Fans know and love Eddie McClintock for his role as Pete Lattimer from “Warehouse 13,” and Nerd Alert News was lucky to catch up with him. Just off directing his first feature film, Eddie had a lot to share. Since “Warehouse 13” people recognize him from “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”, “Bones,” and “Supergirl.” Born in North Canton, OH, he was a wrestler turned production assistant who found his way to acting just before turning 30.
No doubt he has plenty of great stories to tell when he comes to StarFest this May 13-15, 2022 in Denver. Get to know Eddie a bit before getting the chance to meet him.
Colleen Bement: Denver area fans are excited to meet you at the upcoming StarFest Convention. Have you visited Denver before?
Eddie McClintock: A buddy of mine, Mark Streed, he lives up there too, so he goes every year. He does his own thing, and he told me this was the last year. He’s pretty sad about it.
CB: We’re all pretty sad about it. It’s been going on for 45 years and it’s been amazing. It’s like a big family of nerds, and we’re all going to really miss it.
EMC: I’ve been going to Dragon Con now. I go every year and I look forward every year to seeing certain faces. When you don’t see those people, there’s a sense of loss. So I get it.
CB: Have you been to Denver before?
EMC: Have I ever been to Denver? I have to believe that I’ve been to Denver at some point, especially back when “Warehouse 13” was on the air. I think I have, but I can’t remember specifically which convention I was at.
CB: I’m looking forward to hearing stories from the set of one of our favorite sci-fi shows, “Warehouse 13” and I want to save some for your panel. But, can I ask for one behind-the-scenes story?
EMC: Of course. You know, initially, when I came to California I didn’t start off as an actor. I wrestled in college and went to college for wrestling, and my dad hope that I would also get an education. So I moved to California to sell corporate insurance for my uncle. That didn’t work out and I didn’t know what I was going to do.
I knew I wanted to stay out in California, and I started working as a Production Assistant and I did that for a couple of years. After I’d been in production I had a few friends who told me that I should try acting, and then I had a friend who was taking an acting class and said why don’t you take an acting class with me and I was like yeah, OK. I” do that. I also got clean and sober. I’ve got 21 years…gonna be 22 soon.
CB: Congrats!
EMC: Thanks. I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I knew it wasn’t that. The other part was I was still living my college party days. So I got into class and I got sober and things started to happen right away. But I guess in the back of my mind I never thought that I belonged. Maybe I didn’t deserve the success that I was getting, so when I booked “Warehouse 13,” we shot in Toronto and I was with Saul (Rubinek) whom I had a great deal of respect for him as a man and as an actor. I looked up to him.
We were driving in his car one night, this is something I”ll never forget. It was kind of a touchtone moment when I remember, he pulled over and I was like what? What’s going on with you? I said, to be honest, I don’t know if I can do this. What if I screw up? What if I mess it up? All these people are depending on me, and I’m worried that I’m going to be a disappointment. He said Eddie, they never would have given you the job if they didn’t think that you could handle it. You’re going to be fine. You’ll be great, and I’ll be there with you. We’ll do it together.
I mean, of all the stories that was kind of the one that set my jaw, you know? I felt that I was an ambassador, a mayor like I had to shake a lot of hands and kiss a lot of babies, and I was prepared for that. It’s actually something that I enjoy. Beyond the acting itself, be a good person and try and show the person that you’re seeing on the screen is the person you will meet when you meet me. Authenticity and transparency.
CB: That’s amazing. Next question, do you still stay in touch with other cast members from “Warehouse 13?”
EMC: I would say the one that I speak to the most would be Jack Kenny who was our Executive Producer. He and I had worked together on my first pilot which was a sitcom for Fox in ’98, and we did 13 episodes he was one of the guys and then the show got canceled. He was one of the writers who I just loved, ya know? As a matter of fact when I was working on another show and Jack came in to direct this show, and I hadn’t seen him in a long time.
I was so happy to see him and as we were working on this show, it came out in the trades that “Warehouse 13” had gotten picked up. I told him, I think it was in the Hollywood Reporter, and I was like Jack, check it out, my show got picked up! He always disputes the telling of this story, but this is how I remember it. He said oh, that’s David Simpkin’s show, I know David, does he need any writers over there? I said man, I’d love to have you over there.
He came back to work a few days later and he said guess who’s going to be running your show? I was like, who? And he said to me! They had given Jack the show and I was thrilled. I knew how brilliant Jack was. He has the ability to not just write comedy for comedy’s sake but to also give it that feeling of close relationships, which was what the show did really well, besides me licking stuff and pushing buttons and passing gas, it had this amazing ability to speak to family dynamics.
I talk to Jack a lot. My Dad passed away a few weeks ago, and Joanne wrote me. We don’t speak often and write often, but she’s still my sis. She’s part of my family.
CB: I’m so very sorry to hear that.
EMC: It’s kind of the way it is in this business. Just because you don’t see each other or talk to one another, but when we do, it’s always a great reunion.
CB: You’ve got a lot of projects in the works. Can you tell me anything about them?
EMC: I just got back yesterday. I directed my first feature, and it was really hard work, kind of a low-budget film. Everybody’s wearing a bunch of different hats. I directed it and I acted in the film as well. We were down in San Diego for 14 days and I’m exhausted.
CB: What’s it called?
EMC: It’s called “Miracle at Manchester.” There was a young man down in San Diego. He was a great young athlete–great baseball player. Played football. Good student. Good kid. And he started getting nosebleeds and his dad took him to the hospital multiple times, and finally, they did a CT scan and found he had a brain tumor. He was 15 at the time. They had to do emergency surgery to remove the tumor, it came back, and he got the news that it was still present in his brain.
He was supposed to fly to Florida for some sort of experimental procedure. The night before he flew there, his dad surprised him and took him back to his high school where his entire high school had shown up at the football stadium. He sat in the stands. It’s a Catholic high school. The closest people put their hands directly on Bryson, and everyone else put their hands on those people, and the entire school said a prayer for him. The next morning he was getting ready to fly to Florida and the team of doctors came and said, we have no explanation for this, but your son’s tumor is gone. Not only that but the tissue around the tumor is healing.
I met the kid. We put him in the film. I played his dad, and his dad was part of the production as well.
CB: So it was based on a true story?
EMC: Yes.
CB: Wow, the power of prayer!
EMC: Yeah, and you know I tell people the story and tell them you can believe what you want to believe, I’m just telling you the story, and you get to decide what the cause was. Dean Cain is in the film, Danny Robuck, and here I am directing him! Everybody was fantastic–the cast–the crew. It was one of the most exciting things I’ve ever done in my work. At the end of the day, as exhausting as it was, it was one of the most fulfilling things I’ve ever done.
CB: When does it come out?
EMC: Post-production takes about seven months. End of the year?
CB: Rapid fire questions:
1.) Favorite country you have visited?
EMC: I think it would be France because of the fact that my dad went to Normandy a few years ago. He never served in the military. He was about to be drafted to Vietnam, but he was a college kid and had surgery on his knee. He said he went to Normandy and had a real powerful moment there. For that reason alone, I would say France. Also Australia, the people there are amazing, and in the UK. I’ll be in Liverpool the following weekend (after StarFest).
2.) Movie that you watch over and over?
EMC: I have a bunch. The ones that jump out at me, the ones that are my comfort food like my cinematic macaroni and cheese, are Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Young Frankenstein, John Carpenter’s “The Thing.” “Predator.”
3.) Favorite author?
EMC: I used to read a lot of Stephen King. I haven’t read him since college. When I was in college, I started reading non-fiction military history. WWII, Vietnam. I’m making my way back to the Civil War.
Written by Colleen Bement
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