WHAT'S ON TV: Simon Baker on life as TV's smartest sleuth
Feb 28, 2011
As the third series of The Mentalist returns to Channel 5 this week, TV&Satellite Week magazine caught up with the show's star to find out more...
... Q: Your character, Patrick Jane, is one of the more unusual sleuths to grace the small screen, isn't he?
Simon Baker: "In most American shows of this kind, the lead characters are very black-and-white. They're either wacky and zany or deadly earnest. But Jane vacillates somewhere in between, and he's more of an eccentric. Jane is a complex bag of tricks. You could easily mistake him for a bit of a simpleton, but there's a lot more to him than meets the eye. He's essentially a very dark character who has a good sense of humour. It's far more interesting because there are more areas you can go to in every scene..."
The Mentalist returns on Friday March 4 at 9pm on Channel 5 (in the UK), and airs in the US on Thursday at 10/9C on CBS.
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