Post by Jemma on Oct 27, 2008 11:48:14 GMT -5
CSI: No Way Petersen Can Leave Theater
The opening scene of the last episode of CSI was eerie, which was typical in the CBS hit procedural. A young woman was found dead in the park next to a lamppost. The weird thing was she wasn't on the ground, her eyes weren't shut, and there weren't any immediately visible signs of death aside from rigor bruises on her legs. On the contrary, she was on her feet, cell phone tuck between her shoulder and ear The first conjecture pointed to lightning the night before, but as usual Gil Grissom (William Petersen) was skeptical. When the CSI team found more similar cases, a man on a bus stop bench, another hailing a cab, and an old couple who was bird-watching, they realized there was something more to this than random, lost lightning. Also, we got to meet Riley Adams, the new girl whose first line was, “What, no gun?”
As we count down Grissom's last episodes before he bids goodbye to the series that catapulted him to worldwide popularity, the CSI main man says there's really nothing like doing theater, and sooner or later, he's bound to come back to where he came from. And not even the world's most popular show or some fans vowing to stop watching a Grissom-less CSI can't change his mind.
“I feel differently about the Chicago theatre audience than I do about anybody else," Petersen said in reference to doing Dublin Carol in his theater-rich hometown. "That's why I always come back to Chicago," he said. "That's why I'll always stay in Chicago."
After being “discovered” by William Friedkin of The Exorcist on an Ontario, Canada staging of A Streetcar Named Desire, Petersen shifted to making movies and eventually found himself at the helm of CSI.
"I didn't make a movie until I was 32 years old," he said. "I didn't have an agent. I never sought out Hollywood; Hollywood came, literally, to the theater in Chicago, and said, 'Would you like to come and do this?'"
As we count down Grissom's last episodes before he bids goodbye to the series that catapulted him to worldwide popularity, the CSI main man says there's really nothing like doing theater, and sooner or later, he's bound to come back to where he came from. And not even the world's most popular show or some fans vowing to stop watching a Grissom-less CSI can't change his mind.
“I feel differently about the Chicago theatre audience than I do about anybody else," Petersen said in reference to doing Dublin Carol in his theater-rich hometown. "That's why I always come back to Chicago," he said. "That's why I'll always stay in Chicago."
After being “discovered” by William Friedkin of The Exorcist on an Ontario, Canada staging of A Streetcar Named Desire, Petersen shifted to making movies and eventually found himself at the helm of CSI.
"I didn't make a movie until I was 32 years old," he said. "I didn't have an agent. I never sought out Hollywood; Hollywood came, literally, to the theater in Chicago, and said, 'Would you like to come and do this?'"
