Star Trek: Lower Decks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jTyLSP-sTM Did you all know season five was the end before you started recording? JACK: It could go other places, so we’re trying not to think of this as “the end.” We’re trying to think of it as, hopefully, a pause. But we didn’t really know; it was a tough thing to hear, to…

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The Last Word

Laysla De Oliveira – Special Ops: Lioness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc1Basl-pMU Cruz ended season one on a very uncertain note. Was it always made clear to you that she’d be coming back? I’m going to be honest with you. We sign the contracts that we sign going into the show, so I had no idea that I wouldn’t be coming back for season two…

Jonny Harris – Still Standing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRkVURD9UXQ Now being 10 seasons in, do you feel like you’ve more or less “captured” Canada . . . or could you do another 10 and not even scratch the surface? The latter. Definitely “Answer B.” We could easily do another 10. People often say: “When are you going to run out of towns?” And…

Sacha Baron Cohen – Disclaimer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so6XoqZgbVM Beneath the pulpy mystery aspect of this series, what deeper themes are being explored in Disclaimer? I think there’s the question of truth, fact, lies . . . the ease that it is to believe something because of your own biases — and the danger of that. Also, it’s sort of exploring outrage;…

David Morrissey – Sherwood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPxWT-jpM2Q When you first told people you were working on a show called Sherwood, would you inevitably have to explain that, no, it’s not a new Robin Hood? Yeah, exactly. The word “Sherwood” has massive connotations to it. But I think that’s deliberate on [creator James Graham’s] part. He’s playing on the idea of…

The Holmes Family – Holmes on Homes: Building a Legacy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlvOUn7OX_8 Why dust off the original Holmes on Homes concept now? MIKE: Holmes on Homes: Building a Legacy really is about building a legacy. Because it’s been many years of changes — codes that have changed, probably in part by everything that we do. Katrina to the floods in Calgary, we’ve been everywhere and…

Alex Wolff & Thea Sofie Loch Næss – So long, marianne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP517-ogZRk&t=7s There’s always a research component when playing a public figure like Leonard Cohen, but at some point do you need to reconcile with the fact that you’re doing a take on this person, and give up trying to imitate them exactly? ALEX: I mean, honestly, I tried not to think about it intellectually…

Mark McKinney – Mark McKinney Needs a Hobby

Was it tough at all for you to get rid of that writer’s mentality of mapping out every single beat of a story, and instead just show up in a place, without a script, and see what happens? That was the challenge. I’ve never been particularly great at public speaking or anything like that.…

Enrico Colantoni – English Teacher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfvKrsaZrEA How does English Teacher stand out in this endless ocean of TV content? It’s really about making fun of all of the divisiveness going on in the world right now. Everybody’s right and everybody’s wrong, and we’re making fun of all of you — and everything that’s going on culturally. It becomes more…

Soo Hugh – Pachinko

The show’s past timeline enters the Second World War era this year. What’s the benefit of telling stories set amidst a big, flashbulb moment in history? We always said that this show needed to be the “epic intimate” — in the same breath. It feels like that’s how life is. I only think about…

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ByMatt Currie