Exclusive Interview: Julian McMahon for “Fantastic Four”
Julian McMahon has played his share of bad guys, but on the phone from New York, promoting his first truly big Hollywood film, the Australian actor has a philosophical approach about playing villains, such as Victor von Doom in Fantastic Four. “You know everyone always says the villains are the fun ones to play, and there is definitely a part of me that agrees with that,” McMahon explains, while also conceding he had been a comic book fan and a fan of this particular comic since childhood. “To me it was just taking on a great character, having been a comic book and cartoon fan of The Fantastic Four, knowing about Victor Von Doom since I was a 5 or 6 year old kid, so it was kind of more about taking on that kind of responsibility then it was taking on a villain. That said, getting there, being the villain and playing the bad guy is always fun.”
McMahon says that he approaches playing the villain both as a bad guy and as characters with certain, redemptive qualities, “because I do look at them as a villain, because you have a mission that you need to accomplish by the end of the movie. I also look at them as people and calculate very thoroughly how I can manipulate the audience in a way that they will attach themselves to the character. I feel like it is important to me to show the audience different sides of the personality, so it is not just a bad guy, but this guy who is multi layered. At the end of the movie I’d like to have the audience a little conflicted as to whether they want him to die.”
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Julian McMahon Wants Much More on ‘Nip/Tuck’
Nip/Tuck returns with its fifth season at the end of this month and we previously filled you in on some details straight from the show’s resident sex symbol, Julian McMahon. As the egocentric half of the formerly Miami-based cosmetic surgery practice, McMahon’s Christian Troy also provides the sexual pulse of the series.
The 39-year old actor had more to say about his Nip/Tuck alter ego’s new challenges when he and his partner, Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) start anew in Los Angeles.
“Christian always thinks that he can dominate kind of any circumstance and situation that he’s in,” the one time law student and model told CanMag last month. “In Miami, I feel like he did that to a certain extent but when he gets to L.A., it feels like he’s kind of running amongst a bunch of people who are better at doing what he’s doing than he is himself.”
McMahon goes on to reveal that for the first time in quite a while, Christian Troy may feel like a fish out of water, threatened by the disconcerting reality that he may be just another player amongst a s host of others who are actually greater than him. It’s a kind of wake-up call for the usually self-assured surgeon, who now feels pangs of insecurity and uncertainty.
Dish Of Salt: “Nip/Tuck” Tease via Access Hollywood
Dish Of Salt: “Nip/Tuck” Tease (June 22, 2006)
by Laura Saltman
One of my favorite shows, “Nip/Tuck,” is back in production and Access Hollywood got the first visit to the set. Read on fans because I got the chance to hang out with the cast at their “Miami” digs. OK, really it was soundstages # 1 and 2 on the Paramount lot in Hollywood but that’s just as cool to me. I’ve got all of the Season Four scoop for you months before the show returns.
Last season, the show took a very dark turn with the Carver storyline and the show’s stars, Julian McMahon and Dylan Walsh, will admit things got a little off track. Dylan who plays the struggling to hold onto his family, Dr. Sean McNamara, muses, “The premise of the show last year was a little bit of a stretch. My joke last year was that we were the only plastic surgeons who should carry guns and wear badges because there was so much of a criminal element.”
This season, Julian, who plays the sex-crazed, Dr. Christian, told us the show will get back to its roots, “It’s that light atmosphere that we had you know. I drive a fast car. We’ve got a lot of beautiful women. It just gets back to the original taste of “Nip/Tuck” which I think we missed a little bit last year. He (Dr. Troy) was so depressing last year!”
No commentsGuest Stars Flock to ‘Nip/Tuck’
PASADENA, Calif. — When “Nip/Tuck” returns to FX in September, it will be bringing a gaggle of high-profile guest stars, ranging from French screen legend Catherine Deneuve to Rosie O’Donnell.
Also taking guest turns on the show will be Peter Dinklage, Jacqueline Bisset, Melissa Gilbert and Richard Chamberlain. Additionally, Brooke Shields, Kathleen Turner, Larry Hagman and Sanaa Lathan will have recurring parts — the latter two as a husband and wife who offer to buy the McNamara/Troy plastic surgery practice from Sean (Dylan Walsh) and Christian (Julian McMahon).
No commentsDylan Walsh and Julian McMahon’s Worst Jobs!
Before they were stars, a lot of your favorite celebs had to take any job they could get to pay the rent. Surprisingly, food service is not at the top of the worst job list, but working in the cleaning service industry is. ET did a bit of sleuthing to find out who did what!
“I was a maintenance guy at a Bob’s Big Boy in Virginia, and I had to clean the bathrooms,” admits “Nip/Tuck”’s top doc DYLAN WALSH, who has come a long way since.
His fellow smooth operator, JULIAN McMAHON, also had to do a nasty bit of washing-up. “I had to clean buckets in a flower store,” the handsome Aussie tells ET. “That’s not good, because once the flowers are a couple of days old, they get that stinky, cruddy stuff on them that stinks. It is a nasty job. I had to go to the flower store every morning at 3 a.m. to get the flowers, and then go back at six to clean the buckets. But I got paid and that is all that matters.”
Source: ET Online
No comments‘Nip/Tuck’ Will Implant Itself Here (LA Times)
The daring FX series set in Miami seeks further enhancement with a move to a famous Left Coast address.
By Maria Elena Fernandez, Times Staff Writer
Goodbye, South Beach. Hello, Beverly Hills.
McNamara-Troy, the debauched plastic surgeons of “Nip/Tuck,” have hung up their Miami shingle and traded up (or so they think) for the reconstructive mecca of the famous ZIP Code 90210.
In last night’s fourth-season finale of FX’s series, Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) decided what viewers have known all along — that he can’t live without his partner and best friend, Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh). In a season of several important goodbyes — Julia divorced Sean for good this time and left town with their two younger children; scalpel addict Mrs. Grubman passed away and nemesis Escobar was shot to death — the doctors shut down their Miami practice to start anew in Los Angeles.
No commentsJulian McMahon Resurrected in ‘Premonition’
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - “Nip/Tuck” star Julian McMahon has signed to join Sandra Bullock in the thriller “Premonition.”
The Sony Pictures project centers on a housewife (Bullock) whose husband dies in a car crash but appears alive the next day. Australian-born McMahon was recently in theaters with “Fantastic Four.”
Shooting is set to begin in January in Louisiana. It will be directed by German filmmaker Mennan Yapo.
Source: Reuters.com
No commentsJulian McMahon On The “Fantastic” Sequel
While promoting the fourth season of “Nip/Tuck” today, series’ star Julian McMahon revealed to iF Magazine that he is indeed going to be returning as Dr. Doom in the “Fantastic Four” sequel.
Since Doom was completely covered in his costume by the end of the first film, the big question comes - is he just providing a voice, or will he actually be seen on screen.”We haven’t got a script yet. The script hasn’t been put out and I’m not going to start until the end of August or September.
Right now, I’m literally every day, 16 hours a day on Nip/Tuck… I don’t think there is going to be as many prosthetics. That was tough. I would rather not do it again, but at the same time, I’ve signed up to do what I need to do”.
Source: Dark Horizons
No comments‘Nip/Tuck’ Season 5 Exclusive
Lauren Hutton, Portia De Rossi, Oliver Platt and Rosie O’Donnell will make guest appearances on “Nip/Tuck” when the venerable plastic surgery drama returns for its fifth season in October.
Hutton will play a Hollywood publicist. De Rossi takes on her first role as a lesbian mother whose teenage daughter asks doctors Sean and Christian to do some work on her. Platt will be a television executive, a role that some say spoofs “Nip/Tuck” creator Ryan Murphy himself, and O’Donnell reprises Dawn, the unclassy woman introduced last season who hit it big in the lotto.
No commentsJulian McMahon Talks About Nip/Tuck’s Outrageous Season 4
Tuesday, 12 September 2006
By Christina Radish
Currently in its fourth season, Nip/Tuck, airing Tuesdays on FX, has already gotten off to a strong start, pulling in close to 5 million viewers for it’s premiere. The original drama series follows the lives of Dr. Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) and Dr. Christian Troy (Julian McMahon), two plastic surgeons, best friends and business partners who run McNamara/Troy, a South Beach plastic surgery practice. While their patients are attempting to fix internal traumas with external cosmetic procedures, the surgeons themselves have their own unhealed wounds.
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