White Collar Live WebCast -- Commentary/Semi-transcript
Ok, so I know I said I was going to do a commentary on "Front Man", but USA hosted a White Collar Live WebChat with Matt Bomer and Tim DeKay this afternoon and I was lucky enough to be able to get to watch it. I decided to give it a shot, not expecting much of anything.
Oh was I SO wrong.
It was the funniest shit I've seen in a VERY VERY long time. And my love for these two has gone up 100x. (Especially Tim DeKay. Oh, bb.)
Ok, first things first. The two boys (Tim and Matt) in a room, pretty much alone except maybe someone behind the camera. 2 pretty large stacks of cards in their hands with pre-screened fan submitted questions. No moderator, no typing responses. Just them, answering questions, and asking the questions in their hands to each other.
You guessed it.... Chaos ensues. The best chaos EVER.
They also said some great things about the characters-- what they think about them, their relationships, how they interact, what they think about their futures.
Highlights:
Before they even start officially, the two of them are sitting there being goofs, clearly making up questions and responses. Tim is making fun of Matt's heartthrob status, and then Matt makes up something about asking how big Tim's gun is. And they make some very... borderline comments, considering they were clearly supposed to keep it PG.
Tim: You haven't seen Peter Burke bathe yet.
Matt: That's magic. You gotta save some of that magic for subsequent seasons.
Tim keeps flipping through cards, not wanting to ask half of the questions he has. More than once.
They kept loving on each other-- esepeically Matt when he was asked about his first impression of Tim. (Which Tim did NOT want to ask)
Matt: Tim has this amazing midwestern sensibility to him that's like-- It made me believe that you could empahthize with somebody like Neal. Which not everybody could. Some people would just throw him back in jail.
Tim: "Really?"
Matt: "I think so."
Tim: "You know, funny, I never thought that.."
Matt: "Yeah, that's one of the things I liked right away...Enough, no more compliments for you."
Tim: "Ok. No, no, but I'm saying really, because the second we read, I thought, "oh, this guy...' I thought, in the script, I think Peter likes this guy-- but when we read the script, then I realized 'oh no, he really *cares* about him'."
Asked for the ultimate guest star, Tim answers Mark Harmon. Matt teases him about wanting an NCIS crossover. Matt suggests Parker Posey and Saffron Burrows, and Tim teases him about being a name dropper.
Tim: "You guys were in the beautiful people section. I was in there spilling trays. I actually did that at a party. I was talking to somebody, and a server walked by, and I went like this *waves arms* and a whole tray of tuna tartare went down on the floor."
Matt: "Tim. Tim. You're ruining the illusion that you're perfect."
Tim: "There was never an illusion for that. Except for my gun."
Matt: "That's right. Except for that gun. Moving on...."
Tim: "It's my turn!"
Matt: "Is it your turn?"
Tim: "Yesssss!"
Matt: "Sorry, sorry."
Tim: "Well, she probably didn't say Matty. She probably just said Matt. I call him Matty."
Re: A singing and dancing Neal:
Tim: "Matty can sing his buttocks off..."
Matt: "Only when I'm drunk."
Tim: "No, you can."
Matt got REALLY excited about the idea of him and Dianne Caroll (June) singing together next year. Very cute.
There is a special outtake reel out there somewhere where Matt was dancing with his eyes closed singing "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing" for "Vital Signs". They proceed to call it the "RainMan version'. Tim loves on Matt for it. Matt is not amused.
The chandilier in "Front Man" is worth $500,000.
Tim: "Do you own.."
Matt: "Do you DO your own.." *points to card in Tim's hand*
Tim: "Do you DO your own.. I can't read! Me no read-y!"
Matt: "It's ok,." *pats Tim on the back*
Tim: "Those are big words." *shows Matt the card*
Matt: " Do you do your own stunts. I know. Own. That's a tricky one."
Tim: "Own. OWW-N"
Matt: "Own."
Tim: "You think it would be OWW-N because there's no e at the end of the n, so that's not a long e. Short o. Do you oww-n your... Do you do..."
*Matt keeps patting Tim on the back*
Tim: "Ummmmmmm...."
Matt: "Let's try it again. Can we cut?
They keep yelling something randomly-- parkor? I can't tell, because they're yelling it. Dorks.
"Save it for the outtakes Tim, save it for the outtakes."
And now commences their bad accents. Usually southern. and in stereo.
Also, they've gravitated so close to each other that they keep bumping elbows. :-)
Re: favorite and least favorite part about your job:
Tim: "Favorite part about my job, in all seriousness-- working with him." *points to Matt*
Matt: "Awww. I would say the same thing, truthfully."
Tim: "Least favorite--"
Matt: "And getting paid to do what we love to do is nice."
Tim: "Yep, yep. Least favorite-- working with him." *points to Matt again* "..No"
Matt: "No, no, you mixed it up."
Matt: "That was the one time that I looked to Tim like 'please throw me a liferaft and pull me off the screen'."
Tim touches Matt's arm, then somehow Tim feels the need to grab onto Matt's bicep again and Matt curls it up and declares "GUN SHOW" and Tim is all 'OWWWW' while Matt is being all serious and answering the question. Oh *boys*.
Matt talks about getting a new hat at the last second, and how much practice it took to get the hat tricks down, and how long he had to stay up the night before to get it right. Tim then proceeds to say the same about when he got his new gun.
Tim: "I stayed up all night working with my gun so that..."
Matt: "I remember that. I remember you telling me that and me being like, 'Tim, we don't need to talk about that'."
Tim: "It wasn't appropriate."
Matt: "It wasn't really appropriate."
Tim:"We just met the crew, and it was the first day shooting."
Matt: "It was weird. but um"
Tim: "But I was playing an FBI agent so I thought it was important to talk about my holster."
Tim with random hand gestures and claiming he has street something is a cross between horrible and awesome.
S2 flashback to when Peter first catches Neal. Can't wait!
Matt Bomer saying "oh, snap" and "ooooooohhhh me likey" were two of the best things said all night.
There is a long discussion about a donkey. "Burrros." Which they belatedly realized they 'gave away' somehow.
Tim is happy being the 'good guy FBI agent' who still gets to play a little with the bad boy.
Tim: "I have a couple of dream episodes."
Matt: "Tell me about your dreams."
Tim: "It's Neal and Peter getting stuck in an elevator."
Matt: "THAT'S AWSOME! THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!"
They both LOVED the idea of both of them having to pretend to be the other character.
Matt: "Somebody let this man into the writer's room of the show with some quickness."
Matt borrows his wardrobe for events because his own clothes are not fancy enough.
Tim says hands down, Elizabeth is more important than anything else in the world to Peter.
Christmas Idol YouTube thing-- Tim knows it SO well that clearly he has watched it MULTIPLE times. Which implies some interesting stuff. Google it.
The only prank they talked about was magically appearing Swedish Fish that a crew member would always put in things just for fun. They decide they are going to do good ones for S2. Matt declares his will involve wire work, and Tim decalres his will be with kung fu and farm animals.
The tracking anklet is named "Candy", because Matt is with 'her' 12-15 hours every day.
There is much fussing about a 180 IQ. Not sure who this applies to.
Matt: "Did you just say 'poet's garette?' You're AWESOME."
Tim starts to show some hidden depths for a while here. Smart boy.
More bad southern accent. Pretty much all Tim's fault.
Tim thinks that Matt would be the best con artist of them, but Matt is like No! Willie would! and then Tim agrees.
Tim says "Shit", and Matt realizes he cussed and nearly falls out of his chair laughing because Tim cussed... and then they proceeded to touch each other. A lot. Matt grabs his hand, then rubs his back... WOW that was a lot of touching.
Matt: "You know how much I love him? I love him so much that I just got embarassed. That's how much I love Tim DeKay." (this is directly after Matt had his hands all over Tim.)
Matt's favorite episodes are "Front Man" and the Pilot, and Tim likes "The Portrait".
Matt says that Neal is a "social engineer who capitalizes on the weaknesses of others when necessary". Tim says that Neal is "half of Robin Hood-- stealls from the rich, and stops there".
Tim likes that Peter has a sense of humor-- including when people think he is funny when he doesn't mean to be -- something I can sympathize with. Matt likes that Neal isn't always perfect, especially when it comes to his personal life.
Ok boys, seriously. They almost lose it completely over the words "backpalming" and "cups and balls"-- both are magic trick references.
The boys belting out "Wayward Son" is HILAROUS. and then Tim sticks his arm around Matt.
Tim sees Neal/Peter as father/son, old married couple, older/younger brothers, and professional equals.
Matt compares Neal's 'rat pack' character inspiration to be mostly Dean Martin, but a little Frank Sinatra.
They're calling the fans "Collars"? Are you kidding me?
Tim is fail at the end, but I love him more for this.
More about the donkey-- "The Brando of Burros"
Yep. It was a giant lovefest, conducted by two giant 5 year olds. And it was AWESOME. They spent the whole time migrating closer to each other, singing, touching each other, and generally acting like fools. There is clearly a mutual admiration society going on, and it's very sweet. Matt tends to lean into Tim even more that Tim does him, but they both do their fair share of getting close.
I love that Tim got a chance to shine and show off that he really is smart, because I think he doesn't get a lot of credit because Matt is so pretty and articulate. Tim really tends to fool people by using a simpler diction and just being a more homely handsome guy.
Replay of the videocast, via UStream, can be found HERE. http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5167122
Worth EVERY freaking second of the hour it takes to watch it. Not kidding.
Oh was I SO wrong.
It was the funniest shit I've seen in a VERY VERY long time. And my love for these two has gone up 100x. (Especially Tim DeKay. Oh, bb.)
Ok, first things first. The two boys (Tim and Matt) in a room, pretty much alone except maybe someone behind the camera. 2 pretty large stacks of cards in their hands with pre-screened fan submitted questions. No moderator, no typing responses. Just them, answering questions, and asking the questions in their hands to each other.
You guessed it.... Chaos ensues. The best chaos EVER.
They also said some great things about the characters-- what they think about them, their relationships, how they interact, what they think about their futures.
Highlights:
Before they even start officially, the two of them are sitting there being goofs, clearly making up questions and responses. Tim is making fun of Matt's heartthrob status, and then Matt makes up something about asking how big Tim's gun is. And they make some very... borderline comments, considering they were clearly supposed to keep it PG.
Tim: You haven't seen Peter Burke bathe yet.
Matt: That's magic. You gotta save some of that magic for subsequent seasons.
Tim keeps flipping through cards, not wanting to ask half of the questions he has. More than once.
They kept loving on each other-- esepeically Matt when he was asked about his first impression of Tim. (Which Tim did NOT want to ask)
Matt: Tim has this amazing midwestern sensibility to him that's like-- It made me believe that you could empahthize with somebody like Neal. Which not everybody could. Some people would just throw him back in jail.
Tim: "Really?"
Matt: "I think so."
Tim: "You know, funny, I never thought that.."
Matt: "Yeah, that's one of the things I liked right away...Enough, no more compliments for you."
Tim: "Ok. No, no, but I'm saying really, because the second we read, I thought, "oh, this guy...' I thought, in the script, I think Peter likes this guy-- but when we read the script, then I realized 'oh no, he really *cares* about him'."
Asked for the ultimate guest star, Tim answers Mark Harmon. Matt teases him about wanting an NCIS crossover. Matt suggests Parker Posey and Saffron Burrows, and Tim teases him about being a name dropper.
Tim: "You guys were in the beautiful people section. I was in there spilling trays. I actually did that at a party. I was talking to somebody, and a server walked by, and I went like this *waves arms* and a whole tray of tuna tartare went down on the floor."
Matt: "Tim. Tim. You're ruining the illusion that you're perfect."
Tim: "There was never an illusion for that. Except for my gun."
Matt: "That's right. Except for that gun. Moving on...."
Tim: "It's my turn!"
Matt: "Is it your turn?"
Tim: "Yesssss!"
Matt: "Sorry, sorry."
Tim: "Well, she probably didn't say Matty. She probably just said Matt. I call him Matty."
Re: A singing and dancing Neal:
Tim: "Matty can sing his buttocks off..."
Matt: "Only when I'm drunk."
Tim: "No, you can."
Matt got REALLY excited about the idea of him and Dianne Caroll (June) singing together next year. Very cute.
There is a special outtake reel out there somewhere where Matt was dancing with his eyes closed singing "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing" for "Vital Signs". They proceed to call it the "RainMan version'. Tim loves on Matt for it. Matt is not amused.
The chandilier in "Front Man" is worth $500,000.
Tim: "Do you own.."
Matt: "Do you DO your own.." *points to card in Tim's hand*
Tim: "Do you DO your own.. I can't read! Me no read-y!"
Matt: "It's ok,." *pats Tim on the back*
Tim: "Those are big words." *shows Matt the card*
Matt: " Do you do your own stunts. I know. Own. That's a tricky one."
Tim: "Own. OWW-N"
Matt: "Own."
Tim: "You think it would be OWW-N because there's no e at the end of the n, so that's not a long e. Short o. Do you oww-n your... Do you do..."
*Matt keeps patting Tim on the back*
Tim: "Ummmmmmm...."
Matt: "Let's try it again. Can we cut?
They keep yelling something randomly-- parkor? I can't tell, because they're yelling it. Dorks.
"Save it for the outtakes Tim, save it for the outtakes."
And now commences their bad accents. Usually southern. and in stereo.
Also, they've gravitated so close to each other that they keep bumping elbows. :-)
Re: favorite and least favorite part about your job:
Tim: "Favorite part about my job, in all seriousness-- working with him." *points to Matt*
Matt: "Awww. I would say the same thing, truthfully."
Tim: "Least favorite--"
Matt: "And getting paid to do what we love to do is nice."
Tim: "Yep, yep. Least favorite-- working with him." *points to Matt again* "..No"
Matt: "No, no, you mixed it up."
Matt: "That was the one time that I looked to Tim like 'please throw me a liferaft and pull me off the screen'."
Tim touches Matt's arm, then somehow Tim feels the need to grab onto Matt's bicep again and Matt curls it up and declares "GUN SHOW" and Tim is all 'OWWWW' while Matt is being all serious and answering the question. Oh *boys*.
Matt talks about getting a new hat at the last second, and how much practice it took to get the hat tricks down, and how long he had to stay up the night before to get it right. Tim then proceeds to say the same about when he got his new gun.
Tim: "I stayed up all night working with my gun so that..."
Matt: "I remember that. I remember you telling me that and me being like, 'Tim, we don't need to talk about that'."
Tim: "It wasn't appropriate."
Matt: "It wasn't really appropriate."
Tim:"We just met the crew, and it was the first day shooting."
Matt: "It was weird. but um"
Tim: "But I was playing an FBI agent so I thought it was important to talk about my holster."
Tim with random hand gestures and claiming he has street something is a cross between horrible and awesome.
S2 flashback to when Peter first catches Neal. Can't wait!
Matt Bomer saying "oh, snap" and "ooooooohhhh me likey" were two of the best things said all night.
There is a long discussion about a donkey. "Burrros." Which they belatedly realized they 'gave away' somehow.
Tim is happy being the 'good guy FBI agent' who still gets to play a little with the bad boy.
Tim: "I have a couple of dream episodes."
Matt: "Tell me about your dreams."
Tim: "It's Neal and Peter getting stuck in an elevator."
Matt: "THAT'S AWSOME! THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!"
They both LOVED the idea of both of them having to pretend to be the other character.
Matt: "Somebody let this man into the writer's room of the show with some quickness."
Matt borrows his wardrobe for events because his own clothes are not fancy enough.
Tim says hands down, Elizabeth is more important than anything else in the world to Peter.
Christmas Idol YouTube thing-- Tim knows it SO well that clearly he has watched it MULTIPLE times. Which implies some interesting stuff. Google it.
The only prank they talked about was magically appearing Swedish Fish that a crew member would always put in things just for fun. They decide they are going to do good ones for S2. Matt declares his will involve wire work, and Tim decalres his will be with kung fu and farm animals.
The tracking anklet is named "Candy", because Matt is with 'her' 12-15 hours every day.
There is much fussing about a 180 IQ. Not sure who this applies to.
Matt: "Did you just say 'poet's garette?' You're AWESOME."
Tim starts to show some hidden depths for a while here. Smart boy.
More bad southern accent. Pretty much all Tim's fault.
Tim thinks that Matt would be the best con artist of them, but Matt is like No! Willie would! and then Tim agrees.
Tim says "Shit", and Matt realizes he cussed and nearly falls out of his chair laughing because Tim cussed... and then they proceeded to touch each other. A lot. Matt grabs his hand, then rubs his back... WOW that was a lot of touching.
Matt: "You know how much I love him? I love him so much that I just got embarassed. That's how much I love Tim DeKay." (this is directly after Matt had his hands all over Tim.)
Matt's favorite episodes are "Front Man" and the Pilot, and Tim likes "The Portrait".
Matt says that Neal is a "social engineer who capitalizes on the weaknesses of others when necessary". Tim says that Neal is "half of Robin Hood-- stealls from the rich, and stops there".
Tim likes that Peter has a sense of humor-- including when people think he is funny when he doesn't mean to be -- something I can sympathize with. Matt likes that Neal isn't always perfect, especially when it comes to his personal life.
Ok boys, seriously. They almost lose it completely over the words "backpalming" and "cups and balls"-- both are magic trick references.
The boys belting out "Wayward Son" is HILAROUS. and then Tim sticks his arm around Matt.
Tim sees Neal/Peter as father/son, old married couple, older/younger brothers, and professional equals.
Matt compares Neal's 'rat pack' character inspiration to be mostly Dean Martin, but a little Frank Sinatra.
They're calling the fans "Collars"? Are you kidding me?
Tim is fail at the end, but I love him more for this.
More about the donkey-- "The Brando of Burros"
Yep. It was a giant lovefest, conducted by two giant 5 year olds. And it was AWESOME. They spent the whole time migrating closer to each other, singing, touching each other, and generally acting like fools. There is clearly a mutual admiration society going on, and it's very sweet. Matt tends to lean into Tim even more that Tim does him, but they both do their fair share of getting close.
I love that Tim got a chance to shine and show off that he really is smart, because I think he doesn't get a lot of credit because Matt is so pretty and articulate. Tim really tends to fool people by using a simpler diction and just being a more homely handsome guy.
Replay of the videocast, via UStream, can be found HERE. http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5167122
Worth EVERY freaking second of the hour it takes to watch it. Not kidding.