My Sweet Alex O'Loughlin

Amrie posted an exclusive interview of Alex O'Loughlin on 'My Take On Chuck'

Alex talked much on his character Vivcent. How he felt about him and how he was so happy to get and play this role, the role written by his friend Simon Mirren for him.

He also talked about us friend with so lovely words:

"they?re very consistent in their passion, which is lovely, I love them for it, so much"

"I want to take them all with me, I want to take them on this journeyand show them what I?m learning and what I?m loving, and they?re greatpeople, too"

"My fans are so caring"

Thank you Amrie for this great interview

Thanks to my friend mizzoh of Alex O'Loughlin Rocks! for updating me with this article,

And thank you Alex for being so caring, heartfelt and so lovely. Thanks for being what you are. And no, you are not anyone else, you are Alex O'Loughlin, the most adorable and talented actor ever!

I love and will always follow you in anything he does!

Unsub with a heart of gold? Alex O'Loughlin talks CRIMINAL MINDS

Alex O?Loughlin has survived the unfortunate demise of his cultfavorite CBS series MOONLIGHT, and is moving on.  One of theconsistently good parts of that sometimes wobbly show, it was only amatter of time before O?Loughlin was snapped up for a million otherthings.  Currently awaiting the fate of his pilot THREE RIVERS, withJulia Ormond (about a team of organ transplant surgeons, based on reallife Dr. Gonzalo Gonzales-Stawinski), borne out of a development dealwith CBS, Alex is guesting on tonight?s CRIMINAL MINDS, starring asVincent, the unsub who you can?t help but feel a little bit sorry for! I had the chance to chat with Alex last week about tonight?s episode,what he hopes you get from his portrayal of a disturbed man, and whathe hopes for his fans in the future!

I had the chance change to watch your episode of CRIMINALMINDS and I have to tell you.  That show does some creepy stuff, and Imean this as a compliment, your character is super creepy!

[laughs] Well thank you, I think! [laughs] He?s a little creepy!

Where did this role come from?

Simon Mirren, the writer, and co-executive producer on theshow is a friend of mine.  He said, I?m writing a role with you inmind, I want you to read it, and do it.  I said, Really? Okay.  I readit, and I was like, this is great.  I really want to do it, and talkedto my agent.  I was like, look, the role, blah, blah, blah.  I?mtalking to CBS, they said I can do it.  How do you guys feel?   Theysaid, well how do you feel?  I said, it?s perfect, let me do it.  Imean, it?s not like ?let me do it?, I make the decisions, but it?slike, they?re my team, and I want them on board with the decisions Imake.  You know, it?s not often I get to play these character roles;it?s not often I get to read these character roles!  I hadn?t workedfor like 10 months, so I thought it would be a great way to blow outthe cobwebs and get ready for the pilot, and they were like, well,we?ve got your back!  So I did it.  I?m really glad I did it!

The character itself, you do so much with an almostwordlessness.  So much is conveyed physically.  What kind ofpreparation goes into a role like this?

My main preparation was of course looking at the condition ofObsessive Compulsive Disorder, which I have little tiny elements of inmy life anyway, but I?m certainly far from ruled by it.  I think a lotof us have little things - some people don?t step on the cracks, a lotof us don?t even realize we?re doing it, we tie our shoes certain waysand we feel uncomfortable if we do it a different way, and there?s ananxiety within us.  It?s a very interesting condition.  There?s ananxiety within us that gets quelled when we do that pattern, every timewe do that behavior, it settles an anxiety within us.  And a lot ofit?s subconscious because it seems so minor because they?re day to daythings that we have to do like tie our shoes or brush our teeth.  Thiswas an exaggerated form, and it happens to certain people, it?s sounfortunate.  The condition gets ramped up to a certain point wheretheir entire life is taken over by these behaviors that they have to gothrough to stop the anxiety that they?re experiencing.  Their wholelife is catered to dealing with anxiety.  So, I made some choices forthe character, all my choices were based around this condition hesuffers from.

You got to interact with the fantastic Jake Cherry, who isone of the best younger actors that pops up all over the place.  Youdidn?t get to really interact with the team, though.  Had you known anyof them coming in to film?

No, not really.  Not too much.

And you said you were friends with Simon, I?m sure you a fan of the show?

Oh yeah, love the show, love the actors on the show.  I thinkit?s great. I think it?s one of the GOOD network TV shows, it?s one ofmy favorite network shows.  I think Eddie Bernero?s amazing.  SimonMirren is a great friend of mine.  It was terrific.  It was almost likebeing a fan of these guys and this show, and then finding myself on setgoing, hey! Coolest show!  Like when I did THE SHIELD, I couldn?tbelieve it, I was like, ?Holy Shit, I?m on THE SHIELD.  Oh my god!?

Why do you think people should tune in to this episode specifically and keep watching?

Tune in!  I was really captured in what Simon wrote.  I wasreally captured in Vincent, this character?s pursuit of salvation. Because he seems like such an unredeemable character, like the actsthat he perpetrates are unforgiveable, perhaps they are.  I think thespirit of the man himself is beyond salvation and that?s what I as theactor went for, you know?

Right, making an unsympathetic character very sympathetic because you kind of feel for this really sad man.

Right, and the thing is, inside of all of us, I don?t care whoyou are, at least at one stage in our lives, we?re lost.  We?re tryingto be found and we want to be found, and we need to be loved.  It?sinside all of us.  It doesn?t matter whether you?re the executive of anetwork TV show, or you?re a movie star, whether you?re, fucking,Ghandi.   I?m sure at a point in all of our lives, I don?t know aboutGhandi [laughing], but for the rest of us, there?s a point for all ofus where we need help.  We need someone to take our hand, and take usto the light, and point us in a direction.  This is just anotherexample.  The thing is, there?s that old saying, like we all matter. You matter, I matter, this character Vincent matters.  It doesn?tcondone his behavior.  I?m not saying that the killing is okay ifyou?re fucked up.  I?m not saying anything like that.  What I?m sayingis that we all matter, and it?s my job to be a humanist and look at itfrom that point of view, and find the inroad.  Maybe it?s because Iknow Simon so well, I understood exactly what he meant with thecharacter, and I hope that I conveyed it through my performance, and ifI haven?t, I apologize in advance, but I understood Vincent?s anguish,and I understood the desire for salvation, and I think before the end,he rests assured of himself. He?s not all bad.

Switching gears just a little bit - your fans are some ofthe most vocal that I?ve seen in recent years, still getting emailsabout MOONLIGHT and where we can find Alex, and the rest of the team. Do you still get a lot of fan outreach now?

Yeah, yeah, they?re very consistent in their passion, which islovely, I love them for it, so much.  I hope they follow me into mycareer, and my next project.  I mean, every character is not going tobe Mick St. John.  It?s just not.  I?m always going to play differentcharacters and hopefully they will find.  I think my fans, becausethey?re so, comprehensive, with their study of me, and their research[laughs] of me, I think that they?re probably starting to get to knowme a bit now, as well, and if they?re still my fans, it means theystill like me.  If they still like me, hopefully they?re going to likewhat I like in the characters that I choose.  You know what I mean?

Oh yeah, they?re going to understand the thought processes in your choosing each character.

Right, so hopefully, they?re going to come to love thecharacters that I love, the way I love them for the same reasons, orsimilar reasons.  I want to take them all with me, I want to take themon this journey and show them what I?m learning and what I?m loving,and they?re great people, too.  My fans are so caring, they send me somany well wishes, and lovely cards.  Beautiful paintings.  It?samazing, I?ve never experienced it before.  It can be a littleoverwhelming, I?m just like anyone else.  Can you imagine, like openingthe mail, and getting 1,000 letters?  It can be really weird, reallybizarre. 

I?m not sure I could handle it!

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