USA Network Jeff Goldblum as Detective Zack Nichols, a character with whom he may share a kinship or two.As previous experience has taught us, some performers cannot be best represented by words on a page. Their worldviews are just too expansive, their thoughts about the artistic life and the search for truth too all-encompassing to be consolidated into a few quotations for a newspaper article or a blog post.
Jeff Goldblum is one of those performers.
Starting on April 26, Mr. Goldblum, the idiosyncratic star of “The Fly,” “Jurassic Park,” “Independence Day,” “Igby Goes Down” and “Death Wish,” among others, will join the cast of the crime drama “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” as Detective Zack Nichols, a quirky investigator who is returning to the police force after a post-9/11 sabbatical to rediscover himself and life’s meanings.
Suffice to say that this is a role for which Mr. Goldblum is well suited and for which he possesses considerable enthusiasm.
On a recent visit to the Chelsea set of “CI” (as the cool kids call it), we watched Mr. Goldblum film a pair of scenes in which his character employs his unconventional investigative techniques on a murder suspect (and in which the actor gets to show off his formidable skills as a jazz pianist). Then, in his dressing room, we asked Mr. Goldblum about his approach to the scene he’d just shot, yielding the following response:
Jeff Goldblum explains
his approach to “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” (mp3)
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