Loading ...New York State of Mind/The End of the ’Mystery’
By Kate O’Hare
“I’m in New York right now,” Adrian Pasdar says. “There are a lot of things going on here, I’m trying to get something going. Also, we’re looking for an apartment. That takes time.”
After production ended on the second season of Pax’s “Mysterious Ways” (airing Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET) last December, Pasdar headed to Austin, Texas, for some R&R with wife Natalie Maines — of country music’s Dixie Chicks — and their infant son, Slade, now 14 months old. Just returned from a brief foray to Toronto to shoot a movie for Lifetime, Pasdar and family are in Gotham, seeking to put down some new roots in the wake of the cancellation of his series.
“It’s been a battle constantly,” Pasdar says, juggling talking on the phone and paying attention to Jackson. “It’s more than the time slot; we’re not really a Pax show. Their core audience isn’t our audience, and we’re caught in a tether between no man’s land and oblivion.”
“It’s difficult to walk that line on a weekly basis, but there are enough people who feel passionately about the show.” Still airing in reruns on Pax, the series, created by Peter O’Fallon, stars Pasdar as Declan Dunn, an anthropologist at an Oregon university who pursues a sideline investigating possibly miraculous or supernatural phenomena. Helping him in his quest are his friend Dr. Peggy Fowler (Rae Dawn Chong), a psychiatrist, and his spookily brilliant grad-student assistant, Miranda (Alisen Down).
Blending a flavor of “The X-Files” (without aliens) and “Unsolved Mysteries” with doses of emotional warmth and humor, “Mysterious Ways” developed a small but devoted following, helped by its occasional airings on NBC, which has a financial interest in Pax. The show filmed for two seasons in Vancouver, Canada, but even that cost-cutting measure didn’t seem enough for Pax and producer Lion’s Gate Television.
“They wanted to move the show to Melbourne, Australia,” Pasdar says, “Shoot — what was the math? — in 56 weeks, shoot 44 episodes, something absurd like that. They wanted me to go over there. I kind of put the kibosh on it. The demands I was asking for effectively shut down that course of action that they planned to take.”
While all this was going on, Pasdar sat down at Jerry’s Famous Deli in Studio City, Calif., with series executive producer Carl Binder. “We’re sitting there talking,” Pasdar recalls, “and it’s packed, it’s lunch, and we’re both getting into a great discussion about how the show could continue. At this point, it was still a viable option that we were going to shoot in Melbourne.”
“Carl and I decided to have a meeting to see what terms were acceptable. So we’re in the middle of this, and one of the directors who did one of the episodes was sitting a few tables over. He came over to us and in a very quiet way, said how great it was to work for us. He wants to come back if he can.”
“He heard the show was going to Melbourne, and he’d be more than happy to oversee the directors’ stable down there, move to Melbourne. He just loved the show. It was really weird to see him.”
“Then 15 minutes later, this waitress came over and said, ’I thought I recognized your voice. Declan Dunn, oh, my God!’ She just proceeded to tell us how much she loved the show.”
“We got attacked from both sides by people who were fans of the show, and here we were, talking about the potential of its demise. We both realized that’s certainly one of the perks of doing a show that is the nature of what we do. It does affect people beyond, ’Oh, I like your show.’”
Although the show had a core following, the total audience was still tiny by broadcast-network standards. “It was so frustrating to work so hard on a show seen by so few,” Pasdar says. “I could work half as hard on a show that is seen by 15 times as many if I was on an NBC show, but I elected to keep my promise and continue with my responsibilities and work as hard as I could — but it’s taken me away from my family and my friends.”
“There’s just no measure of respect that’s accorded to any of us from the brass. You get so wound up when you give so much. People are always asking us, ’What do you think?’ Like we have any idea on a day-to-day basis what goes on in the minds of those executives.”
Pasdar has used a great deal of his free time to get to know his new son. Asked which parent Jackson resembles, Pasdar says, “It vacillates back and forth as he grows. It changes. He’s quite his own little person. The mannerisms are quite separate and defined from mine or Natalie’s or other babies. It’s just fun to watch him grow every day.”
Pasdar’s Lifetime movie, “Losing It” (working title), airing Monday, July 15, casts him as the father of a high-school basketball player, who erupts violently at one of his daughter’s games. Terry Farrell (”Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,”, “Becker”) co-stars as the team coach. The selling point for Pasdar was Australian director Graeme Clifford, whom Pasdar knew from “Frances,” the 1982 biography of actress Frances Farmer, starring Jessica Lange.
“He called me,” Pasdar recalls, “and I said, ’I’m not inclined to do a Lifetime movie.’ And he said, ’Neither am I, but we go where the work is. It’s a good story. I want to work with you.’ And I said, ’I’ve always loved your stuff.’ Once we got that out of the way, patted each other on the back, it was fun.”
In addition, Pasdar had to grow his Declan Dunn stubble into a full-fledged beard.”It was groomed,” he says. “When I say ’beard,’ I’m not talking Taliban here. It’s more like G.I. Joe with Kung Fu grip and Lifelike Hair. It was nice to do something away from Declan Dunn, away from that milieu.”
While he’s very proud of “Mysterious Ways,” Pasdar has faith that more good things will come his way. “It seems like people fall into shows that are great. It’s like real love, I guess. Just when you’re not expecting it, the next thing you know, it smacks you in the ass.”
“So I don’t need to go hunting right now. Something will turn up.”
Will Aussie production split Dixie Chick, husband?
By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith
These are tense times for Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines and her husband, Adrian Pasdar. Producers of Pasdar’s “Mysterious Ways” aim to switch location shooting of the Pax series from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Australia, a plan that would play havoc with his personal life.”They want me to do 44 episodes in Melbourne in 15 months,” explains the actor, who notes that Australia has become “the new Canada for filming because costs are so reasonable. It’s a tremendous opportunity to get the show into syndication,” he says, “but I’m not about to miss watching my son grow up.”While he was shooting “Mysterious Ways” in Vancouver, he says, “they were letting me work four-day weeks, so I could spend long weeks with Natalie and the baby at our home in Austin, Texas. Both Natalie and I are torn about the new plan for the series. The Dixie Chicks have just finished an album, they’re planning 40 dates for the end of the year,and a big tour for next summer. My family is my main concern, and Pax is going to have to come up with some big concessions if they want me to go to Australia — like adopting a schedule so that I’d work four weeks and then have two weeks off. Natalie and our son would fly there when she was free, and, well, I guess we’d have two households. I imagine a decision will be made within the next few weeks.”
MEANWHILE…
Pasdar describes the album the Dixie Chicks have just finished — with a switch of labels to Capitol — as “far and away the best thing they’ve done. I’ve always said country singers sing like there’s a bullet in their hearts, while my wife sings like she has a gun in her hand. But that isn’t true in this case. The album has a lot of ballads about love. It’s blue-grassy, but very poignant and powerful.It’s not as ’pop-y’; it’s the next evolution for the band. … It doesn’t sound like they’re trying to impress anyone, just make beautiful music.”
AND…
Trading Spaces show with Natalie had the most viewers of any of their shows = a 41.5% viewers.
PLUS…
And in another interview Adrian Pasdar said:
QUESTION: Do you have a favorite Mysterious Ways episode?
PASDAR: Yeah. “Camp Sanopi.”
QUESTION: Did you do any research since Declan’s an Anthro Professor?
PASDAR: I’ve always been a fan of anthropology. It was one of my favorite subjects in college. The research is an ongoing process. I’m often reading the books that the set decoration people put out…all kinds of theses, and essays, and records of digs and studies…a veritable library of books. It’ll take me a loooong time to get through all those books.
QUESTION: Are you more skeptical or open to believe in the unexplained?
PASDAR: The irony is that I’m probably more skeptical than my character, while Rae Dawn Chong is more open than her character. It’s just fun to play the openness.
QUESTION: What’s the last good book you have read?
PASDAR: Man… it’s been script after script lately. Of late It’s been parenting books. So, I’d have to say the last good book I’ve read was My Wife’s Is Having A Baby…I’m Having A Nervous Breakdown.
QUESTION: What’s the best skill you’ve acquired from working on a movie or show?
PASDAR: Not pulling the rip cord on my inflatable butt by not eating all day long. It’s very easy to eat all day on a set. Avoiding that is one thing that I’ve acquired.
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Delco Native Finally Hits Grounder With A New NBC Series: Baby Due March 25th - 8/2000
After 16 years, Adrian Pasdar has become an overnite success. Pasdar’s last series, “Profit”, was whacked by FOX after 4 episodes in 1996. His latest, “Mysterious Ways”, has turned into a pleasant surprise for NBC, averaging 9.5 million viewers at 8 PM. Mondays.
“When you get to this point, you know how to walk to the plate and swing the bat,” says Pasdar, 35, a 1983 Marple Newtown grad and new husband to Natalie “Dixie Chick” Maines. “It’s just a matter of being thrown a ball you know you can hit. Now we have a good chance of being on the air for a while. We’re not going to run out of gas. It’s a very different feeling to work on a show with a future.”
“Mysterious Ways” stars Pasdar as an anthropology professor who believes in supernatural solutions to life’s miraculous mysteries. His partner, Rae Dawn Chong, is a skeptical psychiatrist with a more rational approach. Mulder & Scully? “No way,” says Pasdar, who’s had it uptohere with the “X-Files” comparisons. “We don’t work for the government; we don’t carry guns; we don’t chase aliens; we are a man and a woman. The similarities end there…If ’X-Files’ and ’Touched by an Angel’ crashed on ’Highway to Heaven’, you’d have ’Mysterious Ways.’”
Five episodes into an eight-episode run on NBC, ’Mysterious’ also moved last week to the tiny PAX network, owned partly by NBC, where its 8 PM Tuesday debut drew 1.2 million viewers. That’s up 65% in the slot from 1999. It’s slated to stay on PAX for all 22 ordered episodes but don’t be surprised if ’Mysterious’ returns to the Peacock. NBC, which initially passed on it, is contractually entitled to bring it back. Without an opening in the fall lineup, ’Mysterious’ would be a midseason replacement. Episodes would air on both networks with NBC getting first dibs.
“I’d rather be on NBC,” says Pasdar. “We’ll replace whatever show tanks. God bless NBC for coming back and putting the show on in the first place. They recognized it had potential, even with rather unknown stars.” The critically acclaimed ’Profit’ which starred Pasdar as a ruthless businessman who slept curled up in a cardboard box, “Was a dark, adult comic book that should have been on cable.’Mysterious’ is the best network TV can offer. It’s ’Touched by an Angel’ for the rest of us.’ Unlike his slick ’Profit’ character, Pasdar’s Declan Dunn bears more of a resemblance to Peter Falk’s rumpled Columbo. ’He wears frumpy clothing and drives a beatup truck. He says the wrong things at the wrong time. He’s like a real guy and I’m not afraid to make him that. There’s a certain fluidity to playing somebody who has a piece of celery stuck between his teeth,” Pasdar states.
Pasdar remains close to his parents who divorced when he was young. His mother, Rosemarie, lives in Media, Pennsylvania spends much of her time in France. His dad, Homayoon, who lives in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, is a cardiac surgeon at a local hospital. Pasdar and his Chick are expecting their first child March 25th. When they met, at the wedding of Dixie Chick Emily Erwin to Pasdar’s friend, Charlie Robison, neither had any idea who the other was. Thirteen months later, June 24th, they got hitched. His first, her second. “We were married from the day we met,” Pasdar says. “I met her on a Monday, and we’ve been joined at the hip ever since.”
ADRIAN THANKS FANS AND SUPPORTERS OF ’MYSTERIOUS WAYS’
8/4/2000
“Wow. I am really amazed and blown away by the support for this show. It is the classic story of the little show that could. We are all working so very hard up here in Vancouver. The crew people are the ones to thank, for their hard work and effort is what makes every episode happen. I only wish they got the praise they deserve. Unsung heroes are what they are. Thanks everyone for tuning in. We will do our best every week to bring you all the best show that we can. I promise.” -Adrian
8/22//2000
“Thank you all so much for watching. We have some of the best shows yet to air, and it’s great to read your comments here. We are doing our best to keep it good. Thanks again!” -Adrian
AN INTERVIEW WITH ADRIAN PASDAR - 9/99
Q: You seem to be able to work as a leading man or character actor.
Adrian Pasdar: Yes, so far it has worked out that way. But I generally prefer the character acting parts.
Q: Well, which ever you do, you do it with intensity, intelligence, and an exciting presence to the screen.
AP: (his only answer is a blush)
Q: You tend to wear black quite a bit of the time. (currently wearing black pants, black shirt, and black trench coat.) Why?
AP: I think it is my favorite color, if black is a color. Plus it makes decisions in the morning before coffee easier.
Q: You are always carrying around a book. You read constantly, don’t you?
AP: Yes, reading is my favorite thing to do. I’m currently reading an old friend- William Burroughs’ NAKED LUNCH.
Q: Talk about your hiatus from acting in the late 1980s.
AP: I had been in Cannes promoting MADE IN THE USA. I had already finished VITAL SIGNS and was signed up to do COOKIE, but that wouldn’t start for almost a year. I decided to take a break from acting and went to Paris. I wrote a screenplay based on the novel ASK THE DUST by John Fante.
I’d sit in my room in Paris with a bottle of Johnny Walker Red every night, typing away for six hours. I spent three months writing the screenplay, only to come back to Hollywood and find out that Emilio Estevez had optioned it! Steven Speilberg optioned my screenplay, but to date neither one has made it to the screen. I was disappointed, but I have other stories in mind.
One is based on an experience I had on a train leaving Berlin, where my uncle lived. It involved an elderly woman who’s defecting, a guard who looks the other way, a moment of near despair, and an emotional family reunion. It’s a beautiful, romantic tale. Those are the most valuable stories to me. (smiling) Not the ones where you run into somebody every day. but the times when you just rush in and out of people’s lives for strange moments.
Q: You did a film short that won several awards. I remember one critic saying that it was “a beautiful tone poem, as good as writing ever gets.”
AP: I had seen Wim Wender’s WINGS OF DESIRE. It totally blew me away. I based my BEYOND BELIEF on that. My story is about a homeless man in his last day of life on earth and his interactions with his guardian angel. I was very pleased that it was so well received. Later I was disAPpointed that I hadn’t tried to make it into a feature film, but then CITY OF ANGELS came out.
(Dinner over, Adrian leaves, very nicely waiting until he is outside before lighting up his Marlboro cigarette.)
PEOPLE MAGAZINE - 9/90
“On the bulletin board in his cozy one-bedroom apartment in LA, Adrian Pasdar has tacked up a photo of himself from a recent skydiving jaunt. Talk about photogenic: even spread-eagled in mid-air, the 25 year old actor and incipient dreamboat attracts the lens. ’He has an intense screen presence,’ says John Gray, director of Pasdar’s LOST CAPONE. ’The camera loves him.’ He has been variously described as dangerously handsome, smoldering, and intense. ’I never grew up with heroes in show business,’ Pasdar says. ’My hero was my father.’ A mutually admiring Dr. Homayoon Pasdar doesn’t think success will spoil Adrian. His worse-case scenario: ’I think Adrian would probably blow his money first. He’s never been very good with it-but, hopefully, it would be for a good cause.’ Pasdar is committed to self-improvement. ’Every film I’ve done,’ he says, ’I’ve tried to pick ones where I can learn.’ COOKIE taught him about New York City’s crime scene. STREETS OF GOLD, in which he played a boxer, should have taught him when to duck. Filming one of the movie’s fight scenes, ’I opened my mouth to breathe, and I got clocked and dislocated my jaw, Pasdar says. It’s hard to believe that the camera, his great admirer, didn’t rush in and knock the other guy out.”
MODEL MAGAZINE - 4/89
“If you blinked, you would have missed Adrian Pasdar in his brief, but smoldering appearance as one of the sexy flyboys in TOP GUN. What shouldn’t be missed is this 23 year old actor’s charismatic, scene-stealing performance in COOKIE.”
TALENT - 1989
“Adrian Pasdar might not yet be a household name, but he’s made important connections in New York’s notorious Mafia hangout, Little Italy. The 23 year old plays a Mafia bodyguard in COOKIE. ’I use to go down to Little Italy all the time to eat,’ says Pasdar. ’So when we went down there to shoot, the guys on the block were like, Hey, Adrian, how ya doin? Could you get me in this movie?”
MADEMOISELLE - 3/89
“’I got thrown in jail at the Cannes Film Festival once, Adrian Pasdar says. ’I was in a bar with this girl, and a guy made a move on her. Chivalry may be dead, but not to me. He wouldn’t let up, so I picked him up by the lapels and put him away.’ He got into another fight the night before he was to audition for playing a Mafia member in COOKIE. ’I walked into the casting director’s office with a wrap around my hand, a black eye, and a scotch voice from drinking the night before. I was instantly hired.’ The face and voice are reminiscent of a young Marlon Brando. ’Yea, 3 years ago I was really into this James Dean/Marlon Brando thing I was so full of intensity. I thought I had to be that way to succeed, but now I’ve put that all aside.’”
US MAGAZINE - 4/16/90
“Adrian Pasdar’s newest passion is reading biography. ’The things people imagine are not as interesting as things that really happen,’ reports Pasdar.”
INTERVIEW MAGAZINE - 1990
“A serious car accident at 18 left him with some intriguing chin scars on what would be otherwise an almost caricaturishly classic square-jawed Steve Canyon face. Another accident led him to acting school in New York City. He supplemented his disability payments selling Sabrett’s hot dogs on the street. VITAL SIGNS producer, Laurie Perlman says ’Adrian Pasdar has so much sensuality and depth that when he falls in love the audience is rooting for it to stick for the rest of his life.’”
SEVENTEEN MAGAZINE - 5/90
“Adrian Pasdar bubbles with energy-so much so he’s ignoring his food. Seated in a bustling New York City restaurant on a cool spring afternoon, Pasdar pick s at his fried calamari and appears a bit restless.
“In VITAL SIGNS I’m an ambitious medical student who’s learning what it takes to be a doctor,’ Pasdar explains sipping a soda, seemingly unfazed by the adoring glances being tossed from 2 women nearby. ’In real life my dad’s a doctor and to get into my role, I spent 36 hours straight following him on rounds. I observed surgeries and saw what it’s like to push yourself, just for the love of the job.’ Pasdar is dividing his time between New York and a California beach abode. ’I’m fortunate that my roles have been so different because I don’t get recognized much,’ he says with confidence. he leans over and almost whispers, ’I have to admit though-it’s a kick when people come up to me and say, Hey, aren’t you that guy from…’ With that Pasdar rises to leave the restaurant, and virtually all eyes turn to watch this gorgeous man. Better get used to it, Adrian.”
N.Y. NEWS TIMES - 10/97
“He played a guy who slept naked in a cardboard box in PROFIT. He’s got eyebrows big and bushy enough to rate their own credit line. Really, what’s not to like about Adrian Pasdar? On Sunday he stars with Victoria Principal in LOVE IN ANOTHER TOWN, by Barbara Taylor Bradford. Pasdar, 32, plays a twenty-something guy who falls in love with Principal’s older woman character. Yes, she’s supposed to be older. Exactly how much older? ’I never asked, and she never told me,’ Pasdar volunteers. Then on Nov. 2-3 it’s HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN 1997. This time, Pasdar’s a straight arrow detective, Vernon Coyle. ’I hated the name Vernon! I made everyone call me Detective Coyle,’ Pasdar says laughingly. What’s next? An independent movie CEMENT that Pasdar will direct. ’It’s a story about emotional violence, betrayal, mistrust, jealousy, and snack food,’ Pasdar joked. (At least we think he was joking.) But don’t look for him to pop up on your favorite evening comedy anytime soon. ’It’s just not my medium. I’m not sitcom-ish,’ Pasdar states.
ORANGE CO LA REGISTER - 10/97
“Adrian Pasdar was so fabulously bad as a corporate anti-hero in PROFIT the he shoulda been outlawed. Tonight Pasdar goes soft and sensitive. He plays every woman’s caring dream hunk in CBS’s LOVE IN ANOTHER TOWN, a tear tugging romantic telefilm. This may seem like a squeaky clean comedown, but once you’ve been the baddest cat on TV, all else is overly sweet aftershave. ’LOVE IN ANOTHER TOWN? It’s a silly little love story-not my genre, but I’m just bright enough to realize there’s a huge audience for that,’ Pasdar, 32, says from NY.
“HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN AND LOVE IN ANOTHER TOWN-you do those movies in the hope you can do other things, Pasdar replies. ’They’re a way to be pragmatic, a way to finance, to sit back and focus on directing and take some time off. Barbara Taylor Bradford who wrote LOVE is not on my bedside table,’ Pasdar states.
“TV movies are a woman’s market. But within that genre, I thought this was about as good as it gets. I thought maybe I could bring something to it, to not be just a lightweight pretty boy. You know they’re fixing your hair and makeup to make you look like that, and you just want a piece of pizza sauce on your chin. You want to not make it perfect, to bring your own sensibilities to it. And it was a challenge. If I hadn’t been with those 2 girls (Principal and Mark Kay Place)-’ Pasdar’s voice trails off. ’They were terrific, but shooting the movie in Vancouver- everytime I go up there I work 17 hour days and never go anywhere. And I have a bit of resentment from PROFIT, which was filmed there, not making it, Pasdar remarks.
“HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN is gonna be a monster,” Pasdar jokes. Surely this is tongue in ghoulish cheek? ’I don’t believe there is any element of it being tongue in cheek, Pasdar says seriously. ’What better place to have Frankenstein meet Dracula? That whole town (L.A.) is full of bloodsucking leeches-it makes perfect sense to have Dracula atop the Hollywood Hills. I’m an East Coaster all the way. But I did get a big budget summer out in LA. I went to Universal as a kid, and this time I was part of this Universal attraction. I was actually filming on Stage 24- Adrian Pasdar in HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN,’ Pasdar says mimicking a perky Universal tour guide. ’If I didn’t have to act, I don’t think I would-it’s a painful process,’ Pasdar remarks. ’It’s the emotional search, the process of trying to maintain a constant grip. I’m not as enamored of the craft as I oughta be. It’s not that appealing at the end of the day for me. I’m never really gonna get out of it, acting. But when you work with really good people, it’s much more fun.’ So Pasdar, like so many other actors, has decided to control his own content and context-by producing and directing it himself. ’I have a very specific sense of my own ability. I’m not enamored of fast cutting, hot music, the current thing. Good film and TV is about real people telling stories we all feel and share. It’s not about getting rich. It’s about getting rich on substance, to let people know they’re not alone-that’s what a good movie does,’ Pasdar remar ks. Funding for his film CEMENT is the biggest bugaboo. Pasdar needs $2-3 million worth, a low budget venture but still a big chunk of cheese. ’It should be called dependent filmaking, not independent,’ Pasdar says, only half joking. ’I can see why so many lives are destroyed trying to make films.’”
Los Angeles Times - 9/8/90
“’ When I first came out here to do TOP GUN,’ Pasdar says, ’I was so broke I had to live at LAX’s Tom Bradley International Airport. I even had my own pay phone there where everybody knew they could reach me.’”
EMPIRE MAGAZINE
“Sexy Bloodsucker”
by Jack Hamilton
1997
Q: “’I was wondering what is happening with Adrian Pasdar of NEAR DARK fame?’
A: ’I’m not really into the garlic scene,’ declares Pasdar, relaxing at his favorite NY hotel. ’The whole fanged teeth and dark cape business really never appealed to me.’ He’s talking about his breakthrough role in the vampire flick, Near Dark, helmed by Kathryn Biglow. It’s been a cult favorite since its release in 1987, and Pasdar regards it as his best. ’I absolutely loved that film. It disregarded all the usual vampire cliches, and Bigalow directed it from the heart. It was filmed mostly at night, and after a while, the whole crew started leading this strange, nocturnal existence.’ Pasdar’s movie break followed a chat with Brit director Tony Scott, who wrote him into Top Gun. Various duff movies (such as Just Like A Woman) followed, but he got back on track with Carlito’s Way, another personal favorite. ’I took that role because it meant being with Al Pacino on a boat for a week. It was great to sit with him between takes and shoot the breeze over a smoke.’ Pasdar has appeared on stage in “On The Waterfront” to great success. So was he worried about stepping into Brando’s boots? ’No disrespect to Brando, but that part could have been played by anybody because it was so beautifully written.’ One senses that Pasdar feels more passionate about making movies than starring in them. ’I never really wanted to be an actor,’ he laughs. ’I grew up watching Kubrick and Peckinpah movies and always wanted to direct. I just sort of fell into this acting thing. After ten years, I’m finally doing something about that. I’m directing my first feature this autumn- a thriller called Cement, which is best described as The Killing meets The Usual Suspects.’ So does he think he’s wasted his time with acting? ’Oh no, I’m very proud to be associated with the likes of Near Dark, but I see acting as a fabulous party. I gatecrashed, stayed up all night, and discovered there was no food left in the morning…’”
ORANGE CO. REGISTER (CA) - 6/7/90
“’In the middle of filming a riot scene in Jerusalem for the movie TORN APART, actor Adrian Pasdar, dressed as an Israeli army officer felt real punches and real rocks coming his way. ’They were throwing foam rocks at us, but then when they ran out of foam, they’d pick up real rocks. It was for many the first chance to take aim at an Israeli soldier at close range,’ Pasdar says. ’No matter that I was an actor,’ he said, ’I represented the Israeli army to them. I pulled up to the scene in an army truck with 15 other soldiers all carrying Uzis, all in fatigues, all sweaty and dirty. They didn’t know if we were actors or off-duty soldiers playing a scene for a movie. When they got in real close, they’d try to hit you.’
“People in the US couldn’t fathom it,’ Pasdar remarks, ’but if an Israeli and a Palestinian woman fell in love in Israel today, both lovers would be killed by their families.’ Pasdar is so enthusiastic about TORN APART that he actually has gone out on the publicity trail for the first time in his career. ’I never understood the marketing angle before, how it fits into the scheme of making movies,’ Pasdar explained. “I never understood what doing interviews had to do with acting.’ Pasdar and costar, Cecilia Peck, helped raise financing for the film and worked on the final script.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS - 10/97
“Adrian Pasdar received the script for HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN while making a TV movie in Vancouver. He had made NEAR DARK, which he called a Vampire Western, and wanted to try the genre again. ’But I didn’t want to wear prosthetics,’ Pasdar recalls.
“I hate sitting in the makeup chair, I really do. I just can’t stand having that glue on my face for 12 hours. Then I read the script and discovered I was the only one who didn’t have to wear prosthetics.’ Pasdar welcomed the chance to play a detective ’because I’m usually on the run, the guy who grabs the girl and takes off in the car with stolen credit cards.’ He prepared for the new role by patrolling at night with the LA cops.”
FROM THE CHARLIE ROBISON SITE:
Charlie Robison is a country singer/songwriter who met Adrian in the late 1980’s and who is currently married to Emily of country’s Dixie Chick fame. Originally, Charlie was to play the main character in Adrian’s directorial debut of CEMENT. He also has a role in the WE MET AT THE VINEYARD movie that was shown at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. During the late 1980s to early 1990s, Adrian had a beach home in California, and this story is from that time.
“When Lucky Dog artist Charlie Robison flew to Los Angeles to visit his friend actor/video director Adrian Pasdar, who directed him in two videos-MY HOMETOWN and BARLIGHT, he had no way of knowing the adventure in store. Upon departing the aircraft, Robison noticed a limo driver standing near the gate with a sign reading, ’C. Robertson.’ Accustomed to having his name misspelled, Robison went with the driver and got into the waiting limo and was taken to what he assumed was Adrian’s unlocked home. Figuring his friend was still slumbering, Robison made himself at home, helping himself to the refrigerator and turning on the television. He was soon interrupted by a very tense man coming through the front door carrying luggage. ’Who the hell are you?’ demanded the man of the lounging singer. ’I’m Charlie. I’m a friend of Adrian’s.’ ’Who the hell is Adrian?’ After a few minutes of confused conversation, the singer realized he was talking to ’C. Robertson’ and was in fact in the man’s home. To add to all the mayhem, Adrian was actually at the airport waiting to take Charlie to his home.”
TRANSCRIPT OF YAHOO! CHAT WITH CCH POUNDER & ADRIAN PASDAR - 10/23/97
Nbclive: CCH & Adrian are with us now!
Adrian: Hello world!
Nbclive: Thank you for joining us this evening.
Tv11324 asks: What attracted you to this project? And, what can we look forward to the most on Nov. 2
CCH: Well, I was certainly mislead, because I thought at first I’d be doing a comedy, that’s how I read the script, but then when I spoke to the director, I found out they were taking it straight and scary.
Adrian: I thought the same way initially, I didn’t think it was a comedy, but at the end of the day it’s really a classically structured horror story. That you can really walk down the street of Hollywood Blvd and see these people and not blink an eye. That’s what makes this so scary.
Nbcsanjose asks: What were some of the challenges in working on a mini-series like this one?
Adrian: Well it was an 11 week shoot, there’s a lot of time lapses between scenes where they connect in the final editing sequence. One of the tricks of this is to remember where you left off for when you pick up 3 weeks later. And because it was a special effects film we were dealing a lot with computer related images and that’s always tough, acting with a blue screen.
Havok276 asks: Was the filming of this movie very taxing, physically on either of you?
CCH: Not for me, I was lucky, I only had 2 or 3 scenes that required a lot of energy.
Adrian: It was at times stressful to be hanging from a helicopter 70 feet above a cement floor, secured only above a cable half the diameter of a dime. All shoots are taxing when they go on for the length of time that this one took. But what makes it less taxing is working with people like CC.
Tv11324 asks: Does “House of Frankenstein 1997″ dip into many Goth topics? Goth seems to be the current rage! Adrian The traditional ones were explored, in terms of relationships and specific characters in the film, actually CC is the resident genius on Goth
Nbcsanjose asks: Did either one of you watch the original “House of Frankenstein” for reference?
CCH: I didn’t.
Adrian: I didn’t for reference, I saw it afterwards. Very campy, hysterically campy.
ClonedbyNBC asks: how do you choose your roles? they’re all so different
Adrian: Well, it depends on the core of every story…what are the people involved in making the people come to life. Locations are certainly an element, I love to travel, and one of the first films I did was simply to go to China to film. But most important is the consistency of dialogue and character.
Nbclive: And, we have an international question……
BroncoBilly_99 asks: What is this series about. I’m curious so that I’m from a Brazilian TV network.
Adrian: It’s a contemporary version of Frankenstein, Dracula, and a woman with a lithanthropic virus (a Werewolf) A blonde being chased by a guy with really big teeth.
Havok276 asks: Have either of you seen the film fully edited and ready to go, and would you want your children to watch it?
Adrian: I haven’t, and it would depend on how old the children were. I remember that I loved being scared as a child.
Nbclive: For you, Adrian, which of your movies do you believe is the most inspirational for you?
Adrian: Gosh the experiences are quite different sometimes than the actual movie. I did a movie in Shanghai that the producer was killed 3 days after the wrap of the movie. The film isn’t released yet, but I had inspirational experiences throughout China. The film is called Shanghai 1920. That was certainly one of the most inspirational times of my life.
Nbclive: Talking about film…
Brakkus asks: Adrian, I heard you are directing a film in Austin. What’s it about?
Adrian: It’s contemporary retelling of Othello. It’s about emotional violence, a high tragedy cloaked in noir structure. It’s a film about betrayal mistrust, jealousy, and greed. It’s about emotional violence when people have to go farther than they’ve ever had to go to get something that they can’t possibly hold onto.
Nbclive: When will it be released?
Adrian: Well, hopefully in the fall of 98. We’re not filming until the spring- January 12 is our start date.
Nbcsanjose asks: Do either one of you use the Internet? If so, what do you like to do: send e-mail, surf the web, talk in chat rooms, etc.
Adrian: I use it all the time, mainly for email since I’m always traveling. It’s one of the most convenient tools, although I haven’t really gotten too much into the technical aspect of all that the Internet offers, but I plan to.
Tv11324 asks: Adrian, what do you enjoy the most — acting or writing? And, I just have to say you’re a terrific actor and you’ve brightened many of my evenings! best of luck…
Adrian: Thank you very much, that’s always really nice to hear, that is the goal I suppose. There’s two different mediums to me, I enjoy the immediacy of working with other actors, writing is a much more solitary sport for me. But they’re such separate enjoyments, I’d hate to choose one or the other for fear that one might leave me. And thanks again for the nice words.
Alleycat_1998 asks: Does the movie draw any allusions to the classic novel by Mary Shelley?
Adrian: I think all Frankenstein monsters owe thanks to Mary Shelley, but certain writers take liberties with expressing their point of view. But without question they all owe her. They all owe her descendants a residual also 
Clift_Note asks: Were there any pranksters on the set? What was funniest thing that happened?
Adrian: Everything was a bit too dangerous stunt wise, there really was a certain noticeable absence. There were lots of little jokes, not anything with props.
CCH: It was all daggers and crosses…
Adrian: “Stop, or I’ll hold up my cross!” Which is not to say that we didn’t have fun. It was a kick to see Frankenstein hanging back with coffee and a cigarette.
SoulsofMischief asks: CCH and Adrian: If you could choose one person to perform with (dead or alive), who would it be?
CCH: Katherine Hepburn
Adrian: I’d have to chose Spencer Tracy
CCH: Oh, Adrian, that’s you and me! We have to do a remake of something!
ClonedbyNBC asks: you had a chance to work with Emmy-winning producer Dick Wolf on “Feds.” He has been outspoken on the issue of television ratings. What are your thoughts on this matter?
Adrian: You know I have to agree with him to a certain extent. Television ratings become the responsibility of parents teaching their children the value of values. It’s the responsibility also of everyone involved in making television, and I think it’s false to think that the responsibility will be taken by putting a label on a show. If they start censoring TV, you know what comes next, it’s the newspapers you read, it’s what comes through here in the chat line. Then it will come to full governmental control of what can be seen.
SoulsOfMischief asks: Are any of you guys big horror movie fans?
Adrian: I’m not a fan of the movies like Scream, but I’ve gotta say I like Alien, the difference there is the difference of what I like in a “horror” movie.
Giant1117 asks: I have two questions, Adrian. First, when you were writing how did you check for accuracy. And, is directing basically bossing people around?
Adrian: I think the most important element of accuracy in writing is honesty and truthfulness, and that of course resides in the writer. With directing, the responsibility there is to collect and execute a story properly. If you look at it as a chess game, being a director is being a pawn. Being a king or a queen is more the actors responsibility. Directing involves all the elements of story telling, it’s much more fully encompassing, for me, than acting.
Nbclive asks: Adrian, I heard about your short film, where can I go to view it? Is it available to everyone?
Adrian: Well, If you contact Bobcatfilm@aol.com [NOTE: THIS IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE AT THAT EMAIL ADDRESS] you can get a copy there, one can be sent to you. As well, it’s on the Sundance channel.
Nbclive: Many people seem to be asking…… What do you like to do to relax from your incredibly busy schedules?
Adrian: Well, I find the schedules themselves to be relaxing when you’re in the middle of it. I find that when you’re not working is when you get tense. But I spend all my free time in Austin, TX.
Nbcsanjose asks: This mini-series broadcasts on Halloween weekend. Do you have a favorite Halloween night memory?
Adrian: I got one, I remember my sister was sick on Halloween about 20 years ago, and she couldn’t go out, so I dressed her up as a pumpkin and took her out, wheeled her in a Radio Flyer wagon around our neighborhood…so she didn’t have to go walking around and stayed warm. She was gosh, 4, and I was 12, it was one of the best Halloween’s I’ve had.
Nbclive: Lastly, what advice would you give to an aspiring young actor?
Adrian: Know that you really, really, really want to do it. There’s plenty of places in NY or LA or anywhere to develop your craft. I think NY would probably be the best place to start a career. And there’s so many elements of this business that attract people, you have to ask yourself if you want to be a star, an actor, or both. Know and believe in your own ability and recognize your limitations, understand fully what you’re capable of. And know that it’s something you have to do, not just something you want. In a way it chooses you, you don’t choose it.
CCH: Thicken your skin to rejection.
Adrian: Copy that.
Nbclive: Thank you very much for joining us this evening, it’s been a wonderful chat session. We can’t wait to watch “House of Frankenstein 1997,” and of course, best wishes for all of your future projects.
Adrian: Thank everyone very much for your time!
TRANSCRIPT OF YAHOO! CHAT WITH ADRIAN - 8/3/2000
y_chat_diva: Welcome to Yahoo! Chat!
y_chat_diva: Our special guest tonight is Mysterious Ways star Adrian Pasdar
y_chat_diva: Please welcome Adrian Pasdar to Yahoo! Chat
y_chat_diva: Hi Adrian .. how are you doing?
adrian_pasdar_live: Good, good, good, How’s everybody?
ZombCat asks: What interested you in doing this series?
adrian_pasdar_live: Most of the series that are out there now pertain to
either doctors,
adrian_pasdar_live: lawyers or cops, by and large. This seems to delve in to
areas that
adrian_pasdar_live: are different, so widely disconnected, so many things
adrian_pasdar_live: that are not connected. And just because I’m an
anthropologist doesn’t mean that I am limited.
dave_the_man_2001 asks: What is your religion?
adrian_pasdar_live: Raised, Catholic, but I got a real good dose of a lot
adrian_pasdar_live: of different religions. I spent some time in Israel.
adrian_pasdar_live: That was very enlightening; a battle over a piece of
land…
adrian_pasdar_live: I stopped going to church for a while, because of the
seeming hypocrisies,
adrian_pasdar_live: so I stopped going for a while…
adrian_pasdar_live: Just recently I was in France, got to see the site of the
Cro-Magnon
adrian_pasdar_live: Spent some time with a guy there and learned that the
Latin root of religion
adrian_pasdar_live: means “to link” … Man needed a way to link…
adrian_pasdar_live: The surplus of food and necessities gave man time to
reflect
adrian_pasdar_live: on his environment. And religion came about because of
the surplus of food. I think…
honeyruiz asks: I really loved him in the series “Profit.” I was sorry to see
it canceled. Does he get a lot of people asking about that show? He played
that role wonderfully!
adrian_pasdar_live: Thank you.
adrian_pasdar_live: A lot of people ask about the show
adrian_pasdar_live: We all perceived it as a comic book, but there were
adrian_pasdar_live: executives at Fox who saw it as exploitive towards women.
adrian_pasdar_live: We thought were exploiting people equally. I think Fox
dropped the ball on that one…
adrian_pasdar_live: The press still asks about it - the people behind it have
moved onto other things…
sweet_like_sugar2004 asks: Where was “Mysterious Ways” filmed?
adrian_pasdar_live: In Vancouver - British Columbia.
adrian_pasdar_live: Profit was here too…
adrian_pasdar_live: It’s great - the best part about the whole thing is the
crews.
adrian_pasdar_live: They are all for the project, there is no star,
adrian_pasdar_live: whether the actor or crew member, it’s very team oriented.
adrian_pasdar_live: Everybody works very hard. They’re the best crews up here.
rttants asks: I would just like to say CONGRATS on your marriage to Natalie
Maines of the Dixie chicks. They’re a great group.
adrian_pasdar_live: Yes they are!
adrian_pasdar_live: It’s funny, I had no idea what she did when we met.
adrian_pasdar_live: I drove from Texas to Nevada to meet her, and I borrowed
adrian_pasdar_live: a CD from Charlie Robison. The disc got stuck in the
player.
adrian_pasdar_live: I listened to “There’s Your Trouble” for 600 miles.
That’s all I knew of them.
adrian_pasdar_live: So I really didn’t know what she did, It took me a while
to get acclimated to what she did.
sincere_girl asks: are the story’s on the program real
adrian_pasdar_live: They’re based in truth
adrian_pasdar_live: After the shows air, we invariably get people who say,
“That happened to my cousin!”
adrian_pasdar_live: As much as you can document this stuff, there are
universal stories that people have heard
adrian_pasdar_live: That become Urban legends, stories that everyone has
heard before.
ZombCat asks: Your series deals with unexplained situations. What is the
extent of your own personal beliefs in the paranormal?
adrian_pasdar_live: Well, I’ve come so close in my life to really bad
situations involving car accidents,
adrian_pasdar_live: power tools, falling off a roof just before this job…
adrian_pasdar_live: I have to believe there’s an Angel looking out for me –
who’s really tired.
adrian_pasdar_live: I’ve never seen a ghost, but I’ve certainly had an
experience of walking into a dark room and having
adrian_pasdar_live: the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. But whatever
people need to believe, it’s whatever helps you
adrian_pasdar_live: It’s like religion.
jazzcaster asks: How does it feel to have your show on 2 networks?
adrian_pasdar_live: It’s kind of weird - it hasn’t happened yet - it debuts
Aug 22
adrian_pasdar_live: We perceive ourselves as the underdog - originally
developed for NBC - then to air on PAX
adrian_pasdar_live: Then NBC got involved. We never expected it to catch on.
adrian_pasdar_live: We thought we’d have a hard time in the critics, but the
heartland of
adrian_pasdar_live: America accepted it - it’s a show for them, not the
critics.
adrian_pasdar_live: And they’re happy with it. NBC is. We tied Monday Night
Football.
adrian_pasdar_live: Nobody expected that.
adrian_pasdar_live: It’s like being brought up from the minor leagues -
adrian_pasdar_live: if you keep hitting them out of the park, they’re not
going to send you back.
the_weed_chick asks: do you like having a lot of women think your sexy?
adrian_pasdar_live: You know, as long as my wife thinks I’m sexy, that’s all
that matters!
adrian_pasdar_live: But yes, that’s flattering - but it’s not the person,
it’s the image.
adrian_pasdar_live: Sometimes I think the whole global fascination with
“bigger than life”
adrian_pasdar_live: is what’s sexy. Not the person. It’s interesting.
dme1013 asks: What is the favorite episode you have done?
adrian_pasdar_live: We’ve done nine episodes … my favorite one is coming up
adrian_pasdar_live: It’s about one of my students that sees himself in the
mirror
adrian_pasdar_live: as a 40 year old black man and becomes that man for an
afternoon,
adrian_pasdar_live: And then turns back into the kid
adrian_pasdar_live: It’s a pretty cool show, that will be my favorite one.
adrian_pasdar_live: Of the ones that we filmed already…
adrian_pasdar_live: One coming up called Demons, it deals with a woman who
adrian_pasdar_live: believes she’s possessed - its like the Exorcist.
adrian_pasdar_live: It’s pretty scary.
lebanese_honey asks: may I ask what nationality you are??
adrian_pasdar_live: Yes, I’ve got — my mother’s East Prussian, my father’s
Persian.
dme1013 asks: How excited are you about the success of the show?
adrian_pasdar_live: I’ve worked so hard for a long time at this career –
adrian_pasdar_live: I’ve been hot for a minute here, a show that’s really
steaming there … fleeting moments…
adrian_pasdar_live: Plus, we’re in Vancouver, so no one up here cares…
adrian_pasdar_live: it’s not like being in the States. I’m just enjoying
myself.
Newell_40094 asks: If you could have a power, what would it be?
adrian_pasdar_live: Hmm…
adrian_pasdar_live: I guess I’d like to have the power to be able to travel
anywhere in the blink of an eye
adrian_pasdar_live: I’m really getting tired of airport security and Customs.
You have these same discussions every time…
adrian_pasdar_live: It’s like being in the Twilight Zone.
adrian_pasdar_live: It’s the same going home, too.
dme1013 asks: What is Rae Dawn Chong like?
adrian_pasdar_live: She’s fantastic, she’s got a really good sense of being a
straight man. I’m doing a lot of goofy stuff…
adrian_pasdar_live: Her sense of Physical comedy is amazing.
adrian_pasdar_live: She looks like a star, just walking down the street. I’d
me nervous if I met her.
adrian_pasdar_live: She just looks like a thousand angels clearing a path for
her.
jungle_morie asks: how old were you when you started acting
adrian_pasdar_live: I was a kid. Maybe 5 or 6. Professionally - Top Gun.
adrian_pasdar_live: But I did plays in our basement with our neighbors.
adrian_pasdar_live: Really bad plays. We did Mary and Joseph from the Bible.
adrian_pasdar_live: We used dogs for the sheep. We used a broom for a staff -
one of the dogs took off after a cat
adrian_pasdar_live: and ran outside. The shepherd ran after him to guide his
flock.
adrian_pasdar_live: The cast followed him, the parents followed them…
adrian_pasdar_live: We finished the play in the streets of Philadelphia.
linzy15_2000 asks: is this the real Adrian the one I saw on TV?
adrian_pasdar_live: You bet!
liddygirl74 asks: so basically you were looking at the diversity of the role?
adrian_pasdar_live: Yeah, the opportunity to play something that wasn’t
locked into a stereotypical profession.
adrian_pasdar_live: I didn’t want to wear a badge or a stethoscope or carry a
briefcase.
adrian_pasdar_live: I don’t have to do any of that.
hottwildbeachgrl asks: did you really give her Ralph?
adrian_pasdar_live: Yeah, I did.
aaanstad asks: hi Adrian, how do you like Internet interviews?
adrian_pasdar_live: I wish I could see it! That would be cool, to see how it
is.
adrian_pasdar_live: Normally, phone interviews get so truncated.
adrian_pasdar_live: It would be so nice to see what you say verbatim,
adrian_pasdar_live: and it’s very refreshing to be interviewed by real people.
ZombCat asks: I enjoyed watching you in that Outer Limits episode. Do you
like physical roles?
adrian_pasdar_live: Really? That was one of my lower achievements … yeah,
but physical roles takes so long to prepare
adrian_pasdar_live: I prefer intellectual action or physical comedy.
adrian_pasdar_live: I prefer action like what Harrison Ford ends up doing…
adrian_pasdar_live: The “Aw Shucks, I’ve got to save the world again”
attitude.
adrian_pasdar_live: Very much like the Silver Surfer - my personal favorite
character.
calmsurrender asks: Adrian, can I clone u?
adrian_pasdar_live: If it’s perfected, and there wouldn’t be any mishaps….
costlylady asks: Adrian how is a typical day in your life?
adrian_pasdar_live: Oh boy…
adrian_pasdar_live: Up at 5, shower, coffee, to the set, hair and makeup,
bust my ass all day… back home between
adrian_pasdar_live: 9:30 and 11:30 that night - watch the news, work on the
next day’s stuff…
adrian_pasdar_live: People don’t understand what’s involved … it’s a
constant grind -
adrian_pasdar_live: And you work late on Fridays, go to sleep early on
Sundays…
adrian_pasdar_live: You have to read a lot, do a lot of physical activity so
you don’t turn into Jabba the Hut.
dme1013 asks: what are your hobbies?
adrian_pasdar_live: I just bought a ranch– Natalie and I just bought a ranch
together in Montana
adrian_pasdar_live: So my hobbies are taking care of a ranch - they’re being
dictated to me whenever I go there.
adrian_pasdar_live: Putting in a water heater, putting in a flue, stables.
adrian_pasdar_live: I play the guitar, but being married to Natalie is like
adrian_pasdar_live: being married to Houdini - you don’t do magic at home.
adrian_pasdar_live: I leave that stuff to her.
phoebs58 asks: Hi Adrian! What was the selling point that got you to agree to
do this show? I’ve seen 2 episodes and love it. Were you interested in the
show from the initial casting?
adrian_pasdar_live: Yeah, the initial casting was just Rae Dawn.
adrian_pasdar_live: And the creator of the show … his persona is who my
character really is –
adrian_pasdar_live: His vision of what network television could be — is what
inspired me
adrian_pasdar_live: It’s very difficult to have a show that isn’t dark and
edgy because of the Sopranos, Sex and the City…
adrian_pasdar_live: Cable makes it hard, because network TV has so many
restrictions.
adrian_pasdar_live: It’s really a frustrating experience if you don’t know
how to do it.
adrian_pasdar_live: Peter had a great idea of a show the whole family could
watch.
adrian_pasdar_live: You don’t have to worry if you leave your kids in front
of the TV.
adrian_pasdar_live: Now that I’m married it’s important to me to be involved
in a show that’s good and true and honest.
adrian_pasdar_live: That’s the challenge from week to week.
lhouma asks: ADRIAN ARE YOU HAPPY IN YOUR WORLD OF CELEBRITY OR IT’S JUST A
CRAP?
adrian_pasdar_live: It would be great if I could live in it!
adrian_pasdar_live: But I live in Vancouver, and I work on a TV show here,
and there’s nothing special about that here.
adrian_pasdar_live: My life is just as simple as a plumber or a schoolteacher
- there’s no real glow.
adrian_pasdar_live: One of the things about fame is the abstract nature of it.
adrian_pasdar_live: Everyone expects it to be accompanied by a big bang,
adrian_pasdar_live: and that’s why there’s excessive behavior - drugs and
alcohol
adrian_pasdar_live: To make it feel like they expected it to be. And it can
really tear your life apart.
adrian_pasdar_live: Poor Robert Downey Jr., into the grips of an addiction
and couldn’t shake it.
adrian_pasdar_live: And he had the worst thing that could happen to anyone
happen — he got thrown in jail.
adrian_pasdar_live: That must be the worst thing - not be able to breathe
free air.
dme1013 asks: Are you anything like Declan Dunn?
adrian_pasdar_live: Unfortunately, yes - absent minded - my socks tend not to
match, my shirts need ironing.
adrian_pasdar_live: It’s fun to play a character like that.
adrian_pasdar_live: I worked with Peter Falk a few years ago,
adrian_pasdar_live: and there are some subtle homages to him.
adrian_pasdar_live: They stop me all the time though–
adrian_pasdar_live: “Adrian, can you do that again? Too much like Columbo.”
adrian_pasdar_live: I slip them in now. That’s my little trick.
adrian_pasdar_live: But I don’t think I’m that much like Declan.
moonlight123_2001 asks: What book are you reading now?
adrian_pasdar_live: I’ve started “The Physics of Immortality” by Frank
Kipler…
adrian_pasdar_live: about God and the resurrection of the dead - Is there a
God?
adrian_pasdar_live: It’s a pretty big book to read - -but it keep me going.
ZombCat asks: What are some of your favorite movies?
adrian_pasdar_live: I like Palm Beach Story. Anything by Preston Sturges,
adrian_pasdar_live: Woman on the Verge is a great film.
sindymc asks: What is the weirdest thing you have ever encountered
adrian_pasdar_live: In Tijuana, I was doing research for a film I directed…
adrian_pasdar_live: I was in a bar, and a woman ran up to me and grabbed my
crotch.
adrian_pasdar_live: I soon realized it wasn’t a woman, pushed him down, and
he exposed himself to be what I thought he was.
adrian_pasdar_live: I went into the back, my friends bought me a drink and
were like, “Dude! I’m glad that wasn’t me!”
y_chat_diva: Thanks Adrian for chatting with us tonight… Go study your
lines
adrian_pasdar_live: I’ve got a big scene ahead of me… Gotta run!
adrian_pasdar_live: Watch the show!
y_chat_diva: Thank you everyone!
kmorey5 asks: thanks Adrian from those of us who are tired of all the sex and
violence on TV
MTV Show At Ground Zero
b y Roger Friedman 5/11/2002
Actor Adrian Pasdar- who’s had a hit with Mysterious Ways- strolled around most of the night with his toddler son, Slade, strapped to his back. Slade’s mom (and Adrian’s wife) Natalie Maines, of the Dixie Chicks was there to sing with Sheryl Crow. Around 10:30pm Slade’s blond hair was standing straight up and his eyes were shutting, Pasdar told him, “Hold on, Mom’s coming. she’s next!”
Frankenstein Lives
by Army Archerd 8/6/1997
High atop the set and stage, they were getting ready for the fire scene. Adrian Pasdar and co-star Teri Polo wore fire-retardant underware beneath their costumes so that when they went through the fire and the flames licked around them, they would be a bit protected. Pasdar told me that the mercury was over 116 degrees.