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JAMES SPADER DEVELOPING TIME MACHINE TO TRAVEL BACK TO 1994

August 4 2009

Hollywood, CA – For many a young actor the trials of trying to achieve success can be make or break. The seemingly endless auditions and equally endless rejections have sent more than a few packing and headed back home. With the vast majority of
aspiring actors ultimately giving up and settling into a normal life the very few who manage to have success are rightfully looked upon with respect and even a little awe. That makes falls from grace even more compelling and even more tragic as potential turns to embarrassment, plants to seed.

Such has been the case for James Spader who at one point in time was considered amongst the brightest and interesting of actors in Hollywood. Time though has been cruel to the actor and much of that early potential and acclaim has dissipated with mediocre role after mediocre role but Spader is not taking the ravages of time lying down. The actor has announced that he is privately working on a time machine with a small collection of scientists in order to turn back the clock to a time when he was on the verge of a breakthrough which never came, 1994.

“I think most people have a desire to change things in their past and either do things they didn’t do or do things just a little different and that’s all we are trying to do here. We feel that a time machine will allow me to go back to about March of 1994 and use the leverage that I had that year to snag some better roles, roles that I had passed on,” said Spader in an exclusive interview with Scrape TV News. “That was without a doubt the best year of my career. I had two big movies and a string of regarded performances behind me and I just blew it frankly. I haven’t decided yet if I’m going to go back and live that life or if I will just push my younger self into different decisions. Luckily I’ll have a time machine so I can try both and see what works out best.”

1994 saw the release of ‘Wolf’ alongside Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer and ‘Stargate’, a blockbuster in which he appeared alongside Kurt Russell. That was
followed by a two year break and the release of the acclaimed but unusual ‘Crash’ and the bland ‘2 Days in the Valley’, choices which presaged a steady decline into mediocrity.

“Spader has always been a little bit funny. That’s part of the reason that his career has gone so far off the tracks. Sure he managed to salvage things financially with his role on ‘Boston Legal’ but, well it’s TV. His early success was in film, television is where people start or failed people go. He had the potential for a Johnny Depp type career but, well that didn’t happen,” said Scrape TV Entertainment analyst Tracey Temple. “It’s also likely that funniness that has motivated him to try and create a time machine. True travelling through time has been the source of many rousing stories but there is serious doubt that it will ever be achieved in the real world. Odds are if it is discovered it will be by a group of physicists and not an actor, regardless of the Emmy.”

Physicists have often explored the concept of time travel though nothing even resembling a cohesive theory on how it could be accomplished practically has ever been formulated. Albert Einstein laid the groundwork for most practical theories of time travel through the theory of general relativity.

“I mean Spader has been great in a number of roles. I personally loved ‘True Colors’ and have a guilty pleasure with ‘Pretty in Pink’ but a few great acting roles does not a theoretical
physicist make, except maybe in Hollywood,” continued Temple. “I would be interested to see their attempt for sure but I have a feeling that it’s not going to work out. Aside from the sheer difficulty of travelling through time and space there’s no guarantee that he would make the right choices with his second chance. Sure he could accept those roles that he wishes he hadn’t passed on but having him in those movies doesn’t guarantee that they would be the success they became. Changing the past is a very difficult thing to do, even in Hollywood.”

Spader did not say when he expects to finish the time machine nor if he would use it for anything other than choosing better roles.   

Samantha Dryden, Entertainment Correspondent

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