Creation Stargate Sg-1/Atlantis Chicago Convention 2008 Part II
Here are my notes from this years convention in this post and the one below. See the posts below these two for last years.
Michael:
My notes are incomplete because I was in line to ask him a question and once he looked at me…my mind went blank on what most of the questions before me were.
Someone asked about some role where he had to have a parasol. So they brought this blue/purple parasol they asked him to model a bit. So he walked across the stage twirling it over his shoulder and in front of him. Hilarious and adorable!
My question: First I reminded him he owed us an Irish accent from last year. He laughed. "Uh...no."
Me: Ok, well I have an Unending question.
MS: Like the question is unending?
Me: Ha...no...the episode. So I know you and Claudia had issues with the fight scene and a lot of people felt how it ended was against your character. That it wasn't right that he would just kiss her and realize he liked her too. Obviously you played the scene so you didn't think it was against the character so I was wondering if you could comment on that.
MS: Yeah...the first written scene actually ended with Daniel walking around going "So are we in a relationship now or what?" and Vala saying "Daniel, does that always mean you are in a relationship?". (Applause for Claudia and Michael for saying no to that...would have ruined it if you ask me) And they just didn't like that. So it was rewritten and they played it differently and I think he said he liked the end result and felt they went just far enough. He said they were both vulnerable. Daniel was upset and opening up to her in a way he rarely did. And she's opening up to him as well. Daniel is asking himself if she is being real and he didn't think she was. He spends how much time rebuffing her? You have to ask why is he doing that and look at his reaction each time. She was never being real and he thought it was the same. He asks who thought the scene was too far for Daniel and then how many thought it was fine. (For those who raised their hands...it was half and half). He ends with saying "So yeah...I would have hated for Daniel to walk around going 'So are we in a relationship, right now?"
Me: Well, I waited two years for that scene, so thank you!
MS: Thank you.
His favorite spoof from the 200th is the Farscape spoof cause he got to play Ben. (For those who don’t know…Ben was gonna play John and Michael was Stark in the script) They were trying on the outfits the day before and Ben was looking at the Stark mask and kind of not completely into it. MS said Ben was like “Alright, I guess.” about the whole thing cause he was more attached to Farscape. When he asked Claudia if she was ok with it she was like “Oh yeah, it will be fun.” So he looks at Ben and says wanna switch, we are the same size. So they do. Ben asked if it would be ok with Rob. MS said, “Screw Rob Let’s just do it.” Of course later on he realized it made sense. If the spoof was in Vala’s mind of course Daniel would be her lead.
He has watched Farscape. He watched an ep once and couldn’t understand what the heck they were talking about. “What the hell is going on??” So he gave up halfway through. Then for Claudia he tried again, but still couldn’t do it.
A fan asked what he thought about the negative stereotype sci-fi fans have. He said it was wrong. He called us the most supportive passionate fan base you can have. This was his living room for him. He said it was crazy some guy would make fun of someone in a sci-fi costume and then paint his face go to a hockey game and scream the entire game. Same thing, different fan. (Can I get an Amen??? I just fell in love with this man even more)
Someone brought up the Sci-fi original Megasnake. Michael denied being in it. That was someone called Mikhail Shanks. “Is that a question or did you just want to embarrass the shit out of me?” And no we can’t have our 2 hours back. (People in the audience yelled out they owned it) He said if you own it then it is your own fault. You can’t fake that you accidentally turned it on or found it if you buy it from Germany or wherever. (He is informed it is at Walmart) “It’s at Walmart? Oh shit.”
Continuum: He didn’t like the year later thing. He couldn’t see Daniel stopping and just waiting for something to happen to get him home. He couldn’t see being told he can’t contact Mitchell and Sam and then actually listening to it.
Someone asked to read the back of his shirt: “Has the well run dry of questions? You aren’t saying this just to look at my ass are you?” He lets her look and then lets us look…and does the butt wiggle. (Could care less what the shirt said ladies…I was looking at the bum wiggle…oh yeah)
Tells us to watch Jason X for Chuck and his wife. “Jason X…it’s a gem…Megasnake still sucks more next to it.”
On being a prior: He didn’t want to do the voice. The boring monotone prior voice they all seem to have. Daniel talked for 24 out of 44 minutes. No one wants to listen to that. (I object…I’ll listen to him read the phone book) He would have had to shoot himself. So he figured keep part of Daniel…the speech and let the prior makeup do the rest.
His answers to the Inside the Actors Studio questions:
Favorite curse word? It’s actually a phrase, which he says is all encompassing. Fuck me running. He doesn’t know what it means or if it is even possible.
Favorite sound? Would always be something that had to do with his children.
This question doesn’t have an answer except he laughed at it. I just love the way she said it. So in the movie James Spader is a geek, which is great. And you play him like that at first. He’s a nerd. And then ten years later and you’re a nerd but you’ll kick their ass. (Hahaha…Daniel summarized perfectly)
David:
“So have you heard?” (Audience-“Yes”) “It sucks. Write a letter.”
Mentions he has read the last couple scripts. “So what happens is…what are they gonna do fire me?”
Thinks the idea for the movie is a good one. (Audience- “What?”) “Well there are these two gerbils…”
My question: So Mckay is supposed to be the big genius. (David interrupts to say “Uh, no.”) Okay, well they portray his as such. But if he is the genius and when he needs saving they run to you (David interrupts again “They do always run to me don’t they.”) doesn’t that make Radek the supreme genius? Why doesn’t he have Mckay’s job?
“I see no question there.” He goes on to explain the two of them are different and smart in different ways. They tend to balance each other out and they have a great relationship. “But thanks for the compliment.”
Some one started to speak to him in Czech and David spoke it back. The woman next to me made me laugh by asking where the subtitles were. Then David asked the gentlemen why he was wearing Daniel Jackson’s vest and what Daniel was wearing.
He explained that his mom spoke Czech at home and so he grew up thinking everyone had a home language and a street language. When he went to the University he found out quickly this is not how it works.
Does he play chess? Yes, he plays online and no he wouldn’t tell us where. They had a grandmaster on set for those scenes that showed him all the tricks of the game. He was also very proud that he had suggested a certain move for the scene.
Is David Hewlett annoying? Yes, yes he is. He is also a very nice guy.
At this point a baby starts to cry. “It’s ok. It will be over soon.” Haha
He had a long walk and talk scene that was cut out of “The Shrine”. He was surprised it had been cut since it had to do with Stargate Universe. It had been about the ninth chevron.
He said we knew everything before he did. He goes to Gateworld to see if he works next week.
If he could do anything in an episode what would it be? He felt he was cheating if he said anything since he has read the last couple of scripts. Though he would love to say a relationship with Torri Higginson.
Mentioned a movie with Goran Visnjic. Goran is a huge Stargate fan apparently and yelled, “You’re on Stargate!” David answered, “You’re on ER!”.
This might be the same movie as above. I didn’t catch it. David saw a comment on line about him being in a movie with David Hewlett. “Nooooooooo…I can’t get away from him.”
Yes he is in an episode of Sanctuary. “With the new long dark haired Amanda. I didn’t recognize her at first. I was like A-manda?” The episode in entitled Cush.
After he needed the audience to tell him when Sanctuary would premier he said we were like having a google right there in front of him. He asked us to state pi to the 12th decimal and where Melbourne street in Vancouver was.
He is interested in Starcrossed (a David Hewlett project), but David is busy. It’s alive, but on the backburner at the moment.
What is on the computers in scenes? The universe runs on flash animation. He loves to mess with the macro files to play with the computer guys who set up what the laptops are showing. They get him back by using voice activation. He’ll be in the middle of a take and the laptop will say “Your acting sucks.”
He would love to work more with Rachel Luttrell. She is usually on a different story line then he is and he doesn’t get to work with her much at all. “They don’t put me with the ladies. They know what will happen.”
He’s talking about Vancouver being a big sci-fi filming spot and says, “Vancouver where…I almost said where all good sci-fi goes to die. But no…that is Robert Picardo’s doing.” But he was just kidding, says Rob is great.
Did a Joe Flanigan impersonation. Was told everyone does one so he needed to to. “Aw, poor Joe.”
Do they have games on the laptops that they secretly play in scenes? No, the laptops might swear at you.
When he was told he was done, “Aw, I’m told to stop here. So this must end…just like the season. L
Ben:
He came out and laughs at everyone standing against the wall and asked if we (cause I was one of them…taking pics and staring at the oh so goodness of Ben) were the cheap tickets. That they had run out of seats, but we were allowed to stand against the wall.
He mentioned Atlantis being cancelled and told us how welcoming and sweet Don S. Davis had been when he joined Stargate. Then he apologized for being so depressing.
Then he said he had to do something for himself and asked how many people had watched Farscape before Stargate. The Fargaters went wild. Then realizing there were a lot of us there he did the line. “Can I get a hell yeah?!” “Hell yeeeaaahh!” (The pride and joy of my Farscape existence…Ben asked and I got to answer one of the best Farscape lines ever). He then asked how many Stargate fans had turned and watched Farscape and there were quite a few of them too. All the screaming made a baby cry and he said, “This is great. I’m depressing and I scare babies.” So he sang the baby a lullaby, Hush Little Baby.
He wasn’t sure what kind of a reaction he would get since he sort of replaced, or it looked like he replaced RDA. He squinted his eyes against the light and said he couldn’t see us…or any snipers that might be in the audience.
He said he wouldn’t answer one question. What was it like to work with Claudia on Stargate. He would answer who was the better kisser between Michael, Chris and Beau. Michael was scratchy. At this point someone ran to the mike and asked who. The answer was Claudia Black. And then he added his wife, but he has never kissed her at work. But if she was going to read this on the internet later he would be in trouble if he didn’t mention her.
He talked about what a professional Beau was because he grew up with his father being in the business. He said Beau knew what he was doing at all times and you sort of worked around him. He insisted the kiss with Beau and made a joke about Beau staying out of his close-ups after that. He said everyone kisses everyone. The mistletoe scene in Unending was a lot longer then what we saw.
What is he doing now? Looking for work. Mentioned something called Homer being in the works that had been interrupted by the Writer’s Strike. He’s been coaching high school women’s pole vaulting.
Favorite music of his characters? John Crichton-Jazz, Cameron Mitchell-Classic Rock and he himself likes alternative.
My question: Farscape season 2: The Locket. As Old Man Crichton Claudia described him off camera as (He says “creepy?”) dirty. I was wondering if you got to have as much fun off camera as old man Mitchell.
He explains for those who didn’t know about how he realized old men get away with things others can’t. Since no one recognized him in make up he would ask girls to sit on his lap or tell them how fine they were looking. He said he couldn’t do that with Mitchell because Mitchell did not age well. He took awhile to answer and finally turned to me and asked what my question was and if he had answered it. I think I embarrassed him cause he thanked me for asking that in a sheepish way. Too cute!
Does he have a favorite Stargate moment? No, it would be like having a favorite kid. He doesn’t like either of his kids. Just kidding…again he was afraid his wife would read that online. But he just could not name any moment that was a favorite.
There was a scene in Unending where Beau’s character dies. Amanda is supposed to walk out in tears and Teal’c hugs her. One take when Amanda walks out Chris Judge is wearing only a black g-string with SG-1 embriodered on it.
He told a story about a dance class where they asked him if he could teach anything. He did know one dance called the Shag. The class was in England and he didn’t know what it meant there. So he said, “I can teach them how to shag.” Of course they laughed at him. “At my house we call that dancing with the stars.” Every so often he would say to someone at the mike, “So I can teach you how to dance…”
Said Michael and Chris were like an old gay lesbian married couple. He has never in his life seen two men talk that much. They talk non-stop. They talk in between takes, walking to their trailers, after work. They live in the same town and when they were at comic con Ben looks around and they are talking in the corner.
What card game were they plating in the Powers That Be? War. Teal’c and Mitchell had nothing to do so he asked Chris what they should do. They decided to play cards and that was the game they figured Teal’c had learned to play after being on earth for so long. It didn’t really matter. He said they could do that with him. RDA was a busy guy so if he didn’t need to be in the scene they usually wouldn’t have him be there. With him they had him at their disposal so there were a lot more times where he would just be in the background with nothing to do.
What is his favorite character moment? “That question just won’t die.” They are all his favorite. He did mention he thought there was a cute scene between Mitchell and Vala in Dominion. “Ask me what I hate. That is half the time I ‘m on the screen.” His answer may change. Call him in 5 years. He offered to give us his number, but said he would change it anyway.
He came up with a rule that if he didn’t answer your first question you got a second and if he didn’t answer that you got a third and if he didn’t answer that you were done. A girl asked if she could have hug and he playfully said, “on to question 2.” She didn’t have a second question so he said on to question three in which he asked for her “Can I have a hug? Yeees.” He said having kids has broken him down. “Can I have a coke? No. Can I Have a coke? No. Can I Have a coke? No. Can I Have a coke? Yes! Will you do a SG-1 convention? No. Will you do a SG-1 convention? No. Will you do a SG-1 convention? No. Will you do a SG-1 convention? Yes.”
He doesn’t like to watch his own acting. He likes to watch scenes with him and Claudia cause then he can just look at her and comment on her great acting. Or he can watch a scene with him and Amanda cause she is cute. He can’t watch a scene between Michael and him because then he gets confused.
If he could have any role what would it be? Probably a re-make of something. (Someone yelled out Macgyver) Yeah, he’ll play Macgyver in the remake of Macgyver.
If he were gay whom on Stargate would he want to hook up with? After laughing at the craziness of the question he says well he has kissed them all. Well not Atlantis, there was no Atlantis kissing. He laughs again and says this is just crazy talk. He can’t answer that because Michael might get mad if it wasn’t him.
After the above question he says, “I thought you guys would be normal. I expect this from the Farscape fans. Farscape you run on a loop at an insane asylum to make people crazier. But Stargate is family entertainment. What’s wrong with you people?”
Someone asked about him being alone in Unending since Daniel had Vala and Chris and Amanda played the episode like Teal’s and Sam had a relationship. “Did they have a relationship? I was playing Mitchell and Sam had a thing. No, I was playing trying to break Sam and Teal’c up the whole episode. I mean come on he was on that boat for like 80 years. At least give him a hand to hold.”
What happened in the 1930’s when he was stuck alone in Continuum? They made an audio file of what happened. So he wrote this deal where Mitchell went around the globe. Brad Wright told him it was entertaining, but that isn’t what would have happened. “Well, yeah he would of held up in a cave, but how was he going to make that work for seven minutes. I had in a cave yesterday…just like the day before.”
Someone asked him to show us the Shag dance. “I only shag privately.”
What was it like to play against himself in Ripple Effect? Well…he wasn’t really there…so…good. But it was great to fight in that ep. “I fought myself in another show. I kicked my own ass. That is the only fight I have ever won. I always lose…women…Teal’c G-string or no….I always lose.”
We gave him a standing ovation when he thanked us for not hiring any snipers and for our acceptance of him.
Note: This man cannot stay on topic. If you want to ask a question…be one of the first…there are no short answers with him. Whish is funny, but if you wait till the last minute he may not have time for you.
Michael:
My notes are incomplete because I was in line to ask him a question and once he looked at me…my mind went blank on what most of the questions before me were.
Someone asked about some role where he had to have a parasol. So they brought this blue/purple parasol they asked him to model a bit. So he walked across the stage twirling it over his shoulder and in front of him. Hilarious and adorable!
My question: First I reminded him he owed us an Irish accent from last year. He laughed. "Uh...no."
Me: Ok, well I have an Unending question.
MS: Like the question is unending?
Me: Ha...no...the episode. So I know you and Claudia had issues with the fight scene and a lot of people felt how it ended was against your character. That it wasn't right that he would just kiss her and realize he liked her too. Obviously you played the scene so you didn't think it was against the character so I was wondering if you could comment on that.
MS: Yeah...the first written scene actually ended with Daniel walking around going "So are we in a relationship now or what?" and Vala saying "Daniel, does that always mean you are in a relationship?". (Applause for Claudia and Michael for saying no to that...would have ruined it if you ask me) And they just didn't like that. So it was rewritten and they played it differently and I think he said he liked the end result and felt they went just far enough. He said they were both vulnerable. Daniel was upset and opening up to her in a way he rarely did. And she's opening up to him as well. Daniel is asking himself if she is being real and he didn't think she was. He spends how much time rebuffing her? You have to ask why is he doing that and look at his reaction each time. She was never being real and he thought it was the same. He asks who thought the scene was too far for Daniel and then how many thought it was fine. (For those who raised their hands...it was half and half). He ends with saying "So yeah...I would have hated for Daniel to walk around going 'So are we in a relationship, right now?"
Me: Well, I waited two years for that scene, so thank you!
MS: Thank you.
His favorite spoof from the 200th is the Farscape spoof cause he got to play Ben. (For those who don’t know…Ben was gonna play John and Michael was Stark in the script) They were trying on the outfits the day before and Ben was looking at the Stark mask and kind of not completely into it. MS said Ben was like “Alright, I guess.” about the whole thing cause he was more attached to Farscape. When he asked Claudia if she was ok with it she was like “Oh yeah, it will be fun.” So he looks at Ben and says wanna switch, we are the same size. So they do. Ben asked if it would be ok with Rob. MS said, “Screw Rob Let’s just do it.” Of course later on he realized it made sense. If the spoof was in Vala’s mind of course Daniel would be her lead.
He has watched Farscape. He watched an ep once and couldn’t understand what the heck they were talking about. “What the hell is going on??” So he gave up halfway through. Then for Claudia he tried again, but still couldn’t do it.
A fan asked what he thought about the negative stereotype sci-fi fans have. He said it was wrong. He called us the most supportive passionate fan base you can have. This was his living room for him. He said it was crazy some guy would make fun of someone in a sci-fi costume and then paint his face go to a hockey game and scream the entire game. Same thing, different fan. (Can I get an Amen??? I just fell in love with this man even more)
Someone brought up the Sci-fi original Megasnake. Michael denied being in it. That was someone called Mikhail Shanks. “Is that a question or did you just want to embarrass the shit out of me?” And no we can’t have our 2 hours back. (People in the audience yelled out they owned it) He said if you own it then it is your own fault. You can’t fake that you accidentally turned it on or found it if you buy it from Germany or wherever. (He is informed it is at Walmart) “It’s at Walmart? Oh shit.”
Continuum: He didn’t like the year later thing. He couldn’t see Daniel stopping and just waiting for something to happen to get him home. He couldn’t see being told he can’t contact Mitchell and Sam and then actually listening to it.
Someone asked to read the back of his shirt: “Has the well run dry of questions? You aren’t saying this just to look at my ass are you?” He lets her look and then lets us look…and does the butt wiggle. (Could care less what the shirt said ladies…I was looking at the bum wiggle…oh yeah)
Tells us to watch Jason X for Chuck and his wife. “Jason X…it’s a gem…Megasnake still sucks more next to it.”
On being a prior: He didn’t want to do the voice. The boring monotone prior voice they all seem to have. Daniel talked for 24 out of 44 minutes. No one wants to listen to that. (I object…I’ll listen to him read the phone book) He would have had to shoot himself. So he figured keep part of Daniel…the speech and let the prior makeup do the rest.
His answers to the Inside the Actors Studio questions:
Favorite curse word? It’s actually a phrase, which he says is all encompassing. Fuck me running. He doesn’t know what it means or if it is even possible.
Favorite sound? Would always be something that had to do with his children.
This question doesn’t have an answer except he laughed at it. I just love the way she said it. So in the movie James Spader is a geek, which is great. And you play him like that at first. He’s a nerd. And then ten years later and you’re a nerd but you’ll kick their ass. (Hahaha…Daniel summarized perfectly)
David:
“So have you heard?” (Audience-“Yes”) “It sucks. Write a letter.”
Mentions he has read the last couple scripts. “So what happens is…what are they gonna do fire me?”
Thinks the idea for the movie is a good one. (Audience- “What?”) “Well there are these two gerbils…”
My question: So Mckay is supposed to be the big genius. (David interrupts to say “Uh, no.”) Okay, well they portray his as such. But if he is the genius and when he needs saving they run to you (David interrupts again “They do always run to me don’t they.”) doesn’t that make Radek the supreme genius? Why doesn’t he have Mckay’s job?
“I see no question there.” He goes on to explain the two of them are different and smart in different ways. They tend to balance each other out and they have a great relationship. “But thanks for the compliment.”
Some one started to speak to him in Czech and David spoke it back. The woman next to me made me laugh by asking where the subtitles were. Then David asked the gentlemen why he was wearing Daniel Jackson’s vest and what Daniel was wearing.
He explained that his mom spoke Czech at home and so he grew up thinking everyone had a home language and a street language. When he went to the University he found out quickly this is not how it works.
Does he play chess? Yes, he plays online and no he wouldn’t tell us where. They had a grandmaster on set for those scenes that showed him all the tricks of the game. He was also very proud that he had suggested a certain move for the scene.
Is David Hewlett annoying? Yes, yes he is. He is also a very nice guy.
At this point a baby starts to cry. “It’s ok. It will be over soon.” Haha
He had a long walk and talk scene that was cut out of “The Shrine”. He was surprised it had been cut since it had to do with Stargate Universe. It had been about the ninth chevron.
He said we knew everything before he did. He goes to Gateworld to see if he works next week.
If he could do anything in an episode what would it be? He felt he was cheating if he said anything since he has read the last couple of scripts. Though he would love to say a relationship with Torri Higginson.
Mentioned a movie with Goran Visnjic. Goran is a huge Stargate fan apparently and yelled, “You’re on Stargate!” David answered, “You’re on ER!”.
This might be the same movie as above. I didn’t catch it. David saw a comment on line about him being in a movie with David Hewlett. “Nooooooooo…I can’t get away from him.”
Yes he is in an episode of Sanctuary. “With the new long dark haired Amanda. I didn’t recognize her at first. I was like A-manda?” The episode in entitled Cush.
After he needed the audience to tell him when Sanctuary would premier he said we were like having a google right there in front of him. He asked us to state pi to the 12th decimal and where Melbourne street in Vancouver was.
He is interested in Starcrossed (a David Hewlett project), but David is busy. It’s alive, but on the backburner at the moment.
What is on the computers in scenes? The universe runs on flash animation. He loves to mess with the macro files to play with the computer guys who set up what the laptops are showing. They get him back by using voice activation. He’ll be in the middle of a take and the laptop will say “Your acting sucks.”
He would love to work more with Rachel Luttrell. She is usually on a different story line then he is and he doesn’t get to work with her much at all. “They don’t put me with the ladies. They know what will happen.”
He’s talking about Vancouver being a big sci-fi filming spot and says, “Vancouver where…I almost said where all good sci-fi goes to die. But no…that is Robert Picardo’s doing.” But he was just kidding, says Rob is great.
Did a Joe Flanigan impersonation. Was told everyone does one so he needed to to. “Aw, poor Joe.”
Do they have games on the laptops that they secretly play in scenes? No, the laptops might swear at you.
When he was told he was done, “Aw, I’m told to stop here. So this must end…just like the season. L
Ben:
He came out and laughs at everyone standing against the wall and asked if we (cause I was one of them…taking pics and staring at the oh so goodness of Ben) were the cheap tickets. That they had run out of seats, but we were allowed to stand against the wall.
He mentioned Atlantis being cancelled and told us how welcoming and sweet Don S. Davis had been when he joined Stargate. Then he apologized for being so depressing.
Then he said he had to do something for himself and asked how many people had watched Farscape before Stargate. The Fargaters went wild. Then realizing there were a lot of us there he did the line. “Can I get a hell yeah?!” “Hell yeeeaaahh!” (The pride and joy of my Farscape existence…Ben asked and I got to answer one of the best Farscape lines ever). He then asked how many Stargate fans had turned and watched Farscape and there were quite a few of them too. All the screaming made a baby cry and he said, “This is great. I’m depressing and I scare babies.” So he sang the baby a lullaby, Hush Little Baby.
He wasn’t sure what kind of a reaction he would get since he sort of replaced, or it looked like he replaced RDA. He squinted his eyes against the light and said he couldn’t see us…or any snipers that might be in the audience.
He said he wouldn’t answer one question. What was it like to work with Claudia on Stargate. He would answer who was the better kisser between Michael, Chris and Beau. Michael was scratchy. At this point someone ran to the mike and asked who. The answer was Claudia Black. And then he added his wife, but he has never kissed her at work. But if she was going to read this on the internet later he would be in trouble if he didn’t mention her.
He talked about what a professional Beau was because he grew up with his father being in the business. He said Beau knew what he was doing at all times and you sort of worked around him. He insisted the kiss with Beau and made a joke about Beau staying out of his close-ups after that. He said everyone kisses everyone. The mistletoe scene in Unending was a lot longer then what we saw.
What is he doing now? Looking for work. Mentioned something called Homer being in the works that had been interrupted by the Writer’s Strike. He’s been coaching high school women’s pole vaulting.
Favorite music of his characters? John Crichton-Jazz, Cameron Mitchell-Classic Rock and he himself likes alternative.
My question: Farscape season 2: The Locket. As Old Man Crichton Claudia described him off camera as (He says “creepy?”) dirty. I was wondering if you got to have as much fun off camera as old man Mitchell.
He explains for those who didn’t know about how he realized old men get away with things others can’t. Since no one recognized him in make up he would ask girls to sit on his lap or tell them how fine they were looking. He said he couldn’t do that with Mitchell because Mitchell did not age well. He took awhile to answer and finally turned to me and asked what my question was and if he had answered it. I think I embarrassed him cause he thanked me for asking that in a sheepish way. Too cute!
Does he have a favorite Stargate moment? No, it would be like having a favorite kid. He doesn’t like either of his kids. Just kidding…again he was afraid his wife would read that online. But he just could not name any moment that was a favorite.
There was a scene in Unending where Beau’s character dies. Amanda is supposed to walk out in tears and Teal’c hugs her. One take when Amanda walks out Chris Judge is wearing only a black g-string with SG-1 embriodered on it.
He told a story about a dance class where they asked him if he could teach anything. He did know one dance called the Shag. The class was in England and he didn’t know what it meant there. So he said, “I can teach them how to shag.” Of course they laughed at him. “At my house we call that dancing with the stars.” Every so often he would say to someone at the mike, “So I can teach you how to dance…”
Said Michael and Chris were like an old gay lesbian married couple. He has never in his life seen two men talk that much. They talk non-stop. They talk in between takes, walking to their trailers, after work. They live in the same town and when they were at comic con Ben looks around and they are talking in the corner.
What card game were they plating in the Powers That Be? War. Teal’c and Mitchell had nothing to do so he asked Chris what they should do. They decided to play cards and that was the game they figured Teal’c had learned to play after being on earth for so long. It didn’t really matter. He said they could do that with him. RDA was a busy guy so if he didn’t need to be in the scene they usually wouldn’t have him be there. With him they had him at their disposal so there were a lot more times where he would just be in the background with nothing to do.
What is his favorite character moment? “That question just won’t die.” They are all his favorite. He did mention he thought there was a cute scene between Mitchell and Vala in Dominion. “Ask me what I hate. That is half the time I ‘m on the screen.” His answer may change. Call him in 5 years. He offered to give us his number, but said he would change it anyway.
He came up with a rule that if he didn’t answer your first question you got a second and if he didn’t answer that you got a third and if he didn’t answer that you were done. A girl asked if she could have hug and he playfully said, “on to question 2.” She didn’t have a second question so he said on to question three in which he asked for her “Can I have a hug? Yeees.” He said having kids has broken him down. “Can I have a coke? No. Can I Have a coke? No. Can I Have a coke? No. Can I Have a coke? Yes! Will you do a SG-1 convention? No. Will you do a SG-1 convention? No. Will you do a SG-1 convention? No. Will you do a SG-1 convention? Yes.”
He doesn’t like to watch his own acting. He likes to watch scenes with him and Claudia cause then he can just look at her and comment on her great acting. Or he can watch a scene with him and Amanda cause she is cute. He can’t watch a scene between Michael and him because then he gets confused.
If he could have any role what would it be? Probably a re-make of something. (Someone yelled out Macgyver) Yeah, he’ll play Macgyver in the remake of Macgyver.
If he were gay whom on Stargate would he want to hook up with? After laughing at the craziness of the question he says well he has kissed them all. Well not Atlantis, there was no Atlantis kissing. He laughs again and says this is just crazy talk. He can’t answer that because Michael might get mad if it wasn’t him.
After the above question he says, “I thought you guys would be normal. I expect this from the Farscape fans. Farscape you run on a loop at an insane asylum to make people crazier. But Stargate is family entertainment. What’s wrong with you people?”
Someone asked about him being alone in Unending since Daniel had Vala and Chris and Amanda played the episode like Teal’s and Sam had a relationship. “Did they have a relationship? I was playing Mitchell and Sam had a thing. No, I was playing trying to break Sam and Teal’c up the whole episode. I mean come on he was on that boat for like 80 years. At least give him a hand to hold.”
What happened in the 1930’s when he was stuck alone in Continuum? They made an audio file of what happened. So he wrote this deal where Mitchell went around the globe. Brad Wright told him it was entertaining, but that isn’t what would have happened. “Well, yeah he would of held up in a cave, but how was he going to make that work for seven minutes. I had in a cave yesterday…just like the day before.”
Someone asked him to show us the Shag dance. “I only shag privately.”
What was it like to play against himself in Ripple Effect? Well…he wasn’t really there…so…good. But it was great to fight in that ep. “I fought myself in another show. I kicked my own ass. That is the only fight I have ever won. I always lose…women…Teal’c G-string or no….I always lose.”
We gave him a standing ovation when he thanked us for not hiring any snipers and for our acceptance of him.
Note: This man cannot stay on topic. If you want to ask a question…be one of the first…there are no short answers with him. Whish is funny, but if you wait till the last minute he may not have time for you.