![]() ![]() I've always tried to work in Los Angeles on a series - I have a wife and two kids - and the great thing about a series is, it's like working for a factory: 70 hours a week, you go in, punch a clock and act all day."Īnd Patrick is as comfortable with his character, Homeland Security agent Cabe Gallo, as he is with those long hours on the set. "Great work, great actors, great writers, great network. "It's like hitting the lottery," he raves of Scorpion. We take a loose foundation and then add interesting stories and characterization."Īfter 30 years as a working actor - on dozens of series like The X-Files and True Blood and films like Terminator 2 - Robert Patrick finally has his dream job. "You always have to be aware that you're creating a hybrid: the guy is a real person, but we're also trying to create cohesive drama. Gabel has great respect for the real Walter O'Brien, the brainiac (and executive producer) who inspired the series, but his job is to stay true to the character, not the man. "I'm so in love with Walter - I enjoy playing a leader with certain vulnerabilities. "This is as difficult, if not more," he says, but he wants to get the dialogue right. To deliver his character's geek speak - as well as the grand metaphors Walter uses to simplify the science - Gabel falls back on his training: he spent three years speaking medical jargon on the British drama Casualty, "I don't do coding or binary numbers like real computer geeks." "I'd like to think I'm some form of storyteller, so I'm more into the relative aspect of technology," Gabel says. Of course, in that skill he can't compare to his character, Walter. "I'm a big fan of emotionally led, haunting scores." When he finds time to make his own music, he "tries to engineer," which means he has a handle on technology. But as a composer, singer and guitarist, he definitely counts music as a passion. London-born Elyes Gabel doesn't often break into song on set, preferring instead to trade silly accents with costars Stidham and Thomas. The retro garage at L.A.'s Studio 6625 inspired Team Scorpion's fashion mix of mid-century chic with a modern flair.Īnd, as seen on the show, there's no better setting for a bunch of problem solvers who always figure out what's happening under the hood. ![]() One unexpected way: dress up and chill out at a 1950s-style photo shoot. "But also, in every episode someone's dying or the world is falling apart - we have to find a way to let off steam." "They're genuinely exhausted by us, because we have so much energy. "Directors come in, and about four days into it they have this look of complete exhaustion," McPhee says. "Everybody's so snappy here," Stidham says, but that doesn't mean you won't catch cast members clowning, teasing or singing between scenes. To stay on schedule, the cast comes prepared and ready to move. Those people have included such prominent guest stars as Corbin Bernsen, Mykelti Williamson, Shohreh Aghdashloo and Linda Hunt. "It gives you a chance to be constantly practicing your craft, bantering and sharing energy with people." "When you're covering seven people in a four-page scene, it just takes a looong time," the actress observes, "It's relentless, but you learn to enjoy it." Gabel adds. During emmy's eight-hour set visit, for example, the crew got through about two scenes, ![]() "Even though the show was inspired by Walter O'Brien, it's about the team, the team, the team," says Robert Patrick, which is why he, Gabel, Katharine McPhee, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Jadyn Wong and Ari Stidham appear in almost every scene.Įven when a scene starts small, everyone enters by the end, creating what Gabel calls "this cohesive family atmosphere." But filming family-style can take "forever," McPhee reveals. Gabel plays eccentric computer genius Walter O'Brien, the leader of a band of brilliant outsiders who is loosely based on a real computer hacker of the same name.ĭespite "being intellectually superior and feeling disconnected from the world," Gabel explains, he and his crew are thrust time and again into unfamiliar action - and human interaction - but manage to succeed through teamwork. ![]() "There's bullets flying and a bunch of social misfits going, 'How did we get here? This isn't us!'" recounts Elyes Gabel, "But then you find out how they flourish." They’ve stopped a nuclear meltdown, trounced Vegas goons and retaken stealth technology from Bosnia.īut the brainiacs of CBS's Scorpion - now headed for its second season - aren't your average TV heroes. ![]()
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