How did CC get Lance Henriksen to do TV?
• CC had Lance in mind when coming up with the idea of Frank Black, he didn’t think he would be able to get him. Henriksen would never have considered a TV role. After learning that the actor was staying at a Vancouver hotel, CC bypassed Henriksen’s agents and slipped a personal note under his door. “I did it because every time I tried to get him on The X-Files, his agents had always said, ‘Not interested in television.’ My note simply said I was a fan and that I hoped that we could work together some time,” Carter says. “I was very touched by that,” says Henriksen. “Nobody had ever made it that personal. But I still didn’t do it. And I didn’t call him back either. I just never thought of television. There was almost a kind of movie snobbery about it. But then I got this script.” The two met for dinner to discuss the project and hit it off immediately. “My first question to him was, ‘Chris, this is going to scare the hell out of people. Where is the hope?'” Carter, who has long been a
