REVOLUTION - MY FANBASE: TIM GUINEE INTERVIEW
December 7, 2012
by Annika Leichner
Tim Guinee is definitely no stranger in the movie and television business. He looks back on a long and interesting career and embodied many different typs of characters. Right now he can be seen as Ben Matheson in "Revolution". We talked to Tim about his work on "Revolution", his time on the set of "Stargate" and his recent visit to the University of North Carolina...
Q: You play Ben Matheson on the new show "Revolution", who we don't know very much about. What is your take on the character?
Tim Guinee: "Ben is a scientist. He loves his family and like so many people in the world today, he faces challenges in terms of keeping his business afloat. He may or may not understand the depth of the consequences of those decisions when he makes them (we'll have to see what the writers come up with), but I do think he has a deep sense of personal morality. He is, for example, the only one of the series regular characters who we've never seen commit physical violence, which is a fascinating distinction. (Even though he was perhaps involved in the end of civilization as we know it - and the subsequent countless deaths caused by the loss of power). I think on a mythological level he's interesting. Alot of comparisons are made between Revolution and the Lord Of The Rings trilogy & Star Wars. To me to put Ben in context with those works, he would be Gandolf or Obi-Wan. He sets the journey in motion. He is a keeper of great secrets, very few others possess. He is involved in bringing different worlds in contact with each other..."
... Q: You were also part of some episodes and the film of "Stargate SG-1". What was working with Claudia Black and the whole cast like?
Tim Guinee: "Claudia was hilarious and we stay in contact. I really didn't work that much with the rest of the cast. In the Stargate film I did, I had a scene with Chris Judge, who was lovely too. The scene was a quiet conversation which was the kind of thing I don't think they usually wrote for his character and I think he really enjoyed the writing that day. Currie Graham was also on the movie - who is one of the great actors around. We had a lot of fun doing the interrogation scene together."
Q: We learned quite a lot about you character Tomin but was there something you would have liked to add to the character?
Tim Guinee: "Tomin rose to great power through the show and eventually the film, eventually being an incredibly powerful ruler. I would be curious to learn whether that power would eventually corrupt Tomin..."
Revolution airs Monday at 10/9C on NBC (new episodes return in late March 2013).
Photo of Tim Guinee from Stargate: Ark of Truth courtesy of MGM Stargate
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