“We chat to the actor behind The 100’s Councillor Kane, Lost’s Henry Ian Cusick…”

Warning: contains spoilers for the first half of The 100 season 2.

For most genre TV fans, Henry Ian Cusick is and will possibly always be most famous for his role as Desmond Hume in Lost. But he’s now also part of one of the most interesting science fiction shows currently on the air, and he spoke to us about The 100‘s shocking mid-season finale, Kane’s development, and what we can expect when the show returns for the rest of its second season.

Read more:  Den of GeekUS.com

If you watched last week’s episode,  you’ll especially like what Nick Hogan of  TVOvermind had to say about Ian’s performance.  Thank you Nick! 

“I think that the strongest performer in this episode was definitely Henry Ian Cusick in his portrayal of Marcus Kane. Conflicted leadership is a very tough thing to portray. If it doesn’t read with your audience, you are labeled a “bad actor”. Well, Cusick pulls it off. He clearly does not want to hurt Abby, but feels like he must. Once he’s finished, and realizes that his own people can be just as brutal as grounders, he realizes that there must be another way. I could really feel his emotion radiating through his performance in this episode, and I was not disappointed. I’m interested to see what happens when he reaches the grounders. Does he become an animal of war, or does he manage to somewhat successfully broker peace with the grounders?

Read the entire episode review here:  The 100 Season 2 Episode 3 Review: “Reapercussions”

  The list of festivals where you can see Dress in 2014! 

*We will continually update this list so check often.*

 

Pasadena International Film Festival Feb. 12-16

  http://www.pasadenafilmfestival.org/

*Pasadena Screening Date – Tuesday, Feb. 13*

 

Sedona International Film Festival Feb. 22- March 2

http://www.sedonafilmfestival.org/

Sedona Screening Dates – Thursday, Feb. 27 12:10 pm.  and Saturday, March 1  3:00 pm  (With Mad Ship)

 

Durango Film Festival Feb. 26 – March 2 in Colorado

http://durangofilm.org/

Durango Screening Dates – Wednesday, Feb.26 9:00 pm Gaslight Theatre 1  and Saturday,  March 1  6:00 pm Animas City Theatre (Better Off Dead Shorts Program)

 

Fargo Film Festival in North Dakota March 4 – March 8.

http://www.fargofilmfestival.org/

Fargo Screening Date – Saturday,  March 8 3:05 pm. on Screen 1

 

Peace On Earth Film Festival – Chicago March 6 – March 9

http://www.peaceonearthfilmfestival.org/

Chicago Screening Date – Friday,  March 7  10:20 pm

 

CAAMFEST2014 – San Francisco, Ca.  March 13-23

http://caamedia.org/

Caamfest Screening Dates – Saturday – March 15 9:20 pm. and Wednesday – March 19  9:10 pm.  New People Cinema (HashTag Love Shorts Program)

 

Palm Beach International Film Festival – Palm Beach, Florida April 3-10

http://www.pbifilmfest.org/

Palm Beach Screening Date: Saturday – April 5th 7:30 pm. (Shorts Block 7)

 

DisOrient Asian American Film Festival – Eugene, Oregon April 10-13

http://disorientfilm.org/2014/

DisOrient Screening Date: Sunday – April 13th (Shorts: My Take 1:20 – 2:59 pm)

*Received a nomination for Best Short Narrative*

 

Boston International Film Festival  April 11 – April 21

http://www.bifilmfestival.com

Boston Screening Date: April 11 – Session 1 – 6 pm

 

USA Film Festival – Dallas – April 22 – 27

*Dress was selected as a finalist in USAFF’s National  Short Film Competition. Award winners announced Sunday, April 27  7 pm*

http://www.usafilmfestival.com/

USAFF Screening Date: Thursday – April 24 7 pm

 

Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival – May 1 – 11

http://www.vconline.org/festival

LAAPFF  Sreening Date: Monday, May 5  9:15 pm  Tateuchi Democracy Forum

 

deadCENTER Film Festival in Oklahoma City, OK   – June 11 – 15

http://www.deadcenterfilm.org/

Screening Dates: Friday, June 13  8:30 pm. and Sunday, June 15  2:30 pm. 

 

Asian American International Film Festival – New York City – July 24 – Aug 2

Screen Date: July 27 2:30 pm  Precedes Kumu Hina – City Cinema Village East

http://aaiff.org/2014/

 

Orlando Film Festival – Orlando, Fl – Oct. 22 – Oct. 26

Screen Dates:  (Showing in Drama 3 Group)  Oct. 24 5:30-7:30 pm Theatre 12 and Oct. 26 4:45-6:45 pm Theatre 11

http://orlandofilmfest.com/

*Specific Dress screening dates and times will update as information becomes available.*

Another indie film for Ian!

He will play the lead role of  “Guy” in ‘Visible’,  a science fiction love story by writer and producer,  Andrea Snider.

The film will be shot in LA and will be directed by co-producer Clay Delauney.

In addition to starring in the film,  Ian’s production company Henry Joe Productions will be producing the film too.

More information here at the film’s website:  visiblemovie.com

 

The 100 will be re-playing on Wednesday nights, starting June 18 at  9 PM on The CW!

Catch it again or the first time!

The CW Re-Airs The 100

 

Frank VS God premiered on Friday, May 30 at the Dances with Films Festival in LA at the  Chinese 6 Theatres and was received well by a full house! Afterward fans in attendance were treated to a reception where they were able to mingle and chat with cast and crew.  A very special night indeed!

We are thrilled to hear the news of The 100 earning a second season with The CW!  Congratulations to Jason Rothenberg, Ian and his cast mates and everyone involved with the show!  Second season here we come!

CW Renews The 100

“The 100, which is getting some of the CW’s best reviews ever, and the soapy Hart Of Dixie, both from Warner Bros TV, had been considered frontrunners to return among the five CW series……”

It is difficult to look into the hearts of men, and one can only make assumptions based on a man’s actions. When first introduced to Councilor Kane (Henry Ian Cusick) in the new CW drama series THE 100, his motives will seem murky and self-serving. But with each passing episode and, as the layers of the story are pulled back, there just may be something else going on entirely.

During press interviews at the Warner Bros. Mondo Television International Press Tour, star Henry Ian Cusick talked about Councilor Kane’s motivations and the need to make hard choices even if it makes you look like a villain.

What can you share about your character?
HENRY: [The show’s] set 97 years in the future and I play Councilor Kane, who is one of the Councilors on the ship, and their main thing is to keep the human race going. And, hopefully, one day we’ll go back to Earth and repopulate the Earth.

Can you describe kind of the relationships between the primary chancellors, Jaha and Kane, and Paige Turco’s character Abigail. There seems to be some political tension initially. Do they kind of align more, or does that friction kind of continue?
HENRY: Everything that happens on the spaceship ?? there’s always friction between the three of us, Chancellor Jaha, Councilor Abby, and my character. So we’re always trying to figure out what’s best and how to proceed, and not always, but there’s a lot of disagreements. And there’s an attempt on Jaha’s life, and we don’t know who did it, and people kind of think that [Kane] might have had something to do with it. . . So it’s very political. There’s a lot of intrigue and uncertainty on the spaceship and a very high body count.

Do you play the bad guy?
HENRY: No. Define “bad”; right? I’m doing what I think is right — that involves trying to make sure that the majority survive. Hard choices for everyone.

How are you most like your character, and what are the biggest challenges for you?
HENRY: I’m not very like this character. Not at the beginning. But as the show progresses, you see [Kane] have a nice change. And I’m more like the character towards the end of the show, I think. But I’m not as cold as Kane. I am passionate, and I think he is passionate and he makes hard decisions.

What are some of the challenges for you of this particular character?
HENRY: One of the challenges, I think, was not knowing where [the show] was going. You get that with every character in television because when you sign up to do a show, you do a pilot. And you think you know where the character is going, and then you read the scripts, and you think, “Oh, I didn’t think that was going to happen.” And it happened a lot, of course, during LOST. But I was a little bit more sympathetic or empathetic to where I was going, whereas with this one it was a little bit harder for me to get my head around about where he was going and what his motives were. That was the hardest part, to find out why he was doing what he was doing. His motives were a bit sort of obscure to me. But it kind of makes sense now.

Did being on a TV show like LOST prepare you in any way for this show?
HENRY: Being on a show like LOST has prepared me in many ways, just as an actor, that I can work fast and do it quick, and I know where the camera is. A lot of it is handheld, so you’re playing with the cameraman. I can see him and work around him, and doing LOST, there was many times the camera guy was holding me and moving me around physically. So yeah, that’s helped. There are elements that are LOST-like in the show.

You mentioned the elements that this show shares with LOST. Can you tell us any?
HENRY: Not so much for my character, but for the kids down on Earth. They’re basically trying to survive a hostile environment, and they don’t know where the dangers lie. It’s all new for them. In that respect.

What’s your favorite scene or moment, episode so far?
HENRY: There’s an episode coming up, the next episode, which I just read. I think that’s probably my favorite episode. It’s 111. I can’t really tell you too much about it because we’re coming to the end of the season. We only do 13 episodes. But that will be a lot of action. There’s also another scene, which I’ve never seen before on television. It’s quite a large catastrophe. It will be interesting. I’ll be curious to know how the audience takes to it because there’s such a high body count. . . [And] there’s some scenes coming up, which I’m curious to know, especially on a channel like The CW, how the audience will react. Because even I, reading it and I rarely get surprised by anything, was like, “Wow, they’re actually going to do that.”

This is a story of a society with very finite resources. Do you think there’s an ambition or an aspiration in the writing to make statements about the society we live in?
HENRY: Yes, I hope so. There’s certainly potential. So yes, there is and we do. And it might be subtle, but they’re there, and I hope we do more of that.

To see whether Councilor Kane is as dark-hearted as first perceived and how he fares, be sure to tune in for the premiere of THE 100 on Wednesday, March 19th at 9:00 p.m. on the CW.

By Tiffany Vogt on April 2nd, 2014

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