Showing posts with label 100th ep. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 100th ep. Show all posts
Monday, October 29, 2012
Sunday, October 28, 2012
|SPOILER| ‘The Mentalist’ Goes Back to the Beginning to Mark 100
Talking to Robin Tunney about tonight’s (10/28) 100th episode of “The Mentalist” was a kick. What she had to say about the show was interesting. Even more fun was what she had to say about leading man Simon Baker.
“Simon loves women, and he’s like the least scary guy that loves women,” she told AARP.org. “He loves women because he loves his wife, and he’s been with her for 20 years, and he’s very comfortable around women and he’s good to women. He treats them as equals, and that’s a testament to the fact he loves his wife and he loves his daughter. But I can always tell when he’s going to think a girl is pretty. I know his type,” she said.
Yes, yes – go on. “So, the first year, what I used to do, if I saw a girl I knew he’d think was pretty, I’d go up to her and I’d say, ‘Will you go up to Simon and ask him for an autograph – and then tell him it’s for your mother?’ He would fall for it every time!” She laughed. “And then he finally caught on and I couldn’t do it any longer.”
If it sounds like something a teasing sister might do to her brother, well, Tunney does say that she feels Baker is like family to her by now. Acting as if they’d never met after all this time was one of the enjoyable parts of making tonight’s episode, she said. Set seven years ago, it is a compelling episode for fans and casual viewers alike, as it takes us back to the first time Simon Baker’s fake psychic, Patrick Jane — disheveled and fresh from his stint in a mental hospital — wandered into the California Bureau of Investigations offices in hopes of finding information about the murderer of his wife and child. To the team to which he’ll eventually become a valued consultant, he is just an odd guy who won’t leave.
“Now, when Jane does something inappropriate, I can’t really react that much. It’s too familiar. In this episode, I got to be much more reactive to his behavior and it was fun,” Tunney said.
According to her, this season – the series’ fifth – will finally narrow the field as to the identity of that serial killer, Red John. “It sort of becomes, we know it’s one of these people.”
Will Jane and her Teresa Lisbon character ever get together? Tunney doesn’t know, but sounded cool to the idea. “It would be like, where do you go from there? It’s very hard to build on. It’s not like a domestic drama. In a procedural it would be a really odd thing to play.”
By the way, what is Simon’s “type”?
“They’re generally women who share a physical resemblance to his wife, which I think is really sweet,” she said.
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Source: AARP.
Special thanks to my dearest @RobinTunneyBlog for the heads up.
Friday, October 26, 2012
|VIDEO| 'Mentalist' Honors 100th Episode with Flashback
The Mentalist airs its 100th episode on Sunday, and before the milestone episode hits the airwaves, the cast and crew threw a party to celebrate the accomplishment. As they toasted to 100 episodes, they reflected on the past five seasons.
Not only did the cast have an opportunity to reflect upon the course of the show from its very beginning but viewers will have the same opportunity when watching the 100th episode, which flashes back to show how Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) met Teresa Lisbon (Robin Tunney) and the rest of the CBI gang.
On the red carpet at the party, the cast had a blast thinking back on the past 100 episodes and the evolution of the show and its characters. As the cast members looked forward to the show's hopeful 100 more episodes to come, they had some comical propositions for what the show should explore next.
As much as his fellow cast mates would like him to lead the cast in a musical episode, Baker assures that his character won't be displaying any hidden theatrical talents any time soon.
"I think that's the point where I'm going to be on vacation somewhere," he said on the prospect of the cast partaking in a musical episode.
Check out the special 100th episode of The Mentalist this Sunday at 10 p.m. on CBS.
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Source: ETOnline.
|SPOILER| ‘The Mentalist’ zooms in on Lisbon and Jane’s long-running flirtation
Just because Detective Kate Beckett on ABC’s “Castle” finally hooked up this season with her handsome consultant, don’t expect lip locks any time soon for Detective Teresa Lisbon and consultant Patrick Jane on CBS’ “The Mentalist.”
“It’s difficult sometimes, but I like how Lisbon and Jane maintain a distance,” says Robin Tunney, who plays Lisbon. “It keeps things more interesting, I think.”
It’s not that there’s no attraction between Lisbon and Jane, played by Simon Baker.
Their interest in each other has been an unspoken subtext of the show since the beginning — a start that will be revisited in detail Sunday at 10 p.m., when the 100th episode of “The Mentalist” spends its whole hour flashing back to the day Teresa met Patrick.
For the record, Jane is the same in episode 100 as he has been in the first 99: annoying, smug, calculating and manipulative, yet oddly charming.
He’s also sad, because he blames his arrogance for the death of his wife and daughter at the hands of a mysterious killer called Red John.
He comes to the police station a year after the murders to see if there has been any progress in catching Red John. He quickly realizes there has not.
Lisbon, who has just taken over the case, falls prey to several manipulations through which Jane hopes to start working on it himself. These eventually involve him in a separate murder case, which of course he solves.
She invites him to become a consultant, for reasons that occasionally strain logic, but do reflect her obvious attraction to him even when he drives her nuts.
“I like playing the relationship” with that ambivalence, says Tunney. “It’s a good way to explore who they are, how they think, how they feel about things.
“It’s fun to play it subtly and let the viewers figure out what’s going on.”
It helps that unlike Kate Beckett and her squeeze, Richard Castle, Lisbon and Jane have not been thrust into intimate personal situations. Also, while both are unattached, Jane’s neurotic obsession with the death of his wife makes him a poor prospect for a new romance at the moment.
That said, Tunney agrees they have a spark that adds intrigue to the show and could, at some point down the road, flicker into something more.
“Maybe in the end,” she says, “we’ll let the audience decide.”
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Source: NY Daily News.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Monday, October 22, 2012
Sunday, October 21, 2012
|VIDEOS & PHOTOS| 100th Episode Party
Watch these great interviews with Simon Baker, the love of my life Robin Tunney, Tim Kang, the very pregnant Amanda Righetti, Owain Yeoman, Emmanuelle Chriqui and Tom Szentgyorgyi, all of them celebrating the 100th episode of our favorite show. Oh, there're more pictures, too (aren't they gorgeous?).
Don't forget to watch tonight's episode Blood Feud, written by Jordan Harper, and of course, wait for Red Dawn's promo!
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Source: The TV Watchtower.
Special thanks to @Aleee_O for the heads up.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
|SPOILER| TV Guide: Blast to the Past
The Mentalist’s 100th episode goes back in time to crack the case of how Patrick Jane first teamed up with the CBI. “Jane is like a shadow of a person”, says Baker. “He’s not the three-piece-suited smartass you see later down the line.”
Think about it. We’re now five seasons into The Mentalist and we still don’t know all that much about Simon Baker’s title character—the sad, tormented, ultra-private Patrick Jane. What happened to him right after the murder of his wife and daughter by the mad slasher Red John? Is it true that he was in a mental hospital under suicide watch? And, if so, how did he ever get his act together to join the major crimes unit at the CBI? To celebrate the 100th episode of the CBS series, creator exec-producer Bruno Heller is flashing back—eight years to be exact—to cough up a few answers. Prepare for a very different Patrick Jane.
“We started out the series in the past, showing how Jane’s scheming and manipulation as fake psychic led directly to the loss of his family, then we jumped ahead to find him on the job with the CBI—now we’ll reveal what happened in the year in between,” says Heller. “This Jane is fresh out of the insane asylum. He’s shucked off his straitjacket and comes directly to the CBI offices to find out what the hell is going on in the search for Red John.”
Baker and costar Robin Tunney, who plays CBI senior special agent Teresa Lisbon, are shooting that very scene on the Warner Bros. Studios lot in Burbank. Jane, dark circles under his eyes and rumpled, crumpled mess, has shown up unannounced at CBI and asks Lisbon for details on the investigation. She’s understandably evasive and more than a little concerned about Jane’s mental state. She gently tells him to beat it but, before long, her maternal instincts kick in.
“Jane is very much the rescue dog—homeless, shattered, looking for a place to be and perfectly willing to tag along,” says Baker during a break in filming. “For the first time, the audience will see him not in control of what he’s doing. The last thing he wants to do is go back to being a con man because that’s what got him in all this trouble to begin with.”
Truth to be told, Baker was leery of this time-travel stuff. “When I first saw the story outline, I was concerned it could be hokey and that we might fuck it up,” the actor says. “This is tricky business. We need to forget about the relationships we established over all these years and reset the series completely. We have to show how Jane got in the door at CBI in a believable way—not easy since he annoys everyone so much.”
This back-in-time device also threw Tunney. “It’s a very clever notion, but also kind of scary,” she says. “How as actors do you try to come off eight years younger? Simon and I were like ‘uh, could someone hit the Benjamin button?’ Inevitably, you just throw your hands up and hope the audience is with you and believing you.” Tunney did ask permission to wear lots of padding. “I wanted Lisbon to be really heavy—like a ‘Shadow Hall’ thing—and just not comment on it. It would have been hilarious, but they wouldn’t go for it.”
There were serious talk of giving the extra poundage to Owain Yeoman’s character, agent Rigsby, however. “I weighed quite a bit more when we started the series,” says Yeoman, who has since taken up a vegetarian life style. “They wanted to go back to that, but in addition to a fat suit, they wanted a beard and glasses. I said, ‘What is this—Rigsby meets Santa?’ “ Nixing that idea but still needing something to suggest a time jump, Yeoman tried an artificial goatee “but wound up looking like Ming the Merciless.” He settled for growing his own.
The CBI offices underwent a retro-makeover with touches both major (the place looks pretty dumpy) and minor (Arnold Schwarzenegger’s photo is back on the wall, since he was governor). The retro CBI set was “a shock,” says Yeoman. “Rigsby’s desk was missing!” Gregory Itzin makes a return appearance as CBI boss Virgil Minelli, who retired in Season 2. And while there’re hints of the fan-fave bromance that will develop between Risgby and Agent Cho (Tim Kang), don’t go looking for agent Van Pelt (Amanda Righetti). She hadn’t joined yet the CBI team. In fact, Jane gets punched in the nose by her hot-headed predecessor, agent Hannigan (Gary Basaraba), which creates the job opening Van Pelt will eventually fills.
It’s the same punch—and the possibility of a lawsuit—that helps secure Jane’s position as a criminal profiler at CBI. “He realizes this is a place where he can stays on top of the Red John case and it brings back his confidence,” says Baker. “By the end of the episode, you start to see the Jane we all know. The guy is back on his horse!”
“Fans will love the nostalgia,” says Tunney of the episode. “So much is different, but one thing doesn’t change. Simon is still ridiculously handsome, damn it.”
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Source: TV Guide and OCD Ephemera.
Big thanks to @Aleee_O for heads up.
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Friday, October 12, 2012
Thursday, October 11, 2012
|PRESS RELEASE| 5.05 - Red Dawn
SEE HOW JANE MET LISBON AND THE REST OF THE CBI TEAM FOR THE FIRST TIME, ON THE 100TH EPISODE OF “THE MENTALIST,” SUNDAY, OCT. 28
Gregory Itzin (“24”) Returns as CBI Director Virgil Minelli. Polly Walker (“Rome”) Returns as FBI Agent Alexa Schultz.
CHEAT TWEET: See Jane meet Lisbon – and the whole CBI, for the very first time on the 100th episode of #TheMentalist 10/28! http://bit.ly/Rdw2C1
“Red Dawn” — See how Jane met Lisbon and the rest of the CBI team for the first time, on the 100th episode of THE MENTALIST, Sunday, Oct. 28 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
SERIES REGULARS:
Simon Baker (Patrick Jane)
Robin Tunney (Teresa Lisbon)
Tim Kang (Kimball Cho)
Owain Yeoman (Wayne Rigsby)
Amanda Righetti (Grace Van Pelt)
GUEST STARS:
Gregory Itzin (Virgil Minelli)
Polly Walker (FBI Agent Alexa Schultz)
Gary Basaraba (Stephen Hannigan)
David Clennon (Judge Dellinger)
Ian Anthony Dale (Det. Nathaniel Kim)
Amanda Clayton (Kelly Burbage)
Ryan Ahern (Emmet Cox)
Kirk Acevedo (Christian Dos Santos)
Norma Maldonado (Delores Recinos)
Aramis Knight (Alex Dos Santos)
Christopher Carver (Winston Dellinger)
Kevin Corrigan (Robert Kirkland)
Scott Vance (Records Clerk)
WRITTEN BY: Tom Szentgyorgyi
DIRECTED BY: Chris Long
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Source and big thanks to: CBS Press Express & @Aleee_O.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
|SPOILER| Mega Buzz on the 100th episode
Anything you can share about the 100th episode of The Mentalist? — Emma
ADAM: It's a bit of an origin story, creator Bruno Heller tells us. Viewers will get to see Jane's first days working with the CBI. That means seeing old faces again (welcome back, Gregory Itzin!), as well as seeing familiar characters in a new light. "It's a great chance to see Jane as he once was and the team as they were before he joined and what they all gave to each other," Heller says. But will anyone look a little different? "We've ordered five fat suits," Heller jokes.
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Source: TV Guide.
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