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Northeast Oregon TV Weekly
BY JAY BOBBIN
Jon Seda stars in “La Brea,”
premiering Monday on NBC.
Jon Seda discovers a world beneath
Los Angeles in ‘La Brea’
After “Chicago P.D.” and “Homicide: Life
on the Street,” Jon Seda didn’t expect his
career to go into a sinkhole.
That’s not even a figure of speech: His
character is among those who fall in when a
sizable chunk of Los Angeles literally opens
up in “La Brea,” a NBC adventure-drama
series premiering Monday, Sept. 27. Those
who are forced to take the plunge find
themselves in primeval surroundings, while
others who have remained above ground try
to determine what happened and how to
reunite with those they apparently have lost.
Natalie Zea (“Justified”), Eoin Macken
(“The Night Shift”), Zyra Gorecki and Jack
Martin play members of a family separated
by the phenomenon, while Seda portrays
an ex-Navy SEAL turned thoracic surgeon
who’s thrust into the land beneath L.A. “I’ve
been really fortunate in my career to play
different types of characters,” the pleasant
Seda reflects, “so when this opportunity
came up, I knew it really was something
different.
“I hadn’t been thinking about doing
something like this, but it was something I
could enjoy wholeheartedly. To me, it’s the
epitome of a Hollywood project ... almost
like watching a ‘Star Wars’ movie that takes
you away on an adventure. I thought, ‘Wow!
I definitely have to grab onto this.’ I lived
in L.A. for about four years, but I was more
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One of the ironies of “La Brea” is that
while its setting is very American, it’s
actually being filmed in Australia. Seda has
worked there before – when he made HBO’s
2010 limited series “The Pacific” – and he
says, “The landscape is amazing. It adds so
much, especially since with ‘La Brea,’ you
have the sinkhole and this crazy world that
we find ourselves in. A lot of the same crew
members worked on ‘The Pacific,’ so we’ve
been doing a lot of reminiscing.”
Still, working in Australia means a long
separation for Seda (who terms himself “an
East Coast kind of guy”) from his U.S.-based
family, underscored by the quarantining
that’s required for international travel now.
“That’s the tough part,” Seda allows. “The
pilot was filmed in Vancouver, and I thought
even that was a stretch (distance-wise). Then
the pandemic happened and delayed things
for a while, and when this came back around
and it was moving from Vancouver to
Australia, I had to talk with my wife about
it. We’re a really close family and we went
over it, with the possibility that we might
not see each other for six months. Our kids
are older now, so we decided, ‘We’ll handle
it. We’ll make it work.’ It’s been tough, but
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