CBR: Christian Slater on "My Own Worst Enemy"

[CBR News]

The veteran performer talks to CBR about his new show, “My Own Worst Enemy,”
in which he plays two characters that share the same body. Slater also tells us
what the project has in common with his career highlight, "Pump Up The Volume."


Full article here (http://comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=18410).

[brett tolino]

Christian Slater absolutely rocks and his work is cool as heck. Almost 20 years ago, I saw him in the village shopping around for Star Wars stuff at a store. True Romance is one of my favorite movies and I wanted to tell him how much I enjoy his work but out of respect, didn't say anything, didn't want to bother him and left him alone.

Still, This is the show I've been waiting for all season and I wish him great success! Can't wait to watch this show tonight!

[Michael P]

Liked it better the first time I saw it, when it was a comic and it was called Spyboy.

[Jared]

I may check out the premire, though not necessarily tonight. The previews look cool enough that I want to like it, but I don't know if I'll be able to suspend disbelief at the absurdity of the premise. Why go to all this trouble to give an agent a secret ID that's actually another personality. And why not just pull the plug when it starts to go wrong? Matt Roush at TV Guide had the same issue.
The whole notion is as silly as anything in Chuck, but Chuck plays it for laughs. This show looks to be dark and serious.

[chrisgiff]

anyone watch this?

[kalorama]

This show may be Joss Whedon's worse nightmare.

It's a similar enough premise as Dollhouse that if it turns out to be a hit, the fact that it'll have several months of momentum behind it before Dollhouse even airs could make it difficult for Whedon to draw a large enough portion of the same audience. If it flops, the established recent failure of such a similar show could put up a big roadblock for Dollhouse to overcome in trying to convince people to watch.

[Jared]

On plus side, Eliza's cleavage has got to be more of a draw than Slater's receding hairline.

I suspect Dollhouse will really need to play up the team aspect to distinguish itself.

[smartalek]

I watched it.
You have to wonder how he would explain all of those funny scars he would pick up. Nicking yourself while shaving would not cover the types of things your body would probably go through in 19 years of high risk covert operations.

[Toreador]

While I can get the concept of an average guy being turned into a sleeper agent by a secret agency with a flip of a switch I don't get why the secret agent would need to turn into a sleeper 'family man'. Don't they have the premise backwards on this show?

[kalorama]

On plus side, Eliza's cleavage has got to be more of a draw than Slater's receding hairline.

Didn't help Tru Calling much.

[marshal99]

Kind of like Total recall & true lies mixed with alias. Interesting enough for a pilot but will have to see where it goes from here.

Now that the 2 persona is co-ordinating together , won't it be like a standard spy thriller series like alias ?!