Wondercon - Exclusive Interview of the upcoming YouTube Red Series, Impulse

Photo Credit: James Vallesteros

Doug Liman was born on July 24, 1965 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Swingers (1996) and Fair Game(2010).

Maddie grew up in Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina with her parents and two sisters. Maddie began dancing at the age of seven, almost immediately getting picked up by FoxTroupe Dance Company under the direction of Mira Fox Lamendola. While competing in FoxTroupe, Maddie won many awards, most notably was a scholarship to Broadway Dance Theatre in New York City awarded to her by Mia Michael's at The Pulse Convention and the triple threat award at Access Broadway. At fourteen she moved to Opera House Theatre Company and under the direction of Lou Criscuolo and Ray Kennedy she enjoyed several starring roles at Thalian Hall in Wilmington. When she was fifteen she did an audition for casting director, Jackie Burch who immediately referred her to Ric Beddingfield who is still her manager today. After a lot of convincing by Ric Beddingfield, her reluctant parents gave her one month to do auditions in Los Angeles. If she did not land a role they expected her to return home to finish school and attend college. At fifteen, she and her mom came to Los Angeles for one month and she landed a supporting role in the film, God Bless America by Bobcat Goldthwait. Three months later she landed a starring role on a Fox series called The Finder with Michael Clarke Duncan and Geoff Stultz. Along with her mom,she split her time between Los Angeles and North Carolina for a couple of years and now lives there full time with her German Shepard, Priscilla.

Daniel Maslany is an actor, known for Four in the Morning (2016), Murdoch Mysteries(2008) and Goliath (2018).

STORYLINE
Based on the third novel in the “Jumper” series by Steven Gould, IMPULSE features a rebellious 16-year-old girl who has always felt different from her peers and has longed to escape from her seemingly quaint small town. When a local football player attempts to assault her, she discovers she has the extraordinary ability to teleport. This newfound power confirms her conviction that she really was different from everybody else, but it now makes her the focus of those who want to control her. #ImpulseSeries

THE JBN TEAM INTERVIEW WITH DOUG LIMAN, GENE KLEIN, MADDIE HASSON, LAUREN LEFRANC AND DANIEL MASLANY
Journalist: JOSEPH FLORES
Location: WONDERCON, ANAHEIM

Video: Erik Werlin. Audio/Edit: James Vallesteros (@jamesvallesteros)

DOUG LIMAN TRIVIA:

• Attended and graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island (1988).
• Attended and graduated from USC School of Cinema-Television (1992).
• Originally did not want to cast Scott Wolf in Go (1999) because Katie Holmes was already in the movie, and he did not want the movie to star two television actors. However, he saw him talking in a hallway with Jay Mohr and realized that the chemistry between the two would be good in the movie.
• As of 2001, Vice Chairman of the production company HYPNOTIC.
• Graduated in same high school class with actor/director Charles Herman-Wurmfeld.
• Lives in Tribeca area of Manhattan, New York City.
• His father, Arthur L. Liman, was one of the prosecutors in the Iran-Contra Affair (in The Bourne Identity (2002), Liman portrays a likewise agency within agency...).
• Got to read the script for Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) for the first time on the set of The Bourne Identity (2002), but rejected it. Brad Pitt then gave it to him for a second time after Liman had finished The Bourne Identity (2002).
• In one of 105 people invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science (AMPAS) in 2008.
• Serves on the boards of the Legal Action Center (LAC) and Symphony Space.
• Is actively involved in the Arthur L. Liman undergraduate fellowship program.
• Cousin of John Hamburg.
• During Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Emily Blunt took Liman and Tom Cruise out for karaoke one night; she terrified Liman by getting to see her in that different light.
• Liman felt he had to keep up with Tom Cruise all throughout filming Edge of Tomorrow(2014).
• Tom Cruise did all his own stunts on Edge of Tomorrow (2014); Doug Liman felt he could make an amazing career out of it.
• He wanted to do Edge of Tomorrow (2014) because it showed a role Tom Cruise hadn't done yet; someone very bad at what they do.
• He liked Edge of Tomorrow (2014) because he got to reshoot the same scenes until he got them right, a result of the film being set in a time warp.

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