My Sweet Alex O'Loughlin

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.”

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“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