09-05-2007, 10:38 PM | #1 |
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Vincent Kartheiser Interview
VK gave an interview in which he talks about his AtS experience.
http://www.giantmag.com/2007/09/dvds/mad-man-talks/ The parts about AtS start on page 2. One thing he says is that he learned early on that any ideas or reservations he had were going to be ignored. Here's a quote. I showed up to play that character and I had a lot of ideas. And they didn’t like any of those ideas. That’s okay, I’m in the business of having my ideas rejected. But after about 7 or 8 episodes of coming in with ideas and realizing it just didn’t matter, I became really complacent and jaded and angry at the project. I felt like it wasn’t a collaboration, He also says he tried to tell the PTB he thought they were making some big mistakes with the Connor character. I'm going to guess it was the stuff involving Cordy, but that's just a guess. I actually found the link to the article on another board and, the way VK's bitterness and ungratefulness was described, I almost didn't read it. I thought he'd totally gone off on a tear, insulting everyone and everything related to AtS and, in general, saying things that would make me really dislike him. But, reading the article, all I saw was a young actor who went into a project expecting one thing, who was disappointed things didn't turn out that way. Plus, what he says seems to gel with things some of the other actors have said.
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09-05-2007, 10:48 PM | #2 |
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I read that interview.
VK's honesty goes a long way to confirming a lot of what we already suspected about the last two years of AtS. I think he was talking about the Concord thing too, Dannyblue, and I can't imagine anyone but the most ass-kissingest Joss lackey thought that *that* was a good storyline. Thanks for the heads up. |
09-06-2007, 11:16 AM | #3 |
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Thanks for the article. It's really ashame at how bitter some of the old cast gets when mentioning ATS or Buffy
And, a lot of people still wonder why David refuses to talk about Angel. I can't blame him, CC, or even Vincent.
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09-06-2007, 09:05 PM | #4 |
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I like to pretend that season 4 and 5 of AtS never happened
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Oh, there was a s4 and s5?
I was too busy with my fingers in my ears and my eyes closed, going "If I can't hear you or see you, you're not real." |
09-07-2007, 07:38 PM | #6 |
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VK always impressed me as an actor, even though I hated Connor. So I can see why he would have been frustrated.
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09-08-2007, 08:54 AM | #7 |
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When you combine that with CC's comments from the recent con, plus this interview with James Marsters, the picture gets clearer about what it was really like to work on an ME production.
I think the only reason the FF people were still so happy (and healthy looking) was that Joss was still happy with them. They hadn't had a chance to find out what it meant to work for him when he stopped thinking they were shiny. |
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Thanks for the link, Kel.
I think it's safe to assume that Joss comes over very gung-ho in the beginning with his actors, but after a while, the shiny wore off and he treated them like toys he didn't want to play with anymore but had to. The FF people should be glad they were cancelled before that happened. |
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Love Fidd ETS: I think it's interesting that VK thinks Spike bought the 'shot to the arm' Ats needed where as JM thinks he only ever seemed to get minimal attention. You wonder how JW kept his franchise going for as long as he did most of his cast seem really bitter about the whole experience!!!
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Interesting interview though. Like others have said, the actors all seem very disgruntled when it comes to the show and Joss. Maybe it's not so much Joss. Maybe it's those who took over in his absence. JW was off doing Firefly at the time. He just decided the story.
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Thanks for the interview!
Vincent also speaks out what we all have thought. So another actor of the AtS cast who wasn´t happy with the storyline.
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Look at DB. He got fat in Season 5 and had been gaining weight since Season 3. As soon as Ats ended, he became as thin and good looking as before. I don't know if that's down to drink, but it's down to something.
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