Robert Knepper joins "Transporter 3"

Variety has confirmed that Jason Statham will reprise his role as Frank in Transporter 3, the next installment in EuropaCorp’s franchise.

He will reteam with co-star Francois Berleand, while Robert Knepper has joined the cast.

The film, which will be produced by EuropaCorp principal Luc Besson and Steve Chasman, will shoot for 16 weeks in Russia and France.

Source: Variety

Between Takes: Robert Knepper

Robert Knepper talks about the show and how he gets in character, he also thanks us guys for tuning in to watch Prison Break every week. Check it out. I know I say it everytime but, he seems a really great guy.

Apologies about that damn tag once again.

Robert Knepper Visits Local Hospital

Here is a new video of Robert Knepper between takes just before Christmas 2007 where he goes to visit some kids at a local hospital. Great guy. Check it out above.

Prison Break Super Bowl Commercial

Here is a hilarious video of Robert Knepper, Dominic Purcell and Amaury Nolasco in the new Super Bowl Commercial for Prison Break. Check it out.

Knepper: "That’s a great feeling — to affect people that deeply"

New York Entertainment recently spoke with the legend that be, Robert Knepper. He chats about playing T-Bag, driving a car, and the writer’s strike.

So what’s in store for T-Bag for the rest of the season?
Some of my friends have written me and said, “What’s going on with you, man? You had such an explosive first and second season, what’s going on?” I say, “Just wait, just wait. He’s still there.” T-Bag’s been doing the Iago thing for several episodes, lurking in the background, and I think you’re going to see him hop to the front pretty soon. Sorry, I lost my train of thought. I just got this new car. I’m learning how to drive it as I’m trying to talking to you.

Please be careful.
It would be a really good article. You could say, wow, I was interviewing Robert Knepper at the moment that he crashed into a telephone pole.

I really don’t want to do that article.
But you could be famous!

That’s okay. Do people ever get freaked out when they see you out and about?
One time I was at a hotel in Dallas waiting for the elevator, and the doors opened and there was this idyllic, blonde, blue-eyed couple — they looked like they were from, like, Denver. “Rocky Mountain High” should have been playing behind them. She’s kind of cooing in his ear, and she turns as the doors open and sees me and literally swallows a scream. And then she immediately turned beet red because she realized that I was the actor, not the character, obviously. That’s a great feeling — to affect people that deeply. At least they feel something. I just don’t like it when my little boy is bleeding and somebody comes up to me and says, “Do you mind if I get a picture?”

Did that actually happen?
It actually happened. Here in Dallas. We were by the pool, and he stumbled and fell right on his face. This lady came up to me right then, and I could have said, “Fuck off! Look at my kid!” but I was torn. Obviously my allegiance was with my boy. But I just said, “Just give me a minute.” When you’re an actor going from job to job, you start to think, maybe someday I’ll get a huge break and maybe not be a star but I’ll get to the point where I don’t have to struggle so much. And all of a sudden it happened for me — not in my 20s, but in my 40s — and I’m like, “Damn, man. This is so great.” So I’m not going to turn to that person who’s witnessing my kid’s nose bleeding and say, “Fuck off.”

Does it get weird sometimes — playing a total psycho and then going home and being a loving dad?
Well, I have that reentry period of driving home. You get home and it’s, “Papa, let’s play!” It’s the great equalizer. He is my life. I draw on that passion, that love, in a way, to play one of the most demented characters ever. I know it sounds like a dichotomy, but you’ll see: When you have a child, your work will get even better. You’re so focused. You really start to feel like, I would do anything, anything to protect my family. Including kill.

When is he going to be old enough to watch the show?
Oh, I don’t know. 35? No, maybe 12. I’m sure he’s going to be exposed to a lot worse by the time he’s 10. He’s going to look at it and say, “Oh please, Papa was playing a racist pedophile. That’s nothing!”

The writers’ strike interrupted the show mid-season. How’s that been?
Honestly, when the strike first happened, I thought, “Oh, thank God.” I did want a little break. But T-Bag is such a volatile, complex character, and the volatility has to be released so often, on a daily basis. Now, to not have that, it’s been a little bit of an implosion. I think my wife likes me a little more when I’m working.

The. Secrets. Are. Revealed.

TVGuide just posted this on their website. The article contains some spoilers for the rest of the season. I highlighted the main parts. Make sure you read it!

Even by Prison Break (Mondays, 8 pm/ET, Fox) standards, the plot twist that brought the fall mini-season to a close in November was a stunner. The seemingly saintly Whistler (Chris Vance), whom Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) had been trying to free from jail since the start of the season, appeared to be in cahoots with mysterious villain Susan (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe). The Whistler bombshell, coupled with the shortage of new programming due to the writers' strike, makes Prison Break's Jan. 14 return all the more enticing. A five-episode run (possibly more if the strike is resolved soon) will give audiences their escapist fix well into February sweeps.

Amaury Nolasco, who plays the loyal Sucre, says this season has offered an entirely different dynamic for him. "I'd never had more than two lines with [Dominic Purcell] the first season," he says. "This year, it's like we have a whole Danny Glover and Mel Gibson thing going on. With Wentworth, I used to say it was like The Odd Couple. With Dom, it's more like Starsky and Hutch." Just a more menacing version: Linc and Sucre plan what Nolasco calls an "explosive" end to Susan.

A lot happens in the next five episodes. Producers insist that, unlike Season 1, viewers won't have to wait until May for the inmates to escape: There will be a breakout from Sona, the treacherous Panamanian penitentiary — and not everyone will get out alive. Plus, the morally compromised Michael crosses a line when he purposely takes someone's life.

"Nobody's indispensable. I wouldn't be surprised if they killed off me or Wentworth or Dominic one day," Nolasco teases. "I open the script every week and wonder whether Sucre's still alive."

Even with a successful escape, Sona will con­tinue to be a key setting, with new inmates calling the lawless fortress home. "Once they break out, there are some main characters left behind in Sona," Purcell says. "There are some pretty big shocks. But the stuff in Sona has been highly entertaining and fun to watch, so [the pro­ducers] want to keep that alive."

While Prison Break has mostly avoided romance for two seasons, as clues to Whistler's past come to light, Lincoln and Sofia (Danay Garcia) will be drawn closer — which Purcell hopes might lead to a much-needed release.

"There is the smoldering possibility of Lincoln finally getting laid," he says. "Linc has been in prison and then on the road, and he's not so much as looked at a chick. I've talked to the writers about it, and they say they're gonna get to it."

The season "keeps getting better and better," promises Robert Knepper, whose Machiavellian T-Bag has taken a low-key approach so far this season. That, however, will change as well.

"In the last few moments of the [Feb. 18] episode you'll be saying, 'He's baaack!'" Knepper notes. "It's quite a ride to get there."

The episode, he adds, "has an incredible cliff­-hanger. But as much as people say they want to know what happens, they don't really because they want to watch it."

But Nolasco has a more practical reason for keep­ing mum: "I wish I could tell you about it, but then they would kill me off."

Source: TVGuide

'Prison Break' cast and crew give to Children's Medical Center

Until now, the cast and crew of the Dallas-filmed Fox show Prison Break have escaped the Writers Guild of America strike because there were already several scripts in the hopper when the writers hit the picket line.

But the last pages of the last script are being filmed now. At the end of this week, Prison Break production will shut down, the stars will go home and the crew will look for other work.

That's makes their recent generosity to Children's Medical Center all the more touching.

Renee Brown, wife of Prison Break producer Garry Brown , is a cancer survivor. For the second year, she organized a toy drive for kids being treated for cancer at Children's Medical Center.

That explains how T-Bag, one of the baddest villains on broadcast television, ended up handing out gifts on Monday at Children's Medical.

Actor Robert Knepper plays Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell on Prison Break. On Monday, he joined Prison Break intern Melissa Brown, daughter of Renee and Garry, for a trip to the hospital, where they handed out toys from the cast and crew to the young cancer patients.

"Everybody on the show was very generous," says Renee. "There were five bicycles. Someone gave $500 for DVDs to be shown in the infusion room while kids are getting treatment."

Renee adds that there will probably be another Prison Break toy drop this month, and she's already tapped show star Amaury Nolasco to make the deliveries.

Source: Dallas Morning News

Knepper Almost Didn't Make "Hitman"

The R-rated "Hitman" made a respectable $21 million over the Thanksgiving weekend, facing off against heavy competition from Disney's "Enchanted" and Paramount's "Beowul"f, both of which were aimed at families. Robert Knepper, who's best known as T-Bag on Fox's "Prison Break," plays Russian chief agent Yuri Marklov in 20th Century Fox's "Hitman" movie.

In fact, it was his work in "Prison Break" that sealed the deal, because his first audition was bad and he sent in a tape afterward that got him another look. When director Xavier Gens saw it was T-Bag, he said Knepper had to be in the movie. But with just two weeks to go from southern pedophile to Russian agent, Knepper had no idea Hitman was a videogame.

"Fox eventually told me about the 'Hitman' videogame, but I read the script and I honestly felt like I didn't need to see the game," said Knepper. "I didn't need to know anything about the videogame because everything that I felt as an actor that I needed to know about the story was in the script. It had a great beginning, middle and end, it had a great conflict, a great hero, and a great anti-hero."

Knepper said he loved that the script was filled with this charade and masking and keeps people guessing who's a good guy and who's a bad guy.

"The script was a great mixture of everything and there are people told me, 'Yeah, that is kind of like the videogame,' and I know there are millions of people that play these games, but I personally have never done it. I didn't immediately go, 'Oh yeah, that is Hitman' and then go play the videogame. I just had time to work on the damn dialect and get that thing going."

But Knepper did play videogames when he was younger like Pac-Man and Galaxian.

"They had pinball, Pac-Man and Galaxian at the student union at Northwestern University, and I was always there," said Knepper. "I loved that shit. I could play pinball for hours and I remember thinking, 'I've got to study,' but they were addictive and the student union was open late so I was always playing. I'd literally be drunk from playing it."

When asked if "Prison Break," the show he's been a part of for the past three years, would make a good videogame in the wake of other hit Fox shows like "24," "The Simpsons" and "Futurama" making the leap, Knepper said he'd heard there was already a game in the works.

"I don't think it's quite done, but I heard that on the wind last year that they were trying to do it," said Knepper. "You know the whole thing with an escape, they were working on a videogame where you plot your own escape from prison."

Knepper, who's nothing like the creepy character he plays on TV (he's married with a kid), is often surprised by how fans of the show react to him in person. He almost gave one lady, who was about to enter an elevator he was in, a heart attack. Other fans, some with kids, come up and embrace him. T-Bag has definitely made his mark on TV.

"I'm just a pig in shit about it right now about it because I'm just really happy, I'm particularly happy about 'Hitman' because I was starting to feel like, 'Oh no, I'm going to end up like that guy who gets famous from something and then they can't shake it.' People know you for that one character and that's it," said Knepper. "I'm like, 'No, wait a minute, I'm an actor. I've spent 20 years playing different characters, and now I'm gonna be relegated to traveling the country and doing county fair circuits in the summertime.' Then 'Hitman' came along and I was like, 'I'm going to go after that thing like I'm gonna die tomorrow, and if I don't get it, I'm gonna' go on.' I 'm so happy that I got it because even though he's a bad guy, he's just so totally different from T-Bag with the Russian accent and everything. It's just amazing."

Knepper also enjoyed his time opposite Timothy Olyphant, a fellow actor who also made a name for himself embracing a role on television. And if 'Hitman' continues to score at the box office, more movies could follow for both actors.

Source: Kotaku

Robert Knepper on Fox Red Eye News

Here is a new interview with Robert Knepper on Fox Red Eye News. Robert talks about his new movie "Hitman" as well as Prison Break. The interview also includes a spoilery scene of T-Bag beating up Mahone. Robert is a really funny and great guy. Who would know he and T-Bag are the same person? Definitely check this out!

(Apologies for the low quality and tags)

Knepper To Attend "Breakout Beyond" Convention

Awesome news, and I mean awesome! Prison Break's Robert Knepper and Veronica Mars starlet Kristen Bell will be attending the "Breakout Beyond" convention at the Thistle Hotel in Heathrow, England on June 13th (through till) June 15th 2008. Robert Knepper and Kristen Bell in London on the week of my birthday!? This can't be real? However prices are extremely steep. Here is some info:

A three day convention for fans of VERONICA MARS and PRISON BREAK featuring:

• guest talks
• photo and autograph sessions
• competitions
• parties
• and much more

Prices:

• £78.50 / $160 Adults
• £33.50 / $69 Children aged 14 and under
• Free Children aged 7 and under
• Ticket prices do not include meals or accomodations. Any children aged 14 or under MUST be accompanied by a responsible adult.

For even more information Click here.

I'll will definitely be keeping you updated on further developments.

Hollywood comes calling for Knepper

According to The Denver Post, Prison Break favourite T-Bag aka Robert Knepper is rumored to be playing the next Bond villain, co-starring with Hugh Jackman in the "X-Men" spinoff "Wolverine" and starring in a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds". Awesome, huh?

In a 20-year career, actor Robert Knepper has played everything from Julia Roberts' husband in Woody Allen's "Everyone Says I Love You" (1996) to Robert F. Kennedy in "Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot" (2001). But he didn't become famous until he created a murderous, racist pedophile named Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell on the television series "Prison Break."

Since then, oozing charm and menace in equal amounts, Knepper has captured audiences worldwide. Not only is he starring in a big Hollywood film, "Hitman," set to open on Wednesday, but also he is rumored to be playing the next Bond villain, co-starring with Hugh Jackman in the "X-Men" spinoff "Wolverine" and starring in a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" (1963).

What a difference a sneer makes.

Four months before becoming television's baddest dude, the 48-year-old Knepper feared that he would have to give up acting to support his wife and 5-year-old son.

"I tried to get a job teaching theater at UCLA, but I didn't have the right credentials," he says by telephone from his Dallas home. "I did get an offer from UCLA Extension, but it only paid $50 a week."

Meanwhile the producers of "Prison Break" were looking for, as Knepper puts it, "a 240-pound, stupid Southern hick with a gold tooth and tattoos" to play a convict named T-Bag. Didn't sound promising for Knepper, who is a slim 5-foot-9 and sounds like George Clooney when he isn't putting on a Southern drawl, but he saw possibilities. When he went in to audition, he threw them a curve ball.

"I wanted to charm the pants off them," Knepper says. "It's like, when you go out on a date, you don't say over the first drink, 'Wanna go home and ...?' How far would you get that way? Or 'Here's what's wrong with me.' You don't talk about negative stuff - if you want to get beyond first base, you've got to charm. For me it comes naturally, because I am more interested in other people."

He got the part, and then had to convince himself that he could do it.

"The first season I took a pen and put 'xoxoxo' around the middle finger of my left hand," he says. "(I thought) 'If I can just feel tough, I'll be OK."'

It worked. Knepper's portrayal of T-Bag was one of the most talked-about performances of 2005, and two years later audiences still seem to love the character, even though he's the kind of psycho who will kidnap the woman he loves and slaughter the veterinarian who reattached his severed hand.

"When I get my Oscar someday, I'll thank 'Prison Break,"' Knepper says. "It's what started this whole new chapter for me."

Don't forget guys, Robert has a role in the new movie "Hitman" which opens in US theaters on Wednesday!

Robert Knepper and Robert Wisdom at the Fox Fall Party!

Robert Knepper and Robert Wisdom in the TV Guide Photo Booth at the Fox Fall Party!

Robert Knepper in "Hitman"

Yeah yeah I know, off-topic, but to hell with that- this is Robert Knepper we're talking about!

Here is the official brand new international poster for 20th Century Fox's Hitman, coming to North American theaters on November 21 and to the UK on November 30. The action-thriller stars Timonthy Olyphant and Prison Break's Robert Knepper and is based on the video game. Co-stars include Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Ulrich Thomsen, Michael Offei and Lost's Henry Ian Cusick.

Click here to enter the official website and to watch the trailer for the new movie. Enjoy! Make sure you check the movie out when it hits theaters to support Robert if nothing else!

Knepper Cast In New Animated Movie

Prison Break's Robert Knepper has just been cast in a new animated feature based on a Gold Key Comics Title:

NEW YORK, October 23: Classic Media has acquired the international rights to Turok: Son of Stone, an animated feature-length film based on a Gold Key Comics title, for premiere at this year’s AFM.

The film is presented by The Weinstein Company and will be released on DVD domestically by Genius Products. First appearing in comic books in 1954, Turok’s dinosaur-hunting quests have previously been turned into a video game franchise that boasts more than 5 million units sold since the first game was introduced in the mid-90s. The new film draws on the original comic book, as well as influences ranging from Frank Miller to Akira Kurosawa, to create a dark, intense, epic retelling of Turok’s origin.

Classic Media picked up the rights to Gold Key Comics titles including Turok, Magnus Robot Fighter, Doctor Solar and M.A.R.S., in 2001.

Turok: Son of Stone is directed by Tad Stones, Dan Riba, Curt Geda, and Frank Squillace, and stars the voices of Adam Beach as Turok, Robert Knepper, Irene Bedard, Cree Summer and Graham Greene.

"We’re delighted to introduce the first Turok feature at this premiere global marketplace,” said Doug Schwalbe, the executive VP of sales and co-productions at Classic Media. “AFM is the ideal venue for the world premiere of Turok: Son of Stone."

Congrats Robert!

Source: WorldScreen

New Robert Knepper Interview!

Here is a new awesome interview with Prison Break's Robert Knepper, courtesy of Crave Online. Check it out below:

Crave Online: Were you worried they’d extradite T-Bag back to the states?
Robert Knepper: No, I gotta tell you, the writers are great. I think they would have let me know a couple weeks ahead of time at least. When I didn’t get any word of that at hiatus, I thought, “Yeah, he’s probably back.”

Crave Online: Will we find out why he was left in a Panamanian prison?
Robert Knepper: I don’t know if that’s resolved yet or not. We’re on episode seven. It seems pretty explained I think. “Well, you know, we had a red flag go off. You’re stuck down here. We’re not letting you out.” I don’t know if there’ll be any more talk about that or not. He’s just there and that’s it. He’s got to figure out if he’s going to live or die in that place.

Crave Online: Has he set his sights on any new prison buddies?
Robert Knepper: It’s funny because I went off to shoot something else over hiatus and I talk a lot about the show and I talk a lot about T-Bag. I got back thinking, “I don’t know how I’m going to be able to play this part because I’ve been talking about it so much that I’m going to be too objective now. I’m not going to be able to slip into the shoes.” The great thing about changing it up, to not have T-Bag be in a prison that he was the cock of the walk kind of “I Own This Part of the Prison, these are my boys, this is the guy that holds my pocket,” the great thing about it for the actor is that it’s okay to go off to shoot something else and talk about this character for a long time because he’s not in his shoes anymore. He’s not in a place that he knows. Just like after the first season of breaking out and the fact that we didn’t stay in Chicago which I really lamented because I love that town. It was my old stomping ground. To go to Dallas which was a totally new town, I’d never been there before, T-Bag’s out with all the other guys trying to survive. He’s living, he’s racing away from the cops, from the authorities. It was life imitating art because I was thinking, “I don’t know where anything is in Dallas. I got to set up a home for my family.” It was all juts part of the craziness. I’m driving in the morning to the set going, “I can’t find the set and I’m going to be late.” It would always feed into the work. Now, I’m in this prison. I got to figure out, no one’s going to hold my pocket, I don’t want anybody to hold my pocket in this prison. T-Bag’s kind of particular about the color of the skin he likes to hang around with. So all of those elements are great. There’s so much taken care of for me that all I have to do is be uncomfortable. I’ve spent the last six episodes trying to find out how to literally walk in these sandals, these Panamanian shoes that I had at the end of last season. All that new stuff is great. The fact that he’s unsettled is a good thing for me.

Crave Online: Do you speak any Spanish?
Robert Knepper: Yeah, I learned Spanish in high school. I don’t remember a lot of it for two reasons. I had a very, very cute Spanish teacher named Ms. Berman. Back in the ’70s, she wore the tightest pants that I think I’ve ever seen on a woman and I was 13 years old going blblblblblblblbl. She called me Robertito. I was her little Robertito. The second reason I don’t remember a lot of it is because I took French after that. I get it all mixed up, Spanish and French. But my little boy is actually teaching me more Spanish now than I ever thought I would know. Uno, dos, tres.

Crave Online: And your hair has gone back to normal?
Robert Knepper: Pretty much. Yeah, I think we sort of said, “You know what? The blonde was good while we were out on the run. But now he’s back in prison.” He could have it bleached. He could have it done but he’s got other more important things on his mind than doing his hair. I think actually I got a little bored with it myself.

Crave Online: Has the fake hand gotten easier to work with?
Robert Knepper: Yeah, we’re still waiting on the last hand to come in, the one that will go a little bit higher so who knows? Maybe T-Bag will eventually wear a T-shirt. Say the hell with it, I’m just going to expose the fact that I had my hand cut off. I’m in prison, who the hell cares? Right now the hand is still kind of short so I have to turn down. In big fight scenes, I’m always like, “Keep the hand over here” so I don’t have to expose it.

Crave Online: You can’t hit anyone with that piece of plastic.
Robert Knepper: Oh, you’d be surprised. I’ve got something planned. He’s going to give somebody a good wallop. It’ll be more like an embarrassing thing, just see him go badadada.

Crave Online: Has T-Bag been called to the yard yet?
Robert Knepper: He’s about to be. He’s about to be and he doesn’t want to be called because the guy that wants to fight him, you don’t want to fight this guy. He’s worse than T-Bag. When I first started the show, they said, “Beware the little guy.” The little guy in Cook County Jail, that was the guy who’d just walk right into razor blades. He wouldn’t care. The big guys are smart. They’ve had more history of fighting. T-Bag was always the scrapper probably. This guy in the prison, he’s also a scrapper so T-Bag knows, “Nah, I don’t want that.”

New Robert Knepper Interview

At FOX’s fall press junket, BuddyTV had the opportunity to sit down with Robert Knepper for an awesome interview. Check it out below:

Hi, this is John from Buddy TV, and I’m here with Robert Knepper from the hit FOX show Prison Break. Hi, Robert.

Hey, man.

That was easy. Now, do you enjoy playing such a bad character, just a complete villain?

I do. I enjoy the response I get from when I finish a take, and I see the camera guy, Billy Nielsen go, “Yeah, OK.” I crack ’em up or I scare ’em or something. But I gotta tell you, I don’t set out to play him being a villainous character, I set out to just fulfill the objective that the character’s trying to do in the moment. If he’s, say now in the third season, if he’s trying to figure out how he’s gonna climb up the ladder in Lechero’s world here at Sona prison, that’s his objective. He’s gonna do anything and everything to make Lechero trust him, and make him realize that he can be a confidant. I mean he’s basically going to be an Iago for Bob Wisdom’s Othello, so he’s gotta get Othello to believe that he’s trustworthy. That’s what I play, I don’t play, “Hmm, I’m gonna snarl and I’m gonna do these things.”

You don’t play him good?

No, I’m trying to play him bad. Although you know, I think T-Bag is smart enough to know that he’s doing something really dastardly. So the audience is kind of in on the whole thing of watching the machinations of this guy’s mind, so that’s kind of crazy to watch.

And in the second season, your character, when everyone was freed from prison they kind of got away. And you were off doing, and your character was doing your own thing. Do you enjoy the third season, kind of coming back to a prison setting and getting to work with like, the core group of actors all the time?

Two things: I love being back with my buddies, it’s reminiscent of that first season when we were all, two things were happening. We were discovering these characters, and we were celebrating the newfound success of this show. And that was great, to be able to share with fellow actors. “Hey, I got this letter. Oh, did you hear about our numbers last night? Can’t you wait to go to the People’s Choice Awards?”

I mean, all this stuff was happening the first year, it was really great. And the third year now, to sort of say, “Oh man, we’re back together.” I mean not all of us are together, some guys are still on the outside. Like Amaury is on the out, Sucre’s character or Sucre is on the outside, and I miss him. But luckily I get to see him at night a lot of the time.

But yeah, I also think the second level is good storytelling to have us all come back in that kind of environment we’re at in the first season. It’s not a safe environment, it’s not a clean environment. But it’s a prison and it’s a grittier reality than that first year’s prison, it’s also good that it’s not the same thing.

And on the set, if you’re not filming or you have some downtime, how do you fill up that time on the set? What do you do to relax?

You know that’s funny, the third season is even more a sense of family. Second season I’d hang out in my trailer a lot, if I didn’t have the chance to read or pay bills, I would hang out in the trailer. Now I gotta tell you that I love hanging out with my bros. Not just the acting bros, but the camera bros, the sound people, the hair and makeup department. We are all, we’ve known each other now, some of us for almost three years.

And it’s a great feeling to just be able to hang out, even if we’re just sitting in video village behind the monitors with the directors, who also again we know, because most of them have been there now for the second, third, sometimes fourth time around. You know, so, “Hey man, how you’ve been? What’ve you been doing the last several months that we haven’t seen each other?”

And talk with the camera guys, we have parties weekend. Willie is one of our favorite focus pullers shows up at the party, he’s got this white hat on, this kind of little gangster hat. He’s wearing sunglasses and one of the waitresses at this restaurant up on the lake says, “Hey everybody look, it’s Wentworth. Wentworth showed up at the party.” And it’s not Wentworth, it’s Willie, who is… we’re all great buddies.

Willie like Amaury is also Puerto Rican, just got this beautiful color of his skin, but he looks a little like Wentworth. And the lady there, the waitress turns to Billy Nielsen, the camera operator who’s helped throw the party and says, “You know, he looks a lot cuter on television, he looks a lot better.”

And I just know when we go to the set, when I get back on the set, everybody’s gonna rib Willie about this. And Willie’s a stud, man, he’s a gorgeous man to be compared to. And Went is amazing, beautiful on camera. So that kind of joking and that camaraderie, that’s gonna be fodder for several days.