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Conference Call Highlights:
Preston on whether she likes short stints on TV:
"For sure. I had always heard that an hour drama was definitely the
hardest gig in show business. And these guys really are amazing. And
everybody - the cast, the crew - everybody works so hard on them. I mean,
they’re producing these little mini movies every week and the writing is so
strong. It’s a lot, but I hand it to them. They’re all doing an incredible
job."
Jake Weber on what he liked about his character this season:
"Well, I always like it when he works a lot of conflict into the
storylines between me and Allison, because I think that even people who are
just crazy about each other and have been together forever, and know each
other and have worked out a lot of the kinks in their relationship, there’s
still always going to be conflict. And I think that that’s always what I
enjoy the most - he built in that sort of inherent conflict in that we’re
all out of money. Nobody had a job and we were kind of at each other because
we both were struggling to provide for our family. And my guy’s whole
identity as a breadwinner was getting challenged. And he’s more practical
than she is, so he was more comfortable with her sort of pedaling her wares
as a psychic than she, perhaps, was. So I think he set up an environment
where there was a lot of potential conflict and that made it fun as an actor
to play.
Kelly Preston on the challenges of playing a TV character with a four
episode story arc:
"I would say just not being as used to the format. Everybody was so
welcoming and it’s really - Jake was just wonderful and who I thought was a
really incredible actor before I joined the team, as well as Patricia. I
think [she] is just brilliant on the show. So I stepped into a really
wonderful atmosphere and a crew that really works beautifully and seamlessly
together. For me, it was just because of it being a little of a different
format where you’re getting the pages - you’re getting them sort of last
minute or because Glenn rewrites the scenes. And they’re always getting
better and better. You don’t have as much time to learn them as I’m used to.
And these guys are a lot more used to getting things with not that much time
prior. So I would say that was one of the biggest challenges for me. But it
’s almost like a muscle where you’re exercising it and it’s getting
stronger, and you’re getting more able to do that. But ultimately, I had a
really, really great time on the show - even better than I expected to."
Jake Weber on playing the real Joe DuBois:
"You know, both Allison and Joe are sort of springboards for Glenn Caron’
s imagination. So they’re not directly modeled off them, although their
lives are sort of a framework in which he built all those stories. So, we’re
not actually playing real people. We’re just - we’re playing people, not
those lives - if that makes sense."
Kelly Preston on playing an evil character:
"Yeah, I’m wicked. I love it. It’s fun. Glenn really created - when he
first called me to tell me about it and ask if I wanted to do it, I said,
"Okay. So what’s the fun? What’s the interesting? What’s going to be fun
to play? And when he told me, I said, "Okay. I’m in definitely." The way
his mind works, it really made for a fun character to play.
-- Troy Rogers
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