SPOILER ALERT: HBO's Silicon Valley just aired its first season finale this past weekend, but do not fear, the new tech-centric comedy has been renewed for a second seasons. However, it will not be quite the same. During filming last year, Peter Gregory, actor Christopher Evan Welch passed away from lung cancer. Now the show’s star T.J. Millier is opening up about moving on without Welch. Miller also joked about losing reducing his own role in season 2, possibly to make room his schedule for his new films Transformers 4: Age of Extinction, and Disney/Marvel’s Big Hero 6.
Late last year actor Christopher Evan Welch passed away from lung cancer at the age of 48. At the time of his death he was working on HBO’s Silicon Valley, where he played Pied Piper’s billion benefactor Peter Gregory. Now that the show has been picked up for a second season, T.J. Millier is opening up about losing Welch and how it effect the show, telling The Hollywood Reporter:
“It can only be different. It has to be. The true story is about Thomas and all of us trying to be our own thing, this thing in this world where corporations like Google are as powerful as an Applebee’s or a f**ing Walmart. Can we pave our own way and pursue the American dream? That’s what the heart of the series is. That being said, without him we lose this pitch-perfect example of what an autistic, Asperger’s, one of the really off-left-of-center billionaires is. All that stuff was so f**ing perfect.… If Christopher Evan Welch was alive and I was dead, then the project would be much, much more enticing to audiences.”
The show has been compared to the former HBO’ series Entourage, however, the new show might Miller went on to say that we might see less of his character in Season 2, adding:
“I know Alec and Mike have been trying to write my part down as much as possible because I’m abrasive and really, really obnoxious to the public. I support that. I’m more about the success of the show. If the less I can be in it, the more successful the show can be, that’s for me….I don’t even know if I’m necessarily an actor. I appreciate you giving me that accolade.… It’s very important to me to just act natural. It’s the comedy that guides me. The acting and all that stuff comes second. It’s equally important, but I just try to do that as best as I can. I know that as a comedian I’ve made great strides because I’ve worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.”
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