00:00So after the Bosch legacy cancellation, your fans seem quite excited to hear that you're continuing with another crime series.
00:07Yes.
00:08How did it differ going from playing Harry Bosch to Glenn Keenan?
00:12Well, first of all, you know, I played Harry Bosch for a decade.
00:16I still continue to play him because I do Ballard.
00:19So I do like three episodes per season for them.
00:21So the character stays very much alive.
00:23And there's there's there's chat about, you know, a further, not necessarily returning to series, but perhaps a film or
00:30something.
00:30Yeah.
00:31And I know people go, you want to play?
00:34I've played a lot of cops in my career, but all characters are different.
00:38But if you if you look at the two characters, they are the polar opposite.
00:43Harry Bosch is a guy with a flawless moral compass, whereas Glenn Keenan is an extremely internally damaged human being.
00:52He's brutal.
00:53He's corrupt.
00:55He's deeply violent.
00:57And his his behavior is not exemplary.
01:02I mean, he is Glenn Keenan is the kind of character that Harry Bosch would put in jail.
01:07So to go from that extreme and also I'm I'm a New Yorker.
01:12So to go back and represent and I know that time period and I knew some of the real Westies.
01:18So for me, I was very fastidious and really on them about keeping it grounded in real, despite the fact
01:26that it's, you know, it's a fictionalized version of real events.
01:30John Gotti, Paul Castellano and Ruby Stein are the only real life characters were all created.
01:35So that's a long winded way of saying that it because the characters are so different.
01:43I really relish the idea of playing someone and stepping not only just character wise, but physically transforming myself to
01:52really distance it.
01:54Yeah.
01:54And, you know, and working with an extraordinary cast, Chris Boncato and Michael Payne's, the writers, are friends of mine.
02:02It spans four decades, which means that I'm yeah, I'm 40 years old.
02:09Yes, that's all right.
02:10Don't worry.
02:12So having known some of the Westies and being in New York around that time, is that kind of what
02:17attracted you to the role?
02:18Yes. You know, the story is not, but it's only been told really one time in a film years ago
02:24called State of Grace with Gary Oldman and Ed Harris, directed by Phil Joannou, which was same thing, fictionalized, but
02:33the Irish kind of street guy characters.
02:36So for me, to represent this time period when New York was probably at its lowest ebb, I mean, we'd
02:43almost gone bankrupt in the 70s.
02:46So crime and corruption were rampant.
02:49You know, the the the the guard people were just emptying their bins out the windows.
02:53The it was it was a catastrophe.
02:56And so the crime rate was elevated.
02:59And suddenly, as we're recovering from that, the scourge of crack came into play.
03:04We had people we had the the the pandemic of AIDS.
03:09People were dying from AIDS.
03:11So it was a very it's a very, very complex and sad and dark period in New York history.
03:17And yet this this depicts it very accurately.
03:22I said the first time I watched it, I said, oh, my God, I can smell it.
03:26You know, so I think for people that are New Yorkers, they'll they'll identify it as being really, really accurate.
03:34And for those people who don't know, it's it'll be an interesting part of New York history that's not been
03:39we're all very used to like the Italian mob and the films of Martin Scorsese.
03:44And you guys have, you know, you kind of we steal from from the Brits all the time, you know,
03:51but you've got Peaky Blinders and you've got Mobland now and their massive successes.
03:55And so this is sort of, you know, the Americans attempt to sort of tell their own bit about that.
04:04So it kind of, you know, is it's worked out rather well.
04:07You're filming in Canada and obviously like how was it hard to replicate the authenticity of 1980s New York?
04:12Well, we now have CGI and we also have sets.
04:15And so they're they've managed to put it together seamlessly.
04:18You would never know.
04:19I'm sure I'll have mates that will see this and they'll go, oh, you use stock footage from the news
04:24thing.
04:24And I'll be like, no, it's all been created by a computer.
04:27A.I.
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