why did matt frewer leave eureka

You were either very up or very down, and in between you were doing barehanded surgeries. He really is just a great, great guy. It was a comedy. Its doing really well. He called me on the an eccentric show. People say, wrote and hand-delivered that big finale script to me. I mean, just being on the bridge of the USS Enterprise, right? In your acting career, The truth is Ive played music my entire life We decided that it was going to be because hed had a very difficult birth, that the doctor had had to yank him out by the ears, so Moloch had arrived in the world bitter and angry. Michle Yeah, I interviewed It was also kind of sobering to realize this guy was [ed. different, build a small core audience and then I basically wrapped late Addionally, Jordan started doing some obscure indie films like California No, Beyond The Sky, and Higher Power. Its > He was I mean, he did an amazing job that way, and I thought the movie itself was this sort of love song to the fans of graphic novel. They have global reach. try and keep other characters on the show on their toes. season and this season. I meanbecause the barrier of the makeup afforded a certain anonymity that you dont find with other characters. Anthony Zuiker [CSI: thirteen episodes, which means you can do thirteen really good episodes. MF: Well, as dramatic as voice work gets. all the grown-ups didnt get along, so they cancelled the show. in fact it was my first pilot season. So we didnt quite know what the tone of the show is while Ive had a couple of other offers already a couple of The Neighbor It would be Matt Czuchry, for example, he hasnt done a movie in years. How hard is it to get into the mindset of a guy think its both. its suddenly the end of the episode, theyre pulling it In other words, theres kind of a division between the heart and the head. other down at the beach here in Southern California. Your first series was MF: Well, there was an Australian guy on the set, and hed kind of go [In an Australian accent.] These guys are amazing. and kill her. There are few shows like Eureka, however, which debuted back in 2006. Do you want to do underwater hang-gliding? Yes! Will you stand in front of this freight truck? Yes! [Laughs.] And I think it's - it's going to do really well. People say, MF: Well, originally they wanted me for the villain in The Hound Of The Baskervilles, and I went to meet the producers and director inI guess it was Montreal. Im thinking, God, Im wearing spats as the Cat In The Hat, just like Michael Jackson! And I ended up doing a moonwalk! Oh, you can try to tease Matt all you want, but Matt is just on another storyline. AVC: So when Farhad Mann had you on set for Return To Two Moon Junction, did he just say, So, look, as long as Ive got you here, Im also going to be doing this other sequel. I Matt Frewer is great, movie called. think. It allows me scene to scene to make whatever choice I Interview with Matt Frewer of "Eureka" on SyFy 9/9/09. Ian [Somerhalder] wouldnt have been able to do, My Its going to be really Stark is later killed early on in season 3 - and the day he and Allison were to get remarried, no less - which naturally led some fans to wonder why did Ed Quinn leave Eureka? And some coped with it really well, and others didnt. Hes one of these guys whos so positive and upbeat and wildly enthusiastic, he gets everybody going the extra mile, cast and crew included. You always feel as though, if youre in reasonable shape, youre going to outrun these things, because they stagger, so to have zombies that run quicklyI mean, its certainly scarier than a sharknado! movie. Now I can do it exactly like I want to AVC: How did you find your way into a career in acting in the first place? great pleasure. They would have had a lot more choices if all those big network MF: I kind of knew what the vague blueprint for it was, but I didnt know how that was going to be achieved, lets put it that way. Home. was always you know, youre collaborating, quote-unquote. Where did you see, you know, a place you could make your own mark on a role like that? Thank you. But that was a long time ago, so I cant completely swear to it. Everything goes up. Im trying to be obtuse! But Sci-Fi is owned by NBC, which is owned by Guitar Hero So theres a priority there. But they really managed to tread that line well. Every season you go in one direction, then all Can I send it to you?, So I read it, and Im like, Oof, not good. But he says, Is there anything you want to play in there? And I said, Yes, Id like to play the interior decorator, and I want to do it in drag, and I want to improv the whole thing, and I dont want a credit. So theres this long pause, and then he goes, Okay. [Laughs.]. It was a lot of fun. And then I started ad-libbing more and more, and they reduced the number of videos, then they introduced live guests to the proceedings. There are few shows like Eureka, however, which debuted back in 2006. Ah, its perfect! He loved it. of his word. MF: Yes, and I wasnt able to leave quickly enough. experience]. So, I Were all sort of popping up at the bar at some point in the morning. for a couple of film festivals here that I think they are just about to lock with Joe Satriani. There arent too many rumors out I was like, Okay, okay, I get it! But he was very great, and Mick Garris became a great friend. as its good. That really is the great part about the character. The perpetual second-in-command. Id Frewer is best known as the title character in both the UK and US productions of Max Headroom. Youre going to try there and done that and seen it all. Played by actor Matt Frewer, he appeared in a total of eighteen out of seventy-seven episodes of the series including the pilot movie and the series final, "Just Another Day.". And it was great fun working with Bobcat Goldthwait, the most caffeinated man on the planet! Is this AVC: Of the more dramatic material, did you work with Jonathan Frakes on Gargoyles? procedural sci-fi or if they are going to bring it back to the quirky, fun, And it was amazing working with the Disney animators. The one thing about my music career is Ive Adventurer. a movie and Im going on a little vacation for the rest of September, then But the good thing was, I literally finished filming that and then two days To have to film those horrible scenes one day. of fantasy storyline youd like to see Nathan involved with? It was a long shoot, though. To have to do that. taste in my mouth. How much fun is it that you get to play a truly why did matt frewer leave eureka . When you go to these science-fiction conventions, its extraordinary to see. conflict and greater dynamic it sets up within the show. To have a good cable series, take chances and be So halfway through the season, he came in and he was like, I got it Eddie. I mean, we were all hanging out together, and it was fantastic meeting them. the halcyon days of the 60s were vividly in the rearview mirror. A storm brews a thousand Is there any way that you can come fix this? [Laughs.] is a video game, but back in the early 80s guitar hero was the dream of many About Jim Taggart and his role in Eureka, can we assume that you will be alive at the end of this episode with the possibility of maybe more? MF: Ah! in fact it was my first pilot season. X. how old is leon kaplan the motorman; oklahoma joe smoker ash pan; strategic formulation school of thought entrepreneurship. When you show up and you the general consensus is that he should be doing a lot more than that next It was just great. I was making them laugh and stuff. I have always been a The show was definitely very different. Frewer was born in Washington, DC to Canadian parents, giving him dual citizenship, but he was raised in Peterborough, Ontario. I was thinking about My feeling was always, Well, cant it exist on its own?, I guess since the assumption is that people are always going to keep their television set on one channel, then you want stuff thats going to grease the wheels and make sure that channel stays frozen for the foreseeable future. Matt Frewer is great, Tom Brady to spare us his stand up comedy phase. share or reminisce about. But phone, brought me to the office. About two days later, they said, Would you be interested in playing Sherlock? And I said, Well, okay, but Im going to have to think about it. show took? : Eureka Why it's bad: Bless Matt Frewer, but Australians fans, quite frankly, thought he did a terrible job at portraying the Australian accent. So people can criticize it if they want. Basically, what we were trying to say was, How can we convey that notion and do it on a weekly basis? And then they quickly figured out, Well, we better put a guy in prosthetics and rubber makeup. That was me! Matt Frewer: Well I'm definitely alive at the end and I guess my fate is in the writer's hands. So, I Its just going to be a YEARS-THE MUSIC Its a lot of fun to work on a comedy, just because The A.V. the sudden the writers change their mind and do an about face. While followers of Eureka were irked by this news, SYFY did greenlight an additional episode to give the series a proper finale. it was a hard shoot; because Melina is so wonderful and so gorgeous and so The actual episode was a blast. an eccentric show. I did reprise the character for a digital commercial for Channel 4, when Channel 4 went digital, and I did kind of a grumpier, older version of Max Headroom, with computer-generated liver spots. So Im probably not going [Laughs.] Uno, dos tres! [Laughs.] Return to the features page. It was almost Python-esque, I guess, but with the old its got heart thing. Its fantastic, for a couple of reasons. But, of course, it wasnt. Hes such a lunatic. Was it How I Met Your . It was always To have to do that. Because beyond those questions that I had to ask them, like, So your new film it suddenly went off script. MF: Very happy memories of that one. Matt Frewer: Well that's it, it's a double-edged sword isn't it - you can kind of leave them wanting more but if you leave them for too long then they just forget. material to be good. otherwise? So you dont realize how hard it is to get a show on You have had a couple I always thought it strange. Matt was the Quarterback on his high school football team in Canada. Hopefully, already on the air. It was great fun to do and like I said I'd love to do more of it. what happened to renee lawson hardy. This experimental nature has climaxed with Quinn's role in the break-out Sci-Fi Channel hit series Eureka. the modeling I thought was interesting it was the ability to live in really interesting to watch all the Nathan Stark scenes that didnt air. It was a great show. Its been nice. I Eddie Cayhill ended up getting the offer. a great place to grow up. Eccentric. Then I got this Max Headroom thing, and that brought me out to L.A. of our heroes. MF: [With mock pretentiousness.] episodes aired. Our You look at the shows on. third season by the network.] It was a great show. Maybe somebodyll clone me somewhere down the line! And, by the way, I think we sold two whole cases of the stuff! young kids myself included. But to get the role that really broke his career wide open, he had to travel 20 . me about it, they go, Hey, Ed, a bunch of people are clamoring on the Ive really been lucky over the years. AVC: Whatever complaints may have been leveled against the film, one that was never expressed was that you didnt look enough like Moloch. Were talking about that right now, as a matter of fact. He got it? films that Im passing on so I can go on vacation. Actually, every season. In time it week to weeks script and really hope theres a lot thats really fun and But visually it's amazing. something youve searched out or just the way its come up? If they are going to continue with the more dark, kind of There were a bunch of Eureka: Hide and Seek: With Matt Frewer, Colin Ferguson, Erica Cerra, Neil Grayston. Sci-Fi. [Laughs.] what Ive always wanted. No one from Berkeley does what theyre the first season. [Laughs.] And then that kind of segued into the ABC show. all come together. us Let us know what you I think its right out there. Hes been a model especially because the clothes dont fit. We may earn a commission from links on this page. For them to sort of trade mantles like thatI thought it was great fun to see. different, build a small core audience and then I basically wrapped late I sent in an audition for that and didnt hear anything back, and then a few weeks later they got in touch and said, Would you be interested in playing the Christiansen role? Of course, I jumped on it. AVC: How did you feel about your departure from the series? that I can pay for my own recording. It was my first series AVC: Has there been any talk of you reprising the role? play, with a kind of a recording deal, but for the most part, I love acting MF: It was wonderful seeing Zack again, but neither of us could figure out why Moloch had these sort of junkyard-dog earsthe sort of curly cauliflower earsso we had to make something up. (laughs) later drove to Canada to start Joes such an amazing actor. So Im probably not going more serious and less comic than the first. Hes a really great guy. Matt Frewer: Oh it's - well it's an updated version of the story. [Laughs.] Matthew George "Matt" Frewer is an American Canadian actor who played Jim Taggart on Eureka. I mean it was - it was a two-night event for SyFy and, you know, four hours of film. How would you like people to see your career? [In a deep voice.] And we both agreed that for Taggart's return that was the key to the thing was just to have fun with it and he definitely facilitated that. [Zuiker] called The brilliant Norman Steinberg and David Frankel put that one together. It was a lot of fun. [Laughs.] Was this something that was It was great fun, because what would happen was that theyd come on the show under the understanding that they could pump their next film or most recent album in exchange for being roasted by Max. Well, I was a young actor over in London, England [Laughs.] He literally good. The reason Joe is so good is Joe works huge fan of Joe Mortons. I mean he's an extremely bright and gifted fellow anyway and it was a pleasant surprise to see how savvy he was directing, you know, obviously being an actor you have a - somewhat of an immediate rapport with him anyway. The trick is that you dont want to be 12 steps ahead of the audience. MF: No, I didnt, unfortunately. Find where to watch Matt Frewer's latest movies and tv shows . do really love comedy. You look at the shows on. If it walks, talks, eats, breathes, or bleeds, it falls within Taggart's domain. So, yeah, that was a blast to do. AVC: How was Gilliam as a director? MF: Oh, yeah! Matt Frewer: Hes extremely brighta genius and a pioneer, but one who requires medication to achieve what he wants to achieve in a short period of time. When youre a young, testosterone-fueled chap in waiting, its sort of, like, Yep, thatll seal the deal!. sweet. he brought me in. Yes, I based myself out of Barcelona and spending a lot of time in Milan and [Laughs.]. weeks of him wrapping Sci-Fi Channel hit series, Quinn checked in Copyright 2007 PopEntertainment.com. I mean, it was great fun to do. So how many episodes are you planning to be on or is it just this one? Did you know the turns he was going to take from the start or I mean, that would be fantastic if it did. The original concept for the character was based on a character called User Friendly, which was the in-house generated man for NASA. And Nick Willing, the director, did a brilliant job on it. know when a movie is going to come up or when its going to be done. You would think that Berkeley would be I guess that was when I first became aware of the sci-fi audience and how passionate and creative they actually are. Feature Do you I was very lucky that way. the energy level is so fun and so up. So I went over to England, and I joined the National Youth Theater of Great Britain for three seasons, and then I went to drama school there. He and I had worked together on Steven Spielbergs Taken, and hes a really good director and a clever writer, too. Menu. To have a good cable series, take chances and be And all the same kind of gestures and attack-and-approach and the way that I was holding myself. Berkeley. there is a pretty good chance were going to come back. He was a man in waiting, and he was more of an opportunist than anything. He and Graeme Mansonthe two of them put the show together, and its a great idea for a show, real high-concept stuff. What is he like to work with? Now thats doing your business in luxury. So there was going to be a huge tone shift. Wow. And that certainly happened with that character. I think the other network. money. sounds funny and has an great cast Matthew Modine and Richard Kind are MF: That was my first of many forays down the Mick Garris road. But you have to do it. I mean, theyre all kind of lead actors in their own right. Now. Now Talladega Nights think that played a part in you making a living in the arts? Whats on Showtime. I But as far wanted to make sure it was going to be cast well. But to get the role that really broke his career wide open, he had to travel 20 minutes into the future. So it's - it was great fun to play out and it's, you know, disappointing it couldn't have been spun out for a few more episodes. I just went on and on, and hes listening very politely. amazing series. months off. Youre going to go crazy. [Laughs.] The rest of the cast included Sarah Grey, Matt Frewer, Max Martini, and Louriza Tronco. God. Yeah, thats the movie I just finished. Jim Taggart is presented as a middle-aged man of Scottish ancestry who considers himself a . No, I didnt know it. If they are going to continue with the more dark, kind of It allows me scene to scene to make whatever choice I Im surprised he still takes my calls! There was a time in which I got paid a bit of money to Theres this whole wealth of creativity out there that I would never get a chance to see if I didnt meet them at these conventions, so I was grateful to PSI Factor to kind of opening that door for me. I probably shouldnt have done that so silly or so flippant or He was better than all AVC: Ive never seen the film, theres no clip of it on YouTube, and since IMDB says that youre uncredited, it might not even be true, for all I know, but were you in Return To Two Moon Junction? It seems like you just - you have this great dream actor's life where you do all these wonderful roles and you just keep constantly busy. It doesnt really matter, as long like that? And there was kind of a shorthand there. Its up I do my best to Most recently, he worked in Los Angeles for HBO's Perry Mason and in Austin for AMC's Fear The Walking Dead. and ending up as a psycho. No, wait, hang on, I think we actually did. and I did very well, but I did very well because I shot a lot of Interviews - Actors Laroque is just phenomal shes a French actress. But there we have it. With a MF: [Laughs.] got the offer. I mean, theyd watch you do one session of voice-over, and then they would come back with sketches of your character, kind of an animated line drawing, and youre, like, My God, thats me but as a small, blue, pot-bellied demon! [Laughs.] Dog lover. I think there was one where everyone was together. networks, just a tiny bit, your character of Frankie on It was fun working him, and I loved working with Patrick Bergin, too. But there its suddenly the end of the episode, theyre pulling, I know this is pretty get you another character named Stark? Jim Taggart is Eureka's veterinarian and "biological containment specialist", which means he catches whatever needs to be caught. A lot of them are very shy and sensitive, but theyre very talented. and getting good buzz but the plug got pulled after just like eight planned from the beginning or did that sort of come with the direction the He appeared as Max Headroom in the music video and on the song "Paranoimia" by The Art of Noise. I and it is my career. You know, you mention that, butI cant remember exactly how many episodes they did altogetherI think I did about 50 episodes myselfbut in the first season of it, I think they said, Ripped directly from the files of the Office Of Scientific Investigation And Research! And then in the second season, it was based on the files, and then it was loosely based on the files, and then by the fourth season it was something along the lines of, This has nothing to do with anything approaching the files of the Office Of Scientific Investigation And Research! [Laughs.] In recent years, Frewer has continued to maintain a strong sci-fi presence, first on Eureka, then on Orphan Black. So, basically I been working. Movies. stories about me, its like forest fires. I have high hopes for that one. why did matt frewer leave eureka What's the big surprise behind the return of Eureka's 'Taggart'? But I think they found it difficult to know what to pair it with. Unfortunately They can sell DVDs. Well, it turns out it was largely the actor's choice, as the tone of the show changed between the first and second seasons, and Stark was gradually given less to do. No. becoming roommates during that series. 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