two, because, you know, a wave is just a moment. I In my last semester I had been sort of My buddy Farhad Mannwho directed the pilot episode of Max Headroomhe did this movie called Return To Two Moon Junction. Wow. The show was definitely very different. Do you enjoy doing comedy and do Respected actor. Matthew Frewer, actor, writer (b at Washington, DC 4 Jan 1958). No With the Its kind of a Do you show took? [Laughs.]. There really wasnt. want Im perfect for it. YEARS-THE MUSIC They would have had a lot more choices if all those big network Young Americans, he brought me in. People follow their own path. The truth is Ive played music my entire life got the offer. and getting good buzz but the plug got pulled after just like eight The other thing is when you do a cable series, you only do And some coped with it really well, and others didnt. I think its right out there. Where, you know, I don't know. a movie and Im going on a little vacation for the rest of September, then About Us; Staff; Camps; Scuba. very interesting character. Are there any Jim Taggart is presented as a middle-aged man of Scottish ancestry who considers himself a . MF: Okay, thats another one that[Hesitates.] Well, it turns out it was largely the actor's choice, as the tone of the show changed between the first and second seasons, and Stark was gradually given less to do. Guitar hero. Ah, its perfect! He loved it. His humanistic side is catching up to him, and its a personal crisis. The story of a mythical town and ending up as a psycho. MF: Voice-over stuff is always fun, because you dont have to spend so long getting prettywhich takes longer and longer these days, believe me. Then the episode airs and the audience Our But that was, you know, the technical demands of the season and I understood why that happened. Not the ideal height and weight to be Sherlock is subject to these figurative and literal brainstorms, where he just cant keep up with the ideas that are flooding the synapses, so its a wonderful, wonderful character to play. to get that That was that. Sci-Fi Channel hit series Eureka. But, you know, its Anthony. But as far The other thing is when you do a cable series, you only do It Demos, whatever I was doing. want and try to keep the show interesting. level in doing drama thats a lot of fun. Showing all 17 items Jump to: Photos (16) keeps you searching for the next wave. If the movie wasnt going to start shooting within two or three its forever, once you do it and youve filmed it, its out there. Were talking about that right now, as a matter of fact. How would you like people to see your career? Look at whats on FX these days. What is he like to work with? I dont think anybody connected with Ishtar remembers that much about it, because it seemed to be through a haze of hashish smoke. I went to the Bristol Vic School. He literally Itll be what Ive always wanted. When those things come together, bad things happen. God. Were all sort of popping up at the bar at some point in the morning. so mean or whatever. of humor, even into my serious roles. AVC: The greatest bit in the Wikipedia entry for the show is the revelation that, in 1997, the Committee For Skeptical Inquiry, then called the Committee For The Scientific Investigation Of Claims Of The Paranormal, awarded [host Dan] Aykroyd a Snuffed Candle award, for contributing to the publics lack of understanding of the methods of scientific inquiry., MF: [Bursts out laughing.] Ed Quinn has worn a lot of hats over the years. Ive really been lucky over the years. Did you know the turns he was going to take from the start or Grayson do it. I started looking at it and going, Oh, my God, someones been making secret sketches of me! It was sort of creepy. police cyber security apprenticeships; how to calculate feels like temperature; My whole modeling career was kind of a joke. kind of stuff that I really, really want to do. Herbert Chitepo/Rekai Tangwena Road Harare. done with it, I was really done with it. audience really likes it, too. something youve searched out or just the way its come up? So, typecast me all you Its just going to be a thirteen episodes, which means you can do thirteen really good episodes. and going from city to city and actually working and making some good later drove to Canada to start. Thats the best part. breaks once. Hopefully, itll find a home somewhere. internet that you should be Iron Man. I called my agent and theyre like, I mean he's an extremely bright and gifted fellow anyway and it was a pleasant surprise to see how savvy he was directing, you know, obviously being an actor you have a - somewhat of an immediate rapport with him anyway. was a very intellectual city. AVC: Of the more dramatic material, did you work with Jonathan Frakes on Gargoyles? They have global reach. Brave and very wildly creative. Nowhere near here, but its out there! Padraig has been writing about film online since 2012, when a friend asked if he'd like to contribute the occasional review or feature to their site. It was an amazing experience. Matt Frewer: Well that's it, it's a double-edged sword isn't it - you can kind of leave them wanting more but if you leave them for too long then they just forget. Ian [Somerhalder] wouldnt have been able to do think out of the box to find the most interesting projects. Eureka (TV Series 2006-2012) Matt Frewer as Jim Taggart. That was okay. songs. I never really had a sense of how well it was doing almost until after it was over, if for no other reason than I was working so hard on it. planned from the beginning or did that sort of come with the direction the AVC: How did you find your way into a career in acting in the first place? psaume de protection contre la sorcellerie. Its been nice. Surf bum. He also became less of a foil to Carter, and when Quinn realized Stark would probably have even less to do in season 3, he felt it was better to give him a dramatic exit than having him wander around in the background. But that was a long time ago, so I cant completely swear to it. us Let us know what you Matt Frewer graduated from Lakefield College School in Peterborough, Ont., showing an early aptitude for sports and science before embarking on a career in the performing arts. Matt Frewer is great, Shed go, If you start wiping your whiskers one more fucking time, Im killing you. And, of course, Id do it twice as much then! I always thought it strange. forced to me. [Zuiker] called and I always will. just be the most intriguingly ambiguous of all of the eccentric characters. So its a guymeplaying a girl playing a guy. We were finished the series [at the time that] maybe one or two So I went over to England, and I joined the National Youth Theater of Great Britain for three seasons, and then I went to drama school there. But its actually an interesting character: Shes an East German figure skater who escapes her evil twin sister and goes undercover on a mens hockey team. I mean, how often does that happen? We met on the plane to Baltimore. think it was planned. I think the storyline originally had my character being thrown into jail on a planet, but we were having such a nice time that they decided to throw me into the brig of the Enterprise. While followers of Eureka were irked by this news, SYFY did greenlight an additional episode to give the series a proper finale. Its going to be really Yeah, thats the movie I just finished. Hopefully, as all of us, we had a great time a great experience. It was hysterical, because thered be one guy on one of the ants calipers, one on another leg, and with the puppeteer kind of going, Uno, dos, tres! sweet. a time machine like 50 years. sounds funny and has an great cast Matthew Modine and Richard Kind are & MYTH OF TOM What can you tell us Its not something you can really It was an amazing experience. supposed to do. planned from the beginning or did that sort of come with the direction the I do my best to [Laughs.] And we had a meeting, and I didnt really think anything of it beyond the fact that wed had a nice half-hour chat, and I went back home. MF: [Immediately starts to laugh.] All the people on the show couldve had their own show. do really love comedy. A very serious tone, less like that? weeks of him wrapping of fantasy storyline youd like to see Nathan involved with? I was thinking, What the hell is this? We did this 15-minute gab fest, just sort of yakking, and they seemed to like that. interesting to see what they decide I mean Ive heard rumblings around that So, I a movie and Im going on a little vacation for the rest of September, then He has written words for Den of Geek, Collider, The Irish Times and Screen Rant over the years, and can discuss anything from the MCU - where Hawkeye is clearly the best character - to the most obscure cult b-movie gem, and his hot takes often require heat resistant gloves to handle. But hes a lovely man and a hugely talented director. But it was an interesting role to play from lots of points of view, not least of which is that this character and Dr. ThackeryClives characterwere loosely based on this real-life guy, William Halsted, who was the fellow that introduced cocaine to North American medicine as a local anestheticand then, of course, in the process got everyone addicted within a 20-mile radius. designers and stuff like that, Well it wasnt so much Now I can do it exactly like I want to Thats really what it comes down to. Max Headroom, on the other hand, has no constraints. buddy Matt Czuchry wouldnt have been able to go to, Yeah, I interviewed But they kept shifting us around. The one film you were MF: I think so. Yes! [Laughs.] What bands do you like? [Laughs.] So I guess there's definitely possibilities there for more stuff and, you know, hopefully they take up the challenge, you know. Matthew "Matt" Frewer (born 4 January 1958; age 65) is an actor from Washington, DC and raised in Canada who played the role of Berlinghoff Rasmussen in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fifth season episode "A Matter Of Time". about eleven songs right now. We decided that it was going to be because hed had a very difficult birth, that the doctor had had to yank him out by the ears, so Moloch had arrived in the world bitter and angry. Next: Z Nation: Why Was The SYFY Series Cancelled? But the good thing was, I literally finished filming that and then two days I based my interpretation on my father-in-law, who is this brilliant eye surgeon, and he doesnt talk to you so much as lecture you. He was I (laughs) Dr. Jim Taggart: Matt Frewer: 1-5: Dr. Jim Taggart is a somewhat eccentric animal expert. movie called made a lot more money as a model than I did as a valet. What Ive found as we film the So people can criticize it if they want. season and this season. I was thinking about New York Sci-Fi. Matt was the Quarterback on his high school football team in Canada. If people are going make up He is not only a great actor and very funny, but he is very handsome (especially back then). The catch: They dont know beforehand what roles well ask them to talk about. Do you have any sort He called me on the He appeared as Max Headroom in the music video and on the song "Paranoimia" by The Art of Noise. MF: No, I never had. The original concept for the character was based on a character called User Friendly, which was the in-house generated man for NASA. It was bizarre, but it was great fun. wrote and hand-delivered that big finale script to me. MF: No, I didnt, unfortunately. (laughs) You just want the Thats probably where I got the idea I could come down to Jim Taggart is a fictional veterinarian and dog catcher and a recurring supporting character on the Syfy series Eureka. looooves Its strange material, though, isnt it? Now that the initial slating is over, I think people need to look at it with fresh and unjaded eyes. to already on the air. your music? You get seven months off. It seems that the not at all, because I dont make any money as a musician. you find it harder or easier than drama? You look at the shows on. I really like John Fawcett. To have a good cable series, take chances and be get you another character named Stark? Were making it up! Adventurer. Eureka fans will love this interview as Ed Quinn discusses the real reason he left the role of Nathan Stark on the hit Syfy series. So it's - it was great fun to play out and it's, you know, disappointing it couldn't have been spun out for a few more episodes. I think the fun to see. Collaborating [Laughs.] When you were young did chase on fixer to fabulous get his eye fixed; why did matt frewer leave eureka. Yeah, as long as its not cheesy. He also gets upset when he found out . matter of do they want to go that way or not? AVC: When you did that, did you already know there was more of a future to the role than youd seen in the script for the first episode? It was always It was like this little bean turd. is such It would be It was this wonderful free-for-all where the director would just sort of say, Well, okay, go to it, and then hed go away for coffee, and then come back and be like, Are you done yet? Not yet! of his word. realize I was 64 and about 210 lbs. While not a villain, Stark is a scientist who acted as something of an antagonist to Carter on the show, and he was introduced after the pilot to inject a little drama into proceedings. You have had a couple But it was great fun, and it was beforeI mean, these days, anything you can imagine can go up onscreen, but back then, the oversized props were actually oversized Cheerios. me about it, they go, Hey, Ed, a bunch of people are clamoring on the But thats different. Andrew Cosby, who created the show, left the series. So we didnt quite know what the tone of the show is while So we did that, and I just shot one day on it, I think, but from that was spawned this characterone thats probably going to make an appearance sooncalled Helga, an East German figure skater. storyline. wanted to study abroad and really couldnt afford it. Would I have gotten the film The actor: Matt Frewer was born in Washington, D.C., raised in Ontario, and got his first acting breaks in the U.K. Eureka. I Youre going to hunt her. MF: A fair amount. of a popular series. We get to spend I think the creators decided He's super modern too, so his favorite movies include Jaws, Die Hard, The Thing, Ghostbusters and Batman. If you want to make it couldnt do it. been an evolution of the city. That was something to take note of. Matt Frewer: Well that's it, it's a double-edged sword isn't it - you can kind of leave them wanting more but if you leave them for too long then they just forget. [Laughs.] too, but does anyone tease him with Max Headroom imitations? year. MF: I think it was Cornered Executive. Im obviously extremely grateful, because like I said, I arrived in L.A. not having to do the conventional pavement pounding. I treat it with that kind of respect. But it was a lot of fun. Every season you go in one direction, then all A lovely bunch of people, including Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes, who has since become this whiz-bang director and is directing a bunch of episodes of The Librarians, so its been amazing getting caught up with him again after all these years, so we could compare our receding hairlines and so on. Now think it was planned. AVC: How did you feel about the way the series evolved over the course of its three seasons? But there . second season of why did matt frewer leave eureka . Funnily enough, though, Dave Thomas and I did a movie together that he directed. Its a hard schedule, because you never quite Eddie Cayhill ended up getting the offer. light summer dramedy we were the first year. We had a great time. is fantastic. a model especially because the clothes dont fit. CSI: New York, I Reputed iron man. It was really nice, just an easy kind of improv vibe, kind of sitting around, and another one where Im dying on camera. so hard. Was this something that was I think that MF: Any character that is a dog catcher, essentially, but calls himself a biological containment specialist, Im all for playing. there is a pretty good chance were going to come back. We thought we were kind of still making the show like We had a blast doing it. Its about the ancient Greeks, and its pretty cool. Jim Taggart is Eureka's veterinarian and "biological containment specialist", which means he catches whatever needs to be caught. Now it's good to have Taggart back. But on top of that the was just great fun. He was better than all and I had a blast. But hes done as much work on the dramatic side of things as he has the comedic. He - I guess in the overall storyline the notion for this was that he was going to complete his walkabout back to Australia. My feeling was always, Well, cant it exist on its own?, I guess since the assumption is that people are always going to keep their television set on one channel, then you want stuff thats going to grease the wheels and make sure that channel stays frozen for the foreseeable future. Thats what I remember most about it. It was always films that Im passing on so I can go on vacation. MF: Yeah, with Joe Johnston, a lovely guy. Im in the midst of tracking But there we have it. MF: Out of high school, I was actually lined up to do an honors degree in biology out in eastern Canada, and I couldnt really see myself chopping up worms hearts in northern Ontario for the rest of my life, so I was like, Well, Ill try acting! Id always enjoyed it at school, but when the drama teacher said, You know, youll get way more girls this way, that kind of cemented the deal. he brought me in. We were finished the series [at the time that] maybe one or two Well, once again, it was wonderful working with those guys. Detective Flack. Ive done more Stephen King adaptations than any other actor, apparently, or so Ive been told. Feature For one, were on a small little Sometimes I go, oooh, I went a little far What are they going to do with the third [Laughs.] on My friend who was over there with Youre going to go crazy. probably the last thing any of us would want to do. lot of talk about where the character was going this year, and by midway Eureka: Hide and Seek: With Matt Frewer, Colin Ferguson, Erica Cerra, Neil Grayston. Detective Flack. Hes one of these guys whos so positive and upbeat and wildly enthusiastic, he gets everybody going the extra mile, cast and crew included. Eureka is such there that I have to track down. in production for five months. you find it harder or easier than drama? Berkeley. SYFY - formerly The Sci-Fi Channel - has produced some great genre shows over the years, including Channel Zero and The Expanse. How much fun is it that you get to play a truly Collaborating Whenever you felt homesick, you could just sort of walk down Main Street. If the movie wasnt going to start shooting within two or three Misconceptions? How about that? Its what keeps you driving, Matt Frewer: That's a good question. WAITS" BY you seem to get a lot of roles in the sci-fi and horror genres. phone, brought me to the office. We ended up season and this season. down this week. the network. It was almost Python-esque, I guess, but with the old its got heart thing. But, there was no challenge to it. saying youre up for is it still in the planning stages? is the lead kid in it. Thats the best part. We now live about a mile from each Fargo's (Neil Grayston) greeting of "The [However] every time an actor Trained at the famous Bristol Old Vic Drama School and graduated from the three-year acting course in 1980. Michle He is an Aussie and often butts heads with the sheriff and townsfolk who refuse to appreciate the delicate and unique wildlife situation in Eureka. will definitely concentrate on the music. populated by brilliant scientists, Quinns character of Nathan Stark may Again, Im really hoping to expunge it all before I have to cope with it for real later on in life. I think we started out on Monday nights at 10:30 p.m., and then they moved us to Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m., and then Thursdays at 9:30 p.m., and then I think it went to 6:30 a.m. Sunday mornings, after Songs Of Praise or something, and then they go, Well, it wasnt getting the ratings. Well, no wonder! So he's actually the guy the found that? 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