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Courtesy of: chron.com
Courtesy of: chron.com
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Actors psyched up for another season of fun
By BICK BENTLEY
McClatchy Newspapers
Wait a minute. A vision is becoming clear. Got it. James Roday and Dulé Hill, the actors who play detective buddies on the USA Network series Psych, are on the telephone. They want to promote the third season opener, airing at 9 Friday.
Sure, this was prearranged. But that's the idea behind the series. Roday plays a faux psychic who fools people into believing he has special powers when all he has are good instincts.
Another vision is becoming clear: The actors will talk about what it means to play characters who are supposed to have a long history of being best friends.
"We get to sort of invent that history as we go along and make new memories every week. Unless we run for 30 years, we're always going to be way ahead of the game in terms of being able to come up with new stuff," Roday says.
Hill says the onscreen friendship works because the actors get along so well off camera.
In the cable series, the pair often go undercover to be unofficial aides to the Santa Barbara Police Department. That leads to a psychic moment: The actors would like to have episodes this year involving trap prancing. (No, wait. Make that tap dancing.) And a sports theme would go over big.
Before Hill landed the role of Charlie Young on The West Wing, he appeared in numerous stage productions. He was the understudy for Savion Glover in The Tap Dance Kid on Broadway. And Roday was an athlete while growing up in Texas.
Roday began his career studying theater at New York University's Experimental Theatre Wing. Before the USA Network series, he appeared in the films Don't Come Knocking and The Dukes of Hazzard.
The final image is one of the actors being asked about what they like about their characters.
Hill likes how Gus is kind of neurotic and how he rationalizes the most absurd things. "I guess I like how he stands up to Shawn. But also like how he allows Shawn to bring him to try and do things that he wouldn't normally do on his own," Hill says.
Roday has always been envious of people like Shawn. "Shawn is very, very different than me in the way that he is able to sort of footloose and fancy-free in the way of life without ever making a plan. It's definitely a quality that I admire," Roday says.
By BICK BENTLEY
McClatchy Newspapers
Wait a minute. A vision is becoming clear. Got it. James Roday and Dulé Hill, the actors who play detective buddies on the USA Network series Psych, are on the telephone. They want to promote the third season opener, airing at 9 Friday.
Sure, this was prearranged. But that's the idea behind the series. Roday plays a faux psychic who fools people into believing he has special powers when all he has are good instincts.
Another vision is becoming clear: The actors will talk about what it means to play characters who are supposed to have a long history of being best friends.
"We get to sort of invent that history as we go along and make new memories every week. Unless we run for 30 years, we're always going to be way ahead of the game in terms of being able to come up with new stuff," Roday says.
Hill says the onscreen friendship works because the actors get along so well off camera.
In the cable series, the pair often go undercover to be unofficial aides to the Santa Barbara Police Department. That leads to a psychic moment: The actors would like to have episodes this year involving trap prancing. (No, wait. Make that tap dancing.) And a sports theme would go over big.
Before Hill landed the role of Charlie Young on The West Wing, he appeared in numerous stage productions. He was the understudy for Savion Glover in The Tap Dance Kid on Broadway. And Roday was an athlete while growing up in Texas.
Roday began his career studying theater at New York University's Experimental Theatre Wing. Before the USA Network series, he appeared in the films Don't Come Knocking and The Dukes of Hazzard.
The final image is one of the actors being asked about what they like about their characters.
Hill likes how Gus is kind of neurotic and how he rationalizes the most absurd things. "I guess I like how he stands up to Shawn. But also like how he allows Shawn to bring him to try and do things that he wouldn't normally do on his own," Hill says.
Roday has always been envious of people like Shawn. "Shawn is very, very different than me in the way that he is able to sort of footloose and fancy-free in the way of life without ever making a plan. It's definitely a quality that I admire," Roday says.
