Legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi may be the title character of the new football drama Lombardi, but it’s Keith Nobbs who helps reveal Lombardi’s persona to the audience. As fictional Look Magazine reporter Michael McCormack, Nobbs is sent to Green Bay to break down the guarded walls of the jovial but easily angered coach. “He gets that crazed Lombardi look in his eyes and it is terrifying,” Nobbs laughs about going head to head with co-star Dan Lauria. The bright eyed actor, who recently appeared in HBO’s epic World War II miniseries The Pacific, chatted with Broadway.com about life on the Lombardi team, the play’s unusual audience and discovering his inner soldier.
Your character is the only fictional person in the show. Was it hard to shape Michael when your co-stars had real people to research?
I was grateful for that because that meant I couldn’t play the part wrong [laughs]. I just did The Pacific and all the marines in the story were actual people. I got to meet the widow of the man I played, which is such a gift, but the responsibility of that is huge because you’re ...
Friday, December 3, 2010
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