...Jason Priestly, ActorTonight on My Name is Earl, Earl has a flashback to the year 2000 when his more handsome and successful cousin, a backpack model, visited Camden and made Earl feel like a total loser. That backpack model, Jason Priestly, took some time this week to share his TwoCents about the episode and answer some questions about his career post-90210.
Question: Tell us a little bit about this character that you’re playing on Earl this week.
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Tonight on My Name is Earl, Earl has a flashback top the year 2000 when his more handsome and successful cousin, a backpack model, visited Camden and made Earl feel like a total loser. That backpack model, Jason Priestly, took some time this week to share his TwoCents about the episode and answer some questions about his career post-90210.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Tell us a little bit about this character that you’re playing on Earl this week.
Jason Priestly : I play Earl’s cousin who is a professional backpack model. Earl and his cousin have a very combative relationship. You know, they’ve always been in competition with each other ever since they were little kids. That competition has never subsided as they grew up.
Jason (Lee) is such a - he’s such a funny guy and Earl is such a funny character. You know, it was a real pleasure for me to go over there and work with him, and just sort of be in the presence of comedic greatness.
My character and Jaime Pressly’s character had a sexual liaison at a certain point in time. And once Earl finds out about that really sends him off. So the comedic sparks really start to fly at that point in time.
Just to be able to work with Jaime and Jason, and you know, the three of us - the work that the three of us did together, I think it’s pretty funny.
Q: How did you get involved with this show? Was it as simple as them reaching out to you or, because you’re a fan, did you reach out to them?
JP: No, they reached out to me. I’ve known Jaime for a long time. But that really had nothing to do with it. They just sent me the script and I read the script. And I thought it was really, really - it’s a really, really funny episode. And I just really responded to the material. And I just thought it would be really, really funny, the interplay between Jason and Jaime and myself. And, you know, I just jumped at the opportunity to go over there and do it. I’m just such a fan of the show and such a fan of those actors that it was a real easy decision for me to make.
Q: What are your feelings on the whole karma thing… righting your wrongs?
JP: Well I’m a firm believer in karma myself. And the fact that I am a firm believer in karma gives me hope - it gives me a lot of hope. I think that’s one of the reasons that I enjoy watching My Name is Earl just as a fan myself.
I just think that a show about a guy who discovers karma so late in life is such a funny concept to me. I mean the rest of us grew up with karma being part of our moral fabric. The idea of a guy who discovers karma so late in life is a little bit of comedic genius on Greg Garcia’s behalf.
Q: You are going to be directing and episode of 90210 soon. Brenda, not Brandon, is it going to be on the episode, and there are rumors (with no proof, of course) that she’s dying, that Brenda has cancer, that there’s this terrible secret. Do you know anything about the episode you’re directing?
JP: Oh my goodness! No, I don’t know anything. This is all news to me but this is fantastic! That’s going to be awesome. Wow, that’s really cool. No, they haven’t given me anything yet. I don’t even know if the episode is written yet. But I love all those rumors. That’s very - that’s juicy stuff! That’s fun.
Q: It seems like you have a lot on your plate behind the camera (directing several episode of Secret Life of the American Teenager and an upcoming 90210 episode), is there anything coming up, besides Earl, where we can see you in front of the camera?
JP: Yeah, this fall I shot a western - a feature film called The Last Rites of Ransom Pride with Kris Kristofferson and Dwight Yoakam, Scott Speedman, Peter Dinklage, Lizzy Caplin and that’ll be coming out later this year. So that’ll probably be the next time that I’ll be in front of the camera
Don’t forget to tune in to My Name is Earl tonight on NBC!