Matthew Jerome Barr (born February 14, 1984) is an American actor, best-known as Danny McNamara in the CBS/Paramount+ action–adventure television series Blood & Treasure[1] and as Johnson "Johnse" Hatfield in Hatfields & McCoys. (wikipedia)
It's fun to get the script every Monday morning and go, "Cool!" I'm a professional actor, but I'm also a professional story lover. I get off on that thrill.
Not everyone who sells Christmas trees believes in Santa Claus.
I think people's soul - I think you can kind of see it - there's what they say and there's what they do.
Everyone holds a secret and that's just true about everyone. So at the end of the day it's amazing what people will do when they're backed up in a corner.
The little boy in me always wanted to be a treasure hunter.
I've always been curious about the monster that lives under your bed. Even at 30 years old you lean over the bed to see if there's something under there, potentially.
My dad was a college football coach, so we're a big athletic family. I was either going to be an athlete or an actor. As an actor, I hoped I would be able to bond the two.
I have to give props to my stunt double, who is the real deal and gets to do all the fun stuff and make me look good.
I think there's something fun about television where, as an actor, when you read the script each week, it's like how the audience experiences watching the show each week.
Food is a huge passion of mine, and because I want to eat whatever I want, I run every morning, and then I do weights a few times a week. It's just how I can balance eating pancakes in the morning, a big burger for lunch, and then a fat steak and cheesecake at night.