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ERIC CHRISTIAN OLSEN ON NCIS: LA, COMMUNITY, AND SEXUAL CHEMISTRY
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Eric Christian Olsen: peripatetic funny guy, newly minted goofy cop, culinary school student. Olsen might look familiar from one of his dozen or so TV roles — Community, Brothers & Sisters, The Loop, Get Real, Tru Calling, etc. — but these days he's Deeks, a mysterious and occasionally silly investigator on NCIS: LA. Deeks is the subject of tonight's backstory-heavy episode, so Vulture caught up with the actor to ask him how one goes from playing a perpetually bare-chested skeaze on Community to a gun-toting ex-undercover cop on a show with 17 million viewers a week. |
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ECO: FIVE MOVIES THAT TERRIFIED ME AS A KID
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As you might recall, the 1982 version of The Thing opens in a shroud of mystery. Two Norwegians are in a helicopter trying to shoot a dog. Then a grenade goes off. The story that unraveled in the next two hours, was — if you ask its cult fans — one of the best horror movies of all time. Now, almost 30 years later, audiences will get a chance to revisit the world of The Thing, but this time, they’ll learn The Thing‘s backstory in a prequel out this Friday. “There’s a lot of storytelling gold to be mined in that and that’s why I think this movie got it right, from the top down,” says one of its stars, Eric Christian Olsen, of NCIS: LA fame. “It pays homage to the type of storytelling they did in the ’80s, which was that slow burn. It wasn’t just that quick something jumps out and somebody’s got an axe and somebody decides to go wake-boarding naked. It’s storytelling thriller. It’s storytelling that leads you to a place where it’s about paranoia, it’s about betrayal, it’s about relationships. I think that’s much more universal.” |
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ERIC ADMITS DUMB & DUMBERER IS UNWATCHABLE AND UNWATCHABLER
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He's come a long way since "Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd." Eric Christian Olsen has had recurring parts in "Brothers & Sisters" and "Community" -- and a starring role in the upcoming horror prequel "The Thing" -- in the eight years since he donned Jim Carrey's iconic "Dumb and Dumber" bowl cut.
And with that time to reflect, Olsen has decided the 2003 prequel is ... awful.
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NCIS: LA STARS ERIC CHRISTIAN OLSEN AND DANIELE RUAH ON TONIGHT'S EPISODE
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Like the stealth criminals often hunted on the show, NCIS: LA is a bit of a silent threat in the ratings game. Now in its second season, the show is frequently on the list of top-rated shows each week, and yet, it has silently given birth to one of TV’s new, completely addictive (but not romantically attached) pairs, Marty Deeks (Eric Christian Olsen) and Kensi Blye (Daniela Ruah). |
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ERIC CHRISTIAN OLSEN IS FIRED UP!
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The Fired Up Star opened up his basement for a beautiful rustic fashion photoshoot. Eric Christian Olsen has appeared in an abundance of films and also has a recurring role on funny or die as Perry Hilton. |
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ERIC CHRISTIAN OLSEN TELLS ALL
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Lifetime caught up with the charming Eric Christian Olsen, one of the stars of the new original movie "Write & Wrong," to chat about everything from working with the hilarious Kirstie Alley to being asked to lie about his age at only 21.
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FIRED UP
"COMMUNITY"
THE BACK-UP PLAN
THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY LEFAY (aka MY DAD'S SIX WIVES)
"NCIS: LOS ANGELES"
THE THING
CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER
