Post by Jan El Señor on Sept 24, 2006 22:06:49 GMT -5
I was reading this article at Dark Horizons about The Last King of Scotland. Forest Whitaker did mention The Shield, and I found this part interesting....
'Already, there is talk of Whitaker being a shoe in for n Oscar nod, but the actor is taking such talk in his stride. "I'm happy if people like the work and I just hope people go see the movie." After all, it was assumed that Whitaker would win an Emmy Award for his performance in The Shield, but not even a nomination was forthcoming, a fact about which he is genuinely disappointed, as his Lt. Jon Kavanaugh was one of televisions high points last year. "I really loved playing that character," he says smilingly, who has two more episodes left on the series which resumes early next year.
Already having been a successful film actor of nearly 30 years, Whitaker had no need to do a television series, but The Shield was clearly irresistible. "I liked the description of him, but Kavanaugh grew as they told me what they wanted to do with his arc. They told me they were going to write some great things, and Kavanaugh grew for the writers, so they started writing for the character as they started to see the obsessiveness of the way I was playing it, and then they started writing episodes just for Kavanaugh."
Without revealing what becomes of the character in his remaining episodes, Whitaker admits they needed to end the character, but feels that "he ends a little abruptly. I think he does some things that are hard for me to accept that maybe Kavanaugh might do." Whitaker says that always saw "Kavanaugh as like an arc angel, designed for a purpose. They say angels have no will, they do what they're supposed to do, and I kind of like saw him that way. Even though they kind of let me end a little bit that way, I think it would have served them better if it had gone on a little longer." '
Source:
www.darkhorizons.com/news06/whitaker.php
'Already, there is talk of Whitaker being a shoe in for n Oscar nod, but the actor is taking such talk in his stride. "I'm happy if people like the work and I just hope people go see the movie." After all, it was assumed that Whitaker would win an Emmy Award for his performance in The Shield, but not even a nomination was forthcoming, a fact about which he is genuinely disappointed, as his Lt. Jon Kavanaugh was one of televisions high points last year. "I really loved playing that character," he says smilingly, who has two more episodes left on the series which resumes early next year.
Already having been a successful film actor of nearly 30 years, Whitaker had no need to do a television series, but The Shield was clearly irresistible. "I liked the description of him, but Kavanaugh grew as they told me what they wanted to do with his arc. They told me they were going to write some great things, and Kavanaugh grew for the writers, so they started writing for the character as they started to see the obsessiveness of the way I was playing it, and then they started writing episodes just for Kavanaugh."
Without revealing what becomes of the character in his remaining episodes, Whitaker admits they needed to end the character, but feels that "he ends a little abruptly. I think he does some things that are hard for me to accept that maybe Kavanaugh might do." Whitaker says that always saw "Kavanaugh as like an arc angel, designed for a purpose. They say angels have no will, they do what they're supposed to do, and I kind of like saw him that way. Even though they kind of let me end a little bit that way, I think it would have served them better if it had gone on a little longer." '
Source:
www.darkhorizons.com/news06/whitaker.php