WAREHOUSE 13 - DALLAS FORT WORTH STAR TELEGRAM: Five questions with Saul Rubinek
Wednesday, Aug. 03, 2011
by David Martindale
It's fun to imagine that a place like Warehouse 13 -- a top-secret facility in which cursed, haunted and bad-juju artifacts are locked away where they can do no harm -- really exists. Maybe that's why Warehouse 13, which airs at 8 p.m. Monday on Syfy, has a devoted following. Because viewers want to believe.
That's Saul Rubinek's theory anyway. Rubinek, who plays Artie, the warehouse caretaker, found out how eager viewers are to suspend their disbelief during the first season. "I did interviews with younger reporters who were newer to the game," Rubinek recalls. "I would tell them, 'You realize that this show is based on fact, don't you? We were brought to an FBI facility that is essentially the real Warehouse 13 and given a tour. I can't tell you where it is, because that information is secret.'"
His prank yielded unexpected results. "I was dutifully quoted, very seriously," he says. Rubinek promises to play it straight in this interview...
... Q: Do you have a favorite artifact, one that captured your imagination?
Saul Rubinek: "There are many delicious ones: the mirror from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, where a psychotic Alice has been trapped for over 100 years. Or Edgar Allan Poe's pen and ink, which create havoc when they come together. I like the joke ones, too, like, 'Don't open that! It's the original can of worms!'"
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