“I’m 57 but I feel like my best work is in front of me.
I’m excited about it, and I’m grateful that I’m still here.”
(Wiredwas never released on DVD or Blu-ray).
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“I was a theater rat from Boston.
I was living in New York,” says Chiklis.
“I didn’t know the Hollywood set.
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I didn’t know anyone had that kind of power.
As certainly never meant any offense to his family or anything.
As far as I was concerned, it was an homage.”
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It was just an incredible moment.
The doors opened for me again."
“I played, you know, a wise guy!”
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Chiklis says, laughing.
“I was one of the henchmen under Chazz Palminteri’s character.
It was a four or five show arc up in Vancouver.
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“One door closes and another one opens.
It’s just the twists and turns of this business.
I always cite the lyrics of the great [Frank] Sinatra classic ‘That’s Life.’
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It’s the theme song of my life and actors' lives in general.”
“I was a huge Stooges fan as a child.
Boys, we loved the Stooges.
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It was silliness.”
The show didn’t make it past 18 episodes.
“We got killed because they moved us.
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It was a tough one,” says Chiklis.
“That’s when I hit the wall.
I needed to do something other than what I had been doing.
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It’s incumbent upon you to reinvent yourself.
You gotta do the work and not take another role.'
And I said, ‘well it can be a tough road between now and then.’
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“I don’t care if you call it Kismet.
It was clearly the most life-altering career situation for me, in terms of everything coming together.”
Chiklis won an Emmy after his first season on the drama.
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“It’s like being in your own personal torture chamber,” he recalls.
Chiklis, as Jim Powell Sr., had super strength (natch).
The show didn’t make it past one season.
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“I was raising kids, I had two daughters.
I wanted to do something they could watch.
I liked to move back and forth between adult and family fare,” he recalls.
All those things are parts of what drive the success or failure of a series.
It’s not just what is put on the screen.
There’s a lot that goes into the making of a TV series.
All I can say is, I loved working with Greg and that team of people.”
It was fun to be on something that I wasn’t No.
I didn’t have any pressure on me.
It was a fun gig in a great place with great people.”
“He is absolutely not Vic Mackey.
He’s a very different character for sure.
But I don’t really call him a hero, either.
This is a guy who is essentially trying to rewrite his own epitaph.
He’s made some horrible decisions and mistakes in his life and he knows it.”
