PopEater.com has a new interview with Garret, mostly about Raising Hope and the photo shoots he did with Tyler Shields.
Tyler Shields has posted a few more photos from the second shoot on his blog. There is also a clip in there somewhere.
“Meet the Grandparents” airs tomorrow at 9.
A new interview showed up at the Australian site Jive TV and Fox released some pictures behind the scenes of Raising Hope 1×08, “Blue Dots,” as well a few more pics from episode 1×10, “Burt Rocks,” with Jason Lee. See below and click to enlarge.
And keep voting for the show at the People’s Choice Awards and for Winter’s Bone at the Gotham Awards site.
Dillahunt is taken with the tone Raising Hope has adopted, claiming that “there’s a reality to it, and the people in it seem utterly believable to me”.
“They’re a little extreme but at their core they’re genuine and honestly touching,” he says.
“I love Martha Plimpton (pictured, above), who plays my wife, and what she’s doing with Virginia is what I hope I’m doing with Burt. She’s certainly sussing out the comedy but she’s also finding and expressing these moments of love and generosity in ways that might seem surprising.
“I don’t think we’re talking down to the audience at all – there’s a lot going on up front but also in the back. It holds up. With most sitcoms I watch, I never feel like I’m seeing a real world. And there’s a place for that – some shows do it really well, and I’ll laugh at them. But in this instance, I find it more rewarding to be a part of something that feels true.” [Jive TV]
“Burt Rocks:”
A new interview with Garret showed up at Examiner.com today. Follow the link to read it. Here is a nice standalone snippet:
“I was really glad he loves his wife so much,” Dillahunt shared. “I think Martha [Plimpton, Virginia] and I were both kind of tired of the sitcom staple of ‘Ugh, the bitchy wife; I can’t stand her!’…We thought ‘What if these people actually dig each other? What if these people found their soul mates at fifteen?'”
And Dillahunt calls working with Plimpton “one of the easiest times [he’s] had.” The two didn’t know each other prior to Raising Hope, and she had already been cast when he went in to read for Burt, but they hit it off quickly.
Episode 1×08, “Blue Dots,” airs tonight at 9 pm.
Fox has released the promotional stills and synopsis for episode 1×10, “Burt Rocks,” which airs on November 30.
Burt gave up on his teenage dreams of being a rock star because he was a parent. Jimmy feels so guilty for ruining his father’s dream that he gets Burt a second chance to relive his rock fantasy with his music idol, Smokey Floyd (guest star Jason Lee), at the upcoming Grocery-Palooza concert in the all-new “Burt Rocks” episode of RAISING HOPE airing Tuesday, Nov. 30 (9:01-9:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
Cast: Lucas Neff as Jimmy; Martha Plimpton as Virginia; Garret Dillahunt as Burt; Shannon Woodward as Sabrina. Guest Cast: Jason Lee as Smokey Floyd; Gregg Binkley as Barney; Cameron Moulene as Teenage Burt; Kelly Heyer as Teenage Virginia; Steve Edwards as Himself; Jace Alexander as Customer; Carlease Burke as Customer #2; Andy Rolfes as Man with Clipboard; Carson Higgins as Skateboarder #1; Maynor Alvarado as Skateboarder #2
First, hop over to YouTube for an interview Garret did before the Amigo screening at AFI Fest that I keep forgetting to post.
Then, this:
Winter’s Bone won the top prize (Best Feature) at the Amazonas Film Festival last week. It will also be screened at the Turin Film Festival (Nov. 26 – Dec. 8). And it has also made it to the second (and final) round of nominees for the Gotham Independent Film Awards.
You can vote for the film using as many e-mail addresses as you like at the Gotham Awards site until November 29.
And Raising Hope is one of the finalists for the People’s Choice Award for Favorite New TV Comedy. You can vote for the show, also as many times as you like, at PeoplesChoice.com.
Garret talked to FOX25 about Raising Hope in recent days. The video is embedded below.
Here is the synopsis for tonight’s episode, “The Sniffles:”
When Hope catches a cold, Virginia (Martha Plimpton) goes into panic mode because the family doesn’t have health insurance, so she locks Maw Maw (Cloris Leachman) in her bedroom to avoid getting sick. However, when Jimmy (Lucas Neff) realizes that he can’t afford to take Hope to a doctor without insurance, he figures out a way to secure a second job at the grocery store where Sabrina (Shannon Woodward) works.
The episode airs at 9 pm on Fox. Pictures are in this post and you can see some promos at fox.com/raisinghope.
Proceed to video (because I can’t turn off autoplay)…
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