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Post by mandyblue on Oct 31, 2016 6:24:40 GMT -5
This Friday 4th November Hawaii Five 0 will be Celebrating 150 Episodes. This week or near to Friday we could be getting some interviews from the cast and Peter or some articles about the big day or photo's hopefully we can put them here altogether for every one to read.
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Post by mandyblue on Oct 31, 2016 6:42:38 GMT -5
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Post by runner on Nov 1, 2016 9:21:22 GMT -5
Good idea for a thread, Mandy. btw - I remember when the Chat Room used to be open Friday evenings for HF-0's broadcast, for some reason that doesn't happen anymore, but perhaps for this 150th episode it could.
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Post by davilarose on Nov 1, 2016 10:18:34 GMT -5
Good idea for a thread, Mandy. btw - I remember when the Chat Room used to be open Friday evenings for HF-0's broadcast, for some reason that doesn't happen anymore, but perhaps for this 150th episode it could. I would love to have the chat room back for #150!! |
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Post by mandyblue on Nov 1, 2016 11:49:05 GMT -5
tvline.com/2016/11/01/hawaii-five-0-alex-oloughlin-episode-150-preview/This Friday at 9/8c, CBS’ Hawaii Five-0 celebrates 150 episodes with an hour that finds team leader Steve McGarrett (played by Alex O’Loughlin) unexpectedly reunited with both his mother Doris (Christine Lahti) as well as his almost-fiancee Catherine (Michelle Borth). PHOTOSHawaii Five-0: Catherine Rejoins the Team for Episode 150 The set-up: Having skipped out on Steve for top-secretive reasons at the start of Season 6, Catherine resurfaces from out of the blue with news of Doris’ capture and imprisonment at a CIA black site. Alas, Catherine drops this bombshell right in the midst of her ex’s very cozy evening of “romance and fine dining” with current girlfriend Lynn (Sarah Carter) — who goes on to share perhaps a bit too much with her predecessor. (Blame the wine?) Regardless, a thrilling rescue mission ensues! Elsewhere in the milestone episode, Chin Ho awaits word on his latest effort to stall niece Sara’s adoption, while Grover enlists his son for an “intelligence gathering” op, while Danny is out of town tending to his hospitalized father. Here, the extremely candid Alex O’Loughlin shares with TVLine a preview of No. 150, reflects on the 149 episodes leading up to it and teases his current timetable for turning in McGarrett’s badge and gun. TVLINE | Without Hawaii Five-0revealing too much, the cold open to this episode is so deliciously awkward. With Lynn and Catherine? Yeah…. Yeah, it’s funny. TVLINE | I almost felt like Steve wanted to run away upstairs and just let them sort things out. Most definitely. And he kind of does! For most of the rest of the show, he kind of does. TVLINE | How are things going to be when Steve lays eyes on dear old mom? Oh, she’s a pain in the ass, man. [Laughs] You know, it’s an interesting thing because if this actually happened to you — if you were Steve McGarrett and you had this experience with your mother where she disappeared for 20 years and faked her own death and lied to you continually and then came back and made you promises and didn’t keep them and left again —at what point do you sort of give up? And if you don’t give up, what does that look like? These are all questions I have to think about while I’m playing these scenes. So, what’s it going to be like? It’s going to be filled with different emotions, but it’s also funny. They’ve gotten to a dynamic where they just frustrate each other! TVLINE | We also getHawaii Five-0 flashbacks where you see how things were very warm between them for however many years she was in his life as a kid. That sticks with a person, regardless. Right. Look, I’ve got little kids, and it’s so critically important the way we raise our kids and that we don’t f–k them up. There are so many damaged people in the world and a lot of that is because their parents didn’t do a good job. It’s really easy not to do a good job, and sometimes you can not do a good job and not even realize it, so you’ve got to be careful what data you sort of download onto their clean little hard drives. It’s a delicate balance. Doris is a basket case, and as a result of that, Steve carries a lot of baggage about that woman. TVLINE | Looking back over these first 150 episodes, what’s been the most difficult scene for you to do physically? I don’t know how to answer that question; I’m all f—ked up, man. I mean I’ve blown both shoulders, one knee. I’ve had my elbow tendon reattached. I’ve got bulging discs in my neck and my back. I don’t know where to start. I’m a mess, and a lot of it’s been really, really hard. I think back to when I was doing most of my own stunts in the first few years — that was not a great idea. But the physical exhaustion of working with injury and working huge hours day after day, year after year…. The whole show has been extremely physically daunting. That’s one of the things I’m trying to figure out at the moment now; I don’t know how much longer I can do it. TVLINE | You recently hinted at your intention to exit Hawaii Five-0 after any potential Season 8. (Season 7 is currently up in the ratings vs. last year.) Is that still your plan? Absolutely. I’m just trying to make it through the end of [Season] 7! [Five-0] is really, really wonderful, but it is an action show, I’m the main guy, and I defy anybody to do what I’ve done for as long I’ve done it and hold out the way I have. Dude, I was a fit, strong, healthy guy when I started the show, and I still am, but you sustain what you sustain. It’s part of the gig. TVLINE | And what has been the most difficult scene for you to do emotionally? That’s a really good question. Once I finish an episode, I put it out of my mind so that I can move on and retain new information, but the 100th episode [where McGarrett got waterboarded] was really hard. We had a medic standing by, and I set it up so I actually let them waterboard me and I thought it would be interesting, but I got really sick with pneumonia after that. I had to kind of “go there” with some of the emotional stuff about my dad, so I tried to sink my teeth into that one. Yeah, I really felt depleted after that one. TVLINE | Scott CaanHawaii Five-0 sadly wasn’t available for Episode 150, but [showrunner] Peter Lenkov has told me that you two absolutely love doing the bickering “McDanno” scenes. I mean, it comes pretty naturally. We’re both argumentative and opinionated, so it’s easy to yell at each other. But it’s also one of the first aspects that came out of our characters in the pilot, in the first read-through of the pilot script. We don’t back down from one another, so when we get that stuff, we know it’s fun and we know how to play it. There are certain things that they write that work really well with us — like when we have to go to therapy — and we actually have fun when we do it because not all this stuff is fun. Like, standing around a Surface table and spouting exposition for days and days is not a fun aspect of the job. It’s just sort of information, you know. But that [McDanno] stuff is fun. TVLINE | Five-0 is obviously more commercial fare than Moonlight, but for an actor, does getting to do 150 episodes of something soothe the sting of the occasional one-and-done, 17-episode series? For sure. Look, don’t get me wrong, 150 episodes of the show is an extraordinary feat, it’s a testament to every single person that works on the show. It’s a miracle that a show gets picked up at all, but to go this long is fantastic and I consider myself one of the luckiest guys in the world, I really mean that. It doesn’t make it any easier to do the show — the show’s a f–king beast— but it’s incredible that we’ve been able to give jobs to hundreds of local people for seven years. We’ve been able to entertain millions of people for seven years. We’ve been able to keep telling these great stories. So yeah, it goes far above and beyond soothing the sting of the show that doesn’t get a Season 2. I’m glad it all happened the way it did.
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Post by runner on Nov 2, 2016 10:01:02 GMT -5
Thanks for the post, Mandy. It was a good read, very... enlightening.
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Post by mandyblue on Nov 2, 2016 11:12:35 GMT -5
Thanks for the post, Mandy. It was a good read, very... enlightening. Hi runner Alex's interviews are always a good read. I felt very sad for Alex and all his injuries I don't under stand why he signed on for season 7 and 8 as he sounds very tied with all these 25 episode each season and with the injuries as well. I hope these last 2 season he dose no stunt and gets the stunt men to do them and to look after him self. |
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Post by runner on Nov 3, 2016 10:01:54 GMT -5
Thanks for the post, Mandy. It was a good read, very... enlightening. Hi runner Alex's interviews are always a good read. I felt very sad for Alex and all his injuries I don't under stand why he signed on for season 7 and 8 as he sounds very tied with all these 25 episode each season and with the injuries as well. I hope these last 2 season he dose no stunt and gets the stunt men to do them and to look after him self. I think Alex felt pressured to do his own stunts at the beginning... either self-imposed or outside, either way. Stunt men cost extra money, so that could have been foundational (although I'm purely speculating here), then it could become an ego thing. Regardless, you'd think he would have opted for more stunt men in his place after the first injury, or at least as they'd built up, which they obviously have. As for Alex feeling 'tied',... it's called having a job. He should get used to it and be glad he has one, especially in Hawai'i. |
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Post by mandyblue on Nov 3, 2016 11:03:02 GMT -5
www.etonline.com/tv/201918_alex_o_loughlin_gets_candid_about_why_he_s_ready_to_step_away_from_hawaii_five_0/Alex O’Loughlin has led the charge as Steve McGarrett since the show’s 2010 debut, and is taking a rare moment of introspection on the CBS action drama’s prolonged success. “There’s something to be said about the alchemy that happens, that’s there with every successful, long-running anything. If that doesn’t happen, it doesn’t happen,” the 40-year-old star tells ET of reaching the milestone in the seventh season. “We’re all very lucky that the chemistry, that the X factor was in there however it manifested itself because without that, we’re just a lot of hard work to not necessarily this end.” In Friday’s landmark episode, a romantic dinner between McGarrett and his girlfriend, Lynn (Sarah Carter), is unceremoniously interrupted by his former love, Catherine (Michelle Borth), who abruptly vanished in season six. After learning from Catherine that his mother, Doris (guest star Christine Lahti), is being held hostage at an unknown CIA black site, so begins the fireworks. RELATED: 'Hawaii Five-0' Star Alex O'Loughlin Is Married O’Loughlin spoke to ET about the significance of reaching episode 150, why he’s ready to say goodbye to McGarrett for good and the one accomplishment he’s proudest of (hint: it has nothing to do with acting). ET: You’ve been with this character, Steve McGarrett, for seven seasons. Are you able to step back and appreciate the breadth of work you’ve been able to do on Hawaii Five-0? Alex O’Loughlin: One thing that I’ve never got to explore as an actor is just that, staying in the skin of a character year after year after year. When I talk about character work, I don’t really feel like i do much as an actor when I look at other great actors who win big awards for doing incredible transformations. I look at this character and go, “Well, what did he do really?” One of the things I have experienced, subjectively, is an ease and relaxation on a level that I’ve never experienced before so that when the cameras are rolling, the choices that come in are much more natural. There’s a subtlety to that that is disarming for me and enjoyable. It’s a highlight for me, those tiny moments that you don’t see but I feel. Is there an essence to McGarrett that you’re completely in tune with or do you feel you can flip on a switch and know exactly where he is at any given moment? He definitely reacts differently to the way I react to things in my life; we definitely are different people. There definitely is a switch that goes on and when I’m looking at life through his eyes, I don’t have to think about his reactions, they’re kind of there second nature now in my body. But the thing about playing someone like that for that amount of time is if I need him in my life when the cameras aren’t rolling, I can hear [him], which is potentially useful and potentially dangerous. (Laughs.) This Friday, Hawaii Five-0 reaches another milestone: episode 150. Do you put much stock in reaching these benchmark moments or is it another week in your work life? Both. I can’t give it too much reverence because I’ve got to go the work, I’ve got to get up early, do the thing, go home and read to my kids before they go to bed and it’s just another day. It can’t be anything too crazy, otherwise what’s tomorrow mean? But on the same side of that coin, it’s incredibly significant. I’m never going to do this again. I physically f**king can’t be No. 1 on the call sheet on a network television for seven years again. My body won’t do it, you know? This show, with all the action that’s been required of me from the very beginning, this is it. This is a one-time deal for me. I’ve sat in deep reflection on that a couple of times since we shot [the 150th episode] and it’s not lost on me. I’m extremely proud of myself, I’m extremely proud of everybody who’s been involved in this show since its inception. RELATED: Alex O'Loughlin Teases 'Hawaii Five-0' Secrets Speaking specifically to the 150th episode itself, it’s far more family-oriented with the return of McGarrett’s mother, Doris. What excited you about exploring the tenuous relationship mother and son? To have a show where I get to deal with two specific storylines, one where I deal with Catherine and Doris, is terrific because I had something to play and something to work with. They’re also the two most important relationships in his life outside the relationship with his sister, and resolution is critical with Catherine for [McGarrett] to move on with his life, which he now can [with Lynn]. And I think he got some sort of resolution with Doris as well by finally understanding what Catherine’s M.O. was. He was able to see his mother through Catherine now; Catherine has humanized Doris for McGarrett and now he can move on from the both of them. With Catherine in the past, how does all McGarrett went through affect his perspective on his relationship with Lynn now? Who knows what’s going to happen with Lynn? She’s a cute girl, she’s funny, McGarrett likes her a lot, and she’s good in bed. I think that he’s now probably freed up to do whatever he wants. He’s going to do what he wants anyway but he’s cut the cord with Catherine and in a loving way. He’s always going to love her but now that she’s shown her hand as unavailable on a fundamental level, he knows to go back into something with her would be a suicide mission emotionally. He’s smarter than that. I think it’s a really healthy place that he’s in now; he can be discerning and his heart’s freed up. He and Catherine were at one point close to getting engaged. Is he turning over a new leaf and willing to settle down at some point? I don’t know about any of that. (Laughs.) He was all but left at the altar, but they were a very real thing and he had the experience that he had [with Catherine]. I don’t think he’s going to rush into anything but I do think he’s going to have a good time with Lynn or whoever it is he’s going to hang around with because he’s not waiting for closure on a long relationship. RELATED: Ed Asner Reprises His 'Hawaii Five-0' Role Decades Later You touched on the physical toll that Hawaii Five-0 has taken on you over the years. Do you foresee an end date for you in the near future? I have an end date. I signed two more years, seasons seven and eight, and then I’m done. (Hawaii Five-0 has not been renewed for an eighth season yet.) I got too many injuries to contend with. This show is really important to me and I’m pretty sure the world can see that with what I bring. I really care about these characters, I’ve never phoned in my performances. Every single day, no matter how tired I am, I give it everything I can to make it as good as it can be but that takes a toll. I think if I’d have been an actor who didn’t care, I’d have less gray hair and I’d be a lot less tired. But I’m really tired. I do a lot of heavy lifting on the show, I have a harder schedule than anyone else but that’s just the way it is for No. 1. That’s cool, but it has to end. What are some of the injuries you’ve sustained? My body’s pretty broken up. I got through most of them -- the last surgery I had on my elbow I came to work the next day at 5:30 a.m., I just had them bandage my elbow. I’ve pushed through all of them but I’ve got a back injury now and this one’s really sort of slowed me down. It’s also forced me to look at my future and what I’ve realized is I want to be able to throw a football with my grandkids. I want to be moving my life -- a TV show is not worth that. This may be difficult for you to answer since you’re still in the thick of things, but at the end of the day, what do you think will be the lasting thing that you'll be proudest of? As consuming a schedule and as the expectations on me continue on something like this, the husband and father that I’ve been able to maintain and continue to be is what I’m most proud of. The relationships I’ve had with my wife and children are what mean the most to me. It’s hard to maintain that when you’re doing a job like this. It’d be a lot easier if I was selfish and didn’t think about anyone in the hours that I have off. On the same side of that coin, having my wife and kids fills me and fuels me and gives me what I need to get out of bed the next day. You’ve got to keep that balance. That’s right, and doing something like this is the most unbalanced thing I’ve ever done and that’s why we get paid really well for it is your whole f**king life is going to be upside down while you’re doing it, and I think that’s why there’s a finite cap. It’s a wonderful show and the audience deserves another year after this one. Hawaii Five-0 airs Fridays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
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Post by katlyn520 on Nov 4, 2016 4:54:56 GMT -5
Hi runner Alex's interviews are always a good read. I felt very sad for Alex and all his injuries I don't under stand why he signed on for season 7 and 8 as he sounds very tied with all these 25 episode each season and with the injuries as well. I hope these last 2 season he dose no stunt and gets the stunt men to do them and to look after him self. I think Alex felt pressured to do his own stunts at the beginning... either self-imposed or outside, either way. Stunt men cost extra money, so that could have been foundational (although I'm purely speculating here), then it could become an ego thing. Regardless, you'd think he would have opted for more stunt men in his place after the first injury, or at least as they'd built up, which they obviously have. As for Alex feeling 'tied',... it's called having a job. He should get used to it and be glad he has one, especially in Hawai'i. When you consider that other actors on the show haven't had the same injuries from doing whatever stunts their characters have done, it would seem to me ... also purely speculating here ... that someone who does stunts that get him injured that way is doing them more from ego than necessity. It's that "I can do that" attitude that any number of actors have. Stunt men/women are there to do things that require more training than the typical actor has but when someone says they can do something that might otherwise be done by a stunt man, who's going to say "no". If they can get a shot of someone like Alex jumping over a car, for example, and they can film it from an angle that clearly shows that it's Alex, who would say "no, let's let the stunt man do it". There's a joint interview somewhere (Alex and Scott) in which they're asked about the use of stunt men and Alex joked that Scott asks for a stunt man when they tell him that he has to get out of the car. The implication was clear that Scott makes more use of a stunt man for things actors wouldn't normally do while Alex has a more "I can do that" attitude. So, again, just speculating, but Alex could have asked for a stunt man more than he did in the early years ... and I'm presuming he asks for them more now. Everyone gets injured from time-to-time (Scott's most visible ... the knee injury ... came from personal activity and not while filming a stunt) and that's why they have stunt men. But when the no. 1 man on a show says "I can do that", what director is going to say "no" if it means getting a better shot? They need to learn to say "no" themselves and some learn that quicker than others. |
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Post by mandyblue on Nov 4, 2016 6:36:29 GMT -5
nypost.com/2016/11/04/how-hawaii-five-0-is-celebrating-its-150th-episode/When “Hawaii Five-0” premiered back in 2010, expectations were not high for yet another TV remake — let alone a reboot of the CBS series that aired from 1968-1980 (279 episodes) with star Jack Lord. And yet the drama, which stars Alex O’Loughlin, Scott Caan and Daniel Dae Kim, is now in its seventh season, and will air its 150th episode Friday (9 p.m.) on CBS. “It feels good. We’re sort of like ‘The Little Engine That Could,’” says Peter Lenkov, the series’ showrunner and executive producer. “Everybody thought, ‘Here comes another reboot of a show.’ The original lasted 12 years on the air and everybody thought we wouldn’t last 12 episodes — and here we are 150 episodes in.” For heavily-promoted “event” episodes like milestones, premieres and finales, Lenkov says the writers usually go with mythology plots that delve into their characters’ back stories. So the 150th “Hawaii Five-0” installment seemed like the perfect time for Steve McGarrett’s (O’Loughlin’s) ex, Catherine (Michelle Borth), and mother Doris (Christine Lahti), to return. In the episode, it’s Catherine who informs the Five-0 team that Doris was captured and is about to be executed for attempting to free villain Wo Fat’s imprisoned father, setting them off on a mission to free her. “We’ve been waiting to bring [Christine] back and do it where the story made sense and it was something special,” Lenkov says. “We liked putting McGarrett through the ringer, letting it hang out there that his mom disappeared. The more you could play that, the more satisfying it would be when she came back.” As an added bonus, producers cast Lahti’s daughter, Emma Schlamme (her father, Lahti’s husband, is TV director Thomas Schlamme) to guest star as a young Doris, who appears in flashbacks throughout the hour. Modal TriggerEmma Schlamme with Christine LahtiPhoto: Mireya Acierto/Getty Images “Somehow it was mentioned that she had a daughter who was an actress, and we just thought it was perfect,” Lenkov says. “I actually posted a picture of one of the flashbacks online and people thought ‘How did we find the exact lookalike?’ ” Lenkov says the crew is already joking about what they can do if they make it to 200 episodes. As for what got them this far, he’s not sure — though he does credit good casting and the show’s Hawaiian filming locale as a major plus. “Nobody’s going to tune in and not enjoy the landscape. It feels like a vacation every week,” he says. “It’s a very oddball family that we’ve put together and I think people relate to them. They’re fun people to spend an hour with once a week.” “When I wrote the pilot for this show there was ‘Knight Rider’ and ‘Bionic Woman,’ there were reboots that had come and gone,” he adds. “For the most part, the numbers are against these things lasting. But I think people look at us as, ‘It can work if you do it the right way.’ ”
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Post by mandyblue on Nov 4, 2016 9:15:15 GMT -5
www.tvinsider.com/article/102126/hawaii-five-0-alex-oloughlin-on-150-episodes/As we’ve seen over the course seven seasons of Hawaii Five-0, Steve McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) almost always gets the bad guys with the help of his team but, alas, he doesn’t always have the same luck with the ladies in his life. As the CBS drama (a reboot of the 1968-80 series) hits its 150th episode this week, McGarrett will be dealing with his current girlfriend, Lynn (Sarah Carter), the sudden reappearance of past girlfriend Catherine (Michelle Borth) and his once-presumed dead mother, Doris (Christine Lahti, pictured above with O'Loughlin), who has gotten herself in a bit of trouble on the other side of the world. O’Loughlin gave us a preview of the milestone episode, Steve’s complicated relationship with his mother and why he thinks the show is still going strong. This episode delves into McGarrett’s past. How do you like getting to play that angle? Any time I get the opportunity to play anything that’s not expository is a breath of fresh air, it’s fun [and] it’s what we do this for. In this particular instance, I get to deal with two predominating relationships in his life and that is with the two women who have tortured him the most. A big thing that happens with McGarrett, once he gets over the initial shock of seeing Catherine…throughout the episode he gets more and more Intel [into why she left]. He also gets an insight into Catherine, the woman he's been closest to in his life, and into the life of the woman who he has wanted to be closer to, his mother. What Catherine does for McGarrett in this episode is humanize his mother for the first time. And through that he gets closure with Doris and that's really important. What are Steve's feelings about Catherine when he first sees her again? Have his past feelings been put to bed? When you spend five years with someone, I don't think you can put it to bed. Anytime you see that person—and this is the first time since she got into the car and drove away, of course—things are going to surface. I think that there is an aspect in McGarrett’s defense, of "she's got some explaining to do." At the end of the day he is not a civilian. He is a special operator. He understands classified materiel. He understands the nature of that whole world. She didn't need to do things the way she did them. Do you think part of the issue with Steve and Doris is that they're more alike then they want to admit? Yeah, but I also think a bigger part of the issue is she treats him less like a son and more like a colleague. We all need a mom. The other thing is that when he was little she was great. She was all the things that a child needs a mother to do but then she made a decision that he is old enough to fend for himself and he doesn't need her anymore and, again, it’s a decision making process made by a formative female figure in his life. Its no wonder this guy’s got some issues around women! After 150 episodes, is it safe to say that you and your co-stars, Scott Caan, Grace Park, Daniel Dae Kim, Chi McBride, have a pretty good shorthand? Absolutely. We have all had our differences. In the first couple of years everyone's getting to know each other, everyone's learning how to adapt to each other’s idiosyncrasies and specific ways of working and all the rest of it. We’re all pretty damn close, man. I got a lot of love for everyone I work with and a lot of respect for everyone that I work with and I think that that really is a testament to all of us as people. I feel more blessed about that aspect about this job then the fact that we've done 150-plus episodes. Why do you think the show has endured for so long? I don't know. They haven't managed to kill me. I mean actually, they've tried… They've definitely tried… They can't kill me, man! Irish-Australian blood, I suppose. Irish-Australian stock is why the show is going so well. [Laughs] I don't know, mate. I can't put my finger on it. People enjoy watching it and it’s the sums of all of its parts. I think everyone on this show—from the front line where I operate down to the PAs that we work with, all the way up to the writers’ room—puts in 100 percent and then you sprinkle a little bit of alchemy on there and little bit of that x-factor that no one can put their finger on and then you got a hit. Hawaii Five-0, Fridays, 9/8c, CBS
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Post by mandyblue on Nov 4, 2016 10:13:50 GMT -5
I love this Q and A from Peter about the show but I don't believe what he said except about Lynn parade.com/521324/paulettecohn/hawaii-five-0-boss-answers-burning-questions-about-mcgarretts-love-life-chins-adoption-and-more/#.WByi4yCYok4.twitterawaii Five-0 has managed to achieve a feat many shows never make: its 150th episode, which airs tonight. It is even more special when you consider the fact that the show is a reboot of the 1968 series which starred Jack Lord and James MacArthur, as most reimaginings don’t succeed. Just ask the creators of the remakes of Charlie’s Angels, Ironsides, and Knight Rider, none of which saw a second season. So knowing just how special it is, for the 150th episode, showrunner Peter Lenkov decided he wanted to do a mythology episode that was really about characters more than plot, similar to what he did with the 100th episode, and answer a question or two the fans may have in so doing. So, he engineered the return of two women who have been very important to McGarrett’s (Alex O’Loughlin) life: his mother Doris (Christine Lahti) and the love of his life Catherine (Michelle Borth), who broke up with him mysteriously at the beginning of Season 6. The Ka makuahine a me ke keikikane (Hawaiian for Mother and Son) episode begins when Catherine returns unexpectedly and interrupts a romantic dinner that McGarrett has whipped up for him and the new lady in his life, Lynn (Sarah Carter). But the news Catherine brings is not good: Doris has been captured after attempting to free Wo Fat’s imprisoned father Yao (George Cheung). Despite his many issues with Doris, McGarrett feels compelled to rescue her, and he and Catherine fly off to do just that. “A lot of times when we do the first and last episode of the season, or something like this, a milestone episode, it’s usually about the characters, it’s usually about the family dynamics, and I think that’s really what the people tune in for every week,” Lenkov tells Parade.com in this exclusive interview. Christine Lahti as Doris McGarrett and Alex O'loughlin as Steve McGarrett. Christine Lahti as Doris McGarrett and Alex O'loughlin as Steve McGarrett. (Norman Shapiro/CBS) Lenkov also talks about casting Christine Lahti’s daughter to play the young Doris, whether or not Catherine and McGarrett are done for good now, the status of Chin Ho Kelly’s (Daniel Dae Kim) adoption plans, why Scott Caan isn’t in the episode, and more. So, Catherine comes back. Is that to finally put the nail in the coffin of their relationship so McGarrett can finally move on? I think she’s always going to be part of this series until it ends. I think this is just a story that we’re telling along the way. I think her story with McGarrett is definitely not over yet. So if Lynn isn’t McGarrett’s future, could there possibly be a personal relationship that develops with Claire Forlani’s character, Alicia? They went through a lot together and it seemed as if there was chemistry there. Yeah, that was the intention, hopefully, to see if that could go anywhere. I think they definitely had chemistry, and we’re hoping to bring Claire back in another episode and see where that goes. I don’t know if Lynn is somebody that Steve can spend the rest of his life with. She definitely was a good person to spend time with. I don’t want to give away too much, but I don’t think Lynn is in the future. I watched the episode and went, “Damn, that woman playing a young Doris looks a lot like Christine Lahti,” and it turns out to be her daughter [Emma Schlamme]. How did it happen? I think it was our casting people that suggested it. I asked Christine if she was cool with it, if she loved the idea. Her daughter is an actress, so it turned out to be the perfect fit. It just made the whole thing seamless. I am not giving anything away when I say that Chin loses his appeal to keep Sara [Londyn Silzer]. Is there more to this story? I’m thinking that it’s not over yet. No, no, she’s a big part of this season. She’s a big part of the arc for him. So, that’s just a hurdle that he would face. Last time we spoke, it seemed like Chin was all set with Abby (Julie Benz), but now Julie has another series (Training Day). What’s that going to mean for their relationship? Is it going to end, or she’ll just sort of fit in when she can? They’re still together. You just won’t see her regularly. They’ll talk about her and you’ll know she’s there, but you just won’t be seeing her. Since the other show is on CBS, might she able to still be there? They’re not big on doing that, on having actors appear on two shows simultaneously. So, Steve had the liver transplant and now he’s back in action. Do you see him as changed from his near-death experience, or is he going back to the old Steve? I think he’s definitely more self-aware of his mortality, the fact that he did almost die. I don’t think guys like that change very much. I think there’s a moment where he sort of like kicks back and is reflecting on what happened, but I think a guy like that gets caught up in the moment. He’ll do whatever it takes to resolve it. If he has to put his life on the line, he’ll do it. I think Danny (Scott Caan) thinks things through a little more than McGarrett does, is easily more hesitant to put himself in that line of fire, like McGarrett does. I think McGarrett’s just an instinct man. Steve is an adrenaline junkie, whereas Danny not so much. What do you think about the rest of the team? Are they adrenaline junkies? I don’t think anybody is like McGarrett. I think they like their jobs. I think they’re fulfilled by their jobs. I’m not sure they like putting themselves in front of the bullets like McGarrett does. But, I think if you’re going to describe one of them as an adrenaline junkie, you can, but I don’t know if it’s the other core members. They have so much to lose, you know. They all have families in one way or another. Scott, Jorge Garcia, and Taylor Wily were all MIA in this episode. Did you want to have the whole cast in on the 150th, and it just didn’t work with the story? Or, you are trying to juggle, so not everybody’s in every episode? You know, I deal with pretty complicated schedules in terms of the actors, especially now. In Season 7, a lot of them contractual days off, so it really comes to that. I’d like to have everybody in every episode. Unfortunately, it’s not always the case. So, it wasn’t necessarily intentional. It was more about scheduling. |
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A Q and A interview with some different questions and if we get a season 8 Alex might direct a episode which I would love to see. collider.com/hawaii-five-0-alex-oloughlin-interview/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=collidersocial&utm_medium=socialOn the 150th episode of the CBS series Hawaii Five-0, entitled “Ka makuahine a me ke keikikane” (which is Hawaiian for “Mother and Son”), Five-0 must team up to free Steve McGarrett’s (Alex O’Loughlin) mother, Doris (Christine Lahti), when Catherine (Michelle Borth) informs them that she’s been captured. But even though she’s about to be executed after attempting to free Wo Fat’s imprisoned father, that doesn’t stop Doris from wanting to complete her very dangerous mission. During this exclusive phone interview with Collider, Aussie actor Alex O’Loughlin talked about why he thinks Hawaii Five-0 has had such tremendous success, when Hawaii really started to feel like home for him, the return of the two most important women in Steve McGarrett’s life, whether he gets any closure for either relationship, why the dynamic between Steve and Danno (Scott Caan) is so important to the show, why he’s made the decision to leave the show after eight seasons (if they get that far), and how he’s hoping to direct an episode in Season 8. Be aware that there are some spoilers discussed. Collider: Congrats on 150 episodes! hawaii-alex-o'loughlin-02 Image via CBS ALEX O’LOUGHLIN: Thank you! That’s a big milestone that very few TV series ever get to anymore. O’LOUGHLIN: It’s quite extraordinary, in this climate of television, I have to say. As an actor in a profession where you never know what the next job will be, is it cool to know that people still want to tune in and that they keep coming back? O’LOUGHLIN: Yeah, it is cool. It’s also reassuring, in a number of different ways. I’ve seen how hard everyone works, that I work with on this show. It makes me really happy for everyone, and for all the hard work we all put in. Very few reboots, remakes and reimaginings have actually done well. Most of them don’t make it, but this show has beaten all the odds. What do you think the secret to the success of Hawaii Five-0 has been? O’LOUGHLIN: Well, I think it’s a number of different things. Let me preface by saying I don’t know what I’m talking about. That’s my disclaimer. What do I know? But, I think one of the reasons that reboots don’t work is that they try to emulate what’s been done before. What we’ve done with this is quite different to what came before. My McGarrett is so different from Jack Lord’s McGarrett, and Scott’s Danno is very different from the old Danno. But I also think that with every successful show, there’s an element of alchemy somewhere. The alchemy, in this instance, has something to do with the chemistry between the cast, what Peter Lenkov brings with his plot-driven writing, and the beautiful scenery that plays the character of Hawaii. It all just works. You’ve been doing this show for a few years now and it seems like you’re pretty embedded in Hawaii and the Hawaiian way of life. When did Hawaii really start to feel like home for you? O’LOUGHLIN: I can settle pretty well and pretty quickly, pretty much anywhere. I’m an actor and, as an actor, you’re kind of like a traveling salesman. It’s pretty easy to hang your hat and get comfortable [in Hawaii]. I got very comfortable here very quickly, but after I’d been here about a year and a half or two years, I knew that this place was in my heart, forever. It can’t hurt to work in paradise, on a regular basis. O’LOUGHLIN: People come here for a week at a time, but there are aspects of living on an island in the middle of the ocean that are difficult, too. Any place has its pros and cons. I do need to leave, once a year. I take my family and we go away to other places. Otherwise, you start to take it for granted and it can lose its charm. I don’t ever want that to happen, so we travel. hawaii-cast-01 Image via CBS This is a very big episode, being the 150th, with the return of Catherine and having to rescue McGarrett’s mom. What can you say to tease the return of what are arguably the two most important women in his life, both of whom seem to keep eluding him? O’LOUGHLIN: I think it’s a really important episode for Steve, in the sense that these women have meant the most to him in his life, but have also caused the most grief and pain. They’re both a pain in the ass, but they also both mean more to him than anyone else. There’s closure with one, and then kind of closure with the other. The closure he gets with Catherine is really important. It answers a couple of questions for him. Whenever anyone is left in the situation that he was in, it forces that person to look at themselves and question whether or not they were the problem, and I think that’s finally done for him. And then, with his mom, it’s tricky. I don’t think he’ll ever get to a place where he’s just at peace with it, but I think he’s getting closer and he’s becoming less emotionally volatile. She has less power over him, emotionally. It’s been a long road for him, with her. It’s nice to get to see a bit of what life was like for McGarrett growing up, and what his relationship was like with his mother when he was a kid. How do you think the relationship they have know reflects the one that they had then? O’LOUGHLIN: I don’t think it does. You’re talking about the vulnerability and trust of a child and its mother. When the parent loves the child the way she did him and his sister, and then proceeds to do the things that she did, that trust no longer exists and the relationship changes. Since we’ve known McGarrett, he’s been searching for what that relationship is now and how that relationship is now, and I think that’s becoming more clear for him. Knowing that Steve was going to propose to Catherine before she left, do you think he’ll ever consider marriage again, or has that opportunity passed? hawaii-alex-oloughlin-michelle-borth Image via CBS O’LOUGHLIN: (SPOILERS) I don’t know. I don’t write the show, and I don’t know what’s around the corner. But from the character’s standpoint, I don’t think he would consider marriage with Catherine, at all. What’s become clear is that Catherine is not the correct candidate, regardless of how they feel about each other. The life choices that she’s clearly committed to are not going to work. Even though he hasn’t been married before, he’s smart enough to understand what the institution of marriage requires and what it would mean. She took that off the table when she made the decisions that she made. He respects and admires the decisions that she’s made, but she’s removed herself as a candidate for any kind of long term. Through Catherine doing what she needs to do for herself, following the path that she needs to take, he has been able to empathize with Doris on a level that he couldn’t before. In a way, she has humanized his mother for him. That’s what she has facilitated for him, more than anything else. That’s the greatest gift anyone could have given this guy. One of the best parts of this show is watching the dynamic between Steve and Danno because it’s so fun and so funny, and they’ve been through a lot together, since it all started. What do you still enjoy about playing that dynamic and working with Scott Caan? O’LOUGHLIN: First of all, he’s a mate of mine. We’ve become mates, over the years, and it’s nice to work with your mate. When you’re friends with the people that you’re working with – and that goes for all of my other cast members – it’s fun. Work becomes less painful. It’s all about the long, long, long hours, and what the show requires of us. So, to do all of that, day after day, and to produce this show the way that we do, with friends, makes it worth doing. If we weren’t friends, I wouldn’t have signed on for a couple more years. Specifically, I think that our dynamic together is really important. It’s part of what makes this show appealing and it’s part of what makes this show enjoyable to watch. I love seeing what our dynamic brings out because sometimes it’s a surprise to us, as well. Seven seasons into this show, you’re closer to the end than you are to the beginning, at this point. Have you made a definite decision that eight seasons is it for you? hawaii-alex-oloughlin-sarah-carter-01 Image via CBS O’LOUGHLIN: I’ve decided. Beyond anything else, I don’t want to do any more because I don’t want to kill it. It’s still got some magic left in it. It’s hard to keep it alive and fresh. It’s hard to keep it fun and new, each day. I’m worried that I won’t even be able to do that until the end of Season 8, but I’m going to keep swinging until I’m in the box. The other thing is that physically, I’ve had a lot of injuries. I’ve been hurt really badly on this show. I’ve now got some serious back issues, which I’m going back and forth to California to deal with. I don’t want to F**k my body up anymore. I’m getting stem cell treatments in my spine, so that I can pick my kids up. At a certain point, it’s television. Film and TV is not as important as my life. I don’t think I can physically do any more than eight years. We might not even do an eighth year. That’s a little presumptuous of us to even be speaking like this. But, if they want us to do an eighth year, that will be it for me. Have you thought about where you’d like to see Steve McGarrett end up and have you had any discussions with the writers about that? O’LOUGHLIN: I don’t really speak to the writers because it’s frustrating for me when we see things differently. I just try to do my best with what they give me. They have their own ideas, and I have my own ideas. Frankly, I think that if my ideas were written down, we probably wouldn’t still be on the air. I don’t know how to make a successful TV show. So, I’m open to it. As long as it’s smart, thought-out, creative and interesting, I’m down with it. A lot of actors who are thinking about trying their hand at directing seem to do so with an episode of their own TV series. Over the course of seven seasons, have you ever thought about taking on an episode of the show, as a director? O’LOUGHLIN: I will be directing an episode in Season 8, if we make it that far. I’m here, every day, and I think all of us have a say in the way that it’s going to go, on that day. We all know how the show is shot and how to tell the story. It won’t be that foreign for me to sit in that chair. After this is all over, I hope directing is a part of my career. I don’t think I’m that good at the acting part. I think I’m fine at it, but I think I’m probably a little better at directing. But then again, maybe I’m horrible at it. If they don’t put my episode on the air, than we’ll know that that won’t be a part of my future. Hawaii 5-0 airs on Friday nights on CBS. |
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