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Metro Interview With Scott Caan

January 2, 2013 in Articles & Interviews, Scott Caan

It’s probably the most fun part of the show for us – we get to sit down and not have to worry about details of the knife and where it landed and the blood and all that stuff. And as long as it stays fresh and we get good new stuff to argue about, I’m all for it. It’s weird though, when we’re sitting in that car, we’re not really moving – there are just green screens all over the place. I’m giving it away now, taking all the fun out of it, aren’t I?

Scott Caan, 36, plays Danno in Hawaii Five-O, the remake of the 1960s cop show. The son of The Godfather star James Caan, he doesn’t watch TV.

It must feel like you’ve won the lottery, living in Hawaii while you film the show. I actually get pretty crazy. A lot of people go there to be calm; I’m not calm. I’m a city guy, so it’s hard for me to relax. But it’s beautiful, the weather’s always nice, there’s the ocean and really nice people – it’s just a little slow for me.

Why do you think police drama is so popular? I don’t know, I don’t really watch TV. But you’ve got a guy living in the middle of nowhere who doesn’t like his job, he’s trying to figure out whether he likes his son or not and he definitely doesn’t like his wife. I don’t think he wants to watch something at night that makes him depressed – I think he wants to be happy. We have new episodes coming up and I don’t want to spoil it but we catch the guy at the end. Success! That’s predictable for me but people like that – they want to feel good.

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Static Interview With Alex

December 7, 2012 in Alex O'Loughlin, Articles & Interviews

We don’t relate to, “Come on, yeah, let’s go, get the gun, all right,” it’s bullshit. Alright? I mean maybe some of you guys have second lives and you’re secret agents actually, pretending to be journalists, talking to not-very-interesting actors about TV shows, I don’t know. Whatever. Did I answer your question? I have a new baby, so I haven’t slept in two weeks, which is why I’m drinking a lot of water and I sound like I’m drunk. I’m not drunk; I’m not that drunk.

Alex O’Loughlin has previously starred in The Back-up Plan with Jennifer Lopez. He is now the co-star of Hawaii 5-0 with Scott Caan. He talks about the difficulties of fatherhood, bromances and the show that made him famous.

“Hawaii Five-0” is a remake. Why has your show succeeded where other remakes have failed?

That’s a really good question, and Hawaii Five-0 is not just a remake, it’s a remake of a show that was wildly successful and ran for twelve years and had a fan base all around the world, so the bar was set pretty high in the beginning. So we were all concerned a little bit in the beginning on whether we were going to get it right and whether people were going to like us and whether the old audience and fan base for the old show would transfer. But I think the recipe of this show, when you look at it – I mean, you’ve got the most beautiful beaches in the world, you’ve got beautiful people virtually naked on those beaches, you’ve got guns, you’ve got fast cars, you’ve got the crime stories, and you’ve got some humor. That’s a TV show that I’d want to watch. I think it’s in the recipe and the way it’s all come together. If anything was going to be a hit, I think this was going to be a hit. But if we mess this up I was going to give up and become, I don’t know, a garbage man or do something else.

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Alex O’Loughlin Primed for Great Things

September 18, 2012 in 'Hawaii Five-0', Alex O'Loughlin, Articles & Interviews

I have a house here. I’m having a little Hawaiian baby in about 4-5 weeks. I’ve been blessed by the kahunas here and was given a Hawaiian name. And my 15-year-old goes to school here. I feel blessed to be part of these islands and part of this culture. This is home now.

When TV viewers last visited the tropical shores of “Hawaii Five-0,” a shocked Steve McGarrett was coming face-to-face with his mother, a woman presumed dead for 20 years.

Now, as Season 3 of the turbo-charged crime series gets set to launch (10 p.m. Sept. 24, CBS), Emmy winner Christine Lahti has come aboard to play Doris McGarrett in a recurring role. But don’t expect a joyous family reunion. These two have issues.

On the other hand, O’Loughlin’s personal life appears to be substantially brighter. The Aussie actor says he’s “doing great” following a brief rehab stint earlier this year for prescription pain medication — a problem stemming from a shoulder injury sustained while filming the show. Moreover, he and girlfriend, model Malia Jones, are expecting their first child together in a few weeks (He has a teen son, Saxon, from a previous relationship).

An amiable O’Loughlin, looking tan and fit, took time recently to field some questions during a break from production on the Honolulu sound stages of “Hawaii Five-0.”

Q: So give us the lay of the land. Where do McGarrett and his mother stand when the season launches?

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USA Today Talks to Alex & Scott

September 17, 2012 in 'Hawaii Five-0', Alex O'Loughlin, Articles & Interviews, Scott Caan

Caan says he and O’Loughlin have a lot in common, including surfing, jiu jitsu and “a nicotine addiction,” and that the buddy element of Five-0 works because they are friends. “It’s hard to go against what really exists,” he says. “If you have a rapport with somebody, that’s going to come out.”

Over the first two seasons, the lead characters, played by Alex O’Loughlin and Scott Caan respectively, have developed a strong friendship firmly based in disagreement. The frequent ones that take place while driving have become known as “carguments.”

“In the first season, I feel we sort of ran on getting to know each other as characters. You have a lot more to argue about when you’re trying to decide whether you like somebody or not,” says Caan, as O’Loughlin laughs. “Now, the arguments have turned more into brothers that argue, which is great, too, as long as there’s something to disagree on.”

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Alex Talks H5-0, Women, and More

June 9, 2012 in 'Hawaii Five-0', Alex O'Loughlin, Articles & Interviews

“She has to be smart and funny. Funny is really important. If a day goes by and we haven’t been laughing, then I get really sad. Life is so ridiculous that if you can’t see the irony of it, you’re going to have a really hard time while you’re here.

“I’m doing great now,” said Alex O’Loughlin in an interview in LA last Wednesday. He spoke for the first time about his break from his TV show, “Hawaii Five-0,” after checking into rehab last March.

The actor, looking fit, tan and sporting a full beard, underwent supervised treatment for prescription pain medication due to injuries he sustained while doing the hit CBS series.

“I got hurt pretty bad on the show and I ended up taking painkillers to get to work,” said the actor who plays Steve McGarrett in the successful reboot of the show that originally starred Jack Lord. “I had trouble getting off them. That’s as complicated as it gets.”

Alex added that he “gets knocked around a lot on the show. I do a lot of my own stunts and I have done so from the beginning. I am not 20-something anymore as you can see from the dusting of grey on the sides of my head.”

The Australian actor admitted: “It was really difficult for me to be away. The hardest part was like when something is so enormous in your life—I’m at work 14 hours every day—and then all of a sudden, you’re not at work. I got a lot of letters and messages from people saying, ‘Where are you?’ or ‘It’s so weird not to see you in the show.’”

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