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Posted: 28.05.2006 16:21

Er ist 37 und wird in 2 Monaten 38 biggrin

Und die Brille ist jetzt nicht sooo schlecht rolleyes

Regisseur Gender: Age: 42 Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1307

hihi,was hab ich da nur... wink

also ich finde halt hellere Brillen stehen ihm besser,nich so klobige Teile,leichtere passen besser zur Struppi-Frisur

Posted: 28.05.2006 20:28

ich finde die brille cool biggrin

passt zu ihm

Posted: 18.06.2006 23:27

TV Guide's Hot Men!

June 13, 2006

TV Guide's going for some hot fun in the summertime with its Hottest Men issue -- and on tonight's ET, we have your exclusive preview of the A to Z of it, actually the A to W of it as JENSEN ACKLES ("Supernatural"), JAMIE BAMBER ("Battlestar Galactica"), DAVID BOREANAZ ("Bones"), RICARDO ANTONIO CHAVIRA ("Desperate Housewives"), DAVID CONRAD ("Ghost Whisperer"), SCOTT FOLEY ("The Unit"), CARMINE GIOVINAZZO ("CSI: NY"), DANIEL DAE KIM ("Lost"), WENTWORTH MILLER ("Prison Break"), JESSE SPENCER ("House"), ISAIAH WASHINGTON ("Grey's Anatomy") and MICHAEL WEATHERLY ("NCIS") pose for photographer RODOLFO MARTINEZ for the issue on the stands Thursday, June 15.

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Posted: 18.07.2006 23:37

20 pics von einem NCIS Season 3 Photo Shooting auf mwf.com

Posted: 13.01.2007 17:08

TVGuide.com wrote:

Fine Weather-ly

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By Greg David

NCIS star Michael Weatherly riffs on the popularity of the CBS drama, his holiday out east, getting old in L.A., and the cut of Thomas Magnum's shorts

Michael Weatherly: I can't believe that we're finally talking!

TV Guide: Yeah, I feel like we're in a long-distance relationship.
MW: And I also feel like our communication skills aren't that great. Actually, my communication skills.

TVG: But, you have a job that requires you to be on-set, what, 12 hours a day or so?
MW: Yesterday was a nice 16-hour day...

TVG: So you have an excuse. You've been busy.
MW: Yeah, but I get to work with [co-star] Cote de Pablo.

TVG: That's true. It must be tough working with her every day.
MW: I have some friends in New York who aren't in the entertainment industry - they've been my friends for 30 years - and any time I start to complain about my lot in life and how I have no schedule, I can't make plans, I can't see my son, one of them will say "Boo-hoo, go cry in a bag of money." And the other says, "Yeah, Weatherly, you've worked with Denise Richards, Christina Applegate, Jessica Alba and Cote de Pablo... what are you doing?" Luckily, I have friendly reminders.

TVG: It's nice to have people who keep you grounded.
MW: Yeah, it's like the guy up in the space module who says "Oh, I haven't been on earth in so long..." and the guy at mission control says "Listen you @#$%, you're one of two dozen people who have been up in space, take in the view!"

TVG: Was yesterday your first day back on the set?
MW: It was, and it's a little tough to get back into the character of Tony after the time off. He feels a little snug sometimes.

TVG: So when you're away from the set, you drop all ties with the character and the show?
MW: When I'm gone, I'm not even in Hollywood. I'm out, but I've never been very good at Hollywood anyway. Some actors create not only the character that they play [in a show, or movie], but another character that they play in Hollywood. I'm pretty sure that the people you see wandering around, in the tabloids every day, going to clubs at night, I think they're creating an image that in some way is fascinating to the general public ... like a Paris Hilton or something. I'm only in favour of creating a character that's on a set.

TVG: So how then do you deal with living and working in Hollywood?
MW: I might as well be living in Montana. I've got some good friends... but let's be honest - I'm old. I'm 38.

TVG: Dude, what? You're old?
MW: Well, by Hollywood standards...

TVG: Oh....
MW: I cannot be sitting up at the Roosevelt Hotel, by the pool, smoking a joint with a musician from a pop band, waiting for my 4 a.m. set call. I know there are people that are capable of doing that, but I'm not. I'd rather read a book and fall asleep.

TVG: You sound like you're ready to star in a CBS holiday TV-movie.
MW: Listen, I am always ready to star in one of those. I'm wrapped in little flashing lights and fuzzy little snow feathers...

TVG: Did you have a good holiday? Did you come back east?
MW: I did. I did some press in France for the show because NCIS is enormously successful overseas, so that was a four or five-day junket. Then I collapsed in a heap in my father's house in Connecticut and spent two days sort of locked in my room upstairs, with my father and stepmother occasionally knocking on the door and asking if everything was OK...[laughs] I was staring at the wall like a cat. But then I recovered, and I bought a motorcycle for Christmas ... a 1973 BMW motorcycle. I rode that around and fulfilled all my Steve McQueen fantasies. Then I went into Manhattan for the New Year's Eve celebration, which was excellent.
And then the day I left to come back here, it rained, like the sky was crying...

TVG: Because you had to leave?
MW: No. Because whenever I have to travel it either rains, snows or hurricanes. If I ever have to get into a plane, it's never blue skies.

TVG: You mentioned going on the junket in France. How bizarre is it to have NCIS loved overseas like that?
MW: It's interesting. We have headslapping on our show. Gibbs likes to headslap DiNozzo, DiNozzo in turn headslaps the probie. I like to think that the French really find that amusing, the physical comedy. They like the Jerry Lewis, and I think that somehow ... there's doesn't seem to be as much of a crime-drama glut over there that there is here.
Here, there's everyone fighting for their little niche. There's Without a Trace, Cold Case, all the CSIs, Criminal Minds... you can go on an on. It's hard to figure out which show is which.
If I'm explaining to someone what I do, when I say that I work on a TV show, they ask which show. I go, "You might know it ... NCIS." And they stare at me. Then I say "It's one of the crime shows," and they say "Oh, like CSI!" and I say "Well, it's the one with Mark Harmon." And then they say "Oh right! The Navy one!" When in fact we're not in the Navy, I don't walk around wearing a Navy outfit, and we haven't been on an aircraft carrier in four years ... I think Law & Order goes on more aircraft carriers than we do at this point.
So, there's the one with David Caruso, the one with William Petersen, the one with Gary Sinise, the one Anthony LaPaglia, the one with Mandy Patinkin, and we're the one with Mark Harmon.
I like to think that we have the best one because... and are you ready for my "because..."?

TVG: Hit me.
MW: This is why NCIS is the best show on television. OK. No. 1: It's from the guy who made Magnum P.I. It's from the loins ...

TVG: Oooo...
MW: ...of Magnum P.I. This is the illegitimate child of Tom Selleck ... of Thomas Magnum.

TVG: OK...
MW: It means we're hairy, we wear tight shorts and Hawaiian shirts and we drive cars we shouldn't be driving. We have a silliness about us. But seriously. On the other shows, you have the main group sitting in a meeting area, discussing the case, and everyone is very earnest. On our show, any earnestness is followed with mockery. On Magnum, Higgins was very earnest, and Thomas mocked him. You know, "Zeus! Apollo!" and you wondered if Magpie was going to make it to the Ferrari, or was he gonna get stuck with the Audi?
And on NCIS, I believe, we like the decoys and the red herrings, but I think unlike most shows we're like a romantic comedy. We get to do everything from romantic banter to full-on slapstick comedy.
Our show is a stoner treat that has yet to be discovered by the stoners...

TVG: What?! OK...
MW: You wouldn't think "NCIS, oh, I'm gonna get stoned and watch that." But guess what? If you're not terminally ill and using medical marijuana... you can have a bottle of wine, or take a horse tranquilizer.

TVG: You've really thought this out.
MW: Well, I have lived in Canada - I know what your readers want to read. So, NCIS is an undiscovered country for most people, because they assume it's another show about investigating crimes and the Navy. I am looking forward to six or seven years from now, when the show is airing at 11 o'clock at night, and people can come home from working at Target, take that roach out of the ashtray, fire it up... and they'll be channel surfing and they'll say "What the F is this? This is good!"
On the flip side, I've watched Dark Angel here on the Sci-Fi network, and it falls flat.

TVG: Really?
MW: Yeah, to me. It's just so s-l-o-w and it seems so s-e-r-i-o-u-s.

TVG: After four seasons on NCIS, do you have wanderlust? Do you want to leave?
MW: I have to say that the character, despite him being a tight fit and me having to ramp myself up to play him, I'm very fortunate. I have this character that's really fun to play, and it would be hard to imagine voluntarily putting a fork in him. But I'll so some other things. I've done some little things, and I will continue to do little things until I'm unemployed and have to do the next big thing.

Published: Monday, January 8, 2007

Posted: 21.01.2007 00:55

mwf.com wrote:

HOLIDAYING in France over Christmas, the actor who stars as NCIS's Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo, was constantly greeted by adoring fans of the show.

"There were a lot of people pointing and going 'DiNozzo ha, ha. I love him , he's crazy'," Michael Weatherly says in his best French accent. "Then they wanted to slap me on the back of the head."
The French, it turns out, appreciate DiNozzo's penchant for physical theatrics. Don't forget, the French love Jerry Lewis. They love that physical slapstick style of comedy. So DiNozzo strangely resonates with the French people.

Australian viewers don't mind him either with an average of 1.32 million watching each week. The show began as a spin-off of Channel 7's now defunct JAG in 2003 and Weatherly can recall when it was in its infancy and without any sort of identity.

"They (CBS, the US network that produces the program) initially thought we were the Navy show. When we went to have our picture taken they came in and said 'OK, Navy people, put your Navy uniforms on.' We said 'We're not in the Navy, we're civilians with the Department of Defence. We're Feds, baby.'

"One of the mistakes people make is assuming that it's another sober good guys versus bad guys crime-based drama. It's not.

"We don't pledge allegiance to the flag of America at the beginning of an episode and we don't end singing cheesy songs about going to war," Weatherly says. "It is a very irreverent, weird show. In the first couple of years I think we had almost a dozen lesbian serial killers. I challenge you to find a show that has that number of serial killers."

Moreover, it's a show which relies heavily on interaction between its characters.

For the first three seasons, team leader Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) was the father figure, keeping the others from squabbling, says Weatherly.

There's the grandfather in Dr Donald "Ducky" Mallard (David McCallum) and goth cousin in Abby Sciuto (Pauley Perrette).

"We have a strange family dynamic. It's more like a workplace comedy than a drama. We could be working for a phone company or a radio station and we would have the same hierarchy."

But with season three ending with Gibbs's dramatic retirement, DiNozzo must now take on the leadership role.

"I think that niggling away at Tony is this notion that he knows he is not Gibbs and that while others see his potential to lead his own team, I don't think Tony is quite as confident as people see him."

Yet Weatherly says he was attracted to DiNozzo because it was a break from the vulnerable characters he was used to.

"I wanted to play him because he was brash and arrogant and didn't think at all about his emotional world. He's a lot of fun. He doesn't care what you think about him. He thinks he is a shark but he doesn't realise he's a goldfish."

Posted: 21.02.2007 14:45

MeeVee wrote:

MeeVee Exclusive! Interview with NCIS Star Michael Weatherly, Part I

On NCIS, Michael Weatherly plays Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo, an ex-homicide detective, whose snarky fratboy ways are forgiven only because of his superior skills in the field. Although Michael denies many similarities to his character DiNozzo, we found him to be just as snarky as his onscreen persona.

In Part I of our two-part series of interviews with the former Dark Angel star, we uncover some juicy details about the show and Michael himself, including DiNozzo's inevitable consummation with Ziva, transitioning from JAG to NCIS, and his somewhat unlikely conspiracy theories regarding the Fonz and Mrs. C.

How much do you identify with your character?
Well, you have to understand who you’re talking to while I’m at work, because I’m technically in character. You are talking to a version of DiNozzo. The answer to that question is alarmingly simple -- I’m sure I’m a little bit like him. He carries a gun, but I have an eleven–year-old son. He doesn’t have an eleven-year-old son, and I don’t carry a gun. Maybe that’s the better way of putting it.

Do you ever take DiNozzo's snarkiness home with you?
I takes me a little while to wind down, because clearly he has a lot of energy, which is nice. But as we get a little later on in the season, I’m getting a little tired spending this much time with DiNozzo. I’m always ready for my hiatus when it comes.

What kind of things do you do on your hiatus? Do you work on other projects or relax?
I do try to work on other things, but I also try to travel and see the friends and family -- the people in my life that I don’t see when I’m in the vacuum of my work schedule. That doesn’t include my eleven-year-old, who I don’t get to see as much as I’d like. I have weekends, basically. There’s always work if it’s there. And I love going to Europe.

Tell me what the transition from JAG into NCIS was like.
That was a very strange thing. [JAG was] in their eighth season, and they had a very set way of doing things. They had a very set way of telling their story, and our story was totally different. I think [Executive Producer] Don Bellisario really wanted, in his creation of NCIS, to shake it up quite a bit. We were coming in, and we didn’t really know what the heck was going on, and all I really remember from that was we wore these really dorky hats that said NCIS. It had enormous lettering across the bill. That was the moment where I looked at [Mark] Harmon, and he was wearing that stupid hat, and I said “That looks really stupid on you,” and he goes, “Yeah? Well, imagine how stupid it looks on you.”

Did anything else change?
The head slap didn’t come until the beginning of the first season. And by head slap, I’m referring to the loving slap that Gibbs gives Tony, and then Tony in turn hands down.

What makes NCIS different from the legion of other crime shows on TV?
Well, I think it’s earnest. A lot of shows out there are sort of grim and dour and take themselves really seriously. This is a show that’s got a little bit of Drew Carey in it. It’s not afraid to be silly. It’s not vain -- the shooting style of our show isn’t to wear dark circles under our eyes, you know. I’m over the top, but I think there are a lot of people that are over the top in real life, especially people that are office-confined like the squadron that we have on NCIS. Everyone has that manic, irritating sly character at their workplace that they just wish would shut up. Presto-oingo-boingo, there’s Tony DiNozzo.

DiNozzo is one of those people who feels the need to share every minute detail of his life. Are you like that, or are you secretive?
I oscillate my secrets with lies. [laughs] I mean, it’s never a good idea to go on and blab as much as Tony does. I think Tony doesn’t spend a lot of time thinking things. He’s not a very profound guy. I don’t think he sits and watches Woody Allen movies and thinks about death a lot. But this season I think he’s had lessons in love and death, to use a Woody Allen title.

DiNozzo seems to embody all things Fratboy. How about you? Did you join a fraternity in college?
No, but DiNozzo was. DiNozzo went to Ohio State. He was a Buckeye, and played football and basketball. Very athletic, Tony DiNozzo -- very unlike Michael Weatherly.

Do you find yourself getting more recognized for NCIS, or for Dark Angel?
Oh, NCIS, definitely. Worldwide, both shows found massive audiences, but this one now has been around twice as long as Dark Angel was. And I think that this character, DiNozzo, is more dynamic and stronger. I’m really enjoying the strength of it. Logan was a very passive character.

Can you give us any hints about surprises coming up during sweeps?
I can! Well, because we have our man, the show’s creator, Donald Bellisario, who is our master -- he plants seeds and always has a sense of the big picture. Sweeps is always a prime opportunity for the first harvest of those seeds that were planted early on. What we have happening in February is that some of those secrets -- this is the season of secrets after all -- some of the secrets are revealed.

Sounds interesting. What kind of secrets?
There’s a secret mission that Tony, my character, is involved in that nobody knows about. That comes out -- there’s some information about that. We have everybody’s favorite mambo king appearing in the first episode of sweeps, as a kingpin bad guy who is related not only to some of the operations that we’ve been doing in the past year, but also, I believe, points toward the season finale. So not only are we finishing up some of the stories, or revealing some of the secrets, we’re also beginning the sweep towards the finale. I think this year is going to be huge, from what I’ve understood.

Are Tony and Ziva going to consummate their relationship?
Both Ziva and Tony are gonna have a big month in February. Both of them experience death -- someone close to them -- and they both experience love. And it just happens that Valentine’s Day falls right in the middle of that.

How convenient.
Well, yeah. From Groundhog Day right up until Valentine’s Day to the end of February.

There's a long history of sexual tension between couples on TV. If you had to choose between the following couples, who would you pick and why? Mulder and Scully; Jim and Pam on The Office; Mrs. C. and the Fonz.
I’m going to go with the Fonz and Mrs. C., just because I think clearly that was boiling under the whole time. Have you thought about Happy Days as an adult? Now, you’ve got the Fonz, who’s clearly like a 30-year-old motorcycle-riding guy, who lives above the garage of a family with two teenage kids. And the teenage kids hang out with this 30-year-old man all the time? The Fonz would be the first one on a suspect list for anything fishy that happens in Milwaukee. Even his catch phrase -- "Ayyyyyyy!" -- with his two thumbs outstretched. Now, in ancient Rome and Greece, the outstretched thumb was a phallic symbol. He’s doing double thumbs. There’s something strange, homoerotic, double phallic -- accompanied by the sound "Ayyyyyyy!" When someone gives you a thumbs-up, that originated like a fertility symbol -- may your thumb be strong. May you get your thumb up, so to speak.

There was also, from Welcome Back, Kotter -- there was always a strange thing between Horshack and Vinnie Barbarino. Captain Stubing [on The Love Boat]... now you’ve got me going on this.

What are your favorite TV shows?
NCIS, Dark Angel. Jessie, Significant Others. Extras -- that Ricky Gervais thing? I love that show, that makes me laugh quite a bit. And of course, The Office. You know, Rome is great.

Posted: 21.02.2007 14:48

MeeVee wrote:

MeeVee Exclusive! Interview with NCIS Star Michael Weatherly, Part II

In Part II of our exclusive interview with NCIS star Michael Weatherly, we learn much about the man behind the dorky hat -- mainly about his hearty appetite for independent films. Michael also shares the scoop on what really went down on the set of Dark Angel.

You’re in your trailer right now. What’s around you -- what do you see?
Ah, I’ve got a picture of a sunset, or sunrise -- hard to tell from the photo -- from the Australian Network Ten that airs our show, and it’s a man going for a swim on the Bronte Beach in Sydney. So I’ve got a beautiful photograph of a beach. I’ve got my movies all around me.

Which movies?
[Laughs]. Well, let’s see what inspiration I’ve got. Band of Outsiders -- Jean-Luc Godard. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton -- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Really, that’s what fuels the whole DiNozzo/Ziva attraction. I’ve also got Roman Polanski’s Macbeth. The first season of Extras.

Did you see the David Bowie episode yet?
Yeah. [Sings] “Pudgy little fat man... who sold his soul.” I’ve got Scoop, because my on-going fascination with Scarlett Johannson cannot be satisfied. Factotum, which is a Matt Dillon / Lili Taylor film -- a little IFC movie, very good. I’ve got The Hunt for Red October, because at the beginning of the year I always like to do my best Alec Baldwin impression. I’ve got Chinatown. And then Wuthering Heights.

Wow, that is some collection!
[Continues] Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes. Well, that’s just the trailer, but you know, you need to have some inspiration. From Godard to Woody Allen, from Polanski to Ricky Gervais.

It’s like a mini film school in your trailer.
[Laughs] This is the best gig because, you know, there are parts of DiNozzo that could have come from me a little bit. The obsession with film references, and certainly the appreciation for a good cheeseball comic moment.

Right. Any cheeseball comedies?
I do have Drop Dead Gorgeous, because of Scottie Thompson, who plays my love interest on the show. I don’t know what she was trying to tell me when she gave me Drop Dead Gorgeous. I gave her Sexy Beast, so maybe that’s how we were communicating to each other.

Let's talk about Dark Angel. I was really a fan of that show, and it’s great that it’s been resurrected on SciFi.
See now, when I was doing Dark Angel and would do an interview, they would say, "What do you have in common with the character?" They would think that I was a lot like that character. [But] if you put Logan Cale in the same room with Tony DiNozzo... I mean, it’s almost, like, impossible to think that they would even be related.

What would happen in that situation? Would it be a grudge match?
I think DiNozzo would be talking quite a bit. I think that Logan would be cleaning his glasses, and occasionally sighing heavily and looking at the door, hoping that his genetically engineered super-friend would come in and hurt the irritating man. It would be an interesting. Of course, Logan was about 20 pounds skinnier than DiNozzo.

Logan was one of the first mainstream TV characters that we’d seen in a wheelchair. What was the response like from the paraplegic community?
Well, there was Ironside, back in the '60s. Raymond Burr was a detective in a wheelchair. And that’s why they called him Ironside, because on the side of his chair were these iron wheels. But I did get a lot of feedback. For instance, there was one episode where I was playing basketball in my wheelchair, and they had a great stunt double for me. I had to actually go out and play with these really talented basketball players, who were wheelchair-bound. And, oh my God, they kicked my ass.

Like Murderball.
It was pretty serious. During the break and shooting, they surrounded me because they were very pleased that there was someone on television showing their struggle, I guess, with things. So I was going to work and stay in the wheelchair and try and roll around all day, and you realize that the world is not made for rolling around -- there are cables and things. Try going upstairs -- you have to go up backwards. They were very happy that I was with Jessica [Alba], because that also seemed to make everyone happy.

Do you feel comfortable talking about Jessica?
I haven’t spoken to her in a couple of years, and I have no contact with her, really. Any insight that I could offer would be outdated, I guess.

But Dark Angel brought you into the mainstream spotlight. Right?
That job did, absolutely. Dark Angel was really the beginning of working for me, really regularly, on nighttime television. It was Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride.

How did you handle the overnight success?
I’m probably much more comfortable with it now. Initially, it’s just all very strange, and I don’t think I had very good sense of humor about everything. I think I took things a little personally. Now I understand that it’s just cannon fodder. When I began with Dark Angel, I really wanted to do it right. I really wanted to answer correctly and everything. It’s not that I care less now, or cared more then, it’s just that I think I feel a little differently about the whole enterprise.

Were you satisfied with the way Dark Angel ended?
I was pretty satisfied, in a way, because we did two seasons. The first season was so much different than the second season, and it did resolve with James Cameron directing the last episode and a half, sort of Titanic-sized television. It was great to work with him, because he comes from a cinematic universe. It felt like there was resolution there, even though it was clearly supposed to be going into a third season.

In the second season we had a lot of monsters, almost like the freak of the week and all of that kind of stuff. It got away from the quest of the first season, where Max was searching for her siblings. There was this sense that ultimately she would find her siblings, and that never really worked. That never really happened.

Do you ever run into any of the Dark Angel cast?
I ran into John Savage the other day in a restaurant, and we were talking about it. You know, he just kind of disappeared in an episode, like over the ledge in a car. He was our main bad guy, and there was a shift on some level at the network or among the writers, I don’t know, but the whole story shifted. I think, ultimately, that it’s okay that it went away. Especially in the beginning, man, we had so much fun figuring that thing out.

It’s a great show, I enjoyed it. I was very hooked on the first season, with Jessica trying to find her siblings.
I loved figuring [Logan] out, with the little glasses and the hair, locked away in his little apartment up at the top of this -- you know.

There’s a ton of fan sites about you that get updated very regularly. Do you ever interact with your fans online?
I never do that, but I would and I should, and I will. How 'bout that?

Posted: 20.04.2007 19:25

Part 1 of a triptych of short, cubist character studies. Featuring Michael Weatherly, Rosario Dawson, Julian West.

on YouTube

Bin noch nicht ganz dahintergestiegen, was es sein soll, ist irgendwie verstörend und faszinierend zugleich. rolleyes

Posted: 05.05.2007 18:55

Michael bei einem Fotoshooting in Paris für das CBS Watch! Magazin

Die restlichen Bilder findest du hier , das Interview hier auf WeatherlyOnly

Darsteller Gender: Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 596

Recht Businessmäßige Fotos, gefallen mir, da schaut er echt gut drauf aus!

... und das von einem Mann wink

Danke eilien smile

Posted: 08.05.2007 15:00

Hamish & Andy caught up with Michael Weatherly, star of TV's NCIS, fresh from his appearance at the Logies.

Audio Interview #1
Audio Interview #2

lach

MfG

Maestro

Posted: 08.05.2007 17:10

"Dann bin ich mit meinem Bart in einer Kehrmaschine stecken geblieben" lach

Fotos vom roten Teppich der Logie Awards

Foto1
Foto2
Foto3

Posted: 12.05.2007 18:45

2Day FM's Kyle & Jackie O Show Interview lach

MfG

Maestro

Posted: 12.05.2007 19:11

Maestro wrote:

2Day FM's Kyle & Jackie O Show Interview lach

Ziemlich lustiges Interview. Nur leider mal wieder stellenweise etwas schwer verständlich. Jedenfalls sagt Michael erneut, dass, als er Jessica bei den Logie-Awards über den Weg lief, beide nur ein "awkward hello" hatten. Und dann lästern doch Michael und die Moderatoren tatsächlich über Jessica. Wenn ich mich nicht verhört habe, sagte Michael, dass Jessica zwar "lovely" aber "cruel" sei, weil sie nicht nett zu älteren Leuten sei... biggrin

Posted: 12.05.2007 19:13

Jo, das war mal wieder typischer MW-Humor, aber das mögen wir ja so an ihm. lach

MfG

Maestro

Posted: 13.05.2007 00:07

Natürlich meint er das nicht ernst biggrin

Generell wurde er in Australien jetzt sehr häufig auf Jessica und ihre Trennung angesprochen, und hier sieht man z.B. auch, dass ihm das ein wenig unangenehm ist.

Michael onstage at the Logies lach

Posted: 13.05.2007 00:25

Hehe, das ist schon ein ganz ... Maybelline ... lustiger Typ. wink

EDIT: Oh man, der Auftritt in der Show ist ja klasse. *rofl2*

Hatten wir die Folge mit den Haaren schon?

MfG

Maestro

Posted: 13.05.2007 00:35

Ja, in der dritten Staffel, die Folge heisst "Bärenjäger" (Ravenous)

Posted: 13.05.2007 10:17

Oh, Mann! Michaels Auftritt bei den Logie-Awards war ja wirklich göttlich! Einfach zum kaputtlachen! *kaputtlach2*

Ich hätte nie gedacht, dass Michael so ein schlagfertiger Scherzkeks ist. (Oder meint ihr der Dialog war im Detail einstudiert? Wirkte jedenfalls überhaupt nicht so.)

PS: Die alte Bärenjäger-Folge kannte ich übrigens auch schon. Immerhin sind wir mittlerweile schon in Staffel 4.

Darsteller Gender: Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 596

Sehr cooler und humorvoller Auftritt, so locker und spontan, was ich auch glaube... sowas einstudieren und so rüberbringen? Das kann kein Mensch, also wird es echt sein biggrin

Guqqt man sich gerne öfter an smile

Posted: 19.05.2007 19:28

Channel 10 Mini-Interview lach

Posted: 04.06.2007 19:15

Michael spricht u.a. über seinen Aufenthalt in Australien, seine Ex-Verlobte Jessica Alba, seinen Sohn August und seinen NCIS Charakter Tony Dinozzo.

ninemsn.com.au wrote:

Five minutes with... Michael Weatherly, star of NCIS

You're in Sydney for the TV Week Logie Awards and a slew of press commitments for NCIS. How's it going?
I'm having an amazing time. The flight alone [from LA] is so much fun. I'm a fan of the plane wine. [Laughs.] So it's been an absolutely wonderful time. Hamish and Andy — I love them. I had so much fun meeting them backstage [at the Logies] and then doing their radio show the next morning. I was exhausted, but they carried me through. And I have to say a slew of other people that night were so much fun. Fifi Box has more energy than a hurricane. It's been extraordinary. And yesterday I had a great big walk through Sydney with my niece [Alexandra Breckenridge].

She lives here?
No, my niece came with me. She's my sister's kid — but she's not a kid, she's 24. She's an actress on a show called Dirt in the States so, in her own right, she's a force to be reckoned with. But we see the world the same way. She's very cool.

So you're having a break from work for a few months?
Yes, on hiatus for two months. It's going to be nice to take a little break.

What will you do once you leave Australia?
I'm going to see The Police in Vancouver, they're starting their world tour there and I'm so psyched. And Vancouver is a city I lived in for a few years doing [TV series] Dark Angel and I haven't been back. So I'm going to stay in the old hotel that I used to stay in during shooting, see some old friends and I'm very excited about that. Then it's my father's 75th birthday in Connecticut and I'm going to take my son [11-year-old August] to that. And then my son will come down with me to Jamaica, if he'll fly. He's been watching Lost and now he doesn't want to fly! Especially Sydney to LA — it's the flight that will go down.

We hear you work ridiculous hours on NCIS. Is it hard to create family time with your son because of that?
It's really hard. It takes its toll. Fortunately August's mother [actress Amelia Heinle] works on a daytime soap in LA called The Young And The Restless and she just got married to a lovely guy named Thad Luckinbill. And so August has a really solid home there, and I get my weekends when I'm there. We go to basketball games and we make home movies and go for hikes but, yeah, it is hard. It's not ideal.

I guess you work hard at your career to ensure your child's future, but then it's finding that balance to spend the time with them too?
It's a little like being in the military — although nothing that noble!

Any parent working hard to create a career could identify, though...
Yeah, I guess. I'll get home at five in the morning on Saturday having started the week Monday morning at 6am. So Saturday and Sunday is my time to spend with my family. But it's also my time to reload, just recover from exhaustion. So, if I don't get a few hours sleep on that Saturday before I get August, then I'm dragging my feet with him. Again, I don't see a way around it, I just try to let him know as much as possible that he is loved. And I haven't made any more children because I didn't know when I was 26 that this was so hard. When I was 26 I kind of figured, "Hey, you just do it." I mean, God, the ignorance of youth.

Fatherhood is great, though?
Oh it's wonderful. I mean, I'd love to have more children. But I tell you, dating is really hard because I work all week and then weekends, I want to see my son. I mean, sometimes there's press and stuff on the weekends that you can't do during the week and I got to bed at around seven or eight on Sunday night. So I have Saturday night. It's my one night. And I have four Saturdays a month. And two of those I have August. So I only have two nights to go out on a date. And usually one of those nights I want to see my friends. So its like, "What girl is going to go out one night a month with you? Who's going to put up with that?" It was easy doing Dark Angel and going out with Jessica [Alba] because obviously we worked on the same show and we lived together and that works. But it's hard when that ends. But I remember once I was working in Australia and Jessica was doing Honey in Toronto and she's at the MTV Australia Video Music Awards and, you know...

How was it seeing her again at the TV Week Logies?
I hadn't seen her for a couple of years. It had been years since I'd talked to her. And, yeah, it was interesting to have that moment of, "Oh, how are you?" when you see someone that you've spent a great deal of time with. I mean, we spent a few years together, but we spent an intense amount of time together. And you don't catch up on that in a fleeting moment on the red carpet.

How did you approach it then?
I said whatever I said, probably, "You’re doing great." Or "Good onya!" And she said, "Shut up" and hit me in the arm. No, it was nice to see her. Clearly it was a long time ago and there are no ghosts. It's not a haunted area. At least for me. it's not — I can't speak for her, but I don't believe it is. She's in a very happy relationship and has moved on. But because [our meeting was] attended by a certain amount of curiosity that does heighten it in an unusual and awkward and false way. Really, if you were just walking down the street and you bumped into your ex at the mall it would be more like, "Oh, hey." But when you're backstage at an awards show in a foreign country and everybody's watching and then you get asked about it on the couch with Hamish and Andy and then Fifi Box asks you about it onstage — is there any clean way out of that? Probably not. But I look forward to seeing what she's going to do with her career.

Do you read your own press?
I try not to look at any press. Initially I looked just to make sure I didn't do anything dreadful. I mean, I have learned a couple of things not to talk about. As it goes there are a few, "Boohoo, go cry in a bag of money" stories. Like, "Are you kidding me? Are you actually moaning about this?" Talking about working long hours and blah blah blah is a dangerous thing to get into because I'm living a dream life with a dream job and, even though there are some downsides, it's amazing. Especially being on a show like NCIS that's actually really well received around the world. It's a charmed little time and I cherish it. I know that it goes away, so I don't pretend to be in charge of it anymore. It just happened. It's like a beautiful day, it could rain tomorrow, but I am enjoying the weather right now.

Sydney must be sentimental for you because you landed the job on NCIS when you were here a few years back...
That's right. I was staying at the Quay Grand Hotel in Circular Quay. My agent called me from the States and said, "Look out the window. See the Park Hyatt right across? That's where [NCIS creator] Don Bellisario is staying. Call over there and see if you can get him." So I called the Park Hyatt and asked for Don Bellisario's room and they actually put me through. Then there was a very funny conversation where he didn't quite understand who I was or why I was calling, but he invited me to dinner after I explained that I was an actor, working with Peter Bogdanovich on a TV special in the city, and had heard he was here and wanted to meet him. So it was all rather unorthodox and it continued along those unorthodox lines. But we got along famously and in the end he said, "I think you should be Tony DiNozzo."

Did you have a hand in creating the way Tony is onscreen?
The character that existed on the page was very different in the beginning and even at the time Don kept saying to me, "I don't know where this character is going." So we worked really hard the first year to try to find DiNozzo. And boy, did we find him. [Laughs.]

How did that happen for you?
It was kind of a slow boil. Filmmaking is a collaborative thing — there are 20 people directly involved in making sure things go smoothly in a scene and you can screw all of them up with one scratch of a microphone, by going off your mark, by turning out of the light. And I've always been the kind of [person] who wants to make sure everyone's happy. I decided to approach this job — not to p**s everybody off but, again, I didn't warn anybody either, so I probably did p**s people off — but I decided that he was irreverent. And he didn't care about all that stuff, so I couldn't care about all that stuff. It was kind of an exercise in random freedom. And it worked because what ended up happening is that people were furious. The other actors were furious, the sound department... I mean, there were people who didn't know me from my previous jobs who thought this is how I must always be.

And are you?
No. That's why I never trust meeting anybody on the red carpet. Because if someone's horrible to you, you think they're just terrible. But really they're being led around and they're probably in a terrible mood and maybe their wife just left them for their best friend — you don't know what pre-existing conditions there are for the person you meet. But having said all that, Tony DiNozzo was created from a carefree and irreverent place, so it's kind of the best job I've ever had. And the only character that I really truly feel like I had a strong hand in making the right choice for.

So people have realised you're not really a troublemaker in real life now?
I think some people have realised it and other people never realised it. But it was about being unapologetic in your job. Which is how DiNozzo is. I just decided not to worry about everybody else's feelings because they're big boys and girls and we're all here to do a professional job, so we're going to get on with it. And those who don't think I'm being very professional or nice? Well, it's not my problem. Some of the people in the beginning were very concerned. Now that we're 100 episodes along, people understand what's going on.

Has anybody lost it with you on set?
Sasha Alexander — who played Kate in the first two seasons — used to get furious with me. We're really good friends, but she used to get really p***ed off because I would change what I was doing in the scene as I went. She was like, "Help me out here!" And I'd be like, "I'm experimenting." And she's like,"Well it's not a laboratory, Mr Hyde!" And then it became part of the show that she was frustrated with me, but that frustration was born out of the working dynamic.

Didn't Gibbs' [Mark Harmon] habit of hitting DiNozzo on the head come from you making Mark furious with you on set?
Gibbs hitting me on the back of the head was from me screwing around during filming and that was actually Mark hitting Michael, not Gibbs hitting DiNozzo. And the crew laughed and it got shown in the dailies and then it got cut into the show and then the head slap became this thing. It really was born out of frustration with my not behaving.

Posted: 07.11.2007 20:08

(thx 2 csa)

Da geht also was zwischen MW um MH. happy

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