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July 10 - 16, 2022 WHATS UP! T11 was really his career turning point. Q: I've started watching "Chicago Fire" and there are a few times when the mayor of Chicago shows up, but the actor is never listed. Why not? A: He's not listed because he's not really an actor — and be- cause he asked for a different kind of compensation. The guy playing the mayor of Chicago in two episodes of "Chi- cago Fire" and an episode of its spinoff, "Chicago Med," was the actual mayor at the time, Rahm Emanuel (he left office in 2019 and is now the U.S. Ambassador to Japan). He appeared in "Chicago Fire's" pilot episode on the con- dition that the producers donate money to the firefighters' wid- ows and orphans fund. They agreed (the show is produced for NBC by TV hit machine Dick Wolf, so between them, they cer- tainly had the money lying around). It wasn't quite as easy for Emanuel himself, though: "It's easier being mayor than playing mayor," he admitted to NBC Chicago at the time. For authenticity's sake, "Chi- cago Fire" and its spinoffs (known collectively as the One Chicago universe) are filmed on location in the windy city. That has required working closely with the mayor's office, a process Wolf said was surpris- ingly easy, thanks, again, to Emanuel. "I have never gotten the level of support from any other mayor that Rahm has given us," Wolf told the Chicago Tribune. "I like Rahm because you don't have to try and figure out what he's tell- ing you. You may not like it, but you get a very straight re- sponse." Q: I just re-watched "Jason Bourne," and the young CIA agent seems to have an ac- cent, but I can't place it. Why is that? A: It's never addressed in the film, which suggests that actress Alicia Vikander was trying to do an American accent but just couldn't suppress her Swedish- ness. That's just a guess, of course. It's possible that the character was supposed to be from abroad, but given the fact that her name is Heather Lee and she works for the CIA, that's not as likely. To be fair to Vikander, she's had to play a load of different na- tionalities and accents in her short but accomplished career. As a spy movie fan, you may have recognized her as Gaby, an East German mechanic spying for the Brits in 2015's "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." She had to switch to Danish in the same year for 2015's "The Danish Girl," and later did an English ac- cent as the lead in 2018's "Tomb Raider." As if that's not confusing enough, her breakout role was in 2012's "Anna Karenina," in which she was supposedly playing a Russian, but in one of those peri- od adaptations where everyone sounds vaguely British regard- less of where they're supposed to be from. One of Vikander's most recent roles is starring as the titular character in HBO's series "Irma Vep." Have a question? Email us at questions@tvtabloid.com. 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That's the season set in the late '70s, depicting a gang war be- tween the local Gerhardt crime family and a larger one moving in from Kansas City. Woodbine's character is a sort of enforcer for the Kansas City mob who brings a little brain with his brawn and ends up more deeply entangled with the local goings-on than he intend- ed. Though Woodbine had been a working screen actor for more than 15 years by the time he popped up in "Fargo," that was very much his breakout role. He got excellent reviews for his performance — some called him a "standout" in a season that also featured sea- soned stars such as Ted Dan- son ("Cheers") and Kirsten Dunst ("The Power of the Dog," 2021). Those are the two roles you most likely know him from. But there are certainly more. He had a role in 2017's "Spider- Man: Homecoming," playing one of the salvage guys who be- come super-powered thanks to finding alien weapons in New York. He also played Uncle Earl in the politically charged 2019 drama "Queen & Slim." You'll probably note that all the things you might know him from came after "Fargo." Wood- bine has said (in the multiple high-profile interviews that fol- lowed his "Fargo" role) that even though he'd been working steadily since the '90s, "Fargo" Bokeem Woodbine in "Fargo" HOLLYWOOD Q&A www.advancepestcontrolnwa.com Family Owned, Competitively Priced, Quality Service Since 1981 Rogers 479-636-5590 Springdale 479-756-1788 Eureka Springs 479-253-8967 PEST CONTROL TERMITE FERTILIZATION WEED CONTROL PRE-EMERGENTS