Eclipse Saturday/Sunday
May. 5th, 2009 09:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kethniPhoto heavy!!!
Most of this is from Saturday – Saturday was All Grunny, All Day for sure. First a signing, then photoshoots, then a guest encounter*, and his solo talk. Phew!
*Guest encounters are a planned thing where groups of fans get to sit in a room with the particular selected actor, have a cuppa and pretend they aren’t scared shitless. That last part might have just been me.
Signing
Because of the kind of ticket I have I got photo shoots with all three guest included also jump the queues for talks and shoots, but not signings. Signings are first come, first serve. So I went to queue for Grunny because, well, he’s always a HUGE draw and a girl could end up waiting a long time. At the same time Grunny was supposed to be signing Ashley’s photo shoot was on. I took a risk and went to Grunny’s signing because I knew Ashey’s shoot was due for an hour and I was pretty sure it wouldn’t take *that* long for the signing, provided I got there early-ish.
Hmm, there were only two of us there and Grunny was due in a couple of minutes. Five minutes passed, ten minutes passed, fifteen minutes passed and only two of us in the queue and no Grunny. Seems everyone thought the queue for Grunny would be mad busy and went to Ashley’s photoshoot instead, heh.
And Grunny? Well apparently he was running a little late – just sat down to breakfast in fact – as according to a steward he’d been ‘partying all night’. ‘Partying’ as it turned out was not entirely accurate...
Anyway, they suggested we go to the shoot with the promise that we could jump to the front of the queue when we got back. Long story – short, this was a good thing for me, I was back in 15 minutes. It was a bad thing for the other guy queuing as his ticket meant he was last for the photoshoot and didn’t get back for 45 minutes and was stuck at the end of the autograph queue. Moral of the story kids, buy Gold!
I got back from the shoot with Ashley (very nice lady) just as Marie (she of the Grunny whispering) and cohort arrived. She had a gorgeous canvas of Grunny (see pic) for him to sign – he declared it awesome :D I had a picture of Weiss. Mmm Weiss. Grunny said he liked my t-shirt, I said I did too, *headdeask!*
*Note to self – not everyone finds the spelling joke about your name funny. Ntare certainly looked perplexed. Glad I didn’t run that one past Greg.
Photo shoot
One on one shoot with Greg (squee!) (pic). Big kudos for everyone in the photoshoots, very organised and really friendly. Such nice people all round. Grunny’s helper was squeeing over my t-shirt big style, hehe. Grunny was very friendly and posed in the position on my t-shirt. I remember to thank him, nicely I hope, because when nervous it’s far too easy to come over as rude. I had to do it twice as my damn glasses were too far down and mucking up the picture. The photographer was great, making sure everyone got at least one good shot. If the shot looked bad when he checked his camera then he did it again.
Group photo shoot
Maria said she’d ask Grunny for a hug on the group photoshoot, if I would first but I’m a wimp fortunately. Everyone at the con got a group photo shoot so understandably they were blasting through them at a rate of knots – no chat except ‘hi!’ – just stand there, smile, snap! You’re done.
Except me. Of course. Always causing trouble. I walked over, Grunny took a long look at my t-shirt and announced ‘Has anyone got a sharpie? That t-shirt’s getting signed. I don’t care if you want it signing it or not.’ Hehe. Mr Grunberg, you can do anything you want to my t-shirt. Or me. Either is good. I was gibbering, naturally, but he was chatting away as he signed the front and back, ‘this is a great t-shirt. And it’s never getting worn again is it?’ Nope, never. ‘It’s just going to end up in a case, huh?’ Pretty much, yeah. I nearly walked off without my group shot but fortunately they stopped me and even more fortunately it was a one shot-perfect deal. If I’d had to stand there and have several shots I think I’d have disintegrated entirely. As I walked to collect my bags I noticed a very nice lady for the convention had filmed the whole thing, oops. Oh well, she gave me a great big grin and a thumbs up. When I picked up my photo’s later on I found that the photographer had included a couple of shots of Greg signing my shoot along with the group shot. Nice peeps! Thanks!
I’m combining all the talks/Guest Encounters together because I can’t remember what happened when any more. Sorry!
This was very well done, kudos to the organisers for keeping everything under control.
But, and it’s a big caveat, perhaps someone should have told Grunny that when seated on stage above an audience full of people with camera’s perhaps sitting with your legs wide apart is just begging for a million crotch shots? The figure-four cross was better in that respect but as a bit of a body language enthusiast they both make me snigger like Beavis and Butthead.
Anyway, Grunny was asked about his friendship with JJ Abrams and he spoke about the short films they make when they were little kids, how they stayed friends although they didn’t go to Middle school or High school together. He was jokingly saying how annoying it is to be struggling to get by when your best pal and roommate is selling scripts for millions of dollars. He said he enjoyed writing as well as acting partly because writing is something you can just do, you don’t have to be hired to write.
Grunny spoke about bugging JJ and Matt Reeves into giving him a role on Felicity – coming up with all kinds of suggestions for what role he could play. He asked if we got Felicity here – nope but some of us have seen it on DVD – and talked about how a lot of Sean was based on him. Grunny told us some of the specific things he himself had invented including; a parka-pint for tubs of Haagen-Daz (like little coats I think, to stop your hand from getting cold), and some kind of see-through plastic book stand that you lie under in bed so you don’t have to hold the book. Apparently though when he was testing out the prototype it collapsed on top of Grunny and one of his kids, heh.
Grunny was asked about getting the role in Heroes. He had a few days left on his holding/development deal (don’t ask me what that means, I have no idea) so he had a meeting with ABC with whom he’d made Alias and The Catch. NBC found out and went nuts at him – threatened to sue, he yelled back they weren’t sending him anything. Anyway, they suggested he try Heroes. He was only sent the first half of the script – no Matt Parkman character, he didn’t feel the politician brother (damn, how fun would Grunny as Nathan Petrelli have been?) and so went for Peter. Even though his wife’s reaction was, ‘uhh... ok-ay.’
Grunny talked about going on ‘safari’ the night before. Safari is this case being wandering the streets of Northampton in the wee small hours watching the drunken locals falling out of the pubs and clubs and staggering about. (That’s what he and Ntare had been doing, not partying as such). That’s right, reasonably well known Hollywood actor wandering around a down at heel British town watching the chavs puking up and crawling along the pavements. Intriguing image isn’t it?
Group talk – questions
Question: ‘What do you want on your tombstone?’ (Gee, cheerful much?)
Answer: ‘I’ll start tomorrow,’ which Grunny claims is his approach to dieting.
Question: ‘If your character had to die how would you want it to happen?’
Answer: ‘I’d like to be doing something heroic and then have my head EXPLODE’.
Question: ‘How would you describe yourself in a personals ad?’
Answer: White, married, surprisingly muscular. (Mmmm)
There was a question about a fake credit on IMDB (that I can’t find) and Grunny laughingly confirmed that he wasn’t in the film mentioned and had never heard of it until it was on his IMDB.
As a follow up someone else ask what the most untrue thing he’s ever seen in print about himself (good question!). He related a story about working for Joel Silver. During the filming of Hudson Hawk Bruce Willis was ‘in Europe somewhere’ and Demi was in the US. She was at some club with a friend and Grunny – as Joel Silver’s assistant/driver – got sent to pick her up. He gets there and there are paparazzi everywhere. She waves the car over ‘hi Greg!’ and gets in the passenger seat next to him and her friend gets in the back. The paparazzi are banging on the car, trying to open the doors, generally going nuts. So Grunny reaches around her to lock the passenger door and SNAP! The next day on the front cover of one of the tabloid magazines, ‘While Bruce is away Demi is on the town with a playmate’. When Bruce Willis came back from Europe he saw Grunny in the studio, marched over, and grabbed Grunny, ‘What’s this about you and Demi out partying?’ Eeep! ‘Nah man just kidding!’ Then he grabbed the magazine and started leafing through, ‘So am I in here?’
Question: Where’s the turtle? With Matt and Mohinder on the run I'm worried it'll starve.
Answer: The turtle? Where’s MOLLY! Sometimes there are these gaps and I can’t work out what’s happened. It’s like with Sendhil, am I supposed to not notice that my roommate turned into the fly? - Sing it Grunny.
Question: In an ideal world where would you like to see your character progress? (My question, schwing!)
Answer: Well they’ve given him everything he wants and I’d like to see him go dark as a necessity of keeping that. Maybe go dark like Maury and then pull back before going too far.
Question: Would you like to write/direct?
Answer: I couldn’t write Heroes, it’s completely not my kind of writing but I’ve been approached to direct an episode. I’d be relying a lot on the directors of photography for the look. I really hope to do that.
Question: Imagine you have been cast in a big gay love story. Who would you pick for your love interest?
Answer Ashley: Meryl Streep and (can’t remember sorry! Susan Sarandon or maybe Helen Hunt?). Seriously, why should I play by the rules? – Yeah! You tell them.
Answer Ntare: Well, it’s funny you should ask. I’ve been struggling with something for a while... (Audience sees where this is going and starts to snigger) ‘I think this is the right moment.’ (Swivels to Grunny and goes down on his knees in front of Grunny. Audience goes absolutely INSANE.)
Answer Grunny (eventually when the laughter has died down enough): Jim Carey, because he’d be funny. (Does Jim Carey impersonation.)
Question: If you were a Bond villain who would you be and how would you take over the world?
Answer: Octopenis! (Audience goes nuts)
Ntare waited until the audience had quieted down and then joked that he felt ‘violated, having opened about my feelings and now I’m violated.
‘Violated by the octopenis!’ Grunny crowed.
Ashley suggested the audience all shout ‘Octopenis!’ (to get it out of our systems, perhaps)
Question: There’s a saying about not acting with animals and children. Do you agree with that?
Answer: No, children are great. They have no filter that adults have, they don’t have that process of ‘should I laugh? Do other people think it’s funny?’If they think something is funny they just laugh. The babies are the same. I haven’t worked with babies until the twins and they’re scary because they must’ve come out of the womb with their SAG cards. I’ll be playing with one of them and they’ll be giggling away, the director calls ‘action’, and the baby is totally game face. I’m still playing and the baby is looking at me like ‘Yeah, nice Greg, can we work now?’ I’ve been teaching them to punch me in the face which their dad was thrilled with as you can imagine. Animals can be fun. Nobody told me that turtles fart and they have personalities. When they don’t want to move they do not move.’
Question: Who out of the current cast would you like to work with?
Answer: Ali Larter, she did throw me out of a window and we’ve done some action stuff but I’d like to do some more character based interaction.
Question: Did you enjoy the flying sequence in the Daphne dream sequence?
Answer: Yeah, it was a beautiful sequence. I was on a platform not a harness. They just lifted me up and down, you never see my feet. In the flying sequence with Nathan they put him on a harness on a descending wire. They didn’t put me on a harness or anything, I was just hanging on desperately and whatever I was shouting wasn’t in the script it was exactly what I was genuinely feeling. Adrian is such a trooper, it doesn’t matter if he has a hernia he’s just like ‘jump on!’
Question: What actor living or dead would you like to work with?
Answer: Jack Lemon, he was so smart, so subtle, and the best comic timing.
Question: What is your favourite movie?
Answer: Chitty, chitty, bang, bang. It’s a great movie. Two movies really and there’s an intermission when they head off to Bulgaria or whatever so you can get another beer.
(At Ashley’s instigation lead the audience in a chorus of the theme song)
Question: What would be the theme tune for your life?
Answer: Bohemian Rhapsody, it’s all over the place the way that my life is all over the place.
Quiz
This was fans versus actors. Which was actually less of a slaughter than I expected, the actors still got beaten but not as badly as I was expecting.
Anyway, it turns out that Grunny likes to trash talk the other side. Repeatedly :P This is a particularly bad plan when you pause before answering the question in order to taunt the other team and then get the answer wrong.
Ashley got all ten of the questions about Sandra Bennet correct – even the tricky ones that had the audience scratching their heads.
The Pictionary round was a mix of piss easy and insanely difficult. The Shanti virus? NOBODY could’ve done that. Have to say though that Ashley did brilliantly drawing ‘Building 26’ – a building and a stick figure in a bed – was inspired. It took Grunny longer to remember the number than it did to realise what the clue was. His picture – a stick figure with a riot of curls next to a cash machine spewing money – deserved to be identified, just a shame his side didn’t but the fan team did. Hee!
Random stuff:
Grunny saying he’d ‘launched this thing called Yowza’ and someone in the audience yelling back ‘We KNOW!’ Rude yes, but funny.
Maria squealing ‘Hi Greg!’ every time he was within fifty feet. But no matter how much I asked all she could remember about her guest encounter with him was ‘he was talking about donuts’. For the entire half hour? Really?
Ntare pointing at Phillipa (sitting next to me on the front row sketching the guest talk) and saying ‘we have a very talented artist right here’.
Phillipa almost dying of embarrassment relating the tale of stepping into the lift and coming face to face with Grunny and saying the first thing that came to mind; ‘fancy seeing you here’. But at least it wasn’t,‘going down?’
Grunny saying the difference between the UK police and the LA police being that ‘in the UK they don’t beat you up before they arrest you.’
Grunny saying that he doesn’t have guns and likes that we don’t really have a gun culture here but that shooting a gun is a powerful experience.
Most of this is from Saturday – Saturday was All Grunny, All Day for sure. First a signing, then photoshoots, then a guest encounter*, and his solo talk. Phew!
*Guest encounters are a planned thing where groups of fans get to sit in a room with the particular selected actor, have a cuppa and pretend they aren’t scared shitless. That last part might have just been me.
Signing
Because of the kind of ticket I have I got photo shoots with all three guest included also jump the queues for talks and shoots, but not signings. Signings are first come, first serve. So I went to queue for Grunny because, well, he’s always a HUGE draw and a girl could end up waiting a long time. At the same time Grunny was supposed to be signing Ashley’s photo shoot was on. I took a risk and went to Grunny’s signing because I knew Ashey’s shoot was due for an hour and I was pretty sure it wouldn’t take *that* long for the signing, provided I got there early-ish.
Hmm, there were only two of us there and Grunny was due in a couple of minutes. Five minutes passed, ten minutes passed, fifteen minutes passed and only two of us in the queue and no Grunny. Seems everyone thought the queue for Grunny would be mad busy and went to Ashley’s photoshoot instead, heh.
And Grunny? Well apparently he was running a little late – just sat down to breakfast in fact – as according to a steward he’d been ‘partying all night’. ‘Partying’ as it turned out was not entirely accurate...
Anyway, they suggested we go to the shoot with the promise that we could jump to the front of the queue when we got back. Long story – short, this was a good thing for me, I was back in 15 minutes. It was a bad thing for the other guy queuing as his ticket meant he was last for the photoshoot and didn’t get back for 45 minutes and was stuck at the end of the autograph queue. Moral of the story kids, buy Gold!
I got back from the shoot with Ashley (very nice lady) just as Marie (she of the Grunny whispering) and cohort arrived. She had a gorgeous canvas of Grunny (see pic) for him to sign – he declared it awesome :D I had a picture of Weiss. Mmm Weiss. Grunny said he liked my t-shirt, I said I did too, *headdeask!*
*Note to self – not everyone finds the spelling joke about your name funny. Ntare certainly looked perplexed. Glad I didn’t run that one past Greg.
Photo shoot
One on one shoot with Greg (squee!) (pic). Big kudos for everyone in the photoshoots, very organised and really friendly. Such nice people all round. Grunny’s helper was squeeing over my t-shirt big style, hehe. Grunny was very friendly and posed in the position on my t-shirt. I remember to thank him, nicely I hope, because when nervous it’s far too easy to come over as rude. I had to do it twice as my damn glasses were too far down and mucking up the picture. The photographer was great, making sure everyone got at least one good shot. If the shot looked bad when he checked his camera then he did it again.
Group photo shoot
Maria said she’d ask Grunny for a hug on the group photoshoot, if I would first but I’m a wimp fortunately. Everyone at the con got a group photo shoot so understandably they were blasting through them at a rate of knots – no chat except ‘hi!’ – just stand there, smile, snap! You’re done.
Except me. Of course. Always causing trouble. I walked over, Grunny took a long look at my t-shirt and announced ‘Has anyone got a sharpie? That t-shirt’s getting signed. I don’t care if you want it signing it or not.’ Hehe. Mr Grunberg, you can do anything you want to my t-shirt. Or me. Either is good. I was gibbering, naturally, but he was chatting away as he signed the front and back, ‘this is a great t-shirt. And it’s never getting worn again is it?’ Nope, never. ‘It’s just going to end up in a case, huh?’ Pretty much, yeah. I nearly walked off without my group shot but fortunately they stopped me and even more fortunately it was a one shot-perfect deal. If I’d had to stand there and have several shots I think I’d have disintegrated entirely. As I walked to collect my bags I noticed a very nice lady for the convention had filmed the whole thing, oops. Oh well, she gave me a great big grin and a thumbs up. When I picked up my photo’s later on I found that the photographer had included a couple of shots of Greg signing my shoot along with the group shot. Nice peeps! Thanks!
I’m combining all the talks/Guest Encounters together because I can’t remember what happened when any more. Sorry!
This was very well done, kudos to the organisers for keeping everything under control.
But, and it’s a big caveat, perhaps someone should have told Grunny that when seated on stage above an audience full of people with camera’s perhaps sitting with your legs wide apart is just begging for a million crotch shots? The figure-four cross was better in that respect but as a bit of a body language enthusiast they both make me snigger like Beavis and Butthead.
Anyway, Grunny was asked about his friendship with JJ Abrams and he spoke about the short films they make when they were little kids, how they stayed friends although they didn’t go to Middle school or High school together. He was jokingly saying how annoying it is to be struggling to get by when your best pal and roommate is selling scripts for millions of dollars. He said he enjoyed writing as well as acting partly because writing is something you can just do, you don’t have to be hired to write.
Grunny spoke about bugging JJ and Matt Reeves into giving him a role on Felicity – coming up with all kinds of suggestions for what role he could play. He asked if we got Felicity here – nope but some of us have seen it on DVD – and talked about how a lot of Sean was based on him. Grunny told us some of the specific things he himself had invented including; a parka-pint for tubs of Haagen-Daz (like little coats I think, to stop your hand from getting cold), and some kind of see-through plastic book stand that you lie under in bed so you don’t have to hold the book. Apparently though when he was testing out the prototype it collapsed on top of Grunny and one of his kids, heh.
Grunny was asked about getting the role in Heroes. He had a few days left on his holding/development deal (don’t ask me what that means, I have no idea) so he had a meeting with ABC with whom he’d made Alias and The Catch. NBC found out and went nuts at him – threatened to sue, he yelled back they weren’t sending him anything. Anyway, they suggested he try Heroes. He was only sent the first half of the script – no Matt Parkman character, he didn’t feel the politician brother (damn, how fun would Grunny as Nathan Petrelli have been?) and so went for Peter. Even though his wife’s reaction was, ‘uhh... ok-ay.’
Grunny talked about going on ‘safari’ the night before. Safari is this case being wandering the streets of Northampton in the wee small hours watching the drunken locals falling out of the pubs and clubs and staggering about. (That’s what he and Ntare had been doing, not partying as such). That’s right, reasonably well known Hollywood actor wandering around a down at heel British town watching the chavs puking up and crawling along the pavements. Intriguing image isn’t it?
Group talk – questions
Question: ‘What do you want on your tombstone?’ (Gee, cheerful much?)
Answer: ‘I’ll start tomorrow,’ which Grunny claims is his approach to dieting.
Question: ‘If your character had to die how would you want it to happen?’
Answer: ‘I’d like to be doing something heroic and then have my head EXPLODE’.
Question: ‘How would you describe yourself in a personals ad?’
Answer: White, married, surprisingly muscular. (Mmmm)
There was a question about a fake credit on IMDB (that I can’t find) and Grunny laughingly confirmed that he wasn’t in the film mentioned and had never heard of it until it was on his IMDB.
As a follow up someone else ask what the most untrue thing he’s ever seen in print about himself (good question!). He related a story about working for Joel Silver. During the filming of Hudson Hawk Bruce Willis was ‘in Europe somewhere’ and Demi was in the US. She was at some club with a friend and Grunny – as Joel Silver’s assistant/driver – got sent to pick her up. He gets there and there are paparazzi everywhere. She waves the car over ‘hi Greg!’ and gets in the passenger seat next to him and her friend gets in the back. The paparazzi are banging on the car, trying to open the doors, generally going nuts. So Grunny reaches around her to lock the passenger door and SNAP! The next day on the front cover of one of the tabloid magazines, ‘While Bruce is away Demi is on the town with a playmate’. When Bruce Willis came back from Europe he saw Grunny in the studio, marched over, and grabbed Grunny, ‘What’s this about you and Demi out partying?’ Eeep! ‘Nah man just kidding!’ Then he grabbed the magazine and started leafing through, ‘So am I in here?’
Question: Where’s the turtle? With Matt and Mohinder on the run I'm worried it'll starve.
Answer: The turtle? Where’s MOLLY! Sometimes there are these gaps and I can’t work out what’s happened. It’s like with Sendhil, am I supposed to not notice that my roommate turned into the fly? - Sing it Grunny.
Question: In an ideal world where would you like to see your character progress? (My question, schwing!)
Answer: Well they’ve given him everything he wants and I’d like to see him go dark as a necessity of keeping that. Maybe go dark like Maury and then pull back before going too far.
Question: Would you like to write/direct?
Answer: I couldn’t write Heroes, it’s completely not my kind of writing but I’ve been approached to direct an episode. I’d be relying a lot on the directors of photography for the look. I really hope to do that.
Question: Imagine you have been cast in a big gay love story. Who would you pick for your love interest?
Answer Ashley: Meryl Streep and (can’t remember sorry! Susan Sarandon or maybe Helen Hunt?). Seriously, why should I play by the rules? – Yeah! You tell them.
Answer Ntare: Well, it’s funny you should ask. I’ve been struggling with something for a while... (Audience sees where this is going and starts to snigger) ‘I think this is the right moment.’ (Swivels to Grunny and goes down on his knees in front of Grunny. Audience goes absolutely INSANE.)
Answer Grunny (eventually when the laughter has died down enough): Jim Carey, because he’d be funny. (Does Jim Carey impersonation.)
Question: If you were a Bond villain who would you be and how would you take over the world?
Answer: Octopenis! (Audience goes nuts)
Ntare waited until the audience had quieted down and then joked that he felt ‘violated, having opened about my feelings and now I’m violated.
‘Violated by the octopenis!’ Grunny crowed.
Ashley suggested the audience all shout ‘Octopenis!’ (to get it out of our systems, perhaps)
Question: There’s a saying about not acting with animals and children. Do you agree with that?
Answer: No, children are great. They have no filter that adults have, they don’t have that process of ‘should I laugh? Do other people think it’s funny?’If they think something is funny they just laugh. The babies are the same. I haven’t worked with babies until the twins and they’re scary because they must’ve come out of the womb with their SAG cards. I’ll be playing with one of them and they’ll be giggling away, the director calls ‘action’, and the baby is totally game face. I’m still playing and the baby is looking at me like ‘Yeah, nice Greg, can we work now?’ I’ve been teaching them to punch me in the face which their dad was thrilled with as you can imagine. Animals can be fun. Nobody told me that turtles fart and they have personalities. When they don’t want to move they do not move.’
Question: Who out of the current cast would you like to work with?
Answer: Ali Larter, she did throw me out of a window and we’ve done some action stuff but I’d like to do some more character based interaction.
Question: Did you enjoy the flying sequence in the Daphne dream sequence?
Answer: Yeah, it was a beautiful sequence. I was on a platform not a harness. They just lifted me up and down, you never see my feet. In the flying sequence with Nathan they put him on a harness on a descending wire. They didn’t put me on a harness or anything, I was just hanging on desperately and whatever I was shouting wasn’t in the script it was exactly what I was genuinely feeling. Adrian is such a trooper, it doesn’t matter if he has a hernia he’s just like ‘jump on!’
Question: What actor living or dead would you like to work with?
Answer: Jack Lemon, he was so smart, so subtle, and the best comic timing.
Question: What is your favourite movie?
Answer: Chitty, chitty, bang, bang. It’s a great movie. Two movies really and there’s an intermission when they head off to Bulgaria or whatever so you can get another beer.
(At Ashley’s instigation lead the audience in a chorus of the theme song)
Question: What would be the theme tune for your life?
Answer: Bohemian Rhapsody, it’s all over the place the way that my life is all over the place.
Quiz
This was fans versus actors. Which was actually less of a slaughter than I expected, the actors still got beaten but not as badly as I was expecting.
Anyway, it turns out that Grunny likes to trash talk the other side. Repeatedly :P This is a particularly bad plan when you pause before answering the question in order to taunt the other team and then get the answer wrong.
Ashley got all ten of the questions about Sandra Bennet correct – even the tricky ones that had the audience scratching their heads.
The Pictionary round was a mix of piss easy and insanely difficult. The Shanti virus? NOBODY could’ve done that. Have to say though that Ashley did brilliantly drawing ‘Building 26’ – a building and a stick figure in a bed – was inspired. It took Grunny longer to remember the number than it did to realise what the clue was. His picture – a stick figure with a riot of curls next to a cash machine spewing money – deserved to be identified, just a shame his side didn’t but the fan team did. Hee!
Random stuff:
Grunny saying he’d ‘launched this thing called Yowza’ and someone in the audience yelling back ‘We KNOW!’ Rude yes, but funny.
Maria squealing ‘Hi Greg!’ every time he was within fifty feet. But no matter how much I asked all she could remember about her guest encounter with him was ‘he was talking about donuts’. For the entire half hour? Really?
Ntare pointing at Phillipa (sitting next to me on the front row sketching the guest talk) and saying ‘we have a very talented artist right here’.
Phillipa almost dying of embarrassment relating the tale of stepping into the lift and coming face to face with Grunny and saying the first thing that came to mind; ‘fancy seeing you here’. But at least it wasn’t,‘going down?’
Grunny saying the difference between the UK police and the LA police being that ‘in the UK they don’t beat you up before they arrest you.’
Grunny saying that he doesn’t have guns and likes that we don’t really have a gun culture here but that shooting a gun is a powerful experience.
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Date: 2009-05-05 08:46 pm (UTC)Bt I just had to hop in and say
A) I am glad you had a agood time
and
B) He *always* likes your tee-shirts :D - one day he is going to turn round and ask you to make him one *VBG*
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Date: 2009-05-05 09:06 pm (UTC):D Yeah, it was great fun.
one day he is going to turn round and ask you to make him one *VBG*
Heh, no. Hopefully not!
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Date: 2009-05-05 10:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-06 05:50 am (UTC)But yeah and we can't get it here even if we want it. He only mentioned it twice, that might've been why.
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Date: 2009-05-06 03:07 am (UTC)Oh. My. God. You lucky girl!!! I wish we had Heroes conventions here! I would be in heaven! And Grunny sitting with his legs open, and Adrian telling him to “Jump On!!” *fans self* I probably would have been snickering the entire day!! Thanks for the report!!
I said I did too LOL!! That just keeps getting funnier :P
ETA: The picture on the back of your shirt, was it the picture you posted?
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Date: 2009-05-06 05:56 am (UTC)Groan, I know. I'm just glad there was nobody else about at the time. Still I'm sure lots of people embarrassed themselves. At least I didn't call him 'Matt' at any point.
There are Heroes conventions there I think but they're HUGE. The San Diego comic con has a couple of hundred thousand people so I'd guess you spend the entire time looking at screens of the guests. Although it was pretty much a disaster for the organisers having so few attendees was great for face time with the guests.
I totally forgot to post Grunny's allusion to Petrellicest and his English accent, hehe. Doh!
The picture on the back of my shirt is the one where Grunny is in stormtrooper costume and he's reading the helmet's mind. My, that sounds dirty!
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Date: 2009-05-06 01:56 pm (UTC)Wait what is this about Grunny's English accent and talking about Petrellicest!?!?!? Don’t leave me hanging woman!!! :D
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Date: 2009-05-06 02:21 pm (UTC)The Petrellicest thing was; someone asked him about table reads - where the cast and crew sit around the table and read through the script? As he said they're for the director etc to see what's not working, not for the actors. They don't have them on Heroes because of the time/complexity. (although it might be a good idea, personally!)Then he laughingly said could we imagine someone having to read the narration for a Nathan and Peter scene? 'Nathan and Peter stand close. Really close. Way too close. Then they touch. A lot. And Nathan whispers so quietly nobody can hear what he's saying. Then they nod and fly away.'
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Date: 2009-05-06 04:41 pm (UTC)