<i>Detour</i>'s Neil Hopkins: The CFQ Interview

Actor Neil Hopkins carries most of the weight of this existential nightmare, playing a man confronting a modern-day, trapped in a vehicle that could offer the tools for survival or very quickly become his coffin.
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2013-03-29-Detour1NeilHopkins_410.jpgOkay, yet another reason not to move to Southern California. In Detour, an ambitious businessman gets trapped in his car when it's knocked off the road and buried in a mudslide. Actor Neil Hopkins carries most of the weight of this existential nightmare, playing a man confronting a modern-day Premature Burial, trapped in a vehicle that could offer the tools for survival or very quickly become his coffin. We talked with Hopkins about the pressures accompanying the production of this small, intense film, as well as discuss his time playing Charlie Pace's brother on Lost, his role as the first abductee in Skyline, and much more. Click on the player button to hear the show, or right-click the title to download.

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