'Mr. Monk's Last Case' Interview With Tony Shalhoub And Andy Breckman
Tony Shalhoub returned to his iconic character of Adrian Monk for the movie called Mr. Monk's Last Case. The project debuted for Monk fans with Peacock Premium subscriptions almost exactly fourteen years after the original series came to an end on USA, but that didn't mean a new cast of characters to surround the titular character. Mr. Monk's Last Case recruited nearly all of the key actors from the original run of the series to reprise their roles for one more mystery. Tony Shalhoub spoke with CinemaBlend about one absent character he originally wanted in the movie.
Written by original series creator Andy Breckman, Mr. Monk's Last Case brought back Ted Levine as Leland Stottlemeyer, Traylor Howard as Natalie teeger, Jason Gray-Stanford as Randy Disher, Melora Hardin as Trudy Monk, and Héctor Elizondo as Dr. Bell in addition to Tony Shalhoub as Adrian Monk. The movie was full of nods to the past even as it told a brand new story. When I spoke with Shalhoub and Breckman, I asked if there was anybody who they wanted to bring back but were unable to.
Written by original series creator Andy Breckman, Mr. Monk's Last Case brought back Ted Levine as Leland Stottlemeyer, Traylor Howard as Natalie teeger, Jason Gray-Stanford as Randy Disher, Melora Hardin as Trudy Monk, and Héctor Elizondo as Dr. Bell in addition to Tony Shalhoub as Adrian Monk. The movie was full of nods to the past even as it told a brand new story. When I spoke with Shalhoub and Breckman, I asked if there was anybody who they wanted to bring back but were unable to.
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00:00Was there anybody that you wanted to bring back
00:02but weren't able to fit in or weren't able to just get?
00:08Well, from my, do you want me to take this?
00:10Of course.
00:11I thought early on before, you know,
00:14before we actually saw the script
00:15that there might be a way to weave Ambrose Monk's
00:21smarter, more troubled brother into it.
00:24But in the end, I understood why.
00:27I mean, Andy had only so much, you know, so much story
00:31and we couldn't spread it too thin.
00:34We had to serve all of our regular characters really well,
00:38Stottlemyre and Disher and Natalie and even Dr. Bell
00:42and Trudy too.
00:44And we had to serve those characters fully.
00:48And had we brought more of the recurring characters in,
00:54it would have gotten a little bit diluted,
00:56I'm afraid.