Firepower from Sizemore, O’Quinn boosts an explosive new season
By Mike Gordon
The promises are bold: more action, greater drama and powerful guest stars.
It seems that everything about “Hawaii Five-0″ was pumped up for its second season. But the creators of the show — executive producers Peter Lenkov and Paul Zbyszewski — say it’s true.
“We can back it up,” Zbyszewski said. “We’ve seen the footage.”
Both men have had a hand in writing episodes for the new season and have watched with genuine awe as more than one wild dream became reality.
“The first few episodes had some pretty amazing sequences that you will not find on any other TV show on any other network,” Zbyszewski said.
But their designs on the hit show go deeper than that.
“We were thinking big with our stories as well in terms of our mysteries and making stories more compelling and more complex,” Lenkov said. “I think we have a lot of good twists and turns and surprising endings to these stories.”
During the break between seasons the “Five-0″ creators recruited some serious talent, including actors in pivotal roles that stretch across multiple episodes.
Topping the list are Terry O’Quinn, who won an Emmy for his role in the global hit “Lost,” and Tom Sizemore, a Golden Globe nominee who has starred in such films as “Saving Private Ryan” and “Black Hawk Down.”
The relationship between O’Quinn’s character, Navy SEAL Lt. Cmdr. Joe White, and McGarrett, his one-time student, created a new dynamic as the cameras rolled, Zbyszewski said.
“McGarrett has always been the guy with all the answers, who solves every problem for everybody like a superhero,” he said. “But to have him have a moment of vulnerability or even weakness and have to turn to somebody and say, ‘Hey I need your help,’ brings out something in his character that we haven’t seen before. And that’s refreshing.”
O’Quinn was always on the “Five-0″ casting wish list. The creators knew he was a powerful actor but unsure what would actually happen between O’Quinn and Alex O’Loughlin. The O’team delivered.
“We were hoping for chemistry,” Zbyszewski said. “But again, you are writing in a vacuum, and until you see footage and chemistry, you don’t know if things will work. But we got lucky. Terry is amazing.”
Sizemore, who plays a police internal affairs captain named Vince Fryer, brings credibility, Lenkov said.
“He is a force of nature,” Lenkov said. “He is a really strong actor and somebody who can do a lot with very little. And he really fits the role. We created this character because we needed somebody to really stand up to Five-0, stand up to McGarrett. It couldn’t be someone who just physically stood up to him; it had to be mentally as well. And I think Tom Sizemore is an intimidating guy.”
Source: Honolulu Star-Advertiser
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