![]() ![]() The nudity means the 44-year-old Marsden works out five days a week during shooting. “Yeah, it was just me and this little sock over my thing,” he says. Speaking of skin, robot Teddy spends much of his downtime naked, meaning Marsden shot a scene with Sir Anthony Hopkins while completely nude. Marsden with co-star Evan Rachel Wood in the first season of HBO’s Westworld. If a scene gets too grueling, they’ll rehearse in the voice of Will Ferrell’s character from Anchorman (Marsden joined the cast for Anchorman 2).Marsden then gives me a sample: “Doesn’t look like anything to me!” he says in flawless Burgundy, reciting a line spoken by Dolores in a crucial moment. Between takes, they’ll do Leslie Nielsen in Airplane or Naked Gun. Marsden and his costar, Evan Rachel Wood (that’s Dolores), try to retain some sanity on the set with laughter, pretending they’re in a musical, say, or a comedy. You just have to learn to roll with the craziness.”Ĭue Ron Burgundy. “I have to wash it off afterward, and then physically I have to wash it off to get the blood out of my ears and body orifices. “It makes us look at behavior, and we see some very dark behavior on this show,” Marsden says. He may or may not end up with Dolores, and his past could remain a mystery for several seasons if the popularity of the show continues.Īfter having so many bullets and knives pierce his faux skin, Marsden knows what it takes to get through the bleak world his character inhabits. His Westworld character-a seemingly good guy with a secret - has “died” several times at the malevolent bemusement park where his robot “lives.” He’ll die some more, no doubt. It’s clear that an intelligent sense of humor has served Marsden well in his career, now at the quarter-century mark and humming along nicely. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play He pinballs from stories of penis socks to musings on love and loss, and throws in a spot-on Ron Burgundy impression for good measure. Welcome to Marsdenworld, where a leisurely morning stroll lets an actor take stock of his resurgent career and a tumultuous personal life (now steadied and satisfying). We’re technically in the middle of Los Angeles but, as Marsden notes, it doesn’t look like Los Angeles. He could blame the location-the small lake we just passed in Franklin Canyon Park is where the nostalgic opening for The Andy Griffith Show was filmed, with Opie and his Pa going fishing. “Sorry, I get emotional when I talk about this stuff,” he says. James Marsden, the actor who plays Flood, has just shared some heartfelt thoughts about family and fatherhood, and his eyes are moist. But right now, on a weekday morning in the Santa Monica Mountains, Teddy Flood is welling up. Do Westworld robots cry real tears? That'd be a question for the bloggers and the Redditors who obsess over the hit HBO science-fiction mindbender. ![]()
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