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Fringe - Interview with John Noble and Joshua Jackson [VIDEO]

22 Apr 2011

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11 comments:

  1. Sam Mortimer22 April 2011 at 10:43

    Peter played "not the regular version of himself"... !!?!?!

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  2. chiara22 April 2011 at 11:43

    I'm sorry but I don't like how JJ always talks about Olivia and the fact that her screentime and her development stole time to him and his relationship with Walter, like she's the Barbie of the situation and she's there to make the advertisement but the core is the father/son dynamics. Don't get me wrong I'm all for that (characters'development is the reason why I watch a show) but sometimes it seems to me that he undervalues Olivia/Anna's role and her depth. It seems to me like listen to a broken record and a little childish and inelegant, even towards the writers. I feel like someone on that show is more humble.
    THIS IS JUST MY IMPRESSION THOUGH.

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  3. myrtus22 April 2011 at 13:15

    Good thing you clarified it's only your impression, because Josh's insistence about the focus on both Olivias is meant to be more supportive of it than anything. Surely saying that exploring Olivia as a character would mean she's worthy of attention and not that she's a Barbie. Way to twist his words unfairly and to insult him afterwards!

    He happens to enjoy working with John Noble and the relationship between Walter and Peter, which many fans also do. I think he has the right to have his preferences and if this relationship is his favorite aspect of the show, he would naturally speak more about it. Besides, Josh and John were answering questions about their characters specifically, the question wasn't how they valued Olivia as a character.

    The problem with your criticism is that it goes both ways, Anna rarely speaks about the character of Peter, unless she is talking about how her character feels about him or is asked about him directly. Since she won't bother talking about Peter or his relationship with Walter, that must mean she undervalues Peter/Josh's role and his depth.

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  4. chiara22 April 2011 at 14:11

    I understand your point of you, i know he has the right to have preferences, and as i said i like the Peter/Walter relationship too.
    But this is not the first interview I watch and I usually don't jump to conclusions so easly. Even this observation is not definitive, in fact I don't know the actor. So, maybe Barbie was the wrong word, but the feeling i have is that for him the Peter/Olivia relationship is not worthy of attention, and i'm not talking about romance but about friendship, complicity and getting through the trials of life. So even if i have a preference for one thing, i do recognize the importance of another, and right there my doubt raises: it's like the Peter/Olivia relationship for him is the commercial one, a little toll to pay to let the story go (which is wrong given the complexity of Olivia's character, even John Noble would like to be her for a day). So I feel that, it's just my feeling I know but that's what I feel. And I can garantee you that Anna Torv, when asked, speaks about this relationship in a more caring way.

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  5. myrtus22 April 2011 at 14:31

    You don't have to guarantee me anything, because I also watch Anna's interviews. As far as I remember, Anna was also very much against that relationship in the past, but her views evolved and she accepted it by the end of last season/beginning of this one, so Josh was not alone in this. Josh has also accepted it lately and has even gone to some lengths like saying he's sorry for the shippers, because the last episodes before Peter/Olivia hooked up had been hard for them or, more recently, that Peter is a good boyfriend (for Oivia). If Anna has gone into more depth into that relationship is because the questions centered on that subject. When Josh was asked about it, he had to talk about Peter's position, which was a much less sympathetic one to the fans, although Peter was also a victim.

    And again, I don't see how you could think any less of an actor, because he prefers other aspects of the show to the romance. Many fans do, too. Even if Josh has come to like P/O better now, I guess he still prefers the science-fiction and profound questions like identity/doubles and, yes, the compelling relationship between Walter and Peter. Compared to those two, the P/O romance is new.

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  6. blackcat22 April 2011 at 14:38

    Chiara, I complete agree with you. Of course all the actors have their preferences, JN said he loves working with Jasika too, but when I hear JJ all I feel is that the Peter/Walter relationship is the only one that he cares about and the show is all about that. I too find their father/son relationship the best on TV, but Fringe is not about it only. They had two seasons developing that relationship, so it seems unfair that the other characters wouldn’t deserve some development too. I’m still waiting more from Astrid, Nina, Broyles. If one day they tried a spinoff only with the Bishops, it wouldn’t work because the two of them only don’t make the show and JJ surely talks like that is the case.

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  7. chiara22 April 2011 at 15:59

    I'd like to make myself clear again. I'm judging neither the person and his actorial skills (I think he's a good actor), nor his preferences, as
    I just said. I'm just discussing his approach...Something that doesn't convince me. But I'd rather stop here because I don't want to be impolite. Maybe you're right! And you're a good interlocutor too.

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  8. sarah gillespie22 April 2011 at 16:22

    I normally like Josh (I can't use JJ - it makes me feel like I'm talking about Abrams) in interviews much more than I even like Peter, but he doesn't come off very well in this one. Maybe because he has so many negative complaints about the show within a half hour. I rarely hear the actors say anything negative about Fringe, and admittedly he used Dawson's Creek as his prime example - but yeah, Josh was strangely awkward in this one. He definitely had a cough or something, so perhaps he just wasn't feeling well and rambled.
    John Noble is a BAMF though. What a cool dude.
    Anybody else just keep wishing Anna was there to throw in her two cents?

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  9. chiara22 April 2011 at 17:13

    He definitely had a cough or something, so perhaps he just wasn't feeling well and rambled. LOL

    Anyway, the main characters have usually more screentime so Astrid and Broyles are in second place. I'd like to see more of them too though...Reddick is such a great actor! Jasika too and maybe next year we'll see some charcter development, she deserves that.

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  10. sarah gillespie22 April 2011 at 18:12

    Agreed! I REQUIRE some Astrid development.

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  11. Anne Dieken26 April 2011 at 06:37

    Were you able to hear the first half hour? My only references are the videos above, but I understand the first 10-15 minutes had horrible audio, right?

    Also, didn't both Josh and John complain about the late scripts making it necessary for them to confer a lot to take meaning out of the scripts? Both of them (although John brought it up) complained that the "mistakes" they disliked were continuity issues that had nothing to do with them (when the question seemed to ask who made the most mistakes on set - neither one offered up a name).

    I was surprised that John, when talking about the tight-knit family that they've created on the show, didn't include Lance Reddick in that group (a group that would die for each other if it boiled down to it) because, in his words, Broyles kept himself outside of that group. It's the one part of the interview that I didn't agree with.

    Another little complaint that Josh had was that the storyline in season 3 meant he spent less time in the lab with Walter AND Astrid, and then went into a story about Jasika. This leads me to think he values that working relationship as well.

    He was right on, though, that Peter wasn't a fully developed character in the beginning. I'm racking my brain trying to think of the episode that basically negated six months of his work back in season 1.

    I enjoyed watching the interactions between two actors who seem to really enjoy working together on this fantastic (but not perfect) show. I'm looking forward to hopefully hearing the interview in its entirety (without audio problems) soon. :)

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