He asked if I would grease my hair back and have stubble and moustache and be a hard ass.
#MIAMI VICE SERIES#
“Michael Mann asked me to read for this series called Miami Vice.
In 2011, on his official fan site, Wilcox recounted how it all went down: Ultimately, the Crockett role came down to two actors: Don Johnson and Larry Wilcox, who played “Jon” on CHiPs for five years. CHIPS’ LARRY WILCOX WAS JOHNSON’S BIGGEST COMPETITION. “I had made five pilots for Brandon Tartikoff back then, and none of them were picked up,” Johnson told Rolling Stone. Though the casting conversation kept coming back to Don Johnson for the role of Sonny Crockett, the network was against casting him, deeming him pilot poison. Gary Cole-who played a smuggler in season two’s “Trust Fund Pirates”- also auditioned for the role of Crockett. Producers showed interest in both Jeff Bridges and Nick Nolte for the role of Crockett both passed, reportedly to focus on their film careers. NICK NOLTE AND JEFF BRIDGES WERE APPROACHED TO PLAY CROCKETT. In 1983, a year before Miami Vice’s premiere, actor Dennis Burkley appeared in four episodes of Hill Street Blues, playing a racist biker named “Sonny Crockett.” 3. Prior to Miami Vice, Yerkovich was a writer and producer on Hill Street Blues. SONNY CROCKETT WASN'T THE FIRST SONNY CROCKETT. “The show is written for an MTV audience, which is more interested in images, emotions, and energy than plot and character and words,” said Lee Katzin, who directed two episodes of the show’s first season. Regardless of whether you believe the story about the Tartikoff memo, there’s no denying that Miami Vice did become a cop show for the MTV generation. “It seemed to be an interesting socioeconomic tide pool: the incredible number of refugees from Central America and Cuba, the already extensive Cuban-American community, and on top of all that the drug trade.” “I thought of as a sort of a modern-day American Casablanca,” Yerkovich told TIME in 1985. While many sources claim that it was Brandon Tartikoff who scribbled down the two-word idea as a brainstorming memo, show creator Anthony Yerkovich has maintained that he spent years developing the idea that would become Miami Vice. There have been differing opinions as to who came up with the idea of “MTV Cops” as a summary for what Miami Vice should be. “MTV COPS” WAS THE MAIN CONCEIT OF THE SERIES. Throw an Armani jacket over that pink T-shirt and let’s revisit one of TV’s most groundbreaking crime series. From music to travel to fashion to facial hair, no corner of American culture was left untouched by the huge presence of officers Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) and Ricardo Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas).
Though its extra-large “car phones” and pastel-hued costuming decisions might seem laughable to some today, Miami Vice’s impact went far beyond the small screen.
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