I’ve left it rather late this month but there is just time to squeeze in our regular post on the careers of the Cold Case cast members that aren’t Kathryn. It’s April so we’ll make this the April update.
In an effort to stop this becoming the Tracie Thoms Twelve Tributes (it’s monthly) or the T4, or 4T, or Double TT (OK, that just got weird 😉 ) we’ll try and up the non-Tracie content this time. It might be difficult though. Don’t worry, we still love you Tracie 😉
Danny Pino (Scotty Valens on CC) is coming to the end of his 3rd season on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It’s difficult to believe it has been that long already. Makes me feel older just thinking about that. There’s a joke in there somewhere about policeman looking younger every year. So far there is no word on whether L&O:SVU will get another season or not. As we know from Kathryn’s work on Cold Case you do a job on a show like that pretty much at the exclusion of everything else so there is little time for side projects. At the moment there doesn’t appear to anything in the pipeline from Danny. If you want wall-to-wall coverage on Danny’s work check out the great site Danny Pino Online. Tell them I sent you and say ‘hi’ from me.
Going up in rank we’ll move on to John Finn (John Stillman in CC). John is listed as being in the pilot for a possible new CBS TV series based around the machinations of Wall Street. Actor John Cusack (High Fidelity) is set to star and produce. The writers and exec producers from the TV series Justified are also behind the project. Charlie Cox (Boardwalk Empire) leads with David Morse (Treme), Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda) and Maggie Grace (Taken) co-starring. Morse’s character will be a powerful banker no doubt tapping into the world’s current distrust of financial institutions. Cox is to be an Iraq war vet turned banker, so we know he’ll be a good guy. Okonedo plays an assistant attorney general charged investigating the murky world of money. John Finn’s character is just down as Ritter at the moment. As of now the show is just known as Untitled Wall Street Project and is on IMDb as a “TV movie” which is often the case with pilots for series.
Next we’ll cast (see what I did there?) our net a little wider before pulling it back.
It was announced just last week that Cold Case writer and producer Veena Sud‘s post-CC show The Killing will start its fourth and final season on Netflix on August the 1st. You heard it here… just now.
Liz Garcia, also a writer and producer on Cold Case, is putting pen to paper (or more likely fingers to keyboard) again to adapt the last of the five part series of The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants books into a movie. We’ve veered well outside my comfort zone and sphere of knowledge here. There have already been adaptations of the first four Ann Brashares books. By the sounds of it the adaptations involved a lot of adaptations. Apparently significant changes were made from the first book to make the first film, released in 2005. Also apparently, the 2008 sequel film was based primarily around the fourth book, with some story lines from the second and third thrown in. No news yet on whether Amber Tamblyn (Joan Of Arcadia), Alexis Bledel (Gilmore Girls), America Ferrera (Ugly Betty) and Blake Lively (Gossip Girl) will reprise their roles. I should point out to our American friends that in the UK ‘pants’ are underwear. What you call pants, we call trousers.
I’ve tried my best but we will have to bow to the inevitable and post about Tracie, the one who puts us all to shame with the variety of work she does.
A couple of surprises cropped up from Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) since the last CCCC-up post in late March. At the very beginning of the month Tracie was spotted in a trailer for the 3rd season of the Catfish: The TV Show, the MTV programme about online dating. It is not clear what Tracie’s role is but in the clips she is not happy about something. There were question marks over the reality of the seemingly real original film Catfish. Surely having a professional actress, even if she is playing as ‘Tracie Thoms’, only confirms suspicions? The show is due to starting airing in May.
Surprise number two was one-off a role in the hit HBO comedy Veep, which stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Seinfeld) as the Vice President of the USA. Tracie played a single mother campaigning for childcare assistance which the Veep wanted to back as part of her running for the top job. Unfortunately it becomes a political hot potato for the VP. As part of this site’s goal to educate as well as entertain I will explain a little of the background of Veep that many may not know. Despite being all-American the show is very much British. The creator, Armando Iannucci, is a doyen of English comedy as a writer and director on such classics as The Day Today and Alan Partridge. Most pertinent to Veep is Armando’s The Thick Of It which is set in the offices of a junior minister in the UK government. It’s very similar to Veep but a lot more sweary. A lot more sweary. A lot more. There’s F@#$%*g loads of swearing (I can’t repeat any here, search YouTube). The chief proponent of the foul language is a character called Malcolm Tucker, as portrayed by Peter Capaldi who is soon to hit uncharted heights of fame as the new Doctor Who. He won’t be quite so rude in the TARDIS I’m sure. Malcolm’s rants have become legendary and likened to the works of Shakespeare (happy 450th birthday Bill) in their poetry. The Thick Of It branched out towards Hollywood with a film called In The Loop. Again, it was very similar in style, with some of the same actors, albeit in different roles. Veep completes the move to the US. There are threads going through the three projects such as comedian/actor Chris Addison from The Thick Of It and In The Loop directing episodes of Veep. The Brits are taking over US comedy!
At the beginning of April Tracie finished up her ADR work on the movie Annie, due for release in December in the US and elsewhere into the new year. ADR (additional dialogue recording) is where an actor re-records the dialogue spoken on set in a recording studio. This is done primarily to improve the audio if it didn’t come perfectly on set.
The weekend just gone Tracie sang a benefit with a bevy of stars for the Celebration Theatre. Tomorrow (Thursday, May 1st) she will be home in Maryland to host a cabaret event in support of the Baltimore School for the Arts. Busy, busy, busy.
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