samedi 18 mai 2013

Interview de John Posey, acteur / interprète de John Young dans la série De la Terre à la Lune


John Posey est un acteur américain de cinéma et de télévision.
 
Il a véritablement débuté sa carrière en 1986 avec le film Sixième Sens de Michael Mann.

C’est un habitué du petit écran et son visage ne vous est certainement pas inconnu.
On l’a croisé dans beaucoup de célèbres séries américaines de ces dernières années : Dallas, Perry Mason, JAG, le Caméleon, Chicago Hope, Urgences, 24h Chrono, NCIS, Esprits Criminels, etc…

Il est également scénariste (Legendary, film sur la lutte), et acteur/auteur de pièces de théâtre et one man show.

Les plus jeunes (filles surtout) d’entre nous connaissent certainement son fils, Tyler, héros de la série Teen Wolf, dans laquelle John Posey fait une apparition.

Mais pour les passionnés de l’exploration spatiale, il est le John Young de la célèbre série de Tom Hanks De la Terre à la Lune en 1998.
Il joue dans trois des douze épisodes (même s’il fait quelques apparitions dans les autres) :
-          Pouvons-nous réussir ? (épisode 1)
-          On dégage la tour (épisode 3)
-          Le club des femmes (épisode 11)
 
Il vient nous parler de son métier d’acteur, de son rôle de John Young et de son sentiment vis-à-vis de l’exploration spatiale.

Interview réalisée en mai 2013

 
Why have you decided to become actor ?
I love every facet of acting for stage, film, television.
I have worked them all.
I love the exploration, the adventures, the travel and the opportunity to work with truly talented people.

Why have you decided to accept to play John Young on From the Earth to the Moon ? Have you met him ?
It just so happens that John Young and I look alike.
Both of us are from the state of Florida and the South. 
I met John during the filming of the series in Florida. He was still flying jets in his late 70’s.

What are your best memories about this film ?
Well it was a large cast of many actors.  Tom Hanks was there for much of it and actually directed the first episode.
We worked in the real capsule (Apollo 18), wore real astronaut gear and shot much of it at the Kennedy Space Center in Cocoa Beach, Florida

I suppose you would like to go in space. But why ?
Like many in the Space Program, I believe there is life on other planets.
I am also enamored by the tremendous technology and talent of the men and women who made these rockets fly.

Do you think it's important for the mankind to have a step in space, to send man in space and why ?
During the 60’s it was a race between Russia and the U.S., but that had much to do with the Cold War, which is no longer. 
I think now the more important issues are what we can find in space in the way of resources that will help us on earth. It is only a matter of time where there will be general space travel.

What represent for you Yuri Gagarin ?
Well he was the first, like our John Glenn.  Both men were quite heroic because no one had preceded them and no one knew.
Both Yuri and Glenn were test pilots but the rockets were like nothing they had ever tested before.
They are two of the most heroic men in history.

What represent for you Apollo 11 and which memory(ies) have you about this event?
I was fourteen and watching on TV in my hometown of Boca Raton, Florida.
It just seemed so impossible at the time that we were watching three men a quarter of a million miles away on the moon. It was the first time I was able to grasp the true power of science and technology and the magnitude and scope of the event.

What will be your most incredible space dream ?
To be able to travel at the speed of sound and land on a planet in another galaxy where life exists… friendly life I hope.
To find that we are not alone on Earth but a part of something infinite.


(Episode 1 : Pouvons-nous réussir ?)
(Episode 3 : On dégage la tour)
(Episode 11 : Le club des femmes)

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