9:05 PM, January 11, 2010 ι SEAN DALY
Q: Would you be interested in coming back for a season 9?
This is one of the greatest gifts of my life, the ability to do 24. So for me, yes. It is something that is absolutely open. I have always said that as long as people wanted us to make it, people wanted to watch it. I would be interested. The task of writing it is far greater than the task of acting in it. But certainly it is always open to continue doing it. But right now my focus is finishing season 8.
Q: How long were you shooting in New York?
I was there for a week and then we shot all of our plates over another 10 days.
Q: What kind of reaction did you get from New Yorkers?
(When we are filming) we always have police on the corners, but this one day I came running around the corner with a gun. It was a mix of our extras and just regular people who always seem to break through the lines. They were just walking down the street. And I found it amazing that in Los Angeles if you are running down the street with a gun, people stop their cars and they check it out. In New York if you are running down the street with a gun, people would just walk right by like nothing else was going on.
Q: What would it take to bring you back for another year?
In all fairness, 24 has been so great for me that for me to come back, it would not be a financial decision. I am in real good shape. They have taken care of me real well. And in all fairness, the same for season 8. I didn't need to come back. I wanted to. I love making this show. I still think that even this season has gotten quite big with regard to its action. If I were to come back and do a ninth season, which is something that Howard and I have talked about at length, about bringing the show back to a much smaller situation like we had in year one. In year one, there was no bomb, there was no threat. It was literally about trying to protect the potential incoming president. It was literally that small. It lent itself more to the thriller genre than the action genre and that is something that interested both of us. So it would be a choice like that.
Q: Would you want to have a Sopranos kind of end moment?
Well we have talked about making the movie for some time, so I don't think Howard and I would want to inhibit that. If we are going to do it, we better do it soon, because Jack is getting older by the minute. (laugh) Those are all to be taken into consideration. If I just had my dream, yeah, it would be fantastic to just have a definitive end and have it be something that was really jolting and surprising and not at the place where you think it would be.
Q: Seems like New York had been on the table for a while... What took so long for you to get there?
I actually never heard that New York was on the table. I think really because Washington worked so well for us. We loved the way it looked. I think it was really nice to visually get out of Los Angeles and try something different. And the fact is that this is a national issue, so just from a writers perspective to lock yourself into the (idea) that the only terrorist situation that had ever taken place in the United States was in Los Angeles got a little old.
Q: Why didn't you shoot more on location in NY?
I think it was a combination of economics. We are shooting the equivalent of twelve films a year in a ten and a hald month period. We have a very well oiled machine here and to uproot it and try to move to New York would be very difficult. So we got away with really using plates. The technology right now, you can shoot a scene in downtown Los Angeles, take out Los Angeles and put you on the corner of west 4th and 7th Avenue.
It was very funny during the casting trying to find every out of work New York actor that has transplanted themselves to Los Angeles and use them as extras.
Q: You mean to find people who looked like they were from New York?
I don't know if there is a specific look, but there certainly is a specific sound and walk.
Source: NYPost.com
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