Anthony Edwards is back on TV in ABC’s Zero Hour Thursdays at 8p, but before he was an ER doctor he was an action star in movies like Gotcha and Miracle Mile. I recently chatted with him about the mysterious drama and I asked him if the show was like coming back full circle for him because of the movies he did in the ’80s. He said, “I guess I didn’t think about that, but I guess it is true. I guess I have been attracted to spies and mystery before.” So does he see his character Hank Galliston as an action hero? He said, “He is an action hero in that he is very active but he is not a punch-’em-up, shoot-it-out hero. Hopefully, you will root for him because you feel that he is accessible.”
Last week’s premiere episode had a shocking ending with Edwards looking at frozen Nazi version of himself. When I asked him what that was like, he said “Weird. It is one thing to see a picture of yourself, but you don’t think you can go like this (pans) with yourself. When you become three dimensional, that’s a little weird.” So since that is where we ended things a week ago, what can we expect now “I really do think that the episodes we have shot are better than the pilot. The energy does not stop. I feel we got better doing it.” Then he added, “It all relies on the fact that our writer/creator Paul (Scheuring) knew what he wanted to do before we started, so he didn’t enter it thinking, ‘I have a concept for a pilot, where will it go?’ He has known where it is going all along.” And Edwards knows where these investigative reporters are going to go in the next 12 episodes that have a beginning, middle and end.
When he was asked to preview the show to get you to watch, he responded by saying “We have a really great story. You are going to be entertained and then propelled into wanting to know more, so if you like being addictive, it is good for you.” So get addicted tonight to Zero Hour that airs Thursdays at 8p on ABC.
