"I represent the average guy," Franz says. "I think a lot of guys live vicariously through him and enjoy the fact that he is somewhat of a sex symbol," says actor Joe Mantegna, who has been Franz's best friend for more than 20 years. Unprepossessing man fall in love is resonating with both sexes. And something about watching this awkward, But Sipowicz is just about the first role that gives Franz a chance to get romantic. And one included a picture in a bathing suit - a little bikini!"Īndy Sipowicz is Franz's 28th cop role (tonight he departs from his usual fare, portraying famed trial lawyer Richard "Racehorse" Haynes in the ABC miniseries "Texas Justice"). ![]() and I've gotten several pretty explicit letters from young girls. "I would expect it from middle-aged, elderly women. "I've been shocked at some of the mail I get," he says. They respond to the hard parts of my character."īut now the postman also brings some real fan mail. "I usually get letters from guys in prisons," says Franz, seated in his trailer on the Fox lot during a short break from shooting. But ever since the burly "NYPD Blue" character stepped in the shower for a soapy encounter with his on-screen love, Dennis Franz's image has become - steamy. Fortunately the show was so much more than just bare asses.With face like a pie pan and a body like the Pillsbury Doughboy, this is not what an actor would expect as he cruises past his 50th birthday. I am what I am.’ It turned out to be a playful, fun, silly thing. And yes, you look in the mirror at your ass and think, ‘Oh, Christ, what am I going to do about this thing?!’ So I started to exercise, but then stopped because I thought, ‘This is not going to work, so to hell with it. The actor continues, laughing, “So later comes the script and Steven said, ‘Your turn has come.’ Everyone signed a nudity clause, so yes, everyone knew there was a possibility. “And we were shooting on the streets of New York, and the show had been on for a couple of weeks, and people passing by would yell out, ‘Yo, Sipowicz! When are we going to see your ass?!'” “ Caruso, in every episode, he had to bare his ass,” Franz relates. Of course, that also meant it was just a matter of time before it was Franz’s turn to show some skin. ![]() When you think about it, a great painter, you can’t tell them, ‘You can’t have this or that color.’ That’s the way Steven was as a writer and as a visionary.” He just didn’t want people to tell him what he couldn’t do. So a lot was made of that. I always had great respect and admiration for his uncompromising artistic vision. “He wanted to push the envelope quite a bit. ![]() “The partial nudity was one of the requests that Steve strongly asked for in the beginning of the production from the network,” Franz recalls. But Bochco didn’t flinch, Franz remembers. In particular, the partial nudity on NYPD Blue when it premiered in September 1993 caused quite a commotion. Sipowicz would ultimately become the focal point of the series as the seasons progressed and a pop-culture icon in his own right. ![]() You have this.’ And never did he say, ‘You’re right, we’ll change the character.'” He is a bad cop and bad man.’ And I expressed those feelings to Steven, and he said, ‘You know, you will find a way to make him sympathetic.’ And I asked how I was going to go about that, and he said, ‘It is inherent in your personality. “He gets shot at the end of the pilot, and I thought, ‘Who is going to care if he lives or dies? He is a womanizer. “I read about my guy, and I thought, ‘Who is going to care about this guy?'” the actor recalls. And it took an important lunch with Bochco to help him settle in, Franz says. Norman Buntz on NBC’s Hill Street Blues, which ran from 1981 to 1987, before starring on ABC’s NYPD Blue.įranz tells THR the part of Sipowicz was created for him and he was cast six months before there was an initial script, but he was not thrilled about the role at first. Paul Mason, Producer, Studio Executive and Co-Creator of 'The Bold Ones: The New Doctors,' Dies at 92įranz worked closely with Bochco initially playing most notably fan favorite Lt.
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