MacGyver
''The thing about MacGyver,'' says Wilson, ''is everyone's about to die,
the bomb is gonna go off in two minutes, and he's cooler than a
cucumber. Like, sitting there, eating a ham sandwich. There's no
psychology to him — he's MacGyver, and he looks good in acid-washed jeans.''
Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
''I did The Tempest on Broadway with Patrick Stewart, so it was very
weird becoming him.'' Weird, and yet suiting up as the Star Trek: The
Next Generation commander completed Wilson's one-two hero punch: ''If
Picard and MacGyver teamed up, they could defeat any evil in the world.''
Xena: Warrior Princess
''I always watched Xena because it was oddly titillating, and I kept
wanting to see more cleavage. I wanted it to be Baywatch with swords,
but it never quite went in that direction.'' Neither did Wilson: Dressed
as the warrior princess, he thinks he looks like ''the chunky girl from
Heart.''
Paulie Walnuts
''The Sopranos characters were so three-dimensional,'' says Wilson.
''They're more real than the people in my own family; I feel like I know
Paulie better than I know my own dad. There's a sadness and a nobility
in him, and I was trying to capture his inner self. His inner walnut.'' —As told to Whitney Pastorek
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