With talks over a potential fifth season of Fringe seemingly ongoing, John Noble reflects on the same stage last year when the sci-fi serial was on a ratings knife-edge, and shares his favorite Walter moments to date.
Whether looking back, he was confident that the show would return for a fourth season:
I think on an emotional level there was a lot of concern. When I personally looked at the direction of what we were supposed to have done [in terms of ratings], what numbers we were supposed to have done, I went, “Hang on, based on that, we have to come back.” Basically, with any television network, it gets down to numbers. We did a better job on Thursdays for them, and now we have [done a better job in ratings terms] on Friday nights.
Whether season three would have ended differently if the show wasn’t renewed for a fourth season:
I’m positive that the writers were prepared, but I thought that at any given stage, we were poised to go into a series finale. In fact, the season finale where it ended was actually written in the middle of that episode. So they were prepared. They looked at their A and B plans. They would have been very remiss not to. It would have been a disaster to finish up another show without a finale. They wouldn’t have done that, but it was cleverly enough constructed that they could take it into another dimension.
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On his most enjoyable moments from the series:
There are some wonderful moments in there. One of the funniest ones was that unforgettable line where Walter in his rage [talking about Peter and Bolivia] says, “He fell right into her vangenda.” I love that line. I was looking at that when I read it, and I thought, “Oh, my goodness, how do I do this line?” It was very fun doing that line, because the other actors didn’t know what I was going to do with it and the whole set was going, “Oh, my God …!” So that was very funny. It even made Lance Reddick [Broyles] laugh, which is not easy to do.
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To make cool as a cucumber Broyles’ lose his composure, priceless.
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