Took me half an hour, all typos and mistakes are mine, am too hot at the moment to go through it again to smooth out the translation. Hope it'll still do! ;-) But you're right, it is a pretty great interview! =)
No one would be able to tell that CKR is 50 years old. He’s been in the business since 1993, although acting had interested him from the age of 25, but after some not so successful plays he started drinking, which he didn’t stop until 1990. He’s a sever alcoholic and all those, who’re aware of this sickness, know not to talk about it in the past - although if he does, he thinks himself clean since 1993 and he hasn’t drunk a sip since then. From his smaller parts Memento and eXistenZ might be known and he was one of the Cyclon characters on Battlestar Galactica. I’ve got time to look through his biography, because Callum is late for the interview. After ten minutes I start getting worried and I ask one of the helpful assistant girls to have a look and check what happened to the three o’clock interview. The actor’s PR guy comes in blushing and says that there’s a slight delay, because it’s hard to shut Callum up. This is every reporter’s dream, to have a talkative subject that is, who doesn’t communicate in sparse sentences, like the gorgeous lead actress of V, Morena Baccarin. I hadn’t talked to her, but a colleague of mine had to sweat to get half a page together. Let’s go, Keith is on the terrace, says the PR girl, who (as is common in this profession) is tall and good looking. Rennie is sitting on a rather uncomfortable looking designer chair in his jeans, a dark grey shirt and is drinking a coffee. He looks a bit tired and irritated, just like I’d imagine an actor, who’s had to deal with interviews all day long since 11 o’clock. ‘Is it okay, if we do this outside? I’ve been dying for a smoke, sorry.’ Not a problem at all, this way I can smoke myself, too. ‘Try this, don’t smoke that crap. Natural American Spirit, do you know it?’ Yeah, I’ve seen it in commercials. I ask him, whether I can write about him smoking. Since it’s image and all. ‘Sure. I don’t give a crap about my image.’ We’re smoking, while Rennie points at my Battlestar Galactica t-shirt. ‘Can I have this? I love the design.’ It’s in the size of XXL, I point out, and besides I don’t have another one on me. He nods, reasonable excuse. I first ask him about Battlestar Galactica. ‘It’s been the most pleasant experience of my life. This started out like all the other tv projects, my agent told me that they were shooting a sci fi pilot in Vancouver and that there was a side role that would be perfect for me. Alright, I’ll go, I said, but I’d had it with underparts and would have liked to shoot my own movie, but you’ve gotta eat something. This was in 2003, at the time of the mini series. I wasn’t even in the first episode, only in the second, but the part was really good, although I didn’t quite get the last scene from the first reading, where there is a duplicate of Leon. Then they explained it to me, which helped a lot, cause when I had scenes together with Eddie (Edward James Olmos), I started to create a kind of doubt towards Leob from the first scene on.
We finished filming, everyone said goodbye and everyone went home like ok, it’s time for a new job. I did two movies and a tv episode, when they called me and told me that there would be a series made out of this thing and that they were counting on me. I’ve played in 20 episodes during those 5 years and also in the movie called Plan and I’ve enjoyed every minute of it. The crew is amazing, we were a big family and this is not an exaggeration or crap talk, even though I know they’re saying this, but we really are close to each other. We’ve become really close friends with Katee (Katee Sackhoff), we’ve had incredibly intense scenes, for which I will always be grateful to her and besides, she’s a great woman, right?’ Yeah she is, I nod. And the end of the show? ‘If I’m satisfied? It’s weird, cause when you’re doing it, you only really know your own scenes, the big picture only gets together, when you see the end product, so in this regard I had no idea about the end, while we were filming, I only knew it about my own character. When I got the raw version, I wasn’t in the last scene with Balter and Six and I kind of liked that better, although that’s only my opinion.’ Rennie got a 3 episodes underpart on 24 after BSG, which he deflects with a wave. ‘This has also been a job between many. I don’t always want to be the bad guy, so in this case I didn’t mind them killing me off.’ Next to the sci-fi filming he also got an important role on Californication in the second season: He had to play the music producer Lew Ashby. ‘That was a fucking awesome role, I really liked the guy. I can only thank David (David Duchovny), you should really write that in your article, he’s a great guy. He made it happen that I could get the job, cause the studio didn’t really want me. There really had been a music producer, who behaved like that or they all become like that after a while in my opinion and then they either survive or don’t. Now you see him I did regret to have been killed off, I would have loved to work some more years with David.’ We start talking about Canadian productions and I point out that there have been a lot of good products recently, beginning with Durham County, continuing with Flashpoint, the Border and most recently the Bridge, not mentioning Rennie’s new series, a crime series called Shattered, where he plays a detective with a multiple personality disorder. The latter had seemed a bit farfetched from reality. I can hardly imagine a Mr. Hyde looking into my let’s say cat’s kidnapping. ‘But that’s the most realistic about it all, trust me. There is a detective in Canada, who’s suffering from this disease and he’s working like that, I’m not kidding you. I’ve talked to him several times and I’ve read loads of books about this illness, you can keep it in line with specific medication. The punchline about the story, I mean the series, is that my character doesn’t know that he’s sick and in the beginning he doesn’t understand, what’s going on, but that’s what makes it so exciting. The writers have created an amazing story, there will be quite a few alternate personalities of mine in the first 13 episodes, I think the audience will like it. A friend of mine is producing the Bridge btw, so I’ll tell him that there also fans of the show in Hungary.’ At the end we talk about Edmonton, the town, where Renni grew up and about the Oilers, the hockey team he’s rooting for. ‘I love to play and we still get together with friends and if the weather’s right, we go out onto the ice. I grew up under Gretzky’s magical spell, he was a amazing player.’ True, but he wouldn’t have been anyone without Messier, I say. ‘You’re right there, but not only Mess, but the whole team was necessary for the success. Then and there a team was created that could do wonders and I’ve always appreciated that. It’s just like a good movie or series with a great script and a great crew and director. It’s a magical feeling.’
You are made of the awesomest! It's really helpful to have a real translation and get rid of some, um, misconceptions, however funny they were!
If I may ask something more - would you terribly mind translating the title of the article "A c:c Monte-Carlóban: Szarok én az imidzsemre" and the subtitle "Alkoholistából karakterszínész"? I mean to post your translation at the the_ckr_files, and it would be better to have your title than "Fuck me in the imidzsemre" :D
Thanks again, you've done a great job, and I really appreciate ♥
Also: I love Billie Piper, great choice of icons!
ETA: got the title translation within the interview, "I don’t give a crap about my image" /n\, that's what I already chose for the lj-cut \o/
I know what you mean with the heat. Fan is blowing full force next to me!
OK, so I've smoothed it some and posted. With credits to you, of course! You can read (!) it here.
I'll make sure to get back to you if I need another translation from the Hungarian :D And if you need the same from the French, just give me a sign, I'd be happy to oblige!
But you're right, it is a pretty great interview! =)
No one would be able to tell that CKR is 50 years old. He’s been in the business since 1993, although acting had interested him from the age of 25, but after some not so successful plays he started drinking, which he didn’t stop until 1990. He’s a sever alcoholic and all those, who’re aware of this sickness, know not to talk about it in the past - although if he does, he thinks himself clean since 1993 and he hasn’t drunk a sip since then. From his smaller parts Memento and eXistenZ might be known and he was one of the Cyclon characters on Battlestar Galactica.
I’ve got time to look through his biography, because Callum is late for the interview. After ten minutes I start getting worried and I ask one of the helpful assistant girls to have a look and check what happened to the three o’clock interview. The actor’s PR guy comes in blushing and says that there’s a slight delay, because it’s hard to shut Callum up. This is every reporter’s dream, to have a talkative subject that is, who doesn’t communicate in sparse sentences, like the gorgeous lead actress of V, Morena Baccarin. I hadn’t talked to her, but a colleague of mine had to sweat to get half a page together. Let’s go, Keith is on the terrace, says the PR girl, who (as is common in this profession) is tall and good looking.
Rennie is sitting on a rather uncomfortable looking designer chair in his jeans, a dark grey shirt and is drinking a coffee. He looks a bit tired and irritated, just like I’d imagine an actor, who’s had to deal with interviews all day long since 11 o’clock. ‘Is it okay, if we do this outside? I’ve been dying for a smoke, sorry.’ Not a problem at all, this way I can smoke myself, too. ‘Try this, don’t smoke that crap. Natural American Spirit, do you know it?’ Yeah, I’ve seen it in commercials. I ask him, whether I can write about him smoking. Since it’s image and all. ‘Sure. I don’t give a crap about my image.’ We’re smoking, while Rennie points at my Battlestar Galactica t-shirt. ‘Can I have this? I love the design.’ It’s in the size of XXL, I point out, and besides I don’t have another one on me. He nods, reasonable excuse. I first ask him about Battlestar Galactica.
‘It’s been the most pleasant experience of my life. This started out like all the other tv projects, my agent told me that they were shooting a sci fi pilot in Vancouver and that there was a side role that would be perfect for me. Alright, I’ll go, I said, but I’d had it with underparts and would have liked to shoot my own movie, but you’ve gotta eat something. This was in 2003, at the time of the mini series. I wasn’t even in the first episode, only in the second, but the part was really good, although I didn’t quite get the last scene from the first reading, where there is a duplicate of Leon. Then they explained it to me, which helped a lot, cause when I had scenes together with Eddie (Edward James Olmos), I started to create a kind of doubt towards Leob from the first scene on.
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We finished filming, everyone said goodbye and everyone went home like ok, it’s time for a new job. I did two movies and a tv episode, when they called me and told me that there would be a series made out of this thing and that they were counting on me. I’ve played in 20 episodes during those 5 years and also in the movie called Plan and I’ve enjoyed every minute of it. The crew is amazing, we were a big family and this is not an exaggeration or crap talk, even though I know they’re saying this, but we really are close to each other. We’ve become really close friends with Katee (Katee Sackhoff), we’ve had incredibly intense scenes, for which I will always be grateful to her and besides, she’s a great woman, right?’
Yeah she is, I nod. And the end of the show? ‘If I’m satisfied? It’s weird, cause when you’re doing it, you only really know your own scenes, the big picture only gets together, when you see the end product, so in this regard I had no idea about the end, while we were filming, I only knew it about my own character. When I got the raw version, I wasn’t in the last scene with Balter and Six and I kind of liked that better, although that’s only my opinion.’ Rennie got a 3 episodes underpart on 24 after BSG, which he deflects with a wave. ‘This has also been a job between many. I don’t always want to be the bad guy, so in this case I didn’t mind them killing me off.’
Next to the sci-fi filming he also got an important role on Californication in the second season: He had to play the music producer Lew Ashby. ‘That was a fucking awesome role, I really liked the guy. I can only thank David (David Duchovny), you should really write that in your article, he’s a great guy. He made it happen that I could get the job, cause the studio didn’t really want me. There really had been a music producer, who behaved like that or they all become like that after a while in my opinion and then they either survive or don’t. Now you see him I did regret to have been killed off, I would have loved to work some more years with David.’
We start talking about Canadian productions and I point out that there have been a lot of good products recently, beginning with Durham County, continuing with Flashpoint, the Border and most recently the Bridge, not mentioning Rennie’s new series, a crime series called Shattered, where he plays a detective with a multiple personality disorder. The latter had seemed a bit farfetched from reality.
I can hardly imagine a Mr. Hyde looking into my let’s say cat’s kidnapping. ‘But that’s the most realistic about it all, trust me. There is a detective in Canada, who’s suffering from this disease and he’s working like that, I’m not kidding you. I’ve talked to him several times and I’ve read loads of books about this illness, you can keep it in line with specific medication. The punchline about the story, I mean the series, is that my character doesn’t know that he’s sick and in the beginning he doesn’t understand, what’s going on, but that’s what makes it so exciting. The writers have created an amazing story, there will be quite a few alternate personalities of mine in the first 13 episodes, I think the audience will like it. A friend of mine is producing the Bridge btw, so I’ll tell him that there also fans of the show in Hungary.’
At the end we talk about Edmonton, the town, where Renni grew up and about the Oilers, the hockey team he’s rooting for. ‘I love to play and we still get together with friends and if the weather’s right, we go out onto the ice. I grew up under Gretzky’s magical spell, he was a amazing player.’ True, but he wouldn’t have been anyone without Messier, I say. ‘You’re right there, but not only Mess, but the whole team was necessary for the success. Then and there a team was created that could do wonders and I’ve always appreciated that. It’s just like a good movie or series with a great script and a great crew and director. It’s a magical feeling.’
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It's really helpful to have a real translation and get rid of some, um, misconceptions, however funny they were!
If I may ask something more - would you terribly mind translating the title of the article "A c:c Monte-Carlóban: Szarok én az imidzsemre" and the subtitle "Alkoholistából karakterszínész"? I mean to post your translation at the the_ckr_files, and it would be better to have your title than "Fuck me in the imidzsemre" :D
Thanks again, you've done a great job, and I really appreciate ♥
Also: I love Billie Piper, great choice of icons!
ETA: got the title translation within the interview, "I don’t give a crap about my image" /n\, that's what I already chose for the lj-cut \o/
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You're welcome, just credit me for the translation! ;-)
And I agree, Billie is awesomesauce, really love her! :D
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I know what you mean with the heat. Fan is blowing full force next to me!
OK, so I've smoothed it some and posted. With credits to you, of course! You can read (!) it here.
I'll make sure to get back to you if I need another translation from the Hungarian :D And if you need the same from the French, just give me a sign, I'd be happy to oblige!
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