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Rufus Sewell on Eleventh Hour
By Fred Topel | Image property of CBS
Eleventh Hour
Sewell Counts to the Eleventh Hour
"I don’t think he is some like crusader for a particular point of view," said Sewell. "If he had been, I would have been a little more wary on taking it on. He might have surprising viewpoints that hit you at any given point, but he’s not a spokesman for any set of beliefs. He has his own morality, but I like to think that’s kind of slippery."
The show will feature a new scientific mystery each week, but Hood will be the constant. "As far as I’m concerned, I read any character, and I see myself in it, no matter what the character is. I thought he was very, very smart, obviously, but also he had a wonderful slightly odd sense of humor about him, and the fact that he’s got quite a troubled past and he has new energy in his life because of that, and I just very much liked his humor. I liked the way his mind works, and I like the facts that there’s just enormous potential to him."
Perhaps along the way, we will find out more about Hood's past. "I have a sense of his back story, which, for the moment, I’m going to keep to myself because the thing is about having the story revealed to me as an actor as I go along because they very much play their cards close to their chest when you do the pilots, and then you get things revealed to you. So I’ve made my own decisions, which they may contradict in their writing. I just have to keep it slightly adaptive. You know, you might get a writer who suddenly decides that I’m a transsexual on episode four, but in the event that doesn’t happen, I’ve got quite a clear idea of his background."
Sewell is into the real-life science as well. "It does matter. I’m going to be meeting with some scientists over the next few weeks and doing some research, but ideally, anything that comes up in any given episode, I’ll be given the tools to bone up on it."
Eleventh Hour premieres October 9 on CBS.
Fred Topel
Sources: Image property of CBS
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