But if anybody gets in his way, they’d better get out of my way.”. Tony Curran Breaks Down the ‘Defiance’ World Syfy is placing a big bet with the April 15th premiere of the new multi-platform show “Defiance.” The multi-player online game bows on April 2nd, followed by the TV series. “I would always say to my friend, Jason Flemyng [during the filming of] LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN – I was the Invisible Man, he was Dr. Jekyll, and we’d go, ‘Are you depressed? But again, [on DEFIANCE], we’re in the chair for an hour, hour-and-a-half, so it’s a small price to pay for what you get at the end of it.”, When did Curran come up with the notion of prosthetic depression? (According to his commentary on the DVD, he looked like a "smurf on acid".) Over thirty years after various alien races arrived on Earth, the landscape is completely altered, terraformed nearly beyond recognition. My fellow Defiance fans! It’s that sort of conversation. He is replaced as "provisional" mayor by the E-Rep-appointed Niles Pottinger ( James Murray ). “I think he’s aware of it, but he’s a very proud creature. He worked on GAME OF THRONES as well, the Dothraki language. He also played vampire roles in Guillermo del Toro's Blade II as Priest and Underworld: Evolutionas Markus. You can’t just go and shove an idea down their throat, because they won’t accept it. Curran, who hails originally from Glasgow, Scotland, is no stranger to genre work. Physically, they ain’t going to integrate, because they don’t look like human beings, but I think a lot of it is, they watch old movies. In the year 2046, it's a new Earth - with new rules. A lot of the characters, they talk to other human beings, and in many ways, [this was] the way they integrated and [why] they sounded that way. I’ve done shows like UNDERWORLD: EVOLUTION and BLADE II [his vampire roles]. “David J. Petersen basically designed all the alien languages. With his wife Stahna, played by Jaime Murray, at his side, Datak has quite a few schemes, some of them lethal, up his well-tailored sleeves. 2. Tony Curran was born on December 13, 1969 in Glasgow, Scotland. He is known for his work on Calibre (2018), Deadwood: The Movie (2019) and Outlaw King (2018). Life in the city of Defiance, in a near future after the arrival of different alien lifeforms to Earth. With Stahma, it’s very suggestive, almost to the point where Datak will say something and she’ll say, ‘Oh, yes, my darling, that’s a great idea.’ And I think it’s my idea, but it started with her. Buzzy Mag – Science Fiction Magazine – News, Reviews, Interviews and Original Fiction. And some days it gets quite hot in DEFIANCE – you wear this costume. I try to take them out as much as possible. Internationally, Curran is known as Lugo Elson in the Fox action-drama series 24, Datak Tarr and his father in the Syfy Western drama series Defiance, Gaines in the FX biker drama series Sons of Anarchy, Connelly in the History Channel remake of Roots, Michael "Red" Radulovic in the Showtime crime-drama series Ray Donovan, and Brett "Swanny" Swann in the CBS military action-drama series SEAL Team. In the Syfy channel's upcoming television series Defiance, Curran plays Datak Tarr. // ]]> In person at a party in a room decorated and lit to resemble DEFIANCE’s bar/brothel the NeedWant, Curran turns out to be gregarious, funny, very human and very Scottish, about as different from the American-accented Castithan Datak Tarr as he could be. But overall, it’s fine. We’re here to listen,’” he laughs. That’s where I coined the phrase ‘prosthetic depression,’ because there’s a lot more – five, six hours in the [makeup] chair before you do an eight-, ten-hour day. Apparently, the writers of the show (Rockne S. O’Bannon, Craig Gore, and Tim Walsh) have enough material at this stage for at least two seasons.The show was renewed for a 13 episode third season on September 25, 2014, to air in 2015. Defiance was a genuinely original and intriguing look at the "Alien" occupation story. ; So it’s in many ways holding up a mirror to society, except there’s aliens involved.”, As for upcoming projects, Curran says, “There’s a show called LABYRINTH – it’s a Tandem production, they also produced PILLARS OF THE EARTH, the Ken Follett novel. The Defiance Container Village allows visitors to explore the futuristic world of Defiance, which premieres on Syfy on April 15, 2013 at 9/8c. One of the most powerful of Defiance’s residents is Datak Tarr, played by Tony Curran. Anthony "Tony" Curran is a Scottish actor. In the frontier town of Defiance, a drifter-turned-lawkeeper and the newly-appointed mayor attempt to lead the human and alien residents through the prejudices and politics that threaten the fragile peace they've fought for. My interview with DEFIANCE and DOCTOR WHO Star Tony Curran at FedCon 2014 in Duesseldorf, Germany. They have to hopefully sound like the people do in this society. 1. What are we going to sound like? He is known for his work on Calibre (2018), Deadwood: The Movie (2019) and Outlaw King (2018). Besides Buzzy Multimedia, her work currently appears in Assignment X. So she does play with me a little bit like that, but it’s for the greater good, you might say, although he does listen to her and he knows that she is from a higher caste. Basically, I think it helps any character, when you can have your own mother tongue, and then you can start speaking boring old English.” When not playing a Castithan, Curran says, “I speak a little bit of Vietnamese – as my wife has told me,” he notes with a laugh regarding his fluency in his spouse’s native tongue, “and I speak a little bit of French, a little bit of Czech – I can say ‘Hello’ in any language, ‘Buy you a drink?’ But I don’t speak anything fluently.”, Curran then says a phrase in Vietnamese. The accident caused unexpected terraforming, to say nothing of conflict with the locals, i.e., humans. I hope that you made it down to Comic-Con 2013 this year! To the town of Defiance, on what used to be St. Louis, comes the mysterious Nolan (Grant Bowler) and his charge, Irisa (Stephanie Leonidas). Defiance Game: Definite Family Fun! For starters, how was it determined that Datak Tarr, who doesn’t even originally hail from Earth, much less the U.S., should speak with an American accent? Is Datak aware this is what Stahma is doing, or does he really think he’s coming up with the plans? To the town of Defiance, on what used to be St. Louis, comes the mysterious Nolan (Grant Bowler) and his charge, Irisa (Stephanie Leonidas). google_ad_client = "ca-pub-7450897450542147"; /* tony curran 160x600 */ google_ad_slot = "6804704524"; google_ad_width = 160; google_ad_height = 600; Tony Curran Celebrity Profile - Check out the latest Tony Curran photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at Rotten Tomatoes! Actor Tony Curran (Gladiator, 24) plays Datak Tarr in Syfy's Defiance TV series and Trion World's free to play online video game. Thirteen episodes. Your eyes are open, you’ve got [fake] teeth in your mouth and people have to cut up your food for you. That’s the way Datak feels about Stahma. He is an alumnus of Holyrood Secondary School and is a graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. I spoke to Jaime [Murray, who is English] and some of the producers and directors and just thought that might take away from the performance, if it was a little too [colorful]. Exclusive Interview : Tony Curran (DEFIANCE) On Syfy’s new series DEFIANCE, it’s been decades since an alien ship, carrying seven different sentient species collectively known as the Votan, crash-landed on Earth. Karina. On Syfy’s new series DEFIANCE, it’s been decades since an alien ship, carrying seven different sentient species collectively known as the Votan, crash-landed on Earth. Trivia Edit. http://www.defiance.com/en/series/cast/datak-tarr, https://defiance.fandom.com/wiki/Tony_Curran?oldid=8997. Defiance stars Grant Bowler, Julie Benz, Stephanie Leonidas, Tony Curran, Jaime Murray, Graham Greene and Mia Kirshner. Source: Geeks of Doom More about SXSW from Best Movies Ever - I’ve got quite a good tongue, as it were, but this is definitely something quite foreign. I threw a lot in there, didn’t I? In 200… Datak is smooth and manipulative. “It means, ‘I love you always.’ That’s the way I feel about my wife. Production began in April 2012 in Toronto, Canada. Tony rose to fame in the BBC television series This Life. On the set of Syfy Defiance in Toronto with actor Tony Curran (Part 2 of 2) On the Toronto set of the new Syfy TV series, Defiance, actor Tony Curran talks about his role as Datak Tarr in … Jaime’s very smart in the way she gauges people, and sometimes people have to be molded somewhat. He basically engineered all the alien languages. “At first [during pre-production], there would be left no stone unturned, as it were. However, thanks to a joint human/Votan rebellion, there has been peace for the past nine years. Abbie Bernstein is an entertainment journalist, fiction author and filmmaker. Among his many credits are the films BLADE II, THE 13TH WARRIOR, THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN, UNDERWORLD: EVOLUTION and THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN. It was on Channel Four at home [in the U.K.] and it will be coming out in the States. It’s a modern-day story, but it goes back to the Crusades, and it was shot in South Africa a year-and-a-half ago. With Grant Bowler, Stephanie Leonidas, Julie Benz, Graham Greene. //
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