Frequencywas a time travel movie with a twist.
CW has reinventedFrequencyas a TV series, and this time the story revolves around a father and daughter.
If the show makes it, it will take longer than two hours to save her mom too.
DoesFrequencyhave double the backstory of a normal job because you have two timelines to remember and they keep changing?
Not like you have to be crazy on top of every single detail.
Its really smart writing but in a rewarding way for the audience.
Well, the most immediate problem is the mom, Julies disappearance.
They know what day she goes missing.
They know what day she doesnt show up for work anymore.
They know when she is taken.
That is the most immediate problem.
Shes struggling with that while trying to be a detective and trying to solve the case of her mom.
He gets to be with his wife and he wants to enjoy those moments.
He wants to have that time.
Its a lot of interesting personality character elements.
Is it like theyre meeting for the first time even though theyre father and daughter?
Theyre meeting for the first time as adults with fully formed personalities and character traits.
So its forging that relationship.
Its an interesting thing when youre not doing it sitting across from each other.
Youre doing it just talking to somebody like on a phone.
Its like building a relationship just on a phone.
Its a really particular kind of relationship and at times its even more intimate.
Is Riley there when you do the radio scenes?
Were doing Rileys side of the HAM radio so Ill be sitting off camera.
Do you think you could keep that up for 22 episodes?
At first, I was a little bit concerned about the logistics of it.
Production has actually been really great about making the extra effort to ensure it happens.
Its so important to this show.
Everything hinges, both storylines hinge on the relationship that is forged through those HAM conversations.
So I think were going to keep it up as long as were on the air.
Is Raimy trying to get her fiance back?
Raimy is starting to toy with the idea of how could I do that.
How would I get someone back who doesnt remember me?
How do you recreate a courtship when one of you knows how it went before?
How do you recreate that natural thing that you had?
It totally reminded me of that.
You were on another show with a lot of mythology,Flash Forward.
Are there any similarities between everything you had to deal with and remember for that and whatFrequencyentails?
WithFlash Forward, I would say the similarities are this shared ticking clock of an end date.
One of our biggest storylines and threads throughout the season is finding Julie.
We know what day shes taken.
We know that weve got X number of weeks.
Weve got 11 weeks until shes taken and weve got to solve this mystery by then.
WithFlash Forward, it was the same thing.
Everybody catches up to that date six months later down the road.
Like not having a fiance anymore.
Is there any 1996 equivalent stock tip Raimy can give Frank?
In the movie he says Yahoo.
That is one of my favorite parts of the movie.
Repeat it: Yahoo.
I love that because I saw the movie way later and I remember Yahoo.
Oh my God, thats so funny.
To be fair, I was not really up on the stock market back in 1996.
I suppose you would say Google.
Twitter or Facebook maybe.
I am embarrassingly poorly informed about the stock market.
So it hasnt come up yet.
It hasnt come up yet but I dont put anything past JeRaimy [Carver].
Im sure hell find a way to sneak in those homages to the movie.
Especially the treats that I go, Oh my God, that was my favorite part of the movie.
Im sure hell get those in.
When did you see the movieFrequency?
You said you saw it later.
I saw it after I read the script [for the show].
I saw the movie the second time I read the pilot.
I was kind of blown away and I was blown away that I hadnt seen it before.
I dont know how I missed it.
I thought it was awesome.
Jim Caviezel and Dennis Quaid were wonderful.
Elizabeth Mitchell was just warm and just magnetic.
It was a great movie, start to finish.
Is Raimy a badass cop?
If I had any question before about it, it was solved in episode 103.
Shes a badass, yeah.
Shes not afraid to get her hands dirty.
Do you ever think about whatFlash Forwardcould have been had it continued?
I dont know whereFlash Forwardwould have gone in season two.
Does my character die?
Does my character live?
Why is she in this place when shes in that place?
And then it ended and youre like, Well, Ill never know.
So I dont know where they would have gone with it.
I think it wouldve been great.
I love the show so much that I have no doubt that it wouldve been awesome and fun.
It changed a lot from the pilot, didnt it?
Yeah, it changed a lot.
I dont know what the plan was initially.
I only knew what the pilot script was then.
Theyre going to every continent and I really liked that about that show.
That was one of your first roles.
Are you a much different actor now?
Like spending a whole year just in that genre.
I dont know if it made me a different actor.
I was kind of used to ensemble casts and being a part of something larger.
I think thats definitely different.
