Sons of Anarchy-Portugal has posted an exclusive interview with Orstein who plays “Chuckie Marstein” in the series. The first part of the article is in portuguese but the Q&A is in english.  Below are some excerpts of the interview.

Michael, you’re a painter and an actor with over twenty five years of professional experience between New York City, Cape Cod, and Los Angeles. You’re also a writer and a film-maker. How would you describe yourself?

Michael Marisi Ornstein – I’m an artist who uses many different artistic disciplines in order to express what I’m thinking and feeling. If something I’m feeling is best expressed in a film, I’ll find an affordable way to make it into a film. If it’s a song, I’ll use the three chords I know and record it as a song. If it’s best expressed as a painting, I’ll paint it in colors. I view all these modes of expression as tools that I can use to get the job done. I guess, what I’m really doing is documenting the thought or feeling, so, if you look at my entire body of work, you are looking at a documentation of my life in one long stream. My acting work is different because my job there is to serve the writer and director of the given piece and I take that responsibility very seriously.

Let’s talk about Chuck Marstein and the TV show “Sons of Anarchy”. How it came up the chance to work in this show?

MMO – Kurt Sutter invented this amazingly unique character and I was lucky enough to be given the honor to play him, which I’m deeply thankful for.

Source: http://sonsofanarchypt.blogspot.com/2010/02/entrevista-eclusiva-com-michael-marisi.html