Hawaii Five-0 Updates

• Although no firm date has been communicated, Sky1 promises that Hawaii Five-0 is returning to the UK in January 2012.
• For fans interested in purchasing more of Alex’s work on DVD, blu-ray or via video on demand, I’ve created an overview with links to the most popular items for the US, Canada, the UK, Germany and Australia here (including pre-orders for the H50 Season 2 DVD). You can always access this list via the “More Ways to Watch” link on the homepage in the right sidebar and via the Career tab in the header menu.
• The latest pics and videos:
  • A great BTS video of filming on February 10, 2011 at Kailua Beach Park for 1.18 – thanks to Pinkie for the find!
  • Channel Ten’s Daniel Dae Kim sign post – thanks to McPhee for sharing!
  • BTS of 2.11 posted by CBS
  • Scott with students of Le Jardin Academy during filming for 2.11
  • Scott with Lester Gantan, posted by Lester.
  • BTS of 2.09 taken at The Ferguson Clinic - thanks to Five-0 Undercover for the great find!
  • BTS of 2.13 posted by Tim Ryan; see Tim’s full post at Tim Ryan’s Reel Hawaii
  • Daniel and Grace were part of the Honolulu City Lights Christmas Parade on Saturday; Daniel posted a picture and Photolulu uploaded a video!
  • AOL’s TV Girl, Maggie Furlong, shared exclusive stills of Chin’s and Malia’s wedding – read the post at AOLTV.
  • Make sure you check out the latest scans, including the GQ Australia article (thanks to Jacqueline for the 2-pagers!) – I also added hi-res scans of the photoshoot pics and the cover. Thanks to Pinkie we also have a nice TV Guide interview with Terry O’Quinn who shares a spoiler about Shelburne (but it could also be a red herring). Speaking of which, Peter Lenkov promised via Twitter that Shelburne will be revealed to us in episode 2.14!

Hawaii Five-0 Articles

• BJ Penn, mentioned in the previous wrap-up, will be guest starring in episode 2.12 as a kapu member. (Currently this episode is set to air December 12, but this may change.) From the Star-Advertiser:
  

  “I played just a random no-name guy. I guess you would call him like a surf punk type of person,” Penn wrote. “The cool thing is they can expand on that character if they want, and I can come back and do other small appearances on the show.

  “Kala (Alexander), one of the guys involved with the series, said I was holding my own in the acting department, so that was pretty awesome. He made me feel good!”

• The TV Addict was the first to report that the show will continue to delve into McGarrett’s past later this season when we get to see a teenaged Steve and his father in episode 2.14 in what promises to be an emotional scene:
  

  Any HAWAII FIVE-0 Scoop? — Jake
  The TV Addict: Do you happen to be the parent of a teenager who bares a striking resemblance to a young Alex O’Loughlin? If so the Producers of HAWAII FIVE-0 want to hear from you! Okay, they don’t really want to hear from you, that said, sources have confirmed that they are searching for a young man to play a 16-year old version of McGarrett for a pivotal upcoming episode that will shed some very welcome light on McGarrett’s relationship with his super secretive father.

  On the same topic, Mike Gordon writes in his Outtakes Online:

  Nazarene Anderson, agency director of the Hawaii talent agency ADR, said today that the show is looking for someone to play a 16-year-old version of McGarrett, who is played in the series by Alex O’Loughlin. “Five-0” started looking Wednesday, she said.

  “Unfortunately, it is very specific,” Anderson said. “He has to look like McGarrett. ?Brown hair and blue eyes.”

  In Hawaii, that’s a tall order — and not because O’Loughlin is 6-feet. There are a lot of young actors here with blonde hair and blue eyes but the kind of young McGarrett being sought “is definitely a minority,” Anderson said.

  But Anderson does have a client, currently in Los Angeles on a trip, who will read for the part, she said.

  “I think we have some really talented teenagers,” she said. “And while I know they are looking for brown hair and blue eyes, if there is a teenager who kind of looks the part and is amazing they will consider him because they could give him contacts and do things with hair color.”

  CBS would not discuss the part and a show spokeswoman speculated that the “Five-0? was also looking on the mainland. The role is scheduled for the season’s 14th episode.

  A draft of the script used by actors to audition is available online — and we’re not saying where — but it sounds like young McGarrett is a teen with a temper. However it plays out, it will be fun to see if the show’s producers envision the young McGarrett as a studly athlete — remember, he’s a quarterback at Kukui High — or a work in progress — perhaps a scrawny boy with acne at a crossroads.

• The Philippine Star posted a great interview with Lauren German, who talks about her transition into the show, Lori’s profiling background as well as how she has to work at staying in shape to be able to keep up with the boys:
  

  “When I have any kind of fight scenes or a really long chasing or anything like that, I train with a guy. But he’s not an actor on the show,” she shares. “He’s absolutely amazing and very talented. He trains and helps me with all the fight scenes and all that… I hate working out. I’m so lazy about it. But on a show like this, I just have to do it because if a day comes that they have to shoot a scene and I’m out of shape, I mean, I just can’t keep up with Scott (Caan) and Alex (O’Loughlin). You know, I haven’t been working out (and) they’ll blow me away, so I do train.”

  A scan of this article is in the gallery.

• Wendie Burbridge always provides entertaining insight into the show from a local perspective in her blog posts. In Five-0 Redux: Holding out for a local boy she writes about Troy Ignacio, who played Joao Caegano, the marijuana grower who has a run-in with our task force in 2.03:
  

  Ignacio told me the short few minutes he was on camera were the result of being on set a total of three days; mainly because of the stunt he had to do, which included driving a jeep with a “messy clutch” and getting hit by McGarrett two times — once with a log and then with McG’s fist.

  The other two days were for the scene with the surveillance film, where Joao sees McG, Chin Ho, and Joe White pulling up his marijuana plants, and for the interrogation scene.

  Ignacio said that working with Alex O’Loughlin and Daniel Dae Kim was really great, and everyone was very professional and all business.

  “It was stressful for me because I wanted to impress everyone and do well, and with the stunts, that was a little difficult,” he said. But working with director Jeff Hunt, who was “very encouraging,” as well as the entire stunt crew helped him relax and get into his role.

  I asked Ignacio about his “famous” line (“Some haole. They all look alike.”), between him and Five-0?s Chin Ho and McG in the interrogation scene. He said it was a scripted line, and when he rehearsed with Jeff Hunt he just gradually added the pidgin inflection and tone to his line reading. When no one corrected him, he just took it to what you all saw on the show.

  Ignacio did share that Daniel Dae Kim thought it was “super cool” he was a local boy, since most of the cast and crew assumed he had come in from Los Angeles. He said being complimented by Alex O’Loughlin and Daniel Dae Kim after the interrogation scene was the high point of his three days.

  “Daniel Dae Kim took me aside and shook my hand, and said he was really impressed,” Ignacio said. “I hoped I proved that even local talent can be as good as L.A. talent.”

I hope you have a great week ahead of you!