Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Bride of Kiefer speaks
By Gustave | Season 1 | Episode 25 | Aired on 05.30.2002
Do you watch dailies?
No. I'm sure I'd be allowed to, but I have so much trust in Stephen and everyone else that I never feel the need. I usually demand to see my dailies, but I haven't on this show.
Were there any moments when you watched the final edit and realized that what you thought was happening in a certain scene was edited to go a different way?
The thing that I can never anticipate is how my scenes will play out against the other two or three plotlines. Or how they'll divide the screen to show two different versions of my face and one of Kiefer's, for example. The scenes on the phone between Teri and Jack are interesting to see, because we're not filming them while we're in the same room so I don't see his reactions until I see the final edit. And usually when I'm on the phone with Kiefer, it's a big scene. It's interesting to see that you're part of a much bigger picture.
One of the first scenes that I had to do with Kiefer outside of the pilot was when we meet up in the hospital, and he tells me that Kim has been kidnapped and it has something to do with the Palmer assassination plot. I was a little nervous going to work that day, because I thought Kiefer was just such a phenomenal actor. I mean, I still do, but now that I'm friends with him, I'm not as intimidated as I used to be. So there's this part where we both have to cry. He was so terrific in this scene, and it was so great to be there with him. I felt fine about my performance, but when I watched later, I wished I had done something that he had done. What he did was, he kept his face open. I'm not sure how else to describe what he did. He let himself be seen by the camera. I had thought at the time that being "closed" was the right way to play it, so that's what I did, but when you see it onscreen it didn't look right to me. So after that I always try to remember to be more open as an actor.
I don't think the pregnancy was originally in the story arc, so I was concerned about the fact that I might have missed some opportunities to work the pregnancy into my performance in the earlier shows. But then, I couldn't have known. And the character didn't know either, so…
Is Kiefer over Julia Roberts yet?
You'll have to ask him that yourself. I have no idea about that. And if I did I certainly wouldn't tell you.
He's just wonderful. He's wonderful to work with. He's a great actor and that's the standard thing that everyone will say about him. But having said that, he's also one of my dearest friends. And I have no dirt for you.
So he's not the object of that Ted Casablanca item? The one about the actor making a TV comeback who is partying too hard and showing up wasted on the set?