Interview with Fringe’s Joshua Jackson
November 13th, 2009Categories: Articles
TV.com just recently caught up with Joshua Jackson who plays Peter Bishop on FOX’s Fringe. They asked several questions about where the show is going and Jackson supplied a fare share of SPOILERS. Here are some excerpts, and you can read the full interview at this link.
TV.com: What’s immediately in store for the show?
Joshua Jackson: The next sequence of episodes reveals big things about the characters they focus on. There [was last week's] Broyles episode, there’s a Walter episode, and there’s an observer episode. And they serve to give you insight into the backstory of each of of these characters.
And is this all leading up to inter-dimensional war?
Yeah, the usual. [Laughs.] I’m not sure that a full-fledged tanks and bombs war is ever where the show is headed. The advanced shapeshifter soldiers that are already here—I think that’s more the idea. I think it’ll be much more cloak-and-dagger, and not some fleet lands on our shores. I definitely think the show is headed in that direction, and that confrontation is the whole purpose behind the show. But I don’t think [Fringe] is ever going to be Battlestar Galactica, no full-fledged infantry and shock troops war. Most of it will happen in the back alleys. Ed. note: These are Jackson’s personal thoughts, not necessarily what the writers have in store.
There have been a lot of great reveals already, but my favorite is that Peter is from [spooky announcer voice] ANOTHER DIMENSION! When did you find that out?
Christmas of last year, they told me that’s where the storyline was headed with Peter, with the reveal at the end of last season. That was also the time, now that we knew where the Peter-Walter relationship was going, that [we decided the father-son relationship] should lighten up. These two guys should get closer and closer until finally the reveal happens, then we blow it up again [makes explosion noise].
Read the Full Interview at TV.com
