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"It seems like the sky really is the limit for Falling Skies - the epic alien-invasion drama&amp;#039;s third season, soon to air in the UK on FOX, is currently wowing US audiences and a fourth run has also been confirmed... With the show&amp;#039;s action-packed second season available to take home on DVD and Blu-ray from Monday (July 8), Digital Spy spoke to the terrific Will Patton - who plays Captain Weaver - to talk alien encounters, fandom and why Falling Skies is like &amp;quot;a combination of Breaking Bad and Downton Abbey&amp;quot;! &amp;gt; TNT renews Falling Skies for fourth season How would you describe Weaver&amp;#039;s journey in Falling Skies season two? &amp;quot;I think something in him began to open a little bit. He&amp;#039;s had this mask on, he&amp;#039;s had a lot of armour on, and I think we saw some cracks in that. He and Tom (Noah Wyle) began to find things in each other - Tom became a little tougher, I think, and Weaver became a little more open. &amp;quot;So much of it had to do with finding my daughter - that gave me a different kind of hope than just surviving and taking care of these people. There is still a long way for him to go though - he&amp;#039;s still got that mask, that armour on.&amp;quot; Falling Skies has attracted a strong following in the US and UK - why do you think it&amp;#039;s struck a chord with fans? &amp;quot;I think that it has something to do with what interests me the most about it - it&amp;#039;s heart and soul meeting crazy action. Genuine flesh and blood, real skin, dealing with the craziest things... &amp;quot;At its best, it&amp;#039;s a combination of Breaking Bad and Downton Abbey - it&amp;#039;s got these things going on with the people that [are] intimate and involved and there&amp;#039;s love... and then you&amp;#039;ve got this crazy-ass alien fighting! There&amp;#039;s something about those two things together which create interesting possibilities.&amp;quot;  Comic Con 2013 in San Diego is fast approaching - what has your experience been like with Falling Skies fans? &amp;quot;I actually love Comic Con, I think it&amp;#039;s an amazing thing. I never would have thought I would&amp;#039;ve stepped in the door of [something like] that, but I did it because I wanted to support castmates and the show... &amp;quot;Then the first year we went out on that stage... it was like being the Rolling Stones or something! The people are like wild, y&amp;#039;know? It&amp;#039;s surprising - especially that first year - how many people were just wild for the show.&amp;quot; Season three of Falling Skies is about to launch in the UK - what can fans expect from the new episodes? &amp;quot;Well, at the end of the second season, something we&amp;#039;d never seen before showed up - that particular being is going to play a major part in the third season. Six months have gone by, so there have been a lot of changes in the hierarchy and who&amp;#039;s doing what. &amp;quot;People have got a little deeper into whatever relationships they were in, and Weaver and Tom have become more of a team as we&amp;#039;ve gone along, especially since the first season. We&amp;#039;ve also got an amazing new actor this season - Doug Jones - and he&amp;#039;s fantastic.&amp;quot;  Doug plays the alien Cochise - what was it like working with him, given that he&amp;#039;s wearing a creature suit the whole time? &amp;quot;He stays in that suit all day long! I think he&amp;#039;s timed it so he doesn&amp;#039;t have to go to the bathroom, I don&amp;#039;t think he eats... he&amp;#039;s the most lovely guy, the greatest guy. But when you look into the creature&amp;#039;s eyes... you&amp;#039;re not actually looking into his eyes - you have to look through its mouth to see Doug&amp;#039;s eyes! &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m looking at these big eyes and I&amp;#039;m thinking, &amp;#039;Woah, man!&amp;#039; - then I realise that they&amp;#039;re not actually his eyes... or are they? Maybe they are? I find it really fun working with these aliens and trying to think... how would I actually deal with this? How would I be feeling?&amp;quot; Weaver and Tom are leaders of the pack on the show - is that reflected in real life? Do you feel like a mentor to any of the younger actors on set? &amp;quot;I care very much about all those young kids and I&amp;#039;ve become very fond of them. I feel that I do want them to do well and that I want to be responsible for them. In a way, it has rubbed off on me - I feel that this is my family and that I want to take care [of them] and make sure they are alright and that they are doing well as actors... y&amp;#039;know, support them. I think it automatically starts to happen.&amp;quot; You did some TV stints previously on shows like 24, but a lot of your work has been on film. Does it have to be a special project to lure you to TV? &amp;quot;There has to be something that interests me. It can be scary to agree to a character that&amp;#039;s on TV - beyond the pilot, you don&amp;#039;t know what&amp;#039;s going to happen to that character, so it can be dangerous! &amp;quot;There has to be something about it that interests me - an actor, maybe a director, definitely what I feel I can bring to the character... there is a lot of stuff I don&amp;#039;t want to do!&amp;quot; Falling Skies seasons 1 and 2 are available on Blu-ray and DVD from July 8. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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