Rob Morrow On Don Eppes And Skydiving?
Numb3rs star Rob Morrow did an interview a while back, and reveals some interesting thoughts about his character, Don Eppes. Besides math in the show, the biggest draw may be the relationship between Don and his brother Charlie Eppes, and Rob agrees that he’s looking forward to delving into more of it.
Rob also dishes about his family, and doing something that many may fear, skydiving. I can’t think of a reason to jump out of a perfectly good plane, but Rob’s story gives some pause on this idea.
One concept of this FBI drama is that a lot of the characterization comes through, with less of the procedural, and Rob describes this best by saying, “…humanity is expressed in a way that the procedural cannot allow,…”. One reason Rob took the role was because he loves the action scenes, and not just regular action I might add, but “crazy action scenes”.
Undoubtedly, Rob is a fan of the hero, the guy who sacrifices himself for others, and he reveals that a big attraction to his character, for him, is that very thing, that Don is “…a classic hero”.
Rob’s account of why he went skydiving is hilarious, and I’ve included a snippet here:
For years, a group of my friends were saying they were going to do it, but every time somebody was going I always came up with an excuse. So I get a call from a friend of mine, David Heyman who produces all the ‘Harry Potter’ movies. He asks if I have any plans tomorrow and I said, “No.” So he says, “We’re going skydiving, you should meet us.” So then I get on the phone with Gina Gershon and I tell her, and she says, “Let me tell you a little story.” Her mother had a friend who had a normal fear of heights, so she goes to one of those places where you overcome your fear. She goes skydiving and on the first solo dive, her chute doesn’t open, and she goes right to the earth and dies. So I call David and tell him I’m not going. Then a year later, I call my sister and ask, “Do you want to go skydiving?” I did not think she would say yes. We went out to this place in Paris, California where everybody goes. You go and sit in an empty bureaucratic room and a lawyer comes on the monitor saying you can’t even think about suing. I keep thinking I’m going to back out. I get up there and my sister says she wants to go first. Picture a window with someone you know standing right in front of it, and they jump out of the window and disappear. So I saw her jump and then I jumped and I screamed for an entire minute, which was equal parts joy and utter fear. Then the chute popped open and it was like flying, not falling, like flying. It was an amazing experience.
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