SOURCE: Zap2It.com - December 31, 2009
As "Nip/Tuck" begins its final batch of episodes Wednesday, Jan. 6, on FX, star Dylan Walsh is feeling a curious blend of bittersweet and bemusement.
"We actually finished production back in June, so it feels a little strange," explains Walsh, 46, who has played beleaguered plastic surgeon Dr. Sean McNamara since the show's 2003 premiere. "We've made peace with the show and moved on, but of course it's still alive, and closure is still awaiting the audience."
And although the actor trots out the usual homilies about finding a second home and family on the show's Paramount soundstages, he admits that he, castmate Julian McMahon and the rest of the creative team were pretty much ready to hang up their scalpels when this season finally wrapped.
"Sean was chronically in a midlife crisis. In fact, it often seemed like he never could get out of it," Walsh says. "That was really sort of built into the structure of the show, so on one level, it was kind of a relief to say goodbye to him. But the show went on long enough that we all felt like we had 'done it,' although obviously it was bittersweet."
Indeed, the show's executive producer, Ryan Murphy, says he developed the sunny new Fox series "Glee" because he needed something to restore his spirits after working on the dark melodrama of "Nip/Tuck."
Walsh finds that declaration a little disconcerting, though, given that Murphy was the guy who kept dragging the characters into their dark nights of the soul anytime the show started developing a comic sensibility.
"There were entire seasons where we thought that we were starting to edge into a somewhat lighter feel. I remember at the beginning of the fifth season, we had moved to L.A., and we had Oliver Platt and Bradley Cooper, so we felt like we were going to be a little more of a comedic show or at least a lighthearted one. ... But we didn't stay there long, because in that same season, it ends with me being stabbed by my manager on the surgery floor."
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