CELEBRITY INTERVIEW

underdog or an outcast, we always relate to because that’s what we have to navigate from the moment we can comprehend thought. And so I think that alignment, it brings us together and makes us feel hopeful, helps in helping us continue to just breathe and put one foot in front of the other when we can see examples of, “Oh, it can be joyful.” There are no time limits to your dreams. There is no time limit to anything. Ride your life until the wheels fall off with joy and hope and loving kindness and compassion and all of that.

Do you have any Super Bowl traditions?

I don’t really have any traditions — other than when the Steelers are in it. Because I’m from Pittsburgh, I watch it. I usually tape it so that I can see the concert. I call it “the concert.”

I watched the episode of “Accused” that you directed.

As somebody who has seen where a story like this can go, it did not go where I expected it to.

Well, that’s [series creator] Howard Gordon who saw the script and did the thing that allies are supposed to do and picked up the phone and called me because he knew that I was one of the people on this planet that could deliver that story in the way that it should be. And I’m grateful for that.