24 - Actor James Cromwell Slams Writers & more

waiting for 24 movie news sucks, right? However, here are some new (or not so new) interview, which made the web a few days ago. Take it as a snack:

Mary Lynn Rajskub was interviewed on the Marc Macon podcast and she was briefly asked about the 24 movie (nothing new on that front) and working with Kiefer Sutherland. When asked whether she got along with her co-star, she at first hesitated to answer with an “Ummm..” and then continued:

Kiefer and I like each other; I would go so far as to say we love each other in that respect. But at the same time… I really care about him, but our relationship never changed, it never went past a certain point. I think I was always a little bit intimidated by him. He would probably say, “Oh why would you be [intimated]?” Um… But we never fully hung out or fully had a conversation the entire time. And a lot of other people who were on the crew and the cast it was like a family that you watched [over] the course of doing that intense show, that many years. You’ve watched marriages and deaths and births and you do get to know everybody.

For the entire interview check out episode 229 of the WTF with Marc Maron Podcast.

also: Ex-Actor James Cromwell Slams ’24′ Writers, metro reports:

You had some displeasure working on the series “24.” Could you go into that a bit?
I had never seen the show before, and I took it because my agent said it was important to do, that it would be a good thing. They paid me a lot of money to do it. And then I’ve taken my son captive and I’m torturing him, then I was going to take my grandson captive and threaten him. So I went to the producers and I said, “Look, are there any redeeming qualities to this character?” They looked at me as though I was nuts, I was asking something bizarre. And then on the floor of the set I saw this two-star general and asked him what he was doing there, and explained that he had come to talk to them about the presentation of torture, which I thought was eminently reasonable and necessary. And their reaction was flip, to my way of thinking. And to me they missed a great opportunity, which they could have done in the last season, to rectify what they had done — where he becomes disillusioned with this and makes every effort to change his techniques. It could’ve been a great contribution, but they didn’t have the imagination for that.

last one: Sarah Clarke interviewed about Nina Myers in 24 Season 3 [popstars]

Thanks to 24 spoilers.