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I wish I could give you some sort of scandal, but I really can’t. TS: No, I wish I could give you something more exciting. I really liked him, as well as the actors that played Tanker and Syd.īH: So in other words, they were all great to work with, and there were no sort of squabbles on the set or anything like that. TS: Oh, he was great, the way he put on the dark character like that. He knew what he was doing, and he was a great guy to work with.īH: How about Glen Beaudin, who played Malcolm Frink? So Matthew Lawrence comes from a show-biz family, so he was very good. (Matthew Lawrence’s) older brother was the little kid on that, Joey. TS: I guess he was also in a (series called) Gimme a Break! - I guess with Nell Carter. His older brother is Joey Lawrence from Blossom, who did the “Whoa!” That’s when I first saw that stuff.īH: What was it like to work with Matthew Lawrence, who played Sam Collins, on the show? I actually never saw any of it until the episodes were completed, and I saw a completed episode. We knew that all of the action sequences with the guys in the rubber suits - we knew that that was taken from a Japanese show called Gridman, but we were never shown any of the episodes or footage of it. We knew that that’s what the show was being taken from. TS: No, we were never shown any of those episodes. So there was probably about three auditions.īH: My next question is, after you were cast, were you shown any of the original episodes of Gridman, which was the Tsuburaya show that was adapted into SSSS? The casting director chooses what he or she thinks are the 10 or 15 best people, and then the producers whittle it down to about two or three that the network or the production company, or whoever’s putting up the money, gets to make the final decision, obviously in conjunction with the producers. The casting directors generally choose 30, 40, 50, 60 people or more, and then they generally narrow it down to about 10 or 15 that get submitted to the producers. Agents submit actors, and casting directors choose from all the submissions that they get.

Troy Slaten: I went on an audition, just like any other. Slaten spoke while on his way to court with Brett Homenick in this 2008 interview.īrett Homenick: How did you get cast in Superhuman Samurai Syber- Squad? Now a criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles, Mr. Slaten as the quirky character Amp from Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad (1994-95), which Americanized Tsuburaya Productions’ Gridman the Hyper Agent (1993-94) for Western audiences. Vantage Point Interviews readers will recognize Mr. His first job, which came at age five, was a commercial for the Revell Funster Funbird model car with future Married with Children star David Faustino, who was then six years old. He also appeared on the program Cagney & Lacey as Michael Lacey in every season, as well as guest spots on Diff’rent Strokes, The Wonder Years, Who’s the Boss?, Step by Step, and Greatest American Hero. Slaten’s best-known role is that of Jerry Steiner on Fox’s early ’90s television hit Parker Lewis Can’t Lose (in which he appeared one of the three leads). Troy Slaten is an actor who began his career at a very early age and found success in a variety of television shows.