Jason Priestley is joining 90210…..
June 5, 2008
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
as a possible director for at least one episode! I think this is great news and I hope he gets to do it. Sounds like he’s doing well.
Jason Priestley is negotiating to direct one or more episodes of the CW’s planned updated new series version of the show that made him a star, “Beverly Hills, 90210,” should the show get picked up for its back nine first season episodes. As far as acting in the redux, “I don’t know,” he says. “I’m not sure. I’d sort of have to revisit that, take it on a case to case basis.”
Priestley previously commented that he’d be “open” to appearing on the new show — a comment that was reprocessed and massaged in various stories until it wound up on an Internet celeb site splashed with a headline screaming that he “Fears ‘90210′ Snub” and is “desperate” to reprise his role.
“How funny is that?” he asks. “And such is my life.”
Priestley’s actually been consumed with his latest directorial project in recent months — the June 12-debuting “The Road Hammers” reality show, following the drama and craziness of a top Canadian country band as they bring their act south of the border. The Vancouver, B.C.-born, music-loving Priestley played a role in bringing the hugely popular Barenaked Ladies group to U.S. attention, you may recall.
“We didn’t stage anything, we refused to do that,” he says of the eight, hourlong episodes airing on Great American Country (GAC). “I’m not big on staging stuff and loosely scripted stuff.” Still, “There’s a lot of surprises and tons of drama … There’s this band from Canada that’s been very successful, has sold hundreds of thousands of albums and is used to having autonomy, who come down to Nashville expecting to be treated the same way — and that’s not the way they do things in Nashville. It was a fascinating education for me as well.”
Posted in Uncategorized
Recent Comments