La stampa americana parla di "Streghe"...
Charming the
Other Half
Dorian Gregory continua "Streghe" e presenta un talk
show negli Stati Uniti
Copyright 6 settembre 2002 - Zap2It.com
Articolo di Kate O'Hare
Dorian Gregory is a man who likes women. That's fortunate,
because he spends most of his time with them.
On The WB's Charmed (which launches its fifth season on Sept. 22), he
plays San Francisco Police Detective Darryl Morris, whose friendship with the
Halliwell sisters (Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano, Rose McGowan) constantly
complicates his attempts to solve crimes.
On the syndicated talk show "The Other Half," which has its second-season
premiere on Monday, Sept. 9 (check local listings), Gregory teams up with Danny
Bonaduce, Mario Lopez and Dick Clark to look at women's issues from a male point
of view.
In his spare time, Gregory pursues a music career in partnership with his sister
Mercedes.
"The
bulk of my life," Gregory says, "most of my friends have all been women. Most of
the persons I hang out with, most of the persons I'm immersed in, have all been
women.”
" My sister and mother are two of the strongest women ever created.”
"When I remember back to my grandmother before she died ... I have such regard
for women. I find women 3,000 times more interesting than men. Men are very
simple, OK? Anything we do, you know why we did it. There are no complex thought
processes behind much of what we do.”
" What I've done, because I choose not to have a simple life all of my life, is
I choose to immerse myself around women."
This is very true in the 31-year-old actor's social life. " My theory of life is,
I want to make sure that, when I get with a woman that I'm going to marry, I
want to make sure there's nothing on this earth that's going to turn my head --
nothing.
"The only way for me to experience that is for me to know all that's out there,
so I date. It's not necessarily that, 'Oh, my God, I want to date all these
women'; it's not that at all. It's just that they make me grow; they make me
think. They make me have a completely different perspective on life.”
" Guys, they don't make me grow that much. Love them to death -- they're my boys.
Trust me, I've got some running partners, I've got some dogs, but they don't
make me grow."
His jobs have also made Gregory the envy of his pals. " I am in such paradise.
I'm surrounded by women. All my male friends come up to me and say, 'Oh, what a
phenomenal thing, go to work and be in this woman thing all day.'”
"Well, their reasons for wanting to be in that versus my reasons are completely,
totally different things. They're just glad to be amongst women; I'm just glad
to be around intellectual depth, and that's what I find."
His work on "Charmed" has given Gregory a perspective on how show business
treats women. McGowan joined the cast of "Charmed" last season to fill a slot
left by Shannen Doherty, who played eldest sister Prue. There was a lot of
speculation about difficulties with Doherty on the set, and Gregory has his own
viewpoint.
"Shannen is such a strong woman," he says. "It's interesting to look back at all
that stuff that came up. The biggest question that would come up in a lot of
interviews was, 'What's Shannen like? Is she really the terror that we read
about?'”
" No. My perspective of Shannen -- and that's just my perspective, take it as
you will -- is of a strong woman who let you know how she felt when she felt it,
period. To have a man come on there and do that, 'Oh, he's a dude. He's got this
stuff in control. He's forging his path.' Have a woman do that, and what do we
call her?"
One could say " difficult." " No, that ain't the word," Gregory says. " I
personally found that really irritating. I come from a family of strong women,
and they'll let you know how they feel when they feel it, and where they feel
it. I come from a family of well-educated women, who will not only tell you how
they feel and why they feel it, but why you're wrong. You've got no argument for
that."
Although
Gregory is very much a single guy, he's starting to feel domesticity's siren
call. " You know what's scary?" he says, " I'm there now. I'm still dating like
crazy, but I'm there now. I'm looking at kids. I'm looking at, 'Oh, my God, I
want that ring on my finger.' I'm looking at that now. But I'm scared that I'm
looking.”
Meanwhile, his character on "Charmed" is a happily married man with a couple of
kids. "You've never seen his wife," Gregory says. "People, please write in, 'Can
you bring on this black man's wife?'"
Perhaps she could be played by ... Halle Berry? "You knew where I was going,
didn't you? You've heard the Halle stutter. I am so enamored with the woman.
Halle Berry or Sade -- oh, yeah, or Jennifer Lopez."
While he'd like to see more of Darryl's domestic side, Gregory is not interested
in the character acquiring any magical powers. "I do know this, through the
history of 'Charmed,' anybody who gets magic eventually dies, if you're not one
of the three girls. So, I don't want any magic. No magic. None."
But he just may have a goatee. "When I first came on," Gregory says, "I was
clean-shaven for the first year. That's who they established Darryl as being --
the grounding force, the clean-guy guy, perfect life, perfect family. The beard
automatically puts some edge to you that takes the character in a completely
different direction.”
" Now it's OK, because Darryl's got a lot of edge in his life."