Oh please please please join the cast Peter!

Actor Peter Stormare confirmed to Swedish news-outlet Aftonbladet that he has been offered a role on Lost. The role will last for at least one season, and details of his character are not known.

Apparently, Stormare has until September to decide, meaning his character would appear relatively early in the fourth season.

Stormare appears hesitant to accept the role, recounting his difficulty in getting written off Prison Break when he got bitten by the big screen bug again.

Source: The Tail Section

PrisonBreakManHunt scored an interview with Peter Stormare!! Here’s some of it below. For the full interview click on the link.

It looks like you’ve been busy since your Prison Break days, your IMDB profile lists 6 new movies in production, can you tell us about them?

Two movies are missing: SWITCH and IVORY TRADE

The others? Too long of a story, but one day when I have some more time I will gossip some more and give you all the stuff that’s worth gossiping about.

You’ve done a great deal in your acting life, with 70 roles recorded on your resume. Where do you see yourself in the future and will you keep acting?

How was working on Prison Break different from any other projects you worked on?

No much different, but you get a little bit spoiled with Movies. With Movies: You have more time, more powerful directors who demands inputs and creativity from an actor/actress. TV completes an hour in 8 days…a Movie is usually a minute a day.

I’m proud of Prison Break but 1 & a 1/2 seasons is enough for a mad curious brain as myself. I’ve been lucky being able to stay busy doing movies. For someone like me I didn’t want to lose the momentum I have in Movie Land.

TV can kill that…and I felt moving on was the right step to take…at the right time.

What was it that interested you in the role of Abruzzi? Was it hard to find his “good” side and how did you prepare youself to play his character.

This character is based on a true guy from the 16th century. Camillio of Abruzzi….google it and read about a great fellow from Italy. He was a crazy guy who was falling between the devotion to Jesus Christ and women, gambling, fighting and drinking. He originated the Red Cross and just to read about him and listening to Paul Scheuring, the originator of P-B made me convinced: I WANT TO DO THIS!

Did you get attached to your character on Prison Break? How did you feel when they killed off Abruzzi?

I wasn’t happy with the shoot out…tacky and done a million times. The scene was written very different but then some one in the brain department at FOX came up with this carbon paper death. I protested but what can you do, even if I’m stubborn as an ass from Ass-Land. I had no say really.

The passing was written very beautiful by Paul…but once again, TV on the day of shooting you get new orders and you have to obey.

On the other hand, of course I was sad to say good bye to Gianni Abruzzi, the cast and a wonderful crew, but there were some movies waiting in the wings…so I just packed up and went off to new adventures.

Source: PrisonBreakManHunt

Peter Stormare’s career appears to be flourishing as he is slated for 8 new acting gigs.

He is currently filming Anamorph, an independent movie based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that maneuvers the laws of perspective to generate two opposing images on a single canvas. He will also star in movies such as Svartvattne, Straight Edge, Witless Protection, Boot Camp as Norman Hail, Tatt av kvinnen as Glen, The Horsemen as Mr. Spitz, and Varg as Klemens.

Source: BuddyTV

Check out Peter Stormare on MySpace. Complete with music from Blonde From Fargo!

Peter Stormare recently starred in a film called They Never Found Her.
Directed by Claude Kerven
Running time: 23 minutes

After a lifetime of remorseless violence, a hitman comes to a moral crossroads when he must choose between murdering a young retarded woman and risking his life for her.

This film is part of Independent Shorts Program #9 at the Cleveland International Film Festival

Peter Stormare is filming a movie in Norway. It is called Switch and it’s about snowboarding.

The official move MySpace page is here.

Missing Abruzzi? You can catch Peter Stormare on the CSI episode that airs on April 26.

From an email with Peter Stormare at Blogcritics.org:

What was your major influence for the character of John?

A major influence is Camillus of Abruzzi, the founder of the original Red Cross. He was an Italian… a drinker, soldier, womanizer, and later in life became saved. He battled back and forth between his past and his new mission. There’s tons to read about him. We called him John, not Camillus, after Saint John of God. He together with Camillus are the saints for caring for the poor, and for Nurse’s Associations all over the western world. We had this idea that he came to the US as a young boy. His father was Italian, and his mother might have been Syrian. That’s my inspiration. My best friend from many years ago, Nicky in Brooklyn, has that background. I used him as an inspiration to create John… not that Nicky is involved in crimes as John is, but as a general pattern for his behavior.

What really attracted you about the character of John?

His relationship to Michael; how it started as a threat and then grew into respect and friendship.

What is your outlook for how long the series will last?

I don’t know…I wish them all the best. Paul Sheuring’s “script” lasted only two seasons. What FOX does after that is up to them.

We will remember John, always.

Now you can own a piece of MAFIA…that is in the form of JOHN ABRUZZI’s thermal shirt.

This long sleeved thermal shirt was received from Fox and is described as being worn in multiple episodes.

Hope that the shirt is clean.

Head down to this shirt on eBay.