NYCC ’13 – Watch Nicole Beharie, Orlando Jones talk Sleepy HollowPosted by Wilson Morales
October 14, 2013
Over the weekend, Blackfilm.com attended the 2013 New York Comic Con, where over 130,000 people were in attendance. Besides watching many people of all ages come out and wear their favorite costumes while grabbing whatever they could that ticked their fancy, we also conducted a few interviews with some of the cast of TV series and films that were there.
Fox TV brought out the cast and crew of their new hit show, ‘Sleepy Hollow,’ with actors Tom Mison, Nicole Beharie, Orlando Jones, Katia Winter, Co-Creator/Executive Producer Alex Kurtzman, Director/Co-Creator/Executive Producer Len Wiseman, and Executive Producer Heather Kadin.
The show has become one of few breakouts of the fall season. Not only is the show doing well in ratings and on DVR, but Fox has already renewed the series for another season after the first three episodes.
What if you suddenly woke up from the throes of death 250 years in the future to find the world is on the brink of destruction, caused by unimaginable events, and you are humanity’s last hope?
In this modern-day retelling of Washington Irving’s classic, ICHABOD CRANE (Tom Mison, “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen”) is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers. Revived alongside Ichabod is the infamous Headless Horseman who is on a murderous rampage in present-day Sleepy Hollow. Bound to the Headless Horseman by a blood spell cast on the battlefield of the American Revolution, Ichabod quickly realizes that stopping Headless is just the beginning, as the resurrected rider is but the first of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
As this re-invented Ichabod finds himself in present-day Sleepy Hollow, he discovers a town and a world he no longer recognizes. All that is brutally familiar are Headless and Ichabod’s determination to annihilate this immortal being. It’s a mission he must complete quickly, as Headless already has viciously slain Sheriff AUGUST CORBIN (guest star Clancy Brown, “Cowboys & Aliens,” “Carnivale”). Grey served both as mentor and father figure to Detective ABBIE MILLS (Nicole Beharie, “Shame,” “American Violet”), a young cop whose own supernatural experiences help her form an unlikely bond with Ichabod. But Sleepy Hollow’s head of police, Captain FRANK IRVING (Orlando Jones, “The Chicago 8,” “Drumline”), isn’t buying any of this.
In fact, the only person who is on Abbie’s side is Ichabod. His extensive first-hand knowledge of our secret American history, coupled with her superior profiling and modern threat assessment skills, will make them a formidable duo as they work together to triumph over evil. The complex pasts of Ichabod and Abbie, from Ichabod’s inclusion in the powerful and secretive Freemasons Society and the ghostly appearance of his late wife, KATRINA (Katia Winter, “Dexter”), to Abbie’s childhood visions, will help them solve the intricate puzzles of Sleepy Hollow in order to protect its future.
As history repeats itself, the oddly-linked pair will draw on the real stories and hallowed secrets this nation was founded on in their quest to stop an increasingly vicious cycle of evil.
Orlando Jones and Nicole Beharie
