George/Nick: Texan Charm #13

blackflag · Aug 12, 2016

I guarantee that nobody has told George Eads that he's almost 50! His character, Jack Dalton, is called "the muscle" in this.

This is the CBS channel at youtube so it may not be available to all...
"MacGyver" first look"

blackflag · Aug 29, 2016

George on social networking (from "My San Antonio")...

S.A. TV star Thomas Gibson embraces Twitter, but many celebs still snub it

Former "CSI" regular, George Eads, a Fort Worth native who'll be seen this fall in the CBS reboot of "MacGyver," said he imagines he'll have to start tweeting and posting soon, but isn't looking forward to it.

"I still can't wrap my head around it. I can't even tell you when I last sat down in front of the Internet," Eads said recently following a CBS press session.

"I think it's funky to write about myself in any form. I wasn't raised to be the braggart," the actor said.

"If I get a free moment, I want to get outside, play golf, go fishin'."

"It's like if you're doing a play, and instead of doing your job and then going home, you have to shake the hand of everyone there afterward so they can tell you what they thought," Eads said.
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blackflag · Aug 31, 2016

If I may say... I beg you, DON'T get yourself hurt!

MacGyver: 6 Things To Know About The New CBS Series

3. The stunts will be epic.

George Eads, who plays former CIA agent Jack Dalton, definitely enjoys performing his own stunts alongside MacGyver star Lucas Till. Till explained that both he and Eads want to be a part of the action MacGyver is known for and participate in any stunts they can. "How much more impressive is that? Instead of seeing a guy from afar and assuming it's him," Till told CBS.com.

Hailing the show's choreographer, both stars have already performed numerous stunts—including George Eads taking a punch to the face!
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blackflag · Sep 19, 2016

The New MacGyver Is a Quick Fix on the Original

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But the real star here is CSI alum George Eads, who plays MacGyver's trigger-happy muscle Jack Dalton. MacGyver isn't a serious show per se, and Dalton's goofiness keeps things lighter than the intended comic relief. Eads fits the part really, really well.
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Click the link for the whole review.

Criminalist · Sep 20, 2016

What is that leather thing that George is wearing on his right wrist?

blackflag · Sep 22, 2016

Criminalist, it's just a wristband. George wore one on "CSI" for years.

A press day before "MacGyver" premiers tomorrow night at 8pm...

George finally got his bar fight!

MacGyver star George Eads on (accidentally) getting punched on set

Is a broken face a problem MacGyver can fix? George Eads, star of the upcoming MacGyver reboot, revealed that one cast member got a bit too into character and accidentally clocked him in the face on set.

Eads, who plays Jack Dalton, and Lucas Till, who plays Angus “Mac” MacGyver, sat down for a video for EW’s fall TV preview to play a game where they pulled random words out of a metal pot and used them to describe their CBS show. When Eads pulled the word “shimmy,” he had the perfect anecdote.

“We did a bar fight scene where one of the actors got a little excited and punched me in the face,” Eads explained. “I should’ve shimmied my way out of that one.”
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George Eads (‘CSI’) Q&A about his new role as the muscle and comic relief on ‘MacGyver’

George Eads left “CSI”last year after 15 seasons and 335 episodes. But the itch to get back on the TV train came to him quickly.

He’s now a co-star in the rebooted CBS take on “MacGyver,” which debuts Friday at 8 p.m. as a lead-in to “Hawaii Five O,” another reboot that is entering its seventh season. Eads character is Jack Dalton, who provides the muscle and the back up as Angus “Mac” MacGyver (played by Kell High School graduate Lucas Till) figures out ingenious ways to catch bad guys and escape sticky situations for a secret U.S. agency.

Jack also has a female boss Sandrine Holt (Patricia Thornton) and a colleague who handles the computer work, a young Riley Davis (Tristan Mays).

The original series starring Richard Dean Anderson was a mid-level hit for ABC from 1985 to 1992 and has been available on Netflix since July.

I caught up with Eads on the set of “MacGyver” at the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth earlier this month where the sixth episode was being shot. This scene is set in current-day Germany using a vintage Georgia passenger train where he and MacGyver are trying to find an important woman before the bad guys do. (They didn’t have time to get clearance to use a more modern Amtrak train.)

Q: So what scene are you working on now?

Eads: There’s trouble on a train. There are eight bad guys who have rappelled onto the roof. They’re descending upon us. They’re now dressed like civilians. They’re trying to find the girl we’re trying to save. They killed this special agent she was supposed to meet in Frankfurt so she’s on her way into a trap. We’re trying to get her off the train and save the passengers because the train will literally slam into the station as it’s going as fast as it can go.

Q: My guess is MacGyver will come up with some solution to save the day?

Eads: He does. We load everyone into the back cars and figure a way to detach the train

Q: What is your character’s skill sets? I presume you two balance each other off.

Eads: It’s almost like hanging out with an MMA fighter who has the belt in his weight class. He’s a specialist with guns. And I think from a metaphorical standpoint, my character gives things levity. He can be the zinger guy. At the same time, I did a running head butt to head butt a bad guy. He was about to get the girl. He’s the dog who’s good to hunt with.

Q: There’s an age different between the two of you. Does that matter in the grand scheme of things? Are you more like brothers or brothers in arms?

Eads: That’s a perception but we haven’t really acknowledged it or talked about an age difference between us.

Q: It’s not a big deal? You’re more like colleagues with mutual respect?

Eads: Completely, yeah. There are times when I reference my age. Hey, I don’t have daddy issues. Tristan’s character will tell me, ‘Don’t say ‘My man’s got skills.’ I’m like an older brother to Lucas and a father to her. She’s just running around with a laptop at this point in the series but I’m sure that will develop. I will grab her arm and save her on the train. At the opening of this episode, she’s saved by me as well. That will fall into father/daughter.

Q: What made you decide to go back to CBS on this show?

Eads: I was treated really well there and I was treated really well there for a number of years. Les [Moonves, head of CBS] is a champion of mine and I’m a champion of his. I was very aware with what they’ve been doing with reboots.

Q: ‘Hawaii Five-O’ has been very successful for them.

Eads: ‘Hawaii Five O’ worked really well and it was smart for them to grab Peter [Lenkov as a new executive producer] from over there and come in and help us with this. This show needed a reboot. If you go back and look at the old one, I know it has a lot of die-hard fans and I know it was ahead of its time before its time. I just think that idea and concept really held up well but looking back, I wasn’t aware how far TV has come. How much better the CGI is. Mac hanging off the bottom of this plane.

Q: It looked really good. Very convincing!

Eads: The music, the wardrobe, even the moves we do with the camera. ‘CSI’ was a little cutting edge at the time because it made TV look like movies. It was shot in that Jerry Bruckheimer style with dolly shots, putting the camera on rails so stylistically, it looked aesthetically more like a film. So on network television, the things we are up against, we have a giant stop watch behind our head. We did 81 camera set ups in one day. We had to bring in a C camera. We had to have almost a separate production company handle stunts and inserts.

Q: This is a very complex show. You’re in a different country every week. So you have to make it look realistic.

Eads: Yah. So the learning curve for us was arduous.

Q: This is not just sitting in an office set.

Eads: No, no. These bonds we have now with the crew have been forged through our mistakes and our hard work, correcting those. We had a couple of 16-17 hour days working until 5 in the morning, rolling down the window on the way home shaking the cobwebs out. Now we’ve got a third camera, a C camera with another production company, a man named Steve Herrick came in, a good friend of Peter Lenkov’s. We even re-shot a couple of scenes from episode three, making them better. People talk about family, family, family. Almost every show likes to throw family around. They’re trying to do that here. I just try to encourage them to hold off on that and let that family bond happen through hardships and working together.
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(click the link for the whole interview.)

NHRFan · Sep 23, 2016

Guys, Do you know George Eads is on The Talk show on today?

mulder42 · Sep 23, 2016

I saw his name in the TV Guide listings for today (Friday, September 23rd). Lucas Till and Sterling K. Brown are also on this show.

Criminalist · Sep 24, 2016

Blackflag, thank you for answering my question.

blackflag · Oct 7, 2016

CSI Alum George Eads on Returning to TV in MacGyver

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation alum George Eads is back on TV in the reboot of CBS’ MacGyver as MacGyver’s (Lucas Till) seasoned partner, maverick former CIA agent Jack Dalton.

Dalton and MacGyver are employed by the Phoenix Foundation, a clandestine organization within the U.S. government where MacGyver uses his extraordinary talent for unconventional problem solving and vast scientific knowledge on missions, while Dalton provides the muscle and military expertise.

On tonight’s episode, MacGyver and the team are in Malaysia to extract a terrorist groups’ money man, Ralph (Oliver Cooper), who holds key intel to an impending attack. But the mission goes south when the man is shot, and with only a driver’s license and hand sanitizer available, MacGyver must keep Ralph alive in order to learn the terrorists’ plans.

Parade.com had the opportunity to speak with Eads who talked about his decision to return to series TV, why the time was right to reimagine MacGyver, working with Till, playing an action role at 49, and more.

Why was the time right for you to come back to television?

It was the project. I have a real affinity for Les Moonves [Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of CBS Corporation] and what he does. He really has taken care of me the majority of my career. I feel like I was the wild thing called out from the bullpen from that movie Major League, and he wanted me to bring some energy to this.

After I went and talked to Les, the producers asked me what kind of character I thought the guy was based on what I talked about with Les, and I told them. Then they said, “All right, well, what about the accent?” I said, “Well, you know, I can learn my lines phonetically, and I can sound less like Gomer Pyle if that’s what you want,” and they were like, “No, we like it.”

Did you like the old show?

I did, but I was a young kid when it was on. I still think it’s a great idea. The character does stand the test of time. I went back and watched old episodes and some of it seemed a little corny. That’s not a criticism. That’s just what I thought. I was like, “This does need a reboot. It’s time.”

What did you learn at CSI that you’re bringing to this show?

Well, you become technically proficient. As far as the simplest things, just hit your mark without looking, but at the same time, I can tell when I’m reading a script, especially when I read a scene, what they’re looking for. If they’re looking for a romantic moment, or if they’re looking for this heavy moment, and I think for me , having been on CSI and finding nuances there, I’m able to quickly find some nuances and spice it up a little bit. That’s our job, you know, to put things there that are not on the page.

How well do you and Lucas work together?

His process is different than mine. I handwrite out all my lines. I like to see my handwriting, and I like to keep my notes over time. I take hours to digest simple scenes and his approach is show up. If I show up super ready, he just likes to react off of me being real. So, I think I owe it to him to really be super prepared and real so that when we get there, he’s ready to go, but at the same time, he’s seen my handwriting and now he’s like, “Let’s rehearse every night.” I’m like, “All right.” So, we’ve rehearsed every night at least four hours before we get to work.

You are both from Texas. Does that make a bond?

I think it’s a common denominator. There’s that Southern vibe, that Southern cadence, or crazy sense of humor. My nephew is Lucas’ age, and I’m really close with him. So falling into this friendship with Lucas … I’d already been hanging out with a 26-year-old for about a year, so it just seemed right

How are you dealing with the action?

My body goes on me. This is very action packed. I have to take power naps. I have to ice down my knees, my back.

You’re not that old. You’re only 49.

Well, they’ll make fun of me for getting spun out quicker than they do, you know what I mean? At that age [Till is 26], you can keep going and going and going, and all of a sudden, I’ll just fall asleep. We’ll be in the middle of a scene and I’ll just go, “Hold on a minute,” and just sleep. I have to sleep. Sleep is the gasoline that keeps me going.

CSI was a science show and this is a different kind of science, so are you into science at all?

No. I’m an outdoorsy guy. I’ve always been. I grew up in the late ’70s. We played outside all day. I think that’s where I got the whole notion of being an actor, you know, stunt fighting with my friends. I like to be outside. I can’t even tell you the last time I sat down and got on the internet. I think it was probably at least a few weeks ago.
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blackflag · Apr 2, 2017

I think any George Eads fans has an idea of just how "Country" he is. At least we do know he's damn proud of his Texas heritage.

15 CBS Stars Who Are More Country Than You Think
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George Eads from MacGyver

George Eads has a long history on CBS, from his days on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation to his latest role as Jack Dalton on MacGyver. This Lone Star boy graduated from Texas Tech University before going on to star in action-packed TV movies like Evel Knievel and Monte Walsh.
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