SDCC 2011: Fringe’s Joshua Jackson, Anna Torv, and More on Season Four!
Posted on August 4th, 2011 by Darcy
Fringe – one of the best shows currently on television – faced a number of huge hurdles last year: the war with our alternate universe got deadlier; Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson) was flung into the far future, then disappeared forever; but worst of all, the show was moved to the so-called FOX “Friday Night Death Slot.” Good news, though, the one-time procedural show about all things weird in science made it out of the death slot to run another season, which will launch this fall.
While at San Diego Comic-Con, we got to chat with the stars of the show, Anna Torv (Olivia Dunham), John Noble (Walter Bishop), Lance Reddick (Broyles), Jasika Nicole (Astrid), Blair Brown (Nina), and new full-time player Seth Gabel (Lincoln Lee). Oh, and also Joshua Jackson, who was there even though he clearly was gone forever in the cliffhanger. Hmmm…
First up were Torv and Noble, who may or may not have made your faithful reporter blush nervously when they turned the interview back on him, asking “who he was wearing,” and what it’s like to be on Fringe. Luckily, that wasn’t caught on camera, but we did chat with the actors about what it’s like to play three, entirely different roles on the series. For those of you who haven’t been watching so far, Noble plays the daffy Walter Bishop, the evil Walternate, and sometimes Walter before he had a piece of his brain sliced out; while Torv plays hard-nosed Olivia Dunham, her alternate universe double who’s a little bit looser, and – seriously – the spirit of Leonard Nimoy inhabiting Olivia’s body. It’s that kind of show, folks:
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