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Прочитала свежее большое интервью Майкла Эмерсона. До этого я как-то не особо им интересовалась, он мне нравился как актер, хотя кроме PoI я его больше нигде не видела, мне нравились совместные фото Майкла и Кэрри, но про самого Эмерсона я толком ничего не знала. А тут читаю и влюбляюсь с каждым словом) Вовремя, ничего не скажешь, столько времени любить Финча и только сейчас проникнуться Эмерсоном)
Несколько милых моментов про съемки PoI:
TCC: Were there any memorable fan encounters while shooting in New York?

ME: We had so many fan encounters. It was just crazy. There’s a lot of shows in New York but I don’t think any other show filmed as much outdoors as we did. We were in every neighborhood of the city and we ran into every different kind of – from paparazzi who wouldn’t get out of the screen to angry old ladies who just wanted to get to the grocery store and neighborhood activists who wanted to shut us down because they felt everyone in the neighborhood should be paid. We were driven out of a project building by guys throwing rocks and stuff down off the roof, we had to fold that day. We were shut down by the police for showing guns, all kinds of stuff. It was never a dull moment with us.

And I haven’t even touched on the problems of weather. Oh my God, shooting – the second episode in season three I think, where Root and I are walking and talking in Madison Square Park and you can see that it’s just pouring snow on us. They would have to come up with lint brooms between takes and they’d have to get the snow off our heads and shoulders before we could do another take. We were starting to look like snow people.

We would have those fan clubs, like there were organized fan clubs from China and also in Europe, and those people would come and they would stand outdoors just to watch us filming all day long. If we shot for 14 hours, they’d be out there for 14 hours.

TCC: How does that feel as an actor seeing that passion?

ME: Well you want to say – the work day is really kind of dull and not much happens, it’s mostly a lot of waiting around. I just wanted them to go somewhere warm and watch the show on TV or something.

TCC: What was the tone like on set going into this last season?

ME: It was a little… people began to count, “What are the last things?” This is the last time we’ll do this, this is the last time we’ll shoot outdoors, this is the last time we’ll shoot on a tall building, this is the last time we’ll use the subway set, this is the series wrap of the dog, this is the series wrap for fill-in-the-blank. And there are casualties along the way in season five, which you’ll see as we go along.

TCC: Did that atmosphere make it difficult to get through scenes?

ME: Again I have to say, the work of our show is so difficult. There wasn’t a lot of time for testimonials or reminiscences, or anything like that, just a sense of trying to hold on to one another a little bit longer and enjoy one another’s company since the end was near – to try to enjoy it a little bit more, which is hard on our show because the logistics of the hours were grueling.

TCC: Is there anything or any one person in particular you’ll miss most?

ME: In the course of five years you make so many good friends on the set. I have had so many wonderful scenes with Amy Acker, I don’t know what it’s gonna be like to have to go out and work with other actors somewhere else on some other thing. I really adore her. The people on set – there’s this guy, Tony Peptine, who was the sсript supervisor. He was my number one scene partner for that entire series because so many of my scenes are shot alone with me talking into a telephone or at a screen or a microphone and Tony Peptine reads everybody else’s lines for all those scenes. I have heard his voice in my head more than any other actor I’ve ever worked with. So I will miss him because he was just a daily presence.

TCC: Your wife, actress Carrie Preston (True Blood) appeared on Lost and then with you in Person of Interest. What’s it like working with her on a show?

ME: It’s interesting. She and I are kind of like teenagers when we’re together. We tend to get giggly about things. It’s funny to be playing a deadly serious scene and sometimes it’s hard to look at her because it makes me want to crack up, and I know the same is true for her. It’s also a little complicated acting-wise. Because I woke up with her that morning, I have to do a double acting job. I have to erase the fact that she’s my spouse from my mind and replace it with this fictional character and then I have to play the scene with that fictional character. But it’s fun. It’s so sweet to bump into your own wife in the hallway after shooting and say, “How’s it going? See you out there in about 30 minutes.”