JACK DAVENPORT ON FLASH FORWARD
“If I tell you anything small Disney ninja assassins may abseil into the building and kill us,” says Davenport, as he orders coffee in his new home town of Venice, California.
Is he happy with the new fame?
Davenport says he shies away from amplifying his public profile. “You need people to forget about you. Being a good actor is partly about doing a disappearing act.”
Playing a leading part in this season’s most-hyped new show on US television = disappearing act? Hm. Well, maybe we can help him out there:
Groucho Davenport as Lloyd Marx in "Flash Forward at the Opera".
Jack Davenport also talks about the lack of creative ambition in British TV drama:
“We really are at the sharp end of multiculturalism: it’s a tiny country and people from all over the world now live in the UK. From a dramatist’s point of view, what a brilliant stew of stuff to explore,” he says. “And yet, you know, it’s all about The X Factor. We can mine Charles Dickens’s back catalogue for a little while longer, but there’s a reluctance to commission things that hold a mirror up to nature. I think we’re missing a trick.”
So, in conclusion:
Given the state of British television, though, it is equally unlikely that he’ll be rushing back to London soon.
*sigh*
