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John Noble shares his thoughts on Fringe, science, Gene and Walter’s cravings:

What do you find most compelling about the premise of this show?

“In my lifetime, lasers were once considered to be some sort of futuristic, foolish idea. We use them on a daily basis for everything now. I believe we are only tapping the edges of what is potential. As we learn more through quantum mechanics and string theory, we’re finding out that all sorts of things are possible that we didn’t think were. We’re becoming less ignorant as to the possibilities. We can imagine the impossibilities and that tantalizes my imagination. We’re moving so fast that today’s technology is out of place by next week. It’s an exciting time to live in keeping up with these guys. I’m glad to be alive to observe it.”

You sound like you’ve got a head for science in real life. Do you?

“I do. But it’s more on the theoretical level than a practical level. One of my best friends, a fellow who I shared a house with many years and we were at university together, is a brilliant scientist. We would talk. My thought was the art; his was the science. But we could talk for hours. We found common ground in the theory, the theoretical side of it, and so I’ve always understood it, been able to talk about it. But put me in a lab with a whole lot of instruments and I may not do so well.”

This friend of yours is the man who is, let’s say, your blueprint for Walter Bishop, right? Can you share some more details about your friend?

“He’s an extraordinary man and he’s always ridden on the edge of the scientific community, because he’s just absolutely no good at politics. But he’s a genius. Whatever he did, he did with absolute passion and focus. If we were out drinking and partying or if he was playing tennis or football or going after a girl, whatever he did, it was with complete and utter focus. That’s one of the aspects that Walter has as well. He was a lovely man. But at a turn of a hat, he would fight people. He’s a fascinating guy and I’ve based a lot of this on him.”

Is it ever a challenge for you, as an actor, to find some logic, some reason, for the seemingly random things that Walter does?

“As an actor, I always have to find a reason. I can’t just sort of say something out of the blue, so I always find some sort of neural pathway in there, some image that it’s tapped. It’s like we all are: We’ll see, we’ll smell something or we’ll hear a sound and it’ll take us into a memory. You know how that happens to you? It’s like he continually has these little memory jolts. But instead of keeping them to himself, he talks about them, and he’ll say, ‘I had a fruit cocktail once in Atlantic City.’ That’ll just come out because it’s a memory, so he’s quite inappropriate at times.”

Have there been any particular oddball moments that stand out as your favorite experiences thus far on the show?

“Anything to do with the cow. I adore working with the cow. The cow makes me laugh. I don’t know why. Everyone gets all sort of gooey and funny when the cow comes in. And then, of course, I got to milk the cow. Before we shot that scene, the producers rang up and said, ‘Do you need some coaching to milk a cow?’ And I said, ‘Certainly not. I could milk a cow. I’m a country boy.’ In the pilot, we were eating Chinese food and watching SpongeBob, myself and Jasika Nicole (who plays Astrid), and that cow was on our necks. That was the funniest thing. It was nuzzling up against us trying to get the Chinese food. It wouldn’t stay put until I gave it some. It was just the funniest night, doing that scene at about 4 o’clock in the morning.”

Speaking of Chinese food, do you have input regarding what type of food Walter will be craving from episode to episode?

“No. But it’s very funny because I’ve had a chance to have a look at the blogs. There are blogs going around about what Walter is going to eat. It’s very funny stuff. There was one going for pages, people having such fun just about what Walter is going to have to eat next. It’s great fun that a television show and a character can get people having so much fun with each other.”

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