After Saturday, I will love David Hewlett FOREVER.
The posed photos from Meet the Hewletts. I adore this man for being such a star to my kids, and so playfully putting them at ease.
First up was David. DH was amused by the t-shirt and said "How about we re-create that?". So that's why the strange pose (David would not have wanted a girlie hug! He's an eleven year-old boy...) A close up of the t-shirt image so that you can see what they were trying to do:
And the photo, which David adores:
Notice the small 'Flanigan sproing' of hair on the rear of David's head, and DH's expression is priceless. David Hewlett, you are comedy gold.
Georgia was next and had decided to do the 'standard McKay pose'.
She struck the pose and he laughed and said "Oh, I see what you're doing" and joined in...
He admired her blingy gold dog-tags, which have a pegasus emblem on the front and her initials on the back.
Alex was last and was thrilled (and enough of a geeky SG:A fangirl to know...) that the way he greeted her with 'Hello little one' is the greeting that McKay gives to Madison. She spent all weekend telling everyone. He was part way through asking "So what would you like to do?" when she plastered herself to his side. He made a quick comment about being "The child-catcher" and they posed for this...
Both Kate and David Hewlett signed the back of their t-shirts.
By the way if you said hello to a blonde woman wearing one of these t-shirts, it was my friend Sian and not me. I didn't really get to say hello to anyone, except the very lovely
lysambre who came over to say hi when Dave took the kids off to have something to eat. (I'm not allowed solid food :( so I stayed behind) We had our photo taken and a hug, She is adorable and has the best accent and voice - I would KILL to sound like that! She gave me a lovely picture of Dr Hotness in his leather jacket <3 I gave her badges. I still have tons, so if you want one..
Then it was showtime! Honestly, these two were so hilariously funny.
Snippets from the talk:
Of course, the first topic of conversation had to be THE WEDDING (oh, the grin on his face!) They didn't get married at Warwick castle (I knew they hadn't because it isn't registered as a marriage venue) but in the parish church in the village where Jane's father lives. David was quite stressed on the day as the rehearsal had been awful and he kept wanting to laugh at the priest's voice because "He sounded like a muppet" (a recurring theme.) He had problems getting ready because he was "On Baz duty" and Baz had suddenly decided that he HAD to be with his daddy all the time. Baz also disliked the church and the priest and spent the whole ceremony being handed round and eventually being taken outside. DH told us that during one of Baz's trips outside Baz managed to express the desire to become a doctor ("according to my dad" ) Somebody in the audience shouted "The Doctor?" and DH said "Oh, you're good!"
Kate and another of David's sisters sang at the wedding - a love song about growing old together - and there was a line about losing hair where Kate said she looked over at David expecting him to smile or roll his eyes, but then realised he was crying... She was so shocked she just stopped singing. (DH: "and you covered your surprise so well by just saying "OOPS!" in the middle of the song..." ) DH wasn't very impressed by the choice of a soft top morris minor as the wedding car ("I think the thing came with a packet of cereal...") or the fact that Jane's father was driving it particularly fast ("He reversed out and off so fast I couldn't decide if he was ashamed of being seen with the car or me...") eventuallly Jane leaned forward and said "I think you can slow down now, Dad."
The wedding reception was at Warwick castle, in The Great Hall ("Which actually was pretty great... you could have a Harry Potter themed wedding there...") and the photographs were taken there, too ("Yeah, the photographs were online before we saw them!") They also talked about SG:A 5 . He said that the opening episode had been leaked, and was told that we had all watched it while he was posing for photographs. He pretended to be outraged "It's a room full of criminals! I haven't seen it yet! " He told us that there ought to be repercussions and to be prepared for "Joe Flanigan to rush in with his P-90." When there was mass squeeing, he said "He'll be clothed, it's not that sort of P-90..." Kate said how much fun she had working on The Shrine and how emotional the episode was (she also told David off for giving away too much plot!) . Then she told us that on the first day back on set she had breakfast delivered to the trailer and a note under the cover said "You are a big loser - D".
David torments anyone who makes a mistake on set and he told a story about the first shoot of Runner where he was hanging upside down feeling sick and Rainbow couldn't get the lines right. DH lost it with such spectacular style that Jason Momoa was scared of him at first .(LOL!)
David cried wolf by pretending to be unconscious all the time ("He would spend hours lying at the bottom of the stairs pretending to be dead. Dad would just step over him and I'd always kick him") He used to do it at school too, then one day when he leaned down to pick up a pencil, a chair edge hit his head and he was knocked out. Everyone thought he was faking and one of his friends picked him up and dropped him again. He hit the floor so hard he ended up with concussion.
One of Kate’s friend came over and saw a family photograph when David had long hair and wore make-up; she said "Didn't know you had three sisters, Kate..."
Two of my kids asked questions in the Q&A. Alex was determined to ask David a question and waited in the queue with her dad. When she got to the front daddy lowered the microphone for her and DH said "Oh, this one has her own roadie!" I was full of mummy pride when she was all news-reporter with her question by beginning: "In the episode 'Search and Rescue'... Her question was about the baby in the episode and if it was Rachel's real baby (apparently not, but it was a very young baby of just 17 days old.) He then entertained us all with tales of his escapades with the model baby and using it to frighten the crew by pretending to have dropped the real baby.
She also asked if he still had his inflatable Dalek that the fans had sent him. He said yes, but he'd had to deflate it because it was scaring the dog :D He said he was looking forward to the day he had a pool so he could float it in there. (Strange boy)
David asked the last question of the session and pretty much brought the house down by starting with "Rodney... " DH put his hand over his eyes in mock despair and said something along the lines of having been completely swallowed by his character. Then David really made him laugh with the actual question - "Why does your miniature figure look more like Martin Gero than you?" (Audience laughs) DH said that he had said the same thing to MG, who was fairly outraged and said "Hey, I don't look like THAT."
Then it was time for the autographs.
We gave him the t-shirt for Baz and he loved the front "Awesome to the power of two! For the Baz!" and the back "Blame the parents eh? Yeah, it's all downhill from here..." He really liked the kids t-shirts and he had one of the badges.
He signed several items for me including my dvd of ADB - "Ah A Dog's Breakfast, I vaguely remember this..." and I asked when there would be a UK release (August) and said I was so glad we had managed to get a multi-format dvd and compatible televison and that the whole industry was shooting itself in the foot by not having one international standard. He was all "I know!" and an expression that said 'we get it why don't they?
Now to admit my patheticness.
As we finished having everything signed and he very kindly asked me if I was "holding up okay" (I was balancing on two sticks and probably looking a little worse for wear) I put my hand on his upper arm and said thanks, as though the gesture was a sort of 'thank you' pat - but actually it was a sneaky arm squeeze to feel the muscles in his upper arm. *shameface* I am not obsessed. MUCH. God, that man has the most amazing arms. It was a miracle I held it together and didn't squee myself to death.
In conclusion: Meet the Hewletts rocked like a big rocking rock. Oh yes. So much so, I'm leaving this public!