Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Bride of Kiefer speaks
By Gustave | Season 1 | Episode 25 | Aired on 05.30.2002
Really?
Yeah. And I always wondered while watching, why Teri didn't slap the shit out of that girl at some point. I mean, she sneaks out and gets you kidnapped and raped. And she could have escaped and sent the police to the TerrorKompound, but no. I mean, I can understand you having a mother's love and all, but I think anyone would have lost it at some point.
The way I see it is, there's no time for slapping or crying or any of that. I don't have time to say something like, "Oh, just wait until we get home, young lady!" We are running for our lives.
But later, you know you're going to hold it over her head. Like when you need help cleaning out the basement and she's all, "I don't feel like it." You'd totally say something like, "Hey, remember when I slept with that guy to save you from being raped?"
Yeah. [laughs] But much later. There's no room for that within the twenty-four-hour time period. That's why it all came out between me and Nina at the Safe House. That stuff can only come up when you feel safe enough. That's the only time you can have that kind of conversation. Otherwise, who fucking cares? I'm running for my life.
Also, I don't know how many fifteen-year-old girls you know, but I was one, and Kim looks like Einstein compared to me.
That's actually a good point. I don't think of Kim as being fifteen. She looks older. I think of her as a young woman who is about to go to college, and that's the standard I hold her to.
I think that may have been something that surprised us too. Elisha looks really young in person. If you were to meet her, you'd easily think she's fifteen. But there's that magic thing that happens to some people when you photograph them or put them on TV. They go through the roof -- sexy, beautiful. And that's what happens to her on camera.
Yeah. I'm not saying she looks "old." I just think that she looks prime, as opposed to jailbait-y.
Exactly.
Do you feel like you're making a television show or a bunch of movies?
It's like making a movie. A good movie. I'm not saying that there's a fundamental difference between a film sensibility and a TV sensibility, because I've certainly made some shitty movies that were no better than the TV I've done. But we have all these wonderful actors. Kiefer is a great actor. He's a great movie actor. We have an amazing crew -- the DP, the gaffer are all first rate. Also, I keep having to bring it back to Hopkins. When you make a "normal" TV show, you feel completely driven by the clock of production. You have to cram so much into each workday and everything plays to the clock. By whatever means necessary, you have to get it done. On our show, we rarely work a twelve-hour day, which is unheard of in the TV industry. But what makes it feel like a movie more than anything is that, because you've got a director like Stephen Hopkins overseeing it, it seems like you have all the time in the world to make the scene right. And yet, I never feel like we're navel-gazing. We're always moving forward. But I always feel like I'm just as important as the clock.