Nip/Tuck pilot vs. regular series detail
08-27-03, 07:40 PM
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Nip/Tuck pilot vs. regular series detail
Just started watching the show with this marathon and loving it. My GF brought this to my attention and I'm wondering if anyone else thought of it. During the pilot ep, Christian's relationship to Sean's kids is played up. Christian also mentions sending Sean's daughter to private school, and once refers to seeing "my family" to Sean's wife. Is it possible that they were playing for an angle where Christian is the real father to those kids? Perhaps it was dropped when the show was greenlit?
Also, if I watch this week's marathon, will I be caught up by next week's new ep?
Also, if I watch this week's marathon, will I be caught up by next week's new ep?
Last edited by grifter; 08-27-03 at 09:03 PM.
08-28-03, 08:08 AM
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Article from Zap2it dealing with that issue:
'Nip/Tuck's' Hensley Asks 'Who's My Daddy?'
(Wednesday, August 27 10:28 AM)
By Kate O'Hare
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Fans of FX's Tuesday-night drama series "Nip/Tuck," which focuses on a pair of South Florida plastic surgeons, may have noticed that teenager Matt McNamara (John Hensley) doesn't look a great deal like his father, Dr. Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh).
Instead, he looks much more like his father's womanizing partner, Dr. Christian Troy (Julian McMahon), who has a longstanding attraction to Matt's mother, Julia (Joely Richardson), dating back to when all three knew each other in college.
There was even a line in an early episode where the partners' new staff psychologist, Dr. Grace Santiago (Valerie Cruz), remarked on the lack of resemblance, causing Sean to mutter something about there being "black Irish" on his blond, blue-eyed wife's side of the family.
"John looks nothing like Dylan," says series creator Ryan Murphy, "so everybody says, 'He's obviously Christian's kid.' We're dealing with that, which is great."
"If I knew the answer, I'd tell you, but I don't," Hensley says. "That's something that's been intentionally planted in the actors on the show, just to keep it in the back of our heads, but no answer's been given. It's one of those things where anything's possible."
Hensley thinks it may be a result of casting. "I could be completely wrong about this," he says, "but that may have very well been discovered after everybody was cast. It's one of those things where people said, 'Wow, John really doesn't look like Dylan.'
"When they showed the home video from college [on the show], that's when I really noticed it, because Julian had on this wig that looked like my haircut in the pilot. I thought, 'Wow, man, he looks just like me.' That seed got planted in my mind long before Ryan mentioned to everybody, 'Hey, look just so you know, we don't know which way this is going to go, but here it is.'
"Then there was the scene between Grace and Sean at dinner, which I immediately thought, 'That's denial and rationalization.'"
Part of the dynamic of the show since it premiered on July 22 has been the competition between the straight-laced Sean and the freewheeling Christian for Matt's affections. That came to a head when Julia tongue-lashed Christian for taking Matt to a porn-studio party.
Christian tried to make it up to Matt by offering him a ride in his new Lamborghini, but Matt declined, because he didn't want to impress women with a car. This caused Christian to have second thoughts about the image he was cultivating.
"That's a big deal for Matt to say something like that to Christian," Hensley says. "Because of the relationship they have, and the fact that, good, bad or indifferent -- and despite the fact that the advice Matt's given by Christian can be, at moments, severely misguided -- Christian's the one person who's always had these unconditional open arms to Matt. I thought, 'Wow, that's a pretty hard way to go at the guy who's always had his arms open to you.'
"But it was also, in the end, vital to both characters. Matt needs to put the brakes on, so to speak."
If it turns out that Christian is Matt's father, Hensley knows how he would feel. "If it does to that way, honestly, I'd be sad for Sean. The thing that hits me, as just a person watching the show like anybody else, is you can't help but see how this guy is trying. Sean is putting in a good effort, he really is."
'Nip/Tuck's' Hensley Asks 'Who's My Daddy?'
(Wednesday, August 27 10:28 AM)
By Kate O'Hare
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Fans of FX's Tuesday-night drama series "Nip/Tuck," which focuses on a pair of South Florida plastic surgeons, may have noticed that teenager Matt McNamara (John Hensley) doesn't look a great deal like his father, Dr. Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh).
Instead, he looks much more like his father's womanizing partner, Dr. Christian Troy (Julian McMahon), who has a longstanding attraction to Matt's mother, Julia (Joely Richardson), dating back to when all three knew each other in college.
There was even a line in an early episode where the partners' new staff psychologist, Dr. Grace Santiago (Valerie Cruz), remarked on the lack of resemblance, causing Sean to mutter something about there being "black Irish" on his blond, blue-eyed wife's side of the family.
"John looks nothing like Dylan," says series creator Ryan Murphy, "so everybody says, 'He's obviously Christian's kid.' We're dealing with that, which is great."
"If I knew the answer, I'd tell you, but I don't," Hensley says. "That's something that's been intentionally planted in the actors on the show, just to keep it in the back of our heads, but no answer's been given. It's one of those things where anything's possible."
Hensley thinks it may be a result of casting. "I could be completely wrong about this," he says, "but that may have very well been discovered after everybody was cast. It's one of those things where people said, 'Wow, John really doesn't look like Dylan.'
"When they showed the home video from college [on the show], that's when I really noticed it, because Julian had on this wig that looked like my haircut in the pilot. I thought, 'Wow, man, he looks just like me.' That seed got planted in my mind long before Ryan mentioned to everybody, 'Hey, look just so you know, we don't know which way this is going to go, but here it is.'
"Then there was the scene between Grace and Sean at dinner, which I immediately thought, 'That's denial and rationalization.'"
Part of the dynamic of the show since it premiered on July 22 has been the competition between the straight-laced Sean and the freewheeling Christian for Matt's affections. That came to a head when Julia tongue-lashed Christian for taking Matt to a porn-studio party.
Christian tried to make it up to Matt by offering him a ride in his new Lamborghini, but Matt declined, because he didn't want to impress women with a car. This caused Christian to have second thoughts about the image he was cultivating.
"That's a big deal for Matt to say something like that to Christian," Hensley says. "Because of the relationship they have, and the fact that, good, bad or indifferent -- and despite the fact that the advice Matt's given by Christian can be, at moments, severely misguided -- Christian's the one person who's always had these unconditional open arms to Matt. I thought, 'Wow, that's a pretty hard way to go at the guy who's always had his arms open to you.'
"But it was also, in the end, vital to both characters. Matt needs to put the brakes on, so to speak."
If it turns out that Christian is Matt's father, Hensley knows how he would feel. "If it does to that way, honestly, I'd be sad for Sean. The thing that hits me, as just a person watching the show like anybody else, is you can't help but see how this guy is trying. Sean is putting in a good effort, he really is."
