At first, Michael Chiklis only became involved in Fox’s “Accused” as a favor to the series’ showrunner, Howard Gordon. That changed completely when the actor and director read the first script. Now, Chiklis has starred in or directed four different episodes of the Fox anthology series and is open to directing more.
“If I’m being honest, I didn’t have any intention of doing something like that, but it’s Howard. Then [the pilot] ended up really knocking my socks off. It was just so good,” Chiklis told TheWrap. “While I was doing it, it was such a professional crew and such a great group of people that I was like, ‘I really would like to direct one of these’ … That was such a wonderful experience that I said, ‘If this gets picked up again, let’s go.