Interview with the Cast



Reporter: Good evening, and welcome to Cartoon Cast-Behind The Scenes. Tonight, we’re talking with the world reknowned group of mutants called the X-men. We’re about to talk about the filming of the episode: “Middleverse.” Welcome, you guys!

Kurt: It’s great to be here, Merv!

(cast giggles a little)

Reporter: The name’s....oh, I get it. Haha. Seriously guys. What gave the director the idea for this episode?

Scott: (doing his little quarter finger trick) I think we inspired it. Our personalities just bounce off each other-especially me and Kurt-so I think we exaggerated it and gave it a plot.

Jean: I still wonder why I’ve got to put my hands to my head to use my telekinesis, but I never get answers.

Rogue: Anyway....Kurt and ah don’t get along that well, so ah think that’s why we fight about the little “gizmo.” Ah forget what Forge called it.

Kurt: Ja, that sounds about right. Besides that, they wanted to show the sensitive and scared little kid inside me, instead of the fuzzy dude that everyone loves. (leans over to Kitty) Riiiiight?

Kitty: As if! (grinning) Either way, there were some loose ends we didn’t like, tie up. But then, the writers are robots, so...

Evan: BLOW ‘EM UP!

Scott: Riiiight.....I’m not obsessed with big explosions in real life. To be honest, I wouldn’t use my eyebeams to blow up that gizmo in real life, either. I’d get it to the Professor. Yeah, I’m supposed to be Mr. Cool and Together- (Kitty giggles) -but I’m not a complete leader yet, not even in the show. That was one big mistake the writers made.

Reporter: Right. (doodles on his notepad) Were there any humorous incidents during the filming?

(group laugh)

Kurt: Actually, I was supposed to fall backwards onto those boxes....I kept missing and hitting the side wall first. Plus, the holoprojector didn’t fritz out when it was supposed to. So when I was up on the table dancing, it would go out-everyone would start laughing. Or when I crash landed, it’d stay in, then Rogue’d come down the stairs-and I’d just be standing looking sheepish.

Scott: While they were on the other set, there was a scene where two guys came running out of a bathroom screaming about Kurt. The trouble was, they ran out but they were laughing. Jean and I went in the boy’s bathroom scene and there was Kurt-he was trying to give them the right motivation like the director said-only he had been making faces. So anyway, as soon as we got in there, he fell off of the sink.

Kitty: That wasn’t funny.

Jean: Well, I suppose you had to be there.

Evan: Darn straight. Plus, we had to do about 20 takes of the scene where I’m gulping down “moo juice.” The first few were okay, because I only had to drink two cartons on scene, but by the 15th take, I think, I was squirming in my seat. I had to GO, man, and I’m talking serious here.

Kitty: He fell off of the chair once-hit Jean in the arm and she fell over.

Jean: I was trying not to embarass him.

Kurt: When I had to get in Scott’s face-man, he didn’t use ANY breathmints.

Scott: Hey!

Kurt: No, it’s true! I wanted to cough in your face, it was disgusting. And we had to do about 30 takes because you didn’t show anger. Or was that me? I can’t remember.

Scott: No surprise here.

Rogue: Toad was leaping around the set because he’d eaten too many flies....that’s why we had Mystique stop him from eating the other fly.

Evan: That damn fly!

Rogue: It was. We couldn’t catch it for the right effect. So we just gave up and used a little mechanical motor fly. Which is why he didn’t eat it.

But when he was supposed to run from the activated gizmo, he ran INTO the tree he was supposed to hide behind. He did it twice, and ah don’t know if the second one was on purpose. It was funny, anyway.

Reporter: Was there anything you’d like to see again?

Kurt: Mon, they ought to do an X-men: Evolution Outtakes episode! I swear, that’d be the coolest!

Kitty: Yeah! Like, they should show you on the first episode. Your cloak wouldn’t go on, and when you took off the hood the whole thing came off?

Kurt: We’d need a censor.

Reporter: Whoa, how about that?

Scott: Well, it was embarrassing....see, we couldn’t fit him into the cloak, so when we finally got it on him, he had to take off his hood. It was a split second thing, but I guess the zipper was broken and the seams didn’t go through, because the whole thing fell off. Kurt was stuck in his boxers.

Jean: I averted my eyes.

Evan: (grinning and elbowing Kitty) She was looking from behind the camera.

Kitty: WAS NOT!

Scott: See, and they were little puppy boxers...

Kitty: They were birds....

Evan: HEL-lo!

Kitty: (punching Evan’s shoulder) You. Aren’t. Funny!

Kurt: Katzchen is right, they were blue songbirds.

Reporter: I’m not asking anymore. Well guys, thanks for coming on the show.

(group laugh)

Scott: It was fun. Our pleasure.

(Kitty chases Evan offstage, threatening him with a fist and valley girl insults)

Kurt: Excuse me..... (disappears with a bamf!)

Jean: Better go stop them... (runs after Evan, Kitty, and Kurt)

Scott: Well, sorry about that, Mr. Reporter Sir....

Reporter: That’s quite all right... Have...er....fun.... (sounds of yelling and scuffling) Oh dear.