Shane West au festival de télévision de Monte Carlo 2023

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Membre du jury pour la 62e édition du festival de télévision de Monte Carlo, Shane West passait au micro de BetaSeries. Retrouvez-nous sur BetaSeries.com

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:02 - Hello Shane.

00:25 - Hi.

00:26 - Is it your first time as a jury member or?

00:28 - Yes, I mean, I believe so.

00:30 (laughing)

00:31 Yeah, no, this is the first time for real

00:34 and it's been a wonderful experience so far.

00:37 It's a lot of work as it probably should be,

00:39 but we really saw some very good series and films

00:44 and I'm not making that up.

00:46 And so it's made it difficult in a good way

00:50 of trying to figure out how we can

00:52 get the best projects nominated.

00:55 - What were you the most surprised with

00:57 with these shows, because they're all international,

01:00 so maybe the themes you were not always aware of them

01:03 and such.

01:04 - There was a couple, I mean, I don't, that's the problem.

01:07 I'm not sure how much I can talk about that,

01:08 but there was at least two that were about subjects

01:11 that all of us were somewhat privy to,

01:15 but didn't know a lot about.

01:17 And that was fun because then you're actually

01:20 learning a bit and it made us,

01:22 it's also why we knew it stood out

01:24 because it made us want to get on your laptop

01:27 or your phone and start doing research about it.

01:30 I think that's always important.

01:31 It's very easy to do cookie cutter,

01:36 straightforward type shows.

01:37 So I think we had some that thought outside the box

01:40 and that's what made this whole selection

01:44 a little more difficult, but in a great way.

01:48 - Let's talk about your career a little bit, of course.

01:52 So we may know you as the international audience

01:55 from once and again years ago.

01:56 - Sure, I love that.

01:57 It's always good to hear about that.

01:59 - Yeah, so what was that first experience?

02:02 - That was my acting class, basically.

02:04 I was 20 when I booked the pilot,

02:08 21 when the show started,

02:11 23 when the show left the air.

02:14 So look, Marshall Herskovits and Ed Zwick,

02:18 the creators of the show,

02:20 were our fantastic writers and producers

02:22 having done "30-something" and "Sisters"

02:25 and "My So-Called Life."

02:27 I think they're batting a thousand

02:29 with everything, every project that they do.

02:31 They knew I was young and impressionable

02:34 and hadn't worked much.

02:35 This was my first series.

02:37 And they kind of became my acting class

02:40 by bringing me into keeping everything real,

02:43 keeping everything natural.

02:45 That was their style of acting,

02:47 the way that we're speaking to each other right now,

02:48 like that, rather than being over the top.

02:52 And I still kind of use those techniques,

02:55 for better or for worse, to this day.

02:57 And it's a form of acting that I love.

03:00 - And that's why it was so beloved.

03:02 It was this family show

03:03 and everyone felt connected to it, I guess.

03:05 - Good, good, yeah.

03:06 - A couple of years later, "ER," of course,

03:09 I felt that your character, Ray Barnett,

03:12 was kind of overlooked, maybe misunderstood,

03:16 let's say that.

03:17 - Yes, for sure, yes.

03:18 - So what do you think?

03:19 - I think that Ray ended up getting a pretty good arc

03:24 by when it was all said and done, by the end of the series.

03:29 I was just saying that I think it's amazing

03:33 that they kept me in the loop

03:34 and kept me a part of the show,

03:37 even when I wasn't a part of the show.

03:38 - And for the finale.

03:40 - And then coming back for the finale.

03:41 But Scott Grimes and Linda Cardellini,

03:44 they would call and say,

03:45 "Hey, when I wasn't on the show,

03:46 "hey, we're talking about you."

03:48 And I'm like, "What does that mean?"

03:49 They're bringing up your character.

03:51 And I'm like, "Really?

03:52 "I'm not, okay, that's lovely, I love that."

03:54 And I don't think they knew what they were going to do

03:59 with Ray to begin with.

04:01 I do know when they started season 11, when I started,

04:04 they wanted a new young male doctor

04:08 who could be kind of like Clooney was in the beginning,

04:13 like Goran was in the middle,

04:15 and the new version of that,

04:17 but they liked my music background

04:19 and they threw that in there until I told them,

04:21 "We gotta get rid of this at this point.

04:24 "It's gonna be weird having him do both."

04:26 And they loved those things.

04:28 So I think they just let it play out.

04:31 The romance and the love story,

04:34 that ended up happening with Ray and Neela,

04:35 that was just organic.

04:37 And then when they saw that happening,

04:39 which they didn't write into the script really,

04:42 they went with that.

04:43 And I think that's what helped resonate

04:45 with the fans a lot.

04:46 I think they ended up loving the connection

04:48 between Ray and Neela.

04:50 - That's when I can ask about music.

04:52 So do you still play?

04:53 - I do.

04:54 I haven't played in a while.

04:55 It's been, well, the last show with my old band,

04:58 I think it was a couple of years ago.

05:01 But I moved to Nashville, Tennessee a couple of years ago.

05:04 - Countryman, okay.

05:05 - I mean, maybe, I don't know.

05:07 I'm trying to think about that.

05:09 If I did, it would be a little bit more outlaw country.

05:11 It'd be a little more Johnny Cash, I guess.

05:16 Or now it would be more of a Chris Stapleton, I guess.

05:19 But it would be a little more folky in that sense.

05:24 - So your punk days are in the past?

05:27 - I don't know.

05:28 I don't know.

05:29 It's a weird, it's me getting used to a new living situation

05:33 and culture and people.

05:35 And it's sort of me trying to figure out

05:38 where do I fit into that, you know?

05:40 - And then of course, Nikita, Sa, Michael.

05:43 I mean, the four main characters,

05:45 I think they're all beloved.

05:46 I mean, well, now that we talk about Michael to you,

05:48 what do you think of him?

05:50 - Love him.

05:50 I mean, I really enjoyed the,

05:55 well, I really enjoyed the movie, the Luc Besson film,

05:57 but also the first series with Peta.

06:00 The irony of that is I did

06:02 "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" with Peta Wilson

06:04 and then later was on Nikita.

06:06 But she was a great Nikita in the film,

06:09 Nikita in the USA series.

06:11 And I really enjoyed the Roy, if I'm getting this correct,

06:14 the actor who played Michael on that series.

06:16 I really enjoyed his interpretation of it

06:19 and wanted to give a little of a homage to him

06:24 on the series that I did and play it to a similar extent

06:28 because I really liked how he embodied

06:30 the character of Michael.

06:32 And then Maggie and I had great chemistry right off the bat

06:35 and it really helped the Michael and Nikita relationship

06:38 work for four years, you know?

06:39 - Thank you very much.

06:40 - Thank you.

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