I don't know that he really got the opportunity to do that. I'm wondering - how do you think the fans will react? Like you said, a big part of bringing Renee back was the fact that she was damaged, and Jack needed to sort of save her. It's interesting, too, that she went out that way as opposed to maybe in the line of field, in a heroic way saving the day, so I think it's interesting that they switched it up a little bit as opposed to what you may have thought would have happened to her. That was a huge moment for the show, the first time that Jack's ever done that. There's a little part of me that was like bummed that those both happened in the same episode because that's really kind of getting overshadowed by the fact that she died. I kind of wish that the Jack/Renee love story-making would have maybe had its own episode to resonate and then maybe she got shot because that was a pretty huge deal. I'm wondering: were you happy with the way the death was presented? Were you happy with the way Renee's story line was concluded?Īnnie Wersching: Simply because I love the character so much, you always think of other ways that things could have happened. Again, he's a tragic hero, and, obviously, that's sort of ended up happening to her. It wasn't something we thought about or said when we were filming Season 7, so it was interesting to hear that it was the fan reaction. I got that a lot last year when she first came on the scene. What do you think of the fact that Renee was sometimes referred to as Jacqueline Bauer?Īnnie Wersching: Obviously, that's quite an honor to share that title. Obviously, they knew that I was very sad about it and upset, but those are the moments that make 24 so great. I knew that that was pretty set in stone, a big thing that they wanted to do overall for the season. Because they came to me at the very beginning of the season and said "look" - at the top of the season they don't usually know all that much of what they want to do, so the fact that the one big thing they knew they wanted to do was to bring her back damaged, to have Jack have to sort of save her in more ways than one and have them finally get together and then have her be taken away from him, which leads to his path for the end of the series. Carlos Bernard also did that once, so there's sort of a little theme going of people fighting for their lives to Howard Gordon. Were you ever tempted to do anything like that when you learned Renee's fate? Did you have strong feelings like that and would you have gone that far?Īnnie Wersching: Obviously, I had immensely, huge, strong feelings. I interviewed Glenn Morshower last year, and he told me when he received the script in which his 24 character, Aaron, was supposed to die, he called Howard and begged him to reconsider killing his character, and Howard reversed himself in part because Glen was so passionate about it. There's such an intensity to the show that at the end of the episode, it just leaves you wanting more which is how I think every television show should be. It's really like a little feature film every week with the ticking clock and the real-time aspect. Annie Wersching: Well, definitely in the beginning, it was such a groundbreaking show, and there was nothing else like it on television.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |