https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVKDuNjzf30 You’ve both been on long-running shows. Was it a fun change of pace creatively to do an anthology-style gig? COBIE: It was really interesting showing up to a set where the crew were the ones who knew everybody and we were the newbies. It’s like shooting a movie in a very short amount…
The Last Word
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…
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…
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…
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;…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RSUcuGIiI0 So many of your scenes in Wolfs are just you and these two Hollywood legends, Clooney and Pitt. A bit surreal? I’m sure some years will pass and I’ll look back on it with a different perspective. Sometimes it’s hard to process things in the moment. But the whole thing is incredible —…