Sam Tyler and Ray Carling are, to a great extent, "men of their time," says Jason O'Mara, who plays Sam on the ABC series Life on Mars, "and that's what I enjoy about it. It's 2008 versus 1973. I can be more extreme in a scene with Ray than I can with the others. I feel there is a polar repulsion. There's a distance between the two characters that may never be crossed." "Jason and I get along really well, and I have a real blast working with him," adds Michael Imperioli, who plays Ray. "And then I've got to be a prick to him. But that's what we as actors do: making something that's not real, real." Now in production for its second season, Life on Mars is a surreal story based on the British program from which it gets its name. New York City police detective Sam Tyler is hit...
- 2/20/2009
- by Simi Horwitz
- backstage.com
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