He might have got into the acting department from cricket but Salil Ankola insists that cricketers don't make good actors. "They get into movies but I don't know for how long they can sustain themselves there. I just hope they don't end up making asses of themselves!" he laughs. But what about the fact that he too was a cricketer before becoming an actor? "Well, it's not like I jumped into acting. I took training for around eight months before doing that," he says.