![]() I went home feeling like I was stealing money. The emotion wasn’t there, which I was very used to. For whatever reason, I hadn’t prepared properly and what I had done in the past didn’t work. I was doing an episode of a TV show, I think it was “Owen Marshall,” and it was a really emotional scene. There was a point, though, when I was in my early 20s, that all of the technique and stuff I had developed as a young actor came together. That is a technique that a lot of actors use. I found it really released my emotions and helped me get into the mood for the scenes. I arbitrarily found that as a young actor. The emotions in the music would sort of match the emotion in the script and, by listening to the music, it would put me in the mood and get my emotions going. I used to listen to music as I studied a script. I found something early on that really helped me. I was always studying but I did look at other actors as mentors. ![]() What really kickstarted your professional drive at an early age? It was a lot of on the job training and I would take classes as well but I always knew I wanted to be an actor. Then I started doing cartoons and “Jonny Quest” when I was 15 and 16. I worked irregularly throughout my teens. For me, it was exciting because I got to learn on the job and it led to bigger parts. I was the third kid through the door but not an important part. Through them, I got some auditions and finally got a part! I got a day here or a day there. When I got back to LA, I had lived in San Bernardino for a year in the sixth grade, I said, “I want to be an actor.” One thing led to another and my mother’s boss had a son who had an agent. Every time you looked at a movie, it was exactly the same as it was the previous time or you might see different things in it. In those days, you could just stay in the theater and watch them over and over and over again. My parents went through a divorce when I was 6 or 7, so I would sit and watch movies. I was in sixth grade and I used to spend all weekend at the theater watching movies over and over. Very slowly! I always wanted to be an actor as a kid in the 1950s. How did you get started on your journey? Tim Matheson They say a career in the entertainment industry isn’t for the faint of heart. Icon recently caught up with Tim Matheson to get a look inside his amazing career, his creative process, current and upcoming projects, work with the National Down Syndrome Society and much more. One of his latest endeavors finds him option a script for an award winning foreign film called “I Hate The Dawn.” His interest in bringing this material to American audiences sparked an amazing relationship with the National Down Syndrome Society. One of the most fascinating parts of Tim Matheson’s ever-evolving career is work as a producer. Not limited to “Hart of Dixie,” Matheson has made a career of directing an array of episodic projects on some of television?s most prominent shows, including “The Last Ship,” “Burn Notice,” “Criminal Minds,” “Without a Trace,” “Cold Case,” “Numbers,” “Drop Dead Diva,” “Suits,” “Eureka” and “White Collar,” as well as pilots for Fox?s “The Good Guys” and the USA Network successful original series “Covert Affairs.” He has and continues to direct several episodes each season throughout the series. ![]() Brick Breeland? in The CW series, “Hart of Dixie,” opposite Rachel Bilson. Having now entertained audiences over the last 50 years, Matheson is a luminary in the business. ![]() Those roles include critical accolades for his playing “Vice President John Hoynes? on the television series, “The West Wing,” which garnered him two Primetime Emmy award nominations for Best Guest Star in a Drama Series. but has had a variety of other well-known roles both before and since. He furthered his impact on the pop culture landscape when he landed the role of Eric “Otter” Stratton? in the 1978 comedy “Animal House,” a film destined to become one of the most beloved comedy’s of all-time. His hard work and dedication to his craft would lead him to a gig providing the voice of the lead character in the cartoon program “Jonny Quest” as well as the voice of “Jace? in the original animated series “Space Ghost.” Tim Matheson has spent the better part of his life in front of the camera. Beginning his career at the age of 13, Matheson appeared in Robert Young?s CBS nostalgia comedy series “Window on Main Street” during the 1961-1962 television season.
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