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Post by PokerKitten on Sept 11, 2009 18:40:32 GMT
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Post by Teebee on Sept 11, 2009 19:11:06 GMT
Good grief I never thought I'd see the day ;D Thanks PK
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Post by twistedspike on Sept 11, 2009 19:37:37 GMT
I haven't got a Facebook account perhaps it's time I did ;D Wiiiillllllll..........
For someone who doesn't like techno stuff he's def keeping up with the times ;D
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Post by PokerKitten on Sept 11, 2009 20:54:55 GMT
He won't be doing it himself; Gareth suddenly has an official one too.
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Post by Teebee on Sept 11, 2009 20:58:27 GMT
lol...yeah I noticed that too Oh you'll have to Twistie, then we can entice you into farming too ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Teebee on Sept 21, 2009 16:18:38 GMT
Jings we know have an official 'twitter' page too ;D ;D twitter
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Post by Rainbow on Sept 22, 2009 5:59:44 GMT
;D theres no stopping JM now
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Post by PokerKitten on Feb 12, 2010 23:54:00 GMT
Sci-fiBeing Spike - An interview with James Marsters James Marsters will be forever remembered as the bleached-blond vampire William the Bloody (aka Spike) from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. His cockney jibes made him one of the most enduring characters of the whole Buffyverse. After a successful stint on Smallville James is sticking to his sci-fi roots and can next be seen in the BSG spin-off series Caprica. I caught up with James at the recent SFX Weekender where he was the guest of honour, and spoke to him about Twilight, Macbeth, Caprica and, of course, being Spike.
Do you find you get an extra special reception from fans in the UK due to your cockney vampire routes? No... I get that reception everywhere, it's weird. In America everyone knows he's [Spike] English and in England everyone knows he's English, but in Germany they think he's German because that character was voiced over by a German actor and they have no concept that he's from a different place. But the reaction is pretty much the same. I would like to think of myself as a favourite son, in my egotistical moments that thought might flash in, but I think that's a lie, I'm from California.
Obviously vampire are in vogue at the moment. What do you think of the Twilight series? I don't want to denigrate Twilight because I'm raising my niece and I've always been trying to get her to read and she wouldn't. She's very intelligent but she's got a real will. But she discovered Twilight and started reading voraciously and started writing her own stories. They're all about vampires. So I have a deep love for Twilight.
However I don't understand stories that have to dilute the vampire character. I don't understand why you'd write the character of a vampire who doesn't want to kill people. I don't understand a vampire who can withstand sunshine. There are certain things that define a character. There are certain things that work and if you take to many of them away it stops being that icon, and I feel Twilight is dangerously close to turning its back on the icon.
Who would win in a fight between Spike and Edward Cullen? I don't want to be egotistical, but Spike is a fighter. He defines himself as someone who fights. He is a character who searches out the slayer, someone who could possibly kill him, and goes and fights that person. He's crazy. Edward is smarter. He's wiser. Edward is a peacekeeper and he only fights if he has to. What that means is if they really did mix it up Spike would eat him alive. But it wouldn't make him more of a man.
There's lot of rumours coming through that there's going to be a US version of Torchwood. Any chance of an appearance from Captain John in there? If Russell [T Davies, Torchwood creator] calls me to play a pixie fairy I will run. I would work for him unequivocally. He's one of the more interesting artists I've ever met. I got addicted to Torchwood when I was being interviewed by the BBC and they asked me after my first episode [puts on English accent] so what do you think of the homophobic backlash against Torchwood, and I'm like 'homophobic backlash', there's a homophobic backlash. I'm a subversive artist, I used to produce theatre, and I was never really happy unless one member of the audience was so pissed off they had to leave. And when I found out there was a backlash against Torchwood I was addicted to it. I wanted to sit in a living room and watch a family from middle America and see the reaction when Spike kissed Captain John. Let's be honest, America is a very homophobic country, we are barbaric that way. If Russell is given the money to bring the message, I'm there.
I know that you your acting roots are in the theatre. If you could take any classic play and turn it into a sci-fi production which would it be? It would be Macbeth. I think one of the mistakes that is often made when producing that play is that we don't give the witches their power. So if I could produce a movie of Macbeth the witches would kick ass. They would have stuff flying out of their fingers, they would be powerful and they would be scary. The other mistake that's often made with Macbeth is that they make lady Macbeth into a bitch. If you really look at the lines she's not a bitch at all. She doesn't castrate her husband at all.
I know that you're working on Caprica right now. Can you tell us how that's going and how you got the role? I got the role because Jane Espenson asked me to do it. Jane was one of the writers on Buffy. And basically if any of the wirters on Buffy call me I'll come. I want to get back on that mountain top, I feel like I've never really been on that high altitude since Buffy. So Jane called me up and said they needed someone to inject a little danger. I watched the pilot of Caprica and it was so dangerous I had to turn it off. It was too scary for me. I'm not easily scared, but I've got two kids and there were issues that were raised about adolescence that I found too uncomfortable. But at that point I became an addict. Basically, Caprica is a very mature rumination on why our culture is about to explode. It's an issue we don't want to talk about but if you examine where we're going it's not good. I think it's very brave. I wonder if the audience is tough enough to watch it. But I think it's a worthy risk.
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Post by blackwhiterose on Feb 13, 2010 10:47:41 GMT
Thanks for posting. James is right I also don`t understand why the vampires in Twilight are the way they are there. Its so weird. And I really don´t like Twilight because of that what I don`t understand. In Buffy and Angel the vampires are cool but not in Twilight.
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Post by Rainbow on Feb 13, 2010 12:27:59 GMT
I loved the Twilight books - the film not so much but I think there's room for diifferent vampires and they seem to have being tortured in commen
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Post by Ditto on Feb 13, 2010 19:24:52 GMT
Twilight is fabulous! ::whups y'all upside the head:: There's room in this world for all kinds of vampire. Especially the hot sexy kind. Spike will always be on top though...with any luck.
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Post by Rainbow on Feb 13, 2010 20:48:34 GMT
Twilight is fabulous! ::whups y'all upside the head:: There's room in this world for all kinds of vampire. Especially the hot sexy kind. Spike will always be on top though...with any luck. I've only seen the first film and it just seemed very slow - looking forward to New Moon coming out on dvd
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Post by salchli on Feb 25, 2010 17:45:00 GMT
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Post by salchli on Feb 26, 2010 7:51:28 GMT
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Post by blackwhiterose on Feb 26, 2010 12:50:31 GMT
Thanks for posting! Very nice interview! I love his laugh! OMG what he said about Shakespeare! I didn`t know that! WOW!
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Post by PokerKitten on Feb 26, 2010 14:10:22 GMT
Oh, he cracks me up! I can't/don't believe JM's never stumbled across that theory before. Shakie's sexuality has been a topic of scholarly debate for the longest time, although for every one that comes to the conclusion that he must have been gay or bisexual (check out #20 and/or #56 & 57 ), there's someone else who will say the particular sonnets they talk about in the interview were just Will sucking up to his patron. Many a weighty tome has been written about the identity of the 'dark lady' in other of his sonnets too. I'm sure he'd be chuffed to know he's still raking in the bucks, but in an additional way to his plays *kerching* Changing the subject, I thought JM dealt quite graciously with the boo-boo about GOTR and went on to plug his solo work ;D
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Post by PokerKitten on Mar 4, 2010 14:16:44 GMT
411mania Interview411mania Interviews: James Marsters Posted by Al Norton on 03.04.2010
411's Al Norton sits down for an exclusive interview with James Marsters to discuss his new role on Syfy's Caprica
While James Marsters will forever be associated with Spike, the iconic character he played on both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, his work since then is also impressive, including stints on Smallville, Without A Trace, and Torchwood as well as guest spots on Lie To Me, Saving Grace, and Numb3rs. Tomorrow night he begins a run on Syfy's critically acclaimed new series Caprica.
Al Norton: My Facebook status all day on Valentine's Day was, "love isn't brains, children, it's blood. Blood screaming inside you to do its will. I may be love's bitch but at least I'm man enough to admit it."
James Marsters: That's awesome (laughing). On Valentine's Day I was doing some sonnets in New Jersey and I used that line. I said, "Shakespeare was definitely love's bitch but at least he was man enough to admit it."
Al Norton: How did the role on Caprica come about?
James Marsters: This came about because of Jane (Espensen, executive producer of Caprica and former writer/executive producer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer); she really wanted me on the show and she let everyone know that I wouldn't let them down if they let me come on. She really fought for me and I would go anywhere in the world if she called but I'm really glad she called me to come up there.
Al Norton: Had you watched Battlestar Galactica at all during its run?
James Marsters: I've seen some episodes. I didn't see the whole thing but every time I saw it it was amazing. Much more about human interaction and the potential that we all have to hurt each other. It was like, "who's going to be evil this week?"
Al Norton: What Galactica and Buffy have in common is they were both shows where critics and fans tried to convince people, "don't be put off by the genre, it's really just about people."
James Marsters: Yes, exactly. It's nice that the actors are following. These are just good stories. The whole point of good writing and good directing is to get human beings in very intense circumstances. My favorite director is Martin Scorsese because he notches up the tension in his characters so high. That's one thing that fantasy and science fiction can do so well, put people in extraordinary circumstances and then the audience gets to sit back and watch how they deal with it.
Al Norton: Tell me about Barnabas and what drew you to him.
James Marsters: He is a lot like me. He's a revolutionary fighting for a more just world, at least one he believes in. He's at war with the world, like me (laughing). My thing is that my revolution is peaceful whereas he has decided otherwise. He is so thinking that he is right that he is going to battle for it and he's hurting people in the name of philosophy.
Al Norton: And you're on for at least four episodes?
James Marsters: Yes. They've left it open. I've completed one arc and I'm hoping they weren't just being friendly when they told me it was going well and they were thinking about having me back. They didn't promise anything, of course, but they told me they would definitely like to see my face again. We'll see.
Al Norton: Did you see the story that Fox was working on an American version of Torchwood?
James Marsters: Yes, that would be fabulous.
Al Norton: Possibly with John Barrowman in the lead again.
James Marsters: Really? As long as they have Russell T Davies at the helm, they are going to have a good wild ride. I think it's a very brave and wonderful thing to do and I hope that they keep the teeth of the show.
Al Norton: So if your phone were to ring and they wanted you to play Captain John Hart again, is that something you'd be interested in?
James Marsters: Oh hell yeah. We made all the right people uncomfortable with that show. I would go there in a heartbeat. It's a subversive show. Frankly if I could ever work with Russell again, I'd love to; he's a friendly man but a deeply subversive man. I haven't seen the third season but I've heard it's amazing.
Al Norton: It really was quite disturbing, and I mean that as high praise.
James Marsters: That's one of the things I loved about Caprica – the pilot and how wonderfully disturbing it was.
Al Norton: That one scene in the pilot where Adam's daughter's avatar says, "I can't feel my heart beat."
James Marsters: When Zoe wakes up in the Cylon body and doesn't realize she's a robot yet, it just made my stomach drop. Just the scenes in the V-Club, the mass executions and mass orgies, it just made me uncomfortable in the best way, in the way that I love being uncomfortable (laughing).
Al Norton: I admired the courage to open the show that way, to challenge the audience to watch stuff that makes them feel uncomfortable without introducing them to any of the characters or the storylines.
James Marsters: Yes, yes. What I love about that is that is my character. My character is responding in revulsion to that. He feels like he is in ancient Rome and that these people are just feeding on each other, feeding each other to the lions and the whole society is becoming unhinged. I can really understand why Barnabus would graft himself to a philosophy of one God with certain rules and do's and don'ts. I can see why that kind of thing would be worth fighting for in that circumstance. I love the fact that they put the audience in the mind of my character to begin with. Obviously they have a bigger plan for that philosophy but it was just wonderful.
Al Norton: When we last talked you were just coming off of Dragonball and complaining about all the crazy workouts you had to do. Have you maintained that physique?
James Marsters: Oh yeah, because they might call at any moment (laughing). I fall in and out of that shape but it's hard to hold. When I went up to film the first couple of episode of Caprica I told them, "don't take my shirt off guys, you don't want that." Then finding out that they had wanted me to made me go crazy and start working out like nuts.
Al Norton: Is there any word on a Dragonball sequel?
James Marsters: I haven't heard anything officially. I've heard there are rumors we might start up again but nothing official so I am in ignorance but always at the ready.
Al Norton: What else do you have going on?
James Marsters: I just finished three more books on tape from the Harry Dresden series and I'm also playing Mr. Fantastic in a Fantastic Four cartoon for Marvel. It's really funny, I play a genius who is also foolish enough not to see that his wife is having an affair right in front of him (laughing).
Al Norton: How are things with your music?
James Marsters: I just got back from London and New Jersey performing and looking to cut an album, a third album, that would be just me on acoustic guitar and my son on acoustic guitar. Maybe some piano. Keeping it to something simple like that.
Al Norton: You mentioned your son playing guitar with you; how old is he?
James Marsters: He's 13. If you go on YouTube and search "James Marsters and son" you'll see some pretty cool stuff.
Al Norton: He's got the chops?
James Marsters: He's got way more than I do. He buried me within about two months. He really has found something that he is especially good at.
Al Norton: You seem very much at peace with Spike and the fame that playing him brought you so I thought you might be able to tell me why so many actors, including some you used to work with, seem to run so far away from the parts that made them famous.
James Marsters: I have no idea (laughing). Give them a few years, they'll come around. It seems to be the normal kind of reaction, doesn't it? At first a singer is very lucky to get a hit song but then they don't like the hit song. Kurt Cobain wouldn't play Smells Like Teen Spirit in front of audience. I don't know why they run from the parts that got them attention but later in life they seem to realize how lucky they were to get the attention of the world like that. I don't know, maybe they're trying to prove themselves.
Al Norton: My guess is it doesn't happen anymore but there must have been times in the past when you went to read for something and the casting people just saw you as Spike.
James Marsters: Well yeah but I was able to dump the hair and the accent so it was easier. I mean, you want me to lose the accent and change my hair but you still want me to play a badass? Ok (laughing). Torchwood is so close to Spike but there is a little difference there and that makes all the difference in the world, that being that Spike is a romantic and Captain John is not and that opens up a whole different door. It's still massively fun. My god, give me guns, swords, and a watch that lets me travel through time? I'm there (laughing).
Al Norton: What do you watch on these days?
James Marsters: I'd addicted to the news but I'm trying to wean myself off of it because I get too bitter and angry at things. I've been watching CNN. I watch CSPAN, dude; I'm one of those guys. I've been watching MSNBC. I love Rachel Maddow, I think she's fabulous.
Al Norton: I saw on your calendar that you are doing a few of the conventions this spring and summer. What's the appeal of that for you, what does that bring to you?
James Marsters: I like to build community. I've been trying to build community all my life through theater; I used to have a theater in Chicago and another one in Seattle, and we were always talking to each other about how to build community within our town. It always seemed to me like a hallow conversation because the only people coming to see our shows were fellow lefty artists, we were always preaching to the choir. Now I find just by showing up and waving a pen, I'm getting people in the same room and convincing them to meet each other and become friends with each other, and to this point I feel like I'm a poor man's Grateful Dead of Phish (laughing). There is a group of people who follow me around although I'm just the dancing monkey who makes it fun to show up together but the real draw for them is everyone showing up together. It's kind of cool; I've got my own little traveling show, my own little community that is slowly growing. It's not just every year, some of them come quite often and the beautiful thing is they all know each other. I'm finally building community.
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Post by Pluto7077 on Mar 4, 2010 17:53:54 GMT
Aw, bless him thanks for posting this PK
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Post by DeeDee on Mar 5, 2010 10:56:52 GMT
Aww James
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Post by PokerKitten on Mar 5, 2010 15:17:44 GMT
iF Mag interviewExclusive Interview: JAMES MARSTERS GETS PLUGGED INTO 'CAPRICA' - PART ONE
The actor talks about his recurring role on the Syfy series, SMALLVILLE, the news and Spike
By ABBIE BERNSTEIN, Contributing Writer Published 3/5/2010
If you need an actor to play a character who remains dynamic and charismatic while committing some questionable, perhaps even reprehensible, deeds, especially if your alma mater as a writer is BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, you naturally think of James Marsters, who played Spike. If you’re Jane Espenson, one of the producers/writers of Syfy’s BATTLESTAR GALACTICA prequel series CAPRICA, that’s who you wind up getting for the role of Barnabus Greeley, a major figure in the Soldiers of The One. In CAPRICA’s society, where worship of many gods is the norm, believers in a single God are looked on with suspicion. It doesn’t help law-abiding monotheists that the Soldiers of The One do things like blow up trains, which happened in the opening episode. Marsters, on CAPRICA for a multi-episode arc that may resume next season, talks with us about playing Barnabus and all the other things he’s been up to lately. iF: Had you and Jane Espenson been talking for awhile about working together, or did the call to do CAPRICA come out of the blue? JAMES MARSTERS: Every time I ever saw her, we talked about how fun it was to be up on the mountaintop [working on BUFFY]together, and how lucky we were to find interesting work after our experience together on BUFFY and ANGEL, but that something was still missing, and I always thought it was because we weren’t working together [laughs]. That was the combination. And so one day, I got a call that she was pushing to have me included in the CAPRICA cast, and it was for a different character at first, and I don’t know if I was right for the character, but she wanted me on that show [laughs], and when it didn’t work out for that character, she kept pressing for something else that I think has worked out really well. Nothing changed at all [in the relationship with Espenson]. It was, “Oh, my God, we get to work together again!” We’re just little kids. iF: And former BUFFY writer Drew Z. Greenberg is on CAPRICA, too. MARSTERS: Yeah. He’s fabulous. I didn’t get to see him up there, but that’s a really good addition. iF: Had you wanted to play a terrorist before this? MARSTERS: [laughs] Yeah. One of my favorite films is V FOR VENDETTA, which is not to say that my personal choice is to take up arms. I myself am in the middle of a nonviolent revolution, but I have to say, the only difference between me and my character on this show is that Barnabus has decided that it’s okay to hurt people for the revolution. iF Isn’t Barnabus also sort of a religious fanatic? MARSTERS: Yes. However, and follow me here, because I’m playing the role, I have to understand where he’s coming from. What I love both about BATTLESTAR and about CAPRICA is that there are lots of gray areas. There are people that are fighting for what they believe in, and they’re making mistakes anyway. But Barnabus, my character, is living in a world that’s like ancient Rome, where [in virtual reality] they’re having mass executions and mass orgies and feeding each other to animals, and it’s a society becoming unhinged with decadence. And just like I can understand people being swayed by Christianity in that background, I can understand Barnabus getting swayed, too, to really want there to be one God who has answers and who has rules, like “Don’t hit your sister,” “Don’t pee in the pool,” “Forgive each other,” almost like a parent helping us to stop hurting each other. And that’s very seductive, to not have the answers about how to fix the world but want them to be provided to you by this wise hand. The only difference is that I’m a Jeffersonian Christian, which [means] that you just pay attention to the New Testament, and you don’t care if Jesus walked on water, you just listen to the philosophy, the one that went down through Gandhi and then down to Dr. Martin Luther King. The major part of that is, I believe, you can change the world without hurting people. Barnabus has chosen something different. He is going to change the world by hurting people. That’s where he diverges.
iF: In playing Barnabus, do you as an actor engage in physical fight scenes, or does Barnabus delegate the hurting of people? MARSTERS: He so far is delegating, but he is definitely a character who could mix it up. As we’re playing him, he’s a very dangerous character physically. But he hasn’t gotten into a fight scene yet. I can’t wait ‘til they let me do that, though – they’re going to be very happy with dailies that day [laughs]. iF: Apart from not getting physically violent yet, what’s Barnabus like? MARSTERS: Well, here’s the thing, and this is what was so fun – the first day, I was working with Michael Nankin, who was directing the episode, and they were filming it with three cameras at one time, which meant that they got the close, the medium and the wide shot at once. Michael would tell me, “Okay, do this one like you’re so angry, you want to kill him.” And we’d do that take. And then he said, “Okay, now turn around on a dime and it’s just like you want to love everybody. It’s all about love. Wipe that away, and now I want you to be really proud, now I want you to be really meek.” And it was so freeing and so scary at the same time, to leap off the cliff in a new way. It was just wonderful. I remember coming back from that day just flying. But if you asked me what they’re going to use, I don’t know! iF: Did Nankin have you play the scene in a multitude of ways so that he could have choices in editing, or was it because the producers/writers were still contemplating how they wanted to write the character further down the line and they wanted you to preview different options? MARSTERS: It’s because they knew I knew my lines and they got printable takes on the first one. They had time, so it was like, “Let’s play.” And yeah, we think we know where the character is going, but we’re finding out right now, because all the writers and producers were there and they’re all talking. Certain things they planned didn’t work, like they had me in a kilt in the beginning, and it seemed very cool, but they took some photographs and, “You know? No.” Boom, new costume. Within five minutes, a new look was provided. “Yeah,” “No,” “Yeah,” “No,” and then the third costume came through and the final thing was, “Okay, now make him dirtier than a mountain. Just put so much dirt on him.” And then finally I was ready. It was wonderful, very confident, and by the end of the day, you’re like, “Man, that was some of the best stuff I think I’ve done.” iF: Do you have to rethink anything you’re doing when multiple cameras are shooting simultaneously? MARSTERS: No. I tend to kind of forget about the camera anyway, unless they’re telling me I have to keep my light in my eye, I have to watch out to keep open to a camera when I pass the pole or whatever. Otherwise, I just trust the cameraman to shoot me. I always feel that actors, like models, look best when they’re not even aware of the camera. I’ve noticed that when I’m watching the monitor in between takes and they’re just focusing on the actor’s face and they’re just talking to someone normally and they’re not performing or they’re not aware – we’re always prettier in those off moments. iF: Are most of your scenes at this point with Magda Apanowicz, who plays monotheistic high school student Lacy Rand, and Polly Walker, who plays manipulative Clarice Willow? MARSTERS: Yes. Most of my scenes are with Magda and Polly. Both of them are very fun. Magda is a pistol. She’s full of life and full of laughter and welcomed me right away. She came to my trailer personally and just said, “Welcome to the set,” and we’re having a good time and it really kind of set the tone for the fact that it was a friendly place to be. And Polly and I, when we met each other, we were in character, so we were kind of like [sizing each other up], “Hello …” We’re at odds. But in a very cool way. She’s very funny. iF: CAPRICA shoots in Vancouver. You had a recurring role as Milton Fine/Brainiac in several season of SMALLVILLE, which also shoots in Vancouver. Are the vibes on the two sets at all similar, or are they very different? MARSTERS: It is similar in that it’s a very competent, very talented crew and cast, and everyone seems to be [hired] with an eye toward being a decent human being. So it’s a very comfortable place to be. In that, yes, similar, and all the mountain backdrops are the same. But frankly, the ride that I’m taking with CAPRICA is so much more serious and has so many more things to say, I think, about where we as a society and where we’re heading as a society. It’s not afraid to take on some very large issues in a very dramatic way, with the robots running around shooting each other with lasers and hovering trains and all the bells and whistles. But like BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, there’s also some heavier stuff going on. Whereas I think SMALLVILLE is a really good, fun ride, deliciously fun villains and beautiful damsels to be rescued. iF: Have you watched BATTLESTAR GALACTICA? MARSTERS: I think I’d only caught five or six episodes, and I loved all of them, but I didn’t get the big sweep of it, and I’m beginning to sense that I’ve really missed out. I’ve had multiple family members tell me I needed to watch it. My girlfriend is an avid fan. I need to get my head out of the news and watch some good fiction. When you’re watching good fiction, you’re in the hands of an artist who has something to give you, some love or some point to give you, and that’s nourishment, whereas oftentimes the news is just an act of frustration. iF: And sometimes incredulity. I mean, before she appeared on the national scene, would you ever have thought the political trajectory of Sarah Palin was possible? MARSTERS: [sighs] In my most cynical times, yes, of course. In some ways, I love Sarah Palin, because she seems so clownish that she could never get elected [as President of the United States] and she’ll split the vote of the right, which will be an easy win for us if the vote is split, but then again, I think, “What would happen if she actually got elected?” So sometimes I laugh at her and sometimes I feel like a fool for not taking her seriously. What does one do? The country is changing. The color of the country is changing. And we’re not a white Christian nation. If we ever were, we’re certainly not now. And there are a lot of people who are very uncomfortable with this change. iF: Speaking of people uncomfortable with society, Is there any difference between playing somebody who’s off doing his own thing and somebody like Barnabus, who’s a leader of people? MARSTERS: Yes. The nice thing about playing Barnabus is that he’s sure that he’s right. There’s no doubt, or if there is, it’s shoved so far down as to not really be in play. And that just is a very simple, safe thing to feel, whereas Spike had some of that in a few seasons, but that was taken away from him very quickly, so he was existing in doubt all the time, which artistically is great, but it feels a lot scarier. There are similarities, too. Both of them really don’t care what the wider world thinks of them, both of them are extremely dirty [laughs], both of them in a way are at war with the world. But Barnabus is fighting for an idea. Barnabus is fighting for a greater cause that he believes is greater than himself, which makes him both inspirational and very dangerous. Spike was fighting very much selfishly, but had a lot of love that he was fighting for.
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