TV News: Enrico Colantoni Talks Flashopoint - Cold Case and "Lost" Star Tania Raymonde Grateful
By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith
Jan 11, 2009
Enrico Colantoni is a man torn. He's thrilled with the success of his CTV/CBS series "Flashpoint," which returned to its second season this week. Colantoni notes that as a Canadian, he's particularly proud of the Toronto-set dramatic thriller about an elite team of crisis-managing police -- and the fact that "in Canada, specifically, the PR for these guys has just changed, because we paint them as humans."
TV News: Enrico Colantoni Talks Flashopoint (Image: Wenn)
On the other hand, the actor's 11- and 8-year-old children are back in Los Angeles, where he lives when he's not in production. "I miss my kids, who are in school in L.A. I know I'm going to go back in February, which makes it a lot more endurable," says Colantoni, who also regularly stays in touch via Skype. "I think it's tougher on Dad than it is on them. 'Dad, you still here? You really tell us what to do a lot,'" he jokes.
Colantoni was in L.A. from October through this past weekend, and got "plenty of R&R and time to play dad," he says. Yet with the show's notoriously grueling schedule, that time off already seems a distant memory.
Meanwhile, cast mate Amy Jo Johnson, who had her baby daughter, Francesca, this past fall, isn't back to work yet. "Her baby is absolutely the most beautiful thing, enthuses Colantoni. "As far as I know she's coming back. I just don't know exactly when. Something happens in the fourth episode that will air this season that will sort of explain things," he lets us know, adding that the first four "Flashpoint" episodes of this season were shot last year. "Anyone schooled in the ways of television knows how it works -- the actress is pregnant, and then something happens, and the character conveniently disappears for a while."
LIFE AFTER DEATH: "Cold Case's" Tania Raymonde says she'll always be grateful for the supportive responses she got from fans after her character, Alex Rousseau, was killed off "Lost" last season. "There was such a huge reaction from fans who follow the story. It was definitely a shocking moment," recalls the 20-year-old, whose character was first held at gunpoint, then shot in the head.
"I think Alex's death was pretty frightening for people. I was amazed people were invested enough to care about her demise." As for herself, "It was a great exercise in being in the moment," Raymonde recalls. She also recalls, "I took a long bath and slept very well the night afterward. It was like after living through some kind of trauma."
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