ALFRED MOLINA IS OLD SCHOOL CIA

Alfred Molina plays old guard CIA operative in TNT miniseries, The Company.

Alfred Molina stars in the TNT six hour miniseries The Company playing Harvey Torriti, also known as The Sorcerer, a hard drinking old school operations leader who teaches Chris O’Donnell’s new guard CIA Jack to bend the rules.

Alfred explains the difference between his way of playing spy games compared to the new recruit.

“The Sorcerer somehow represents the old way of doing things. Before the CIA became the CIA it was manned by kind of guys who were a little bit on the edge of things. They were very individualistic, a bit rebellious. They’d bend the rules when they though it was necessary. They weren’t as well regulated or as corporate as it became. And so he belongs to kind of an older style of espionage.”

The Sorcerer, a former military man who relied on improvisation in the field was more willing to do dirty business.

“He has a protégé Jack, the character that Chris O’Donnell plays who’s a generation younger and he in a sense represents the new CIA, the guys that went to University. They studied politics or world economics. They have a kind of intellectual academic approach to the same job whereas Harvey belongs to a generation that were a bit more rough and ready.”

The Company was originally intended as a feature film executive produced by Ridley and Tony Scott but there were so many stories that needed to be told it was extended to a six hour miniseries beginning Sunday, August 5th on TNT.