chat_guest2001: and that MUSICAL!
chat_guest2001: That was exhausting!
chat_guest2001: Lucy was heavily pregnant
chat_guest2001: everyone was such a hard worker
chat_guest2001: whenever Ted is on, he makes the crew laugh so much
chat_guest2001: they just love him
jackaltrades: Did you do some of the singing on the song "Sisters Are Doing it for Themselves"?
chat_guest2001: No.
chat_guest2001: Unfortunately
bummer2323: she seems so nice
bummer2323: too bad she wasn't on JOAT
bummer2323: OH, i have REALLY got to go. Thank you everybody for a great time, and Happy holidays to you all!!!!
chat_guest2001: (note - we're switching phones)
Jordi32196: Bye Bummer!
bummer2323: now i'm afraid to go...switcing phones.......
bummer2323: LOL
jackaltrades: As someone in the entertainment industry, are there any New Zealand movies or series that you're particularly proud of, that you believe should get a wider audience (in other countries)?
chat_guest2001: on NZ work
chat_guest2001: "Once were Warriors" and "The Piano" were quite good
chat_guest2001: I was in "Heavenly Creatures"
chat_guest2001: which was directed by Peter Jackson
chat_guest2001: it was a very good film
jackaltrades: One of my personal favourites was "Angel At My Table" (the biography of Janet Frame)
Shirley_LeVasseur: any chance you'll be in one of the rumored Xena TV movies?
chat_guest2001: I haven't heard that rumor
chat_guest2001: but again, I suppose anything is possible!
jackaltrades: (Correction: sorry, that should be "An Angel at My Table")
chat_guest2001: (I'm asking her about Adrienne Wilkinson)
chat_guest2001: She's very sweet
Shirley_LeVasseur: cool
chat_guest2001: very focused
chat_guest2001: very serious about her work
chat_guest2001: it would be quite scary coming into an established show
chat_guest2001: playing Xena's daughter
Shirley_LeVasseur: no doubt
chat_guest2001: on behind the scenes things...
chat_guest2001: I was in Australia in a series called "Possessions"
chat_guest2001: we had a Porta-loo attached to the back of the car as we were driving back from location
chat_guest2001: and it detached!
chat_guest2001: so we saw a flying toilet go past us
chat_guest2001: it could have been quite dangerous
chat_guest2001: we did about 4 episodes a week on that series
(ed. note: At this point I asked her about her husband being referred to as Orestes in "The Haunting of Amphipolis," when Xena clearly calls him Atreus in "The Ties That Bind" from Season 1. She was of course amazed, and said "Are you sure?" This was followed by several minutes of "Stuart - d'y' hear that? Someone on the website noticed that the name I called Xena's father on the show wasn't really his name! Oh dear. I don't know. I rather liked the name Orestes. What was it again? Atreus? Well, you see, I never spoke his name in that other episode, I suppose someone else must've. I never knew. That's really quite amusing…etc. etc.." Actually, it turns out that he was never mentioned by name in "The Furies," so she never had any idea that the writers goofed! I condensed all of that into the following)
chat_guest2001: I never thought of that
chat_guest2001: Orestes is such a wonderful name to say - so easy to draw out the
syllables and wail with. ooo-reeeeest-eeeeez
chat_guest2001: so easy to scream,
chat_guest2001: to cry with
Shirley_LeVasseur: lol
chat_guest2001: I don't believe I ever said his name (Atreus) in that other episode
chat_guest2001: but I guess maybe that was his name
chat_guest2001: (I'm asking her about Auckland Theatre)
chat_guest2001: Danielle and Kevin Smith are doing "The Blue Room"
jackaltrades: (That sounds like a good pairing!)
chat_guest2001: Darien must go.....
jackaltrades: Thank her very much for dropping by + answering our questions!
Shirley_LeVasseur: merry Christmas Darien
chat_guest2001: that's great
bummer2323: nice talking to her!
chat_guest2001: Merry Christmas to you too!
chat_guest2001: Stuart is back
Shirley_LeVasseur: and Happy New Year
Jordi32196: Stuart again? LOL... *sigh*
bummer2323: Stuart! Bless your heart, are you a glutton for punishment?
bummer2323: I can't believe this is going on so long!!
Shirley_LeVasseur: Stuart! You made Gov Croque such a lovable villain. I'm sorry there won't be a second season
chat_guest2001: The thing about the website (i.e. the Jack message board) is that it's so generous
bummer2323: we love the JOAT board, great people there!
Jordi32196: We try. :-)
bummer2323: don't we just?
chat_guest2001: well you succeed, Jordi
bummer2323: LOL
jackaltrades: Speaking of punishment... Whose idea was it to give the Marquis de Sade an American (?) accent?
bummer2323: LOL
Jordi32196: Aww LOL :-)
Shirley_LeVasseur: well, ther's great people who made JOAT
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chat_guest2001: on DeSade….
chat_guest2001: the accents rapidly became a problem with the studio
Jordi32196: I'm especially motivated because of the razzing I got from Bruce at a convention a month ago!
sno4wy: darnit! I missed it!
sno4wy: ARGH
chat_guest2001: the decision was made to have Croque and Brogard with French
accents
chat_guest2001: and everyone else with American ones
Shirley_LeVasseur: ok I have to ask... was there a "thing" going on between Croque and Brogard?
Jordi32196: Hi sno4wy... Say hi to Stuart Devenie!
sno4wy: is he here?
chat_guest2001: Ingrid, who played Camille, originally played it with a French accent
sno4wy: a "thing" shirley? Hee hee thats awesome if there is!
chat_guest2001: but the studio executives decreed that there were too many "foreign" accents
Shirley_LeVasseur: lol
chat_guest2001: and so she made it American
Shirley_LeVasseur: Croque-text
chat_guest2001: I'm glad they left Croque's accent in
sno4wy: LoL that ideai s really, really cute Shirley =P
bummer2323: wht do the studio execs know anyway...?
sno4wy: yea those accents are awesome ^_^
Jordi32196: Stuart is chat_guest2001.
chat_guest2001: the thing with Croque and Brogard…..
sno4wy: really?
jackaltrades: (I don't know if this was what you intended, but) I thought you gave de Sade a hilarious blase quality.
sno4wy: OH AWESOME!!
chat_guest2001: ….was only to do with who was at the front of the shot
Shirley_LeVasseur: lol
sno4wy: no really, Croque and Broggard are my fav. characters!
Shirley_LeVasseur: I thought Croque & Brogard made a cute couple
sno4wy: YEA!
chat_guest2001: you see, being the farthest outpost of a vast empire takes a great toll on the governor
sno4wy: oh my gosh, finally sum1 else who thinks so!!
chat_guest2001: so certain activities are diminished
bummer2323: they were definitely funny!
chat_guest2001: as we saw in "Love Potion Number 10"
sno4wy: those accents are so wicked cool
Shirley_LeVasseur: heehee
chat_guest2001: Croque only had spare time for eating drinking sleeping and reading
sno4wy: lol
Shirley_LeVasseur: and reading mysteries
sno4wy: Croque wuz awesome
bummer2323: LOL
Jordi32196: LOL
jackaltrades: (But those mysteries gave him nightmares + made him superstitious!)
chat_guest2001: So no, Shirley - I think it's a dead end w/ Croque and Brogard - no subtext there at all! ;)
Shirley_LeVasseur: they were so chummy after visiting the Marquis' island
sno4wy: lol
bummer2323: LOL
chat_guest2001: the Marquis and Brogard on the other hand.....
bummer2323: AACCKK
Shirley_LeVasseur: haha
sno4wy: ok as homophillic I am, I think lets put a stop to this
Jordi32196: I loved the little touch with Croque's crucifix at the end of Dead Woman Walking. LOL
sno4wy: LoL that wuz cute ^_^
Shirley_LeVasseur: lol snowy
bummer2323: Where did "my little american monkey" come from?? ad lib or script???
jackaltrades: (Good question )
sno4wy: Hey Stewart? I know this is an extremely stupid question, but is that accent innate? Its awesome =)
Shirley_LeVasseur: I felt sorry for him that his wife had him thrown in prison, and stuff
chat_guest2001: In "70 Brides," we did something different with the choreography. There had developed a pattern with the swordfighting scenes
sno4wy: yea that was EVIL!
sno4wy: erk
chat_guest2001: the writers would write "They fight" or"They run"
sno4wy: STuart!
sno4wy: I knew i spelled it wrong!
chat_guest2001: so we had to fill out a minute or longer
jackaltrades: (The old Fight or Flight response!)
chat_guest2001: so I suggested to the director that Croque take no notice of the fight whatsoever
Shirley_LeVasseur: lol
bummer2323: !!
chat_guest2001: "my little American monkey" was in the script of the 1st episode
bummer2323: darn!!
chat_guest2001: I put it in here and there as a nice thing to say
bummer2323: i just knew it was adlib
bummer2323: it's cute!
sno4wy: er Shirley_LeVasseur: I have yet to see that episode (70 brides) jackaltrades: (The ending is sweet)
chat_guest2001: with all of the characters in a comedy series, it's the little
things like that, that give the character an individuality
chat_guest2001: similar to Emilia's's interminable scientific analysis things
bummer2323: good point!
bummer2323: kinda like "fabbulos"
sno4wy: whhaaaaaaaaaat?
chat_guest2001: the writers took notice of what the characters were doing with improvisation
sno4wy: *ish lost*
chat_guest2001: and so they started to write towards that
chat_guest2001: with all 4 characters
sno4wy: "AHH! ITz ZE DARING DRAGOON!"
Jordi32196: So, did you adlib the "Fabboolous" when Croque was under the influence of the mind-control wine?
bummer2323: good question
chat_guest2001: on the ending of 70 Brides....
Shirley_LeVasseur: I liked how you gave Croque his own body language/ posture, and how the Marquis was so different in his body language/posture. Little touches like that, that some actors would never think of
chat_guest2001: that was actually the 4th to last filmed
chat_guest2001: I felt "123 Lady Liberty" and the Planet of the Apes number
would have been a better way to conclude the whole story
Shirley_LeVasseur: lol
chat_guest2001: I worked on body language a lot
Jordi32196: So did I, actually!
sno4wy: awesome!
chat_guest2001: It was important to distinguish them a good deal
Shirley_LeVasseur: yes, I could tell
bummer2323: it added a lot, didn't it?
chat_guest2001: John Gielgud said that "once you get the shoes, you get the character"
Shirley_LeVasseur: it really helped the character come alive for me
jackaltrades: Which was the last episode filmed?
chat_guest2001: with Croque, there was a precise way of walking
chat_guest2001: he was a character who was trapped in his formality
chat_guest2001: the Marquis was a different sort of physicality
chat_guest2001: a looser, more languid style
Shirley_LeVasseur: for sure!
bummer2323: less impotent....sorry.....
chat_guest2001: less impotent - that's right
bummer2323: do i dare aske the mask question again, or is that a dead horse?
chat_guest2001: when you have a body double
Jordi32196: Gosh, if Lady Liberty was filmed last, no wonder the last scene was so moving... :-(
chat_guest2001: and film a scene with yourself
chat_guest2001: you spend half your time as one and then half as the other
chat_guest2001: and the sort of improv thing still went on, even with my 2
characters
chat_guest2001: I had to remember what Croque had done
chat_guest2001: in order to respond to it as the Marquis!
bummer2323: bet that's tough to do....
chat_guest2001: So for example, once we were at the table
chat_guest2001: discussing things
chat_guest2001: and Croque and Brogard stood up to toast the French Empire
chat_guest2001: The Marquis didn't care
chat_guest2001: so I had to remember that
Jordi32196: (LOL @ "we")
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