Vol. 46
Thursday, November 20, 2008
©Marc Allan
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Jon Voight provides commentary and insight for You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story, Sept. 23-25 on PBS.
Q: How did you end up on Seinfeld?
A: I hadn't done any television at all; I stayed away from television. But I figured, this was just a little something walking through, and I said sure I'd do it with these guys; they're a tremendous ensemble, very talented people. So I said yes.
So they send me the script and my name is on every page of the script. I had this little scene – almost forgettable in the story – where I bite Kramer's arm. Can you imagine that I come on the show and bite his arm and nobody even remembers it because the show is so funny and so popular?
But people come up to me to this day to give me a pencil to bite. It's so cute. That show is one of the most popular additions to my time as an actor. Everybody mentions it.
Q: There's a sense that television has eclipsed movies as a storytelling medium, with shows like The Sopranos and Mad Men. Do you agree?
A: Obviously, television has taken a big jump in certain areas. The Sopranos was filmed; it was on every week. It's all the same roots. TV is certainly coming into its own; it's doing some very good things. Unfortunately, it's also doing some lousy things. But that's normal. You separate the wheat from the chaff.
But I'm very happy. I'm playing the villain on 24 this coming season. I think it's become more a sharing of the different media, you know what I mean? So that people can go back and forth now, where at one point you couldn't; it was like doing B-movies.
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Marc Allan is a freelance reporter/ writer whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and many other newspapers and magazines.
He's based in Indianapolis.
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