ET Online interview with Anthony Zuiker
- on October 27th, 2021
- in Billy News •
ET Online have shared a great interview with Anthony Zuiker. Read the full article by clicking on the link below.
CSI: Vegas executive producer Anthony Zuiker, the mastermind behind the blockbuster CSI franchise, is counting his lucky stars. For the super-producer, reuniting original stars William Petersen and Jorja Fox for a follow-up series has been surreal.
CBS’ latest CSI entry, which premiered 21 years to the day after the flagship series launched, follows Petersen’s Gil Grissom and Fox’s Sara Sidle as they use forensics to solve crimes and find out who framed their former Crime Lab boss, Jim Brass (Paul Guilfoyle), putting years of their work and the future of the Lab in jeopardy.
“So fun,” creator and executive producer Zuiker told ET when asked what it’s been like to revisit the world. “It was great to be back on set. It was great to see the new faces and the veteran faces. It was great to be back in Billy’s trailer arm-wrestling dialogue as usual, but it was cool. When they say ‘action,’ it’s happening. It brings you back to 2000 when it first started.”
ET: What was the most intriguing part about revisiting Grissom and Sara in 2021 versus the early 2000s?
Anthony Zuiker: I think for me, I have a ritual with those two. I’m always the first face Billy sees when he comes to set. I will stand in front of his trailer, until he pulls up, with my script. I’ve been doing that for 16 seasons. And then once I get Billy’s dialogue, I’ll go knock on Jorja’s trailer and hear her feedback because sometimes his dialogue affects her dialogue. So that was a surreal ritual that I continued. And I think I’ve caught myself at times on set in the director’s chair with headsets on watching those two act and just marveling at the fact that it’s just so natural for them and how they could just snap back into the characters with such ease. It’s really a delight. They make it look so easy and it’s really watching the magic continue.
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