John Cho who plays Demetri Noh in ABC’s upcoming drama series FlashForward, has been speaking to Asia Pacific Arts about the show (very mild spoilers follow):
Asia Pacific Arts: ABC has been going heavy on the promo ads for the new show you’re involved with. Can you tell me about Flash Forward?
John Cho: The premise is that everyone in the world blacks out simultaneously for 2 min 17 seconds, and during that time they experience a vision of their own future, and Joseph Fiennes and I are FBI agents who are trying to figure out this puzzle. So that’s the gist of it.
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Television was something that I wasn’t looking at, but my agent called and said, “I’m sending you over this script. No big deal, but I think you should read it. I think it might be something you’d be interested in,” and I was. Partially, it was reading the script and thinking about what [creator] David Goyer was going to do with the series. It may come from my religious upbringing [that I find that] there’s certainly a religious/philosophical connection to all the questions that are raised — what do you do with knowledge of your future, if indeed it is true, do you believe this, do you take this faith, do you believe your own senses, do you believe your experience or not? Is this a supernatural or man-made phenomenon? And the way he approached it was not from that angle. Although the ideas are big, the approach was much more detail-oriented and it was about how this affects family and relationships. My character in particular is about to get married, and how do you deal with that within a relationship?
APA: The series strikes me as being very post-Lost in terms of its “mysterious” elements.
JC: Yeah, I certainly think that part of the strategy for ABC is to fill that void, when and if Lost isn’t there anymore. Although their move — we’re on Thursday at 8pm which will precede Grey’s Anatomy – might be an indication that they’re not focusing more on that supernatural stuff as much as they are on the personal kinds of dilemmas that this might cause in domestic life.
Source: Asia Pacific Arts
