124 | Bosch Star Titus Welliver on Playing a Gritty and Moral Cop
Best Case Worst Case
X-G Productions
4.1 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Titus Welliver, star of Amazon Prime’s “Bosch” talks about the responsibility of playing an LAPD detective, what the role means to him, and whether it lets him beat traffic tickets!
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| 0:00.0 | What's not to like? I mean, it's, uh, he inhabits a kind of dark and dreary. You know, he's a homicide detective. |
| 0:11.0 | We know that Bosch has helped LAPD recruiting. |
| 0:16.0 | Life and death, love and hate, frustration and anger, intelligence and intensity, but there's always a dog-ed determination. |
| 0:31.0 | Hello and welcome to Best Case Worc case. This is Jim Clemente, former New York City prosecutor, retired FBI profiler and writer producer on CBS's Criminal Minds. |
| 0:45.0 | And with me today is... |
| 0:47.0 | Hi everybody, it's franceyhakes, former state and federal prosecutor, Jim. I'm fan-girling out. |
| 0:53.0 | Yes, you are, I'm sure. Because we have an extremely special guest today. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm tired as well, but I don't sound nearly as cool as you do. |
| 1:04.0 | I play Harry Bosch on the Amazon Prime video series Bosch. Play an LAPD... |
| 1:12.0 | All right, let's hear the homicide detective. |
| 1:16.0 | And I see all my LAPD brothers and sisters at all in the house, which always makes me very happy. Bless you all. |
| 1:24.0 | Bless everyone here for what you do. So thank you. It's a privilege to be here. |
| 1:28.0 | Well, thank you so much for being here. |
| 1:30.0 | And Jim, as I'm sure our listeners can now hear, we are once again live. It's very exciting always to do a live episode. |
| 1:37.0 | It's freakishly exciting to have tight as well, and everyone who can't see us right now is listening. |
| 1:42.0 | I think I'm literally sitting next to Bosch. So this is very exciting. |
| 1:46.0 | I'll try not to get too obnoxious and beg for autographs and things like that while we're recording. |
| 1:51.0 | But I can't promise afterward. But what's also exciting is our studio audience, Jim. |
| 1:56.0 | Yes, we have, before us, hundreds of dedicated professionals from the LAPD and related professionals. |
| 2:07.0 | Thank you for being here. Sex crimes, investigators and related professionals. Thank you for what you do. |
| 2:16.0 | So let's launch right into it. Titus, can you tell us who is Harry Bosch? |
| 2:22.0 | Harry Bosch is a LAPD homicide detective. He is a native son, which is pretty unusual in L.A. |
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