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 Andre Braugher
Interview By: Michael Dance To many people, Andre Braugher is a vaguely familiar actor, a face from movies like Frequency or City of Angels or Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. To those who know his TV work, he’s a legend: for six years in the mid-90s he starred as Detective Frank Pembleton in Homicide: Life on the Street. The show struggled in the ratings but survived as long as it did thanks to critical acclaim and numerous awards. Later shows Braugher has done, such as Gideon’s Crossing and Thief, have seen familiar levels of acclaim but haven’t lasted nearly as long. “You can rest assured that I will invariably choose a critically acclaimed failure as my next project,” Braugher says, cracking up. “I just try to move on and hopefully take some lessons with me… I’m always just looking for the most interesting project.” In the meantime, his role in this Thanksgiving’s The Mist may not be written in the history books, but the film is a ripping good suspense yarn. Based on a Stephen King novella, it tells the story of a strange mist that descends over a New England town and traps dozens of people inside a supermarket. Nobody knows how far the mist has spread – maybe the whole world? – and strange things might be hiding within it, too. “He’s a jerk, and he’s a realist, and he’s gone,” Braugher says of his character Brent, the next door neighbor of David Draper (Thomas Jane), the hero of the story. “Sane men in an insane world are just going to get their heads chopped off, that’s the way it is.” (Don’t worry, that’s a turn of phrase, not a spoiler.) “Everything we know to be true is now over by the mist. Brent just can’t accept that. There’s got to be some escape. There’s got to be some rescue.” In the film, Brent seems almost absurdly in denial about the situation, but then again, he doesn’t know he’s in a horror movie. Braugher expertly deconstructs his character’s very human psychology. “He’s just desperate to understand what’s going on. He is an outsider, and he is a Type A personality. But there comes a point, when we’re in this crazy situation, where my next door neighbor and the assistant supervisor and two drunks show up and tell me they saw [something] out by the loading dock…and I’m supposed to believe that? That’s where Brent thinks the madness is taking hold of people: I don’t know what’s going on, but I know there’s nothing in the mist that’s snatching people out of here. “My mind gravitates toward the picture of the world I have. I use the true things that I know about people: that David Draper is my neighbor. That he was kind to me today but we’ve been in a property dispute and at each ... |
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