There's one question Wilmer Valderrama gets asked constantly — will That '70s Show get the reboot treatment?
"I get asked that every single time I sit down for an interview in the last two years," he told news.com.au with a laugh.
"For some reason more in the last two years than ever, I think because we are near the 10 year anniversary."
While Valderrama remembers his time as hapless foreign student Fez with fondness, the actor doesn't think a reboot of That '70s Show would work for one important reason.
"Most of the reunion shows and reboot shows have one thing in common, they're not accessible, you can't find them anywhere," he explained.
"They're not necessarily in syndicated TV and they're definitely not being streamed as though they were a normal show.
"That '70s Show is still one of the most syndicated shows around the planet, so you can still find it on television.
"And furthermore Netflix has now relaunched the show, and it does incredibly well on Netflix worldwide. So it's tough to revive a show that is still very much alive."
If a reboot did eventuate, Valderrama says he could see Fez working in the 1990s as a famous hairdresser with his own line of shampoo.
"If you ask me Jackie (played by Mila Kunis) and Fez would still be together most likely, they would probably have like nine kids," he added.
Wilmer Valderrama and Lindsay Lohan. Photo / Getty Images
Valderrama began his role on That '70s Show in 1998 when he was just a teenager, the show launching him to international stardom by the time it wrapped up in 2006.
But the fame also came with a catch-22, as Valderrama found it hard to shake his sitcom character.
"I did get told just do the funny accent, just play those characters why not? People like it, people want to see you as that," he said.
"The fans will always be wild about the next thing [and say], 'That's no way that's the guy who played Fez'. But the industry can be very harsh where once they put you in a box, it's almost impossible to get out of it."
In the end Valderrama said he shunned roles similar to his That '70s Show character in big blockbuster movies.
"I had some really, really tough conversations with my agent and we turned down a lot of money and turned down a lot of characters," he said.
Besides the struggle to leave his character behind, Valderrama also had to come to terms with his fame when social media and tabloid sites TMZ and Perez Hilton exploded on to the scene.
"Internet made news like light speed faster than before, before you could intersect news before it got to print and then a week later it came out," he said.
"[Now] seconds later someone knows what you did, what you ate, what you are wearing. We were there when it wasn't and we were there when it was."
Valderrama and his That '70s Show co-stars, which included Ashton Kutcher and Topher Grace, quickly became tabloid favourites.
"We fell at a time in our careers where tabloids really caught fire and it was all about your personal life. And that was tricky because we were so young and we didn't know what we were doing," Valderrama said.
"We were just showing up to work and people liked what we were doing, and all of a sudden people were in your face and you were like, 'I'm a normal person you know I make mistakes too.'''
A now-infamous interview with American radio shock jock Howard Stern in 2006 made international headlines when Valderrama discussed intimate details of his relationships with famous women, including Lindsay Lohan and Mandy Moore.
Recently Moore revealed she had been hurt by Valderrama's claims that he had taken her virginity.
When asked about Moore's reaction, Valderrama declined to respond, citing his friendship with the This Is Us star.
"I love her so much and I'm not going there. She's one of the most special people in my life and I'm not going to fuel anything that's too old to recap," he told news.com.au.
Valderrama has joined the cast of NCIS. Photo . Getty Images
Now after a six year absence from television and a slew of gritty roles in independent films, Valderrama is taking on his biggest role yet with NCIS.
In Australia to promote his role as Nick Torres with Network 10 and attend the Logies, the actor said he felt blessed to get a role that was tailored to him.
"I put a lot of humour into my character, but also he's got a darker tone that most of the characters on NCIS don't share," Valderrama said.
Despite NCIS being one of the world's most popular TV shows, Valderrama hadn't been intimidated about joining the cast.
"I've been doing this for 22 years, so joining NCIS was kind of an exciting new chapter more than anything and working with Mark Harmon is a dream and working with this cast is a blessing," he said.
"It's refreshing to be on a show that knows itself so well and audiences trust with their one hour a night."
