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The FOX drama Monarch is almost here! Trace Adkins serves as the main character in what has been called a darker version of Nashville, another country music drama.
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But it seems what made Adkins most nervous about the project was playing alongside co-star Susan Sarandon.
“Very quickly I realized that when you work with somebody like that, when you work with somebody that is as confident and as accomplished and as professional as she is, you suddenly realize, ‘Oh my God, she’s gonna carry the scene,” Adkins said, via CNN. “All I have to do is swim in her wake and hang on and just hope that if I can survive this scene, it’ll probably be okay.’ And then I just exhaled… she was very gracious and giving and kind to me and made me feel comfortable.”
Monarch launches Sept. 11 with Adkins, a real-life country music star, portraying a musician. It is set in Austin, Texas.
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“When you’re in the studio with those cats and you take a raw piece of material and you turn it into something that hopefully is beautiful and something that people will enjoy listening to, it’s that creative thing, it just stimulates me, I just dig it,” Adkins said. “Every day on the television set or a movie set is like that, you are surrounded by incredibly talented people. And I find that atmosphere just, I can’t get enough of it. I really enjoy it.”
Adkins knew the part was right for him upon receiving the script a little more than a year ago.
“When I found out who some of the people were that I was gonna be working with, I knew that this had to be something that FOX was committed to and this wasn’t going to be just some little throwaway thing,” he said. “I get to sing and pretty much act as myself. Yeah, okay, I can do that. I’m glad I did.”
