Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Bride of Kiefer speaks
By Gustave | Season 1 | Episode 25 | Aired on 05.30.2002
Did you know Kiefer before?
Not really. We had met once at an audition. I read for the part of his wife in The Vanishing. But I didn't even remember that until Kiefer brought it up one day.
Hopkins is English and I'm Canadian, so we both have these mean senses of humor. Sometimes I'll do a take and I'll go, "Was that fucking awful?" and he'll say, "God, yes!"
Oh, and he, by the way, had amnesia.
No way! I've never met anyone who had amnesia in real life before.
Me neither. He got it from a hit to the head. He was directing a movie. He came out of it and he knew that he had amnesia. He knew he was making a movie in London. He knew he was the director. But he didn't know what the movie was. Oh, and he'd rented a flat, so it wasn't his place. So there was nothing of his lying around that could have triggered a memory. He thought he might have to go to work the next day, but he couldn't find his passport anywhere. He couldn't find his own name. He didn't know what his name was. He still knew how to eat food, read, and wear clothes and stuff, but he couldn't remember his own name. So what he did was, he pushed redial on his phone. A voice answered -- it turned out to be one of his closest friends, Peter Levy, the guy who shot our pilot -- and so Stephen said, "I know this is going to sound terribly strange, but I seem to have lost my memory and you're the last person that I phoned…I guess." So as soon as Peter realized that Stephen wasn't just fucking with him, he came right over and took him to the hospital. Of course it took forever for the doctors to get to him, but eight hours later he was back at work, and his memory came back to him over those eight hours. Anyway, the point is, he made amnesia credible for me again. He was like, "This happened to me." And this is a person that I know and respect.
Whatever happened to Milo?
Well, he had to go shoot another pilot. The powers that be didn't lock him in for those final episodes, so he had to take another job.
What's the set like? What's the general atmosphere?
It's the most diva-less set I've ever been on. There's not a screaming Mimi to be found anywhere. I think Kiefer set the standard for that, but I'd also like to think that it's because there were a lot of Canadians on the show.
Yeah, what's up with all those Canadians? I'm not complaining or anything…
What can I say? Sometimes American viewers get lucky! [laughs]