Watching Jericho

Jason Van Horn of IGN TV recently talked with Lennie James (Robert Hawkins) about Jericho, Paleyfest, hiding his British accent and acting.

One of the things that attracted me to Jericho was when I was speaking to my friends back in England or my friends out here, and when they say, “What have you read or what have you liked?” And you describe the other pilots and the other films, and they go, “Oh, so it’s like such and such or it’s like such and such, oh yeah I can kinda understand that.” But when I described Jericho to them, when I described the basic premise of Jericho as much as I understood at that particular moment - a small town cutoff from the rest of America after America has been hit by a series of nuclear attacks and it doesn’t know how much of America has survived, who hit them, doesn’t know why they were hit, doesn’t know if they are about to be hit, doesn’t know how much longer they have on the planet - when you describe that to them as the premise, everybody kind of goes, “Wow, I’d like to see that.”

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