TM: Well, no. I mean, it's such a crap shoot, you know? You can't go out thinking that every swing is going to be a home run. It really is a sort of zen thing. You have to let the audience decide, "We love this character, we think this is funny, we want to see this again."

THC: What's it like to find yourself as a leading man with his own love scenes?

TM: Ah, I knew somebody was going to bring that up. [laughs] Uh, it was, you know-hard, in a way. No pun intended. [laughs] Seriously, though, people! It was just work, you know. I wasn't going into it thinking, "Okay, I gotta be a charming guy." I just kept thinking that this scene has got to be funny, and I didn't want to look like a bad actor. The hardest part of this movie was making the Leon and Julie thing work, because Leon is fake and Julie is real, and I just didn't think that people would buy me kissing Julie and her falling in love with me. So I was worried about that, but it worked out okay. [pause] I'm no Denzel. [laughs]

THC: Did any of your real life experiences come into play with your character?

TM: No, no. Not at all. Believe me, I've never been as cocky as Leon is. During high school I had one girlfriend, and she broke up with me to go out with a dude that was in college. My romantic life has been up and down. Even after I got on SNL, I still had to work at it. My wife, who I love, and who I've been with for the majority of my career on SNL, she wasn't easily impressed by the fact that I was on TV, because it was like, you could be on TV, but if you're crazy, nobody wants to be around you, you know what I mean? So I still had to work at it. I had to prove that I was decent guy. I'll just say that in my romantic life, it was either feast or famine. There were times when I couldn't believe that some beautiful woman liked me, and there were times I remember asking my sister if I was ugly.