To those who say hard work and perseverance don’t pay off. We say, have you met Kyle Bornheimer? After spending the better part of 5 years toiling away in such pivotal roles as “waiter” and “uniform cop” in the likes of MEDIUM and MONK respectively, Bornheimer can currently be seen in ABC’s newest comedy ROMANTICALLY CHALLENGED (Mondays at 9:30PM on ABC). Which is why he was kind enough to take some time to chat about the show and his harrowing tale of Hollywood survival.
Looking over your imdb resume, one can’t help but notice that after years of bit parts, you quietly evolved from serial guest star into leading man. What happened?
Kyle Bornheimer: It was a very slow slow burn, I was out in LA for 10 years before anyone paid me anything that I was wanting to do. After doing a lot of commercials, and a lot small stuff on television, you basically begin to build reputations with casting directors who believe in you, start casting you in small stuff and then start getting you into the bigger rooms for bigger parts. You look at that resume in the beginning — MONK and THE OC were the first things on it — I had one line and every three roles or so I got more and more lines.