Post by Techguy on Apr 8, 2010 15:03:20 GMT -5
From ACED Magazine -- note the part I boldfaced which would seem to contradict what Friedman says on another article thread:
Six Questions With Jeff Goldblum
Written by Jenna Bensoussan April 08, 2010
Currently in it's ninth season, Law & Order: Criminal Intent says goodbye to Vincent D'Onofrio and gets used to having Jeff Goldblum around, who portrays Detective Zach Nichols. While we lament the loss of D'Onofrio's formidable presence, Goldblum makes the effort of staying in touch with the Criminal Intent cast week to week worthwhile.
Jeff Goldblum is one of those guys you can't help but like. You're always rooting for him, and no matter what he does, you're going to find it interesting. We don't know anyone who doesn't agree. Even some die-hard Law & Order Criminal Intent fans who may have initially been upset with the major casting changes that thrust Goldblum comfortably in the spotlight -- they still tune in every week to watch him weave his magic with words, gestures and facial expressions. Listening to him talk about everything under the sun - from his unique acting style, to being declared dead on Twitter - makes for one hell of a conversation.
Here's six questions with the awesomely loquacious Jeff Goldblum:
What continues to challenge you about your role on Law & Order?
Jeff: Well, let me see, it’s very challenging because the writing is wonderful and the people around me are the best in the world. So, I’m just trying to live up to that and to make the most out of what are wonderful scripts, and what a wonderful acting opportunity it is. Plus, my character is always kind of evolving, and it’s challenging to try to do my best with it.
You have a new partner who is going to be challenging. How do you see her and your character working together?
Jeff: Well, I now know. We’ve done several cases together. And we work beautifully together, very dynamically. I think she’s great. She is brilliant and has her own skill set and we just work very creatively together. And it’s, as much as anything, even given the dark and horrific and nightmarish circumstances that we’re always faced with, dead bodies and gruesome places and gruesome events, we seem to both get a thrill out of the fun and the adventure of the hunt, hunting down the bad guy.
In addition to Ralph Macchio, who else we can expect to see on the show this season?
Jeff: He was lovely, and what a great actor. Kevin Conway is in an episode that I think will play sort of shortly, end of the season, who was absolutely wonderful. Karen Olivo, who was on Broadway in In the Heights and West Side Story. Just a ton of other people.That’s one of the lucky things about doing this show. It feels to me you’re like in this anthology series and you get ... the casting people are fantastic. And you get the cream of the whole acting community showing up. It’s just great.
Does the atmosphere on the set feel like a new show or does it just feel like a continuation of the show that you’d previously guest starred on?
Jeff: It was all different cast members that year, but the stories and the quality of the writing, and the high quality of the production and the crew, is still the same. So, it feels familiar but—and I miss the cast members who are gone. I adored them. But it does feel like a new show in a lot of ways. And I’m crazy about Saffron Burrows, and the character. They wrote it for her, and the way she’s doing it. And Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is spectacular, and I love her and her character, too. So yes, it feels kind of new to me.
You have a very unique acting style. How does it come in handy on Law and Order and do you get to ad lib at all?
Jeff: Oh, that’s funny. Well, I’m trying to do my best on it. And I feel like I can make use of the way I am learning, still learning to tackle things. And yes, it’s very—they have wonderful writers. It’s meticulously written, but here and there, we can and are encouraged to do little tweaks and additions and be loose about it in one way or another, yes, which I enjoy also.
How was it being dead and giving your own eulogy on The Colbert Report?
Jeff: Well, I love the Colbert Report. I’m a fan of that show and him anyway, and when they asked me to do that, I was delighted because they are smart. I get a big kick out of their sense of humor and I thought they came up with something funny for that and it was delightful to do it. The whole incident was bizarre and engendered a rainbow of feelings in me, of course. It was upsetting. People called who hadn’t heard right away or had—and would be—and called up sad. Nobody, thankfully, ran their car off the road or had a heart attack or anything, but there was some trauma. And for that, I would dissuade people from doing this. And I’m sorry that it happened and all of that. But it was not of little interest to me to get in touch with, in some cases, people I hadn’t been in touch with for a while. And said oh, my gosh, is it true. …I’m glad you’re alive and it made me think of you and all that kind of stuff. And it was trippy.
Was the end martian sequence in Life Aquatic a deliberate homage to the end martian sequence in Buckaroo Banzai?
Jeff: That’s so funny. At the time that we were doing it, I remember Wes Anderson talking a little bit about that and saying—He mentioned a couple of movies that he’s—because he’s a hipster and a sophisticate and archivist and knows all kind of movies. But yes, he talked about Buckaroo Banzai. He said that it was a little bit—He really related to that in some way. That’s right.
Not surprisingly, he doesn't Tweet or Facebook and wouldn't know where to begin anyway. He wishes he were as smart as his character (as if he weren't smart enough already). Goldblum also got to play piano (as he does in real life) in an episode and looks forward to perhaps doing so again in future episodes.
Not only does he play the piano in real life, but he's also a musician, of sorts. He plays in an informal jazz band around Los Angeles with (jazz musician) Lincoln Adler on sax and actor Peter Weller (Buckaroo Banzai) on the horn. Jeff played on a track on Adler's album, Short Stories, but only considers music 'a hobby'.
Jeff: "I have no plans to do any recording because it’s kind of a hobby for me. If something comes up, I’d do it, but no. The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra we call ourselves. When I’m out of work in L.A., we gig around there. On the Christmas break, I did a New Year’s Eve gig when I was back in Los Angeles. And in late May, when I get back there, I’ll be looking for a place to hook up with my band again and play. But I don’t know. We have no plans to record anything."
Law & Order: Criminal Intent airs Tuesdays at 10/9c on USA. Be sure to watch next week's nail-biter episode.
Six Questions With Jeff Goldblum
Written by Jenna Bensoussan April 08, 2010
Currently in it's ninth season, Law & Order: Criminal Intent says goodbye to Vincent D'Onofrio and gets used to having Jeff Goldblum around, who portrays Detective Zach Nichols. While we lament the loss of D'Onofrio's formidable presence, Goldblum makes the effort of staying in touch with the Criminal Intent cast week to week worthwhile.
Jeff Goldblum is one of those guys you can't help but like. You're always rooting for him, and no matter what he does, you're going to find it interesting. We don't know anyone who doesn't agree. Even some die-hard Law & Order Criminal Intent fans who may have initially been upset with the major casting changes that thrust Goldblum comfortably in the spotlight -- they still tune in every week to watch him weave his magic with words, gestures and facial expressions. Listening to him talk about everything under the sun - from his unique acting style, to being declared dead on Twitter - makes for one hell of a conversation.
Here's six questions with the awesomely loquacious Jeff Goldblum:
What continues to challenge you about your role on Law & Order?
Jeff: Well, let me see, it’s very challenging because the writing is wonderful and the people around me are the best in the world. So, I’m just trying to live up to that and to make the most out of what are wonderful scripts, and what a wonderful acting opportunity it is. Plus, my character is always kind of evolving, and it’s challenging to try to do my best with it.
You have a new partner who is going to be challenging. How do you see her and your character working together?
Jeff: Well, I now know. We’ve done several cases together. And we work beautifully together, very dynamically. I think she’s great. She is brilliant and has her own skill set and we just work very creatively together. And it’s, as much as anything, even given the dark and horrific and nightmarish circumstances that we’re always faced with, dead bodies and gruesome places and gruesome events, we seem to both get a thrill out of the fun and the adventure of the hunt, hunting down the bad guy.
In addition to Ralph Macchio, who else we can expect to see on the show this season?
Jeff: He was lovely, and what a great actor. Kevin Conway is in an episode that I think will play sort of shortly, end of the season, who was absolutely wonderful. Karen Olivo, who was on Broadway in In the Heights and West Side Story. Just a ton of other people.That’s one of the lucky things about doing this show. It feels to me you’re like in this anthology series and you get ... the casting people are fantastic. And you get the cream of the whole acting community showing up. It’s just great.
Does the atmosphere on the set feel like a new show or does it just feel like a continuation of the show that you’d previously guest starred on?
Jeff: It was all different cast members that year, but the stories and the quality of the writing, and the high quality of the production and the crew, is still the same. So, it feels familiar but—and I miss the cast members who are gone. I adored them. But it does feel like a new show in a lot of ways. And I’m crazy about Saffron Burrows, and the character. They wrote it for her, and the way she’s doing it. And Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is spectacular, and I love her and her character, too. So yes, it feels kind of new to me.
You have a very unique acting style. How does it come in handy on Law and Order and do you get to ad lib at all?
Jeff: Oh, that’s funny. Well, I’m trying to do my best on it. And I feel like I can make use of the way I am learning, still learning to tackle things. And yes, it’s very—they have wonderful writers. It’s meticulously written, but here and there, we can and are encouraged to do little tweaks and additions and be loose about it in one way or another, yes, which I enjoy also.
How was it being dead and giving your own eulogy on The Colbert Report?
Jeff: Well, I love the Colbert Report. I’m a fan of that show and him anyway, and when they asked me to do that, I was delighted because they are smart. I get a big kick out of their sense of humor and I thought they came up with something funny for that and it was delightful to do it. The whole incident was bizarre and engendered a rainbow of feelings in me, of course. It was upsetting. People called who hadn’t heard right away or had—and would be—and called up sad. Nobody, thankfully, ran their car off the road or had a heart attack or anything, but there was some trauma. And for that, I would dissuade people from doing this. And I’m sorry that it happened and all of that. But it was not of little interest to me to get in touch with, in some cases, people I hadn’t been in touch with for a while. And said oh, my gosh, is it true. …I’m glad you’re alive and it made me think of you and all that kind of stuff. And it was trippy.
Was the end martian sequence in Life Aquatic a deliberate homage to the end martian sequence in Buckaroo Banzai?
Jeff: That’s so funny. At the time that we were doing it, I remember Wes Anderson talking a little bit about that and saying—He mentioned a couple of movies that he’s—because he’s a hipster and a sophisticate and archivist and knows all kind of movies. But yes, he talked about Buckaroo Banzai. He said that it was a little bit—He really related to that in some way. That’s right.
Not surprisingly, he doesn't Tweet or Facebook and wouldn't know where to begin anyway. He wishes he were as smart as his character (as if he weren't smart enough already). Goldblum also got to play piano (as he does in real life) in an episode and looks forward to perhaps doing so again in future episodes.
Not only does he play the piano in real life, but he's also a musician, of sorts. He plays in an informal jazz band around Los Angeles with (jazz musician) Lincoln Adler on sax and actor Peter Weller (Buckaroo Banzai) on the horn. Jeff played on a track on Adler's album, Short Stories, but only considers music 'a hobby'.
Jeff: "I have no plans to do any recording because it’s kind of a hobby for me. If something comes up, I’d do it, but no. The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra we call ourselves. When I’m out of work in L.A., we gig around there. On the Christmas break, I did a New Year’s Eve gig when I was back in Los Angeles. And in late May, when I get back there, I’ll be looking for a place to hook up with my band again and play. But I don’t know. We have no plans to record anything."
Law & Order: Criminal Intent airs Tuesdays at 10/9c on USA. Be sure to watch next week's nail-biter episode.
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