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Post by PokerKitten on Jun 4, 2003 13:19:13 GMT
Goodness gracious, it's almost here! (which means The Harvest is almost here!). Mobster Spicywings is badge number 2 for this one! Impressive! Here's the link so those of us who are not going can feel sickened and saddened, and have our appetites whetted for the reports to come! www.moonlight-rising.com/ |
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Post by PokerKitten on Jun 7, 2003 12:37:25 GMT
Here's what the MR attendees are njoying this weekend:
Friday
Registration 9:00 AM- 6:00 PM
Autographs
12:00-1:00 PM Common Rotation
12:00-1:00PM Julie Caitlin Brown
Photo Sessions
10:00 AM Common Rotation/Adam Busch
11:30 AM James Leary
1:30 PM Amber Benson
3:00 PM Amber Benson
Fan Programming
Gaming 1 PM, 2 PM, 3 PM
Opening Ceremonies
4:00 PM
Masquerade
Check-in 5:30 PM
Ends at 7:00 PM
Concerts
Julie Caitlin Brown 8PM-9:15 PM
Common Rotation 10PM-11:30 PM
Saturday
Registration 8:00 AM-11:00 AM
Photo Sessions
9:00 AM Anthony Stewart Head
12:00 PM James Marsters
Q&A
9 AM Christopher Golden
10 AM Adam Busch
11 AM James Leary
1 PM Amber Benson
2 PM James Marsters
3 PM Anthony Stewart Head
Autographs
12:00-1:00 PM Common Rotation
12:00-1:00 PM Julie Caitlin Brown
Autographs 1-400
4:00 PM-7:00 PM Benson, Marsters, Head, Leary, and Golden
Fan Programming
Fan Panels 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Gaming 4:00 PM- 9:00 PM
Trivia 4:00 PM
Evening Events
VIP Dance 10:00 PM-1:00 AM
OMWF Re-enactment 10:00 PM
Kareoke 12:00 AM
Sunday
Fan Programming
4:00 PM-7:00 PM Fan Panels
4:00 PM-7:00 PM Gaming
Q&A
9:30 AM Charity auction to benefit St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital
10:00 AM Christopher Golden
11:00 AM James Leary
1:00 PM Amber Benson
2:00 PM James Marsters
3:00 PM Anthony Stewart Head
Photo Session
12:00 Photo Session James Marsters
Autographs 401-800
4:00 PM-7:00 PM Benson, Marsters, Head, Leary, and Golden
Evening Events
Ghosts of Albion Screening 8:00 PM
CHANCE Screening 9:30 PM
StuntC*cks Screening & Q&A w/James Leary 11:00 PM
Discussion Panels
Saturday
4 pm - Fan Fic
5 pm - What IS the Big Bad? The nature of good and evil in the Buffyverse
6 pm - The Connection of Sex and Evil on Buffy
7 pm - Alex from Eden Studios, makers of the Buffy RPG, on a gaming topic
Sunday
4 pm - The Great Acting panel: A discussion of the acting talent of our guests.
5:30 -
(A) Buffy around the world: Culture's influence on our response to Buffy
(B) Buffy Translated to the Real World
6:30 -
(A) Sunnydale Musings: Creative Responses to Buffy
(B) Lesbians in the Media
Hmm, some of the discussion panels sound interesting. we aren't having anything like that at the Harvest, are we?
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Post by twistedspike on Jun 7, 2003 13:59:02 GMT
DAMN they get to see Chance I wish I was going just for that privilege.
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Post by PokerKitten on Jun 7, 2003 14:05:41 GMT
Yeah, I am envious of their "extras" too. Even got James #2's naughty short film! These guys better give good report! ;D
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Post by twistedspike on Jun 7, 2003 14:42:13 GMT
Ok so what is James 2 naughty film then StuntC*cks sounds interesting I haven't seen anything about it before.
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Post by PokerKitten on Jun 7, 2003 14:47:45 GMT
Lol yeah, it's a skit on the porn industry ;D JCL is a real character!
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Post by PokerKitten on Jun 8, 2003 14:30:42 GMT
Okay, we'd only had teeny snippets from the con til now but this is a bit more fulsome. It is from BAPS, and I alwys think maybe I shouldn't post BAPS stuff as it is a members thing, but I think I only do it for the goss, not the debates!
As far as James' new film project, "Italian Heat" (which he said is
terrible title), he is excited about it, although he said that two
months ago, he had a problem talking about it (I guess because his
character is gay?), but now is more comfortable with it and thought
it will a good movie to make (hey, with Derek Jacobi and Sean Bean, I
would think that too!
<SNIP>
No idea about where and when they
are filming - perhaps that will be answered at today's Q & A....
He answered my question about whether Spike believed Buffy when she
said "I love you" to him at the end of "Chosen" - he said she didn't
love Spike, and that Spike did the noble (maybe he said "manly", I
don't remember exactly) thing by letting her go, so no, he didn't
believe she meant it *sniff*
He is excited about AtS, because he said there are a LOT of good
writers for Spike, and that he thought that AtS was a better fit for
Spike, storywise. He said he hopes Angel and Spike don't like each
other and have an antagonistic relationship on the show. When
someone asked him about Spike becoming human, he was disbelieving and
said that was "misinformation" - Spike would hate becoming human!
When someone in the audience called out "Shanshu", he started
laughing and went into Spike's voice with the "I'm drowning in
footware", and had a funny little story about filming that - he did
that bit, and they had to shoot it over because Joss started laughing
so much about the way James did it, and it was heard on film.
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Post by PokerKitten on Jun 9, 2003 17:05:41 GMT
From cap, at the Forums4Fans Spike spoilers board:
I have just returned from the Catskills con and will be happy to share my thoughts. I only went to James' Q&A on Sat, so if he said something else today, I can't help. i didn't take notes, but I have a pretty good memory so here goes...
first, he looked terrific. He's been working out. and it showed.
On the finale he said that whenever Joss writes and directs an episode, Spike gets pushed to the side. Joss always wants to go back to the beginning, to adolescence and to his good guys and bad guys and because Spike doesn't really fit into those categories, He gets pushed aside. James also said he really wanted to "rip it up" acting wise for Joss for the finale and he doesn't think he did. He looked sad about that.
The big question that I guess everyone is talking about was James' take on the final Spuffy scene. I'll quote, because I pretty much remember it, lol. "That's the truth. Spike showed his manhood by accepting it and thanking her for saying it. I think the finale showed that Buffy is really in love with Angel." (people clapped at this point - not me, lol) "She had a newfound respect for Spike and she knew he loved her and she wanted to give him something because he was about to die." That's what I remember. He later said that Buffy's relationship with Spike was "unhealthy and unwise." And that the writers were trying to show re: Dawn/Spike/Buffy how bad it was for the older sister to set an example by dating the bad guy. He also said that he wasn't sure if that came across, though. And then he said that "if a guy treats your friends badly he will treat you badly." and finished it with "Nice guys rule."
I also want to say that I've read many comments from James about the AR, but you do not, or at least I did not, get the full impact of how much he hated that scene until I saw him talk about it. He said he walked in the day he had to do it and said to the writers "you really don't know sometimes what you ask us to do. You really don't know." He said there was no acting by him in that scene that what you saw as his pure terror at having to do the scene. He also said he's never watched and doesn't intend to - he's only seen snippets of it in BtVS previews.
I don't know if anyone mentioned ASH's comments on LMPTM. When asked why Giles wanted to kill Spike, ASH said "he ****ing deserved it. When you're the father figure, and you see your daughter in an abusive relationship, you want to kill the guy."
Tony's comment makes me mad. These guys clearly don't watch their own show.... Giles has never witnessed the S/B "abusive" relationship, and anyhoo, she was also abusive for much of it. When she told Giles about being with Spike at the end of S6 he collapsed in giggles, and even made her lighten up. S7 Spike exhibited no abusive behaviour towards Buff. And his soul was largely overlooked by everyone else, but especially Giles, who you would have thought would have been the most fascinated.
More to come...
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Post by PokerKitten on Jun 9, 2003 17:11:22 GMT
Cap cont:
right after he did all that stuff about balancing Spike and Spuffy, etc. someone in the audience who must've been a true Spike fan was questioning him about that and explaining (the audience didn't have mikes, so I couldn't get all the questions) that James' performance is what made Spike resonate with so many people and how all of S6 sent Spike on that journey to get his soul and how wonderful it really was and all James said was he "made the arc shallower than it should have been" by playing Spike sympathetically. he is really hard on himself, I felt bad.
I also wanted to mention that James said he was "okay" with Buffy not loving Spike that he didn't "need for Spike to be the one Buffy loved." at that point, all I'm thinking is "but what about me?!! I needed that!" LOL.
btw, he also said that he stopped working out because he got tired of "marti taking off his damn shirt." and that as soon in S7 he found out there would be no more shirtless scenes he started working out again, lol. I think that he kept the weight he gained in S7 and bulked up. The t-shirt was really tight and the pecs looked amazing though the shirt So did the arms.
he said that he tried to cut down on Spike's smoking because he didn't want to send the message that smoking was cool. That the prop guys would ask him if he wanted a cigarette for a scene and he would say "well does the script say I'm smoking?" and that if the script didn't, he wouldn't smoke.
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Post by PokerKitten on Jun 9, 2003 17:59:21 GMT
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Post by PokerKitten on Jun 9, 2003 19:51:00 GMT
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Post by PokerKitten on Jun 10, 2003 8:33:06 GMT
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Post by PokerKitten on Jun 11, 2003 19:06:26 GMT
James Marsters on Life After Buffy
By Karen Butler
United Press International
Published 6/11/2003 12:45 PM
CATSKILL, N.Y., June 11 (UPI) -- The final episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" left rabid fans debating several burning questions, among them: did Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) mean it when she told reformed vamp Spike (James Marsters) she loved him?
Talking to more than 800 spellbound fans at a Moonlight Rising "Buffy" convention over the weekend, Marsters offered his take on the series finale, stating unequivocally that Spike died knowing Buffy never loved him, but deeply appreciative of the fact she said she did.
"It's true," Marsters insisted. "It's the truth and he shows his manhood by saying so. Yeah. I thought that what the final episode did very well was admit that Buffy really is in love with Angel. That the sexual relationship she had with Spike was unhealthy. That it was unwise.
"It was fun to watch, but it wasn't good for Buffy and that Buffy was discovering a level of respect newly for Spike that she hadn't felt before and as a friend, she knew he loved her and she wanted to give him something because he's about to die and he shows the strength to say: 'Well, no. That's very kind of you to say, but that's not true' and I'm comfortable with that. I don't need to be Buffy's one. I think that would have been really strange. Thematically, it would have been really difficult. Spike was evil. They never really played Spike as the boyfriend you ever really want to have... The truth is, if a guy is a jerk to the rest of the world, he's going to be a jerk to his girl or his lady or his woman. Nice guys rule!"
The handsome 40-year-old California native also said he found it disturbing that although he kept trying to reveal Spike's evil side to the show's viewers, his all-too-forgiving fans stood by their vamp. Therefore, in order to turn people against Spike, he said, the show's writers added a shocking scene where he tries to rape Buffy at the end of the series' penultimate season.
"(Attacking) Buffy to prove my love? Hello!" he remarked, incredulous. "So, I started to get uncomfortable because people still wanted Buffy and Spike to be together, the same way I was uncomfortable with smoking too much because a lot of young kids watch and I didn't want to make that cool."
Asked what it was like to film that infamous scene, the nice-guy actor grimaced, "That was the hardest day of my life."
"I have turned roles down because they are rapists," he confessed. "It's something I don't even want to watch. If I even click on it on  , I have to click it off or I'll put my foot through the screen... What you see on that screen is just my terror at having to do that scene. There's not really any acting going on and I haven't watched the scene. I've seen little clips. You know, 'previously on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."' They show it sometimes and I'm always like, 'Oh, God.' I hope that since Spike has a soul he's not capable anymore of doing anything like that. That's what I really hope. That they won't bring him back in that state of mind... The writers are fabulous, but when I showed up on set that day I told them: 'Sometimes you guys just don't know what you do. You just do not know what you're asking us...' I'm proud of it artistically, but as a human being I never, never, never want to do a scene like that again and I will always refuse because I know what it does to me."
Marsters is set to reprise the role of Spike next season on the WB's "Buffy" spin-off, "Angel," but the actor hinted that he and the show's namesake probably won't be battling evil saide-by-side.
"I really hope that Spike and Angel don't get along at all," he admitted, a touch of mischief in his voice.
Noting that series creator Joss Whedon skillfully pit the two rehabilitated vampires against each other in the last episode of "Buffy" a few weeks ago, the actor quipped: "I said, 'Angel wears lifts.' So, I don't think we're going to become allies. Hopefully, I don't know what it's going to be, but I want to make life as tough as possible for Angel and, of course, everyone knows Joss always listens to me."
Marsters also took the opportunity to dismiss rumors that Spike, the vampire with a soul, would return from the dead as a human.
"Spike become a human?" he mused in mock horror. "How boring is that? No, he's not going to do that. That's just misinformation. God help me."
Marsters is currently touring Europe with his rock band Ghost of the Robot and is expected to start filming "Italian Heat" with Derek Jacobi and Sean Bean in September.
"It's from a hit play on the West End of London called 'Italian Heat,'" he said, "and being that there's a lot of sex in it, I think that's the wrong title. It sounds like soft-core porn... It is about a gay man, who I play, who is in a marriage in fascist Italy and he's got a horrible marriage and two refugees come into the house that he lives in --- one's gay and one's not -- one takes to the wife, one takes to the guy."
Marsters revealed that he drew on the pain of one of his own failed relationships to prepare for the role.
"The thing is that in fascist Italy, people were being hung for being gay and the thing that I responded to in the script was --God, let's get personal --I was in a long-term relationship. In fact, I was married to a woman who didn't really love me... Anyway, God..." he candidly acknowledged, drawing a breath. "I know what it's like to live a lie without even knowing you're living a lie and in my experience there was a sexual component to it and so what I responded to in the script was that a scene could be about how important it is to be yourself no matter what that is and how high a price you have to pay or should be willing to pay to be yourself."
Marsters recalled how thrilled he was when he first heard about the project since two of his favorite actors were also starring in it.
"It was a big deal!" he exclaimed. "And I was all excited about it and I went to my manager and said, 'Do I have to kiss a guy?' And he's like, 'Oh, yeah.' And I was like, 'Argggh!' And then I read the script and there was so much more than kissing that I froze up for a while and I just put the script away and I started making my own personal connection to it and so I feel like I can play that role.
He added: "I know what it's like to have that bottled-up anger. You think you know what the problem is, but it's really not... So, I'm started to get excited about it and I'm less terrified than I was two months ago. Two months ago, I probably wouldn't have wanted to talk about it, but you don't refuse a film like that. It's a really great script and I'm looking forward to it."
www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030610-010116-3263r
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Post by PokerKitten on Jun 12, 2003 20:10:45 GMT
*sigh* Some more James' Q&A quotes from MR...  Q:What roles do you like? A: “People who are marginalized; I want to show them as human beings.” On the gift to charity in his name: “ This is the real work of the world. What I do can motivate people to action. We’re just a little show. We tell stories that resonate.” |
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Post by PokerKitten on Jun 13, 2003 14:53:58 GMT
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