We’ll see if that happens in the next few months or not. During this time, he and other classmates founded a theatre company for young audiences called Theatre Juré Craché, which toured in France in the summer of 2007.
Of course I tried. Manfred, he said, is a bit self-deprecating, so he does consider the possibility and asks himself, “ ‘Am I responsible for this or am I here to save the day?’ ” Exactly … I don’t know what your take is on why he decides to stay, as opposed to run away, but he does run away a couple of times actually in the series.
People you really care about need to …”The four other main cast members already were cast; they just didn’t have their lead, and they’d been announced in the press and all, and they flew me to L.A. to meet with the director and do a screen test. It’s a full moon, something happens. I would love to. ... but with the schedule it didn't really work out, so I'm actually right now I'm doing the dubbing of "The Borgias" in French. Arnaud, originally from Quebec, now calls New York home after some time living in Los Angeles. Throughout the season, Manfred will learn more about his supernatural neighbors that include a witch, a vampire, an angel and a reverend affected by the full moon.
I don’t know what it is—maybe the fact that Neil Jordan, the creator, is Irish and there was that sort of connection of bad Catholics, but I flew to London to meet with Neil and to screen cast with Jeremy Irons. It also gives every episode a different tone, so there is this episodic thing, that I think most networks are fans of, where it creates a standalone story but there’s also two main longer arcs.
Sarah Ramos as Creek, Francois Arnaud as Manfred. It has a [violent] vibe to it, that takes a toll on Manfred’s body.
He had to rule over Europe and kill people. It’s definitely a fun show, but I really see it as a responsibility, especially as the lead character of this ensemble, to ground his experiences and to tap into real fear and real self-doubt.
The most recently completed is the upcoming TV show Midnight, Texas, based on the books by Charlaine Harris (author of the Sookie Stackhouse books that gave us True Blood).
It was presented to us as a murder mystery. And he didn’t necessarily have access to them before but, faced with saving the world, as one is, he has no choice. It’s called “Permission.” It’s going to come out soon, and I’m very smiley in that. (NBC) What other characters would you say impact Manfred in the first season?I feel like, as time went on, the writers really found the character.
Ever!”Episode 3 is Lem’s backstory so we go back to the 1800s. I was terrified. (Virginia Sherwood/NBC) The ghost of a jealous husband possesses Manfred (Francois Arnaud). [Laughs.] “I missed the East Coast and the atmosphere of a big city I guess,” he says.
It just gives a different vibe, tone, to every episode, which I think keeps it fresh. “That’s a very interesting question actually, but no,” Arnaud said during a January visit to the show’s Albuquerque set. Usually everyone is just trying to tame the beast. “Although I needed out now, just now. Long scenes in the episode make it like a period show. But New York is home.”“…I don’t think I’m ready. I did a lot of scenes for the audition; we explored a lot of different avenues where it would be more or less comedic. But I think what’s surprising actually is the level of comfort that I’ve found in portraying the character.
They ran a lot of scams. Game of Thrones,’ you know?
(Virginia Sherwood/NBC) Marta Dusseldorp reflects on ‘A Place to Call Home’It was all very quick, the casting process, because I was doing “Blindspot” at the time and Martin Gero, creator of “Blindspot,” flew in to New York, where I live, from L.A. and after a shooting day just took me aside and said, “I’m so sorry now we’re gonna kill you off in the finale.” I was like, “Oh, OK.” But he said, “We always knew but it was one of three options. I think she brings a really great spark to that character that could just seriously be strawberry-shortcake sweet. All rights reserved | all contents © 2012 New York Moves Magazine, reproduction without permission is prohibited.“I hope so.
I just think it gives the appropriate weight to the experience.Your email address will not be published.He’ll also learn about the evil in his basement and his role in the coming war against it.[Laughs.] And I think me being terrified sort of set the dynamic of our characters in the show. The veil between the worlds of the living and the dead keeps fraying and sort of creates a hell mouth under Midnight, Texas. The Borgias saw it as some sort of monarchy and I think we can all find comparisons with what’s happening right now in the U.S. and all over the world where a lot of democracies start feeling like nepotism.”Arnaud, originally from Quebec, now calls New York home after some time living in Los Angeles.
For days and weeks we explore his addiction to painkillers. … Visually it’s much darker. Fran ç ois Arnaud was born in Montreal, Quebec. I played a son who was trying to prove himself to his father and I think it sort of developed our parental dynamic.”In spite of the time when they lived, the historical Borgias are known as some of the worst Catholics—rumors of incest and murder trail their legacy as much as Pope Alexander VI’s actual corruption and bribery. Was there any point, in terms of conversations, where you were surprised with a direction the show was going? Fiji (Parisa Fitz-Henley) and Manfred (Francois Arnaud) confront evil in his house. (Cathy Kanavy/NBC)In every show or every movie, it’s always the main conversation: “What are we going to do with the hair?” They usually give me a part and it’s tons of time, and the producers disagree over it. But after the pilot they were like, “Let it be what it wants to be. He owes a lot of money to a lot of different people—living and dead. But now the former TV columnist for RedEye Chicago is taking his love of TV and lounging around to the next level by writing about TV full time on his own website.