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.
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]
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
All right, some previews and promo for the next two episodes of Raising Hope.
Episode 1×08, “Blue Dots,” airs this Tuesday at 9. The pictures are here. Three sneak peeks are embedded below.
Jimmy (Lucas Neff), Virginia (Martha Plimpton) and Burt (Garret Dillahunt) learn how they can qualify for a scholarship so Hope can attend an expensive day care facility. The Chance family also visits a lawyer (guest star Lou Wagner) in the “Blue Dots” episode of RAISING HOPE airing Tuesday, Nov. 16 (9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
And two more stills from episode 1×09, “Meet the Grandparents,” which airs next Tuesday (Nov. 23), showed up this week (see below). You can find the first batch of pics here.
Instead of sleeping in and ordering pizza, per his normal Thanksgiving custom, Jimmy invites Hope’s other grandparents, Dale (guest star Greg Germann) and Margine (guest star Valerie Mahaffey), to join the Chances for a more traditional holiday dinner. The Chances soon realize that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree when Dale and Margine kidnap Hope, and it’s up to them to get her back.
Oliver Sherman was screened in North Bay last weekend. CottageCountryNow.ca has a nice, long article about the film. And Ryan Redford won another prize for it (Grand Prix Focus for best Canadian feature) at the Festival du nouveau cinéma, which ended a couple of days ago.
Winter’s Bone is out on DVD and Blu-ray tomorrow. It will also be available via Movies on Demand.
Here is another recent interview with Garret:
And he was on Fox All Access this weekend. I haven’t seen any longer clips yet, but this preview showed up on Fox.com:
And some Raising Hope updates. Pictures are from episode 1×10, “Meet the Grandparents,” which airs in late November. Don’t forget that two episodes air tomorrow at 9 and 9:30 pm, after Glee’s Rocky Horror fest.
Here is the list of all the episodes that will air this month and next (no new ep on Nov. 2):
Tuesday, October 26 – “Happy Halloween/Family Secrets” (One-Hour Episode)
When Sabrina’s (Shannon Woodward) boyfriend can’t make it to the deli guy’s Halloween party, Jimmy (Lucas Neff) offers to put on his costume and go in his place. Virginia (Martha Plimpton) takes Maw Maw (Cloris Leachman), who is dressed as a cat, trick-or-treating while Burt (Garret Dillahunt) plots ways to play tricks on Jimmy. Meanwhile, when a box containing videos of Hope’s mother arrives from prison, Jimmy must decide whether or not to let Hope see them. Virginia explains that children need to be protected from the truth, leading Jimmy to question what exactly his parents have been keeping from him.
Saturday, October 30 (9:30 pm) – “Happy Halloween”
When Sabrina’s boyfriend can’t make it to the deli guy’s Halloween party, Jimmy offers to put on his costume and go in his place. Virginia takes Maw Maw, who is dressed as a cat, trick-or-treating, while Burt plots ways to play tricks on Jimmy in an encore episode.
Tuesday, November 9 – “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.
November 16 – “Blue Dots”
When Hope starts imitating the dogs at her day care, Jimmy decides to enroll her in an expensive, high-end center. But the blemish on Burt’s (Garret Dillahunt) record needs to be expunged before Hope has any chance of getting accepted. However, when trying to turn Burt’s past around the rest of the family ends up in a bind of their own and must pull together to straighten things out with the law.
November 23 – “Meet the Grandparents”
Instead of sleeping in and ordering pizza, per his normal Thanksgiving custom, Jimmy invites Hope’s other grandparents, Dale (guest star Greg Germann) and Margine (guest star Valerie Mahaffey), to join the Chances for a more traditional holiday dinner. The Chances soon realize that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree when Dale and Margine kidnap Hope, and it’s up to them to get her back. [Fox November sweeps]
Okay, three new(ish) interviews today, but first the press release for Raising Hope 1×09, “Blue Dots,” which airs in about a month (pics in the post are from that episode):
RAISING HOPE “Blue Dots” Season 1 Episode 9 – Jimmy (Lucas Neff), Virginia (Martha Plimpton) and Burt (Garret Dillahunt) learn how they can qualify for a scholarship so Hope can attend an expensive day care facility. The Chance family also visits a lawyer (guest star Lou Wagner) in the “Blue Dots” episode of RAISING HOPE airing Tuesday, Nov. 16 (9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
And there were a bunch of reports yesterday saying that Jason Lee from My Name Is Earl (and, yeah, a bunch of Kevin Smith movies) will make a guest appearance in an episode titled “Burt Rocks” and play “Smokey Daniels, a washed-up rock star who is hired as the lead act for ‘Grocery-Palooza,’ a rock concert at the grocery store where Sabrina works.”
Interviews after the jump.
There is one from an event that took place a couple of days ago (Environmental Media Association Celebrates 2010 EMA Awards) over at Getty Images.
This one showed up at PopStar.com yesterday (follow the link for the whole article) and it’s pretty great:
For those who have not seen [Raising Hope] yet, give us what you think is the number one reason to tune in.
I think in the span of twenty two minutes of our stories, you will actually make an audible laugh sound, and you will feel good at the end of the show. It feels like you’re dealing with real people, even though the situations are really exploded. I kind of feel like I know people like this. They’re just good people, trying to make a go of it, having a hard time but managing to keep a sense of humor and a sense of, believe it or not, family.
You almost hate to say it, but it’s sort of like the times. I was going to say this country, but I guess this whole world is going through this hard time right now. I think that’s another reason our show sort of makes people feel OK. It’s a real product of the times. (…)
Who are some of the writers you most admire, and have perhaps influenced you along the way?
Well there’s so many. I collect books, and I like all kinds of books. That’s probably not surprising. Obviously I love Cormac McCarthy. I’ve been reading him since college, and I’ve made a silent pact with myself to be in every movie made of his stuff. So far, I’m in two. Another one is Ron Hansen, who wrote Jesse James and some incredible other books that I think would be great movies as well.
We met a lot of cool dudes off of Deadwood, because they were all fans of that show. Tom Franklin is another great guy. I seem to be drawn to sort of Southern male authors, it seems. But I also love fantasy stuff. I’ve become friends with this guy, Joe Abercrombie who writes these really interesting, believable books. He’s British. I guess that would be in the fantasy genre. Sherman Alexie is great. He’s an American author.
I could go all day, and it would be boring.
And this one is about a month old, but I just caught it:
And here is a behind-the-scenes clip, probably from the same day:
