. >> i left maine when i was about 17, and i was going to run away with the scircus, auditioned fo a play -- >> you were? >> i was too young, and they wouldn't let me in. >> reporter: we spent three days th decompress, learning about the center to help people battle cancer, a cause that's very personal to him. he lost his mother seen here in this footage from ten years ago -- >> that's what patrick does when he comes in the summer. >> reporter: to cancer in 2014. >> to be incognita. >> reporter: a whirlwind year, end of his role on grey's sparks the split with his wife of 17 years and talk of divorce. they are back together now. >> stop it. >> reporter: with a new movie, and enough tabloid headlines to get urn anyone's skin. >> it was remarkable, and without that success, i wouldn't be here today talking to you. >> reporter: are you happy with how it ended? >> you know, i think everybody was surprised how abrupt it was. >> reporter: he says things are good at home again with his wife and three kids. how are you >> great, we're good. it's a lot of work. you can't get tardy and not wor

casting their votes, joining me now live is mark mckennan, executive producer of showtime's "the scircusike being with a candidate? >> a ton of noise and very little signal. you hear polls here, polls here, long lines in kansas. your cousin called and said x, y and z. a lot of an ekt doelgts. you have internal polling going on. but you try to keep your candidate calm. i remember in 2004 we were having a great day, we landed and we got the exit polls and they were terrible. they were completely wrong. the oxygen got sucked out of the plane because we thought we were going to lose. >> you've been on the trail for the past however many months. >> almost as long as you. >> with trump, with hillary clinton. what's the difference between the two -- the supporters for each of the camps? >> i was truck last night, i was with trump most of the day, i know you were, too. i was struck from the very first rally, every rally i went to, how enthusiastic and rabid his supporters were. they were more so yesterday. they were on fire. certainly because it's the last day and voting is coming but they are a