Noah Wyleknew he had to be inThe Red Line.
But doing that pilot got my mind around the idea of doing an interesting story on online grid again.
The very next year, I get offered another pilot by CBS and this one moved me even more.
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I just loved it.
Its an attempt to foster a sense of empathy to a viewpoint that is not your own.
[Laughs] Its not an easy show.
But I think its an important topic and it was thoughtfully constructed.
Its not dogmatic, its not preachy.
Thats what this work is about.
Im trying to connect me to him and him to you.
I was [doing press and someone told me], you strike me as a very sad man.
And I thought, Am I a sad man?
Yeah, maybe I am.
The tragedy of that, I just thought, Ugh.
You couldnt pay me $1 million bucks to be that guy.
And then they paid me a lot less to be that guy.
People are really talking about that scene between you and your characters daughter, Jira (Aliyah Royale).
We were up there and it was like 5 degrees.
And theres no way to get warm up there.
We couldnt bring heaters.
And because we were only there for a few hours, we couldnt stop shooting.
Wed let them disperse and then wed continue the scene.
She and I played that scene every single way you could play it.
She screamed at me, It never would have been you!
and I screamed at her, I know!
and we did it softly, and angrily.
I mean, we beat the f out of each other.
And I said, Its okay.
They know what theyre doing.
You cant do that on night one.
You cant show that.
You have to get them on the train and even though we went there, its under it all.
Sometimes its more powerful to see someone holding back tears than see them crying.
More people can identify with not crying than crying.
This is not about characters who are wallowing in their self-pity.
And I thought,yeah!
I need some of that in my life.
The Red Linepremieres Sunday at 8 p.m.
