Catching Up with Dave Annable
Hooray for slow summer TV news days! It gives me the excuse to post a pretty picture of Dave Annable and share with you a recent chat we had at the St. Jude’s Scrabble charity fundraiser.
Click in for his answers about Justin and Rebecca, the newest Walker and the endless influx of “hot dudes” to the show.
We hear there’s gonna be a new brother on the show. What can you tell us?
Yes, there is. We don’t know who that is. They haven’t started casting yet. It certainly hasn’t been in any of the scripts we’ve been shooting so far, so I’m just curious.
Do they need to find someone similar-looking to the rest of you?
Yeah, I guess. They’ve done pretty well so far. We keep joking they just keep bringing in more hot dudes to our show. And we’re like OK, we get it, but it hurts us, it hurts us.
Poor thing! Hopefully they will up the hot-girl quota, too?
I keep saying Justin should go back to college and join a sorority [laughs].
And we hear Eric Christian Olsen has just been cast?
Oh, really? I didn’t know. I think he’s a great actor, and we’d be lucky to have him.
What do you think is going to happen with Justin and Rebecca?
They had that smooch, but they still have a tough path ahead of them. It doesn’t mean they’re just going to jump into a relationship. They have a lot of stuff to figure out, and they’ve been through a lot of stuff.
Brothers & Sisters has a lot of life lessons, really…
Yeah, I think there would be a lot more curse words in real life, but you learn a lot, definitely!
Star Eric Millegan Talks About the Bones Finale Shocker
If you haven’t seen Monday’s season finale of Bones, please don’t read this interview.
If you have, and you want Eric Millegan’s take on the shocking turn involving his character, forensic anthropologist Dr. Zack Addy, do click in…
How did you find out?
I was in Sacramento, going to a Portland Trail Blazers game. I actually had courtside seats. I was on my way there, and I got a call from Hart’s assistant saying they want to meet with me to talk about the first two scripts back from the strike. I thought, “OK…” and I scheduled the appointment for the following week.
But I thought, “What’s that meeting about?” and I started to get paranoid, so I called while I was at the game. I called Hart, and I was like, “You have to tell me what this meeting’s about.” He said, “No, we need to tell you in person.” And I asked, “Am I going to still be on the show?” And he said, “No, Zack’s not going to be a series regular.”
So I rescheduled the meeting for the following day so I could find out what was going on. They said you’re Gorgamon’s apprentice, and this is where we’re going with the show. It was shocking and upsetting, but I just kind of rolled with the punches.
After watching the show Monday night, I thought to myself that you’re a great actor—I totally believed your denial about being the killer.
I was sworn to secrecy, or I would have told you all the truth.
David Boreanaz said to me at the upfronts that he was very surprised about the identity of the killer. How did this situation go over otherwise, within in the cast?
Boreanaz told you that? That’s nice to hear. People were stunned. I know T.J. said, “I’m not all right with this,” and Tamara and Michaela told me they cried. Everyone was upset with it.
Outside of just the external drama, internal to the story, do you feel like if we go back and watch this season there is a lot of subtle evidence that Zack was turning into a minion of evil?
There’s a little bit of evidence in the episode where we sang. I talk about how I have a workout regimen and how I’m deceptively strong.
And Cam said, “I was deceived.”
But to answer your question, as far as I know this wasn’t something that they decided at the beginning of the season. It wasn’t something I was told about until we shot the court episode.
Then, in terms of the finale, just because I know you and I like you personally, as well as who doesn’t love Zack, I was kind of just affronted by their explanation: “Oh, he was a weak personality.” How did you feel about the rationale for Zack having gone over to the dark side?
I followed the writers for the three years I worked on the show. If they say this is what it is, then I follow it. I’m not sure if it comes into my mind whether I believe it or not. If they say that’s what it is, that’s what it is and that’s what I play. I don’t think too much about it. My main reaction when they first told me was, “Has Zack been eating people?!” And they said no, and I was like, OK.
Hart and Stephen are so on my list right now. Anyway, apparently you’re Hannibal Lecter now and can be a criminal mastermind adviser to the gang.
Yeah. What is that? Everybody tells me that—remind me how my storyline is like Hannibal Lecter.
Yeah, apparently Zack’s a killer, and Zack’s very smart, but I’m not sure that adds up to Zack being the one guy in the world who can give us the insight we need to solve the crime.
Right.
What are you doing next? Are you shooting any follow-up episodes of Bones? Will you go to Broadway and sing for us?
That would be nice! In terms of returning next season, they didn’t kill my character, and they could have. So the fact that my character’s still alive certainly leaves the door open for a return. And you never know if they’re going to do it or not, but I would say there’s a good possibility. Otherwise I’ll be auditioning for television and film projects, and I hope to get another project soon that I can tell you all about.
Tubers, post your take on this tragic development in the comments. Is it a smart, strategic move by the writers? Or just sad and unnecessary? I’m dying to hear your thoughts.
Cruise, Kidman, Streisand Remember Pollack
Judging by the A-list tributes extended by those who worked with director Sydney Pollack, he wasn’t just a dedicated filmmaker, he was a dedicated friend.
“I first met him while he was in the midst of editing Tootsie (one of the all-time classics),” Tom Cruise said of Pollack, who died Monday at 73 after a battle with cancer.
“I’d seen every one of his pictures and he generously took the meeting. Years later, having lived through some short post schedules myself, I realized just how generous. He spent over six hours, with the patience of Job, answering all my questions.
“Throughout the years, unpretentious and never condescending, he shared with me what he loved about family, storytelling, food, flying and a great bottle of vino,” said Cruise, who acted for Pollack in The Firm and costarred with him in Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut.
“He was a Renaissance man and a great friend. I will miss him dearly.”
Nicole Kidman, who also pulled double duty with Pollack, starring in his thriller The Intepreter and opposite him in Eyes Wide Shut, called him “irreplaceable to so many people.”
“He was elegant, a gentleman, smart and generous, a wonderful actor, a great cook…a true connoisseur of life,” Kimdan said today in a statement. He guided me artistically and personally, not just as a director or producer but as a mentor and a friend. I will miss him terribly.”
Barbra Streisand honored her The Way We Were director as “a great actor’s director because he was a great actor.”
“He knew how to tell a love story,” she said in a statement. “And he was a very good friend, someone I even shared secrets with.”
Similar sentiments were issued by longtime Pollack pal Martin Landau. The men became friends when both were industry newbies.
“Ever since we started together in New York, Sydney excelled at everything he set out to do, his friendships and his humanity no less than his extraordinary talents.”
Greg Kinnear made the jump from E!’s Talk Soup to the big screen when Pollack cast him in Sabrina opposite Harrison Ford.
“Sydney Pollack earned his reputation as the quintessential actor’s director. He was challenging, he cared about the work and made you feel safe, even if he was directing you in your first film. I’ll always be grateful to him. He was a class act and will certainly be missed,” said Kinnear.
George Clooney, meanwhile, was first out of the gate to remember the Hollywood legend and all-around nice guy, issuing a statement Monday night. Pollack served as a producer on Clooney’s two most recent big-screen outings, Leatherheads and Michael Clayton.
“Sydney made the world a little better, movies a little better and even dinner a little better. A tip of the hat to a class act. He’ll be missed terribly.”
Why Did Ryan Gosling Leave Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones?
Yesterday we reported that Mark Wahlberg had replaced Ryan Gosling in Peter Jackson’s big screen adaptation of The Lovely Bones, just hours before the movie began production. The full details of why the last minute change was made, had not been revealed, until now. According to the Los Angeles Times, Gosling’s weight gain was too much for the Lord of the Rings director.
Gosling showed up to start work “looking like he’d donned a fat suit.” The actor had told Jackson that he was going to “gain some weight to age himself up to play the part,” but the result was far from expected.
“Jackson was still expecting some movie star allure — not paunch and a beard.”
New York Post’s Page Six has a different take, claiming that Gosling’s demanding and controlling attitude led to the actor’s replacement. According to the gossip column:
“‘Peter couldn’t stand Ryan,’ said one source. Though Variety reported that Gosling had “stepped down” and was replaced by Mark Wahlberg, our source said, ‘Ryan cut his own hair, and was fighting with wardrobe. He was so demanding . . . Peter booted him two days before filming started.’”
Gosling is a great actor, with a lot of potential, but it seems like he’s letting the critical acclaim get to his head. A director directs, and an actor acts.