Austin Basis Habla sobre J.T. y la Season 2
Por Jenna Busch | 30 Sept, 2013 05:09 PM
Fan Voice: You guys blew up your hovel last time.
Austin Basis: Yeah. Well, I guess I didn’t, but yeah, we did.
Fan Voice: Is this the new one? What is this? Tell us…
Austin Basis: Well this, this is, I mean, we did, we actually the last let’s say – after we blew it up was episode thirteen or fourteen, um, Vincent went out on a real estate mission. (laughing) I guess he found this place! And it had, it has more of the classical Beauty and the Beast feel to it and it was a lot cleaner and classier than when Vincent and I were living together here. And since we actually film on a location that is an old bank, that was, we made it something—
Fan Voice: Ok, so this was something that was featured towards the end of the season when Gabe (Sendhil Ramamurthy) came in?
Austin Basis: Yes. Right, and we did a lot of kind of group things down here, but for the most part, the most intimate stuff was this upstairs area, where, it was like Vincent’s room or my little – this was all the stuff that was upstairs because it was a shared space. There was a pool table and stuff.
Fan Voice: So just to clarify, this was in last season but it was in a different location you filmed in.
Austin Basis: Right, and they just rebuilt it. It looks exactly the same.
Fan Voice: I remember when Gabe was beasting, like starting to beast out at the bar—
Austin Basis: Yes, it was here. That was here. And, like you know when he breaks through the door? It was like a normal door, a normal wood door and it was only one panel and they, you know, like, when they build the set, they try to make it as easy as possible for cameras and lights to get through, so they made a double door with windows here, and I don’t know if anyone will notice, but I’m sure some Beasties will notice—
Fan Voice: They will notice.
Austin Basis: They will be like, double doors?!? What’d he do, renovations? And I looked at the name, I’m just going to tell you this, it’s called Condor Bank. Just remember that.
Fan Voice: Why?
Austin Basis: You know, for the first episode.
Fan Voice: Oh, oh. Something big around that name?
Austin Basis: Just remember the name Condor.
Fan Voice: At the end of last season, it took J.T. a while to accept Catherine…
Austin Basis: Yes, yes.
Fan Voice: And now she’s finding that they have to work together to get their boy back. How’s that working for J.T. since he gets a little frustrated with that woman, let’s face it.
Austin Basis: Yes. He did. But what I liked about it–
Fan Voice: She’s the third wheel. She’s breaking up the bromance.
Austin Basis: She’s totally a third wheel in the bromance. But yeah, I like the fact that it evolved because I play characters that, I’ve seen characters that, more so than I play them, you know, and it’s not a sitcom where everyone’s the same all the time and each episode is a new thing for these defined characters to work at, and I think that’s what’s great about TV now. You’re seeing main characters actually evolve and change from season to season sometimes, whether it’s Breaking Bad or Mad Men or The Walking Dead or whatever it is, it’s like people are, you can’t define them and say ‘this is what this character’s going to do. I expect it,’ like Don Draper to cheat or whatever it is. Things will change and so I feel that throughout the season, not just from season to season, is that happened with J.T. and Catherine. I, as an actor, I can’t play like just berating her every time, so I have to find a new way to do it if it’s in the lines, and if I get the opportunity to have that moment of, that I get to see this woman who really cares for my best friend, and then I want what’s best for him, so in turn, I’m going to look after her or try to make that happen for him, such as the whole Alex (Bridget Regan) arc where J.T. was so adamant about how we have this dynamic that’s working; why are you screwing it up by having this dalliance or whatever you’re having with Alex, you know?
Fan Voice: People were mad about that.
Austin Basis: I know, I know. It sucked because it was so hard. We filmed it in October, and it didn’t air until January or February and it was four episodes in the can and it was like ‘Okay, now what do we do? We can’t edit her out, she’s a main part of Vincent’s story line.’
Fan Voice: So tell us about this relationship then. I want the new material for J.T. and Catherine.
Austin Basis: It’s been three months since the kidnapping, and they’ve been searching for Vincent at this, this headquarters – J.T. HQ. So, I think they had some interesting ideas for what that relationship would be, but I think it was more important to the action of this season as opposed to the last three months. And so the quick summary is that they work together, and they, you know, when you find them in episode 201, they still are coming up against dead ends. J.T. has been doing this for ten years and three months, Cat’s been doing this for a year, or less than a year, and it’s, she still has more of that hope, where J.T. is a realist, he’s a pessimist, and a cynic, and so he always thinks the worst is happening and so every time he tries a new way to get to Vincent or find out anything about Vincent, it’s a dead end, it’s a failure… Every time Cat keeps on him, encourages him, it’s shoving that in his face and that he’s the reason why Vincent is, uh… because he feels guilt from it, from all the stuff that’s happened to Vincent. And I, as an actor, you work with the guilt of, that it’s your friend that’s going through all this and you’re trying to – I try to think of it as brothers because I have a brother and I have friends and there’s a difference between a brother and a friend. I guess if I was an only child and I had a best friend, that would be like a brother but I feel like J.T. is kind of like that, so the only substitution or relationship I have is my brother, my younger brother, and so it’s a similar thing where you’re just trying to do anything, and I would try to do anything under any circumstance for my brother. And then, if I have a guilt or feeling bad for that situation or at fault in a way, I will work that much harder, hence the extreme loyalty that is almost kind of above and beyond – he puts his life at risk with almost no thought even though I as an actor have to think about that, and you know, figure out what situation I would put myself in harm’s way to save my best friend.
Fan Voice: How has the relationship between them changed when he’s back?
Austin Basis: Well, I’m not sure exactly what I can say about that.
Fan Voice: We know that they find him very quickly, and we know that he is more beastly – Beast 2.0.
Austin Basis: Yeah. The simple way I’ve been explaining it is like when you don’t see someone for three months and you’ve seen them every day for the past ten years, what’s changed? Their weight, their hair color – whatever it is, it’s this perspective of seeing them differently and they’re doing the same thing. They’re experiencing the same thing and at every moment you just want to not have to go through the catch up period and you want to jump to what you know is your relationship where you left it three months ago. So, I think that’s a big thing with J.T. and Vincent is constantly, especially on J.T.’s end, is trying to reignite that aspect of their relationship and, not like nothing’s ever happened, but the dude’s been kidnapped and tortured and reprogrammed by Muirfield – I don’t know what that’s like, but it’s not that J.T. doesn’t care, but he just wants to snap his fingers and have old times and he’s going to drum up the nostalgia, talk about what they used to do together and try to fill him in on everything that’s happened in the last three months, catch him up so that he, that they can get back to where they’re old friends again.
Fan Voice: Are we going to see out of the safe? It was interesting when he left to do his own experiments last year.
Austin Basis: Right. And I think, yeah, I think that when you pick up J.T., he’s been, he’s trying to move on. He’s still obviously crushed that his best friend and brother is possibly dead. That’s what he thinks, you know. He’s dead or he’s not out there, Cat is obsessed and pushing him, and so he’s already started to compile this scientific information and start writing a book. It’s not necessarily an arc within this story, but there’s definitely stuff going on where he’s trying to branch out and be his own person. This is the first three months that he’s been on his own for a while, so there’s a lot of different things and whether it’s academically or career-wise or relationship-wise that he can actually… You know, in the three months who knows what his sex life was, but he can actually invite someone over and not be scared that Vincent’s going to be there as a beast and freak her out. (laughing) No, no! But this is a huge bachelor pad and obviously he hasn’t brought anyone to it in a while, namely a cleaning lady, so he, I think you’re going to see him more because of Vincent’s absence he has this relationship with Cat. And now, with Tess and Gabe he’s bringing – they’re all kind of working together to come to Vincent’s aid and J.T. and Tess (Nina Lisandrello) might be a potential connection.
Fan Voice: Oh, that makes me happy.
Austin Basis: Well, I don’t know if it’s going to happen. What will happen will follow the progression of the natural story line.
Fan Voice: But they’re married. There’s a better choice.
Austin Basis: I know, right? I feel like they’re dopplegangers. They’re each – they’re best friends.
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