Nice two-part interview with Dave Annable on the Bloggers & Sisters writer’s blog. Some highlights:
On the fact that he has a real-life sister named Rebecca: “It’s a whole weird thing. So kissing my sister who is not my sister but her name is Rebecca and my sister is Rebecca…I started therapy pretty soon after that.”
On similarities and differences between Justin: “I think a similarity between myself and Justin is that we both wear our hearts on our sleeves. Justin has never been afraid to say what’s on his mind and I’m the same way. Whether that’s good or bad, I think that’s something that we both share. Besides the addiction, I would say Justin has a lot more problems opening up in certain situations.”
On cracking up during filming: “We had one just yesterday. Matthew and I just got a case of the giggles, and Sally did as well because she had to keep feeding me cake. The last take I literally burped as she was putting the cake into my mouth. We just lost it. It was all downhill from there. It sort of stinks too because it was the last scene up and everyone wanted to go home, and once you start laughing it’s really hard to stop. Of course, I’m standing across from Matthew, and the second we make eye contact– done.”
On bloopers: “With this cast — everyone is really funny. I don’t know if people know that, but obviously Matthew’s hilarious and Rachel’s hilarious and Sally’s hilarious, Calista’s hilarious, Ron’s hilarious– we all have a lot of fun and we’re always laughing so that’s…there’s plenty more blooper footage out there. We could do a whole box set of bloopers.”
On Justin’s future: “I was hoping that he actually goes back to college and joins a sorority. I pitched that, but for some reason it’s not feasible. I do hope Justin gets a job and becomes proud of himself and works hard and makes his own money and gets his love life in order. That’s something that we’re all looking forward to.”
On his onscreen brothers: “The three of us always have fun. We just did our Spring Break episode where all three of us were together. I remember we had one day where it was just the brothers all day. It was midnight and we were still here, running up and down the halls and hiding from the Assistant Directors and scaring each other. We just really have a great time together. I made two brothers out of this show. It’s great.”
On the episode intervention episode “36 Hours”: “The most challenging thing about the episode was the actual intervention — that whole sort of speech where I tear everyone apart and they’re all after me. I got the lines at about eleven o’clock the night before, while I was working, and stayed up all night trying to memorize them. That’s not something where you want to stop and think about your lines. You want to be able to just react, and that scene actually took us about 12 or 13 hours to shoot, so by the end of the day I literally had no voice. On everyone else’s coverage I think I was just, you know– air coming out.”
On his favorite storylines: “I’m a really big Kevin/Scotty fan. I love their relationship. I mean, I just eat that up. I get all warm inside. I really am a fan of the show, that’s really it. I like Nora’s storylines, I like Uncle Saul’s storylines, I like Sarah, and Kitty with McCallister. I think our writers have done such a great job in making everyone’s storyline interesting, you know? There’s always the rollercoaster of ‘this storyline’s more prominent than this one,’ but I think our show has done a great job of balancing it out.”
On hockey: “I’ve played hockey since I was about 12 or 13 years old, and our producers have been nice enough to let me play once a week. … I’m trying to convince one Matthew Rhys to come play one day. He used to play hockey back in Wales and is totally nervous to get back on the ice.”
On who should guest star: “There’s a bunch of people that I’d love to see in a guest-starring role. I was really excited when we did have Chevy Chase, who’s really cool, and Steven Weber and Danny Glover and Margot Kidder. She was great. I don’t know– let’s get George Clooney on here, get those ratings up. You know what I’m saying? Who doesn’t want to see George Clooney? Screw ER. You know?”
For more from Dave, read the whole interview, Part 1 and Part 2.
Brothers and Sisters, Dave Annable