During the river scene in "Into the West", Skeet was actually plunged into freezing waters for the scene. Between scenes, he had to sit in a hot tub to warm up before oplunging back into the frigid waters. (edit) Skeet's stepfather is D.K. Ulrich who is a professional racecar driver. (edit) Skeet previously dated actress Leonora Scelfo who is the daughter of Deborah Winters. (edit) Skeet met his ex-wife at an Academy Awards party. (edit) Skeet has a brother Geoff. (edit) Skeet did not attend his prom. (edit) Skeet did not have a girlfriend in high school. (edit) Skeet played soccer well enough to have scouts out to look at him. He lost the chance at the scholarship after hitting another player during the game. (edit) Skeet played baseball as a child. (edit) Skeet spent five years in New York working in plays. (edit) Skeet's mother remarried when he was nine-years-old. (edit) Skeet was an uncredited “Thug” in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie. (edit) Skeet was an uncredited extra in Weekend at Bernie’s. (edit) Skeet played Chris Hooker in The Craft in 1996 alongside with Neve Campbell. (edit) Skeet played Billy Loomis in Scream in 1996. (edit) Skeet stared as Jethro Wheeler in the 2005 mini-series, Into the West. (edit) Skeet only obtained a 910 on his SATs. (edit) Skeet was raised in Concord, North Carolina. (edit) Skeet studied marine biology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. (edit) Skeet has a scar on chest from a ventricular septal defect because of this he had open heart surgery when he was ten years old. (edit) Skeet was a student at New York University where he studied acting at the Atlantic Theater Company, a New York off-Broadway theater company founded by David Mamet and William H. Macy. (edit) Boys was Skeet's first notable performance as Bud the boyfriend to Winona Ryder. (edit) Skeet co-starred in Last Dance as Billy. (edit) Skeet was in an ABC After School Movie. (edit) Skeet is 6' (1.83 m) tall.
(edit) Skeet's uncle is NASCAR driver Ricky Rudd. (edit) Skeet was married to English actress, Georgina Cates. They divorced in 2005. They have a set of fraternal twins, a boy Jakob Dylan and a daughter Naiia Rose who were born in March 2001. (edit)

Skeet: I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore. (edit) Skeet: I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina. (edit) Skeet: I love feedback, I like to know when I hit something. Usually you know yourself, but you like to see that smile on the director's face. (edit) Skeet: I was horrible in Boys , in my opinion, and I was hyped for it, and that's a weird thing to deal with. (edit) Skeet(In reference to Christopher Walken):
I was young. You just wait, Walken! I'll get older! (edit) Skeet: I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience. (edit) Skeet (on show business):
In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder. (edit) Skeet: The first movie I remember seeing was Dr. Zhivago. I was probably six or seven. (edit) Skeet: The first play I did was The Diary of Anne Frank then I did some Ibsen and Shakespeare. (edit) Skeet: The more you understand me, the less characters I can play. (edit) Skeet: The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at. The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them. (edit) Skeet: There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism. (edit) Skeet: What got me interested in golf was the beauty of it. It's a game of millimeters. It's like living moment to moment... it's a rare moment when it connects. (edit) Skeet: What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way. (edit) Skeet: Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me. (edit) Skeet: Having people in the business say, You do good work, is part of it, and so is knowing that it's true in my head, that I do good work. (edit) Skeet (On attending NYU):
For some reason, I got a brochure from New York University. I got into that program. (edit) Skeet: Everyone's really lazy in L.A. (edit) Skeet: Everybody else has been seen, been proven. (edit) Skeet: Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene. (edit) Skeet: As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing, Take Me Home, Country Roads. (edit) Skeet: Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die. (edit) Skeet: Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with. (edit) Skeet: I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that. I'm working through it, which is good. As an actor, I think that you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you. (edit) Skeet (on the craft of acting evolving):
I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality. (edit) Skeet (on working with Jewel in ‘Ride With the Devil):
I ate onions before my kissing scene with Jewel. (edit)