"I've always said, 'When I'm done, I'm going to throw a dinner party and all the characters I've ever played are going to show up'," he says. Jeff Daniels has been a busy actor in recent years, playing a Western villain, a Southern lawyer and now FBI Director James Comey in 'The Comey Rule.' They are all alive to me.". Get breaking news coverage as events unfold. ", Morality play: Jeff Daniels' performance in 'Comey Rule' made James Comey feel 'nauseous,' and Daniels is OK with that. "I had agents saying, 'We're going to stop you. That is a hallmark of Jeff as a person. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. Then came “The Newsroom,” which eventually earned Daniels more than a nomination (he won an Emmy Award in 2013). Sorkin opens with fireworks as Daniels unleashes a tirade, telling an audience that "America is NOT the greatest country in the world . I'm appreciative of the time to recover. Just amazing. Jeff Daniels’ film career has been filled with plenty of highlights, from Ragtime to The Squid And The Whale, but with the exception of a few one-off appearances and the occasional TV movie, he’s rarely shown his face on the small screen. Daniels believes that in terms of storytelling, “The Newsroom” is bowing out at the right time – which is to say, before its writers began to strain to extend storylines beyond their natural arc. The "he" is Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels… Like, how do we do this? All rights reserved (About Us). Jeff Daniels has earned accolades for his performance as prickly anchorman Will McAvoy on the HBO series, "The Newsroom." Jeff Daniels, left, as news anchor Will McAvoy in HBO's “The Newsroom,” and Reese Witherspoon as reporter Bradley Jackson in Apple's “The Morning Show.” (Melissa Moseley/HBO; Apple … That helps explain Daniels playing celluloid-star-come-to-life Tom Baxter in Woody Allen's "The Purple Rose of Cairo" (1985); gallant Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in "Gettysburg" (1993); selfish writer Bernard Berkman in "The Squid and the Whale" (2005); sex offender Ray in "Blackbird" on Broadway (2016); and, the greatest of outliers, moron Harry Dunne in "Dumb and Dumber" (1994). Having that sense of, you can’t do anything more than you did with it. One of them said, 'Jim Carrey is going to wipe you off the screen.' “I certainly was the outsider in the room. McAvoy, was a complicated guy, and that's what I get now," Daniels says. Transcript for Jeff Daniels Dishes On New Show 'The Newsroom' This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate. When Daniels first met Sorkin and producer Scott Rudin to talk about The Newsroom … Daniels traces the start of his “move up to a different plateau” to Noah Baumbach’s 2005 indie film, “The Squid and the Whale,” in which Daniels played a blowhard, self-absorbed professor whose family is falling apart. Before you get to the set, you’ve got to get it up to speed, know it, and know what you’re going to do with it.”. JEFF DANIELS, ACTOR: Well, as an actor, I didn’t know how to do him. 'You're cheating on Deborah Winger while she's dying of cancer? The opening scene of the pilot episode " We Just Decided To ", in which Daniels gives a monologue on the state of American greatness, has been viewed more than 13 million times. But when there are more producers and more help and more money, you’ve got a lot of people weighing in, creatively, … and it gets watered down, where the script is on the fourth writer, and there are notes from a junior executive all over the thing, and the marketing department has weighed in the script, too. They marketed it as a Chevy Chase comedy and then we've got that wild third act. “There’s got to be some luck involved, because for somebody to be hitting at my age – it just doesn’t usually happen.”. . … With everything, you know it’s ending at some point, and there’s a sense of relief in a job well done, past tense. Daniels kicked-off a music career in the early 2000s but his ties to acoustic folk music go back to the 70s. … But I think part of why got to make a speech is, a lot of actors say, ‘I couldn’t do what you’re doing.’ The amount of dialogue, the pace Sorkin requires, the fact that there’s no rehearsal. I did it for 3. When he says something, you believe it. Advisers pushed back. With Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, John Gallagher Jr., Alison Pill. "When you say 'Something Wild,' I think of how much I miss Jonathan Demme. Jeff Daniels (11:02) Tony-nominated actor, Jeff Daniels, stops by Couch Surfing this week to talk about ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ on Broadway and some of his greatest roles including ‘Something Wild,’ ‘Dumb and Dumber,’ ‘The Newsroom,’ and more! a cameraman asks MacKenzie McHale (Emily Mortimer), a cable news executive producer, at the end of the first episode of The Newsroom. With ‘Squid,’ Noah’s budget was so low, there were just 1 or 2 producers, making sure the money was spent correctly. "Actors are supposed to be as many different characters as we can be. Yeah, I'll pass.' Appropriately, the actor playing this straw man in "The Newsroom" is Jeff Daniels, best known as the typecast co-star, with Jim Carrey, of the 1994 comedy "Dumb and Dumber." "I was about to throw up on my shoes," Comey said of the experience of watching Jeff Daniels and Brendan Gleeson reenacting his one-on-one dinner scene with POTUS. … Everybody else saw that and said, ‘Oh that’s what I have to do to do this.’ … And we go at Sorkin speed. [31] Daniels goes around the table to discuss his guests' projects: "At the time, I wanted to shake it up. "Luckily, we're healthy, but it's been a sprint since 'Newsroom' and especially after 'Mockingbird' and going right into 'Comey.' By E. Alex Jung. Subscribe to MLive.com. Watch the full interview clip (including Mahershala Ali’s unparalleled shirt-jacket combo) below: in television tags the newsroom, aaron sorkin, jeff daniels, will mcavoy, america, usa ← Al Pacino (written by Oliver Stone and John Logan) : 'On this team, we fight for that inch', Any Given Sunday - 1999 Sylvester Stallone (also writer): 'You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life', Rocky Balboa - 2006 … any more." I said, 'He's not in the snowball-in-the-head scene. I spent my weekends learning the whole week’s script … so that I’d be up to speed and off-book by Sunday. ", Jeff Daniels: playing Atticus Finch 'role of a lifetime', Jeff Daniels calls playing Atticus Finch in the stage adaptation of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' the "role of a lifetime." "The Newsroom" wrapped its final season in July, and the episodes will air on HBO this fall. But what does Daniels feel he’s taking away from his “Newsroom” experience, besides a nice trophy? If there’s any rehearsal, you do it on your own. Callow philanderer Flap Horton "was probably the role no young actor in Hollywood wanted. Anne Thompson Sep 28, 2020 5:00 pm This summer, the cast and crew finished shooting the show's third and final season, which will air this fall (the premiere date has yet to be announced). As the premiere opens, Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) and MacKenzie McHale (Emily Mortimer) are planning their wedding. The 6 Most Aaron Sorkin-y Things About Molly’s Game From the fast talking to the daddy issues. Filmmakers remember McAvoy and his scorching critique of American exceptionalism, too, which has led to a rich bounty of intriguing roles in recent years, including former FBI Director James Comey in Showtime's miniseries "The Comey Rule" (Part 2, Monday, 9 EDT/PDT). ", "I don't think anything will top what I got to do eight times a week on Broadway playing Atticus Finch. So that didn't work," he says. The official website for The Newsroom on HBO, featuring full episodes online, interviews, schedule information and episode guides. "They didn't know how to market it. Jeff Daniels brought back the epic Will McA… Jeff Daniels had a deliciously snarky response the day an actor couldn’t get his lines right on The Newsroom this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. This will end your career.' And I’m from the world of, close the play and move on. ‘Mad Men,’ ‘Breaking Bad,’ ‘House of Cards’ - those shows are adored and loved. But ACN diehards will have to be content with Jeff Daniels’ most improbable of Emmys. The day players – you’ll see steam coming out of their ears, … and it’s like they’re coming around a corner too fast, up on 2 wheels. “ … Writers have more say (in television), more freedom. You could feel the stillness. There’s more there, the journey’s longer – I like it. (He) was on the rise and it was a buddy movie. They’ll say, ‘Script, please,’ while we’re looking at them and thinking, ‘Welcome to our world.’”. ... Jeff Daniels’s Newsroom Meets Dumb & Dumber A Sorkin-Farrelly mash-up. ", "I'm ready to go," he says. Daniels, 65, has pursued a broad range of film, TV and stage roles for philosophical, creative and career reasons over a 44-year acting career that he celebrates every September 1, the day he arrived in New York in 1976 to pursue his dream. 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