Matt Barr On 'Hellcats,' Ashley Tisdale, Going Shirtless

It’s funny, it’s always the simplest things when accidents happen. We were doing a spin, and I kind of spun her left, and she was trying to spin right, and somehow I accidentally punched her in the face. We had to go to the ER, and kind of fractured something, but all is well…

It’s funny; she was bitter at me for maybe 48 hours, and then she came back and gave me a hug. Sort of like, “I’m ok now.”

She’s — well I don’t know where to begin. Her energy is so high. She’s a big prankster. She’ll play jokes on me, and I’ll play jokes on her. It keeps the set really fun and really light, and I like working in that environment. We’ll do some things involving food. We’ll leave food in each other’s trailer. Also she’ll make up stories about what the press are saying. Things that are written about me. She’ll talk about me having my shirt off, because I’m always working out on set for fun, and so she’ll call me Matt McConaughey, cause I’ll do push-ups during lunch, and stuff like that.

Ha! Well, we’ll do some things involving food. We’ll leave food in each other’s trailer. Also she’ll make up stories about what the press are saying. Things that are written about me. She’ll talk about me having my shirt off, because I’m always working out on set for fun, and so she’ll call me Matt McConaughey, cause I’ll do push-ups during lunch, and stuff like that.

If the sun is shining. Yeah. You take your shirt off. Growing up, all summer I think all I wore was a bathing suit. I could live life in flip-flops and shorts. In fact I prefer it. So I like to be naked, what can I say?

Yeah I do. I run every morning, and do weights a few times a week. It’s just fun. I don’t have any goals or anything. I just like being physical.

I think I am. Maybe it’s because we’re both from the South, but Dan’s sort of a no BS kind of guy, and that’s just how I was raised. Getting right to the point. Not playing games with people. Dan’s really brutally honest, and I find myself acting like that sometimes. That’s sort of a good news/bad news thing, because it can get you in trouble sometimes — when you say exactly what’s on your mind. But I think there’s sort of an authenticity in Dan that I see in myself.

Well, my family wasn’t involved in that world at all. My dad was a football coach, and my mom was a portrait artist. I think I came out of the womb wanting to act. I guess being a kid, I always wanted to be everything. I wanted to be an astronaut/ninja/fireman, so I guess I just discovered at a young age that, by becoming an actor, I could live all those fantasies. And I've just loved it ever since.

I started doing theater at 6 or 7, till I graduated high school. Then I did a movie called 'Levelland' in Austin, Texas, and packed my Jeep up and went out to L.A. I was about 18. I skipped out on college and thought, I’m just going to go for this. Never looked back.

Well my mom and my grandma like it a lot more. They can actually watch it. But there’s something more fun about playing the more trivial guys. You can really step outside yourself, and it’s a challenge and it’s scary. I have a lot of fun playing the crazy psychos. I hope I get a chance to play those more often. But it’s also fun getting a chance to play a guy who’s closer to yourself, and the fans can sort of relate to. And when they come up to me on the street they don’t give me bad looks like, “Are you going to kill me?”

Oof, we’ve just been so tied up with 'Hellcats' lately, but I’m producing a movie called '12 Muddy Orphans.' It’s about an orphanage during the Great Depression, and this football team that’s created there. True story. These orphans went on to inspire the nation by going all the way to the state championship. Its one of those extraordinary, 'Seabiscuit'-type, great underdog stories. It’s everything I love about movies.