HBO’s ‘John From Cincinnati’ confounds and fascinates
By Behind The Scenes TV on Jun 24, 2007 in TV
When you work on a show like HBO’s John From Cincinnati (Sundays at 9 pm/ET), it can screw with your head. Recently, Austin Nichols, who plays the enigmatic John, was memorizing lines for a scene when he had a premonition. “I knew in my heart that I should scream, ‘Stare me down!’” he says. “The next morning when I arrived to shoot the scene, I looked at the revised script and those exact words were staring me in the face. It took my breath away.”
HBO hopes its surreal new drama has the same “Whoa, dude!” effect on viewers. Set in the border town of Imperial Beach, Calif., about 130 miles south of L.A., John rips through the turbulent waters of three generations of a down-in-the-dumps surfing family — grandparents Mitch (Bruce Greenwood) and Cissy Yost (Rebecca De Mornay), their druggie son Butchie (Brian Van Holt), and his surfing-prodigy son Shaun (Greyson Fletcher). They encounter John, a bizarre Elvis look-alike entity who is either an alien, an angel, an idiot savant or none of the above. The only thing we know for certain, says Ed O’Neill, who plays Bill, a friend of the Yost family, “is that his name ain’t John, and he’s not from Cincinnati.”
(Source: TV Guide)
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