Thanks to RajiQ for this:<\/p>\n
All the Fun of the Fehr
\nTaken from Xpos\u00e9 Special #15,
\nDestiny 2001, available now<\/p>\nA teenager unconcerned with matters of destiny, Brendan Fehr plays Roswell’s alien bad boy Michael Guerin. Ian Spelling asked if he could crash at his place<\/p>\n
Brendan Fehr is not big on hyperbole. The actor, who co-stars as the human\/alien hybrid Michael Guerin on Roswell, resembles his character in that he\u2019s low-key, guarded and quick to tell it like it is. Ask him if he\u2019s been pleased with the sophomore season of Roswell and he replies with refreshing candor.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have ups and downs on any show, in terms of the grind of working in episodic television, good scripts versus bad scripts… and bad acting episodes for you versus good acting episodes,\u201d the actor says simply. \u201cAs far as other shows on TV and especially on The WB, I think we hold our own.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been a shakedown season for Roswell in several regards. Early second season episodes maintained the tone set by the first season\u2019s last half-dozen hours, which put the sci-fi intrigue and non-stop action at the forefront. As the current season progressed, however, the ratings dipped a bit, prompting writer-producer Jason Katims and his staff to revert to more character-driven stories.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we find a way to walk that fine line, sort of going back and forth between genres and intertwining them, that\u2019s when the show is at its best,\u201d notes Fehr. \u201cBut walking that fine line is an extremely tough job. They really don\u2019t work when we go overboard on one of the two, when we have either too much romance or too much sci-fi. When it\u2019s too much romance it sucks. When it\u2019s too much sci-fi I think it sucks. But when we do walk that line, it\u2019s a real fun show to watch. We\u2019ve got some episodes left to air and I think that the last couple of them will hopefully please both the people who like the romance and the people who like the sci-fi. And I think they will also please those of us who are involved in the making of the show.\u201d<\/p>\n
Those episodes might also answer the many questions fans are asking about the state of the Michael-Maria relationship. \u201cOur relationship kind of does come to a head,\u201d reveals Fehr. \u201cA decision is made by the end of the season as to what we\u2019re going to do about the relationship. I hope the fans appreciate what we did and how we did it. But the decision has been made. Hopefully the fans will be satisfied and enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fehr on the finale<\/p>\n
As Roswell hurtles toward the end of its second season, the threat of cancelation looms once again. It may take an up-tick in ratings for the last few episodes and another tidal wave of letters and Tabasco sauce to secure a third year for the series.<\/p>\n
The season (or is that series?) finale, Fehr reports, was shot in such a way that it doesn\u2019t answer all the lingering questions. \u201cIt leaves a bunch of things wide open, actually,\u201d notes the actor, currently on movie screens as a just-bitten vampire hunter in the JS Cardone-written and directed horror saga The Forsaken.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut that doesn\u2019t guarantee that we have a third season. That\u2019s not up to us at all. I think the writers have… assumed that there will be a third season, but just wrote it with the attitude, `If we don\u2019t, we don\u2019t; too bad.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Fehr is currently shooting a new movie, a period drama entitled The Wilderness Station, in his hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and will probably get word of The WB\u2019s decision to cancel or renew Roswell during production.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I\u2019d be ignorant to say whether or not we\u2019ll be back,\u201d Fehr concludes. \u201cThere are arguments for both, for coming back and for not coming back. Right now, with all the political stuff that\u2019s happening with Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Fox and The WB and contracts, we\u2019re a pawn in the whole thing. We\u2019re not the big man on campus in terms of being a [make-or-break WB] show. So we\u2019ll just sit and wait.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Full version of feature in the magazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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