Robert Knepper

[Serpens]

Originally Posted by T-Bag'sGurl

T-Bag is my favorite in the show.

ye I understand this when I looked in your avatar and siggy
Och and I think he has a nice wife too,they look pretty good

[bori_l]

i think he is very good actor but not my fav

[tigress2]

I have to say... T-bag is the most intense and unique character in the show. Kneppler is an extremely diverse actor and Even though i don't like t-bag and he is a bad guy he is very intriguing to watch. very unpredictble and distinct. Well Done!!!

[lala78]

Robert Knepper - Oh So Charming


A great interview with Robert Knepper, who chats about his career and trying to charm the Prison Break producers into letting him play T-Bag.

In a 20-year career, actor Robert Knepper has played everything from Julia Roberts’ husband in Woody Allen’s “Everyone Says I Love You” (1996) to Robert F. Kennedy in “Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot” (2001). But he didn’t become famous until he created a murderous, racist pedophile named Theodore “T-Bag” Bagwell on the television series “Prison Break.”
Since then, oozing charm and menace in equal amounts, Knepper has captured audiences worldwide. Not only is he starring in a big Hollywood film, “Hitman,” set to open on Wednesday, but also he is rumored to be playing the next Bond villain, co-starring with Hugh Jackman in the “X-Men” spinoff “Wolverine” and starring in a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” (1963).
What a difference a sneer makes.
Four months before becoming television’s baddest dude, the 48-year-old Knepper feared that he would have to give up acting to support his wife and 5-year-old son.
“I tried to get a job teaching theater at UCLA, but I didn’t have the right credentials,” he says by telephone from his Dallas home. “I did get an offer from UCLA Extension, but it only paid $50 a week.”
Meanwhile the producers of “Prison Break” were looking for, as Knepper puts it, “a 240-pound, stupid Southern hick with a gold tooth and tattoos” to play a convict named T-Bag. Didn’t sound promising for Knepper, who is a slim 5-foot-9 and sounds like George Clooney when he isn’t putting on a Southern drawl, but he saw possibilities. When he went in to audition, he threw them a curve ball.
“I wanted to charm the pants off them,” Knepper says. “It’s like, when you go out on a date, you don’t say over the first drink, ‘Wanna go home and …?’ How far would you get that way? Or ‘Here’s what’s wrong with me.’ You don’t talk about negative stuff - if you want to get beyond first base, you’ve got to charm. For me it comes naturally, because I am more interested in other people.”
He got the part, and then had to convince himself that he could do it.
“The first season I took a pen and put ‘xoxoxo’ around the middle finger of my left hand,” he says. “(I thought) ‘If I can just feel tough, I’ll be OK.”‘
It worked. Knepper’s portrayal of T-Bag was one of the most talked-about performances of 2005, and two years later audiences still seem to love the character, even though he’s the kind of psycho who will kidnap the woman he loves and slaughter the veterinarian who reattached his severed hand.
The worse T-Bag gets, the actor says, the better people like him.

Source: The Denver Post

[Calena]

Very nice, thanks for posting. I will definitley check the films with Rob Knepper in them out.

[near]

T-bag is evil..., luckely evil never dies )))))

[candyrose]

ahhhh, he's not entirely evil, just a little twisted.

[lala78]

New Promo pictures for T-Bag ;

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[T-Bag'sGurl]

Oh man he looks good

[lala78]

i knew you like it

Robert Knepper in Hitman
November 22nd, 2007
Robert Knepper looks fabulous!!! This is the first official image of Robert Knepper in Hitman, taken from a Spanish cinema magazine.


i hope you like this too, and if you see the movie i would love to know what you think of it.