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September 11, 2006 - Ron Livingston first gained notice as one of the talented cast of Swingers, which was a huge calling card movie for everyone involved, including stars Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn and director Doug Liman. Other roles in film and television soon followed for Livingston, most notably his performance as the lead character Peter Gibbons in Mike Judge's Office Space, which would go on to become a cult classic and best selling DVD.
In recent years, Livingston has had several other noteworthy parts in high profile projects, including the Tom Hanks/Steven Spielberg produced World War II military drama Band of Brothers, and stints on The Practice and on Sex in the City, where Livingston played Carrie Bradshaw's love interest Jack Berger.
Livingston's latest project is Standoff, the new FOX series in which he plays Matt Flannery, a hostage negotiator who ends up revealing his secret romance with his partner Emily (Rosemarie DeWitt) while trying to talk down a man holding his sons hostage, all in the first few moments of the series. Not surprisingly, this revelation has fallout, as Matt and Emily's boss Cheryl (Gina Torres) isn't very happy to hear her two best agents have let their work and personal life become intertwined.
Recently I spoke to Livingston, to talk about his role on Standoff and what's to come on the series, along with what it's like to be a part of two movies that have had the long-term fandom of Swingers and Office Space, and what his own encounters with fans are like.
A little bit. I did a TV movie called 44 Minutes about a shootout in North Hollywood, where I played a SWAT guy, so I'm not coming into this one cold, which is always good; It's always tough the first time you do something, because you're like, "Alright, I don't want this to look too cheesy." But yeah, it is kind of fun. Anytime you get to run around with a gun, that's fun.
There are obstacles… You know, it's got to find its own way. At least in the beginning, without giving too much away, they're gonna try to see how it develops. It's not something we throw out in the first episode and then walk away from. It's not like a Seinfeld thing where, "Oh yeah, they used to be girlfriend and boyfriend," and then that's it. There's definitely some tension with that, that's gonna run through the show.
I had a feeling about it the first time we read it together. It just kind of took on a life… It's tough to find that sometimes, where all of the sudden, it just starts to go. And fortunately they picked up on it, because sometimes that happens, and the people running the thing aren't necessarily smart enough to pick up on it. When they do pick up on it, it's always another sign that, okay, we're in good hands here. The people running this thing get it.
That's exactly right. The cases are gonna be I think more or less episodic, where each show is gonna wrap something up. Where as the relationship stuff is gonna kind of be ongoing and develop. The nice thing that gives us is you can go on vacation for a couple weeks, come back, and not have completely lost track of what's going on with the show and have to wait for the DVD to come out. Which I think is a danger sometimes with a lot of shows, where everything is serialized.
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September 11, 2006 - Ron Livingston first gained notice as one of the talented cast of Swingers, which was a huge calling card movie for everyone involved, including stars Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn and director Doug Liman. Other roles in film and television soon followed for Livingston, most notably his performance as the lead character Peter Gibbons in Mike Judge's Office Space, which would go on to become a cult classic and best selling DVD.
In recent years, Livingston has had several other noteworthy parts in high profile projects, including the Tom Hanks/Steven Spielberg produced World War II military drama Band of Brothers, and stints on The Practice and on Sex in the City, where Livingston played Carrie Bradshaw's love interest Jack Berger.
Livingston's latest project is Standoff, the new FOX series in which he plays Matt Flannery, a hostage negotiator who ends up revealing his secret romance with his partner Emily (Rosemarie DeWitt) while trying to talk down a man holding his sons hostage, all in the first few moments of the series. Not surprisingly, this revelation has fallout, as Matt and Emily's boss Cheryl (Gina Torres) isn't very happy to hear her two best agents have let their work and personal life become intertwined.
Recently I spoke to Livingston, to talk about his role on Standoff and what's to come on the series, along with what it's like to be a part of two movies that have had the long-term fandom of Swingers and Office Space, and what his own encounters with fans are like.
A little bit. I did a TV movie called 44 Minutes about a shootout in North Hollywood, where I played a SWAT guy, so I'm not coming into this one cold, which is always good; It's always tough the first time you do something, because you're like, "Alright, I don't want this to look too cheesy." But yeah, it is kind of fun. Anytime you get to run around with a gun, that's fun.
There are obstacles… You know, it's got to find its own way. At least in the beginning, without giving too much away, they're gonna try to see how it develops. It's not something we throw out in the first episode and then walk away from. It's not like a Seinfeld thing where, "Oh yeah, they used to be girlfriend and boyfriend," and then that's it. There's definitely some tension with that, that's gonna run through the show.
I had a feeling about it the first time we read it together. It just kind of took on a life… It's tough to find that sometimes, where all of the sudden, it just starts to go. And fortunately they picked up on it, because sometimes that happens, and the people running the thing aren't necessarily smart enough to pick up on it. When they do pick up on it, it's always another sign that, okay, we're in good hands here. The people running this thing get it.
That's exactly right. The cases are gonna be I think more or less episodic, where each show is gonna wrap something up. Where as the relationship stuff is gonna kind of be ongoing and develop. The nice thing that gives us is you can go on vacation for a couple weeks, come back, and not have completely lost track of what's going on with the show and have to wait for the DVD to come out. Which I think is a danger sometimes with a lot of shows, where everything is serialized.
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