| London Film & Comic Con 2009 |
[Jul. 18th, 2009|04:12 pm] |
Um, yeah. So I'm insane because I woke up at 3:30am and I knew if I missed LFCC I just wouldn't forgive myself so, drugged to the heavens on paracetamol and armed with a packet of cough sweets I hopped on the first train of the day and went to London.
Firstly: I don't post personal photos to the internet so please don't ask:, sorry
With that out of the way;
Oh, God. SO SO SO SO SO SO GLAD I DID!
Keeley Hawes is amazing! I had such a great chat with her; I probably got to talk with her longer than I've ever chatted to a guest at one of these events because she seemed to want to have proper conversation with everyone and she was totally committed to anything I said and it was so fucking weird in a way because it was like talking to someone I'd known all my life. I've been doing conventions for a few years now and I've never felt so natural with a guest. I'm not sure if it was all good news because I did hear some of the staff moaning when it was the afternoon and Keeley had only reached 180 but the selfish part of me doesn't care because I had the best celeb-meet experience ever, and I've met a lot so it wasn't like there wasn't competition. Anyway, a few things I remember:
- Filming of S3 starts September 7th
- She knows how A2A is going to end
- She doesn't "get" spoilers; we're both in agreement it's so much cooler to just find out for ourselves
- She has fun with all the vintage clothes
- She reckons a lot of people didn't like the perm from S1 (I missed it and said so...the perm rocked)
- When they film they have to change some of the local scenery (phoneboxes, etc) to make it more 80s looking and that there's still some really good old-town areas of London so that they don't have to go too CGI mad.
I also met Tom Baker, who is mad as a box of frogs but a total delight. He's like a lovely eccentric old uncle and though he had a very steady queue he took time each time to address everyone and shake hands and have a little chat.
Alexandra Moen (Lucy Saxon) was there so I went to see her as well and SHE'S SO TINY. OMG. You'd never, ever know it if you've only seen her in Who. She's like a beautiful little doll fresh from the packaging and I wanted to keep! She was very friendly and we compared The Master and Lucy to The Joker and Harley Quinn (she had a vague idea of who they were), and she couldn't tell me when I asked if we'd ever see Lucy again. She had great fun in the role and there was a moment of appreciation for her very funky dancing in TSOD.
The biggest reason I went though was Scott Bakula and he lived up to everything I've ever heard about him. He's a true gentleman; very polite and easy-going and just really, really nice and approachable. It was brief as he was one of the busiests guests but despite that it didn't feel rushed and I got to have a mini conversation, complimenting Quantum Leap and saying how much I adored his partnership with Dean Stockwell in the show. He said they had so much fun and that he was enjoying his visit over here when I asked him about that. He just came across as a really relaxed and genuine guy.
I've been home a little while now but I need to go and get some sleep and then maybe later I can finish off my CoE fic. |
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Yay for you :-D I'm glad you got better enough to go after all. And SCOTT BAKULA OMG! I love Quantum Leap and I also really liked him as Captain Archer in ST: Enterprise :-)
I've never seen Enterprise but I love Quantum Leap. He was so polite and nice. It's a real shame this is likely to be his only UK/European convention.
Yay! I'm glad you had a great time and thanks for the insight on Keeley! ♥
She was awesome. I can't get over it. I love how she made so much time for everyone like that even though it probably wasn't in the best interest of the company; the staff really were not happy she'd got through so few people! I hope they'll have her back again though because she looked like she really enjoyed it.
It's cuz she's a con n00b! So adorable. *heartponies to Keels*
Yeah, next time her queue will probably move a lot faster, which makes me even more glad I went this year! | |
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