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You have a pretty Shakespearean-sounding name. I ain’t doin’ no backflip, but I can move a little bit. I can move a li’l bit, you know? A little somethin’ somethin’. It’s not my strongest suit, necessarily, but I do enjoy singing.

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Do you have a secret desire to sing and dance onstage?Īhhhhhhh! You know what, I guess the PC musical-theater term would be, “I’m an actor who can sing.” That’s’ what they called us in conservatory.

And then give it away, as opposed to trying to do your craft at the same time you’re trying to function and exist and live life and, oh, by the way, I have to be at the theater at seven o’clock.

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But I prefer working on film and TV most of the time, only because you can take your craft, do your research, and get into character and live in that space by yourself, with the cast and crew. A great show doesn’t have to be on Broadway. It’s funny, because I love theater, it’s obviously so communal and certain shows just blow you away - and I’ve realized theater is theater anywhere you go. There’s no actor that’s just furniture, or just spitting out exposition. By combining characters, I really think you see Shakespeare as an ensemble in a way you wouldn’t see in a classic interpretation.

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Some characters are combined, like mine, to form this one full character. So for someone to come in and say, we’re not doing verse there, we’re doing prose, or we’re cutting this line, or we’re actually giving this character that line - to do it with eight players versus twelve or thirteen is a challenge. We’ve been taught for so long that Shakespeare is done like this. You know, it was a challenge, to be honest. This is not guys in puffy pants with perfect iambic pentameter. I’ve told other people, this is not the textbook Othello. It’s really about the struggle of a country going to war, of trying to make function out of dysfunction, interpersonal politics on a micro and macro level. The play is set in the United States, in today’s world, where we have a first African-American President, but also we spent a lot of time talking about Bush-era politics, the corruption that that administration brought, and also looking at this new administration and how maybe it’s not as much of a fairy tale as we’d like to believe. I would say the world of the play and the world of current-event politics are mutually exclusive, but we’re definitely informed by what’s going on. This is a very contemporary production, right? I didn’t really know who was before this, and I was talking to people like, “I gotta go meet Peter Sellars - what is this guy about?” And it was so overwhelming with positive responses, I was just like, who is this unique individual? And I went in and met him and was just overwhelmed with love and creativity like, “Oh, what is this?”

I went in and read for a role, and I had a bunch of different friends going in for it. I’ve always been a fan of the Public Theater’s work - obviously it’s just one of these hallmarks of New York theater. How did you end up getting involved with this production? He took a break from rehearsal to talk to Vulture about the play, his theater background, and his continuing legacy as Smash. Though he’s off FNL (for the moment), Charles is keeping busy - tomorrow he begins previews for the Public Theater’s new production of Othello (starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz, and running in a limited engagement through October 4), in which he plays the dual roles of the Duke and Lodovico. Other forthcoming NCIS guest stars include Jocko Sims ( Dreamgirls) and Karina Lombard ( Rescue Me).To fans of Friday Night Lights, Gaius Charles will forever be known and loved as cocky running back Brian “Smash” Williams, who left the show midway through last season as a graduated senior with a football scholarship.

'We are thrilled to have him on board and look forward to everything he brings to the role.'Ĭharles, who played Brian 'Smash' Williams on Friday Night Lights between 20, has since appeared in Angelina Jolie film Salt and an episode of ABC's Pan Am. 'Many of the people involved with NCIS were big Friday Night Lights fans, so having Gaius join us is a genuine pleasure,' said NCIS exec Gary Glasberg. The character was previously referred to in the show's ninth season premiere, with mention of a 'kid from Baltimore' in Tony's past. Saved from a fire by Tony (Michael Weatherly) years before, Charles's character Jason is still haunted by the death of a family member. The Friday Night Lights star will play an arson investigator on the CBS drama, TVLine reports. Gaius Charles has won a recurring role on NCIS.

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