Thanks to Ray Joni for this as well.<\/p>\n
THEY WON’T GO . . .
\n. . . which was great news for all the fans of Roswell when it was
\npicked up for a second 13-episode season. Judy Sloane got down and
\ndeserty with some of the cast and crew.<\/p>\nFor a while it looked like the WB’s drama Roswell would not see a
\nsecond season, and would end with a tense and unresolved cliffhanger —
\nbut the show’s fans took their mission seriously! Based on a series of
\nbooks written by Melinda Metz called “Roswell High,” the show focuses on
\nthree young aliens: Max (Jason Behr), Isabel (Katherine Heigl) and
\nMichael (Brendan Fehr), who are surviving descendants from beings on
\nboard the infamous alien spaceship that was believed to have crashed in
\nRoswell, New Mexico in 1947. Their burning desire to find out the truth
\nabout their existence puts them and their closest friends, in heightened
\ndanger, that climaxed in the last episode of last season.
\nWhen it was announced by the network that the show was on shaky
\nground, thousands of fans sent bottles of Tabasco sauce (an alien
\nfavorite on the series) to The WB — it worked, and the show was renewed
\nfor a second season. “We were all aware of the fans’ response,” says
\nJason Behr. “Nobody asked these people to do that, but I think it opened
\na lot of eyes and really helped us, and everyone at the show is very
\ngrateful.” Katherine Heigl agrees. “I thought it was amazing how devoted
\nand how supportive the fans were. They really backed us up, and I know
\nthat made a difference. I just ran out of Tabasco sauce the other day,
\nand I was thinking I should call The WB to get one from them!”
\nAs the first year started drawing to a close, the story began to
\nunfold at a breakneck pace, and looked as if it was headed in a totally
\ndifferent direction, a fact that producer Kevin Brown acknowledges, “The
\nplot needed to be accelerated a little bit, but it’s not going in a
\ndifferent direction. The emphasis shifted so that the science fiction
\nwould be a little more dominant than it was. But it’s still the same
\nshow, the relationships are going to drive the story, but we’re just
\ngoing to use a little bit of a bigger canvas.”
\nBehr concurs, “I think we had a chance to establish the relationships
\nearly on in the season, and the dynamics between the characters. We’ve
\ntaken a strong base and have branched out from there, putting these
\ncharacters that you know, and hopefully care about, in extreme
\nsituations to let them become even more colorful based on their choices.
\nActions speak louder than words, and you can learn a lot about somebody
\nby the decisions they make. If the first season was the exploration of
\ntheir human side, the second season will be the discovery of their alien
\nside.”
\nWhen reminded that she told the “TV Guide” that they would be
\nvisiting their planet next season, Heigl laughs and responds, “That was
\njust me speculating. I think we should go to my planet and find out what
\nit looks like. Don’t you want to know? Don’t you want to know what our
\npeople look like? What I really look like outside of my human body?”
\nAllowing Behr to speculate about the upcoming season, he comments
\nthat he hopes to “discover more about the aliens and their mythology –
\nwhy they’re here, where they’re from and if they could go back, who
\nwould go and who would they leave behind? I’d also like to investigate
\nthe psychology of the characters put in this position, because you take
\nthese characters of Max and Isabel, who have grown up as brother and
\nsister, and now we learn that that’s not what it’s supposed to be. We’re
\nbeing told what our so-called destiny is, and we have to choose whether
\nor not to accept that.”
\nAnd what of his relationship with his human girlfriend, Liz (Shiri
\nAppleby)? “It hasn’t been screwed up beyond repair,” says Behr, “but a
\nwrench has been thrown into the works. Shiri will definitely be a part
\nof the show; she’s not just going to go away. That relationship has been
\na long time coming, and it’s obviously a very important one to Max. He’s
\nbeen waiting his whole life for it, so he’s not going to give it up that
\neasily. It’s going to be pretty difficult, but she’s the whole reason
\nwhy they are in this mess, so I don’t think he’s just going to let go.”
\nAnother emotional switch that came late in the first season was the
\ntotal turnaround of Sheriff Valenti (William Sadler), who in the
\nbeginning seemed to have a menacing interest in the aliens; now he’s
\nthere to save them. “It’s funny how sometimes your greatest allies can
\nbe your former enemies,” remarks Behr. “It’s funny how relationships are
\nconstantly changing and evolving. The sheriff started out as a very
\nsympathetic character, although he was chasing us and you didn’t want
\nhim to catch us. He had his reasons for being motivated that you
\nunderstood. You never really thought of him as a bad person, because he
\nhad reasons for being the way he was. Bill is such a good actor. He has
\ntaken those subtle nuances of a flawed antagonist and he’s turned him
\ninto a very sympathetic protagonist. He’s on our side now. It takes a
\ngood actor to do that.”
\nAs he contemplates last season’s shows, Behr has no problem coming up
\nwith his favorite episode — “The White Room.” “It was by far the most
\ndifficult and the most rewarding. Jonathan Frakes is one of the best
\ndirectors I’ve ever worked with. He knows how to talk to actors, and he
\nknows exactly where he wants the camera, as he’s already got it edited
\nin his head. I think he took a great script and gave it a very unique
\nlook. The subject matter was very intense, and every actor on the show
\nstepped up to the plate and knocked the ball out of the park.”
\nAs for Heigl, she’s looking forward to this season’s episodes. “I
\nthink the first year it was difficult for Isabel to find a place in
\nthis, because a lot of her part was supporting her alien men. I think
\nnow it’s time for her to come into her own.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks to Ray Joni for this as well. THEY WON’T GO . . . . . . which was great<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}