| Dragon*Con 2007 - Part 2 (Friday Afternoon) |
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| 11:41pm 06/09/2007 |
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FRIDAY
The BtVS Panel with James Marsters, Juliet Landau, Elizabeth Rohm and Kenneth Feinberg
We get up at a relatively decent hour, and I turn myself into Judy Danger (the comic book character I play in our original web comic book, for those who don't know). We get on the elevator and are discussing getting in line for registration when the two surliest people I see all Con get on the elevator and start casting us dirty looks and proclaim in voices of DOOM that the lines are insane. I tell them we pre-registered, and again they proclaim, in voices of DOOM "A lot of people pre-registered..." The ellipses implying our imminent stupidity.
Yeah, well. We walk across the street, get inside, and it takes us all of ten minutes to get our badges and books and get back on the street. Take THAT, voices of DOOM! Pre-registering ROCKS!
On our way out, we see some Hogwarts students, and a smokin' Selene from Underworld. Then we decide, prudently, that the first thing on our agenda should be acquiring alcohol from the liquor store across the street. After much discussion, we decide to buy the biggest bottle of Grey Goose known to man, energy drinks, pomegranate and cranberry mixers to the tune of $150 all told. We head right back to the hotel room and mix it up (no, it isn't quite noon yet, why do you ask?). On our way back we see an X-Men Phoenix, a Ghostbuster Gal, and an excellent Gandalf. Arriving at our room, Dom, truly embodying necessity as the mother of invention, sets us up a little distillery made of water bottles. We decide to carry our drinks in water bottles for the convenience, but we don't have enough, so Beau has to use one of the courtesy hotel glasses. We cross the street with a throng of costumed people, Beau wandering through the intersection with his glass of vodka and Red Bull sloshing. Gods, I love this place.
First up, the Whedonverse Panel for Friday. The guy at the information booth doesn't quite manage to pry his eyes off my boobs while I ask which way the room is. We get to the panel early and get decent seats, and Dragon*Con TV is playing on the screens. I love me some Dragon*Con TV. There's a "service announcement" playing, that goes a little something like this:
"We understand the Buffy track has become the Whedon verse track. | Which makes sense, becausesince Firefly and Angel, it's not just all about Buffy anymore. | We're worried about the Whedonverse track, though. | There's a good chance that the panels will be shown out of order. | And then Fox will cancel the track after 3 panels. | So good luck, Whedonverse track!"
And as it turns out, the panels WERE actually listed out of order for the track *snerk*
James Marsters, Elizabeth Rohm and Kenneth Feinberg (Chaos Demon) come out first, and MY GOD, Elizabeth is STUNNING. Amazingly gorgeous. JM, who I've never actually seen in person before has dark hair again, and seems like a big ball of good natured energy. Juliet Landau arrives right behind them, looking as tiny and beautiful as ever, except that she's wearing GIGANTIC sunglasses that obscure half her face. James hugs Juliet very affectionately and switches seats with Elizabeth so he can sit next to Juliet. They look very sweetly happy to see each other.
It is so WEIRD seeing them in person, I've gotta tell you. James is very animated, arms in the air everywhere. Someone asks James about recent projects and he can't quite hear them, so Kenneth repeats the question, starting with "The question was..."
James tells a story about being on set at the Hub for Torchwood, which is a very expensive set, and how when he was told by a stage hand that he could not have coffee on set, and flipped out, because "when you're working 12 to 14 hour days the one thing you have to have is a caffeine source right here". So he walked up to the designer and said (makes psychotic face) "I understand you don't want me drinking coffee on the set." And he just looked at him like James was a deranged person and just goes “No that’s okay, you can drink coffee”.
The next fan asks Juliet and Kenneth if they will dance since they both have a dancing background. This reminds me of people asking Summer Glau to dance last year. I wonder if anyone actually does this on demand? Unsurprisingly, they decline.
The next question is sort of odd, addressed to all of them: Do you have something from childhood that you still keep and why?
ER: I kept my parents around because I couldn't get rid of them.
The next question is to James asking about his character on Torchwood.
JM: I thought Spike was nasty! And I didn't realize that Jack acts sexy on set. I had no idea we were going to be playing these characters that would have sex with anything--like anything with a hole. (audience laughs) Literally! Jack rolls up on set in a sweet sportscar, gets out and says "I almost did the car."
Another Torchwood question for James: Did you get to snog John Barrowman and if so, how good a kisser is he?
While James laughs, embarrassed, Kenneth leans in and says "The question was..." James's head hits the table as he laughs and he's blushing, I swear. It's a few seconds before he can say "I've been instructed not to tell anyone." Then he sits up and makes a covert tongue motion, which sends the audience laughing. Kenneth wonders aloud if the coffee was a metaphor, and Juliet asks if they did it off camera.
Someone asks Elizabeth about working on Angel and how that was.
ER: I was happy to be working at all. I didn't know this world existed. But the one thing I really wanted to do was a scene with Spike and Dru.
JM: It's not too late (wiggles his brows naughtily, everyone laughs)
ER: I miss working on Angel.
JM: Everyone does. David Fury, working on 24 which is a great show, and he's like "I HATE it! Let's have a demon come in! And they always say no!" I'm like, I feel like biting the criminal, can I bite the criminal?
James answers a question about working in Sci-fi.
JM: When you do sci-fi you really strut and put yourself out there. I think characters are best defined through action, that's where you find out who they are. I really hate that most shows don't attempt to develop the character at all, even a baseline. But I do like that the actors get to define the characters in the bigger picture.
A Southern woman is up next and starts to ask a question then stops, embarassed that she's said "ya'll" so many times. James leans in toward the microphone and in a voice like sex says It's okay, it's SO cute" and bites his fingers. She starts talking again and he interrupts in the sex voice, "Say it again."
( Is there more? Oh hells yes! Complete Panel under cut. AKA My Teal Deer, let me show you it. No, really. You'll LOVE it! ) |
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