Andre Braugher
March 21st, 2006
Jon Caramanica talks to Andre Braugher, who hasn’t shown up on our screens half as often as I’d like since his days playing Detective Frank Pembleton on Homicide: Life on the Street:
“I was very concerned about the Bob Denver effect from playing Pembleton,” Mr. Braugher said one recent afternoon while nursing a double espresso at a hotel bar in Midtown Manhattan. “It was a terrific role, but if I’m pegged that way for the rest of my career, it’s a problem.”
Appropriately, the opening of “Thief,” his new series, which makes its debut on FX on March 28, delivers what might be the final blow. Mr. Braugher plays Nick Atwater, leader of a small crew that specializes in flamboyant yet meticulous thievery. In the scene, they’re in a subterranean bank vault in San Francisco when, midheist, Nick’s cellphone rings. It’s his new wife, Wanda, calling from a police station back at home in New Orleans, where his teenage stepdaughter, Tammi — with whom he has, at best, an icy détente — is being detained for her role in a petty larceny. While his partners load up duffel bags with jewels and cash, Atwater smooth-talks the cop on the other end of the line into letting the girl off with a warning, barely concealing his glee at the situation’s incongruity.
Yes, I can definitely see Braugher bringing that scene off.
Please can some UK channel buy this show. I enjoy ITV4’s Sunday night rerun of classic Homicide (currently showing the middle of season 3) but it’d be nice to see something new from Braugher.
[Via PopPolitics]
