My Sweet Alex O'Loughlin

Thanks a lot to mizzoH, Nadioz and GreenEnvy!

The text below is from Alex O'Loughlin Rocks!

Again, thanks a lot to mizzoH

In this wonderful CBS interview taped in October with Alex O’Loughlin he of course talks about Three Rivers and being coached by Dr. Gonzo in preparation for his role. However, Alex also shares some other thoughts, including how he feels about his fans’ support:

   " Well, I’m currently single and… It’s funny, because I hear you guys say, ‘You know, you must have a lot of female admirers Alex’ and I’m like, where are they, mate?"

   " My fans are great, my fans are fantastic!"

   " I don’t think I’ll ever get used to the support that these people I don’t know and who don’t really know me — but kind of know me — give me all the time. The letters that come in, the gifts that come in. The way they get behind the things that I do. Like, I’m really passionate about Donate Life and my position with their organization and continuing that relationship and doing what I can for them. The way the fans just come… just.. the fan initiative, they get together and they raise awareness themselves, you know, and all of a sudden they’ve listed another thousand donors. So that stuff, you can’t really say thank you enough for that stuff. You just have to humbly smile and be deeply grateful for that sort of support and I AM deeply grateful and to be quite honest… you never think, like I’m still in denial about it, but I never think, I don’t know… I’m just me. I am who I am. I get up and look in the mirror and I see the same guy I see every day. I’ve been doing this for a long time; I love it, it’s my job but at the end of the day I’m just me with my people, you know? There’s a whole group of people in the world that love me and care about my future and stuff. I’m deeply humbled."

What he says is heartfelt and is part of the very reason why he has so many loyal supporters.

Nadioz captured the interview and GreenEnvy posted it — thanks so much, ladies!

I got my tears dropped when reading what Alex tells about his fans and about the same guy he remains though the celebrity… I love Alex so much and really wish all the great things for him. Alex brings a lot to me and I just want to get him back something… But I do not have much to give, just all my love and admiration…

Will be supporting you forever Alex!

Check out this great interview posted by ABBIE BERNSTEIN on November 27, 2009, where Alex talks about:

CBS...

“I had a holding deal with CBS,” he says. "There were a couple of options on the table and I was most comfortable and it made the most sense to go in that direction, because not only am I deeply appreciative to the company and [CBS Entertainment President] Nina [Tassler] and everybody involved, but I love those guys a lot. We’ve been through a lot together. If someone believes in you that much for that long, it really stands for something, and here we are.”

Three Rivers...

 "I immerse myself in the role as much as I can, I just want to take on as much information and knowledge as I can possibly take on before the cameras roll, because I’m not a surgeon – I’m about as far away from a surgeon as you can get – but I did as much as I could," he adds. "My role is very similar to a guy called Dr. [Gonzalo] ‘Gonzo’ Gonzalez-Stawinski. He’s a cardio-thoracic surgeon who works out of the Cleveland Clinic, which is a prestigious cardiac institute, and I spent a lot of time there when we were shooting in Pittsburgh, I got in the car and I drove to Cleveland or I got on a plane and I flew to Cleveland, and I did that as many times as I could to do his rounds with him, sit with him, pick his brain, watch him, be with him all day and all night, as much as I could, and I also spent a lot of time in the operating room, scrubbed in and watching what was happening.”

...

“The cutting is not the difficult part," he says. "The suturing, or the sewing, is the difficult part. And yeah, I practiced. Gonzo had all sorts of routines laid out for me. I practiced on gauze and on doorknobs and tying knots and suturing.”

TV...

What does O’Loughlin like about working in television?

“I don’t!” he quips. “That was a joke, but some days, when you’re doingten pages of dialogue, when you’re working for eighteen and nineteenhours and forgetting to eat because you’re so tired, when it gets thereand everyone’s tired and you’re breaking things and you’re forgettingthe lines and you feel like an idiot and you don’t feel like you’retruly representing your character – you have those days, like in anyjob, and I don’t like TV on those days. What is it [that’s good] aboutTV? I approach it the same way I approach film, there’s just a lot morework to do on each day. It’s my medium for storytelling at the moment,and that’s where I live. Well, I live in film as well, I live in bothof them. A film schedule is much more luxurious and I sort of grew upin the theatre, and so the beginning and the end – you have an arc, youknow where you’re going, you know where you start, you know where youfinish and at the end of the night, you’re done. And if you’re Hamlet,you’re dead. You go home. You go to bed. That’s the great thing aboutfilm, but it’s also the sad thing about film. You know, you end up withthat heartache [when filming ends], like when you finish a good bookand you don’t want to shut it, and you get that sort of sick feelingand you have the heartache. That’s what happens when I finish a film,every time. TV keeps going and going, and that’s the magic of TV.”

His fans...

O’Loughlin says he hopes his MOONLIGHT fans will follow him to THREE RIVERS.

“Well, of course," he says. "I’d be deeply saddened if they didn’t. ButI guess I would understand.” He adds that he’s putting the word out.“Come with me to THREE RIVERS – everybody, come with me.”

Of course Alex, I'll be following you in any projects

Source

French version of the Interview

Thanks to Nadioz for this video

By Brent Furdyk, Editor, TV Week, 10/02/2009

Check out this interview

mizzoH posted on Alex O'Loughlin Rocks! an excellent article on Alex O'Loughlin and The Shield Period. Check out some of the lines:

"The Shield: The Complete Series was released today as a 28-disc set! Series creator Shawn Ryan looks back on the award winning show that lasted seven seasons on cable channel FX and mentions some of its guest stars, including Alex O’Loughlin, in a new interview with MovieWeb. “It’s always fun when we’d find an actor or an actress that no one knew. I mean, we gave Kristen Bell her first job on TV, in the premiere of Season 2 and, obviously, she’s gotten huge. We brought Alex O’Loughlin to American TVs, and he’s had shows on CBS.”

In mid 2006, Alex shot seven episodes for The Shield’s Season 6, that originally aired between April and June 2007.  As Detective Kevin Hiatt, he was not only fresh to the series, but his character was also a recent addition to the Strike Team. On being the new guy adjusting to the fast pace of the show, Alex said in a 2006 interview with IGN, “… this has been kind of good for my character; I mean I felt a little bit like a fish out of water.”... "

To read more...:

Down Memory Lane: Alex O’Loughlin & “The Shield” - Posted by mizzoH on Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Here are Alex O'Loughlin's comments on the last episodes of my beloved Moonlight

Episode 13

“Fated to Pretend”

Written by Gabrielle Stanton & Harry Worksman

Directed by David Barrett

Mick is enjoying the idea of being human again, but when Beth is threatened by the killer of her BuzzWire boss Maureen, he feels he has no choice but to ask Josef to turn him back into a vampire so that he can rescue her.

“I remember reading that scene with Mick and Josef in the loft when Mick is going off to be the hero, and Josef slaps him around a bit and says, ‘You’re out of your mind,’ and Mick realizes what he has to do,”says O’Loughlin. “So he reluctantly asks Josef to turn him back. I thought it came out great and I thought it was an evocative scene.That’s one of the things I’m intrigued by about these creatures –there’s such ambiguity to them, which this scene played in to sexually.”

Episode 14

“Click”

Written by Erin Maher & Kathryn Reindl

Directed by Scott Lautanen

Whena member of the paparazzi takes photos that could expose the truth about Mick, Beth does the unthinkable: she goes to Josef to get him to take care of the “situation,” creating a pact between them and that Mick knows nothing about. Meanwhile, Mick and Beth decide to start pursuing a romantic relationship.

“What I like about the episode is the fact that it showed the risk that Mick faces on a daily basis in terms of possible exposure,”O’Loughlin says. “Between this paparazzi guy and the fact that D.A.Talbot has a file on Mick, you start to explore what could happen if this part of the lives of these creatures were exposed public. And with Beth going to Josef – wow! Knowing what her request will mean for this photographer shows a bit of ruthlessness on her part, but also the depth of her feelings for Mick.”

Episode 15

“What’s Left Behind”

Written by Jill Blotegovel

Directed by Chris Fisher

Flashbacks illuminate Mick’s past when the rescue of a kidnapped youth suggests that the boy may be the grandson of a woman Mick had had an affair with back during World War II. For Beth, life is changing as she quits BuzzWire and is offered a position of “civilian investigator” for the DA’s office.

“The subject matter in this episode is pretty great, and there’s a lot of potential for storytelling dealing with Mick’s past,” notes O’Loughlin. “Think about it: you’re looking at this guy who looks likehe’s twice as old as Mick is, but could be his son. I felt like this was the strongest of the four that we did when we came back from the strike. I enjoyed playing this different version of Mick and this different side of him. Sometimes you wonder if this guy has the capacity to feel anything above and beyond what we’ve seen, and I kind of wanted to look a little deeper. Essentially he was faced with the things he wants most: his humanity back, his mortality and the chance to grow old and die. Which is a strange thing to want, because it goes against what we as humans think we want. We want to stay young. But he faces that in this one, and he has the hope that may be his bloodline is carrying on. That was really fun to play. There was no shortage of drama or stakes in that episode.”

Episode 16

“Sonata”

Written by Ethan Erwin

Directed by Fred Toye

In the series finale, an exploration of the vampire culture and vampire justice is explored when a female vampire threatens to expose every vampire in Los Angeles. Towards the end, Beth wants to call there lationship off with Mick, but he declares his love for her and the two of them kiss passionately as they embrace the future.

“It felt like we did some pretty cool stuff in this one,” says O’Loughlin. “It was great seeing the different vampires together and have us out on this mission. Some very nice performances in it.”

The standout moment for him, naturally, is the climax when Beth says they can’t be together – largely because of the codes governing the vampires — but he nonetheless comes back into her apartment and the two begin to kiss.

“He’s trying to keep the boundary there and the reality is that he can’t allow, despite what his heart says, this human girl to dictate the moral code of something that’s been around for thousands and thousands of years. So he will always have boundaries there; he is a vampire. But then there’s the thing that he’ll always love her, too.That’s always been the great quandary of that character. Then he leaves and what followed just came out of the moment. I was walking away from the apartment and I stopped outside the door and stood against the wall for a moment before going back inside. I wanted to continue that thread in the series, that feeling, that there is a wall between them that will always be there no matter what. But in that moment he decides he’s still gonna have a go at it. The love is too strong, he’s not going to walk away and he’s still going to try and make it work.”

Despite its premature cancellation, this final moment in Moonlight at least fulfilled the promise of the show’s premise, having these two characters from different worlds uniting.

Alex O’Loughlin’s Guide to Moonlight, Eps 13-16 - October 26, 2009 by RetroEd

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Many thanks to my friend mizzoH at Alex O'Loughlin Rocks who posted these scanned articles some days ago

Sources:

mX Has Five Minutes with Alex O’Loughlin

More Alex O’Loughlin Aussie Articles!

Many thanks to Deb at LLOL for the video

Many thanks to Deb at LLOL for the video

Love this great video

TV Guide Magazine on YouTube

Three Rivers star Alex O'Loughlin juggles on his photo shoot with TV Guide Magazine. Exclusive interview about hospitals, surgeries and fainting. Exclusive interview and behind the scenes footage!

TV Guide Magazine

Three Rivers star Alex O'Loughlin is burning up the screen on Sunday nights as Dr. Andy Yablonski, the Pittsburgh hospital's lead organ transplant surgeon. Check out our exclusive behind the scenes photo shoot with O'Loughlin as he talks about the importance of his new role.