EUREKA - SCIFI STREAM: A Conversation with Eureka‘s Joe Morton
July 9, 2011
By Chad Colvin
Our Saturday edition of SciFi Stream’s exclusive interview series with the cast of Eureka features actor Joe Morton — who plays Dr. Henry Deacon on the show. In our chat with Joe, he discusses his start in the business, the successes he had with several Hollywood blockbusters, why he feels a need for Henry to be mysterious, the Henry/Grace relationship, and much more!
Special thanks go to the Syfy network, NBC Universal, Vancouver Film Studios, Jaime Paglia, Matt Hastings, Eric Wallace and the entire Eureka production team for their support and graciousness...
... SFS: Henry, over the course of the years, has had kind of a tumultuous personal life. Kim comes back into his life, but he loses her in the accident at the end of Season One. There’s the anger he held towards Jack after, and by the end of Season Two he ends up in prison between seasons. In Season Three, he gets a version of Kim back, only to have to sacrifice her again … and on top of all of that, he becomes mayor of Eureka. So he’s been through the wringer.
And after the events of the Season Four premiere he comes back to find that he’s got a wife he doesn’t know. How easy is it to play that range? It seems like everything has shifted. There always seems to be a flux of Henry’s purpose within the series.
JM: "When we started in the pilot, I don’t think they knew who Henry was going to be and where he was going to go. I just started playing with the idea that he was a guy with a really very, very dark past who’d lived in and out of the bottle after whatever had happened in his past. And he had been brought to GD as a way to pull himself back together again. He was not a team player, and never really was. He was one of those scientists who doesn’t really do well in groups.
As a result of that, they started playing — “they” being the writers and Jaime and Andy — started playing with the idea that because of this dark past and because of his inability to play with others, they kept putting him in situations where he kept pushing the envelope in terms of what he could create or what he could discover. And how that affected his personal life et cetera, et cetera, et cetera — which was for me, sort of pig heaven..."
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