Willie Garson – who’s played a number of memorable TV characters from “Sex & The City” to “NYPD Blue” to “Pushing Daisies – plays an idiosyncratic underground Right Hand Man as Caffrey tries to gather details on his ex-girlfriend Kate, who has inexplicably disappeared. you see the dynamics of how we really just care about each other.”Ĭaffrey is not without his sidekick, either. He’s an FBI agent, and here I am doing high profile events… we couldn’t be more different. And our characters, Elizabeth and Peter, I feel, are kind of the same way. “I’ve been married almost four and a half years now. It’s always about the ones that don’t work,” Theissen says. A lot of times on TV, and even movies, you see these relationships that don’t work. “It’s nice to see a relationship on TV that does work, and they’ve been together for a long time. That, too, is a relief to the show’s principals. Seduction and romance is kept tame, too, and the show’s creators crafted a fairly normal and supportive marriage for Peter and his wife Elizabeth. And if there is blood, somebody on the show will not like it, will not like to see the blood,” says DeKay. ![]() You will not have seen it happen and you’ll never flashback to have seen it happen. “If there is a murder, you will see it after the fact. That’s in the nature of white collar crime, says DeKay, and even when murder or foul play occurs in the story, it’s acknowledged in context purposely, in a realistic way. What is atypical about “White Collar,” though, is the lack of blood or graphic violence, which seems to work its way into primetime cop shows across the board. a tale that inspired the actors, along with “To Catch a Thief,” “Oceans 11” and Kevin Mitnick’s “The Art of Deception.” There’s even “a little bit of Ferris Bueller thrown in there,” says Bomer. In a way, “White Collar” feels like an epilogue to “Catch Me If You Can” – the memoir of real-life thief Frank Abagnale Jr. He’s a social engineer, that’s his job,” says Bomer. It comes with the territory, too, that Neal is a con artist. I think Peter is fundamentally one way and Neal is fundamentally one way… they’ll always have things that they clash on.” “I would even go further and say that really, the relationship between these two characters is really the center of the show. There’s an odd respect that we both enjoy and we know that each other enjoys solving something… deep, deep, deep down inside, they like each other,” says DeKay, indeed, with his arm looped around the back of Bomers’ chair at a press gathering in New York. Caffrey’s rule-bending and floating through life fluffs the feathers of Stokes and his hard-nosed, fact-based agency work, breeding a very particular working friendship. Thief, forgerer, counterfeiter, “social engineer” and charmer Neal Caffrey (Matthew Bomer) is released from jail by the FBI detective, Peter Stokes (Tim DeKay), who put him there – on the condition that the ex-convict helps him with his casework. But then, like “Lethal Weapon,” there’s the “bromance.” 23) on USA, has all the elements of detective dramadies – the mysteries, the interpersonal struggle between work and play, the occasional chase or scuffle and the handcuffs. So, you know, God willing, we'll be on a set, having fun together again at some point.”Ĭhatter around a possible reunion series surfaced in late April when Eastin and Bomer dropped hints on social media that they were looking to bring the ensemble together, with Eastin revealing that they have "a plan." The series also starred Tim DeKay, Tiffani Thiessen, Willie Garson, Sharif Atkins, Marsha Thomason and Hilarie Burton.ĭuring a White Collar cast reunion in May, Bomer confirmed there are "real conversations" about a potential revival.“White Collar,” which debuts tomorrow (Oct. ![]() "We're all really grateful for the fans of the show, the people who have been there since Day 1, and the people who are just now discovering it on Hulu," he added, referring to the streaming platform the series currently lives on. "So the fact that you can have that kind of experience on set - and sometimes you have that experience on set, but then it doesn't really translate on the screen and it doesn't really resonate with people - but the fact that we had that kind of experience creatively and it's resonated with people, that just is the icing on the cake." Every day, everybody came, prepared to work, we all had a great time together, we all genuinely loved each other, everyone was on time, no one ever stormed off to their trailer," Bomer reflected. "It was one of those sets where we just had an absolute blast.
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