![]() ![]() ![]() The schedule just couldn’t work out for the London thing…I quickly read Iceman, which I’d seen a couple times, and I just was not…I just didn’t feel very excited. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.ĭeadline: I read somewhere that you had to be talked into The Iceman Cometh…ĭavid Morse: Well, last summer I was doing a weeklong workshop of a play that (later) opened in London, and I wound up getting an offer for that and Iceman at the same time, and I was doing two series at the same time – Blindspot and something for Showtime called Escape at Dannemora. Here, Morse talks about Iceman, Elsewhere, Dannemore and Denzel, among other things. In addition to The Iceman Cometh, Morse’s 2018 will include Showtime’s upcoming Escape at Dannemora, the Ben Stiller-directed limited series about the real-life 2015 prison break in upstate New York. To list just a very few of his credits, the 64-year-old actor, who lives in Philadelphia with his wife, has appeared in films such as The Green Mile, The Hurt Locker and World War Z, TV including Hack, Treme, True Detective and Blindspot, and such stage productions as How I Learned To Drive and The Seafarer. Since then, Washington, of course, has become one of Hollywood’s beloved and bankable stars, while Morse, among the most talented actors to emerge from TV’s golden Hill Street-Elsewhere era, has led a remarkable and prolific career. 'Kimberly Akimbo' Tony Watch: Star Victoria Clark & Director Jessica Stone On How A Friendship Led To Broadway's Captivating Musicalĭeadline recently spoke to Morse about, among other things, the experience of reuniting with his long-ago co-star, whom he hadn’t seen in the 30 years since St. Morse plays the regret-filled, death-obsessed ex-anarchist Larry Slade, through whose eyes we watch the arrival of the born-again (sort of) salesman Hickey (Washington), whose annual visit to a Greenwich Village gut-bucket dive bar dredges up long-dormant feelings among the dump’s dead-end alcoholic habitués. Wolfe’s staging of the Eugene O’Neill classic. Phillip Chandler) are both Tony-nominated for their roles – featured and leading, respectively – in The Iceman Cometh, George C. Jack “Boomer” Morrison) and Denzel Washington (the brilliant Dr. Elsewhere was early ground for a generation of up and coming actors, including Mark Harmon, Howie Mandel, Bruce Greenwood, Cynthia Sikes and two men who, three decades on, would share a stage on Broadway in one of American theater’s greatest plays: David Morse (who played Elsewhere‘s sincere, tragedy-touched Dr. As the similarly themed ER would in the following decade, St. The revelation angered some, charmed others and, either way, capped the groundbreaking medical drama with the most audacious finale in TV history.īut the shock ending wasn’t St. ![]() Elsewhere – had been the daydream fancies of a young autistic boy. May 25 will mark thirty years to the night when little Tommy Westphall gazed into a snow globe and revealed to nearly 23 million TV viewers that six seasons of heartbreak, joy, love, loss, emergencies and “Stat!”s – in short, St. ![]()
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