A bit more at DragonCon

[fenchurch]

I completely ran out of time yesterday to hit the Food Court and log in, so let's see if I can remember anything..

No Juliet Landau at the third Q&A, but JM and Elisabeth Rohm flirted outrageously with each other (although they did point out that she's engaged and he has a girlfriend).

JM was talking about his character's first scene on the show and that it involved a barfight and a kiss... and gave the impression that we'd be seen a rather spectacular fight, ending with him and Captain Jack in a liplock (JM was trying very hard not to reveal too much, but let a few things slip about that scene). I've now got this wonderful mental image of how it would play out and I'm REALLY hoping it works out that way... with the two of them fighting, not really against each other, and with us not knowing who this other person is... and the two of them ending up nose to nose in the middle of it all, with the adrenaline of the fight swirling around and, um, yeah... I could get into a scene like that.

Wait! The gig! I haven't written about the gig yet! So, I finally did meet up with sandy_s as well as eyesthatslay, musing_mia, angstchic and ladyanne04 (and I hope I'm not forgetting anyone) at the con, and we even managed to meet back up at the venue! The theater was a decent size and it didn't really look like there was a bad seat in the place (although I do think we got a great spot). JM was excellent and, wow, what a difference a bit of vocal training can make (assuming the rumors are true that he was taking voice lessons for awhile). I saw him perform solo at 14 Below, back before his Ghost of the Robot days... and I thought his voice was pleasant, but that he lacked control, which he more than made up for in contagious enthusiasm. Now he's still got the contagious enthusiasm, but his voice also sounds great! Steady, strong, distinctive. His songwriting has improved a bit over the years... although he still does tend for the relationshippy stuff that often reveals just a little too much about his love life... and he really has no clue how to end a song, so they just sort of stop.

All in all, I had great time at the concert and it was definitely worth going to... especially with the gang from LJ! And we ended up being just one row up from redeem147, who is someone else I kept bumping into all weekend. It really is funny how many people I kept seeing over and over again...

Back to yesterday's Q&A, JM finally solved one mystery for me... I'd heard that he'd been pretty angry at finding out that Joss had called Spike "Angel's best ingenue" and I could never figure out why (because he didn't seem to have too much of a problem with slashy subtext). He explained that in theater there's a saying... that you don't want to work with children, animals and ingenues. And in those circles, an ingenue is considered, essentially, a talentless piece of fluff. So, from his point of view, Joss had just called him a talentless piece of fluff (as opposed to how the rest of us took it, meaning that he played really well off DB/Angel in a sort of relationshippy kind of way). The interesting thing to me was, even though JM seems to have realized the statement wasn't meant that way, you could tell he's still angry about it.

JM also touched a bit on some of his more sordid past... i.e. some of the stuff he did after getting kicked out of Julliard's. In particular, selling substances in Central Park (which is how he wound up with the scar in his eyebrow, from getting hit with a pipe). It was something I'd suspected from things he'd said, but had never heard stated outright. He'd also made a comment earlier in the weekend that acting had kept him away from a life of crime, which made the audience laugh a bit and he'd responded with "no, I'm serious" (which is something I had heard before). This was just the first time I'd heard that sort of detail before

Someone asked him how old he thought was the right age for his kids to start watching some of the later seasons of BtVS... and I don't recall his exact reaction, but it was essentially "never." As he said, would you want to see YOUR dad doing that stuff? Heh.

Oh! And he also mentioned that it was his ankle he injured on the set of Torchwood, not his knee (as I'd thought) and that he didn't tell the folks at Without a Trace about it, because he didn't want to ruin the job... but the first scene he filmed involved him walking from a helicopter to a car carrying a cardboard box, and it was really quite a distance and they had to keep doing it over and over again, and he had to do it without letting on that his ankle was really hurting. Then he said that he also had a tooth knocked out on the set of Torchwood and that he and JB were trying to hide the fact, so they could finish filming the scene they were on without interruption.

When JM first got on the set of Torchwood, he was evidently more than a little freaked out about his first guy on guy kiss (which he said surprised him a bit, because he hadn't thought it would bother him at all), and it didn't help that John Barrowman really is a bit of a lech... and likes to grab people on set (men, women, doesn't seem to make a difference -- butts, breasts, you name it). It apparently got back to JB that JM was maybe a bit freaked, and JM said that JB was totally cool when it came to the kissing scene... wanting to make sure he was comfortable with it, and really worked with him on it... and JM said, really, it was no big deal. Just scratchier than kissing a woman.

That's all I've got for now... though I'll try to post more later!

Comments

[twilightofmagic.livejournal.com]

Love the detail, Fenchurche. Thanks for sharing. If I could have personally chosen who I'd like JM to be kissing, it would be JB, so the universe for once has delivered right on cue. And backup, Jensen Ackles. That would be interesting in all sorts of ways as they're a little bit alike, smartass and kind of chippy.