David Caruso: Actors Collaborate To 'Miami' Process

David Caruso (Horatio Caine) and his character may share more than looks, or so the actor claims. In a recent interview, Caruso revealed the writers of Miami allow the actors to cooperate in the evolution of the show.

"What they let me do is, as they do with all the cast members, they allow us to shape in the moment," Caruso told the Egyptian magazine Carnival Arabia. "Sometimes Ann [Donahue] is a very generous writer in that she will allow organic things to happen on the day, and sometimes those things make it in the episode. We’re allowed to explore an instinct that you have inside the scene. Or sometimes dialogue will change or sometimes a scene will change because somehow an instinct someone has had has deepened the scene or maybe simplified the scene. So that we have a collaborative process."

Three years on the job haven't waned Caruso's initial fascination with the show's format, which he revealed, is much different from other shows'. "What is neat is playing the character and being in this world of forensic science requires a very specific discipline and a very specific economy to your approach because it is not like a traditional one hour where it is fictional, it is drama in which you are allowed to indulge yourself and have reactions or lose your cool and make mistakes," he said. "So I have really learned and hopefully have refined the display of discipline. It’s a different kind of clarity. It is really fascinating."

Lastly, Caruso briefly discussed the departure of cast member Rory Cochrane (Tim Speedle), whose leaving is reminiscent to Caruso's departure from NYPD Blue. "I think specific to him I understand it, and I spoke to him because I have my own history in this area. And I just wanted to hear from him that it was coming from him and he hadn’t suddenly inherited a sense of 'I have to do this now.' So I talked to him at the very end. But his reasons were sound. He just said, 'I need to kind of go back to what made me want to be an actor and that is motion pictures.' And so I respected it."

To read the rest of the interview, which includes more of Caruso's take on his character, visit David Caruso Fans.com.

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