This week's episode of Saving Grace (Tuesdays at 10/9 CT, TNT) — "Am I Going to Lose Her?" — was a really grueling and crazy experience for me. It involved running, stress, panic, running, fear, adrenaline, more running, and feeling like I was going out of my mind.
At the beginning of the episode, we lose our Grace when ...
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Kenny Johnson here, subbing for Bailey Chase. I'm going to blog the "Moooo" episode of Saving Grace because the plotline surrounds Hasidic Jews, and I found it fascinating.
Here in L.A., I live in the middle of the Hasidic community and have always been curious about the outfits, the sideburns, their beliefs, etc. So in preparation, I watched a two-hour documentary to ...
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The summer finale episode, "You Are My Partner," was the toughest for me. I had to go to a very dark place with Holly's character, who was trying her hardest to understand and have patience with Ham. It was draining and very emotionally upsetting.
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This week's episode of Saving Grace, "Are You An Indian Princess?", is full of a lot of flavors. The storyline involves the murder of a female and kidnapping of her son. The kid was amazing. One of the suspects is a 22-year-old Brad Pitt look-alike (played by Ryan Carnes). He did a wonderful job. He told me he was on Desperate Housewives for two years as a kid's boyfriend. We have a number of mutual friends from that show. We're also both friends with Michael Shurtleff, who was my first acting teacher out here. He passed away last year and I directed and starred in a short movie he wrote.Gwyneth Horder-Payton directed this episode. She also directed for The Shield. She was great. Stephen T. Kay stopped by the Valley when we were shooting at a hospital. He knows a bunch of us from The Shield, and it was cool to see him.The scripts keep getting darker, and there's a lot of tension as the characters unravel. These are crazy times! It's so exciting! Peace.
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"Do You Love Him?" is a heartbreaking and painful, but awesome episode. It features my older, gay brother, Nick, played by Jack Connelly. This man is 6'5"... a mountain! We had two cops from Oklahoma City fly out to see us on the set. They were the real deal. Their names were Paco and Jermain. In one scene, Grace and I are trying to figure out who Nick’s lover is. Nick’s character is older and more refined than Ham's. We used Paco and Jermain on the set, but we never hinted at what the set-up was. It ended up that Paco was playing my brother's lover! He will never hear the end of that from the cops out in Oklahoma City.We hit home with my younger bro, played by Judson Mills, who was in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban. It was really some of the funniest stuff and closest to the heart. Grace and Ham get closer in every way imaginable at this point. It is awesome with Artie Mandelberg as our director/executive producer. The script is great. Along with episode ...
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