By Alexis Tereszcuk - Breaking Celebrity News Senior Reporter

Hunky actor Josh Duhamel lights up the big screen these days starring in the blockbuster hit Transformer movies, but he says that his role on a soap opera was the first time he ever "felt really accepted."

In an exclusive interview with Soap Opera Digest Duhamel discusses his return to All My Children as con artist Leo du Pres.

"Being on All My Children, it was the first time I ever really felt accepted and that people felt I was good," Josh said about his role that started in 1999.  "So much of my life was trying to prove to people that I was worthy, that I was good, that I could do a good job, because up to that point, I was shut down a lot."