Vincent D'Onofrio Puts Criminal Intent's Goren on the Couch
TV Guide, 6.27.08
by Mike Flaherty
Watching Vincent D'Onofrio's Det. Robert Goren on Law & Order: Criminal Intent (Sundays at 9 pm/ET, USA) is a deliciously unsettling experience. We love the awkward mannerisms, the halting yet penetrating speech, the craned neck bend he performs when grilling suspects. He's brilliant, insightful, riveting. But, frankly, he seems a few sandwiches short of a picnic, if you know what we mean….
For example: In "Untethered," D'Onofrio's last episode before the writers' strike, Goren went undercover in a mental ward to expose prisoner abuse. Instead, he fell prey to the sadistic mind games and emerged from the ordeal near-catatonic. In the first post-strike episode, "Purgatory," the suspended Goren got reinstated, but we never witnessed the psych evaluation that was required to get his shield and gun back. This was no accident: Turns out D'Onofrio's loathe to have his alter ego follow a certain powerful, neurotic Italian-American to the couch. "The Sopranos did it so perfectly that if you take a strong character like mine and put him with a shrink, it's going to be a copy," says the actor. "So we won't go there."
Actually, dude, we will. Full article
Thanks Laura!
This is the online version of the TV article excerpts previously
posted (Thanks Donnajo!)
posted by thereel @ 7:49 AM
6 Comments:
Thanks for posting the online article-going to try and pick up the actual guide-just watched In The Wee Small Hours on the USA network-was hoping for another Goren/Logan episode-guess not-
Well as Eames said it, they will always be Oceans 2 to me-
Regi.
Well I am pleased to see they have finally learned how to spell D'ONOFRIO. When the article originally went up it was written as D'Onofiro.
What muppets!
I still think an 'interview' should be made up of more than a bunch of smarty-pants remarks from the writer, with a few lines by Vincent and Rene thrown in, but thanks for posting anyway ;0)
Just picked up my TV Guide. It's a pleasure to see a two page spread on Vincent in such a widely read magazine. The publicity is great, and I think it's an amusing "Interview", you can tell the writer is interested in & knows the show, especially Bobby Goren.
* "Manipulation is a symptom of the psychopathic personality," Goren once observed of a suspect. *
Actually, he said that to Lance Brody in "A Murderer Among Us" in a attempt to throw him off. Goren had said that "manipulation is a symptom of depression", and asked Brody if his wife was manipulative. Brody replied, "She was. She *was*!" When Goren "corrected" himself, Brody said, "Lena was a complicated person." :)
what a great, well written article! VOD is doing the best work of anyone on television, and you would think we'd be seeing more articles like this one. cudos to Mike Flarety, for capturing the essence of what truly bridges actor to character, with juicy behind the scenes info. I can't wait to find out what VOD is referring to, regarding the last episode of season 7, revisiting his past(?). Pulled out of a nosedive(?). Can't wait!!!
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