![]() My wife, who’s also my coach, Eliza Roberts - I’m very proud of my wife - she got me ready for this audition. The audience doesn’t really know what we did, but it wasn’t savory. John can’t complain too much, or I will expose him for all that we did. And suddenly he reappears after John Goodman has turned over a new leaf, and he shows up and says, “Let’s get together.” And John’s like, “No, I’m staying away from you.” So it’s kind of an instant conflict. Junior grew up with John Goodman and was a badass. How did you get involved with The Righteous Gemstones?īreakdowns are a thing that tells you everything that’s casting, and it said there was an audition for a character in this great show, Righteous Gemstones. It’s funny, but it can turn really dark rather quickly. The tone of the show fits well with your overall oeuvre. So you’ve really emerged as the villain of this season. ![]() Over the course of two interviews, Roberts talked about playing Junior as well as other notable roles from his career. The acting, the crew, the cast, my scripts, my dialogue, my costumes - everything about it is heaven, dude.” “And I’m not just saying that as a nice thing to say. “Dude, I have never had a job I liked more,” he told me last week in a Zoom interview. Nobody plays that as well as the 65-year-old Roberts, who considers HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones one of his favorite projects ever. He radiates danger even he’s at his most affable. Junior is a role perfectly suited for Roberts’ skillset - the character is an enormous creep who also happens to have a weird, unsettling charisma. In the most recent episode, a battalion of Dixie Mafia cycle ninjas - presumably sent on Junior’s behalf - failed once again to assassinate the Gemstones’ patriarch. Roberts’ latest role is that of Junior, a shady low-life who re-emerges from the past to haunt Eli Gemstone (John Goodman) in season two of HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones. Brightside,” which has been streamed on YouTube more than 464 million times. Oh, and there’s also his appearance in the iconic video for The Killers’ “Mr. After that, he became one of the most prolific actors to ever work in cinema, appearing in everything from The Dark Knight and Inherent Vice to Lifetime’s Stalked By My Doctor franchise, among his more than 600 acting credits. By the end of the decade, he transitioned to muscular action star in films such as The Best Of The Best and The Specialist. In the 1980s, he was a hybrid of handsome leading man and quirky character actor, known for roles like the real-life killer Paul Snider in Bob Fosse’s Star 80, low-level criminal Paulie in The Pope Of Greenwich Village, and escaped convict Buck McGeehy in Runaway Train, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. ![]() It doesn’t even seem like he’s had a career. Details here.Nobody in Hollywood has had a career like the one Eric Roberts has had. All in all, a fun event for comic, cosplay and sci-fi nerds, and plenty of family fun.Ĭontra Costa Con 3 gets underway Sunday, April 10, from 10am–4pm at the Hilton Concord Hotel Golden Gate Ballroom. In keeping with comic-con tradition, expect booths galore with art, posters, cards, books, vintage video games, cosplay materials, comics and more. Youngsters pose with R2D2 at Conta Costa Con. Lastly, one of the two Tusken Raiders in the original Star Wars movies, Alan Fernandes, will appear as a guest. Nelson has portrayed Darth Vader since 1994 in projects like LucasArts' Star Wars: Dark Forces, Star Wars: Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire games, and the Special Edition of Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back. Also on hand is Eliza Roberts (Eric's wife), a casting director for films and TV shows like National Lampoon's Animal House, Doctor Who: The Movie and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.įor Star Wars fans, Charles Andrew Nelson will be in attendance. While it may not compare to the grandeur and scope of its much larger cousin in San Diego, Contra Costa Con 3 boasts an impressive panel of guests, collectors and toys in Concord on Sunday-and of course, cosplay is highly encouraged.Ĭelebrities in attendance include Eric Roberts (Julia Roberts' older brother), who has appeared in such films as The Dark Knight (2008) and TV's Doctor Who: The Movie (1996).
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