He is one of the most beloved cast members, but in the early stage of medical fiction he had serious doubts about its continuity.
If you’re already addicted lost to New Amsterdam, NBC’s medical fiction that is already in its third season on its original network but has become a real bombshell in Spain with the arrival of two first two installments to Netflix, you will also have been hooked on the personal and dynamic stories of its protagonists, to whom it is impossible not to take affection. We know that Dr. Max Goodwin (Ryan Eggold) and Dr. Helen Sharpe (Freema Agyeman) are big favorites, but they are also very popular with viewers Lauren Bloom (Janet Montgomery), Floyd Reynolds (Jocko Sims) and Iggy Frome (Tyler Labine), among others. However, and curiously, the actor in charge of giving life to the latter thought at the time that the series team would not take long to eliminate his character.
The one chosen to play the head of the Department of Psychology at New Amsterdam Hospital came with a purely comic career behind him, so even Tyler Labine himself was surprised to get the role. As he himself admitted in statements to TV Fanatic, At the time he did not believe that having more experience in comedy roles would play in his favor. “I’ve played a lot of funny characters. […] I spent 30 years perfecting that, and then I did this series … “.
According to Lavine, even he himself felt uncomfortable at first: “The first half [de la primera temporada de New Amsterdam] I was like: “I don’t know what I’m doing, why have they hired me?” However, although somewhat lost and with many doubts, Labine approached the first season as her great opportunity to develop the character in her own way, since playing a dramatic character is less corseted.
“I remember being very active: ‘I can do anything. Literally. Iggy can be anything.” I do not know. No rules. I think the playing field in drama is much more open than in comedy. Does it make sense? “The actor reflected with the aforementioned publication.” Comedy is very restrictive. You have a rule: make people laugh. “Still, He couldn’t help feeling like he wasn’t quite cut out for such a role.
I was afraid that they would start writing my exit from the series because I did not know what I was doing. But they gave me more and I could only think ‘Why do you think I can do this?’
Luckily for everyone, it didn’t take Labine much longer to realizing that the series crew loved him for his acting talent and that he wasn’t looking for him to put a comical vision on Iggy Nor nothing alike.
Three years later, the Doctor Iggy Frome continues to be a fundamental part of the team in season 3 of New Amsterdam. However, we will still have to wait to see him in this new stage, since the new episodes do not have a release date in our country.
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