The Screen Savers - 'Max Headroom's Matt Frewer Interview

[@gplus46]

This guy has a great voice, and an amazing jaw line.

[@mhks68]

Very Clint Eastwood.

[@kstarrify]

he is skinny

[@jwelch5742]

In 1993, Rich Little, who voiced the Pink Panther in the original cartoons, was approached to reprise his role as the pink feline in The Pink Panther (TV series). However, Little did not recall voicing the character at all and turned down the offer saying giving the panther a voice would ruin the character. Producer David H. DePatie felt that giving the panther a voice would "compromise the integrity of the character." But once the producers saw Matt Frewer fill in the lines for the panther, it was fantastic and they accepted it.

[@wiekertblaak3216]

... indeed ...

[@phinny5608]

Right?

[@gioknows]

Matt Frewer is a great actor.

[@dannyinaus]

He played a major role in Spielberg's mini series "Taken"

[@angelicaplummer6127]

The Man from Epsilon Crucis he is also on Intelligence the Netfix series

[@dtdimeflicks6708]

Honey I Shrunk the Kids was the first time I ever saw him in anything.

[@rvth13ss]

Star Trek: The Next Generation S5 E9 brought me here LOL

[@alexanderhamilton876]

Trash Can Man

[@ibpn4284]

of course it was ahead of it's time. max was 20 minutes into the future.

[@marshawest9999]

Always thought the 20 minutes into the future tag line was brilliant

[@billkeithchannel]

There was a ton of predictive programming in that show. Authoritarian police that will turn on you if you are not live-streaming. Body parts for sale to extend life. The cashless pen swipe to buy things using credits (bitcoin). and on and on and on. Block chain technology finally is going to give us the ability to politically vote at home using an electronic device. In the show they voted using the TV.

[@floydjohnson7888]

Heh...I'm not the only person who, by 2012, connected a webcam to a computer whose HDMI port was then connected to a TV.

[@Wolfsheim23]

Max Headroom should be the style of the new Shodan in System Shock 3. That would be amazing. You just can do CGI as lifelike and yet artificial like Max. He was the best Artificial Being inside a computer ever imagined.

[@andymate2006]

This guy reminds me of Jim Carey but a version of Jim Carey that doesn't overact.

[@marcopolo3001]

andymate2006 the Jim Carey before Jim Carey.

[@DashDarrenger]

I always thought jim carey was a matt frewer fan or somthing and based his stuff off him cause they do resemble each other an sound alot alike but it seems like Jim Carey based his whole career off max headroom. I don't understand how Matt frewer isn't bigger than he is.

[@MiddlesbroughFCVideoVault]

+Marco Polo Prototype Jim Carey.

[@clevelrashad3493]

Jim Carrey doesn't overact Riiiiigggghhhhttt !

[@marcopolo3001]

Matt Frewer was on an obscure and underrated but well acted Star Trek next generation episode as a hapless time traveller. In my opinion that puts him many leagues ahead of Jim Carey anyday!

[@wariodude128]

"Anything to make my floppy disks stiff". Best out-of-context quote I've ever seen.

[@videocircus]

Max Headroom was so far ahead of its time. Stuff that was going on in this show back in the 80's is actually happening now.

[@floydjohnson7888]

Hell yeah! Skype plus TV over Internet plus HD media

[@ryuucld384]

Max Headroom was a great show, and Matt was fantastic as the time traveler on the TNG episode. He's got an impressive set of roles on IMDB.

[@thumbwarriordx]

Max Headroom survived being dated by striking a perfect dated tone from the beginning. Using typewriters to control computers was a hell of a bold choice that keeps you in it, just a little surreal from the onset. It's magnificent.

[@michaelbowie3269]

Come back Max Headroom!

[@babymammoth34]

"No, I enjoy playing with myself." LOL!

[@chelseapoet3664]

Just a stupendous, iconic performance. I only leaned decades later he wasn't CGI!

[@hare7777]

Wow, that's a square jaw. I thought that was all makeup,

[@rogerhammond3344]

Ka Chin ! ! !

[@billkeithchannel]

His face was perfectly made for that character.

[@NetTubeUser]

+Sedge Hare - This kind of square jaw is typically a facial-feature from Germany than American or Canadian, believe it or not. which is intriguing and interesting. So yeah, apparently, Matt Frewer has some German genes. Ha!

[@RIDDICK0911]

White US people and Canadians are former Europeans. This "more typical from" makes no sense.

[@1SqueakyWheel]

It makes perfect sense. He pointed out it already, so you can't really call him on it, nor feign confusion.

[@tillyboos]

Matt Frewer is an AWESOME pop/punk cultural icon. He’s brilliant. One of my favorite actors.

[@BilltheTulaneGuy]

Awkward yet entertaining.

[@BilltheTulaneGuy]

Awkward yet entertaining.

[@Olyjed]

I miss Max. I miss the old "Cool days of the 80's"

[@cortruisse]

This show deserves a revival movie. Don't give up on it, Matt!

[@Dzonemp]

I loved this show.

[@OAleathaO]

Dzonemp I do too...unfortunately Matt doesn't really want to be associated with it at all for some reason. He refused to be a part of any of the interviews of the cast for the box set. And when you approach him in person and ask him to sign a Max Headroom picture he refuses (at least he did to me).

[@WASPdaddy]

I still have all the episodes on VHS, still a thumbs up from me :)

[@AddMoreQuarters]

A fantastic unique actor who's style cannot be duplicated.

[@applejacks971]

P-P-P-Poetry..."Come sweet slumber and shroud me in dark purple cloak..." Huh, doesn't even rhyme...

[@marctronixx]

I Cant stand tea.....

[@Fcutdlady]

Art of noise featuring max headroom - parnomia

[@fraserkatie]

Max was great! I loved him on channel four in uk!

[@fanofheadroom1]

Yer i agree :)

[@fanofheadroom1]

me to

[@chindleymuffin]

That's where it all started on Channel 4, the movie 20 minutes into the Future was made by Crysalis Visual Programming for Channel 4, it was funded by HBO. They wanted a background story to Max Headroom before the show started, so that you weren't completely confused by what you saw.

[@Faxxer248]

Frewer was always a great actor, and highly underappreciated by the masses. This interview is old, but TAKEN was a great series and he shined BRIGHT in it. I want someone to bring frewer back as max headroom and do the show up proper. STEAMPUNK it up people!

[@J2digital]

I totally agree with how he said that the show was ahead of its time. Especially when he said all the "big brother" government watching you stuff. Which has even more association/tangibility after all the US government stuff the past few years.

[@christianewing1113]

"I enjoy playing with myself"

[@simoneywymney]

we can tell

[@christianewing1113]

simoneywymney lol

[@zaibian7]

Martin's expression was priceless. "did he just say that?"

[@DesertSessions93]

whatever gets my floppy disk hard.

[@bobby1970]

I'm playing with myself right now.

[@mecagoenlaluna]

The 2000's interviewing the 80's

[@hellraiser341]

Me cago en la Luna Being watched by the 2010's

[@jhuanbrown3455]

Great actor there. Always enjoyed his works.

[@zeppelin67637]

It was only 12 episodes?? Why Do I feel like I watched Max alot more then that?? Feels like he was everywhere, for many years. And, Taken is an amazing show.

[@videocircus]

I just purchased the entire show on DVD......what a blast into the past LOL. The show is actually really decent and was well ahead of it's time. I am on the last episode now and have enjoyed watching the show very much.

[@bigbadmadlad137]

I love the wide shot, showing him on a screen. Its basically just a civil interview with Max Headroom.

[@floofytown]

THE OTHER DAD FROM HONEY I SHRUNK THE KIDS!! Holy shit I knew I knew him from somewhere and I had no idea he was Max Headroom!

[@TheMirelyght]

he also played a time traveler in star trek and a tornado chaser in eerie indiana and a ton of other parts.....one of those guys that you see all over but never remember his name

[@scootermike8003]

TheMirelyght . Didn't he play Lt. Barkley in Star Trek The Next Generation?

[@TheMirelyght]

no...that was dwight schultz who you may know from the A Team, he played Murdock. They do look like they might be cousins.

[@sylvestercrowley8909]

I thought the exact same fuckin thing!

[@Sarah.Riedel]

And don't forget the Trashcan Man in The Stand lol.

[@HerecomestheCalavera]

Time flies! I commented on how I originally saw this air in 2002 back 6 years ago! This interview was 10 years old when I made that comment. Now it is 16 years old! What is strange it it seems just as old now as it did 6 years ago. In 2012 ten years ago might as well have been a lifetime. But now here I am 6 years later and it seems like hardly any time has passed!

[@e-man0019]

I remember watching this show when it would air back in the day 👍👍!!! I'm a big fan👍👍

[@floydjohnson7888]

At the time the series was cancelled, some thought it had apparently "given people ideas". One episode made reference to broadcast signal intrusion as "zipping", and not long after, someone signaljacked two Chicago TV stations.

[@powermetal26]

The entire Max Headroom show consisted of only 12 episodes........YET it was decades beyond it's time in accuracy as far as subject matter and story line. It was released on DVD about 6 or 7 years ago and I watch the entire show about once a year. Great show.

[@bodegibbs779]

Matt is awesome. He was also in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. In the first sketch.

[@thanksfernuthin]

A brilliant character idea but would not have been as successful without Matt's incredible talents. He knew what he looked like as he performed if that makes any sense to you. Very valuable.

[@GENERIK1111]

Tom Green interviews Jim Carey

[@DR0NE_BEE]

I KNOW RIGHT! HAHAHA

[@fistteam]

@Generik LNC...The funny/ cool thing was...Back in the early/mid 80's, when Max first appeared, MTV wanted everyone to believe that he was a computer generated "being" brought to life via some bigtime Mainframe. This was about the same time the first "Apple PC" first came into existence...Eveyone believed it, so he was the "Etherial first CGI!" I only came to realize he was a real person, sometime in the mid 2000's and thought he was, in fact, Jim Carey!?! What a let down & I didn't do any drugs back then, nor now!! LOL!!

[@porko882]

I think hes voiced several jim carry characters for the cartoons.

[@nicholasfaith8999]

Doesn't this guy work for collider now?

[@RodrigoSilvaDiaz]

Hahahaha...

[@MrJohnClabo]

NOOOO! God I feel so damn OLD! I was in high school when Techtv was still around but still...really depressing to see it lately. I wish we still had a techtv or a screensavers...

[@CrookedSkew]

Thanks for posting. This was very interesting!

[@popoff21]

He's a cool person I liked watching max head room when I was 3, me and him share the same birthday january 4

[@reeblesnarfle4519]

HAIL, MAX HEADROOM FOR PRESIDENT!!!🔥🔥🔥 BEST TV SHOW IN HISTORY! TOLD IT AS IT WAS!!! Thank you for showing and exposing such truth and great history! 🙏❤ Matt Frewer is a genious, as well as the great writers!!!🔥❤ Thanks to all who made this possible!

[@TheBenCarroll]

That's right. Matt Frewer was the voice of Lloyd Christmas in Dumb and Dumber the Animated Series. He even spoke for the 90s version of The Pink Panther.

[@jedijones]

It was funny how they based the avatars in the '80s cafe in Back to the Future Part II on Max Headroom's appearance and speech pattern.

[@chindleymuffin]

That was just one year after he was pulled off air in the US, Zemeckis was a fan and Spielberg had worked with Matt Frewer a couple of times.

[@johncairns2637]

That face he makes for a split-second after " i enjoyed playing with myself"........! Great talent, that was a real stand-out at the time.

[@IAmLeerooyyyyJenkins]

I miss the original G4 channel and TechTV

[@ernestmac13]

As do I, who knows where it could have gone had they not been taken over by another company and had their programing line up ran into the ground.

[@Paolo8772]

I saw him on the Skytrain in 2014. Great actor. Loved him in Intelligence by Chris Haddock. He also played a small role in Monty Python Meaning of Life

[@marsneedstowels]

I believe he lives on the Island.

[@Paolo8772]

@@marsneedstowels assuming that what you mean when you say "I believe he lives on he Island" you mean he lives on Vancouver Island. I wouldn't know that, but I wouldn't be surprised if you're correct. BTW I also just saw him in a recent TV commercial.

[@marsneedstowels]

​@@Paolo8772 Sorry he just has business on the island, he doesn't stay there. My bad.

[@Paolo8772]

@@marsneedstowels Bad? You did nothing bad. I didn't even correct you; I merely assumed you were correct about which Island he lived on, which you never mentioned. As for me: I never knew he lived on any Island. Then again: I could I wrong about that. All I know is that Matt Frewer is an underrated actor that seems to fly under the radar; just no my radar, nor yours apparently. We both have good taste in underrated actors I guess.

[@marsneedstowels]

@@Paolo8772 Yea I remembered he had a hockey related business on Denman Island. He's a good actor, I do like him in basically everything he's in, including that not so popular Sherlock Holmes series.

[@jonmyers8046]

"I enjoyed playing with myself" LMAO! 🤣

[@TommyFilth1]

It never really struck me until now how much the character of SHODAN from System Shock 1 and 2 was inspired by Max Headroom.

[@chindleymuffin]

The people who made the game were huge fans of Max Headroom, but they couldn't get the rights to use him in the game at the time.

[@nini1957]

I loved the show!

[@paperclip9558]

God its so weird that 2002 is twenty years ago.

[@DAMELKEYON]

National Lampoon's Senior Trip was an amazing comedy. He was fantastic in it!

[@josemontano7767]

I miss this show Tech TV. I was awesome. It remains me when I was single

[@MooreLeather]

Never saw this series - in the UK we only had the Video-DJ style Max headroom show, where he did short comedy skits and introduced music vids. It was hilarious, definitely a ground-breaking style & a huge miss when it vanished from the airwaves. Long may "Max" continue in his acting career!

[@rightsideofhistory]

That guy could have been the new voice of Kermit after Jim Henson died...

[@Larry]

He did the voice of the Pink Panther you know?

[@BantaniumOfficial]

***** Again, I find you again!

[@McCallahanIndustries]

***** I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE.

[@Larry]

JIMBOTHY You should see a psychiatrist if you're seeing me everywhere!!! :D

[@BantaniumOfficial]

***** I think I have to as well. Or use the internet less.

[@destineydevereux4722]

I lived forMax Headroom on MTV!!!❤❤❤❤

[@clinthammer965]

He was in the Watchman movie. He played a guy named Moloch.

[@MrStephenRGilman]

With all the reboots and remakes these days, it would be SO easy to do a Max Headroom movie with real CGI. Frewer could do all his voice work from his house!

[@RoyceAubuchon]

He was on "honey I shrunk the kids" lol

[@thedrummerboycr]

Very nice interview!. This men its a 80s Pop Culture piece!!

[@SkylineR33T]

Matt cracks me up- he makes the same facial expressions as Max did and talks in a "max-way" when the "re-incarnation" comes up 24 seconds into the interview ;-) To bad he wasn't in the interviews on the bonus-dvd that's been released a couple of weeks ago.... The LONG wait for a dvd-version was finally over! Max was/ is a great serie- maybe not as "high-tech" and graphic as the current computer generated blue screen stories, but great to watch again..... and again...... and again.

[@polerix]

man, i miss these shows.

[@canteventhough]

I NEED a new Max Headroom movie.

[@christsaves72]

jim stole his style a lot though both are Canadian and that accent is very special...Jim watched a lot of cartoons his whole life and stole Frewer's style but indeed over acted...respect for Matt! underrated actor I find!

[@Brainbuster]

Jim who?

[@daviedood2503]

@@Brainbuster Jim Carrey

[@kaylamarie8309]

Long live Max Headroom!! Damn that was an awesome character lol.

[@gregorysagegreene]

The original AI. 14 years after "Fourteen years after the event."

[@ChuckHouse420]

"This Guy" really? Matt Frewer is an amazing actor and Eureka is a very small part of what brilliant things he's done.

[@edengaming5021]

He had a breakout role in Honey I shrunk the Kids.

[@DrCrabfingers]

12 episodes? Wow...that has poleaxed me...Max headroom was huge when I was growing up..

[@purpleshamrock17]

It's amazing that he ever played Sherlock Holmes (in four Canadian TV movies) as he seems more known for comedy. I know everyone has their favorite Holmes, but he was the first actor I watched as Holmes before even I watched the old Brett and Rathbone interpretations.

[@samreenshahid6740]

Matt is such a great actor!

[@samholden4171]

Fancied him in max headroom heard it's coming back🙂👍💞

[@OGSarah]

I had no idea he was in the Dawn of the Dead remake - I knew he was familiar but didn’t know why! Thanks for sharing this!

[@TheObserver37]

Matt's voice dosent seem as buttery when he's interviewed. In his movies his vocie is like gold I could listen to him read the dictionary

[@Catlicker101]

He is on the lastest season of "Falling Skies". Check it out. And don't forget Art of Noise. Thank GOD i have live to see ALL of this history.

[@sirbrad4]

Another one of my favorite shows as a kid he was Jim Carrey Before Jim Carrey was Jim Carrey lol. Sounds almost exactly alike.

[@anonymator]

My life for you, my life for you. For me mr. Frewer is for ever Trashcan Man. I did love TechTV as well.

[@Fcutdlady]

I've seen Matt Frewer in a few things . His voice always reminds me of Max Headroom

[@daviedood2503]

He's the guy who played max headroom..

[@johnjusticepresents6334]

Fact: Matt Frewer was of course one of the muggers in the Supergirl movie that got blown away with her superbreath

[@VenomStryker]

This guy was on Star Trek TNG back in the day! He was a time traveler from the past who claimed to be from the future.

[@colinmoore5991]

Berlinghoff Rasmussen was the character's name. The episode was "A Matter of Time", and Frewer was pradictibly brilliant as usual.

[@NadrianATRS]

He’s really witty. I would’ve gave him the part too

[@chindleymuffin]

When he auditioned for Max Headroom he just improvised a joke and a bunch of nonsense to Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton. Apparently they were rolling around with laughter and gave him the job straight away. In fact if you watch the first series he did for Channel 4 in 1986, you can hear Jankel and Morton laughing and talking in the background. They were present for all the shots of Max Headroom, even though they didn't write the scripted lines.

[@NadrianATRS]

@@chindleymuffin you must be from the UK

[@statictwo818]

just started that episode, went to google to see where I knew him from, ended up on this video, read your comment, spoiled the episode. Will watch it anyhow. Actually knew him from Intelligence series rather than max headroom

[@Jason-gt2kx]

Max was way ahead of his time. They should bring it back as an actual computer sim

[@tvojslauf]

I’m ready for a re re re remake.

[@NekoBoyOfficial]

Tech TV, it's a shame they're gone

[@dragonstar6490]

Love this guy. Ma Ma Max Headroom!

[@neural_jam]

Aaaand now he's a synth in Altered Carbon, the second I heard his voice I knew it was him lol

[@nicoladouglas3270]

My ideal man!!!

[@harleyjackson3708]

Pay close attention. From time to time, he's doing the Max Headroom frozen framerate face thing.

[@hootyhaha]

I was so upset when they took his character out so fast of the Dawn Of The Dead remake. His talent was so superior to all the other actors in that movie. The only thing I could figure was that the newer writers were actually ignorant of who Matt Frewer was and how much of a huge fan base he had, or that because he is such a widely known and talented actor that maybe his costs were higher so they nixed him first.

[@mikevanroy9356]

We knew Max wasn't CGI. That term hadn't even been invented yet. Hell we knew Tron were actors and it wasn't actually inside a computer program. We know this because we were programming in BASIC. We knew the character was supposed to be an AI (another term that hadn't been invented yet) but it was a human actor.

[@davedenisetigg]

I remember watching Max Headroom & my Mam & Dad looking at the tv, pulling annoyed faces then looking at me pissing myself laughing - they'd then shake their heads & walk out

[@deadaccount1780]

Does anyone remember the max headroom incident?

[@Slavikhavoc]

That shit was creepy

[@deadaccount1780]

+Ufc _ I know right?

[@GregNarten]

What was that

[@Slavikhavoc]

+Greg Narten during the 80s someone interrupted a late night show and did some creepy ass reenactment of max headroom and they made a creepy sound of like grinding metal. This was scary because it's late at night and you're just watching tv and this pops on

[@christianewing1113]

I've heard it and seen it but was not around during the time

[@HerecomestheCalavera]

I remember seeing this interview when it originally aired. I miss ZD/TechTV

[@Dyes-wl2rs]

Classic80sStuff it aired in the 80s

[@theunknowncommenter3444]

Very cool

[@BrassDTV]

awesome show

[@tamuren1397]

OMG he lived in Ottawa in 2002? I live in Ottawa right now! He was in Star Trek!

[@giordanotirelli6184]

happy birthday matt from italian boy live in rome

[@AnitaLife27]

They could so do this today with mo-cap of Frewer and a 3D character, ala Andy Sirkus as Gollum. Frewer is amazing!

[@stickyfnrik]

has anyone mentioned his stellar supporting roll in "The Taking Of Beverly Hills"?

[@leavingsoonduetocensorship3453]

That awkward moment you understand Jim Carey knew he could write himself that check because he was already on TV before he ever started.

[@Trendleader863]

He sounds remarkably like jim carey

[@HerecomestheCalavera]

I remember actually watching this on TechTV back in 2002. I thought it was weird how Martin called it "a new re-incarnation" Seems like it made Matt Frewer think they were doing some kind of new reboot of the show and not just showing old re-runs.

[@meatrace]

Matt Frewer is clearly thrilled to be there.