Post by hodaharb on Apr 14, 2008 18:13:16 GMT -5
A Breakout Role
By MUMTAJ BEGUM[/center]
Her agents thought Sarah Wayne Callies was crazy to pick what seemed like the smallest role in the pilot of Prison Break but the actress sallied forth and has not looked back since.
PRISON Break continues with the brothers Michael Scofield and Lincoln Burrows (portrayed by Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell) on the run along with the other prisoners who escaped with them.
Not only do they have to evade all the parties that are after them, including Captain Brad Bellick (Wade Williams), Special Agent Paul Kellerman (Paul Adelstein) and Special Agent Alexander Mahone (William Fichtner), they also need to locate the hidden money.
Dr Sara Tancredi (Sarah Wayne Callies) is tortured by Paul Kellerman (Paul Adelstein) in an episode of Prison Break. Kellerman hopes to close in on Michael through Sara.
As usual, engineer Michael has a plan to clear the path for him and his brother.
In this week’s episode – happening on Tuesday at 10pm on Star World (Astro Channel 711) – we see Dr Sara Tancredi (played by American actress Sarah Wayne Callies) finally receiving a call from Michael. While the conversation itself is swoon-worthy, it also gives Agent Kellerman the confirmation he needs to seriously start watching Sara so he can figure out where Michael is hiding.
Here, Callies, 30, tells us she’s mighty glad the writers did not make her character to be a damsel in distress, and what her favourite episodes are in the second season of the series.
Sara has quite a journey. She’s going for rehabilitation, and feeling betrayed by the fact that she got so close to Michael and was instrumental in helping him escape.
Things are about to get a lot worse. I think she feels enormously betrayed, and outraged with herself because it cost her so much. When I talked to the writers about a second season, they asked me what I thought about Sara and Michael, and I said he would have to be the last man on earth for her to ever be willing to speak with him again. And so they sort of took that to heart. And I think in the second season, all the forces that have been operating on Michael and Lincoln start to become very personal to her and her life, and they start taking away everything that she cares about, and everything that she is. So at the end she’s left with no options but to ask for help, and a very clear sense that Michael probably did what he did out of a sense of necessity. That said, there is a total loss of trust between the two of them, and that’s not a small issue.
Can you describe the difference between work when you were shooting at the prison and now when you’re on the run working with just a couple of actors?
Yeah, the big tragedy on the show is that I’ve always only worked with a couple of actors. And I think so highly of everyone on the show. I got to see everyone when we were working at Joliet (Prison) because there was that sense that you were going to the office every day. Now we’re very spread out in terms of our scenes. I do get to spend a lot of time working with Paul Adelstein, which has been terrific because I think so highly of his work.
There’re so many different veins to Sara. Did you know that it was this complex a character when you first got it?
When I first read the script they sent me and was told to audition for whichever woman I liked the best, I picked the doctor. It was the smallest role in the entire pilot, and my agents thought I was crazy. But what I loved about her was that she dealt with situations with irony and humour. While there was no sense of where this character or where the series would go, I figure that somebody who deals with situations that way is someone who’s got a lot of levels to her. Thankfully, the writers saw in her what I did, and have continued to deepen and change the layers of her. It’s very easy to end up as a damsel in distress, and they’ve avoided that really, really well. I’m grateful to them for that.
Do you have a favourite episode from the second season? Is there something that you’re looking forward to seeing?
The two that come to mind are the episode on the train and the one in the bathtub just because there was a lot to sink my teeth into. We had a lot of fun filming that stuff. It certainly wasn’t an ordinary day at work.
> The second season of ‘Prison Break’ is currently being rerun on Star World (Astro Channel 711) on Tuesdays, 10pm, while the third season is airing on 8tv on Mondays, 10.30pm.
Credit Peppi Excomm SOURCE
By MUMTAJ BEGUM[/center]
Her agents thought Sarah Wayne Callies was crazy to pick what seemed like the smallest role in the pilot of Prison Break but the actress sallied forth and has not looked back since.
PRISON Break continues with the brothers Michael Scofield and Lincoln Burrows (portrayed by Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell) on the run along with the other prisoners who escaped with them.
Not only do they have to evade all the parties that are after them, including Captain Brad Bellick (Wade Williams), Special Agent Paul Kellerman (Paul Adelstein) and Special Agent Alexander Mahone (William Fichtner), they also need to locate the hidden money.
Dr Sara Tancredi (Sarah Wayne Callies) is tortured by Paul Kellerman (Paul Adelstein) in an episode of Prison Break. Kellerman hopes to close in on Michael through Sara.
As usual, engineer Michael has a plan to clear the path for him and his brother.
In this week’s episode – happening on Tuesday at 10pm on Star World (Astro Channel 711) – we see Dr Sara Tancredi (played by American actress Sarah Wayne Callies) finally receiving a call from Michael. While the conversation itself is swoon-worthy, it also gives Agent Kellerman the confirmation he needs to seriously start watching Sara so he can figure out where Michael is hiding.
Here, Callies, 30, tells us she’s mighty glad the writers did not make her character to be a damsel in distress, and what her favourite episodes are in the second season of the series.
Sara has quite a journey. She’s going for rehabilitation, and feeling betrayed by the fact that she got so close to Michael and was instrumental in helping him escape.
Things are about to get a lot worse. I think she feels enormously betrayed, and outraged with herself because it cost her so much. When I talked to the writers about a second season, they asked me what I thought about Sara and Michael, and I said he would have to be the last man on earth for her to ever be willing to speak with him again. And so they sort of took that to heart. And I think in the second season, all the forces that have been operating on Michael and Lincoln start to become very personal to her and her life, and they start taking away everything that she cares about, and everything that she is. So at the end she’s left with no options but to ask for help, and a very clear sense that Michael probably did what he did out of a sense of necessity. That said, there is a total loss of trust between the two of them, and that’s not a small issue.
Can you describe the difference between work when you were shooting at the prison and now when you’re on the run working with just a couple of actors?
Yeah, the big tragedy on the show is that I’ve always only worked with a couple of actors. And I think so highly of everyone on the show. I got to see everyone when we were working at Joliet (Prison) because there was that sense that you were going to the office every day. Now we’re very spread out in terms of our scenes. I do get to spend a lot of time working with Paul Adelstein, which has been terrific because I think so highly of his work.
There’re so many different veins to Sara. Did you know that it was this complex a character when you first got it?
When I first read the script they sent me and was told to audition for whichever woman I liked the best, I picked the doctor. It was the smallest role in the entire pilot, and my agents thought I was crazy. But what I loved about her was that she dealt with situations with irony and humour. While there was no sense of where this character or where the series would go, I figure that somebody who deals with situations that way is someone who’s got a lot of levels to her. Thankfully, the writers saw in her what I did, and have continued to deepen and change the layers of her. It’s very easy to end up as a damsel in distress, and they’ve avoided that really, really well. I’m grateful to them for that.
Do you have a favourite episode from the second season? Is there something that you’re looking forward to seeing?
The two that come to mind are the episode on the train and the one in the bathtub just because there was a lot to sink my teeth into. We had a lot of fun filming that stuff. It certainly wasn’t an ordinary day at work.
> The second season of ‘Prison Break’ is currently being rerun on Star World (Astro Channel 711) on Tuesdays, 10pm, while the third season is airing on 8tv on Mondays, 10.30pm.
Credit Peppi Excomm SOURCE