Jonny Lee Miller is happy to have landed a starring role on American television, but experience has taught him that one shouldn't express too much enthusiasm nor expect great results every time something good like this happens.
“Everyone was very excited about Smith,” Miller told
Boston Herald, referring to ABC's short-lived drama in which he starred, “and it's the same thing with
Eli Stone. Now I'm not fatalistic about it. But it's just that I know not to get overexcited and not to expect certain things to happen.”
Still, Miller found it hard to pass up the opportunity to get in on
Eli Stone, especially when he got the chance to read the show's script about a man with an inoperable brain aneurysm who experiences hallucinations.
“The part was so varied and had such scope to it,” Jonny Lee Miller said. "This script was something special. An opportunity like that, I wasn't going to turn my nose up at.”
As the star of
Eli Stone, Miller appears in almost every scene of the show. He works extra hard to keep the ball rolling to make sure viewers won't tire of seeing him every week.
“You can't relax,” Jonny Lee Miller said. “You can't drop the ball for any moment. You can't get tired. You have to really stay focused. I've never really done anything like this for that amount of time.”
He also tries his best to make sure his attitude on the set is always positive.
“You have to try not to ever, ever be in a bad mood because it filters down,” he said. “The way the lead actor behaves affects the vibe and the mood of the entire set. It really, really does. I take great care to try to keep it together. I don't understand when you hear stories of people being difficult or whatever, because it is just not right.”
Eli Stone airs Thursday nights at 10/9c on ABC.
-Lisa Claustro, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: Boston Herald
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