I like the challenge of playing live in front of people without a band and having all the guitar players stare at your hands waiting for you to screw up and you don’t. The Newsroom: Season 3 Trailer. Created by Aaron Sorkin. Watch the full interview clip (including Mahershala Ali’s unparalleled shirt-jacket combo) below: Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! I’ve never acted on the Purple Rose stage before, and I’ve been kicking around ideas on how to get there, for no other reason than it’s a 10-minute drive from my house. All rights reserved. When an actor walks out with a guitar you’re like, “Oh god.” I don’t know if you saw the AFI tribute I did with Jane Fonda, it’s somewhere online, but I walked out in front of a star-studded audience in LA with a guitar. Gary sings "Anything Goes" by Cole Porter at the start of the episode. We don’t have to go through any of that. And I look at the guitar and know instantly that I would be happy playing 200-300 seat clubs or opera houses and touring. There’s been no bitching about why there’s no Season 4. I’ve written 15 and they were never intended for me. It has to live up to him, it has to live up to what the last episode was, and that’s difficult. To go to a golf course for four or five hours would be a complete waste of time, because I needed that time to memorize and re-memorize, so that when I got there on Monday I knew it. It’s a strange, kind of magical mystery. Download to watch offline and even view it on a big screen using Chromecast. The guitar was a hobby, and it became a friend. Critical reaction to the series in its first season was mixed. There’s such a joy and creative freedom that comes with it. I would be so happy during that. 10 episodes; 35 songs; Season 2 Jul 2013 - Sep 2013. No, I didn’t. There’s no committee, or studio, or director or editor standing in the way. Can't wait for the next season, but my expectations have been lowered by the finales (2 of them in the 3rd season alone), and one exceptionally well done. The series concluded on December 14, 2014, and … It’s more the similarities of the approach, and that kind of torture of waiting for the characters to take over, the endless waiting period. Those people who bought tickets to the guy from “Dumb and Dumber” are realizing eight minutes into the performance that I’ll be singing for the next 90 minutes and that they’re going to have to listen. And I had played this song for Jane a couple years earlier and she just loved it and insisted that I be part of the AFI tribute to her. The team tries to make sure that the first reporter that wrote the story gets out of the middle east … It helps that Aaron is just such a great writer. I’ve always been fascinated with writing. I knew what he was thinking, especially because not only was it an actor with a guitar, but it was also an actor who wrote a song. Get The Latest IndieWire Alerts And Newsletters Delivered Directly To Your Inbox. The gigs. Copyright © 2020 Penske Business Media, LLC. (So kind of Corden to call “The Newsroom” a “hit show,” which seems like a slight bit of revisionism.). The official website for The Newsroom on HBO, featuring full episodes online, interviews, schedule information and episode guides. Whether it’s listening or waiting, or whether you’re spurring them like a horse, you got to get the characters talking. “I wish the show was on the air now. Certainly “Newsroom” was something where I couldn’t do anything. Copyright © 2020 Penske Business Media, LLC. I can pick the set list and I can change it up. All rights reserved. As I told Aaron, “The memorization side of my brain thanks you immensely for bringing it to a close.” But also — and I know this is only my first, Not until after Season 2 was done shooting and we weren’t picked up for Season 3 did we start to get wind that it could be a finale. Then there was a lot of memorizing. Get The Latest IndieWire Alerts And Newsletters Delivered Directly To Your Inbox. This Article is related to: Television and tagged Dumb & Dumber To, HBO, Interviews, Jeff Daniels, Television, The Newsroom. It’s really difficult to do well. But if you had to choose one thing, and money wasn’t an option, what would you do? You pass them up. You look for new things to do and for new challenges that are still creative. I’ve done that, but you don’t do that with Aaron Sorkin. A newsroom undergoes some changes in its workings and morals as a new team is brought in, … It takes a while. And to be fair to them, sometimes you get on a bigger movie and you realize that it’s been written to adhere to the notes of a Junior Executive who has only read “How To Write a Screenplay.” You just can’t act it, so you ad-lib around it and you make it fall out of your head to make it seem more natural. It’s very difficult to do, and I like the challenge of that. But ACN diehards will have to be content with Jeff Daniels’ most improbable of Emmys. I like that. I never write for myself, though. Logically, this would also mean that there are also no active plans to return to another Sorkin show that centered on people at a very specific workplace and for multiple seasons that challenged what was possible on TV. You write Episode 2, someone does Episode 4, another does 5. And the songs have always just been there. The Newsroom has me there, right now. Aaron writes every word of every episode, and that isn’t the standard way to do it on a series, whether it’s six, 10 or certainty 22 episodes. It’s very clear what Will is doing, thinking and saying, so all I had to do was execute it. It’s three and out. Character after character, they get this great dialogue and these great lines and speeches. We’re kind of like sharks in that we have to keep moving and we have to keep creating. Episode 3 - "Main Justice" Edit. Maybe it’s the gypsy or nomad in me that’s being so passive, because for me it’s like, “Ok, time to pack up and move on to the next project! But it was more the similarities. 6 episodes; 17 songs; Theme Song The Newsroom … Directed by Alan Poul. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Will continues to defy the government by refusing to out the name of the source of the stolen documents. It’s this thing I enjoyed doing, thinking that it would one day be what I was doing. 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