Heading 'Into the Badlands'

CELEBRITY SPOTLIGHTS FRED SAVAGE LUCY LAWLESS SHARON STONE PHILIP WINCHESTER GRAHAM ELLIOT THE STORY! Heading ‘Into the Badlands’ WHAT'S FOR Daniel Wu stars in “Into DINNER the Badlands,” premiering Featuring: Sunday on AMC. “Kelsey’s Essentials” FEATURED STORIES “CHICAGO MED” “TURKEY HOLLOW” EXCLUSIVE! “HUNTING HITLER” PROFILED ATHLETE MOVIES TO MATT WATCH JOHNSON And so much more! Connect to these shows within this magazine! FOLIO Courtesy of Gracenote November 15 - 21, 2015 C What’s HOT this Week! Click to jump to these contents featured sections! YOURTVLINK CELEBRITY “CHICAGO MED” 4 FRED SAVAGE “The Producer Dick Wolf makes Wonder Years” alum likes his Windy City triple play laying down the law in “The Grinder” 5 LUCY LAWLESS On ditching another deal to be on “Ash vs Evil Dead” 6 SHARON STONE “Agent X” star appreciates leading man who’s “not a jerk” 8 PHILIP WINCHESTER “The Player” star doesn’t play around when it comes “TURKEY HOLLOW” to stunts Mary Steenburgen talks about being “a huge Jim 9 GRAHAM ELLIOT Henson fan.” A restaurateur and celebrity chef “THE ART OF MORE” Kate Bosworth’s character has FOOD to “prove herself far more than 7 “KELSEY’S ESSENTIALS” anybody else.” 17 for great dinner table experiences SPORTS THE STORY! 18-19 MATT JOHNSON “INTO THE BADLANDS” future NFL quarterback? Past meets future in martial- See for yourself Tuesday arts-driven action series on ESPN2 REALITY MOVIES IN EVERY ISSUE 16 “HUNTING HITLER” 20-21 Featuring: Theatrical 22-23 Featuring: Our top Does history stand true or Review, Our top DVD pick, suggested programs to watch did he really get away? and Coming Soon on DVD. this week! Page 2 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote November 15 - 21, 2015 Editor's choice STORY S with him, we knew David could bring the American cable- drama sensibility, but he also understood how to work with a fight unit.” Millar adds of the participation of fight director Fung, “There‘s a distinct difference between how you shoot Western-style action in a traditional movie or TV show, and how you shoot Hong Kong-style. It’s about seeing your hero really fight, and that was the key in terms of making this feel authentic. The action is as important as the drama, and what really makes the show unique is giving respect to that element. That’s why the fights are like nothing you’ve ever seen before.” The producers also made that attempt earlier with star Sammo Hung in the late-’90s CBS series “Martial Law,” and they knew they had to get their principal “Into the Badlands” casting just right. AMC goes “Daniel was in as an executive producer from the beginning,” reports Gough. “We sort of wrote it with him in ‘INTO THE BADLANDS’ the back of our minds, but he was like, ‘I’m too old. I don’t know if I could take the regimen of training.’ He screen- with contemporary yet tested with a couple of other guys, to make sure he could look legitimate. Then, casting Aramis was a big piece of the ancient action saga puzzle.” BY JAY BOBBIN In action terms, “Into the Badlands” is a little of this and a little Indeed, Millar says that turned out to be “a classic thing. of that ... and that’s exactly how its creator-producers want it. We’d seen him in (the movie) “Ender’s Game” and everybody liked him, and he was actually the first person Combining modern and ancient elements, the AMC series we asked to see. Then we probably saw 400 other kids and premieres Sunday, Nov. 15 – and its mentors, “Smallville” and we hadn’t found anybody, and we thought, ‘You know what? “Spider-Man 2” veterans Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, agree Let’s go back to Aramis.’ He came back in and the chemistry that it’s a mash-up of virtually everything they’ve done before with Daniel was awesome and great, and it just happened. it. Martial-arts masters Daniel Wu and Stephen Fung also are You have to see everybody to come back to the first.” executive producers, with Wu starring as well as the ironically named Sunny, a celebrated Clipper (or warrior) in a desolate Additional “Into the Badlands” cast members include area where he saves young M.K. (Aramis Knight) and then Stephen Lang (“Salem”), Marton Csokas (“Sons of Liberty”), mentors him at a feudal outpost known as The Fort. Emily Beecham, Orla Brady (“American Odyssey”) and Oliver Stark. “It’s everything we love put into a blender, and this is what came out,” Millar allows of “Into the Badlands,” which also was Also executive producers of MTV’s forthcoming fantasy inspired loosely by a 16th-century Chinese novel (“Journey to series “The Shannara Chronicles,” Millar and Gough aimed the West”). “Martial arts, superpowers, the society of ancient “Into the Badlands” specifically for AMC, given the cable Japan ... we put it all together and created something that’s network’s track record with series on the order of “The original in its own way with references, if you’re a movie buff, to Walking Dead” and “Hell on Wheels.” things you know that way as well.” “They bought it in the room (during the initial pitch),” Gough Aspects of Millar and Gough’s “Shanghai Noon,” which starred says. “Honestly, they were all in. They’re a network of big Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson, certainly factor into “Into swings, and they take pride in that – so you bring them your the Badlands” – particularly since the director of the sequel passion project and tell them, ‘We want to do this martial- “Shanghai Knights,” David Dobkin, also is involved in the new arts show set in the future with a Hong Kong fight team.’ series. “When we pitched the show to AMC,” Gough reflects, And they really didn’t blink.” “we said that in order to get the martial-arts aspect right, you needed a full-time Hong Kong fight unit to do it. Having worked Click or tap on icon for more! November 15 - 21, 2015 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote Page 3 C CELEBRITY JAY BOBBIN’S Q&A FREDSAVAGE of ‘The Grinder’ Tuesday on Fox How does it feel to be acting out courtroom scenarios opposite Rob Lowe in “The Grinder”? In the pilot, I end up in trial – which I didn’t want to be (in character) – and it’s probably not something I do very often, so I was definitely out of my element. I think that that was definitely an arena where Rob’s character shined, where the spotlight was on him; he was making big speeches, and that was not my comfort zone at all. I think that my comfort zone is kind of behind a desk or maybe at a deposition table, so I think that we’re both going to be pushing each other out of our comfort zones a little bit, but he’s definitely going to be dragging me out of mine. But our stance has been, and will be, that my character, he’s a good attorney. He’s good at what he does, just what he does isn’t what Rob’s character did on his TV show. Growing up from the point when you were Kevin on “The Wonder Years,” how did you manage to avoid the pitfalls that some other young actors appear to fall prey to? I think that a lot of actors at a young age get kind of a bad rap. You have me and Rob right here, and our (show) is sandwiched between Josh Peck and John Stamos (in “Grandfathered”) on one end, and Jamie Lee Curtis and Emma Roberts (in “Scream Queens”) on the other. And I think that that idea of being a young actor Click or tap on at an early age as a recipe for disaster icon for more! later in life is not really the rule. FOLIO Page 4 YOUR TV LINK Courtesy of Gracenote November 15 - 21, 2015 CELEBRITY C GEORGE’S DICKIE LUCYLAWLESS of ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ Saturday on Starz What drew you to the character? Oh, I wasn’t drawn to the character. The character wasn’t even written. It was a big, amorphous, inchoate idea of a character by the time I signed. But I was like, “Oh, I’m definitely going to play with Bruce and Rob and Sam on ‘The Evil Dead.’ Whatever it is, I’m totally there.” So I was actually in negotiations for something else ... And we were probably a couple of days away from signing, hammering out the exec deal – maybe one day – and this came up and I just went “See ya. I have to go do this.” It was a no-brainer. Did you get to do your own stunts here? Oh, hell no. Are you crazy? I never did. No, it’s dangerous. You can’t have your actors fighting other actors who maybe have never done sword fighting or whatever. If you damage your star, everybody’s out of work. So I used to do it with fights but only while the camera was on me. When they turned around on the guest actor, they’d be fighting the stunt woman. That’s how it works. How is it working with Bruce Campbell? It’s funny, Bruce is extremely gregarious and then when he shuts down, it comes down good. Like after work, leave me alone, I want my drink, I want my wife. He goes into full privacy mode.

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