Welcome back. I apologize for the downtime, but it took me a while to get everything re-coded and make sure all the pages were working properly. I hope you will all love the shiny new look that my friend Dora created as much as I do. Please note that comments are now open, so feel free and share feedback or comment on articles and such. New photos will be added very soon, I’ve just been super busy lately and haven’t had time to work on any gallery updates.
I’m also currently working on getting the streaming media archive (for video and audio clips) off the ground, but that is still going to take a little while, so please continue to be patient with me. If anyone has any video or audio clips they’d like to share, please email them to me at stef@benjamin-mckenzie.org and they will be added (with full credit) to the media archive before its grand opening in the semi-near future. Please note that I have clips of most all of Ben’s recent television and radio interviews, but am happy to accept any and all donations that you guys are kind enough to send in. 
Click here to listen to an interview did with Mancow.com and click here to listen to an interview Ben did with Kelly McKay on WZPL radio station on April 15, 2008. Thanks to swedish_girl80 at ben_support for the links.
Sorry for the delayed posting of these videos. I’ve been swamped with real life stuff lately and have gotten way behind with all of my site updates again. Better late than never through, right? 
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Click here to view a recent interview Ben did with ASM TV. Interviews with the other cast members can be viewed by clicking on the desired clip from the list beside the main video. There is also a lengthy behind the scenes video here. Enjoy!
Most famously known as heartthrob Ryan Atwood on The O.C., Benjamin McKenzie is now working his way onto the silver screen, hoping to land himself bigger roles in blockbuster hits.
Despite an inspired turn in the indie gem Junebug, McKenzie is trying his hand in more commercial, genre-based movies, like his upcoming thriller 88 Minutes starring Al Pacino (Righteous Kill).
McKenzie’s main concern was the shift from a popular television series to a feature film. The young actor said his role selection was based on “picking things quite differently than The O.C. and teen films.”
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Welcome to the fictional Northwest Washington University, bitch! Benjamin McKenzie, best known for playing Ryan Atwood on The O.C., occasionally pops up as a smarmy forensics student in 88 Minutes, the Seattle-set Al Pacino thriller in theaters this Friday. We caught up with Ben to see if he’d be more generous with his spoken words than Ryan. And he was!
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You filmed 88 Minutes back in 2005, right?
BEN MCKENZIE: Yeah, we filmed it a little while ago. We were shooting The O.C. in L.A., and they were shooting the movie up in Vancouver, but they were on a Wednesday-to-Sunday schedule. So I was able to basically go up on weekends. It was two months of seven-day work weeks. Never worked that hard.
Was it strange going back and forth?
It was very weird. It felt half the time like I was daydreaming, like I wasn’t really working with Al Pacino and it was all in my imagination.
When you found out you were working with him, were you terrified?
Absolutely petrified. I had some time to rehearse with him a little bit before we started shooting, when I first got up there. I was just doing a wardrobe fitting and at the last minute, the director [Jon Avnet] calls me up and says Al wants to rehearse. So it ended up being just me, Al, the director, and the photographer in this huge lecture hall. I was fumbling all my lines, but he was so gracious and nonchalant about it.
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