Soap Opera Digest: Did you play sports in high school?
Dylan Fergus: My freshman year of high school, I played football. I liked it a lot, but I sucked, so I stopped doing that very quickly. I always wanted, my entire life, to play football in high school. Then I did and I was like, "You guys work too much. Every day you're out here running around. It's hot!"

Digest: What made you choose to attend Carnegie Mellon University?
Fergus: I haven't told this story in a while. I worked my butt in high school and I was lucky to get into a handful of schools. My dad and I went to Carnegie Mellon for a tour. Then we were walking around the campus, just hanging out and bonding. I wandered into one of their studio theaters and they were having a dress rehearsal of Romeo and Juliet. I was sitting in this little, 100-seat theater watching the dress rehearsal. It was the scene when Lady Capulet was mourning over Tybalt's body after he had been stabbed, and the actress was so into it, it was so good, that I was leaning on the chair in front of me. She looked up and said, 'I'm sorry, can we stop? My dress is caught.' Everybody gasped because she was so good at being Lady Capulet. I realized that she was that good. All I could remember was walking out of there and being like, 'I want to be that good.' To watch that tension break right in front of me was unbelievable and intangible. It was amazing. I walked out and was like, "This is where I have to go."

Digest: Have you been in any commercials?
Fergus: Yes, in college I did this commercial, which is probably one of the most fun things I've ever done. It was a 60-second spot for Pennsylvania tourism. It was a week-long shoot where we flew around Pennsylvania. It was aimed at getting young people who just graduated from college to stay or move there. The production company took us everywhere that was great in Pennsylvania. We went rowing through the rivers in Pittsburgh, we flew out to Philadelphia and went to the museum. It was great. We went to see the country, rock-climbed. We did all these amazing things. Commercials spare no expense.

Digest: What was your reaction when you saw it?
Fergus: You know, it was anticlimactic because I didn't actually see it on TV, I saw it on the DVD the director gave me. It was like, 'Oh, I remember that.'

Digest: Have you ever Googled yourself?
Fergus: My parents are very computer savvy, so every once in a while they'll Google me and send me some of the stuff or tell me some of the stuff. When I was on ALL MY CHILDREN [as Tim], I would go watch the chat rooms of ALL MY CHILDREN. That's dangerous. I am not going to do it anymore, I swear. But Googling yourself is interesting.

Digest: Have you made your first big purchase yet since joining PASSIONS?
Fergus: No, no big purchases yet. I'm trying to be smart about it because when I worked in Italy on Come Away With Me, I was very not smart about it at all.

Digest: What is Come Away With Me about?
Fergus: Come Away With Me was this movie directed by Carlo Ventura and it's a movie that is playing right now in Italy. It's an Italian mainstream movie that they filmed in upstate New York, then in Italy. It's a story about an Italian-American family who lives in a small town in upstate New York, going back to their roots and finding out who they are and what it means to have tradition. I played one of three friends out causing trouble.