Skeet Ulrich returns to television for the apocalyptic series Jericho.The town of Jericho has been built on a small Van Nuys, allowing one to go from the metro station to middle America within a few blocks. Ulrich plays a mystery man trying to gather the town together after a blast leaves them possibly the only surviving people in America.
Skeet Ulrich Talks Jericho
“We’re shooting pulling up to town hall, trying to get some people to shelter from the fallout,” said Ulrich of a scene he was shooting for the third episode. “This is I guess the day after the explosions, just trying to get people to safety. Busses up and nowhere to go.”
The first few episodes deal with approximately one week after the apocalypse. “Practical issues. What do people do and how do you get an entire town to safety? Some people are unwilling to go anywhere. Some people are dying to get somewhere so just trying to figure out how to save as many people as possible.”
Ulrich’s character has an unclear background that will be revealed throughout the show. He knows the past but not where it will go. “We knew before we started rolling on the pilot what the backstory was and how that plays into why he’s doing what he’s doing. So yeah, we’re clear on that part of it. Where he goes, I don't know. But it’s been good. The scripts are great. It keeps everything exciting.”
The ongoing struggle of a town in such crisis makes Jericho more exciting than most film projects to Ulrich. “I think the fun of it is acting a novel. We’re used to acting 120 pages, complete arcs and to get to lay it all out really slow and subtly is a lot of fun. It kind of takes a lot of strength to withhold certain emotions that you want to save for that big thing that might be coming. You’re trying to lay stuff out with that idea, trying to complete the whole arc. It’s really interesting. As for TV as a whole, these feel like you could jump in at any point and be enthralled by the stories, so it has the best of both worlds to some extent in that it’s a continuous storyline but each one is intriguing in its own right and fun in its own right.”
Jericho begins airing September 20th at 8PM on CBS.
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