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 Ian McShane
Spotlight By: Benjamin Lee Click here for another interview with Ian McShane! Best known to American audiences for the cult HBO western series Deadwood, Ian McShane’s big screen assault officially starts here. McShane stars in the true-life football drama We Are Marshall as a grieving father whose wife and son both die in a tragic plane crash. Unlike his co-stars, McShane’s character is actually a composite of various real-life people so his preparation for the role was tough. Luckily for McShane, he didn’t have time to prepare anyway. ‘It all came as a rush’ he admits, ‘I’d finished Deadwood on the Wednesday night and got on a plane on Thursday morning and started doing the funeral scene. I just got straight in there and did it. Thank God I had no lines in that scene!’ The film is shot in the same town where the original tragedy took place. Despite being put on the map after the crash, it’s still a typical small US town says McShane. ‘It’s a small town’ he states, ‘All there was was a steel mill and a University. It’s very beautiful but as a town it’s got 25,000 less people there than in the 1970s. It’s rural America.’ The story concerns itself with how the college football team reconstructs itself after the tragedy and for an Englishman such as himself, McShane recognizes that it isn’t a story which will necessarily play well outside of the US. ‘It doesn’t matter how this film will do outside America’ he believes, ‘It’s a very American story. It’s about a game which is original to America. American college football – there’s no equivalent. I mean they get 100,000 people at a college football game. It’s remarkable. A huge business.’ Before he signed on McShane admits he’s never even heard of the crash. He also had no prior knowledge of the film’s director McG, a name he struggled with at first. ‘I hadn’t seen Charlie’s Angels before I did it so I knew nothing of the guy’ he says, ‘I didn’t know what to call him at first. It seems odd calling someone McG but it’s his mother’s maiden name. He’s a nice kid and I think he did a good job.’ The part was a radical departure for McShane – he plays ‘a sensitive rich guy’ – a far cry from his Deadwood days. The question on all of Deadwood’s many devoted fans is what’s next for the popular HBO series? Is it really ending? ‘Well we’ve finished series 3’ he states, ‘There’s talk that maybe we’ll do two 2 hour movies to finish next year. We’ll see what happens. Deadwood really was the most remarkable job. It was tremendous to be involved with something like that.’ McShane isn’t happy with the HBO bosses who are calling it quits with the series, due to its high costs, despite it’s critical success. ‘It seems odd that they’d cut off their critical nose to spite their financial face’, he ponders. Next, ... |
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