過去のNYタイムズの記事の意訳。
物凄い分析。
フルタイムの看護師でもあり、休学中の医学生であるアビー・ロックハートと、クロアチア人医師ルカ・コバッチュにロマンチックな関係を持たせた素晴らしい展開は、テレビドラマで見られる最高に魅力的な関係を作り上げた。手軽な慰め以上の悦びに触れることを諦め、感情を押し殺して生きてきた2人の出会い。
THE inspired notion of hooking up Abby Lockhart, the full-time nurse, on-again-off-again med student, with Luka Kovac, the Croatian physician, on ''E.R.'' created perhaps the most fascinating relationship on prime-time TV: the meeting of two emotionally repressed survivors who seemed to have given up hope of any pleasure deeper than comfort or convenience.
アビーは元アルコール中毒者で、元旦那との金銭トラブルにより医大を中退、躁鬱病の母親により振り回され続けて生きてきたため、常に不安に苛まれている。ルカはボスニア戦争中に家を爆破され妻と2人の子供たちを亡くしている。アビーとルカは惹かれて合っているが、ー 彼の影のあるロマンチックな雰囲気は、彼女の悪戯好きなティーンエイジャーのような一面を引き出している ー どちらも心までは開かず、それぞれが抱える葛藤を互いから隠していた。彼らの自宅でのシーンは漠然とした憂鬱さで溢れていた。このマゾヒストたちによる1シーズンも続いたうんざりするような恋愛関係は、今シーズンのアビーとルカの険悪な別れの後も、Maura TierneyとGoran Visnjicという素晴らしい役者たちのおかげで目が離せないものになっている。
Abby, a recovering alcoholic who dropped out of medical school because of money quarrels with her bitter ex-husband, was revealed last season to be the daughter of a bipolar woman whose periodic forays back into her life keep Abby in a state of anxiety and instability. Luka lost his wife and both his children when their apartment was bombed during the Bosnian war. Luka and Abby's sexual chemistry -- his brooding Balkan romanticism sparked the naughty teenager barely hidden under her professional solidity -- and their shared besieged humor covered the inner turmoil they kept out of each other's view; sometimes their domestic scenes together were small symphonies of unarticulated miseries. It was a seasonlong masochist's glut of an affair, and in the hands of the remarkable Maura Tierney and Goran Visnjic it was -- and continues to be, in the stormy aftermath of Abby and Luka's breakup this season -- singularly compelling.
この夏の撮影現場では、Ms. Tierney は「作家たちにとっては、（エンタメとして）必要な交際であって、特に深い意味のあるものではなかったの」と語っていた。「けどこの2人が一緒になったのはとても興味深い。なぜなら2人とも何か欠けてる人、どこか心が壊れてる人」「アビーはルカが心を通わす必要のない人間だと思ったからこそ、彼に惹かれたんだ」とMr. Visnjicは付け加えた。
''In the writers' minds it was a relationship out of need and not necessarily depth,'' Ms. Tierney said this summer on the set. ''But it's so interesting that they wound up together, because they're both missing something -- some part of their spirit is divided.'' Mr. Visnjic added, ''Abby presumed that Luka was emotionally unavailable, and that's why she went for him.''
1999-2000 seasonに初登場したこの2人は、ERが登場人物の心の奥の闇を探究していたいという意欲の現れなのは確かだ。「すべての登場人物が弱点から注目されるの。それがどんな人物像を作り上げて、彼らの物語となっていく」とMs. Tierneyは言う。
Certainly these two, both introduced during the 1999-2000 season, embody the willingness of ''E.R.'' to explore the darker recesses of its characters. ''All of the characters are approached through their emotional inadequacies,'' Ms. Tierney said. ''That's how they're defined; that's how the characters navigate the stories.''
達者なキャスト陣の中でも、Mr. Visnjic and Ms. Tierneyがこの長寿ドラマを見る1番の理由だろう。（レズビアンなER部長のケリー・ウィーバー役の Laura Innesも彼らと並び最高の役者だ。）Ms. Tierneyは80年代ニューヨークのCircle in the Squareにて演劇を学び、 ''News Radio''での5年間と何本かの映画出演の後ERに参加。Mr. VisnjicはZagreb's Academy of Dramatic Arts にて古典演技を学び、西洋にて初めて注目されたのは'''Welcome to Sarajevo'での感動的で存在感のある助演だ。「けど僕はERが僕の最大の修行の場だと思っているよ。」と彼は言った。「むしろ僕にとって慣れない外国語で良かったと思ってるよ。この番組のありとあらゆることが慣れないことだらけだからね」
Mr. Visnjic and Ms. Tierney are the best reasons, among a highly skillful cast, to watch NBC's enduring melodrama, which has been around since 1994 and is as affecting as any medical series TV has produced. (As Kerry Weaver, the lesbian physician who directs the emergency room, Laura Innes shares top acting honors with them.) Ms. Tierney, who studied in New York at Circle in the Square in the mid-80's, slipped into the cast of ''E.R.'' after five years on ''News Radio'' and appearances in several feature films, including Mike Nichols's ''Primary Colors.'' Mr. Visnjic received classical training at Zagreb's Academy of Dramatic Arts (he played Hamlet over seven summers in a co-production of the Croatian National Theater and the Dubrovnik Summer Festival) and first gained the attention of Western audiences with a touching, fully inhabited supporting performance in the movie '''Welcome to Sarajevo.'' 'But I consider 'E.R.' my biggest training ever,'' he said. ''It's almost easier for me that it's in a foreign language, because it's so foreign in every way for me to be on a show like this.''