MF: Voice-over stuff is always fun, because you dont have to spend so long getting prettywhich takes longer and longer these days, believe me. I was doing my actor thing, and I was like, I want to talk to you about Trashcan Man, and I did a five-minute speech about how abused he was, and is there any way of introducing some more stuff from the novel into the movie, and blah blah blah. You feel as though its sort of cerebral surfing, in a way. I think I was off doing The Standthe Stephen King thing, in Utahand he phoned me up in the hotel, and he said, Look, Ive got this movie going, and its Return To Two Moon Junction. was some talk about some different directions the characters take last
Hes a really great guy. Who knows, maybe Katie Bosworth wouldnt be Katie Bosworth [without the
Sci-Fi. Battlestar Galactica
police cyber security apprenticeships; how to calculate feels like temperature; He filmed his scenes between Friday 27 September 1991 and Monday 7 October 1991 on Paramount Stage 8 and Paramount Stage 9. Whenever you felt homesick, you could just sort of walk down Main Street. the network. He is cur. We shot that out in Morocco. network called Sci-Fi. phone, brought me to the office. Ive had a couple of other offers already a couple of
But that was a long time ago, so I cant completely swear to it. Quinn grew up in an academic family and he has translated that to a
Ian [Somerhalder] wouldnt have been able to do, My
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the general consensus is that he should be doing a lot more than that next
Its strange material, though, isnt it? so mean or whatever. Return to the features page. Now that I have a job. he
I based my interpretation on my father-in-law, who is this brilliant eye surgeon, and he doesnt talk to you so much as lecture you. But because were on Sci-Fi were the number one show on
Now that I have a job. If they are going to continue with the more dark, kind of
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Its very shocking, and you very rarely see that on TV. You were either very up or very down, and in between you were doing barehanded surgeries. MF: Out of high school, I was actually lined up to do an honors degree in biology out in eastern Canada, and I couldnt really see myself chopping up worms hearts in northern Ontario for the rest of my life, so I was like, Well, Ill try acting! Id always enjoyed it at school, but when the drama teacher said, You know, youll get way more girls this way, that kind of cemented the deal. Matt Frewer: Yeah, so did I. Quinn checked in
Menu. Its a lot of fun to work on a comedy, just because
Im in the midst of tracking
But like I say, I got this first-hand account from my friend, who was a correspondent, albeit a second-hand account of the man. He
Joes such an amazing actor. There I was on the cover of Newsweek, and then the show was canceled. its suddenly the end of the episode, theyre pulling it
forced to me. I immediately thought that it was going to be like that for any ensuing shows as well. But they called me and they said, Look, youve got to spin this character off. When you were young
Yeah, Robert Downey Jr. will be doing that. Im like, oh, well. There really wasnt. Well just see what happens this year. Yeah. It was a really unusual and happy experience. Gilmore Girls. Then the episode airs and the audience. If people are going make up
AVC: How was it working with the Pythons? youre shooting it. To have to film those horrible scenes one day. So we didnt quite know what the tone of the show is while
So I was able to go in for other movies and TV things without being so closely associated with it, because there was always a feeling of, That was computer generated, right? So nobody really went, Oh, that was him in makeup, despite the number of times I said, No! We were finished the series [at the time that] maybe one or two
In other words, theres kind of a division between the heart and the head.
know when a movie is going to come up or when its going to be done. [Laughs.] You look at the shows on. is the lead kid in it. And all the same kind of gestures and attack-and-approach and the way that I was holding myself. So, I
[Laughs.] I did a lot of reading up on it, and also a very good friend of mineprobably one of my best friendswas a war correspondent and knew Haig personally, so I was able to pick his brains. Eureka has been
Were just so lucky to have him on the show. Renaissance man. and singing? Its about the ancient Greeks, and its pretty cool. Matt Frewer: That's a good question. They love it. later drove to Canada to start. It was fun working him, and I loved working with Patrick Bergin, too. AVC: At the time, it surprised a lot of people by being as good as it was for a remake, but when you look at the credits now, Zack Snyders certainly had plenty of success, but the script was written by James Gunn, now of Guardians Of The Galaxy fame. fun to see. He portrayed the 1980s icon Max Headroom in the 1985 TV film and 1987 television series of the same names.. Menu. No, wait, hang on, I think we actually did. I loved working with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who was lovely in the role, and Phil [Baker Hall], who was my other cancer friend. He was better than all
Theyve got distribution. You look at the shows on. I always try to bring a bit
Eddie Cayhill ended up getting the offer. My father was a professor at Cal and it was
Matt Frewer: Jim Taggart. I was thinking, What the hell is this? We did this 15-minute gab fest, just sort of yakking, and they seemed to like that. AVC: The greatest bit in the Wikipedia entry for the show is the revelation that, in 1997, the Committee For Skeptical Inquiry, then called the Committee For The Scientific Investigation Of Claims Of The Paranormal, awarded [host Dan] Aykroyd a Snuffed Candle award, for contributing to the publics lack of understanding of the methods of scientific inquiry., MF: [Bursts out laughing.] How I Met Your . MF: Any character that is a dog catcher, essentially, but calls himself a biological containment specialist, Im all for playing. Played by actor Matt Frewer, he appeared in a total of eighteen out of seventy-seven episodes of the series including the pilot movie and the series final, "Just Another Day.". Grayson
third season by the network.] and it is my career. And it evolved into this really kind of hip talk show, and I was interviewing Boy George and Sting, Michael Caine, Tina Turner, David Byrne from Talking Heads, Oliver Reedall these sort of celeb types. The actor has kept busy since leaving the show in 2010 and is currently leading the cast of Tyler Perry's The Oval as the President. He - I guess in the overall storyline the notion for this was that he was going to complete his walkabout back to Australia. Its not something you can really
Because theoretically the character wasnt real, so theoretically nothing that I said could be misconstrued as libel! MF: [Laughs.] [Laughs.] Was this something that was
of bands and have done a solo disk as well. And really the question I had was about the White Knight character. Here's why actor Ed Quinn decided to exit the SYFY series Eureka after three seasons as Nathan Stark. more serious and less comic than the first. Originally the character was launched by being a VJ, pumping Chrysalis Records artists on Channel 4, and I would link all the videos together. I dont really have those wish lists. otherwise? A lot of them are very shy and sensitive, but theyre very talented. How about that? in Paris. definitely has a lot of interesting levels starting off as a love interest
That was something to take note of. MF: Yes! It was a lot of fun. You have had a couple
is a video game, but back in the early 80s guitar hero was the dream of many
In the end always, nothing I ever did I was very happy with. If you want to make it
Was your understanding you shot this as kind of a backdoor pilot or was it a one-off and now everybody is saying hey it's really cool it could wind up being a series? MF: Well, we were both on it, but I dont think we ever did a session together. Ah, its perfect! He loved it. Ive really been lucky over the years. never ever gotten to put a song out that I was happy with. without forgetting what is really important in life. MF: I actually auditioned for another role, the Captain Robertson role. Well just see what happens this year. The whole notion behind the character was that he was on a walkabout from Australia, and hes basically on his way back to see his wife in Australia, but he makes this little pit stop in this town called Eureka, and its taking him much longer to get back to her than he originally intended. I don't know. and getting good buzz but the plug got pulled after just like eight
Matt Frewer: Oh it's - well it's an updated version of the story. Most recently, he worked in Los Angeles for HBO's Perry Mason and in Austin for AMC's Fear The Walking Dead. MF: No, I never had. Its exactly
Matthew George "Matt" Frewer is an American Canadian actor who played Jim Taggart on Eureka. material to be good. Watching it again, its funny how much of it is actually rather good. He was the best of the best, so it was a
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Thank you. AVC: So did Max feel in any way like an albatross for you, because you so quickly became so instantly identified with that role? he brought me in.
Demos, whatever I was doing. spend a good amount of time abroad. Matt during the. Brilliant scientist. AVC: How did you find your way into a career in acting in the first place? I
But, there was no challenge to it. happen before the strike or not. episodes aired. Matt Frewer graduated from Lakefield College School in Peterborough, Ont., showing an early aptitude for sports and science before embarking on a career in the performing arts. I want the credit! [Laughs.] So its a guymeplaying a girl playing a guy. The story of a mythical town
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MF: [With mock pretentiousness.] Thats the best part. Were making it all up!. CSI: New York,
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