Rex Linn: Proud To Be CSI Miami’s Resident Smartass
CSI Miami’s perennial wisecracker and fan favorite Rex Linn recently conducted an entertaining interview with TV Guide.
Rex discusses his Longhorn obsession, why he thinks he should be in the opening credits by now, and what he uses as his character’s motivation.
TVGuide.com: New topic — what’s this about you being asked to drop out of your high-school production of Fiddler on the Roof because you were that bad?
On the day of the play, the guy who was going to be my dance partner fell down and cut his knee open, so I was the only guy on the stage. I guess adrenaline got the best of me and towards the end of the dance, when I was supposed to lightly throw chairs, I tore the bar apart, busting all the props. That night Professor Gill, the drama coach, told me that I should direct my energies in a different area, and kicked me out of the play. Ironically, 30 years later they asked me to speak at the high school, and there was Professor Gill. Basically, my message was, “Don’t let anybody or anything deter you from pursuing your dreams.”
TVGuide.com: You bio says your first acting gigs included some “very bad commercials.” How bad were they?
Oh, they were bad…. In one, I stood on top of a fire truck in a fireman’s uniform, with the siren and the lights going, holding up a big slab of boneless beef brisket. I say, “Boneless beef brisket for only 88 cents a pound — now that is a hot deal.” Just horrid. Now get this: That was in 1988 or something, and five or six years later, when Cliffhanger [in which Linn played a villain] came out and was the No. 1 movie in America, they started running it again! I called Safeway and said, “We’ve got to work out a deal for residuals here,” and they laughed, saying, “That’s not in the contract. Are you upset about this?” I said, “Well, considering the fact that I weigh about 230 lbs. and am standing on a truck yelling, ‘Boneless beef brisket for only 88 cents a pound,’ yeah, I kinda don’t want that to run.”
You can read the full interview at TV Guide.
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5 opinions for Rex Linn: Proud To Be CSI Miami’s Resident Smartass
marionsawler
Feb 28, 2006 at 3:04 pm
i would like to see warrick and catherine get together on csi
marionsawler
Feb 28, 2006 at 3:05 pm
warrick & catherine together
Janice Payne
Jul 12, 2006 at 5:36 am
I would love to know if the Rex Linn on CSI:Miami is the same Rex Linn who was a friend of E.K.Gaylord II in Okla City. The two of them made a movie “Shadows on the Wall” with scenes shot in the newsroom of The Daily Oklahoman, where I worked. I had previously met E.K.’s friend Rex and it’s driving me nuts not knowing if they are one and the same! Can anyone help me?
Nadene Grattan
May 24, 2007 at 10:30 am
Janice, in case no one has answered your question yet, Yes it is the same Rex Linn who is a friend of E.K.’s and who plays Frank Tripp. The difference is the mustache. When he as in Oklahoma he had a very definite mustache, but has shaved it off since.
donny
Jun 7, 2007 at 4:47 pm
I would Love to have sex with Rex Linn, he s very HOT
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