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Wentworth Miller is equally pumped for Fox's limited-series Prison Break revival as the rest of us.
ET's Leanne Aguilera caught
up with the 44-year-old actor at San Diego's Comic-Con on Saturday,
where he spilled on the series' fresh new take.
"[My co-star] Dominic [Purcell] tells me that we did a Prison Break
[panel] at Comic-Con when the show was originally airing," Miller said
of the cast being at the convention for the original show, which ran
from 2005 to 2009. "I have no recollection of that, but I just trust
that he's telling me the truth."
"It's nice to be back, even
though I don't remember what happened before," he added. "But it makes
sense to me in a strange way that Prison Break is at Comic-Con,
because it's got kind of a comic book element to it and always has, so
in that way, it feels like a marriage."
Miller is reprising his role
as Michael Scofield, and he joked that performing his own stunts once
again has been, well, interesting now that he's in his mid-40s.
"[Stunts are] a lot
different at 44 then they were at 34," Miller explained. "I do what I
can, but if I need my character to look cool and like he knows what he's
doing and my stunt double can execute that better, then I'm happy to
step aside. It's just in service of telling the best story possible."
In addition to Miller's exciting Prison Break
revival gig, he recently entered into a series regular contract with
Warner Bros. that will allow him to portray roles in various Greg
Berlanti-produced shows simultaneously, including Legends of Tomorrow and The Flash, Deadline first reported.
"Yeah, it's a sweet deal," Miller, who is no longer a series regular on Legends, gushed. "It's the most fun I've had as far as a character."
"I have a lot of respect and
love for Michael Scofield, but Captain Cold is a good time, and so the
opportunity to kind of pop up and do a little song and dance for The Flash or Legends
-- and then get out and then not have to do the expositional heavy
lifting that Michael Scofield has to do, it's a good time," he added.
But when it comes to
choosing between playing a villain or a hero, the Princeton grad says he
doesn't have a preference.
"I like a degree of both,"
he revealed. "I like characters that are somewhere in the shades of gray
-- not strictly black, not strictly white."
Last month, Miller's Prison Break
co-star, Purcell, suffered a gruesome injury while filming scenes for
the highly anticipated revival when an iron bar fell on top of him,
resulting in a major gash in his head and a broken nose.
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