Actor Shares the ‘Brilliant’ Advice He Received from MIGHTY DUCKS Co-Star
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THE MIGHTY DUCKS’ Joshua Jackson is recalling how his older co-star, Emilio Estevez, steered him straight while on the set of D2: THE MIGHTY DUCKS.
“I was quite young. And I kind of learned how to be on set from Emilio, because I didn’t know any of this stuff,” said Jackson, who played Charlie Conway in THE MIGHTY DUCKS movies. Estevez played Gordon Bombay in the films.
He recalled one day on set when there were 20,000 people in the arena.
“As I was coming off [the ice], I don’t know why — either I was being a little **** or I was tired or whatever — but for some reason, there were a bunch of people waiting for autographs and I just blew past them to go to the locker room,” Jackson said on the Mar.11 episode of THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW. “And Emilio pulled me to the side and was like, ‘Don’t ever do that again.’ And I was like ‘What do you mean?’”
“‘Don’t ever, ever do that again. Why do you think you get to go out there and skate in front of all of these people? This is who keeps you employed. Do not ever forget who it is that you’re here for,’” Jackson recalled him saying.
The actor says it was “brilliant” advice.”
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“It was a really important reframing for my 15-year-old self [to be like], ‘Just remember who you are and what’s important.’”
D3: THE MIGHTY DUCKS won a Movieguide® Teddy Bear Award for being one of the Best Movies for Families in 1996.
Estevez recently got to resume his MIGHTY DUCKS character in the Disney spinoff series, THE MIGHTY DUCKS: GAME CHANGERS.
His adult character is a little different than the young man viewers saw in the original movies.
“He’s soft, he’s sad, and he’s sleeping on the couch of his office, which is where he lives, and, you know, when we see him he’s kind of given up on life. He’s disengaged. He’s, you know, subsisting on birthday cake and leftover pizza from from kids’ birthday parties at the ice rink,” the actor said.
“You’ve got five hours of content in which to unroll and unspool the story as well as create…allow for a lot of time for these characters to develop. So obviously we know that Gordon Bombay is not going to be the same guy by episode 10 as he’s introduced in episode one, so….but the beauty of this, and this is, again, my first foray into TV, of having this sort of time to dig into a character and allow for it to develop and unfold,” he said.
One of the highlights for Estevez was the slow redemption arc of his character.
Bombay is “inspired by Lauren Graham’s character to get off the couch, to behave like an adult, and to engage with the kids,” he previously told Collider. “I think that he sees them as a form of redemption, but he’s slow on the uptake, in terms of his willingness to wanna participate, and you see that over the course of the show.”
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