I worked up was that I think this is a kid, and I love this I thought it was perfect, whose older brother was a golden boy.  His whole life he was probably Ben’s younger brother.  I think his brother was a star football player, probably went to Harvard, probably the object of his parents' affection.  I think this kid has a little something to prove.  If you take him and put him anywhere else he would be the golden boy.  He's still a great guy.  He's talented, an over achiever, probably will succeed at anything he puts his mind to, but he's had to live in a shadow for a long time.  I think he's eager to step out of that, which unfortunately leads to his demise.

Question:  In 'Street Kings' when was it that you really had to stretch to get that feeling, that moment you wanted?

Chris:  I know this is the easy answer, but the death scene.  It seems like a strange thing, dying.  There is no way to know, it's impossible, and I can't draw on personal experience.  I can't substitute anything, I have no notion of what it would feel like.  You can only imagine it would be that shock of 'I can't believe this is actually happening, I can't believe it.'  I've been in a few car wrecks and things like that where you have that moment of disbelief. 'I can't believe this is how I'm going to go.'  And it was tricky at first, I remember I did it where I just got shot and looked straight ahead.  I thought that fear would almost take over your entire face, where nothing is happening, and so much is going on inside.  Your face is almost completely blank and you have a glossed over gaze.  It just would emit fear.  After two or three takes David came over and said 'When Keanu comes down you got to look at him.'  I said 'No, I think I should just look away.'  He was like 'Trust me, they look to you for help.  They look to you for help.'  I said 'Jesus fucking Christ, David.  Okay, I'm looking at Keanu, good point.  That's probably exactly what they would do.'  But that was tricky.  You don't want it to be cliché, you don't want it to be… it was tricky.  Death scenes are always tricky.  You want to make sure they are good, and that people in the audience feel it.

Question:  Were you able to leave that on the set?  Did you have to go home and shake it off?

Chris:  You are a little shook.  I remember coming back to my trailer and my eyes ended up getting really bloodshot, just from all the exertion.  You look like a different person.  We did the take a bunch of different times, by the time I actually got to go back and see myself, with all this blood, I looked like I was dead.  It was strange, but that's the thrill of acting.  You get to step into something that you probably never would normally.

Question:  Have you encountered your costar Jessica Alba since she got into the Mommy zone?

Chris:  No, I haven't.  Good for her though.  That's great.  I haven't seen her.

Question:  She seems like that really nurturing type person.

Chris:  Oh, she'll be a perfect mother, it's probably what she is meant to do in this life.  She really is incredibly maternal, and incredibly caring.  She does put herself last with the people that she loves.

Question:  What else do you have lined up?

Chris:  Nothing.  No, I got nothing right now.  I'm just trying to wait, be picky, and make sure I make the right move.  Where I am right now a couple of missteps could be my last ones.  I just want to make sure that this is a marathon and not a sprint.  I think now is the time where I actually have to start being picky.  They say your career is not based on what you do, its what you don't do.  I'm trying to make sure the next one is something great.

Question:  Are you going to participate in the Easter play at your church?

Chris:  No, we are going to have a whole bunch of Easter games at my house.

Question:  Egg hunt?

Chris:  Egg hunt, egg toss, egg races.  You name it.

Question:  With directors, writers, and movies you have been a part of, is that something that you would want maybe focus on later?  Maybe directing or writing?

Chris:  Absolutely 100 percent.

Question:  Do you write?

Chris:  I do write.  I'm still too insecure to show anybody, but hopefully that will change.  At some point they are going to have to read it so hopefully that will come with age.