Daily Inspiration Quote by Scott Speedman

Speedman’s line has the faintly charming clunkiness of an actor doing press while still half-living in the shoot. “Underworld 2” is the kind of franchise work where you spend months in a rain-slicked city pretending it’s a gothic nowhere, and Vancouver is famous for being exactly that: Hollywood’s reliable stand-in, a place designed to disappear behind the production. So when he says he was there “for five months,” the emphasis isn’t artistic fulfillment; it’s duration, routine, the slow domestication of a location into a temporary life.

The accidental tell is “I was reminiscent.” He likely means “nostalgic” or “reminded,” but the slip matters: it turns a straightforward memory into a mood. He isn’t delivering a clean anecdote; he’s signaling an emotional residue he can’t quite parse on command. That’s a familiar press-tour dynamic: you’re asked to package your experience into a neat sound bite, and what comes out is the unedited version of how it felt.

“Back up there” also carries an actor’s geography. Vancouver isn’t a destination, it’s a worksite you return to, like a seasonal job. The subtext is a mild gratitude for the steadiness of employment and the intimacy that forms on long shoots - cast camaraderie, repetitive days, the strange comfort of being far from home but fully scheduled. It’s not poetry; it’s the vernacular of someone whose career is built on temporary worlds, and who briefly missed one of them.