My guy was a combination of two guys, one who had massive personal problems in terms of his marriage and personal life and one who was a great firefighter who had a different set of problems.
The guys on the show even tended to look like the real guys the good-looking dumb guy, the good-looking smart guy, the lieutenant who knows everything and has a lot of experience but likes to eat. The crew that we created was a smudged version of a real crew that I was very close to I loved the unit and how everyone related to each other. How did you develop the Tommy Gavin character?Ī. But it’s like Vietnam or World War II for them it’s something that will never go away. It’s still below the surface, but they can’t think about it every day because they have to jump on a rig and go back to work and jump into the building. This event was so catastrophic for these guys.
The idea of dealing with life and death every day, and that struggle to fit into real life when you work a job that has no real connection to real life, except in the sense that you may die five minutes from now. The show has been the story of the male ego, the heroic male ego.
Why has 9/11 remained such a central theme on your show?Ī. So for better or worse, I think we did the right thing. Watching the boat, which the department was kind enough to give us that day, roll in was pretty emotional for a lot of the real firefighters. It’s a $27 million boat, and the only reason they have them is because they realized on 9/11 that they need that service from the water, right down by where the buildings went down. The name on the hull of the boat is done in steel from the World Trade Center. There’s a thing in the final scene, where down on the waterfront there’s a new boat called the 343, which was just commissioned. It was interesting because we were doing it a year in advance and we have a lot of firefighters on the set, so we got to watch their response. So you’ve shot the final shows already?Ī. During the last three episodes the characters are going to these meetings to plan the parades and memorial services. The final episodes will lead up to the anniversary. How will the show handle the anniversary of 9/11?Ī. The following are excerpts from the conversation. Leary talked with Jeremy Egner about the final season, his character and the twisted firehouse anecdotes that inspire the show’s scripts. In a recent interview at his production office in SoHo, Mr. The character’s reckless bravado frequently scuttles his personal life, even as it makes him an exceptional firefighter. Leary portrays Tommy Gavin, the caustic, alcoholic firefighter at the center of “Rescue Me” who is the “most frantic and emotionally undone member of the crew of 62 Truck,” according to Ginia Bellafante, a television critic for The New York Times. “We always felt that if we made it that far, the 10th anniversary of 9/11 would be a stopping point,” said Denis Leary, the show’s star and co-creator, with Peter Tolan.
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The show will wrap up next year, shortly before the 10th anniversary of 9/11, an event that inspired the series and has been revisited repeatedly. “Rescue Me,” the dark, comic firefighter drama that is broadcast Tuesdays on FX, returned this week for the beginning of the end.
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