Ice Quake - SciFi and TV Talk: Brendan Fehr Interview

Source: SciFi and TV Talk [follow link for complete interview]

NOTE: Ice Quake repeats on Syfy on Monday, December 27 at 10:00pm.

Roswell's Brendan Fehr

By Steve Eramo
12/11/2010

It was back in 1999 that actor Brendan Fehr was cast as Michael Guerin, one of three human/alien hybrid teenagers living on Earth in the popular Sci-Fi TV series Roswell. Following the show's three-season run, Fehr went on to work on such feature films as The Fifth Patient, Comeback Season and Biker Boyz. In the past few years, the actor has had regular or recurring roles on such TV series as CSI: Miami, Samurai Girl and Bones. Tonight (Saturday, December 11th) he can be seen opposite Victor Garber (Alias) in the Syfy Channel Original Movie Ice Quake, airing @ 9:00 p.m. PST/EST on Syfy.

Earlier this week, Fehr spent over an hour on the phone talking with myself as well as other journalists about his work on Ice Quake as well as career in general. The following is an edited version of that Q & A. Enjoy!



... I found the story interesting in that it is liquid methane that is causing the earthquakes. What did you think of the actual story when you got the script?

BF - Well, Syfy obviously comes up with a whole variety of scripts for their original movies. You never know kind of what you’re going to get and it’s always going to be a little bit of a surprise. But this one was rather tame in that there’s no sort of shark to hunt or zombie. There’s no monster per se. It’s all based in science and natural disaster. Something I suppose could realistically happen, although I don’t exactly know the hard science behind it. But I thought that was interesting and, hopefully, not only adds to the reality of this possibly happening, but also engages the audience in a different way other than watching a two-headed monster or something like that run rampant around the city or whatever else.

So that intrigued me when I saw the script in that it was kind of grounded a little bit in reality. Those other types of stories are a lot of fun as well, but as an actor I think it’s much easier to get into the head space of OK, this "could" happen, and that kind of works in an actor’s favor. So that was a pleasant surprise.