Thanks to TVFilm411 for sending this article in. It appeared in national syndication last week.<\/p>\n
Dec. 10, 1999, 12:40PM<\/p>\n
Behr, star of `Roswell,’ has alien experience at bus stop
\nBy IAN SPELLING<\/p>\nJason Behr had a close encounter. Well, sort of.<\/p>\n
Driving to work a few months ago, the star of the WB hit sci-fi series
\nRoswell experienced a sudden rush of fame and recognition. And it blew him
\naway.<\/p>\n“I’d heard the rumors about Roswell billboards going up, about Roswell
\nposters at bus stops and on buses,” he said. “And all of those things had
\nour faces on them. But I was coming to the studio at 6 or 8 in the morning
\nand not leaving until 10 or 12 at night, so I wasn’t getting a chance to go
\nout and see much of anything. Even on weekends, most of my time was spent
\nwith family or friends, or by myself, just relaxing.<\/p>\n“Then I was on my way to work one time,” he said, “and I was late, speeding
\nthrough the streets. I didn’t quite make a yellow light, so I stopped. I
\nlooked to my right, and I saw myself on a bus stop, staring back at me.”<\/p>\nBehr smiles at the memory. “It was a pretty bizarre and surreal moment,” he
\nsaid.<\/p>\n“So that was the big moment,” he said, “but I’d say it wasn’t so much a
\ndefining moment as surreal. It was bizarre because, two years earlier, I was
\nsitting at that bus stop.”<\/p>\nBehr is sitting in his trailer on the Paramount lot after a long day of
\nshooting Roswell. He’s still full of energy, however, and eager to chat.<\/p>\nAnd he’s ready to chat about the series, which casts him as Max Evans and
\nKatherine Heigl as Max’s sister Isabel, with Brendan Fehr as their friend
\nMichael. Max, Isabel and Michael are aliens residing in Roswell, N.M., and
\nthey’re desperate to keep their identity a secret.<\/p>\nRecently, however, Max complicated matters by using his powers to save Liz
\n(Shiri Appleby), a human teen he’d long adored from afar. Max and Liz now
\nshare a special connection, but they don’t dare act on their feelings for
\none another.<\/p>\n“We’re still finding ourselves, but I think the show is good,” Behr said.
\n“Episodes like `285 South’ and `River Dog,’ our two-parter, were really
\ngood.<\/p>\nThey had a nice mix of relationships, character studies and development.<\/p>\n
“I just thought those two episodes were probably as close to what I
\nenvisioned Roswell to be as we’ve done so far. It’s important to stay on
\nthat track, and when I talk to people who watch the show, they seem to feel
\npretty much the same way.”<\/p>\nBehr has a knack for hooking up with popular shows. The Minneapolis native
\ncounts among his credits guest spots on Dawson’s Creek, 7th Heaven and Buffy
\nthe Vampire Slayer, in the popular episode “Lie to Me.” But Roswell
\nrepresents his first stint as a series lead.<\/p>\n“I don’t think it’s ever quite how you picture it when you’re thinking about
\nit. This has been a lot of long hours, but it doesn’t really seem like work
\nbecause of the people I’m surrounded by every day.<\/p>\n“We’ve got a great cast, a great crew and great producers,” he said.<\/p>\n
If Roswell sustains its popularity, Behr may remain in the company for the
\nnext several years. That possibility prompts the actor to contemplate the
\nend of the series, specifically the last episode.<\/p>\nDo Max, Isabel and Michael return home? Get caught by Sheriff Valenti
\n(William Sadler)? Figure out that they’re descendants of the aliens that
\ncrashed in Roswell in 1947, or that they themselves actually are the Roswell
\naliens?<\/p>\n“I don’t know,” Behr said. “I don’t have the answers, because there are so
\nmany other questions that remain unanswered. Are our parents back there? Are
\nour parents alive? That would be a big factor in my decision to stay or go,
\nassuming we’re given a choice.<\/p>\n“Could Liz come with me? Would Liz want to go with me? Could I ever come
\nback, or go back and forth between home and Earth?”<\/p>\nBehr pauses in thought. “Dramatically, to make it a more weighty issue, it’s
\nprobably got to be this or that — I’ll have to choose. Max can’t have his
\ncake and eat it, too.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks to TVFilm411 for sending this article in. It appeared in national syndication last week. Dec. 10, 1999, 12:40PM Behr,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[2375,3],"tags":[13],"coauthors":[2266],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jason-behr","category-leading","tag-jason-behr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27848,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/27848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}