{"id":62268,"date":"2014-07-04T14:48:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T13:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=62268"},"modified":"2014-07-07T10:59:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T09:59:36","slug":"falling-skies-season-4-isnt-for-idiots-says-colin-cunningham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/falling-skies-season-4-isnt-for-idiots-says-colin-cunningham\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling Skies Season 4 isn&#8217;t for idiots, says Colin Cunningham"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_62274\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62274\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/249218_10150200060714727_9115734726_6758650_3598007_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62274\" alt=\"Colin Cunningham as John Pope in Falling Skies Season 4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/249218_10150200060714727_9115734726_6758650_3598007_n.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/249218_10150200060714727_9115734726_6758650_3598007_n.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/249218_10150200060714727_9115734726_6758650_3598007_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/249218_10150200060714727_9115734726_6758650_3598007_n-616x411.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colin Cunningham as John Pope in Falling Skies Season 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><i>Falling Skies <\/i><\/strong>star<i>\u00a0<\/i>Colin Cunningham says the complexities of making the alien-invasion drama \u2018weeds out the idiots.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The actor, who plays anti-hero and fan-favourite John Pope on the hit show, joked with <i>SciFiNow<\/i> that the hours were long and hard, but their cast was entirely diva-free.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cNobody is a pain in the ass. The difficulty in doing a show like this kind of weeds out the a-holes. You really have to be there for the team and we\u2019ve been lucky to have great people working on the show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham was also full of praise for lead actor Noah Wyle (<strong><i>ER<\/i><\/strong>, <strong><i>Donnie Darko<\/i><\/strong>), and his dedication to the series, saying that Wyle is his favourite co-star to work with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNoah Wyle is absolutely superb &#8211; he\u2019s the consummate professional, and a brilliant actor. Out of all the cast that I like to work with he\u2019s my favorite, hands down. I don\u2019t know how he carries that pressure because he has so much to do. Yet he shows up every day and hits his mark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his career, Cunningham has appeared in <i><strong>The-X Files<\/strong>, <strong>Smallvill<\/strong><\/i><strong>e<\/strong>, and most-famously <strong><i>Stargate SG-1<\/i><\/strong> as Major Davis. He went on to say that unlike some shows he had worked on previously, Wyle is a collaborative lead actor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of times with a lead there can be a bit of a power play going on, whereas Noah is all about the other person\u2019s performance. He wants to get the best out of the cast, not to look good because it\u2019s his show \u2013 that\u2019s what makes it different from some I\u2019ve worked on in the past. Sometimes in this business egos get very inflated, but <strong><i>Falling Skies<\/i><\/strong> truly is an ensemble cast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Falling Skies<\/i> Season 4 premieres Tuesday 15 July 2014, first on FOX.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Pope star says Falling Skies weeds out the \u2018a-holes\u2019 (and Noah Wyle definitely isn&#8217;t one)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":62274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1718,3,207],"tags":[1955],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/249218_10150200060714727_9115734726_6758650_3598007_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}