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Joshua Jackson Talks 'Fringe'
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The new fall TV show with the most buzz this year is "Fringe," the Fox drama created by J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.
As Fox describes the show, "Fringe" is "a fantastical thriller about an unlikely trio who uncovers a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between the possible and the impossible."
Joshua Jackson plays Peter Bishop, the genius son of the scientist who may hold the key to many of the secrets of the show. He was recently nice enough to answer a few questions about the show, and his character.
Q: How would you describe your character?
Joshua Jackson: Peter (Bishop) is a really dumb smart guy. And it’s on the page. And he’s kind of aware of the fact that he’s a dumb smart guy. He has this native intelligence to him where he’s probably a couple steps ahead of every everybody else in the room, but he still makes incredibly stupid choices at every step along the way. So yeah, I guess dumb smart guy that’s the best way to describe him.
Q: When viewers first meet Peter, he's in a pretty tough situation...
Joshua Jackson: He’s put himself in a position where he needs to make a lot of money very quickly and I guess sources out that the easiest way for him to do that and he
has to be out of the United States.
The easiest way for him to do that is to work as a contractor doing something very, very dangerous in Iraq. So yeah, when we first meet him he’s in that place of jeopardy. But I would imaging for Peter’s sake it’s probably not the first and definitely not the last time that he’s going to put himself in a precarious situation; partially to make up for a mistake that he’s made, but partially for also I think he enjoys being at the edge and testing himself. You know, just seeing how smart he really is, seeing if he can put himself just slightly over the line of safety and comfort and be able to make his way back in one piece.”
Q: What do you like best about "Fringe"?
Joshua Jackson: This is what I like the most about it. It takes the world that we live in, and then goes just slightly into the ridiculous zone, which good Sci-Fi does. It’s a place that we can all relate to. You know, it’s not aliens and it’s not werewolves—that’s a different type of Sci-Fi, but it’s our world just with all the possibilities opened up, and that’s fun to me.
You know, you can never tell what it is that’s going to happen next, because we, you know, we give ourselves the ability to have fantastical things, nearly magical things happen, but we root them in the real world, and that’s great.”
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