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The SMALLVILLE ratings were very VERY good. IN fact, I believe the best of the season so...weeeeeeeeeee!!
No cancellation fear here.
So, when Braniac comes out and Professor Fine and his midwestern self goes away--do you think he's going to have a refined English accent like Jo-Rel?
This is fun!!
Also, here's another good interview with James. (Thanks sweetie!!!)
http://www.bobrivers.com/ontheshow/brsnews.asp?dismode=article&artid=4105
Transcript (thanks to bendy1 behind the cut!!!
James Marsters welcome to the Bob Rivers Show
Hello
How you doing old chap?
I'm doing very well
Amazing
It's good to be talking to you in Seattle, you guys - I produced theater in Seattle
You do?
I did all sorts of fake accents for you guys in Seattle, yeah I had a theater in Pioneer Square
Oh, Pioneer Square. Good place to be when its light outside.
Yeah, when its dark there's a lot of shots fired but yeah
I would think
Didn't tell my audience that at the time
We've had some bad news out of there this week
Oh I'm sorry really?
Yeah one of our Seahawks got beat beat up, just as we were about to have a decent team
Oh man
So James do you get up here much?
Uh, no I struck it lucky so that I'm working my ass off, excuse me, I'm working a lot and I haven't gotten back to Seattle but once
But once, wow. Alright well you're welcome any time. We posted your picture at the airport, you're good, gonna breeze right through
You were pretty lucky with the Spike character it's not often that they kill you off, a guy who's already undead and they kill ya and then bring you back in the new series
Hey what's that I thought if you were undead you couldn't be killed I thought that was job security
Yeah, me too. But after a couple of years on that show you realize nobody's got job security
On any show right? So James, tell me a little bit about, first off the fake accents, you are impressive at doing it as you alluded to yourself
But only because I got to do it so long, in the beginning I really wasn't so good
Ah so you do get better and better. Do you fool people who come up to you and say 'what neighbourhood are you from'
No, I don't try to fool people. I did it once in Canada with a girlfriend that I had years ago, we both did a British accent, we got invited to like three parties in fifteen minutes with a British accent.
Oh yeah people love an accent
British people are cooler than we are
You ever had a fan come up and just be crushed that you weren't really British?
Constantly [laughs]
I know. Women are so gullible
Other than working and having fun and all that, what appeals to you about Smallville and being a villain?
I think being a villain is always more fun, uh it's more fun to go through a fantasy that you really don't have in real life and uh. Yeah, there's a new Spiderman video game where you get to play the villain Venom, and it's the biggest thing on the market, everyone wants to be the villain
Mike is into that game, right Mike?
Oh yeah.
Come on admit it, yeah.
And you're right James, you can't go up to the AMP and Mini-Mart wearing a cape and some villain outfit and pretend to level the place and say 'just kidding!' they would drag you away
Exactly or you can't just, you know, set out one day to warp somebody's mind. But you can, you know, that's what I'm doing to Clark Kent every day. I'm manipulating the heck out of him trying to get him to turn against the human race. You don't get to do that every day.
And you get to get to be kind of uh, mild mannered by day yet villain by night. I mean your character, you're a normal everday guy until Brainiac takes over.
Yeah. I'm a Kryptonian super-computer pretending to be a professor. Yeah. uh... yeah so I get to... yeah so I'm very powerful but I'm not vulnerable to Kryptonite.
I haven't seen the character, do you have to go into make-up for like an enlarged head or something?
No man, no none of that. [okay] The comic book Brainiac is in pink tights, he's shaved bald and has green skin, we're not [it's in the rider, thank you agents!]
That's when you have a good agent, you bet. Uh.. and now, how much have you shot so far?
I've shot four episodes
Four episodes. And are there any stunts, does Brainiac - he doesn't fly or anything?
Well yeah, this is kind of easier on me but also a little bit of a letdown. you know Kryptonians don't know kung-fu. And vampires, apparently all vampires...
They all know kung-fu
I got to use, you know I has some martial arts training and we got to kind of mix it up when I was a vampire but when you're super-powered, like - I hit Clark, Clark flies back thirty feet, gets up, comes over, hits me, I fly back thirty feet, end of fight.
That's it.
You know it's like total meat and potatos for Tom and I and then the stunt guys take these wicked gags, you know ratcheted back thirty feet through furniture and stuff and then that's the end.
I've seen that in production they have these catapults and things and they dress like you and they stand on this thing and it throws them into a mattress or something but its still not good for the back, right? Is there a chiropracter on staff?
Yeah, and they get hurt they just don't talk about it - you know most people think stuntmen are invulnerable but if you get to know 'em you realise they're human beings
If they admit they're hurt they don't work
So it's like being in the NFL - 'No coach, I'm good!'
It's exactly like that
Throw me up again!
Exactly like that. Doing stunts is like playing football on artificial turf, man
Artificial mattress
You don't have to go to hospital but its hard to get up on Monday.
You're in a tough timeslot, I hope you don't mind me mentioning that, Thursday night at eight o'clock, boiy it would take Superman to..
But we killed, didn't we?
Yeah, you killed actually in the demo they're going after, uh pale, friendless virgins apparently
Be nice, there are some good looking people on this show man
Oh its beautiful
Oh my god, I know - everybody, even the background actors and everything are gorgeous. Brought my girlfriend on the set and it uh, caused a problem
Freaked her out a little bit, right?
Yeah
Okay Mister Marsters?
Mhm?
The time for the interview is up.
Oh Mister Marsters, we went over our time, I'm so sorry
Oh, we're bad
Who's your little dominatrix there?
That's god
That's the voice of god. Okay James, good luck on your next interview
No cancellation fear here.
So, when Braniac comes out and Professor Fine and his midwestern self goes away--do you think he's going to have a refined English accent like Jo-Rel?
This is fun!!
Also, here's another good interview with James. (Thanks sweetie!!!)
http://www.bobrivers.com/ontheshow/brsnews.asp?dismode=article&artid=4105
Transcript (thanks to bendy1 behind the cut!!!
James Marsters welcome to the Bob Rivers Show
Hello
How you doing old chap?
I'm doing very well
Amazing
It's good to be talking to you in Seattle, you guys - I produced theater in Seattle
You do?
I did all sorts of fake accents for you guys in Seattle, yeah I had a theater in Pioneer Square
Oh, Pioneer Square. Good place to be when its light outside.
Yeah, when its dark there's a lot of shots fired but yeah
I would think
Didn't tell my audience that at the time
We've had some bad news out of there this week
Oh I'm sorry really?
Yeah one of our Seahawks got beat beat up, just as we were about to have a decent team
Oh man
So James do you get up here much?
Uh, no I struck it lucky so that I'm working my ass off, excuse me, I'm working a lot and I haven't gotten back to Seattle but once
But once, wow. Alright well you're welcome any time. We posted your picture at the airport, you're good, gonna breeze right through
You were pretty lucky with the Spike character it's not often that they kill you off, a guy who's already undead and they kill ya and then bring you back in the new series
Hey what's that I thought if you were undead you couldn't be killed I thought that was job security
Yeah, me too. But after a couple of years on that show you realize nobody's got job security
On any show right? So James, tell me a little bit about, first off the fake accents, you are impressive at doing it as you alluded to yourself
But only because I got to do it so long, in the beginning I really wasn't so good
Ah so you do get better and better. Do you fool people who come up to you and say 'what neighbourhood are you from'
No, I don't try to fool people. I did it once in Canada with a girlfriend that I had years ago, we both did a British accent, we got invited to like three parties in fifteen minutes with a British accent.
Oh yeah people love an accent
British people are cooler than we are
You ever had a fan come up and just be crushed that you weren't really British?
Constantly [laughs]
I know. Women are so gullible
Other than working and having fun and all that, what appeals to you about Smallville and being a villain?
I think being a villain is always more fun, uh it's more fun to go through a fantasy that you really don't have in real life and uh. Yeah, there's a new Spiderman video game where you get to play the villain Venom, and it's the biggest thing on the market, everyone wants to be the villain
Mike is into that game, right Mike?
Oh yeah.
Come on admit it, yeah.
And you're right James, you can't go up to the AMP and Mini-Mart wearing a cape and some villain outfit and pretend to level the place and say 'just kidding!' they would drag you away
Exactly or you can't just, you know, set out one day to warp somebody's mind. But you can, you know, that's what I'm doing to Clark Kent every day. I'm manipulating the heck out of him trying to get him to turn against the human race. You don't get to do that every day.
And you get to get to be kind of uh, mild mannered by day yet villain by night. I mean your character, you're a normal everday guy until Brainiac takes over.
Yeah. I'm a Kryptonian super-computer pretending to be a professor. Yeah. uh... yeah so I get to... yeah so I'm very powerful but I'm not vulnerable to Kryptonite.
I haven't seen the character, do you have to go into make-up for like an enlarged head or something?
No man, no none of that. [okay] The comic book Brainiac is in pink tights, he's shaved bald and has green skin, we're not [it's in the rider, thank you agents!]
That's when you have a good agent, you bet. Uh.. and now, how much have you shot so far?
I've shot four episodes
Four episodes. And are there any stunts, does Brainiac - he doesn't fly or anything?
Well yeah, this is kind of easier on me but also a little bit of a letdown. you know Kryptonians don't know kung-fu. And vampires, apparently all vampires...
They all know kung-fu
I got to use, you know I has some martial arts training and we got to kind of mix it up when I was a vampire but when you're super-powered, like - I hit Clark, Clark flies back thirty feet, gets up, comes over, hits me, I fly back thirty feet, end of fight.
That's it.
You know it's like total meat and potatos for Tom and I and then the stunt guys take these wicked gags, you know ratcheted back thirty feet through furniture and stuff and then that's the end.
I've seen that in production they have these catapults and things and they dress like you and they stand on this thing and it throws them into a mattress or something but its still not good for the back, right? Is there a chiropracter on staff?
Yeah, and they get hurt they just don't talk about it - you know most people think stuntmen are invulnerable but if you get to know 'em you realise they're human beings
If they admit they're hurt they don't work
So it's like being in the NFL - 'No coach, I'm good!'
It's exactly like that
Throw me up again!
Exactly like that. Doing stunts is like playing football on artificial turf, man
Artificial mattress
You don't have to go to hospital but its hard to get up on Monday.
You're in a tough timeslot, I hope you don't mind me mentioning that, Thursday night at eight o'clock, boiy it would take Superman to..
But we killed, didn't we?
Yeah, you killed actually in the demo they're going after, uh pale, friendless virgins apparently
Be nice, there are some good looking people on this show man
Oh its beautiful
Oh my god, I know - everybody, even the background actors and everything are gorgeous. Brought my girlfriend on the set and it uh, caused a problem
Freaked her out a little bit, right?
Yeah
Okay Mister Marsters?
Mhm?
The time for the interview is up.
Oh Mister Marsters, we went over our time, I'm so sorry
Oh, we're bad
Who's your little dominatrix there?
That's god
That's the voice of god. Okay James, good luck on your next interview