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Focus on Earth 2
Excerpted from an interview with Clancy Brown
conducted for the E2 Breakfast Bash
by Beth Blighton, June 1998

Beth: With Earth 2 being your first experience doing a series for television, was it what you expected or would you ever consider doing another series?

Clancy: That one was pretty special, I have a feeling... Was it what I expected? I don’t know what I expected. That one was pretty special. Every other series I’ve worked on hasn’t really had that feeling about it. But it was exceptional because it was on location, it was a big cast, not a lot of “famous people”, with the exception of Debrah and Antonio, so there weren’t a lot of ego things going on. There were some, certainly, but not lot. It was an exceptional cast. I mean, Jessica Steen is as good an actress as there is out there. And the kids fit very strongly into the stories, and the whole technical crew that was on the cutting edge, making the Grendlers and Terrians... The art department was spectacular and completely under-appreciated. Those caves... ya know, they built those caves in a week! That was an amazing situation.
   So we were always, as much as the environment was a character in the show, the environment was always a huge factor in the logistics of shooting it. And so, that sort of tended to take you out of the mundane problems of filming that you get into in Los Angeles, which is “We gotta finish the day.” It really becomes a life and death kind of struggle, much more enervating, much more exciting, because of the real life stuff we had to do. Santa Fe is just beautiful.

BB: I don’t know how they thought they were gonna move that show back to LA!

CB: Well, ya know, executives look at it and they say, “Oh, look, here’s a couple of rock formations and a desert. They’ve got that out in Joshua Tree. We could do that... We’ve got that out at Vasquez Rocks...”

BB: In other words, you just know they never watched it...

CB: Right... “We could get that shot and “The Cisco Kid!”

BB: “Oh look, it’s the ‘Star Trek’ planet!” Actually, I know that everybody loves New Mexico, but I was kind of hoping that as the years went by the show would pick different parts of the country.

CB: That was part of the plan, to go all over the world. That was the plan of the onsite producers that one year they’d be in Hawaii, the next year they’d be in Spain, and the next year in Australia, and they’d just sort of go for it. But...

BB: But they just wouldn’t go for that, huh?

CB: No. But that would have been great!

BB: What do you think was the defining characteristic of John Danziger, or what was your favorite characteristic to play?

CB: My favorite characteristic was kind of... The best example of it is in “Better Living Through Morganite, Part II” when -- and I read something online about this -- there was this tremendous analysis... That was half the fun of doing this picture! That there was some great stuff going on online!

There was a tremendous analysis of it -- when Devon decides to go try to talk to the Terrians, to try to save Morgan’s life, and Danziger comes up and he says, “Wait a minute. What are you doing? They’re different from us! They’re not gonna... They didn’t read the Geneva Convention rules. They weren’t raised in Judeo-Christian ethics. This is a completely different thing! Let’s go in and get them!”
   Danziger wasn’t right, but there’s sort of that innate understanding of survival, of the actual precariousness of the situation that I don’t think Devon ever had. There was also that struggle between the writers, because then, and I think still now -- although less so -- there’s this sort of fear about really talking about hard issues in an unattractive way. So you tend to get this kind of wishy-washy stuff. And I’ve always tried to push that... always tried to push the human and the pragmatic. So as far as Danziger is concerned, I think it was always... He never for a second forgot what a dangerous situation they were in, how they could all die in a second, that there were only twelve of them and who knows how many of these others out there, and how many others there were! How many other groups of ‘others’ were there? And that they could only depend on themselves. It’s a little paranoid and stuff, but I think it’s a pretty accurate recapitulation of what it must have been like to settle the North American continent in the 1700s and 1800s.

BB: His character was so grounded where hers was very idealistic, but somebody had to have their feet on the ground!

CB: Right. The pithy description was that she’s always looking at the stars and Danziger’s making sure that nobody steps in any holes. It was a little more than that, a little less than that. The Uly in the future one was kind of an interesting episode for all of us cuz we all hated it, mostly because we couldn’t tell what happened!

BB: It was like, where was Danziger?

CB: Yeah, right. Where was Danziger? Ya know, at least there should be a mountain range named after him!

BB: Or something! See, now what I always thought they should have done with that one was that she looks at this future, and yes, she got them out there, and yes, she got everything she wanted, but it cost Danziger his life! So somewhere along the way she had to make a decision where she knew, okay, what’s more important? Your ideals or a human life? But they didn’t go that way, so what do I know?

CB: Well... they can only do so much in an hour. And those were questions that the producers and the studios didn’t really want to answer.

BB: It was such a dark future, though. It really was.

CB: It was kind of a dark future. I was a little bummed at that. It was a little sort of typical. I was kinda disappointed. I mean, I think it would have been more interesting if someone had done a little research into Botany Bay and how... There was that great book out about Botany Bay and the settlement of Australia. I think that would probably be the most likely analogue.

BB: It was sort of hard to believe, after all that struggle, that she’d let it go to pot!

CB: Right! And, in fact, sort of sign on, in a way...

BB: Well, they just ran “All About Eve” on the Sci-Fi Channel, and the big debate on the internet now is how in the world were they planning on getting Devon out of that cold sleep chamber! Got any ideas on that one?

CB: It comes back to me in dribs and drabs... Somehow we’ve moved out of that valley that had afflicted everyone. And, of course, it had turned out that we were all sick because of the chips in our heads -- which was nicely set up by about the fourth episode with Wentworth & Firesteen. So we were all sick because Eve was sick, and Eve’s fixed now and Eve helps us, she’s become our advocate. But it turns out that Devon really is sick, because Devon is the only biologically “pure” human on the planet. And the planet is, in fact, reacting against her, because the planet is Gaia, is a living thing. It’s reacting against her, yet half of her genetic information is in Uly, who is the answer to the future of the planet. So there’s all sorts of great little tangential philosophies and theories and great... it was gonna be such a great season! But she thinks she’s dying, so she’s brought out of that valley -- I think it happened fairly cursorily, perfunctorily, kind of, “Well, we moved her out of the valley, and...” But she’s still sick and she’s still dying. So she’s not well, but she decides that there’s no way around this as we discover that the planet is having an antibody response to her. Eve is able to program our physiology to counteract this, apparently, but they can’t do anything for her because she hasn’t got this little chip in her head. So she thinks she’s dying, so she asks me to be the receptacle of her experiential data or whatever, to have her digital being downloaded into me! Her whole history and all that stuff.
   That was gonna be a real fun episode because they were gonna have these flash cuts of her giving birth to Uly, and then it would end up being me on the table, screaming and sweating. All this weird stuff! Poor John Danziger gets all of his rough edge, macho side... just suddenly has to deal with all this very feminine experience, and I was just very excited about the whole prospect!
   I don’t really know what eventually happened to Devon, but I think there was probably an arc where she didn’t get better and there was an arc where she did get better. The arc where she did get better would have been much more interesting because suddenly I already know what she’s thinking, and I...

BB: You have way too much information!

CB: There were gonna be other things that just weren’t gonna happen because Universal stuck their noses in...

BB: But this was what they were gonna do?

CB: The problem was really the leadership at Universal who really started to have a “SeaQuest, DSV” reaction to “Earth 2”. So they were just gonna take it and mess with it!

BB: So this was what was gonna happen before they put that other storyline in?

CB: This was Michael Duggan’s plan. Michael Duggan and John Harrison, and there was another guy...

BB: Not P.K. Simmonds?

CB: No... P.K. was gonna keep writing, I’m sure. But I think Levin was out and I Carol Flint was out, and they’ve all gone on to better things... I mean, they weren’t dismissed, they just sort of decided to step away because Duggan was really the one who wanted to carry it. It was a great experience being with all those very talented folks -- Duggan, Flint and Levin. But Carol’s connection was much more personal with everybody and with me, and Duggan’s was very personal with the material. He was really by default the guy who was gonna end up running the show. But I think he had problems with the leadership at Universal, so he got sacked, which just spelled doom to me, all the way down the line.

BB: Now when did that happen? Were you done filming?

CB: It happened right before... right at the end of “All about Eve” we found out about it, like a few days into shooting. To their credit, the leadership at Universal came out and said, “We are behind this show. We want it to work. We’re doing what we think is best. We’re gonna move it back to LA, and blah-blah-blah-blah-blah... And we wouldn’t come out here if we didn’t give a damn.” Which is right. I mean, they all came out, all the honchos and, ya know, even though they’re very impressed with themselves, the fact that they’d come out did speak volumes. I got a little testy with them and said, “Why are you fucking with us?!? This is a goldmine if you guys would just leave it alone!” And that’s when they started retooling the Danziger character! [laughter]
   They started introducing all these new characters who were going to be the new stars of the show, cuz they were convinced that I was gonna be trouble.

BB: Are you trouble?

CB: I am in the sense that I sort of challenge folks... There was a time early on where I started saying, “Okay, this is great, this is wonderful that we’re doing this thing. Now, give us a little background. Who are these people? Where do we come from? If you’re gonna start laying out this technology and laying out this future history, then tell us the pre-future history. What’s the culture that we come from?” So Mark Levin made an attempt at this, but it was very... You could tell he sort of did it in an afternoon and he thought it was clever, and he sent it on to me. But unfortunately, the problem is that I’ve been interested in sci-fi for awhile. I’ve read Heinlein, I’ve read Herbert, I’ve read William Gibson...

BB: So you just weren’t buying this...

CB: No! But there were really good points in it, so I wrote him back and said, “Okay, this part makes sense, but this other part doesn’t make sense...” I’ve probably got the letters lying around somewhere... But Mark had enough of that! So, he handed off to Carol, and Carol and I got into this dialog that was a lot of fun. We really started fleshing out what had happened from 1995 til 22-whatever. But boy, that was really fun futurist kind of stuff, talking about Huxley and the guy who wrote “Future Shock”, all sorts of great... that was a great fun discussion. That’s where Carol and I got close.

BB: See? You can’t sit there and debate with a writer because they love it!

CB: Mark didn’t love it. He was having fun writing it, but his focus was always on writing features and moving up that ladder, so... He wasn’t really... He liked it and he liked everyone in it, and he had a fun time writing it, but it wasn’t really his, he really didn’t have the passion for it that anybody else did. Carol really had a passion for the people and the characters.

BB: You could tell by the stories she did.

CB: That’s what she was all about, but now she’s moved on to “ER”. She was actually the one who called me to be in it with Laura. And her whole argument was, “We’re trying to do this for Laura’s character”, which is the perfect argument to make to me because that I understand. That’s very honest. First of all, they’re not saying, “We want you to be this kind of character because, dah-dah-dah-dah-dah.” They’re saying, “These are our stars and Laura’s is lacking this and we want to provide that for her, and we want you to do it.” Then I understand my role, with what I’m supposed to do, and Carol knew that about me.

BB: Now, we’re gonna have John [Gegenhuber, Morgan Martin] and Rockmond [Dunbar, Baines] here to defend themselves, but you’re not gonna be here to defend yourself. Are there any stories you’d like to tell before they get the chance to?

CB: Oh, they’ll have some good ones... No, I can’t defend myself. I have no excuses for all of my misbehavior. Tell ‘em don’t worry...   John is such a good actor! He should be working so much more. He’s so good! I always thought he was the best thing in that show! I would fight to get scenes with him! I mean, even little scenes, even little things where I just exchanged a look, it didn’t matter! And always trying to throw things in, ya know? “If he moves, shoot him!” It was just a great sort of... He was such a great person. You could throw any kind of pitch at him and he’d catch it and throw it back. That’s rare enough. I think he was actually the best actor there and had the most interesting character. There was a lot similar between his character and Danziger. I mean, they really were, I think, flip sides of the same coin. And Universal wanted to get rid of him! Not because of anything John did or because of anything that Morgan did! They wanted to get rid of him because they wanted to free up Bess to have all sorts of naked scenes with whoever the guest star was! It was just really dumb...

BB: Which I’m sure Rebecca would have enjoyed no end, too! [Sarcasm]

CB: Oh yeah... Rebecca would have just loved that...

BB: Is there anything you’d like to say to the fans in parting?

CB: Thank you... Just thanks so much. Goodbye. Keep the faith! Something will happen one of these days, in some form or other... But also remember that I say that as a former Hong Kong Cavalier who’s still waiting for that World Crime League to rear it’s head!

Man of Action/ Man of Conscience
by Susan Bowden

   Right from the start we saw John Danziger as a throughly dependable, honest, hard-working man and devoted father -- a man, who if something needed doing, just went right ahead and did it. Maybe this is where the “macho” image comes from, but I never saw it solely that way. I respected that honest, no nonsense “just do it” attitude. This was the Danziger I loved watching on the screen. I certainly couldn’t imagine him without that edge. It was an absolute joy to watch Clancy play John Danziger! A wonderful range of acting yet again! No matter what was called for, Clancy got it 100% spot on each and every time.
   Over the course of E2 we saw John as a worker who, regardless of what he did or how he thought, would always be classed as a “drone” on the stations. We saw him as a loyal and caring friend to the whole group. Yes, he sometimes made snap judgements, but under those circumstances, we would too! After all, his first and most important priority was to protect his daughter and then those around him. Quite right to be mistrustful of the Terrians -- with a new planet/new species to share with, anything other than caution would have been stupid.
   The sparring relationship between Danziger and Devon was always a delight to watch, as were all the great scenes between Morgan and John. I always loved those moments. When we watched “Grendlers in the Mist” and saw the story of how Ellie (John’s lover and True’s mother) died, I sat watching those scenes and cried. You could feel his pain and loss! It was exactly the same when watching him in tears, making his emotional goodbyes to Al & Les in “A Memory Play”. Both these episodes gave us small tempting glimpses into his past. Danziger may occasionally give the impression of a “big tough guy” - but there’s oh-so-much more to this man that makes you just want to reach out and hug him. Life on the planet was tough, at best, but Danziger’s resourcefulness and natural smartness shone through time and again.
   Of all the friendships and relationships he made on G889, my favorite relationship always remained the father/daughter one between him and True. They were certainly “two of a kind” -- both were determined, knew their own minds, and did things “their way.” In the first few days after the crash, everyone was having a hard time adjusting, but for True it was worse. Her father’s time was largely taken up with all the new responsibilities thrust onto him. His love and devotion to her is undoubted, but his very real fears for her safety and his need to protect naturally took top priority in those early days. True was just a kid. All she could see was her father’s preoccupation, new stifling rules, a school regime, and a little boy who was allowed a horse when she was not. She wasn’t being deliberately naughty, just a confused little girl. Of course she turned to Gaal and believed his lies.
   Look at the situation through the eyes of a child. Danz was equally hurt and confused at True’s trust in Gaal, and then scared when he realized the stranger’s real identity. His threat to shoot Gaal with the Magpro was not one of John’s “act first/think” later situations, it was pure instinctive parental protectiveness. Gaal was unbelievably L-U-C-K-Y!
   What wonderful scenes though between John and True, as she sits on her own after Gaal's been taken by the Terrians, and John comes over to comfort & talk to her and to put things right between them! Un-missable!
   One of my favorite Danziger episodes is “Survival of the Fittest” It highlights much about his character. I love this episode on every level -- the direction, the moral dilemma and the way each character was used. Danziger’s clench-jawed determination to continue to search for Pod #9, choosing to ignore failsafe(finding the pod meant returning to camp with food, vehicles and anything else they might expect to find), Devon's concern for the missing group, Yale & Walman’s resolve to find them, Bess’s anger when trying to make the others understand how Morgan and Co.could be starving out there, True’s complete faith in her father’s ability to get himself and the other three back home safely, Morgan being gloriously typically “Morgan”, Alonzo being very judgmental, and Julia’s strength of mind in returning to the cave with John and actually removing some of the Grendler for them!
   Now I don’t believe John deliberately shot the female Grendler. He was exhausted and scared he wouldn’t see True again, but he only went after it in the hope of finding food and water. Shooting it was gut reaction. He honestly believed Alonzo and himself to be in danger. Just as Danz was correct with his decision concerning Yale in “Better Living Through Morganite”, so it was right to go back to get some of the Grendler to eat. (Remember, they viewed it as an animal.) It was dead, as they soon would be, so eating some of it was the only logical answer. I bet there’s not one person amongst us that wouldn’t do the same! I’d be repulsed, but I’d do it!
   Alonzo’s version of events would have us believe that Danz grimly set out after the creature with little images of roast Grendler in front of his eyes. NOT SO! How could anyone disbelieve John when he protests to all that he didn’t set out to kill it, that he “had no choice”, or doubt his genuine sorrow as Julia tells how they found Grendler Junior. True never doubts him for a second. When he confides in her that he was scared, scared he'd never see her again, all she wants is to reassure her dad -- putting her arm around him, cradling his head in her lap, comforting him as she strokes his hair, telling him, “It was just an accident”. There’s such a great bond between these two, seen again when it is only True’s pleas
to her father that persuade him to lower the Magpro aimed at
the male Grendler holding her. This time, remember, many of the others in the group also had weapons aimed at it. One foot out of place, one drool too many, and they would've shot, for exactly the same reasons that Danz had done so earlier -- Protecting one of their own from potential harm!
   John’s sincere apology and heartfelt plea to let True go, to take him instead, and his crying unashamedly as he begs, is quite obviously one of my favorite Danziger moments! Superb! The entire group regretted the Grendler’s death and acknowledged that this species shared the same emotions as humankind. But if a similar situation arose again, where one of them believed themselves or any of the others to be in danger, would they honestly stop to think about “those emotions” or would they instinctively shoot?
   I liked every aspect to the Danziger character. He is definitely one of the “good guys!”

Boyz II Men
A Review
by Gry W. Neilsen (Denmark)

   Prison drama is a genre of its own, and a pretty broad one, including everything from farce to action, high-brow drama and soft-core S&M. But there haven’t been that many movies set in juvenile “correctional institutions” since the edifying “Look-what-happens-to-bad-kids” reform school films of the fifties, so when a sober-minded and realistic movie in the genre comes along, there’s always the chance it has something new to ad to the formula. “Bad Boys” isn't as new and different as I hoped for when I popped it in my VCR, and that’s not just because it’s fifteen years old, but at least it took a stab at it. Literally, too; “Realistic” here means plenty of ketchup.
   Sean Penn stars as Mick O’Brien, a troubled teen who divides his time between high school, street crime and girlfriend J.C. (Ally Sheedy). When his rivals, a Puerto Rican gang led by Paco Moreno (Esai Morales) hit the big time, O’Brien and best friend Carl (Alan Ruck) decide to rob them of their loot, and Mick buys a gun for the heist, assuring Carl it’s just a precaution. Of course it all goes horribly wrong, Carl is killed, O’Brien runs over Morales’ kid brother in the ensuing car chase and is sent to juvenile prison. The “new kid on the cell block” quickly gets the attention of inmate leaders “Viking” Lofgren (Clancy Brown) and Tweety (Robert Lee Rush), defeats them in a bloody rumble and takes over their place at the top of the pecking order. In the meantime, the vengeful Morales takes out his anger on J.C. and lands behind bars with O’Brien. The question is, can they turn a new leaf, or will they eventually kill each other?
   The answer is saved until the last minute of the movie, and it’s pretty predictable. What comes before isn’t very surprising either, not for lack of an interesting story, but because all the characters are stereotypes, at least in writing. They’re all here: The rebel, the warden’s tyrannic pet, the hot-blooded Hispanic bent on revenge, the good girl who stands by her man, the wisecracking, resourceful geek with a flair for chemistry (indispensable if there’s an escape involved, and there always is). The narrative has an odd, flat feeling to it, and most character clues are placed with the finesse and subtlety of a steamroller. When “Bad Boys” remains engaging to the end, it’s thanks to solid directing and a fine cast. The stock characters are given life by the tension and dynamics of the setting and a few three-dimensional performances -- we care about what happens to these people, but thanks to the uninspired writing they have no depth.
   The primus motor of “Bad Boys” is, of course, Sean Penn. Mick O’Brien is not an ice-cold killer or a victim to be pitied, but a teenager of flesh and blood -- unattractive, vulnerable, desensitized to the violence he perpetrates, an irresponsible child, convinced that he can charm or fight his way out of everything -- but maybe slightly more mature than the other boys, and, in the end, able to see sense. He is so much more believable because his redemption doesn’t come as a selfless act, but the opposite. In his own eyes, he is letting down J.C. by not avenging her rape. He gives up his code of honor, which brands him as a coward, but gives him the opportunity to start a new life.
What the movie really succeeds in is portraying these kids, not individually but as a group. These are thoughtless boys who think they’re men. They commit adult crimes as if they were harmless pranks, and seem to have no idea what serious trouble they’re in. Especially O’Brien’s roommate Horowitz, who looks more like a mommy’s boy than a murderer, and whose only regret is that he “wasted the wrong three people”. He’s always surprised and furious to be punished for his “practical jokes”, and the scary thing is that we’ve all met kids who might turn out like him.              Like the other characters, “They call him Viking, I call him shit-for-brains” Lofgren is a cliché: A pea-brained bully with a mean streak wider than an air strip, who turns into a sulking child when he can’t have it his way. He’s mostly there to provide comic relief or an opportunity for O’Brien to show his superiority. Essentially, he’s a stand-in for the obligatory brutal guard. The authority is a hand full of tough, but caring social workers, more concerned with getting the boys back on track than beating the crap out of them (most of the time, anyway), so Viking and his buddy Tweety act as the sadistic watchmen, harassing the kids in general and O’Brien in particular, provoking him to act. I had fun with the thought that Lofgren might grow up to be Captain Hadley.
   Clancy Brown balances the character between comic, menacing and pathetic, and even makes it look easy. In his tragi-comic stupidity, Viking made me think of Viktor in The Bride. There’s no way of comparing the two, of course, they’re as different as day and night. What they have in common is that they would be so easy to play for laughs, but Brown gives both of them a core of dignity. Viking stands out because he’s not just stupid but despicable, a grade-A asshole --and a human being. With simple means, Brown makes Lofgren’s naive cruelty not just very funny and threatening, but pitiful and sad, touching even, without ever belittling or excusing for his vileness. We understand that with his limited capabilities, Viking couldn’t survive outside this closed community. His only advantage is being bigger, stronger and meaner, and he thrives on intimidating the weaker kids. Within the walls it makes him king, outside he would be helpless. He probably can’t bear the thought of being alone, and chooses a suspended sentence over solitary confinement. This portrait of him is enjoyable and thought-provoking, and a rare opportunity to peek into the mind of the bully we all feared in school.

Clancy Brown Updates

There are no official air dates yet for either “Vendetta” (on HBO) or “The Agency” (on SHOWTIME), but in a recent update to the CBFC, Clancy wrote that there is “positive buzz” about them both, and offered the following: “There is also an outside possibility that THE AGENCY will transform into a network series. It had a very convoluted genesis with alot of fingers in the pie. That can be trouble, as we all know; but at least it will be interesting to see what it’s final form will take. I play ”Dale Beckham”, a drunken, used-up cold warrior drawn back into deep cover by an old pal (”Kevin Jefferson” played by Tom Berenger) who is putting together a team to extract an old buddy after his arrest undercover in North Korea. I had great fun playing a cynical drunk “neanderthal” (as one of my teammates refers to me) whose cover is a proper British banker. I get very “mincy”. Think of me as David Thomlinson as “Mr. Banks” (from MARY POPPINS) in THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD set in North Korea. Did you get all that? If not, just remember the MARY POPPINS part.”
   Clancy also went on to fill us in on further details about “Vendetta”, saying: “VENDETTA is one of those sturdy HBO Films. It will air, I imagine, during a sweep month. No huge names just good actors in an enormous and complex ensemble story. Briefly, in 1892(?) New Orleans the Italian immigrants had virtual control over the docks. This did not sit well with the Southern aristocracy status quo. There was a well-loved and nationally known Chief of Police named David Hennesey, an Irishman who was nobody’s patsy and himself the son of a North-sympathizing immigrants. He was gunned-down by unknown assailants at the height of his popularity. A number of Italians were charged with murder and conspiracy, arrested, tried, acquitted, and then lynched by the people of New Orleans. It is a terrible true chapter of American history. This movie is based on the book VENDETTA by Richard(?) Gambino and of course some liberties have been taken. My role is CHIEF HENNESEY, so I am afraid I once again, do not live through this one. At least I don't lynch anybody.”
   Oh, no!!! Not again! Oh, well... We Clancy fans have come to expect these things, haven’t we? At least there were no power tools involved... November and February and are generally “sweeps” months, so keep your eye on those TV Guides!
   He also mentioned that he was recently asked online about “Pet Semetary II”, specifically about some of the derogatory, abusive names his character Gus called his on-screen step-son Drew: “It is never pleasant saying those things or doing those actions (I also had to act a ”rape” in that movie) but we all go into the script with our eyes open. Jason Maguire and I and his family all became friends and there are no ill feelings about the jobs we had to do. Jason was a big boy so I am sure he had heard it before. And, in fact, I think his reaction to that small scene might be the truest and most worthwhile moment in the whole movie. From that perspective, I was glad to be part of it. From the perspective of having to articulate the cruelties of human nature, it is uncomfortable at best and emotionally/psychologically damaging at worst. My most extreme reaction to a character was in LOVE, LIES,& MURDER. I was so repulsed by realizing that shit-bag, David Brown, that I was bed-ridden with extraordinary back pain periodically after the job. Do things like that get to you? Yup. It is inevitable if you're doing it even halfway right.”
   The CBFC would like to thank Clancy for his generosity and thoughtfulness in sending the above information along!