Post by Aerie on Mar 23, 2007 22:31:57 GMT -5
I ran across this old interview. Michael talks about his first reading of the Pilot script for Dark Angel.
Michael Weatherly Liked the Dark Angel Story Immediately
When I first read the script, someone had left it in my apartment. They had been house sitting while I was away working out of the country, and when I came back this had been sitting on my desk. And it had said, 'Dark Angel, James Cameron, Charles Eglee'," recalls Weatherly. "And I had thought, 'Oh, Jim Cameron's new movie - this is kind of cool'. So I picked it up and read it, envisioning Ed Harris as Logan. Then, a couple of weeks later, I got a call from my manager,and she said, “Do you want to audition for this Dark Angel thing? We've got a meeting for you.” And I said, "Great, which part?' I mean, I figured I'd be bodyguard number three or maybe I'd get to be one of the jam pony messengers in the back. And she said, 'No, no. Logan."
It was then that it started to sink in what, exactly, he was up for. Still, his immediate response was, "But I'm not Logan." That was because, from Weatherly's view, Logan was a role designed for a bigger name actor, in a bigger-scale feature script. "I thought Logan was Harrison Ford. From the start, I saw it in a much grander scale. I saw it as a $100 million dollar feature in my mind," he explains. "When you read a script you always have that perspective. If it's a television show, you kind of imagine it on a small scale. When you read a movie script, you really flesh it out with movie stars and the whole thing. So, from the very get-go, it's been like that - a little fantasy ride. And a lot of fun to do. The rest of the cast has to work pretty hard; I just sit around and type at the computer," he laughs.
“I don't quite remember why but I just loved the mystery. I love Max's world. I love Manticore, her genetically engineered brothers and sisters and finding the woman who helped her escape. That's the part of the show that's fascinating to me.
After having had more than his fair share of false starts and failed pilots, Weatherly didn't have any particular expectations for the series, even with the talented names associated with the series. "If anything, I was much more skeptical of any kind of success, immediate or otherwise," he admits. "I just thought, what a great script, what a great, fun concept, and ultimately what a great group of people to work with, from people who run things all the way down to Jessica and the cast."
Dark Angel comes from the creative minds by producing partners James Cameron and Charles Eglee, and is the first project to stem from a TV collaboration between the two long-time friends, whose shared history stretches back more than two decades to the years they each got started in their careers with Roger Corman. The show shoots in Hollywood North, also known as Vancouver, British Columbia, and, according to Weatherly, the hours are intense - up to 150 hours or more per episode. But all of that effort comes through in the end product, adds the actor. "I think it shows. Every department is really keyed in and involved, and wants to make it as true as it can be."
Max is not interested at all in the world in which she actually lives; she's only interested in the world which has long since disappeared behind her. Logan is only interested in the world that exists around him, and fighting that system. But you know next to nothing about Logan's personal mythology. He has almost no interest in who he is; he only has an interest in the society, and trying to effect some kind of positive change on that society. The two of them have this sort of positive and negative charge; and obviously, those opposites attract, in some ways."
While there are undeniably sparks flying between this dynamic duo, it's not the intention of the producers to let things go too far.
Michael Weatherly Liked the Dark Angel Story Immediately
When I first read the script, someone had left it in my apartment. They had been house sitting while I was away working out of the country, and when I came back this had been sitting on my desk. And it had said, 'Dark Angel, James Cameron, Charles Eglee'," recalls Weatherly. "And I had thought, 'Oh, Jim Cameron's new movie - this is kind of cool'. So I picked it up and read it, envisioning Ed Harris as Logan. Then, a couple of weeks later, I got a call from my manager,and she said, “Do you want to audition for this Dark Angel thing? We've got a meeting for you.” And I said, "Great, which part?' I mean, I figured I'd be bodyguard number three or maybe I'd get to be one of the jam pony messengers in the back. And she said, 'No, no. Logan."
It was then that it started to sink in what, exactly, he was up for. Still, his immediate response was, "But I'm not Logan." That was because, from Weatherly's view, Logan was a role designed for a bigger name actor, in a bigger-scale feature script. "I thought Logan was Harrison Ford. From the start, I saw it in a much grander scale. I saw it as a $100 million dollar feature in my mind," he explains. "When you read a script you always have that perspective. If it's a television show, you kind of imagine it on a small scale. When you read a movie script, you really flesh it out with movie stars and the whole thing. So, from the very get-go, it's been like that - a little fantasy ride. And a lot of fun to do. The rest of the cast has to work pretty hard; I just sit around and type at the computer," he laughs.
“I don't quite remember why but I just loved the mystery. I love Max's world. I love Manticore, her genetically engineered brothers and sisters and finding the woman who helped her escape. That's the part of the show that's fascinating to me.
After having had more than his fair share of false starts and failed pilots, Weatherly didn't have any particular expectations for the series, even with the talented names associated with the series. "If anything, I was much more skeptical of any kind of success, immediate or otherwise," he admits. "I just thought, what a great script, what a great, fun concept, and ultimately what a great group of people to work with, from people who run things all the way down to Jessica and the cast."
Dark Angel comes from the creative minds by producing partners James Cameron and Charles Eglee, and is the first project to stem from a TV collaboration between the two long-time friends, whose shared history stretches back more than two decades to the years they each got started in their careers with Roger Corman. The show shoots in Hollywood North, also known as Vancouver, British Columbia, and, according to Weatherly, the hours are intense - up to 150 hours or more per episode. But all of that effort comes through in the end product, adds the actor. "I think it shows. Every department is really keyed in and involved, and wants to make it as true as it can be."
Max is not interested at all in the world in which she actually lives; she's only interested in the world which has long since disappeared behind her. Logan is only interested in the world that exists around him, and fighting that system. But you know next to nothing about Logan's personal mythology. He has almost no interest in who he is; he only has an interest in the society, and trying to effect some kind of positive change on that society. The two of them have this sort of positive and negative charge; and obviously, those opposites attract, in some ways."
While there are undeniably sparks flying between this dynamic duo, it's not the intention of the producers to let things go too far.
, that article was written about Rachel Hunter while the events in the article have nothing to do with her. WTF?
