Do No Harm debuts at 10p on NBC tonight and you don’t want to miss this medical drama with twist!
Dr Jason Cole (Steven Pasquale) is a top neurosurgeon with a big secret. For the last five years he has been able to have alter personality suppressed with medicine, but that quick fix is no longer working. Now at 8:25p every night Ian Price takes over his body and doesn’t give it back to him for the next 12 hours. So by day he is a doctor doing good, but by night he is the complete opposite. Cole is doing everything he can to get rid of Price and Price is doing everything he can to f*ck with Cole.
As show creator David Schulner put it, “Ian’s a little bit like a cat. The cat wants to play with that mouse. He doesn’t want to kill it because what fun would that be? So Ian’s going to do a lot of stuff to Jason.” Then he added, “And then what’s great about Jason’s character Steve’s other character, is Jason’s just as smart as Ian is and is sometimes two steps ahead of Ian, so there’s traps in place. There’s safeguards, there’s fail-safes. So it’s a constant cat and mouse chess game between the two of them. But Ian is not toothless. There’s a true danger to him. He’s truly menacing, and that’s why Jason’s character needs to get rid of him.”
So playing two characters on one show can get kind of confusing for someone, so Pasquale explained how they keep him sane on the set. He said, “I have to credit the prop department because when we’re shooting a Jason scene, they make sure my chair says ‘Jason Cole.’ And when we’re shooting an Ian scene, my chair says ‘Ian Price.'” How many actors can say they require two chairs on the set and get away with it?
Not only does Pasquale have two chairs, he has two different personalities on the show and he plays them off so well. You know how some actors can only play the same role over and over again? Well Pasquale is playing two completely roles then he played on Rescue Me. In fact it such a 360, I was so blown away by how good he is on this show. He was great on Rescue Me, but he has kicked up a few notches on this show!
So between his acting and the theme of the show, I am sure you will be as hooked on it as I am.
