Aldis – Backstage at Attack of the Show Interview!

Here’s the interview again:

On G4 in US and Canada and Fuel TV in Australia

Tonight on Attack of the Show with Kevin Pereira and Candace Bailey, we bring you Aldis Hodge from Leverage. Blair Herter from X-Play also joins us to discuss the biggest video games expected to come out of 2012, like Bioshock Infinite and Mass Effect 2. Sara Underwood checks out pro skateboarder Rob Dydrek’s latest stunt and more, all tonight at 7PM.

Source: G4TV

Aldis Hodge on KTLA – Interview w/Special Guest, His Mama!

Here’s Aldis on KTLA from this morning!
http://www.wgnradio.com/videogallery/67150989/Entertainment/KTLA-Aldis-Hodge-brings-a-special-guest-on-the-set

A Few Words with Aldis Hodge

Aldis Hodge of “Leverage” on TNT

Q: On “Leverage,” your character, Alec Hardison, has a complicated romantic relationship with fellow team member Parker (Beth Riesgraf). How did you two first bond as co-workers?

A: We went shopping all day.

Q: You did what?

A: Hey, you know what, as a man, you have to understand when to give a lady her time. I like clothes. I’m a shopaholic. But trust me, if you’re a guy, learn a little patience. Learn to take your lady out. Me and Beth are friends, but when I do have a lady, treat her to her time, because then you get your time later.

She may get tired of me shopping. Put a Barneys in front of me, AllSaints, John Varvatos — I will stay in a store. I like a European fit, not super-boxy clothes that just hang on you.

Q: So you’re not the sort of guy to wear an Ed Hardy T-shirt, droopy pants and a knit cap?

A: I love my hats, but the thing is, a brother’s got to be clean. If you’re a grown man, dress like a grown man. I love to be in a suit. I live to be in a suit. Give me any excuse to be in a suit, I’m there.

I’ve never been like that since I was a kid. I’ve always preferred a different etiquette when it comes to styling. But the whole droopy, baggy clothes, my mother never allowed that in the house. If your pants were sagging beneath your butt, you’re going to get popped.

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Aldis Hodge Talks to The Skanner about Leverage, Life in Portland and Music

Don’t ask him to fix your computer, he just plays that role on TV

Helen Silvis Of The Skanner News

August 27, 2011

Aldis Hodge

Aldis Hodge plays computer hacker Alec Hardison on TNT’s Leverage. Shot in Portland, Ore., the show follows a group of lawbreakers turned good guys, led by a former insurance investigator played by Timothy Hutton. Now four seasons into its run, Leverage also stars Gina Bellman, Christian Kane and Beth Riesgraf. Hodge talked to The Skanner News’ Helen Silvis about Leverage, Portland and his ambitions. The Skanner News Video: Scenes from Leverage

HS: Your parents were in the Armed Services. How did that impact you?

AH: My parents were both marines, but I was probably just three when my mother got out. I moved around a little bit from North Carolina to Hawaii and then New Jersey, so I didn’t have too much of that life. My mother didn’t want my brother or I to get into the service, after her experience and understanding how she was treated. She would rather we had as normal a life as possible. I wasn’t raised with my father. My childhood was primarily between New Jersey and New York. Now I live between Portland, Oregon and California.

Aldis Hodge as Alec Hardison in Leverage

HS: How did you start out in your career?

AH: My first job I started when I was three. Right behind my brother who started when he was three. My first job was a print ad for Essence magazine. My brother and I were in pictures. The earliest acting job I can remember is probably Sesame Street, which my brother and I did for a couple of years, back in the early 90s.

Assignment X Exclusive Interview with Aldis

Exclusive Interview: Aldis Hodge gets LEVERAGE for Season 4 He talks about the new season and the return of Sterling (Mark Sheppard)

By CARL CORTEZ / Contributing Editor

Posted: August 27th, 2011 / 02:42 PM

As LEVERAGE wraps up the summer portion of Season 4 (with a return of regular antagonist Jim Sterling played by Mark Sheppard), ASSIGNMENT X chatted with star Aldis Hodge who plays hacker Hardison on the series.

Throughout the course of the TNT series, Hardison has went from wise-cracking loner to someone who is finally accepting that he’s part of a team. He also has feelings for the somewhat closes off Parker (Beth Riesgraf) which has been gaining some traction the past couple of seasons.

Here’s what Hodge had to say about the latest developments.

ASSIGNMENT X: So Sterling is finally back.

ALDIS HODGE: Yes, Sterling comes back to play in this episode and the team travels to Dubai for this grand chess tournament to take on some terrorists that are in Dubai for a completely different reason. We’re shaking things up in Dubai – doing our Leverage shtick how we do and we’re having fun.

AX: Have enjoyed the different characters you’ve played this season?

HODGE: I loved “The Van Gogh Job” where I got to play an entirely different person. It’s narrated through Danny Glover’s character and they show us being the character’s he’s telling the story about and I play him as a character. So it’s not Hardison pretending to be someone, it’s playing Danny Glover’s character. That was cool, because we had to truly step outside of ourselves and be something different and Beth did an amazing job. She has this whole accent from the ‘40s, because that was time frame we were in. And Gina, Tim and Christian all were amazing as well. We aren’t our characters, so that was interesting to watch.

For the complete article – click here: Assignment X

Aldis Hodge: Hard Working ‘Hacker’ of Leverage

At August 22, 2011
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Interview: Aldis Hodge: Hard Working ‘Hacker’ of Leverage
by R.J. Carter
Published: August 22, 2011

—>When Aldis Hodge auditioned for the role of Leverage uber-hacker, Alec Hardison, it was important to him that the character portrayal was non-stereotypical, an African-American who was not just smart, but very smart and savvy. Creators John Rogers and Chris Downey were equally impressed with the (then) 21-year-old actor’s delivery, which rivals Eddie Murphy’s “48 Hours” performance.

As we count down to the summer finale for Leverage (August 28 on TNT), we borrowed a few moments of Hodge’s time to talk about his character and the forward momentum of the series.

Was there a moment when you realized that this series was really going to go somewhere?

No, I still haven’t hit that moment. I’m still surprised every time we get a season. Just recently we found out we got picked up for a fifth, and I was very surprised. I’m very confident in what we do, but I’ve been in this business a long time — I’ve been in acting since I was three — so I kind of play more to the experience [that] no matter how great you are, no matter how quality your show is, you never know the outcome. It can go any way. You can’t really be too sure. I mean, there are so many great projects out there that never see the light of day that get canned after two seasons, or one season, just because you really can’t factor in all the variables of audience perception and what networks are thinking — and the higher up it goes, the more political it gets.

So there’s too many factors. I’m still not at that comfortable place where I’m like, “Oh yeah, I’m on a hit show!” I’m confident — but I’m not there yet. I’m still very much surprised and appreciative every time it happens.

Characters re-enact story of love, loss in Sunday’s episode

12:36 PM, Jul. 15, 2011 |

Beth Riesgraf and Aldis Hodge star in this “Leverage” flashback. / TNT

Written by: Mike Hughes

For “Leverage,” this was a chance to leap generations.

Sunday’s episode has a World War II veteran tell his story of love and loss. The young actors (Aldis Hodge and Beth Riesgraf) then re-enact it, via flashbacks.

“We had a dynamic guest star, Danny Glover,” Hodge said. “With someone as great as that, you want to sit and hear him tell stories all day.”