Serenity Cubed Report - Saturday

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The Saturday Talk with Gigi and Nectar
or Two Amazing Blonde Hotties (Although I Much Prefer Gigi Does It Show?)

- Nectar was asked what she imagined happened to Lenore (the Lovebot) after Serenity, and she said that she figured she was buried with Mr. Universe, because he was, after all, the love of her life. "He programmed me well." When someone mentioned that a theory going around the net was that Jayne picked her up for himself, she said she liked that in a way that made quite obvious the fact that she thought Adam was a hottie.
- Nectar was asked that if she had to choose between playing a politician, a psychopath or... something else, which would she choose? She started by listing what she'd done so far, "I've done stripper, stripper, hooker, lovebot..." and then answered, "I'd love to do psychopath, but politician would be more of a stretch."
- Nectar said she wouldn't sleep with anyone for a role, but that she would shave her head for it if she liked the part. She said the worst she'd done was Siamese twins, because they had to be joined for the whole day on set, including on bathroom breaks.
- Gigi said the Chiana make-up took three hours and a half to put on, and that the hair colour lasted for a week. She brought up the contacts again, and how they kept spinning, so that when they got to shoot it was like, "lights ready? sound ready? Gigi's eyes?" and somebody came to spin her lens back in the right spot.
- Gigi also said she wanted to see a wormhole on Stargate SG1, so that SG1would cross over and find Moya. (For those that may not know, Ben "Crichton" Browder and Claudia "Aeryn" Black are now both on SG1.)
- Nectar is going to be in a prequel to May (which I ADORE it made me squee so much!) called Roman, with Kristen Bell. Looking forward to it! (And Jimmy Duval's in it again! Yay!)
- Gigi, about D'Argo: "It was all about the tongue."
- Nectar would love to work with Soderbergh or Emmerich (again). Gigi would love to work with Christopher Nolan, Jonny Depp, Harvey Keitel, Robert DeNiro, and Juliet Lewis.
- Nectar, about Joss: "Joss is a madman. And a great hip hop dancer. Yes, it's true. He has moves."
- Nectar, about her performance as Lenore: "I was really good at playing dead."
- Gigi said that kissing D'Argo was not actually the best thing because the prosthetics tasted awful. However, she said, when asked about the tentacles, "The more the merrier, I say!"
- On Gigi's first day on Farscape, they blew up part of the set where she was supposed to work, so she couldn't shoot that day. She was already in the full costume, so she stayed in it for a while and just looked at herself in the mirror and that's when she slowly breathed it all in and the way Chiana moves came to her with more clarity. She explained, "I found Chiana through the breath work - the breast work. ...the breath work!"
- She said her favourite scenes tended to be with Pilot. Once, there was a fire on the Pilot set, and everybody's first reaction was, "Is Pilot gonna be okay?" and the guys who had come to inform them were like, "Yeah, he'll pull through."
- Also, Gigi is learning the guitar!

The Saturday Talk with Mark and Michael
or Two Adorable Villains

- Mark and Michael were working together on Medium when Mark brought up the con and asked Michael if he'd like to come. He apparently described it as a "luuuurvefest."
- About the torture scene, Michael said, "it was more than fun." He decided it had to be about more than just making an example out of Mal, because otherwise that would be boring to stretch an 'example' scene so much, so he made it into something more sensual for Niska, almost sexual. He said it "climaxed" when he had Mal's ear cut off, and added, "I hate leading men. I never was a leading man." To which Mark answered, "And they're always taller than me."
- Mark also brought up his opinion that the good guys always needed the bad guys to explain stuff to them. (Which I think is very true. Heh.) He also said, about bad guys, "Delicious is the word."
- Michael explained how he once played a guy that murdered his brother and his nephew, and then ruled over the city. To which Mark ominously added, "Tomorrow, the world..."
- Apparently Badger's hat has been lost! Woe! Mark went on about how he loves Badger's costume and how it was all sort of put together wrong, like he had no socks, or he wore a tie but no shirt.
- Michael mentioned how when he played Stanley Kowalski for a while on stage, it ended up carrying over into his relationship with his wife. (To which Mark asked, "what, you wore a wifebeater and started calling 'Stellaaaaa!'?") But for shorter stints like Niska, it had no effect on him at all to play such a sick, twisted bastard. (My words.)
- Mark once again stated his opinion on bad guys: "Villains are just people with a different agenda."
- Mark talked quite a bit about playing Paddy Armstrong in In the Name of the Father. He told us that he had walked into the same room as the real Paddy Armstrong while still wondering about the pros and cons of meeting him, and it was quite odd because they were dressed the same way. Playing a real person, he said, was like relearning history, since you have to do it from a different point of view. (...that might have been Michael talking about his part as Stevenson in Thirteen Days.)
- After that, Mark went, "we just got serious. Let's do a little funny." To which Michael responded by getting up and dancing his bum off. Elderly man, my pigu!
- Michael, on why he took up acting: "For me it was the girls." It was, actually, for the girls, back when he was in Japan and took up theatre and landed chicks. Mark said he liked being able to do all those things he's not allowed to do in the real world. "I wouldn't trade it for anything at all," he said very earnestly, and that it was an "immense pleasure."
- After that bit of seriousness, somebody (Michael? an attendee?) remarked that the serious was back and prodded Mark to be the one to burst into a dance this time. Mark went, deadpan, "You can't afford me, honey."
- In acting class once, Michael sat down next to a gorgeous blond in sunglasses, and leaned over to ask one of his friends who the hottie was and was she new. It was, actually, Marylin Monroe!
- Niska was supposed to say "Cut off his ear" in Czech, but Michael is mostly good at Russian gibberish, and so that's what he does in War Stories. Which had Mark remark that Niska was, for all they knew, ordering good! Which made it scarier. "Can you get me a sandwich?"
- At one point, Niska was so turned on by the pain that Michael sort of had him dance around, and that's the only time he disagreed with Joss and had to not do that.
- Apparently everybody that was being auditioned for Badger was weird, and Mark started taking it personally. "I'm not weird!"
- Apparently Nathan was always running around getting people sandwiches. I think it's them, as well, that mentioned the fact that it's very rare for a cast to invite the crew over to their parties and stuff. Yay atmosphere on the Firefly set!
- Mark is of Irish descent, from Dublin.
- When he was on the X-Files, Mark was shown a video of a guy by a garage waving his arm that was on fire and going "look! it doesn't hurt!" because they needed him to accept to do the stunt of the arm on fire, at least. And Mark went, 'of course I'll do it, it's in the script!' which surprised them.
- Mark's stunt double that did the full body burn had no eyebrows. "So you've done this before?" "How did you guess?" He did the full body burn for twenty eight seconds and his oxygen wasn't working, so he had to hold his breath. Then people went, "How're you doing?" and the guy was like, "not bad!"
- When asked what show they'd love to be on, Mark said Doctor Who (which got a huuuuge cheer out of the room) and Battlestar Galactica (which got a slightly less huge cheer, this is England, you can't beat Who), and Michael mentioned Everybody Loves Raymond.
- Michael's favourite villain to do was Marc Anthony in Julius Caesar, Hotspur from Henry IV, and he also loved doing Bottom in Midsummer Night's Dream. He explained that he originally wanted to be the best American Shakespearean actor. Other than that, he said it was Niska.
- Mark explained he couldn't answer that question with Badger, as Badger was not a villain but "a man of needs and urgency and a slightly different opinion than the rest of the world."

The Saturday Talk with Jewel and Morena
or How Much Are They Like Bickering Albeit Loving Sisters

- Morena, about the fact that it's been announced that SG1 is being cancelled: "It's a curse. Every single series I do gets cancelled."
- When Jewel's flipping contest with Nathan was mentioned, she pretended ignorance at first, and then when the attendee pointed out that we hadn't heard anything new in a while, she said, "That's because I won."
- She then told the V-card story. She wrote Nathan a very creepy Valentine's Day card, making it look like she was some creepy stalker that had been in his house and kissed stuff there. And then inside the card was a picture of Jewel flipping him the bird!
- Morena: "It's awesome to play evil. I think I really like it."
Jewel: "That's not a shocker."
- Morena explained that playing evil came off as scarier the sweeter you played it.
- Morena is a huge football (by which I mean soccer, you American folks) fan. She was very disappointed by the World Cup and 'doesn't wanna talk about it.' She was waking up every morning at eight to catch the games, and would be restless, pacing and cursing and sitting down and standing up and yelling at the screen. She got all defensive about Brazil with an attendee, like any true die-hard football fan, and Jewel went, "She scares me."
- Somebody asked the girls if they knew what Zoe's real name was (as in her maiden name, obviously), since apparently you can see a different one in the series than in the movie. To which Jewel answered, "I only wrote seven out of the thirteen episodes." And Morena went, "I'm sorry. Who are we talking about?"
- Morena came to the show not because of the part (a space hooker?) but because of Joss. And starvation. Jewel said she came because of Joss, and how she trusted him to do a good job.
- Jewel mentioned that she'd been offered a part as a doctor on SGA next season. (No prosthetics this time!) Morena: "Copycat."
- Jewel said she found it easier to play extremes (Morena: "I wonder why."), because it was harder to make normal interesting.
- Morena said that she got scared if she had to cry for an audition. She's more into rigid characters. Morena: "What does that say about me?" Jewel: "You're emotionless. And frigid."
- They were asked if there had been any romantic entanglements between the BDH. Morena: "Should we tell them?" Jewel: "Morena and I had a fling." Morena then added that she couldn't not go for Ron. And Jewel added that there was also Sean and Summer, having sex all the time. And, of course, Nathan and Alan. Then they got serious and explained that there was far too much of a family vibe.
- Morena finally said that the famous syringue was about giving the Reavers an STD so Inara could take them down with her.
- They were asked what they thought of fans and cons, and Morena said it was scary, and Jewel tiresome, to be in a room full of hundreds of people who say how great they are. Jewel then added that there was maybe 10% of the fans that were a bit creepy, but that was it. Like the guys asking them if they could make out. And they were like, "what if we said yes?"
- Jewel said she wouldn't do the Tribe again. It was very physically demanding, and she lost some weight. When Nathan saw her afterwards he went, "wow, man. I think you need to do a romantic comedy or something. You look messed up."
- They were asked what they wouldn't travel without. Jewel explained how she was so sad that she couldn't take lip gloss with her on the plane. Morena answered a good book.
- Jewel said that watching amazing performances by other actresses (she mentioned Cate Blanchett and Meryl Streep) gave her a drive to get better, because she got envious. Morena said that working with amazing actors gave her that drive.
- Jewel told us how she was on the FOX parking lot with Nathan one day, and there was Steven Spielberg in his car, and he went, "hey, Nathan!" when he saw him, and told them that he loved the show. The both of them were startruck, and Nathan couldn't believe that Steven had recognised him.
- Morena was asked about the SG1 cast, and she compared Ben Browder to Nathan, except not, because "you can't touch Captain Tightpants." She also dubbed Michael Shanks Doctor Dork.
- When asked which series they thought Joss would be remembered for, the girls answered that they didn't see any Angel or Buffy movie (which Joss did): "I think we win."
- Morena said that "Mal and Inara have no shot in hell." She didn't see the end of Serenity as a romantic ending for them.
- Jewel said that Kaylee and Simon would have a baby. But then again she was convinced that then Joss would kill the baby. Or Simon. Or Kaylee. Morena then said she'd take the baby in and raise it as a Companion. "Mini-Whore."
- Morena, about Simon and Kaylee's future: "He's gonna fuck it up." She then cracked up when she realised she'd just say fuck, but Jewel agreed.
- Morena cracked up while telling us this story about what happened at the airport. You know all the regulations for liquids and toiletries and stuff? The whole world knows, and it was plastered all over the airport. There was this guy with a small carry-on bag, and when they asked him to open it, all he had inside was three tubes of toothpaste and some cologne. She said she was laughing so hard she fell to the floor.
- Jewel got excited about weapon training until she had to do it. They trained her in absolutely every weapon used in the movie, just in case Joss wanted her to use this or that on the spot. Morena trained with a bow and arrows (Jewel: "that was like yoga for you.") and when she had to shoot it in the movie everybody on set was wearing hard hats and goggles just in case, but she hit the X every time.
- "Are you as sweet as Kaylee?" Jewel was looking at the guy who asked the question, and Morena shook her head. Jewel went, "I can see you out of the corner of my eye."
- Jewel was tired of Kaylee always being happy. "If I have to be happy one more time..." She wanted her to lose it.
- Jewel was not that surprised when she heard the show was cancelled (she'd had seven other shows cancelled on her). They all went and got drunk at Nathan's that night.
- Jewel, about her part on Wonderfalls: "Heidi was a lot of fun."
- Kaylee was selfless where Heidi was unapologetic about her selfishness, and Jewel loved that about her.
- Wonderfalls had very long hours, so the actors were so knackered at the end of the day that they didn't hang out like the Firefly guys did.
- Firefly was the most fun job they ever had. Serenity was even better because there was no fear of cancellation. They both wish they knew, back during Firefly, that it was so special, so they could enjoy it even more.
- Morena said she was longing for overalls, and Jewel for dresses. Morena also didn't like the costumes in the movie, said the costume designer really didn't get it. She cried about it it was so bad. Joss and she had to do as best as they could putting stuff together themselves.
- Apparently people on IMDb said that Morena had got a bad nose job, which got both girls offended, and Jewel went, "People can be such dicks on IMDb."

The Saturday Talk with Sean and Christina
or Sean, Could You Feel A Little More Awkward?

- On the whole, Sean was extremely uneasy all through that talk. Like, incredibly shy and stuff. It was so odd, after how friendly and easy-going he had been the previous night. (Maybe he was hungover?) Still, he delivered the best opening line of any of the talks, while we were clapping and cheering, he went, "Wait a second. Can you hear that? It's... not Nathan!"
- Somebody told him that the girls had said that Simon'd mess things up with Kaylee somehow, at which he got this betrayed sort of look and went, "I thought we were having a baby!"
- Back when he did theatre, he also did some waiting tables because it really didn't pay. As far as plays are concerned, he mostly did avant garde stuff and I didn't know the play he mentioned and I forgot the name before I could write it down, sorry. *sucks*
- Sean, on why the enmity between Jayne and Simon: "I think Jayne had a crush on Simon."
- Sean said that he had three aims in acting: making up for bad writing, developping a character, and finding chemistry with the other actors. And in Firefly, he had to work on none of these things.
- Somebody asked how Sean reacted to extreme fangirlitis (my phrasing) - like once a girl came from a signing with him sobbing. Christina turned to him and went, "what did you do to her?" And he went, "Is she the one I hit? Did she have a bloody nose?"
- Christina was asked what it was like to kiss the Captain, at which point Sean tried to say that Nathan was a good kisser, but Christina talked over him to say that "It was really hot to kiss Nathan" and stuff, and when she was done Sean had to repeat himself: "He's a really good kisser."
- Sean hated his hair in Serenity. He likes it short better.
- Sean discovered theatre in high school. In his senior year, they put up six productions. Rehearsals were really the only reason why he got up in the morning to go to school.
- Sean was good at football (aka soccer).
- Sean's parents were very supportive.
- When he had to play Piccolo for Brian's Song, he called his little brother, who was more of a jock back then, and then went to the park and practiced American football for a while. Sean didn't get any serious injuries from that movie, just a few bumps and bruises.
- Sean has this image in his head, of what the reintroduction of Simon and Kaylee should be in Serenity 2: Kaylee, hevaily pregnant, in a short skirt and flimsy little top, shaving Simon's head because he's too pretty. ...o-kay.
- Sean used to sing, much less nowadays. He tried out musical theatre, but he hated musical actors. Christina asked him what he hated specifically, and he went, "...everything about them." So then he turned to experimental theatre, and instead of singing and dancing he did rolling on the floor chanting.
- He hasn't actually gone back on stage since his first camera job.
- Each year his resolution is to sing more, and he never does.
- If he met Simon, Sean would think that he's annoying and needs that stick out of his ass. His words.
- He said that he had a very close relationship with his sister. She just had a baby, who is turning one on October 11. He said he'd do anything for her.
- He talked about Wedding March, or Wedding Wars, or whatever that movie is called, and said it wasn't shove-it-in-your-face, but more like it made you think, and brought up the idea of choice. He also said that the sun never came up in Halifax, where they shot, and that it was always rainy.
- Sean doesn't watch sci-fi.
- There was a completely drunk Scotsman that asked them the weirdest question about who they would like to kill out of other sci-fi shows, and neither of them could answer, and the guy kept insisting and was being such a pain, and in the end he asked again, "Come on, Sean, tell us who ye really wanna kill," and Sean went, "...what's your name?" which was insanely funny no yeah really. Thank you, Sean.
- Sean's family comes from the Southern tip of Ireland. His great aunt was the last one to reside there, but she passed away five years ago. When he was in college, he rented a car there with some friends and drove all the way up and then down the isle.
- Christina loves Greece.
- Sean was so tired of Simon's vests, but he loved his wardrobe for Ariel. The fact that Simon wasn't wearing any vests on Serenity was "per my request."
- Sean was asked if he'd always been gorgeous, and he was so uneasy Christina stepped in and was like, 'I've only known him for six years, but he was hot back then. So he's at least been gorgeous for six years. I can't vouch for before that.'

The Saturday Night: Fancy Dress, Party and Jedi Chefs

- First off was the fancy dress contest. The best, imho, was an amazing Edward Scissorhands, who won Best Group since he was there with his Kim. The winner was a Reaver Chef, who might've had a great idea but the disguise itself was rather poor. There were a few Jack Sparrows, and Sean Harry said we'd have to look up the collective name for those. All in all, it was pretty cool, but there was nothing outstanding beyond Edward, and a fairly well done Chiana.
- Mark's wife and kids were there. She's very pretty, and they're adorable, and he's adorable with them. You'll see the pictures in Joey's journal.
- We sang happy birthday for Nectar, and there was a cake. She said she'd never had so many people singing her happy birthday and it was great. We also said goodbye to Morena since she had to leave to go back to shooting SG1 on Monday.
- Mark and Nectar were the only two to show up at the party afterwards, and just hang out. They were both made Jedi Chefs! Yay!
- And what a party it was. Where else do you get to dance to Papa Roach with Chiana, see a Starfleet officer do the Macarena, look to Jack Sparrow to know how to dance to convention songs, or do the Time Warp with Silas? (Hold your horses, girl, he was nothing like Paul. Alas.) It was a brilliant night.

Comments

[ely-jan.livejournal.com]

*twirls you!* Thank you, darlin - god, did you miss anything? Almost as good as being there...almost...better would have been right beside you. And that WILL happen. *kisses* Missed you madly but am thrilled you two had such an amazing weekend!

[fan-elune.livejournal.com]

Heee! That was one of the points of the note-taking, trying to bring to bring as much of the experience to all of you guys. I'm dedicated if nothing else.

*licks your icon*

*shares the taste with you with a snog*

[gobsmackit.livejournal.com]

- Sean used to sing, much less nowadays. He tried out musical theatre, but he hated musical actors. Christina asked him what he hated specifically, and he went, "...everything about them."
Heh!

This was interesting to read - thanks! :D

[fan-elune.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome! I was pretty intrigued by that comment about musical actors, I wish he'd have developped his answer but that one was the Awkward Talk. Alas!