From the stars
“V” star Elizabeth Mitchell, who plays an FBI counter-terrorism agent intent on learning the Visitors’ true motives, was a fan of the original miniseries.
“I did watch the show when I was kid,” she says. “I think I was about 13. I was allowed to watch an hour of television with my parents. I really liked it. I liked the escape of it, and I liked the entertainment of it. It was a fun night for me.”
She hopes the modern “V” has the lure to bring families together, too.
“We kind of made a celebration of [watching the show together], and I hope that other teenagers will do that with their parents,” she says.
“It’s something that kids don’t do as much anymore. Oh, my God — I sound like I’m 80,” she adds, laughing.
Scott Wolf portrays a TV journalist, Chad Decker, who is chosen by the Visitors to sit down for an exclusive interview with their leader in the “V” pilot. Though Wolf views his character as a legitimate newsman, the prospect of career advancement quickly gets in the way of his journalism ethics.
“I think he’s a guy who’s had success doing what he’s doing, but he sees himself a lot further along than he’s been able to get thus far,” Wolf explains of his character. “Amongst all the different themes that our producers and writers are dealing with, one of them is integrity versus ambition, and this guy’s incredibly ambitious. But there’s also a sense of wanting to be a great journalist and be a voice for people so that when spaceships descend over the major cities of the world … he wants people to think, ‘What is Chad Decker saying about this?’"