19.08.2009 в 14:59
Пишет timey_wimey_kid:Конвент в Сиднее, Мишина панель, скрипт. (2 часть: Воскресенье)
Поскольку я больше ничего не делаю на днюху Миши... хотя бы вот мои пять копеек.
Удачного вам тут праздника, я уезжаю отмечать свою днюху
sсript by [J]-Timey~Wimey~Kid-[/J]
<...> - unheard
A - audience
M - Misha
S - staff
AF - Australian fan
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S: Hello
M: Hi! How are you doing?
S: Good, you?
M: Good.
S: Have a seat.
M: Thanks.
M: Hi every…
A: squeeeeeeeeee
M: Shhhh. My chair is so much lower today. I’m too far away from my pedestal. So, how is everybody doing?
A: squeeeeeeeeee
M: What? Oh, good. That one got stuck there didn’t it. Ehm. So, let’s… shall we get started? Enough of this dilly-dallying. Does anybody have anything to say? Hi.
A: Hi. Hi Misha.
M: Hi.
A: Hi. Did you read the Book of Revelation as prep for your character or had you already read it?
читать дальшеM: She wants to know if I’m a good Christian. Ehm. I had not read it. And I’ve been informed that it’s actually Revelation, not Revelations, but I always say Revelations. Ehm, yeh, has anyone read Revelations? A few. Well, basically, it’s… the part that is relevant to angels is that you get to see the angels in the Book of Revelations… their sole purpose seems to be to come down to Earth to destroy everything. There’s passages there like “an angel will come down and kill 1/3 of all the fish in the sea”, or “smite 1/3 of all the animals on land”, or “destroy all of the vegetation”. So they’re not really, you know, what we conventionally think of as, ehm, angels. Like, that you see on posters at your grandmother’s house. So, yeh. But no, I read it just, eh… it was kinda scary, actually. I was like, wow, I didn’t realize there was this kind of stuff going on in the Bible, so, yeh, there you go. Yes.
A: <…> 02:37
M: I have no idea what you’re asking me. I mean, are you talking about, like, slash fic?
A: *laughing*
M: Yeh, eh, no, I… elaborate.
A: <…> 03:10
M: So what am I thinking of them, like, people who help me moving? Cuz if you want brute force, Sam and Dean are gonna be more effective, like, manual labour – definitely those guys. But, ehm… Yeh, I think they all have their different strong suits, so, ehm, it would really depend on what you’re applying them to. Yeh. *takes a bag of sweets* you know, should we just pass these around maybe? Here.
A: <…>
M: Right. Jared didn’t like the way I threw the candy yesterday.
A: How did you get into acting.
M: How did I get into acting? Ehm. The first role I had was when I was five. And I was playing a 4-year-old, so it was kind of… and, ehm, my mother was in this Community Theater production that was in Massachusetts. And I was playing her daughter.
A: *laughs*
M: What?
A: *laughs*
M: And, ehm, it was en epic political drama, it was about the Chicago Seven in the 60s and it was 4 hours long, and my role was to say: “Yes, I can, I can believe it because it’s true”. That was it. In 4 hours, that was all I did. But I would wait just like a bronco waiting to bust out of its stall for my one line; I was, you know, totally alert until it happened, then say my line, and then I would fall asleep, because I’d done my work. And my mum would be nudging me to wake up. And that was my first acting job. But my mother was into Community Theater when I was growing up, and she did storytelling, and she directed plays that I was in, ehm… She would come to my school and she would direct a play and I would always, oddly, get cast in the lead. There was no nepotism there, it was just how it went. You know, we grew up really poor, like, we were on welfare, we were homeless for a couple of years, and she never really made much money, ehm, as doing Community Theater and acting and I, as a result, never really thought that it would be a viable career option for myself. So I was gonna be a lawyer instead, and I was getting ready to go to law school when I got my first acting job; and I thought I would… and then I did another acting job after that, and I was starting a software company at that point, and I thought… pretty soon it became clear that my struggling software career was supported by acting revenue. Ehm… and so I just decided to take it a little bit more seriously, and I love it, and I love it more and more as time goes on, so it’s been a very sort of slow, morphing process for me.
S: Okay guys, can we cut out with the flashing now, if you can switch your cameras over so that they don’t flash, it would be great. Also, just as a fire regulation, we can’t have people sitting in the isles or standing in <…>, thank you.
M: Or starting camp fires.
S: Or starting fires.
M: Period.
S: Yeah. No, can’t do that.
A: Hi Misha.
M: Hi.
A: I wanted to ask. You’ve mentioned a lot about how we don’t know if God exists or not in the Supernatural world, and I was wondering if you think that Castiel is actually wrong to believe in God just on faith, if you think that he should be questioning it or if it’s you know, okay to have a little bit of faith.
M: I… Ekhm. I know more than maybe you do about what happens in the season cuz we already shot it. And, ehm. So I can tell you that Castiel does have faith. He starts out at the beginning of the season with almost blind faith, it seems. And as the season progresses, his faith gets a little bit more shaky. And, eh, I think he ultimately even experiences a little bit of doubt, and he is definitely questioning what’s going on, and who’s giving the commands, and whether there is a God who’s in charge of the armies of heaven, and, ehm, yeh, it kinda makes it more interesting for Castiel’s storyline, ehm, but it certainly hasn’t been resolved yet, whether there is a direct line of communication between God and the angels, or whether God actually even exists in the Supernatural world. Thank you.
A: Hi.
M: I dunno where you are, but… oh yes. Hi. I just thought you were waving to me.
A: *laughs*
M: Ehm, hi.
A: I guess we all notice that your voice is different as Castiel, and I was wondering, did you plan that when you first read the sсript, or what were your intentions behind that?
M: Do I sound cool?
A: *laughs*
M: When I read the sсript, in the first episode, people seeing him - his true form - are blinded, and the sound of his true voice shatters windows and blows out doors, and so I thought it’s a good idea for him to have a really, you know, deep voice, and then I was like oh shit, this character goes on for a really long time.
A: *laughs*
M: So I got this really weird voice for a really long time, ehm. But, ehm, it’s kinda funny, it actually helps me a lot to have a different kind of voice or a dialect or something like that, it just grounds me in the character more easily, so I like having that… yep. Thanks.
A: Hi!
M: Hi.
A: Oh, that was loud. Anyway. I was just wondering, like, before you even got the part of Castiel, did you ever watch the show before, or did you even heard of it?
M: I had heard of it, yes, and I had watched one or two episodes. But I kind of dismissed it, I thought oh, this is just, you know, a silly teem WB show, with a couple of hunky guys, I don’t watch that shit. And I’ve been totally surprised by what the show really is, ehm, you know, honestly, I don’t think it’s as well-promoted as it could be, you know, I think that…
A: squeeeeeeeee
M: I think that it’s a great show that more people would watch if they knew about it, or if they had the right perception about what it is, and I think that, you know, maybe I’m sure that, you know, the people in charge are doing what makes most financial sense to them, there’s a loyal following of the show, and people tune in every week, and they don’t really have to pump a lot of money in the advertising in order to get you people to watch it, but in order to get people like me to watch it, they would’ve had to probably spend a coupla more dollars. And I just hadn’t been watching it. So, yeh, it’s been a really pleasant surprise. And I’ve liked the arc that the story has taken over time, and it seems to be getting… the show is getting more and more as time goes on, in my opinion. Especially since I joined.
A: *laughs*
A: Hi Misha!
M: Hi.
A: I saw your appearance on Nip/Tuck, which was very, ehm, interesting. Can you tell us a little bit about that, did you do it all in one take?
A: *laughs*
M: Ehm, so… Anyone who doesn’t know, I did an episode recently of Nip/Tuck, and I played a yoga instructor who is very flexible and he has, eh… well, he can’t stop sucking himself off. And so he goes in for a penile reduction. And if you don’t know Nip/Tuck, in the opening sequence of the show they have the two plastic surgeons sitting there, and they say “so tell us what you don’t like about yourself” to the patient of the week, and I described how I have this problem where I can’t leave my own living room, and then I fall down to the floor and demonstrate in my pants, ehm…
A: *laughs hysterically*
M: *confidentially* …and I have to say I was SO impressed with my flexibility.
A: *laughs*
M: I mean, it was like, eh, I don’t know if any of you have ever seen your balls up that close, but…
A: *still hysterical*
M: …it was like looking at a little mini mountain range right in front of me. Ehm… my back hurt like hell for a week after that. And in order to get the part I’d lied, they said “So, you do yoga, right?”, and I said “Of course I do”, which I don’t. And they said “How long have you been doing yoga?”, and I said “I’ve done it every day since high school”. And so I got the part, and then I really had to be flexible, and so I just forced myself into it, and, eh, but to answer your question, we did just a coupla takes, fortunately, cuz I was literally like, “Sweet, I’ll be in my trailer”. Thanks for brining that up, I really appreciate it.
A: *laughs*
M: Yes.
A: Hi.
M: Hi.
A: 13:44 We had a really awesome <…> just before, with a lot of really hot scenes, ehm… What do you do to prepare for those scenes, basically, <…>, and are you like Jared where he’s kind of… You know, does a lot of weights and everything beforehand…
M: You mean plastic surgery?
A: Yeh, yeh, basically.
M: Back implants?
*Jared jumps onto the panel and attempts to hit Misha*
A: squeeeeeeeeeeeeee
A: Jared, I love you, don’t worry! I love you Jared!
*Jared leaves*
M: Can someone make sure to turn the monitors off in the hall?
A: *laughs*
M: I forgot that he was so sensitive about that. Ehm, I don’t know. Aaah. Yes.
Australian fan: Hi, up here. *whistles* Well, firstly, I’d said that I’ll give you the Aussie chant today…
M: Oh, sweet, yeah.
AF: How many people were here yesterday?
M: Everyone.
AF: So, we’re going to do the Aussie chant. You ready? Aussie Aussie Aussie!
*audience scanding*
M: What is that?
AF: It’s like a chant that we all do at sporting events and stuff like that, I just thought it would be cool to say it.
M: So, it’s like if you get lost or something and the group calls after you? Is it like a herding thing?
AF: It’s sort of like (gives example of an American chant), yeh, it’s an encouragement thing.
M: Great, I feel very encouraged, and slightly frightened.
AF: Yeh, just to share the Aussie spirit, basically. I did have a question and then I’ve forgotten it, so give me one second *laughs*. Oh, who would you most like to work with and why?
M: Well, I answered this question, sort of, yesterday, and I really would like to work with the Wachowski brothers, who did the Matrix, they’re at the top of my list, ehm, because I like the Matrix so much, and I like how they put so many women in tight leather pants. I want to work with the Wichowski brothers doing a scene with a woman in tight leather. Is that a good answer? Yeh. Thank you. Thanks for the chant, everyone. Hi.
A: Hi. Ehm, how did you first hear about the role of Castiel and why did you, sort of, decide to go for it?
M: I was unemployed. And they let me do the part, so… it was just a regular audition, I got audition sites from my agent, and it was for the role of a demon, so I went in and I did a demon audition, and.. I was pretty good. As a demon. And then Eric Kripke was in the room and he said “Okay, so, good, that was good, but this is actually an angel, and we just didn’t want the sites to get out there, we didn’t want, you know, to get it out into fandom, that we are introducing an angel to the show”, because he said the fans were crazy.
A: *laughs*
M: I don’t know where he got that. And so, ehm, I did it again with a little bit of angel twist on it. And that was it. And then I got the part. At first it was just for a few episodes, and then I guess they couldn’t find anyone else to replace me, so… it was sort of a last-minute thing, they were stuck with me, did another few episodes, and I’m still doing it. Maybe they were just too lazy to cast someone else. It’s a great device in the show that they have, where they can keep a character going, but they can kill the actors off. And it always puts sort of a fire under your pants a little bit, it’s just a little bit of an edge, cuz you look at the storyline, you say oh well, I can tell they definitely need this character, but they don’t need me.
A: *laughs*
M: So I was pretty nervous at first that I was just gonna get, you know, replaced by someone else, like a 7-8-year-old girl, possibly. Yes!
A: Hey Misha.
M: Hey.
A: You sound like you’re quite a smooth talker. Ehm, did you prefer to play the smooth-talking villain in “24”, or the straight-talking good guy in Supernatural?
M: Ehm. They were both good roles, I don’t know how smooth-talking *does a Bulgarian accent* Alexis Drazen, he was… had a bit of a difficult time with English.
A: *laughs*
M: And yeh, I like both of those roles, those were actually two of my favourite roles that I’ve had. I think I’m enjoying working on Supernatural more than I enjoyed working on any other TV show though. And I just love how rich this character has been, it seems like a lot to work with, and I really enjoyed that. But Alexis Drazen was good, too, because he was a bad, ehm, you know, he was an assassin, Dennis Hopper was my father, and… Dunno if I should tell the story. So, we, eh… it was Friday night. The crew was wiped, it was on 24, we were shooting in this docks… it was my death scene. So I’ve been dying on the show for about 4 episodes already, and it was a pathetic death, really, cuz I was stabbed by a secretary with a letter opener; I was like the bad villain, and then I got stabbed with a letter opener, and then slowly died over 4 episodes. So I was in a hospital bed for a long time, and so finally I was in this warehouse <…> and my father Dennis Hopper comes in, and he… And I’d worked up all this emotion, you know, I was this young nervous actor, Dennis Hopper is my dad, and I have to say “Forgive me father, I’ve failed you”, and then I die, and you know, a little tear down the cheek, the whole thing, and so I say… we do the first take, and I say “Forgive me father, I’ve failed you”, and then he put a peanut butter potato-chip sandwich on my forehead.
A: *laughs*
M: …and started laughing. And the first assistant director’s like “Ok, let’s do that again”, and we did another take, and he comes in, and he just starts maniacally laughing right in the middle of my line again. And then right before the next take he said “I should tell you why I was laughing. Because you were never my favourite son”.
A: *laughs*
M: *shrugs* So, the final version is just me saying “Forgive me father, I’ve failed you”, and then, yeh, he was pretty stoned. Yessss? Hi.
A: Hi, ehm. Castiel’s trench coat gets stabbed and shot at, but it doesn’t have any holes in it anymore, what happened with that?
M: Ehm… It does. It only has button holes after that. Yeh, that’s the magic of being an angel.
A: *laughs*
M: It’s Castiel a little seamstress. Yeh, I stop bleeding pretty quickly… it’s a little mysterious how it all goes. Like I got shot, but I didn’t bleed; I got stabbed… and I bled a little bit; I get punched – I bleed a lot. And rips in my clothing mend magically. So, yeh, I think it’s probably just a congenuity issue for them, I think that they knew that they wanted to stick me in the same clothes for a long time, and they didn’t want it to just be a bunch of sort of tattered Jesus rags (рубище Иисуса) by the end of the season. So it’s kind of nice, it’s a nice luxury for Eric Kripke and the other writers, cuz they can just say “You know, he’s Supernatural, it fixes itself”, and then they’re done. So yeh, that’s kind of what happened. Hi.
A: Hey Misha!
M: Hi.
A: Were you concerned or worried about the fans’ reaction to Castiel?
M: Ehm… What about the reaction?
A: Dunno, they might not like you or something?
M: Yes… yes. Well. There was a little party right before the season premiere, of the, er, season 4, and I was talking to Sarah Gamble, and she said… she was explaining to me how the fan community can… you know… they really tore couple of the actresses earlier in season 3… a new one, and how they can really hate some people, and so I was a little nervous that I was gonna, ehm, be one of those hated people, but what I have going for me is that I’m not female.
A: *laughs*
M: And I’m gonna hold onto that.
A: *laughs again*
S: We all love him, don’t we?
A: *squeeeeeeeing*
M: Oh. Thank you. Thanks for trimming in. Hi.
A: Hi. If there was ever going to be a Supernatural: the musical, in theory, what would your role be as Castiel in this musical…
M: Stage manager.
A: And what would you like to see Jared and Jensen doing…
M: Singing and dancing. And stripping, possibly.
A: squeeeeeeeeee
M: They should totally, by the way. I’ve been thinking that. They should totally… they should just do a musical episode. I’ve been actually thinking of ways to justify that. Like, do they need to infiltrate some sort of a musical production at a high school to <…> some ghosts, or something like that, and so they’ve gotta get on stage and sing and dance, until I dunno what happens, and there’s gotta be some way to justify that, because if they can do Ghostfacers, they can certainly have Jared and Jensen dancing and singing onstage.
A: squeeeeeeee
M: Hi.
A: Hi, eh, what’s your… who do you look up to most on set, in real life, and as an actor?
M: On set it would be the guy who does crap services…
A: *laughs*
M: Ehm… you know, I gotta say, now I REALLY hope Jared and Jensen aren’t listening. You know, the stars of the TV show, they really set the tone for how the shoot goes, and I’ve been on sets where I’m guest starring, where the stars are pretty Madonna assholes, who don’t pay attention to anyone else that comes on the set, they only care about, you know, how they are gonna come across looking on screen, they don’t care about the crew, they don’t care about other people’s time, and, you know, I mean, you’ll be new to the show, you’re guest star, you’re nervous, you dunno what you’re doing. And they’re setting up the shot, and they’d be *imitates playing with a mobile phone*, and you hear “Rolling, rolling and… action!” and they do their scene with you. And there’s just nothing to work off, and Jared and Jensen are not like that at all, they set a great tone on the set, they pay attention to everybody in the cast and crew, and are incredibly respectful, so yeh, I do hope they’re not listening cuz I don’t want them to hear this, but I really do respect both of them on the set. Ehm, you know, especially because they’re young guys, I mean, they could so easily be, you know, a pair of cocky assholes, but they’re not.
A: *laughs*
M: You know, in real life, I dunno, my brother is somebody I look up to a lot, he’s my younger brother and he just has an incredible amount of integrity, you know, he had a really good deal, someone gave him like 400$ a month rental on apartment cuz he didn’t have much money, but he made some money that first month, and so he’s like, no wait, I’m gonna pay you 600$. And that’s just the way he is… And there was a third element to your question which I’ve forgotten. On set, real life and imaginary friend?
A: *laughs*
M: What?
A: As an actor.
M: As an actor… Ehm, I really love Kate Winslet in most of the stuff she does, yeh, she can be awesome. Thank you. Hi.
A: Hi Misha, how are ya?
M: Good, how are you?
A: Oh good, thanks. Who do you think is a better actor, Jensen or Jared?
A: *laughs*
M: Oh, well, that’s easy. Ehm. How to get killed: one or one. Step one: they’re both great. I mean, what am I gonna say? They are both awesome. And both of them are almost as good as I am.
A: *laughs again and squeeeeeees*
M: You dick. I mean, what…
A: *is totally hysterical*
M: Cheers.
A: Ehm, hi Misha.
M: *to the guy* I don’t really think you’re a dick. Totally. Hi.
A: Hi. Ehm, I saw your movie, Carla…
M: Wasn’t that a sweet story.
A: *laughs*
A: After I saw you as Castiel in a few episodes… and when I watched that movie, I was just so freaked out, yeh… and…
M: It’s not a question, it’s an accusation.
A: I’m just saying, yeh, you’re really good, but the question is, how did you get yourself mentally and physically kind of ready for that role, and in the end, how did that kind of affect you… in a way?
M: For those of you who don’t know, Carla is a movie about Carla Hammokah and Paul Bernardo who are a pair of serial killers in the 1990s in Toronto in Canada. And ehm, they raped and killed a few young women. Starting with Carla’s younger sister. And it was just a really horrible story; ehm, I’d never heard of the case before and when I got the sсript, then I started reading news articles and I thought, I don’t know if I can actually do this, it’s… it sounds so horrible. And then, when I got to set, I was sure they were gonna fire me, cuz I was sure we gonna shoot the first scene, and I was gonna be so… they were gonna see that I’m not that guy at all! And the first scene that we shot was a scene where I’m beating Carla, my wife, mercilessly, and I, uh… I was just totally shocked by how, just shooting that first scene, something clicked, and I felt totally invigorated, and, like, exhilarated, when I was beating her.
A: *laughs*
M: And, I mean, it shocked the shit out of me! And then while we were shooting I was… that was the most intense thing I’ve ever worked on as an actor, by far. While we were shooting, I was having his dreams, so I was dreaming the serial killer’s dreams and being, like, get out of my head! It was really kinda scary, I’ve never had that happen before. Then I remember going for a run, and I was running by this junior high school in my neighbourhood, and I was leering through the chainlike fence at the 13-year-old girls on the playground, and it was just involuntary, just like, it really rook me over, and… oh, man, yeah. It was a weird, really poorly run set, the director was a total creep, they put ended up taking out a restraining order on him at the end of the shoot, cuz he threatened to come into the production office and shoot everyone and… I mean, we were doing this like incredibly emotional, hard, scary, rape murder scenes, and he would come out and say things like… You know, there was this one scene where I was like, brutal… tie this girl up, and I was beating her and humiliating her, and then he comes in after it and he was like, “Misha, great job. Great job. That was really hot.”
A: *laughs*
M: Like, what?! We’re crying here! It was really weird. So, to answer your question, it was very strange, and I was scared that it wasn’t gonna go out of my head, but it did, as soon as we stopped, wrapped, it was gone. Although I did see that there was… seeds of violence in me I’d never met, they were so far repressed and had been so far repressed my whole life, I didn’t know they were remotely accessible, and it made me sort of empathetic, it made me understand – oh, I think I can understand, like, how, you know, someone could grab a machete and go out and kill their neighbour. Because everyone else is doing it. Like, there’s this sort of primal energies that are running through us that I think that everyone has available in them… It’s just, fortunately, most of us never tap into those things. But, yeh. It’s actually not a very good movie. So I wouldn’t recommend watching it, or anything. Hi.
A: Hi, I don’t know if this is a spoiler or not, I’ve noticed you’ve become really popular with the fans, and congratulations…
M: That’s a spoiler.
A: *laughs*
M: You’re ruining it for everyone!
A: That’s not the question! Seriously, you even made it into the slash fandom, congratulations, but… I noticed you had an episode coming up called “Rapture”, and seems to be only pictures of you so far in it, so is this episode all about you, or… are we gonna get to see a whole lot of Misha and some more emotion coming out…
M: Ehm… Why would I spoil it for you? Well I can tell you this: there are several photos of me online.
A: *laughs*
M: Make of that what you will. I know it’s juicy and I’m sorry if I’ve ruined something for you. Yeh, I mean, there’s some stuff coming up where… where are you guys, you’re like on episode 8 or something?
A: 18!
M: Ok, this is not efficient. Okay, so episode 8 has aired here, right? Yes. Simple yes or no is good. So you guys have missed a ton!.. Why do they do that?
A: *shouting sth and whistling*
M: And so begins the mob. Let’s take the offices, let’s take the studio! Come on! Grab your cameras, people.
A: *laughs*
M: Ehm. So, yeah. As the season progresses, there’s gonna be… you’ll learn a little bit more about Castiel’s backstory and you also gonna learn a little bit about the backstory of the human being that Castiel has possessed. And that’s part of what’s going on in the Rapture. A big spoiler is that at some point I take off the raincoat.
A: *laughs*
M: Yep. Hi.
A: Hi, eh, I was just wondering, assuming you didn’t know anything about it, what was your first like… what did you think about the vessel, who did you think he was, before you knew anything about it?
M: I had this, for some, eh… I wrote a whole story. Because Castiel says, “The man who I am possessing, he was a very devout man, he prayed for this”. And so I imagine that he was a very devout man, who was, like, terminally… What’s that?
A: <…>
M: Who prayed for it. Yeh, well, that kinda does some it up, doesn’t it.
A: *laughs*
M: I thought I was being very creative, and then I realized it was just in the sсript. Ehm, shit. Yeh, I imagined that he has some terminal illness or something, and so it was actually this, you know, mutually beneficial arrangement… I think, ultimately it ends up a little bit more dubious than that. Cliffhanger, ha-hah! Where, who, yes, what? Hi.
A: Hi Misha,
M: Hi. How’s it going?
A: Good, how are you?
M: Good.
A: I was wondering, does it worry you at all that… now that Castiel is starting to show some emotions, the person who’s teaching him to be more human is Dean Winchester?
A: *laughs*
M: Ehm. Yeh, right, that’s a good point. He really should be hanging out with some priest or something like that. Someone with really upstanding morals and… a vegetarian.
A: *laughs*
M: Ehm, so yeh, that’s an interesting point. He’s gonna get kind of a skewed perspective of what human emotion is all about and behaviour as well, I think. Although, you know, it seems that as time progresses, Dean is getting more and more compassionate, and he seems to be also operating with a certain sort of a moral compass that seems to be actually getting stronger and stronger over time, in my opinion. I dunno if that is accurate or not. Ehm, yeh, he’s becoming more and more of a wuss, is what I’m trying to say.
A: *laughs*
M: Actually, it’s just gonna be Castiel saying “Will you just stop crying, Jesus Christ, it’s embarrassing. You’re embarrassing me, Dean!”
A: *still laughing*
M: Yes, hi.
A: Hi. I was just wondering, when you… Castiel appears in a few episodes, and then you have a break for a few episodes, how hard is it to get back into the character?
M: It’s always a little hard. Um, because I’m not working consistently, ehm, so when I come back, I think “Oh is this how I was doing it before or is this totally different?”, and then I don’t know until I actually see it air, and then I say “Oh yes, that is totally different. Oh right, you did totally fuck that up.”
A: *laughs*
M: But it is kind of difficult to leave something and then come back to it and then leave it and come back to it, but now it’s been enough time, I think, that it’s getting a little bit more entrenched and automatic. But at first it was pretty jarring for me. I wasn’t even sure, you know, like the Castiel voice and things like that, I was like “Is this what I was doing before? I can’t really remember,” so… Especially when we were shooting in the first, you know, six episodes, and they hadn’t aired yet, so I didn’t have any parameter to go by in terms of seeing what I had done. But it seems to have… You know, I dunno, maybe they did, you know, magic in the editing room. I understand that they can actually, like, change the pitch of your voice in the editing room, too, which is kind of amazing. I shot one episode when I was so sick that I couldn’t… I could barely even talk, and I thought for sure they were gonna make me re-record all this dialogue, and apparently they can just take out the, like, frequency of sick.
A: *laughs*
M: It’s amazing! Uhm, so, basically all you have to do as an actor is show up in some form and then they edit it to make it work. Hi.
A: Hi Misha.
M: Hi.
A: Just wondering, how has playing Castiel on the show changed your life?
M: Uh, I’m a better person now.
A: *laughs*
M: You know, someone asked me this yesterday, like, how has interacting with the fan community been, and how does that change my perspective on the world, and I, uh… it actually is kind of surreal to me, like, the fact that I’m sitting up here and you people are asking me questions and looking at me doesn’t totally make sense to me, and I don’t know if my brain has quite processed what’s going on yet, so I’m just sort of going along, and somehow it feels normal. But I know it’s not. I know this is abnormal behaviour. But I dunno, so yeh, I don’t actually feel a big change yet. Uhm… yeh. That’s sort of letdown of an answer, huh. Boring, sorry.
A: *laughs anyway*
M: I’ll tell ya another yawner. Uhm. Yes, where are we? Yes, hi.
A: Hi, uh, do you have any unknown talents?
A: *laughs and woohooos*
M: Uh, well, my flexibility is now out.
A: *laughing again*
M: I dunno, it depends on what talents you already know. I, uh, I do not have very good penmanship… Oh, okay, I got one for you. I’m fantastic at making a reasonably good meal out of a practically empty refrigerator. It’ll kind of shock you, like I can walk into a house that looks like noone has gone shopping for 2 months, and I can make something that’s not disgusting.
A: *laughs and claps*
M: Hi.
A: Hi! Uh, when playing Castiel, is it your intention to kind of look confused, cuz he’s kinda just…
A: *roars with laughter*
A: Nonononono! Because he’s kind of just like… When he talks to someone, he’s not like fully concentrated on them, he’s kinda like, kinda wanders off, but like, is it… did you decide to act it like that, or did like, directors and stuff ask you to act it like that?
M: Um, thank you for that helpful critique.
A: *laughs*
M: Uhm, I dunno if you’ve ever been on the set before; there’s a lot going on, like, say, they’ll put the piece of tape on the floor, and they’ll sey you gotta hit that mark at that line, so you have to walk in, and you have to hit that mark, and to make sure that your face isn’t casting a shadow on somebody else’s face, and that you’re speaking at a proper volume, and that you’re saying the right dialogue, and all that can be kind of perplexing.
A: *laughs*
M: And so I guess that’s coming across a little bit on screen. Um. So I’ll work on that, I will. Thank you.
A: *laughs again*
M: Um, you know, I mean, part of what’s going on with Castiel is the idea that he hasn’t been down amongst human beings for 2000 years, and so their behaviour is a bit odd to him, and I think that also just the earthly realm and what’s going on there is new terrain to him, and you know, he’s not the brightest bulb on a tree.
A: *laughs*
M: …or the sharpest spoon in a drawer. Uhm, yes, so there. Thank you for that question. Hi.
A: Hi. Me again. Uhm, rumour has it that Jensen and Jared are quite the pranksters on set; have you fallen victim to any unwanted behaviour lately? Or at all?
M: Uhm, I’ve heard from a lot of people that they’re ones to conduct pranks and, you know, I don’t <…> one another’s pants, or I dunno what the pranks are that they’ve done. But, you know, to be a part of the group, and the hazing ritual, and all that, you know, I obviously love to be pranked.
A: *laughs*
M: So I just sort of hang out in front of their doors to their trailers, looking naive and confused, waiting for them to pull one over on me…
A: *endless laughter*
M: …but it hasn’t happened yet. *crosses fingers* Here’s hoping. Hey
A: Hey, how are ya?
M: Good, how are you?
A: Oh, not too bad. You may have been asked this before, but I’m not exactly sure. One of the… The three things I like about the angels in Supernatural… first of all, you got black angels.
M: Yep.
A: Which is always awesome.
M: Always. *chuckles* Cuz every time that happens, I’m like yeh, that’s awesome again.
A: *laughs* Well, the first time, actually, I thought it was awesome. The second one is that it herds back to sort of old school angels, like what they used to be, they used to be kinda bad, kinda mean soldiers.
M: Yeh.
A: Is there any particular one that your character’s been taken inspiration from, or are you just sort of <…>
M: You know, I didn’t actually have that much time to do that much research before we started shooting, you know, it was pretty quick between when I got the part and when we started shooting, so mostly what I had to work with was the first sсript and my own kind of idea. Um, but I knew that angels, that there are… Revelations, for example: angels that are some badass destructive warriors of God, much more than the guardian angel that we popularly think. So you know what that is that I’m trying to say.
A: *laughs*
M: Um, and yeh, I mean that it makes it so much more interesting to play that angel… I mean an angel that’s conflicted, and that is trying to operate with, you know, good and probity and obeying God’s commands, and having the sort of blind faith, but at the same time wanting to be compassionate, um, but being directed to do some things that... I mean, you... I don’t remember which episodes you’ve seen, but you know, there are times when he’s... yeh, when Uriel’s introduced. I still can’t remember.
A: *laughs*
M: Anyway. You know, we’re directed to do some stuff that’s not that sweet. It was more sort of genocidal. Um, so it’s so much more interesting of a character than a typical Guardian Angel. But what was your question? Cuz that wasn’t it.
A: *laughs* *question is repeated*
M: Oh, yeh, I think that mostly it was the sсript, and it was, um... and then Revelation, and then I drew on, you know, other stuff here and there, but that was 95% of it. Um... And the writing has consistently reinforced those same ideas, so sort of once you’ve got established, it’s sort of stuck. Thanks, thanks, cool, thanks. Hi.
A: Hi. Just wondering how many conventions you’ve been to, and what countries.
M: This is my third... And New Jersey is one country.
A: *laughs*
M: And Los Angeles was another country. And Australia.
A: squeeeeeeeeeee
M: And, uh, the people at the Australian con...
A: *laughs*
M: Uhm, you guys are a really cool group of people. It’s like, you’re really respectful and friendly at the same time, and I’ve really enjoyed meeting this group of people. It’s been great. So, yeh. And there haven’t been, like, so much people trying to make me feel uncomfortable, and things like that, which is nice. Keep that up! Good on ya.
A: *laughs*
M: Um, yeh. And I’m going to England in, like, 6 weeks I think. And that should be cool. Yeh, and then Canada later in the summer. There’s a lot of them, I’m shocked. It’s pretty cool. Is there... *looks around*
A: Hi Misha.
M: There’s the... waving, jumping. Yes.
A: Hi, I’m <...> (Cas?!).
M: Hi.
A: I just wanted to ask, if you had one of Castiel’s powers, which one would it be?
M: Um... aside from the sewing?
A: *laughs*
M: I guess, let’s see... Immortality... Teleportation...
A: <...>
M: Oh, yeh, yeh, definitely that one. Of all the powers that I can have. Also Castiel can turn knobs. From a distance.
A: *roaring with laughter*
M: I think I might take that one. Yeh, that’s a good one. Turning off the car alarms, yeh. I remember when I was in college there was this car alarm, it was like the early days of car alarms, and this car alarm was going off right outside my window, and it was 3 o’clock in the morning, 4 o’clock in the morning, and it wouldn’t stop, it was just going continuously. And there were people down on the car, like, jumping on the hood of the car, shaking the car, trying to get it to stop, and eventually I went down, and I climbed under the car, and I reached up and I felt where the buzzing was coming from, and I ripped the wires out of it that were coming to it. And then I realized later it was the horn, like the horn was going “beep, beep” and someone is, you know, driving around without a horn.
A: *hysterical*
M: But, yeh, so much better to just be able to look out of the bedroom window and just *whistles*, like that, turn it off. So yeh, between the car alarms and the door knobs, I’m not sure. Hi.
A: Hi. I know you’ve said that in Castiel’s introduction scene you had lights exploding over your head. But other than that, any other onset injuries?
M: Uhm... No, I haven’t hurt myself too bad. There was a fight scene that hasn’t aired here yet, that is coming up, where I get thrown through a pillar in typical “Castiel getting thrown”...
A: *laughs*
M: And the pillar falling on me hurt more that I expected it to. Um, but for the most part it’s been... Uhm, we have, uh... <...> is our stunt coordinator, and he is... he does not want you to get hurt. He wants you to wrap every kind of padding on under you, and every time I’m like, “<...>, I’m just gonna sink to the floor casually and lie down”, you know, “I’m not gonna get hurt”. But he takes really good care to make sure we don’t get hurt. But yeh, that first scene was a lot... I mean, my scalp, it was actually... I could hear it sizzling. Uhm, they spray water on your head, like, “don’t worry, we gonna spray some water on your head, and there are some sparks coming out, but you’ll be cool”. And then it’s “tssssssss”, and there’s like burning ambers on your wet scalp, it hurt a lot, but for the most part it’s been... they take pretty good care there. Um, so, yeh. Nothing really, do you see.
S: We have time for about two guys.
M: Hey.
A: Hi, how are you doing? Um, I was just wondering, there seemed to be a bit of animosity yesterday about working in your general location, was it Vermont, I think? And I was just wondering if you had a chance to…
M: Working where?
A: Sorry… the location that you currently shoot at.
M: Oh, in Vancouver?
A: Vancouver?
M: Okay, yeh.
A: Ehm, in Vancouver, have you had a chance to, um, travel to any other locations for shooting, and how do you find working there in particular?
M: Uhm, for Supernatural we shoot all over Vancouver. Um, so the travelling is all within town. Uhm, and was I displaying animosity towards Vancouver?
A: <…>
M: What’s that? Oh, yeh, Jared wants to work in Hawaii. Um. Yeh, that’s a good idea. Right. Uhm, there was a big sort of excitement I think, because the Olympics are coming to Vancouver this winter, and it's gonna tons of traffic, and all of the hotels are gonna be full, and they were wondering whether they could even keep production going, and so, someone floated the idea, you know, we should really shoot an episode while doing the Olympics in Hawaii, or in Fiji, or something like that; wouldn’t that be smart?
A: Possibly not Fiji…
M: Or Australia! And, uhm… *sarcastically* And surprisingly, the whole crew was behind this idea.
A: *laughs*
M: It’s rare to get that kind of solidarity. But, oddly, the people who pay for the production didn’t want it, so that’s… we’re gonna be shooting at Vancouver. Which is also nice. You know, Vancouver… I’ve been living in LA for a long time, and I’m excited to, you know, spend a little time out of town. So I’m enjoying working in Vancouver. You know, it’s mossy and ferny and there’s a lot of trees and waterfalls and things like that. It rains an awful lot, and it’s cold and snowy and dark and, uhm… But that’s not animosity or anything, it’s just… an observation of a meteorological fact.
A: *laughing*
M: Hi.
A: Hi Misha. You touched upon this just before, but I really thought Castiel held his eyelids against Uriel, I thought that was really good fighting, uhm… Do you prefer the fight scenes more, or the more dramatic scences?
M: With Castiel, I definitely do prefer the kissing sce… oh.
A: *laughs*
M: That was a terrible spoiler. Uhm, no, there are no Castiel kissing scenes. Yet.
A: *hysterical*
M: Uhm, except for the one he makes with himself in the mirror. Uh, uhm… So, no, you know, the fight scenes, um, they’re not my favourite, because they take so many setups, there’s so many different camera angles, and they’re taking a really long time to shoot. And a lot of it is just sort of, technical faking it, stepping here, stepping there, falling here, falling there, you know, getting pulled through this wall, through that wall… Uhm, so, uhm… I like doing the more dramatic, you know, talking and kissing scenes.
S: All right, thank you Misha, I think that’s all we have time for with you.
A: *squeeing*
M: Thank you guys, you’re awesome.
S: Thanks so much. Well done! Okay, give it up, give it up guys, thank you Misha! We might be seeing a little bit more of him later…
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<...> - unheard
A - audience
M - Misha
S - staff
AF - Australian fan
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S: Hello
M: Hi! How are you doing?
S: Good, you?
M: Good.
S: Have a seat.
M: Thanks.
M: Hi every…
A: squeeeeeeeeee
M: Shhhh. My chair is so much lower today. I’m too far away from my pedestal. So, how is everybody doing?
A: squeeeeeeeeee
M: What? Oh, good. That one got stuck there didn’t it. Ehm. So, let’s… shall we get started? Enough of this dilly-dallying. Does anybody have anything to say? Hi.
A: Hi. Hi Misha.
M: Hi.
A: Hi. Did you read the Book of Revelation as prep for your character or had you already read it?
читать дальшеM: She wants to know if I’m a good Christian. Ehm. I had not read it. And I’ve been informed that it’s actually Revelation, not Revelations, but I always say Revelations. Ehm, yeh, has anyone read Revelations? A few. Well, basically, it’s… the part that is relevant to angels is that you get to see the angels in the Book of Revelations… their sole purpose seems to be to come down to Earth to destroy everything. There’s passages there like “an angel will come down and kill 1/3 of all the fish in the sea”, or “smite 1/3 of all the animals on land”, or “destroy all of the vegetation”. So they’re not really, you know, what we conventionally think of as, ehm, angels. Like, that you see on posters at your grandmother’s house. So, yeh. But no, I read it just, eh… it was kinda scary, actually. I was like, wow, I didn’t realize there was this kind of stuff going on in the Bible, so, yeh, there you go. Yes.
A: <…> 02:37
M: I have no idea what you’re asking me. I mean, are you talking about, like, slash fic?
A: *laughing*
M: Yeh, eh, no, I… elaborate.
A: <…> 03:10
M: So what am I thinking of them, like, people who help me moving? Cuz if you want brute force, Sam and Dean are gonna be more effective, like, manual labour – definitely those guys. But, ehm… Yeh, I think they all have their different strong suits, so, ehm, it would really depend on what you’re applying them to. Yeh. *takes a bag of sweets* you know, should we just pass these around maybe? Here.
A: <…>
M: Right. Jared didn’t like the way I threw the candy yesterday.
A: How did you get into acting.
M: How did I get into acting? Ehm. The first role I had was when I was five. And I was playing a 4-year-old, so it was kind of… and, ehm, my mother was in this Community Theater production that was in Massachusetts. And I was playing her daughter.
A: *laughs*
M: What?
A: *laughs*
M: And, ehm, it was en epic political drama, it was about the Chicago Seven in the 60s and it was 4 hours long, and my role was to say: “Yes, I can, I can believe it because it’s true”. That was it. In 4 hours, that was all I did. But I would wait just like a bronco waiting to bust out of its stall for my one line; I was, you know, totally alert until it happened, then say my line, and then I would fall asleep, because I’d done my work. And my mum would be nudging me to wake up. And that was my first acting job. But my mother was into Community Theater when I was growing up, and she did storytelling, and she directed plays that I was in, ehm… She would come to my school and she would direct a play and I would always, oddly, get cast in the lead. There was no nepotism there, it was just how it went. You know, we grew up really poor, like, we were on welfare, we were homeless for a couple of years, and she never really made much money, ehm, as doing Community Theater and acting and I, as a result, never really thought that it would be a viable career option for myself. So I was gonna be a lawyer instead, and I was getting ready to go to law school when I got my first acting job; and I thought I would… and then I did another acting job after that, and I was starting a software company at that point, and I thought… pretty soon it became clear that my struggling software career was supported by acting revenue. Ehm… and so I just decided to take it a little bit more seriously, and I love it, and I love it more and more as time goes on, so it’s been a very sort of slow, morphing process for me.
S: Okay guys, can we cut out with the flashing now, if you can switch your cameras over so that they don’t flash, it would be great. Also, just as a fire regulation, we can’t have people sitting in the isles or standing in <…>, thank you.
M: Or starting camp fires.
S: Or starting fires.
M: Period.
S: Yeah. No, can’t do that.
A: Hi Misha.
M: Hi.
A: I wanted to ask. You’ve mentioned a lot about how we don’t know if God exists or not in the Supernatural world, and I was wondering if you think that Castiel is actually wrong to believe in God just on faith, if you think that he should be questioning it or if it’s you know, okay to have a little bit of faith.
M: I… Ekhm. I know more than maybe you do about what happens in the season cuz we already shot it. And, ehm. So I can tell you that Castiel does have faith. He starts out at the beginning of the season with almost blind faith, it seems. And as the season progresses, his faith gets a little bit more shaky. And, eh, I think he ultimately even experiences a little bit of doubt, and he is definitely questioning what’s going on, and who’s giving the commands, and whether there is a God who’s in charge of the armies of heaven, and, ehm, yeh, it kinda makes it more interesting for Castiel’s storyline, ehm, but it certainly hasn’t been resolved yet, whether there is a direct line of communication between God and the angels, or whether God actually even exists in the Supernatural world. Thank you.
A: Hi.
M: I dunno where you are, but… oh yes. Hi. I just thought you were waving to me.
A: *laughs*
M: Ehm, hi.
A: I guess we all notice that your voice is different as Castiel, and I was wondering, did you plan that when you first read the sсript, or what were your intentions behind that?
M: Do I sound cool?
A: *laughs*
M: When I read the sсript, in the first episode, people seeing him - his true form - are blinded, and the sound of his true voice shatters windows and blows out doors, and so I thought it’s a good idea for him to have a really, you know, deep voice, and then I was like oh shit, this character goes on for a really long time.
A: *laughs*
M: So I got this really weird voice for a really long time, ehm. But, ehm, it’s kinda funny, it actually helps me a lot to have a different kind of voice or a dialect or something like that, it just grounds me in the character more easily, so I like having that… yep. Thanks.
A: Hi!
M: Hi.
A: Oh, that was loud. Anyway. I was just wondering, like, before you even got the part of Castiel, did you ever watch the show before, or did you even heard of it?
M: I had heard of it, yes, and I had watched one or two episodes. But I kind of dismissed it, I thought oh, this is just, you know, a silly teem WB show, with a couple of hunky guys, I don’t watch that shit. And I’ve been totally surprised by what the show really is, ehm, you know, honestly, I don’t think it’s as well-promoted as it could be, you know, I think that…
A: squeeeeeeeee
M: I think that it’s a great show that more people would watch if they knew about it, or if they had the right perception about what it is, and I think that, you know, maybe I’m sure that, you know, the people in charge are doing what makes most financial sense to them, there’s a loyal following of the show, and people tune in every week, and they don’t really have to pump a lot of money in the advertising in order to get you people to watch it, but in order to get people like me to watch it, they would’ve had to probably spend a coupla more dollars. And I just hadn’t been watching it. So, yeh, it’s been a really pleasant surprise. And I’ve liked the arc that the story has taken over time, and it seems to be getting… the show is getting more and more as time goes on, in my opinion. Especially since I joined.
A: *laughs*
A: Hi Misha!
M: Hi.
A: I saw your appearance on Nip/Tuck, which was very, ehm, interesting. Can you tell us a little bit about that, did you do it all in one take?
A: *laughs*
M: Ehm, so… Anyone who doesn’t know, I did an episode recently of Nip/Tuck, and I played a yoga instructor who is very flexible and he has, eh… well, he can’t stop sucking himself off. And so he goes in for a penile reduction. And if you don’t know Nip/Tuck, in the opening sequence of the show they have the two plastic surgeons sitting there, and they say “so tell us what you don’t like about yourself” to the patient of the week, and I described how I have this problem where I can’t leave my own living room, and then I fall down to the floor and demonstrate in my pants, ehm…
A: *laughs hysterically*
M: *confidentially* …and I have to say I was SO impressed with my flexibility.
A: *laughs*
M: I mean, it was like, eh, I don’t know if any of you have ever seen your balls up that close, but…
A: *still hysterical*
M: …it was like looking at a little mini mountain range right in front of me. Ehm… my back hurt like hell for a week after that. And in order to get the part I’d lied, they said “So, you do yoga, right?”, and I said “Of course I do”, which I don’t. And they said “How long have you been doing yoga?”, and I said “I’ve done it every day since high school”. And so I got the part, and then I really had to be flexible, and so I just forced myself into it, and, eh, but to answer your question, we did just a coupla takes, fortunately, cuz I was literally like, “Sweet, I’ll be in my trailer”. Thanks for brining that up, I really appreciate it.
A: *laughs*
M: Yes.
A: Hi.
M: Hi.
A: 13:44 We had a really awesome <…> just before, with a lot of really hot scenes, ehm… What do you do to prepare for those scenes, basically, <…>, and are you like Jared where he’s kind of… You know, does a lot of weights and everything beforehand…
M: You mean plastic surgery?
A: Yeh, yeh, basically.
M: Back implants?
*Jared jumps onto the panel and attempts to hit Misha*
A: squeeeeeeeeeeeeee
A: Jared, I love you, don’t worry! I love you Jared!
*Jared leaves*
M: Can someone make sure to turn the monitors off in the hall?
A: *laughs*
M: I forgot that he was so sensitive about that. Ehm, I don’t know. Aaah. Yes.
Australian fan: Hi, up here. *whistles* Well, firstly, I’d said that I’ll give you the Aussie chant today…
M: Oh, sweet, yeah.
AF: How many people were here yesterday?
M: Everyone.
AF: So, we’re going to do the Aussie chant. You ready? Aussie Aussie Aussie!
*audience scanding*
M: What is that?
AF: It’s like a chant that we all do at sporting events and stuff like that, I just thought it would be cool to say it.
M: So, it’s like if you get lost or something and the group calls after you? Is it like a herding thing?
AF: It’s sort of like (gives example of an American chant), yeh, it’s an encouragement thing.
M: Great, I feel very encouraged, and slightly frightened.
AF: Yeh, just to share the Aussie spirit, basically. I did have a question and then I’ve forgotten it, so give me one second *laughs*. Oh, who would you most like to work with and why?
M: Well, I answered this question, sort of, yesterday, and I really would like to work with the Wachowski brothers, who did the Matrix, they’re at the top of my list, ehm, because I like the Matrix so much, and I like how they put so many women in tight leather pants. I want to work with the Wichowski brothers doing a scene with a woman in tight leather. Is that a good answer? Yeh. Thank you. Thanks for the chant, everyone. Hi.
A: Hi. Ehm, how did you first hear about the role of Castiel and why did you, sort of, decide to go for it?
M: I was unemployed. And they let me do the part, so… it was just a regular audition, I got audition sites from my agent, and it was for the role of a demon, so I went in and I did a demon audition, and.. I was pretty good. As a demon. And then Eric Kripke was in the room and he said “Okay, so, good, that was good, but this is actually an angel, and we just didn’t want the sites to get out there, we didn’t want, you know, to get it out into fandom, that we are introducing an angel to the show”, because he said the fans were crazy.
A: *laughs*
M: I don’t know where he got that. And so, ehm, I did it again with a little bit of angel twist on it. And that was it. And then I got the part. At first it was just for a few episodes, and then I guess they couldn’t find anyone else to replace me, so… it was sort of a last-minute thing, they were stuck with me, did another few episodes, and I’m still doing it. Maybe they were just too lazy to cast someone else. It’s a great device in the show that they have, where they can keep a character going, but they can kill the actors off. And it always puts sort of a fire under your pants a little bit, it’s just a little bit of an edge, cuz you look at the storyline, you say oh well, I can tell they definitely need this character, but they don’t need me.
A: *laughs*
M: So I was pretty nervous at first that I was just gonna get, you know, replaced by someone else, like a 7-8-year-old girl, possibly. Yes!
A: Hey Misha.
M: Hey.
A: You sound like you’re quite a smooth talker. Ehm, did you prefer to play the smooth-talking villain in “24”, or the straight-talking good guy in Supernatural?
M: Ehm. They were both good roles, I don’t know how smooth-talking *does a Bulgarian accent* Alexis Drazen, he was… had a bit of a difficult time with English.
A: *laughs*
M: And yeh, I like both of those roles, those were actually two of my favourite roles that I’ve had. I think I’m enjoying working on Supernatural more than I enjoyed working on any other TV show though. And I just love how rich this character has been, it seems like a lot to work with, and I really enjoyed that. But Alexis Drazen was good, too, because he was a bad, ehm, you know, he was an assassin, Dennis Hopper was my father, and… Dunno if I should tell the story. So, we, eh… it was Friday night. The crew was wiped, it was on 24, we were shooting in this docks… it was my death scene. So I’ve been dying on the show for about 4 episodes already, and it was a pathetic death, really, cuz I was stabbed by a secretary with a letter opener; I was like the bad villain, and then I got stabbed with a letter opener, and then slowly died over 4 episodes. So I was in a hospital bed for a long time, and so finally I was in this warehouse <…> and my father Dennis Hopper comes in, and he… And I’d worked up all this emotion, you know, I was this young nervous actor, Dennis Hopper is my dad, and I have to say “Forgive me father, I’ve failed you”, and then I die, and you know, a little tear down the cheek, the whole thing, and so I say… we do the first take, and I say “Forgive me father, I’ve failed you”, and then he put a peanut butter potato-chip sandwich on my forehead.
A: *laughs*
M: …and started laughing. And the first assistant director’s like “Ok, let’s do that again”, and we did another take, and he comes in, and he just starts maniacally laughing right in the middle of my line again. And then right before the next take he said “I should tell you why I was laughing. Because you were never my favourite son”.
A: *laughs*
M: *shrugs* So, the final version is just me saying “Forgive me father, I’ve failed you”, and then, yeh, he was pretty stoned. Yessss? Hi.
A: Hi, ehm. Castiel’s trench coat gets stabbed and shot at, but it doesn’t have any holes in it anymore, what happened with that?
M: Ehm… It does. It only has button holes after that. Yeh, that’s the magic of being an angel.
A: *laughs*
M: It’s Castiel a little seamstress. Yeh, I stop bleeding pretty quickly… it’s a little mysterious how it all goes. Like I got shot, but I didn’t bleed; I got stabbed… and I bled a little bit; I get punched – I bleed a lot. And rips in my clothing mend magically. So, yeh, I think it’s probably just a congenuity issue for them, I think that they knew that they wanted to stick me in the same clothes for a long time, and they didn’t want it to just be a bunch of sort of tattered Jesus rags (рубище Иисуса) by the end of the season. So it’s kind of nice, it’s a nice luxury for Eric Kripke and the other writers, cuz they can just say “You know, he’s Supernatural, it fixes itself”, and then they’re done. So yeh, that’s kind of what happened. Hi.
A: Hey Misha!
M: Hi.
A: Were you concerned or worried about the fans’ reaction to Castiel?
M: Ehm… What about the reaction?
A: Dunno, they might not like you or something?
M: Yes… yes. Well. There was a little party right before the season premiere, of the, er, season 4, and I was talking to Sarah Gamble, and she said… she was explaining to me how the fan community can… you know… they really tore couple of the actresses earlier in season 3… a new one, and how they can really hate some people, and so I was a little nervous that I was gonna, ehm, be one of those hated people, but what I have going for me is that I’m not female.
A: *laughs*
M: And I’m gonna hold onto that.
A: *laughs again*
S: We all love him, don’t we?
A: *squeeeeeeeing*
M: Oh. Thank you. Thanks for trimming in. Hi.
A: Hi. If there was ever going to be a Supernatural: the musical, in theory, what would your role be as Castiel in this musical…
M: Stage manager.
A: And what would you like to see Jared and Jensen doing…
M: Singing and dancing. And stripping, possibly.
A: squeeeeeeeeee
M: They should totally, by the way. I’ve been thinking that. They should totally… they should just do a musical episode. I’ve been actually thinking of ways to justify that. Like, do they need to infiltrate some sort of a musical production at a high school to <…> some ghosts, or something like that, and so they’ve gotta get on stage and sing and dance, until I dunno what happens, and there’s gotta be some way to justify that, because if they can do Ghostfacers, they can certainly have Jared and Jensen dancing and singing onstage.
A: squeeeeeeee
M: Hi.
A: Hi, eh, what’s your… who do you look up to most on set, in real life, and as an actor?
M: On set it would be the guy who does crap services…
A: *laughs*
M: Ehm… you know, I gotta say, now I REALLY hope Jared and Jensen aren’t listening. You know, the stars of the TV show, they really set the tone for how the shoot goes, and I’ve been on sets where I’m guest starring, where the stars are pretty Madonna assholes, who don’t pay attention to anyone else that comes on the set, they only care about, you know, how they are gonna come across looking on screen, they don’t care about the crew, they don’t care about other people’s time, and, you know, I mean, you’ll be new to the show, you’re guest star, you’re nervous, you dunno what you’re doing. And they’re setting up the shot, and they’d be *imitates playing with a mobile phone*, and you hear “Rolling, rolling and… action!” and they do their scene with you. And there’s just nothing to work off, and Jared and Jensen are not like that at all, they set a great tone on the set, they pay attention to everybody in the cast and crew, and are incredibly respectful, so yeh, I do hope they’re not listening cuz I don’t want them to hear this, but I really do respect both of them on the set. Ehm, you know, especially because they’re young guys, I mean, they could so easily be, you know, a pair of cocky assholes, but they’re not.
A: *laughs*
M: You know, in real life, I dunno, my brother is somebody I look up to a lot, he’s my younger brother and he just has an incredible amount of integrity, you know, he had a really good deal, someone gave him like 400$ a month rental on apartment cuz he didn’t have much money, but he made some money that first month, and so he’s like, no wait, I’m gonna pay you 600$. And that’s just the way he is… And there was a third element to your question which I’ve forgotten. On set, real life and imaginary friend?
A: *laughs*
M: What?
A: As an actor.
M: As an actor… Ehm, I really love Kate Winslet in most of the stuff she does, yeh, she can be awesome. Thank you. Hi.
A: Hi Misha, how are ya?
M: Good, how are you?
A: Oh good, thanks. Who do you think is a better actor, Jensen or Jared?
A: *laughs*
M: Oh, well, that’s easy. Ehm. How to get killed: one or one. Step one: they’re both great. I mean, what am I gonna say? They are both awesome. And both of them are almost as good as I am.
A: *laughs again and squeeeeeees*
M: You dick. I mean, what…
A: *is totally hysterical*
M: Cheers.
A: Ehm, hi Misha.
M: *to the guy* I don’t really think you’re a dick. Totally. Hi.
A: Hi. Ehm, I saw your movie, Carla…
M: Wasn’t that a sweet story.
A: *laughs*
A: After I saw you as Castiel in a few episodes… and when I watched that movie, I was just so freaked out, yeh… and…
M: It’s not a question, it’s an accusation.
A: I’m just saying, yeh, you’re really good, but the question is, how did you get yourself mentally and physically kind of ready for that role, and in the end, how did that kind of affect you… in a way?
M: For those of you who don’t know, Carla is a movie about Carla Hammokah and Paul Bernardo who are a pair of serial killers in the 1990s in Toronto in Canada. And ehm, they raped and killed a few young women. Starting with Carla’s younger sister. And it was just a really horrible story; ehm, I’d never heard of the case before and when I got the sсript, then I started reading news articles and I thought, I don’t know if I can actually do this, it’s… it sounds so horrible. And then, when I got to set, I was sure they were gonna fire me, cuz I was sure we gonna shoot the first scene, and I was gonna be so… they were gonna see that I’m not that guy at all! And the first scene that we shot was a scene where I’m beating Carla, my wife, mercilessly, and I, uh… I was just totally shocked by how, just shooting that first scene, something clicked, and I felt totally invigorated, and, like, exhilarated, when I was beating her.
A: *laughs*
M: And, I mean, it shocked the shit out of me! And then while we were shooting I was… that was the most intense thing I’ve ever worked on as an actor, by far. While we were shooting, I was having his dreams, so I was dreaming the serial killer’s dreams and being, like, get out of my head! It was really kinda scary, I’ve never had that happen before. Then I remember going for a run, and I was running by this junior high school in my neighbourhood, and I was leering through the chainlike fence at the 13-year-old girls on the playground, and it was just involuntary, just like, it really rook me over, and… oh, man, yeah. It was a weird, really poorly run set, the director was a total creep, they put ended up taking out a restraining order on him at the end of the shoot, cuz he threatened to come into the production office and shoot everyone and… I mean, we were doing this like incredibly emotional, hard, scary, rape murder scenes, and he would come out and say things like… You know, there was this one scene where I was like, brutal… tie this girl up, and I was beating her and humiliating her, and then he comes in after it and he was like, “Misha, great job. Great job. That was really hot.”
A: *laughs*
M: Like, what?! We’re crying here! It was really weird. So, to answer your question, it was very strange, and I was scared that it wasn’t gonna go out of my head, but it did, as soon as we stopped, wrapped, it was gone. Although I did see that there was… seeds of violence in me I’d never met, they were so far repressed and had been so far repressed my whole life, I didn’t know they were remotely accessible, and it made me sort of empathetic, it made me understand – oh, I think I can understand, like, how, you know, someone could grab a machete and go out and kill their neighbour. Because everyone else is doing it. Like, there’s this sort of primal energies that are running through us that I think that everyone has available in them… It’s just, fortunately, most of us never tap into those things. But, yeh. It’s actually not a very good movie. So I wouldn’t recommend watching it, or anything. Hi.
A: Hi, I don’t know if this is a spoiler or not, I’ve noticed you’ve become really popular with the fans, and congratulations…
M: That’s a spoiler.
A: *laughs*
M: You’re ruining it for everyone!
A: That’s not the question! Seriously, you even made it into the slash fandom, congratulations, but… I noticed you had an episode coming up called “Rapture”, and seems to be only pictures of you so far in it, so is this episode all about you, or… are we gonna get to see a whole lot of Misha and some more emotion coming out…
M: Ehm… Why would I spoil it for you? Well I can tell you this: there are several photos of me online.
A: *laughs*
M: Make of that what you will. I know it’s juicy and I’m sorry if I’ve ruined something for you. Yeh, I mean, there’s some stuff coming up where… where are you guys, you’re like on episode 8 or something?
A: 18!
M: Ok, this is not efficient. Okay, so episode 8 has aired here, right? Yes. Simple yes or no is good. So you guys have missed a ton!.. Why do they do that?
A: *shouting sth and whistling*
M: And so begins the mob. Let’s take the offices, let’s take the studio! Come on! Grab your cameras, people.
A: *laughs*
M: Ehm. So, yeah. As the season progresses, there’s gonna be… you’ll learn a little bit more about Castiel’s backstory and you also gonna learn a little bit about the backstory of the human being that Castiel has possessed. And that’s part of what’s going on in the Rapture. A big spoiler is that at some point I take off the raincoat.
A: *laughs*
M: Yep. Hi.
A: Hi, eh, I was just wondering, assuming you didn’t know anything about it, what was your first like… what did you think about the vessel, who did you think he was, before you knew anything about it?
M: I had this, for some, eh… I wrote a whole story. Because Castiel says, “The man who I am possessing, he was a very devout man, he prayed for this”. And so I imagine that he was a very devout man, who was, like, terminally… What’s that?
A: <…>
M: Who prayed for it. Yeh, well, that kinda does some it up, doesn’t it.
A: *laughs*
M: I thought I was being very creative, and then I realized it was just in the sсript. Ehm, shit. Yeh, I imagined that he has some terminal illness or something, and so it was actually this, you know, mutually beneficial arrangement… I think, ultimately it ends up a little bit more dubious than that. Cliffhanger, ha-hah! Where, who, yes, what? Hi.
A: Hi Misha,
M: Hi. How’s it going?
A: Good, how are you?
M: Good.
A: I was wondering, does it worry you at all that… now that Castiel is starting to show some emotions, the person who’s teaching him to be more human is Dean Winchester?
A: *laughs*
M: Ehm. Yeh, right, that’s a good point. He really should be hanging out with some priest or something like that. Someone with really upstanding morals and… a vegetarian.
A: *laughs*
M: Ehm, so yeh, that’s an interesting point. He’s gonna get kind of a skewed perspective of what human emotion is all about and behaviour as well, I think. Although, you know, it seems that as time progresses, Dean is getting more and more compassionate, and he seems to be also operating with a certain sort of a moral compass that seems to be actually getting stronger and stronger over time, in my opinion. I dunno if that is accurate or not. Ehm, yeh, he’s becoming more and more of a wuss, is what I’m trying to say.
A: *laughs*
M: Actually, it’s just gonna be Castiel saying “Will you just stop crying, Jesus Christ, it’s embarrassing. You’re embarrassing me, Dean!”
A: *still laughing*
M: Yes, hi.
A: Hi. I was just wondering, when you… Castiel appears in a few episodes, and then you have a break for a few episodes, how hard is it to get back into the character?
M: It’s always a little hard. Um, because I’m not working consistently, ehm, so when I come back, I think “Oh is this how I was doing it before or is this totally different?”, and then I don’t know until I actually see it air, and then I say “Oh yes, that is totally different. Oh right, you did totally fuck that up.”
A: *laughs*
M: But it is kind of difficult to leave something and then come back to it and then leave it and come back to it, but now it’s been enough time, I think, that it’s getting a little bit more entrenched and automatic. But at first it was pretty jarring for me. I wasn’t even sure, you know, like the Castiel voice and things like that, I was like “Is this what I was doing before? I can’t really remember,” so… Especially when we were shooting in the first, you know, six episodes, and they hadn’t aired yet, so I didn’t have any parameter to go by in terms of seeing what I had done. But it seems to have… You know, I dunno, maybe they did, you know, magic in the editing room. I understand that they can actually, like, change the pitch of your voice in the editing room, too, which is kind of amazing. I shot one episode when I was so sick that I couldn’t… I could barely even talk, and I thought for sure they were gonna make me re-record all this dialogue, and apparently they can just take out the, like, frequency of sick.
A: *laughs*
M: It’s amazing! Uhm, so, basically all you have to do as an actor is show up in some form and then they edit it to make it work. Hi.
A: Hi Misha.
M: Hi.
A: Just wondering, how has playing Castiel on the show changed your life?
M: Uh, I’m a better person now.
A: *laughs*
M: You know, someone asked me this yesterday, like, how has interacting with the fan community been, and how does that change my perspective on the world, and I, uh… it actually is kind of surreal to me, like, the fact that I’m sitting up here and you people are asking me questions and looking at me doesn’t totally make sense to me, and I don’t know if my brain has quite processed what’s going on yet, so I’m just sort of going along, and somehow it feels normal. But I know it’s not. I know this is abnormal behaviour. But I dunno, so yeh, I don’t actually feel a big change yet. Uhm… yeh. That’s sort of letdown of an answer, huh. Boring, sorry.
A: *laughs anyway*
M: I’ll tell ya another yawner. Uhm. Yes, where are we? Yes, hi.
A: Hi, uh, do you have any unknown talents?
A: *laughs and woohooos*
M: Uh, well, my flexibility is now out.
A: *laughing again*
M: I dunno, it depends on what talents you already know. I, uh, I do not have very good penmanship… Oh, okay, I got one for you. I’m fantastic at making a reasonably good meal out of a practically empty refrigerator. It’ll kind of shock you, like I can walk into a house that looks like noone has gone shopping for 2 months, and I can make something that’s not disgusting.
A: *laughs and claps*
M: Hi.
A: Hi! Uh, when playing Castiel, is it your intention to kind of look confused, cuz he’s kinda just…
A: *roars with laughter*
A: Nonononono! Because he’s kind of just like… When he talks to someone, he’s not like fully concentrated on them, he’s kinda like, kinda wanders off, but like, is it… did you decide to act it like that, or did like, directors and stuff ask you to act it like that?
M: Um, thank you for that helpful critique.
A: *laughs*
M: Uhm, I dunno if you’ve ever been on the set before; there’s a lot going on, like, say, they’ll put the piece of tape on the floor, and they’ll sey you gotta hit that mark at that line, so you have to walk in, and you have to hit that mark, and to make sure that your face isn’t casting a shadow on somebody else’s face, and that you’re speaking at a proper volume, and that you’re saying the right dialogue, and all that can be kind of perplexing.
A: *laughs*
M: And so I guess that’s coming across a little bit on screen. Um. So I’ll work on that, I will. Thank you.
A: *laughs again*
M: Um, you know, I mean, part of what’s going on with Castiel is the idea that he hasn’t been down amongst human beings for 2000 years, and so their behaviour is a bit odd to him, and I think that also just the earthly realm and what’s going on there is new terrain to him, and you know, he’s not the brightest bulb on a tree.
A: *laughs*
M: …or the sharpest spoon in a drawer. Uhm, yes, so there. Thank you for that question. Hi.
A: Hi. Me again. Uhm, rumour has it that Jensen and Jared are quite the pranksters on set; have you fallen victim to any unwanted behaviour lately? Or at all?
M: Uhm, I’ve heard from a lot of people that they’re ones to conduct pranks and, you know, I don’t <…> one another’s pants, or I dunno what the pranks are that they’ve done. But, you know, to be a part of the group, and the hazing ritual, and all that, you know, I obviously love to be pranked.
A: *laughs*
M: So I just sort of hang out in front of their doors to their trailers, looking naive and confused, waiting for them to pull one over on me…
A: *endless laughter*
M: …but it hasn’t happened yet. *crosses fingers* Here’s hoping. Hey
A: Hey, how are ya?
M: Good, how are you?
A: Oh, not too bad. You may have been asked this before, but I’m not exactly sure. One of the… The three things I like about the angels in Supernatural… first of all, you got black angels.
M: Yep.
A: Which is always awesome.
M: Always. *chuckles* Cuz every time that happens, I’m like yeh, that’s awesome again.
A: *laughs* Well, the first time, actually, I thought it was awesome. The second one is that it herds back to sort of old school angels, like what they used to be, they used to be kinda bad, kinda mean soldiers.
M: Yeh.
A: Is there any particular one that your character’s been taken inspiration from, or are you just sort of <…>
M: You know, I didn’t actually have that much time to do that much research before we started shooting, you know, it was pretty quick between when I got the part and when we started shooting, so mostly what I had to work with was the first sсript and my own kind of idea. Um, but I knew that angels, that there are… Revelations, for example: angels that are some badass destructive warriors of God, much more than the guardian angel that we popularly think. So you know what that is that I’m trying to say.
A: *laughs*
M: Um, and yeh, I mean that it makes it so much more interesting to play that angel… I mean an angel that’s conflicted, and that is trying to operate with, you know, good and probity and obeying God’s commands, and having the sort of blind faith, but at the same time wanting to be compassionate, um, but being directed to do some things that... I mean, you... I don’t remember which episodes you’ve seen, but you know, there are times when he’s... yeh, when Uriel’s introduced. I still can’t remember.
A: *laughs*
M: Anyway. You know, we’re directed to do some stuff that’s not that sweet. It was more sort of genocidal. Um, so it’s so much more interesting of a character than a typical Guardian Angel. But what was your question? Cuz that wasn’t it.
A: *laughs* *question is repeated*
M: Oh, yeh, I think that mostly it was the sсript, and it was, um... and then Revelation, and then I drew on, you know, other stuff here and there, but that was 95% of it. Um... And the writing has consistently reinforced those same ideas, so sort of once you’ve got established, it’s sort of stuck. Thanks, thanks, cool, thanks. Hi.
A: Hi. Just wondering how many conventions you’ve been to, and what countries.
M: This is my third... And New Jersey is one country.
A: *laughs*
M: And Los Angeles was another country. And Australia.
A: squeeeeeeeeeee
M: And, uh, the people at the Australian con...
A: *laughs*
M: Uhm, you guys are a really cool group of people. It’s like, you’re really respectful and friendly at the same time, and I’ve really enjoyed meeting this group of people. It’s been great. So, yeh. And there haven’t been, like, so much people trying to make me feel uncomfortable, and things like that, which is nice. Keep that up! Good on ya.
A: *laughs*
M: Um, yeh. And I’m going to England in, like, 6 weeks I think. And that should be cool. Yeh, and then Canada later in the summer. There’s a lot of them, I’m shocked. It’s pretty cool. Is there... *looks around*
A: Hi Misha.
M: There’s the... waving, jumping. Yes.
A: Hi, I’m <...> (Cas?!).
M: Hi.
A: I just wanted to ask, if you had one of Castiel’s powers, which one would it be?
M: Um... aside from the sewing?
A: *laughs*
M: I guess, let’s see... Immortality... Teleportation...
A: <...>
M: Oh, yeh, yeh, definitely that one. Of all the powers that I can have. Also Castiel can turn knobs. From a distance.
A: *roaring with laughter*
M: I think I might take that one. Yeh, that’s a good one. Turning off the car alarms, yeh. I remember when I was in college there was this car alarm, it was like the early days of car alarms, and this car alarm was going off right outside my window, and it was 3 o’clock in the morning, 4 o’clock in the morning, and it wouldn’t stop, it was just going continuously. And there were people down on the car, like, jumping on the hood of the car, shaking the car, trying to get it to stop, and eventually I went down, and I climbed under the car, and I reached up and I felt where the buzzing was coming from, and I ripped the wires out of it that were coming to it. And then I realized later it was the horn, like the horn was going “beep, beep” and someone is, you know, driving around without a horn.
A: *hysterical*
M: But, yeh, so much better to just be able to look out of the bedroom window and just *whistles*, like that, turn it off. So yeh, between the car alarms and the door knobs, I’m not sure. Hi.
A: Hi. I know you’ve said that in Castiel’s introduction scene you had lights exploding over your head. But other than that, any other onset injuries?
M: Uhm... No, I haven’t hurt myself too bad. There was a fight scene that hasn’t aired here yet, that is coming up, where I get thrown through a pillar in typical “Castiel getting thrown”...
A: *laughs*
M: And the pillar falling on me hurt more that I expected it to. Um, but for the most part it’s been... Uhm, we have, uh... <...> is our stunt coordinator, and he is... he does not want you to get hurt. He wants you to wrap every kind of padding on under you, and every time I’m like, “<...>, I’m just gonna sink to the floor casually and lie down”, you know, “I’m not gonna get hurt”. But he takes really good care to make sure we don’t get hurt. But yeh, that first scene was a lot... I mean, my scalp, it was actually... I could hear it sizzling. Uhm, they spray water on your head, like, “don’t worry, we gonna spray some water on your head, and there are some sparks coming out, but you’ll be cool”. And then it’s “tssssssss”, and there’s like burning ambers on your wet scalp, it hurt a lot, but for the most part it’s been... they take pretty good care there. Um, so, yeh. Nothing really, do you see.
S: We have time for about two guys.
M: Hey.
A: Hi, how are you doing? Um, I was just wondering, there seemed to be a bit of animosity yesterday about working in your general location, was it Vermont, I think? And I was just wondering if you had a chance to…
M: Working where?
A: Sorry… the location that you currently shoot at.
M: Oh, in Vancouver?
A: Vancouver?
M: Okay, yeh.
A: Ehm, in Vancouver, have you had a chance to, um, travel to any other locations for shooting, and how do you find working there in particular?
M: Uhm, for Supernatural we shoot all over Vancouver. Um, so the travelling is all within town. Uhm, and was I displaying animosity towards Vancouver?
A: <…>
M: What’s that? Oh, yeh, Jared wants to work in Hawaii. Um. Yeh, that’s a good idea. Right. Uhm, there was a big sort of excitement I think, because the Olympics are coming to Vancouver this winter, and it's gonna tons of traffic, and all of the hotels are gonna be full, and they were wondering whether they could even keep production going, and so, someone floated the idea, you know, we should really shoot an episode while doing the Olympics in Hawaii, or in Fiji, or something like that; wouldn’t that be smart?
A: Possibly not Fiji…
M: Or Australia! And, uhm… *sarcastically* And surprisingly, the whole crew was behind this idea.
A: *laughs*
M: It’s rare to get that kind of solidarity. But, oddly, the people who pay for the production didn’t want it, so that’s… we’re gonna be shooting at Vancouver. Which is also nice. You know, Vancouver… I’ve been living in LA for a long time, and I’m excited to, you know, spend a little time out of town. So I’m enjoying working in Vancouver. You know, it’s mossy and ferny and there’s a lot of trees and waterfalls and things like that. It rains an awful lot, and it’s cold and snowy and dark and, uhm… But that’s not animosity or anything, it’s just… an observation of a meteorological fact.
A: *laughing*
M: Hi.
A: Hi Misha. You touched upon this just before, but I really thought Castiel held his eyelids against Uriel, I thought that was really good fighting, uhm… Do you prefer the fight scenes more, or the more dramatic scences?
M: With Castiel, I definitely do prefer the kissing sce… oh.
A: *laughs*
M: That was a terrible spoiler. Uhm, no, there are no Castiel kissing scenes. Yet.
A: *hysterical*
M: Uhm, except for the one he makes with himself in the mirror. Uh, uhm… So, no, you know, the fight scenes, um, they’re not my favourite, because they take so many setups, there’s so many different camera angles, and they’re taking a really long time to shoot. And a lot of it is just sort of, technical faking it, stepping here, stepping there, falling here, falling there, you know, getting pulled through this wall, through that wall… Uhm, so, uhm… I like doing the more dramatic, you know, talking and kissing scenes.
S: All right, thank you Misha, I think that’s all we have time for with you.
A: *squeeing*
M: Thank you guys, you’re awesome.
S: Thanks so much. Well done! Okay, give it up, give it up guys, thank you Misha! We might be seeing a little bit more of him later…
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К.Хелла, можно начинать перевод!