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Stanford Wedeck
PLAYED BY COURTNEY B. VANCE CHARACTER BIO: "Stanford "Stan" Wedeck is the Assistant Director of the Los Angeles Field Office of the FBI. His ability to process and delegate efficiently enabled him to single-handedly turn his team into a well-oiled machine. The same rules apply at home. Though with his only child having just started college, Wedeck is learning to embrace the quiet nights he gets to spend with his wife. He maintains a dry sense of humor during the darkest of times." -ABC.com
Olivia Benford
PLAYED BY SONYA WALGER CHARACTER BIO: "Doctor Olivia Benford is a successful trauma surgeon. Strong and driven, she thrives on the challenges of her job. She's tough when it comes to mentoring her interns, but her vast knowledge and compassion for her patients garners respect from the medical staff. Much of her success stems from her love of children. Especially her daughter, Charlie. Though her marriage to Mark has had its ups and downs, she is fearlessly devoted to him, she recognizes that there is a lot of love there and is doing what she can to make it work." -ABC.com
Nicole Kirby
PLAYED BY PEYTON LIST CHARACTER BIO: "Nicole Kirby is a nineteen year-old student who earns her living babysitting Charlie Benford, Mark and Olivia's daughter. There's a bit of a rebellious streak in Nicole, though she tries to maintain her Christian values. She also has a penchant for Venti mint mocha chip Frappucinos." -ABC.com
Mark Benford
PLAYED BY JOSEPH FIENNES CHARACTER BIO: "Special Agent Mark Benford works for the Los Angeles Field Office of the FBI. On the outside looking in, he seems to have the perfect life: a beautiful wife, an adorable daughter, a great home, two cars in the garage... But, the garage door is broken and his marriage has suffered from Mark's struggle with his inner demons. The birth of his daughter, Charlie, caused him to sober up. The shining light in his life, Charlie gave him the strength to keep the demons at bay." -ABC.com
Janis Hawk
PLAYED BY CHRISTINE WOODS CHARACTER BIO: "Janis Hawk is an extremely smart and talented agent for the FBI. She's a bit of a tomboy with a quick wit. With all of her attributes, her colleagues find it surprising that she's still single. The fact is she's a disaster when it comes to dating.: -ABC.com
Demetri Noh
PLAYED BY JOHN CHO CHARACTER BIO: "Special Agent Demetri Noh is Mark's partner in the FBI. At the age of 32, he's one of the younger agents in the Field Office. His youthful exuberance leads him to jump to conclusions before gathering all of the facts. Patience is something the more seasoned Mark is trying to teach him. The one area where Demetri is forced into methodical thinking is in planning his wedding with his fiancée, Zoey. If he's not careful, she may find out what he's been hiding from her." -ABC.com
Bryce Varley
PLAYED BY ZACHARY KNIGHTON CHARACTER BIO: "Bryce Varley is on the verge of making a life-threatening choice. He's dedicated his life to the pursuit of becoming a doctor. Upon receiving his M.D. he procured an Internship with Olivia Benford's supervision. The hours are hell, which makes it impossible for Bryce to have any outside pursuits or even love interests, which is hard for a man in his twenties. Without these outlets, Bryce's sharp mind can sometimes go to very dark places." -ABC.com
Aaron Stark
PLAYED BY BRIAN F. O'BYRNE CHARACTER BIO: "Aaron Stark is a hard-working technician for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Aaron has had his share of rough times. A prison stint, a divorce... but nothing could compare to the pain he felt when two uniformed men stood on his front porch and told him that his daughter, Tracy, had been killed in Afghanistan. Aaron finds solace in Alcoholics Anonymous and through sponsoring Mark Benford. Aaron's honesty, insight and easy-going manner enable an effortless rapport with Mark. Aaron is the person to whom Mark confides his darkest secrets." -ABC.com
Dominic Monaghan & Jack Davenport
19/09/2009
Dominic Monaghan & Jack Davenport Talk About Their Characters in a new interview by SciFiWire
“Yeah, I can’t tell you a huge amount,” Monaghan (Lost) said. “I play a guy called Simon who is linked through story lines with Jack’s [Davenport] character, Lloyd. He’s a very smart, intelligent scientist, and we begin the relationship with him under the impression that he knows more than he is giving away.”
The trailer suggests Simon may know the reason everyone in the world has blacked out for 2 minutes and 17 seconds, during which time they each have a glimpse of their future six months from now.
“He’s almost a kind of reveal, in a way,” Monaghan says. “Obviously, Joe [Fiennes] and Sonya [Walger] and John [Cho] and Jack kind of are telling the story in the initial episodes, and my character, Simon, is kind of in the wings a little bit, kind of waiting, kind of a reveal.
He’ll gradually be trickled in as the show picks up some steam.”
For his part, Davenport said that his character, physicist Lloyd Simcoe, is the only one taken from Robert J. Sawyer’s novel, on which the show is loosely based. “That’s right, he is the only character from the book,” Davenport said. “Yes, because obviously there has to be some kind of scientific explanation for all of this, and there’s a lot of science in the book, and the character is a scientist.”
But is he the same guy?
“He’s similar in the sense that his profession is the same, but obviously, what [series co-creator] David [Goyer] has done is extrapolated from the novel in a way that the connections between the characters are much broader and much wider than they are in the novel. You follow multiple storylines in this in the way that, in the novel it’s pretty much a single line.”
FlashForward debuts Sept. 24 and will air Thursdays at 8 p.m.
Source: Sci Fi Wire
Interview with Producers and Cast
09/09/2009
Here’s a cool interview with executive producers David Goyer and Marc Guggenheim and cast members Joseph Fiennes (Mark Bennett) and Courtney B. Vance (Stanford Wedeck). They talk about how they’re structuring the show, easter eggs (the kangaroo!) and how people will lie about their flashforwards.
Joseph Fiennes, who plays FBI agent Mark Benford, centers a team assigned to solve the blackout that includes partner Demetri Noh (John Cho); colleague Janis Hawk (Christine Woods); and their boss, Stanford Wedeck (Courtney B. Vance). They and the other characters, including Benford’s surgeon wife, Olivia (Sonya Walger), share their visions, but viewers see only bits and pieces at first, leaving twists and turns to be explored.
And “some people lie about their flash-forwards, so it’s a little misdirection happening,” Vance says. “It leaves the writers enormous latitude to tell stories.”
Click here to read the entire interview.
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Gabrielle Union Interview
09/09/2009
Gabrielle Union (Bad Boys 2) will appear in FlashForward at some point after the pilot episode. Since the announcement was made that she was joining the cast, we’ve since learned that she’ll be playing a defense attorney who is engaged to John Cho’s character (Demetri Noh).
In a recent interview with SciFi Wire, Gabrielle talks about working with John, their characters’ relationship, her character’s flash forward and the secrecy surrounding the show’s storylines. Check out excerpts from the interview below:
Gabrielle Union joined the cast of ABC’s upcoming sci-fi thriller series FlashForward after the pilot and told us that she’ll play a criminal defense attorney engaged to Demetri Noh (John Cho). She said the pairing of her African-American character and Cho’s Asian-American character was deliberate.
“The cultural differences with our families, not only blending families in the middle of a recession but blending families that come from different cultures and races and backgrounds, will definitely be explored,” Union said in an exclusive interview last week in Pasadena, Calif. “And, I love John.”
Union said her scenes with Cho focus on their relationship.
“[I've shot] a lot of time with John,” She continued. “We have a really good relationship. I’m so glad that they’re showing two people of color with, like, a really … loving and nurturing relationship. I haven’t really seen that on TV, and certainly not in an interracial relationship, very loving and sweet in a genuine sort of way.” (Major spoilers ahead!)
In the pilot episode, one flash forward saves a character from suicide. Others characters worry that their own futures include a relapse into alcoholism or an end to their marriages. Union’s not telling what she sees.
“It’s life-affirming, that’s for sure,” she teased.
Cho’s character sees nothing in his flash forward, leading him to believe he doesn’t make it to April 29. So far, this has not affected his relationship in early episodes, Union said.
“Well, he has not shared with me his flash forward, so ignorance is bliss at this point,” Union said.
Union came to FlashForward because of her previous relationship with ABC: She starred on the short-lived Night Stalker and guested on Ugly Betty, so the network wanted to get back in the Gabrielle Union business.
“They’ve been incredibly supportive,” Union said. “A lot of people give lip service to ‘We want to increase diversity,’ and then you just never see any people of color. They actually really mean it. If one thing doesn’t work out, they come up with more opportunities. So they’re like, ‘We want you back in the family,’ and by chance, the next day the Goyers [executive producers Jessika Borsiczky Goyer and David Goyer] called them, and they were like, ‘Do you think Gabrielle would ever be interested in returning to television?’ They’re like, ‘Funny you should ask. We just talked to her about this.’”
Since FlashForward has a long-term mythology that the creators are guarding closely, it’s one of those shows where even the actors don’t get information beyond the script they are shooting. That creates a challenging work environment for Union.
“It’s more hard that we are given very limited information, to the point where filming a scene, I think I have all the information I need,” she said. “We do a take, and they’re like, ‘Oh, nobody told her.’ Then they whisper it in your ear, and I’m like, ‘Oh, OK, that changes everything.’ So I’m literally getting information on a need-to-have basis. That’s more challenging. Literally, they tell me on a need-to-know basis.”
Flash Forward Will Air on Thursdays
29/07/2009
The much-buzzed about new drama Flash Forward will start Thursday nights, after which Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice are paired.
Gabrielle Union Joins Cast of FlashForward
28/07/2009
The cast of FlashForward just got a whole lot better looking.
Gabrielle Union has joined the show in a recurring role. She’ll portray a criminal defense attorney that becomes romantically entwined with one the main characters.
Union has starred in Bad Boys II, Cadillac Records and was set to be one of the leads in The Body Politic. However, the latter series was not picked up for the fall season.
source: http://www.tvfanatic.com/tags/flash-forward/
Dominic Monaghan Joins Cast
28/07/2009
looks like Dominic Monaghan who previously played Charlie on Lost will be joining the Cast of Flash Forward this Fall:
Dominic Monaghan (”Lost”) is joining the cast of ABC’s exciting new fall drama, “FlashForward,” which premieres on THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 (8:00-9:00pm, ET) on the ABC Television Network.
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