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Goran Visnjic Q&A - Radio Times, April 2007 |
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The ER star talks to Jenny Eden.
JE: You're now first in the ER credits
- does that mean you're the
show's official heart-throb?
GV: The only people who talk about that
is you guys. Acting is my job. If the
audience thinks that I'm a "heart-throb"
God bless them.
After 12 years, why do you think
we're still just as addicted to the
show as ever?
ER is the only medical show that has
that realistic gritty kind of look that
makes you really think you're in a
hospital. The writing has stayed
good and the changing of people
constantly helps to keep the show
fresh.
We've heard reports that you're
leaving soon - is it true?
It's season eight for me, so it's
time to move on. But I'll come
back next season for just a couple
of episodes. I did a great job, learned
to speak English, I gave the show
a lot, and they gave me a lot. I don't
want to think "Oh my God, I'm
going to have a great career" and
think everybody [in the business]
is waiting for me. It's going to be
tough out there, it's going to be
long, and it may never happen.
But I'm going to have fun.
You must be Croatia's biggest
export by now.
I'm always trying to be a good
ambassador for my country. But
I was lucky because they were filming
Welcome to Sarajevo in Croatia and
I got a part in it. The film ended up
being really good and my agent saw
it and said, "Did you ever think about
working in the States?" I don't think
I'd have ever come to the States and
tried to do something on my own.
Did your American colleagues
know where Croatia was when
you first joined the show?
When I came on the show [in 1999]
we had a couple of problems because
the writers didn't know much about
Croatia. They thought - God knows
what they thought - that it was
geographically one of the old Russian
countries. Once they wrote something
in a script like "We don't have
Christmas in Croatia". So I brought
in books and I explained about the
war and this and that. We never had
a problem after that.
You've done some
films - any chance
of following in the
footsteps of that
other ER hunk,
George Clooney?
I met George on my
second or third day.
He stopped me
and said: "You're
the new guy on the show, I want to
tell you how lucky you're going to be,
it's a great place." We stopped there
talking for ten minutes. I had been
thinking "Oh my God, what am I
doing here?", so those ten minutes
meant a lot to me. I think every actor
dreams of doing good feature films.
Do you get offered lots of roles
as Eastern European baddies?
I don't think too much about it. If
a great part comes up and the guy's
meant to have an Eastern European
accent, great; but if it's a bad part
I won't take it.
One final question: if there was
an emergency, could you give
me the kiss of life?
I could comfortably suture
somebody, and CPR [cardiopulmonary
resuscitation], I could
do that also. But everything else…
you shouldn't be thinking you can
do medicine because you play a
doctor. You learn the procedure, but
if you need to do it on a real person… come on, it's all about one millimetre
to the left or right.
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