Interview: JAKE WEBER GETS SCARED OVER 'MEDIUM'

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The actor talks about playing his character for six years and dodging the cancellation bullet
By ABBIE BERNSTEIN, Contributing Writer
Published 5/3/2010



Jake Weber, known for feature film roles in WENDIGO, U-571, the remake of DAWN OF THE DEAD and THE HAUNTING OF MOLLY HARTLEY, is now in his sixth season of playing Joe Dubois on MEDIUM. Joe, a science-minded engineer, is married to Patricia Arquette’s psychic character Allison, who uses her gifts to help the Phoenix district attorney’s office. They have three daughters, all of whom seem to have inherited some aspect of Allison’s otherworldly gifts. However, nobody foresaw that, after five years on NBC, the series would be cancelled, so that the fifth-season finale was a cliffhanger that saw Allison comatose in the hospital. Happily for all concerned, CBS picked up MEDIUM; the show is now airing first-run episodes on its new network Friday nights.

iF MAGAZINE: Would you have felt bad about where your character Joe was left off if MEDIUM had ended with last season’s cliffhanger?

JAKE WEBER: Not so much for my character, but there are two hundred and fifty people there with families and jobs that would have had a real hard time right now – it’s a tough time to be unemployed. It would have been nice if we’d known we were going to finish – it would have been nice to have some closure to it, rather than leave it on a cliffhanger. So many great shows have just ended like that. It would have been a shame to end it without having some sort of storyline that was satisfying for an audience. And also, it would have been sad for the two hundred and thirty people who worked on the show to all of a sudden be made [unemployed].

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Patricia Arquette and Satya Jewelry Offer Hope, Love and Healing for Haiti Necklace

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Her dreams help to solve crime each week on the CBS series Medium, but actress Patricia Arquette’s real life reverie is to help ease the suffering the Haitian people. Teaming with the Tinseltown star, Satya Jewelry is offering a charming accessory fashioned with philanthropic intent, as 100% of the proceeds are donated to Arquette’s charity, Give Love. Believed to possess properties of healing, communication and love, turquoise was an apt addition to the Hope, Love & Healing for Haiti necklace, which is also adorned with hope and heart pendants that dangle delicately on an 18-inch silver chain.

“All of us at Give Love are very grateful to be partnering with Satya Jewelry. The Hope, Love & Healing necklace is the perfect embodiment of what we are trying to bring to Haiti: Hope through safe and sustainable housing, sanitation solutions, and water filtration devises. Our long term hope is that we can create replicable models that can be used in underdeveloped area all over the world” Thank you Satya Jewelry and your customers for your beautiful craftsmanship and your open hearts!” says Patricia Arquette.

To find out more about Satya Jewelry, a favorite among such famous faces as Anne Hathaway, Rachel Bilson and Courteney Cox, and to purchase the Hope, Love & Healing for Haiti necklace, which sells for $38: Click Here. Click Here to find out more about Patricia Arquette’s charity, Give Love.

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