Post by pearl on Dec 1, 2006 19:51:16 GMT -5
Rachel Weisz (aka Gwen Havers) talks about her work on the RPG, the other Characters and the future of LOST:
The applause is starting to die down as Jay is adjusting his seating position.
"So ... let's see. Let me come up with a little anecdote: I was travelling from New York to LA lately with one of those red eyes. And no! Cillian Murphy was not stalking me to kill my dad. But I had an encounter with a lovely flight attendant called Betty."
Jay seemes to be lost in thoughts.
"Well, Betty was very nice and kind and I thought to myself: If we would have a plane crash now on a deserted pacific island, of which there are many between New York and LA, I would want her to survive it and serve me drinks by the beach. Then I turned on the TV the other night and hey! My dream came true! Even better! Rachel Weisz on Lost!" he yelled pointing towards the curtains as the band started to play.
Rachel walks out, waving and smiling at the audience. She stops to shake Jay's hand and give him a kiss on the cheek before proceeding to the chair by the desk.
Jay sits down to and as the applause ended again he said sighing:
"I wish I would meet a girl one day who would do it like the French."
Rachel sits and begins laughing at Jay's comment. "Well, I'm terribly sorry to have disappointed you. You see, I'm British. Did you not get that memo?"
"Oh it must be here somewhere!"
Jay begins to rumagge through the papers on his desk like a crazy professor. Then he stops and the papers slowly calm down as he fixes his hairs again.
"But ... you look gorgeous tonight!" he stated as if it would have just come to him.
"Oh, thank you very much," she replied. "It's a pleasure to be here. Hallo, Kevin!" She waves over at the band.
"We are talking German now?" Jay inquired looking suspectively.
"But you surely made his day as noone before recognized the geek over there!"
Leno gave his band member a cold smile with a crazy waving of his hand. Kevin meanwhile was close to getting red and certainly pleased.
"Come on, you have to give props to the band, Jay. Really," she insisted.
Jay screws his eyes and stands up makeing a quick bow down and sits instantly again.
"I am gonna scratch that from there paychecks!"
Rachel laughs. "Aw, you can't have a show without music. We actually do a lot of singing around the campfires on set between takes," she said. "We have a lot of musically gifted people in the cast."
"Yeah ... let's talk about your newest project: Lost!" he quickly changes subject.
"When you first hit the big screen alongside Keannu on >Chane Reaction< people finally started noticing and nowadays you are a carthorse for an entire TV show."
"A carthorse? Oh, that's flattering," she sighed in mock frustration. "I think there are many other people besides me pulling an equal amount of weight. It's a great ensemble drama, which is new for me. I haven't done much in the way of television, and I hadn't done any American shows, but I really fell in love with the script the first time I read it. I thought it was a very intirguing premise."
"Plus, after being chased by mummies and demons and such, the prospect of sitting on a Hawaiian beach for a while sounded rather nice."
"How does a Trolly Polly job sounds that intriguing? I mean besides getting free shots and having the upper hand on a plane. But you know without a plane ... kinda takes the fun away."
She laughs. "Well, y'know, that is a good point," she agrees. "Perhaps it was that very flattering Oceanic Airlines uniform. But really, I think it's the mysteries of the island, and the mysteries of all these people--who they were, where they came from--that keeps viewers coming back. The writers are particularly good at giving you just enough information to make you think that you know something, and then the next week comes and you have no idea what's happening."
"That's exactly what kills me with those shows. Besides having actors of them here and getting told that they cannot give me any insight. Are you also scared to get killed of the show?!"
"I'm terrified, yeah," she nods. "It's a good gig; I hope that it doesn't end soon. But I think we all sort of know that we're dispensable and we could go at any time. And tragic death just makes for good drama. Everyone wants a death scene for their Emmy reel," she says with a slight laugh.
"And the Emmy for the best death scene in a drama or music video goes to ..."
Jay looks back at Rachel.
"But you haven't been spared from awards so far anyway. And Lost is a big favorite for the upcoming awards season."
"I know, that's a great feeling. So many people work so hard on the show, it would be great for their efforts to be recognized," she said. "I don't think I'll be up for any awards, though, because I've never won anything apart from a rope-climbing competition in school. But I still have that green pencil that I won at age 10."
"Hold on to that you never know when it comes in handy to have a pencil ... especially when it's a camouflage one!"
Jay pretended to be serious, easy to look through.
"I worked very hard for that award, Jay," she chided. "And I'm actually sort of hoping that I don't get nominated because then I'd have the pressure of trying to find a dress, and I hate shopping. Just give it to Evie or Christina or Michelle; let them go shopping."
"Wow, I actually can't picture Michelle going shopping for anything but leather pants and metal whips. But combined with a Evy and Christina in underwear that makes a pretty adorable picture. After all you could go with that lovely outfit of tonights pretending you "just had a plane crash"!"
Jay makes big exclamation marks in the air.
"Well, I'm glad I could provide you with that mental image," she laughed. "Yeah, my island wardrobe is fairly similar to my real-life wardrobe. I tend to wear the same things over and over, because I just can't be bothered to go shopping."
"Same here ... I come her every day with the same dirty jogging suit looking like a bum and they do a great job in the wardrobe reinacting "the queer eye for the straight guy" in there to make me look like that after 5 hours.
"I thought that was them back there. Do you think Thom could come decorate my new flat?"
"Well I don't think your charisma is working on him but maybe ... I could ... do something for ya."
Jay sets himself in seductive poses.
She laughs. "You can have your people call my people. And then we'll check with my fiance, because he might have an opinion."
"I am sure Thom would like to check with your fiance ... we surely can arange something that will make "the Bachelor" look like catholic summerschool."
"Good. I'm glad to hear it," she smiled.
"Maybe I can play a small part in it ... but back to Lost. Your character is one of the connection nodes between some storylines. Right? I mean you must have met a lot of them before the accident."
She nods. "Yeah, as a flight attendant, Gwen did have brief encounters with several of the characters on their respective journeys. Not really knowing that she'd ever see them again, so hopefully she was nice to everyone," she explained.
"Has anyone of the flight guests ever asked you to take a snake on to see if you where the same person?"
Jay is looking for something in the top drawer of his desk as he asks.
Rachel puts a hand to her forehead and hangs her head. "Oh, I think I know where you're going with this," she groaned.
"Should have listened to you mother I guess. Well I couldn't possibly spare this of my audience."
He shows the picture to Rachel first so that noone else could see it.
"Evie warned me you might bring that up, after you harassed her about her bikini scene. For the record, that snake was a perfect gentleman," she says, stifling a laugh.
"Oh it was a he ..." Jay inquired looking at the picture again, "What would your fiancee say ..."
He shakes his head sighing.
"And I was not harassing her ... she wouldn't know a gentleman if he would slam a door against her head. As we can see on how she looks at this Sawyer guy."
Jay makes a slow attempt to show the picture to the audience. Everyone is bending forward to get a closer look to the yet unrevealed picture.
Rachel laughs and waves toward the audience. "Well, go ahead and show them. Don't keep them in suspense," she agreed. "And this photo was done for the cover of the very well-respected Esquire magazine, just so you all know."
"Oh you just had to tell that! Like J-Lo donates half her income of her movies to furr asylums. It's still not right." he smirks at rachel turning the picture around finally. The Audience starts to yell and applaude as a camera catches the pic on a big screen behind Jay.
Rachel shakes her head, embarrassed but amused. "I thought it was very tastefully done," she declared. "And afterward, my agent suddenly started returning my calls, so I must have done something right."
"You sure did ..." Jay smiled as he took down the picture.
"But I have to say that I like the Burberry campaign more. Although it still makes no sense to me how someone could possibly walk around checkered like a scottish plaid."
"It does feel like a bit like wearing a picnic table, doesn't it?" she agreed. "But I was very honored to be asked to do the campaign, and to have the chance to work with Ioan Gruffudd who's a really amazing actor. And he has the most amazing cheekbones in Britain. Seriously."
"Girls look for beauty in so many differnet places. My wife always use to say that I have sexy gums."
He instantly shows his teeth and gums in full display.
"But talking about love interests ... yeah, quite a stretch here." he smiles.
"What's going on there on mystery island. We've heard bout ... noone so far." he played it dumb.
"That is a very impressive set of gums, I do agree," she quipped.
"Thanks!"
"Well, it's early days yet. Correct me if I'm wrong, I think the current episode we're on Day 3. So people are waiting on rescue, worrying about food and water, not really thinking about other things. But that doesn't mean we can't enjoy the scenery," she says with a sly smile.
"A nice way of saying that Cuty!" he smiles charming.
"You know if I would be on that island only thing i could think about would be populating the island to make sure that there are still people who can be rescued in ... 50 years. And you, people die off early so you have to compensate that too."
"It's good to have priorities, sure," she nodded. "Obviously Jack, the doctor, is sort of the emotional center. We all tend to revolve around him. So he's got Kate and his ex-wife Sarah to deal with. And I've got what I think Christina's character referred to as my 'smorgasbord of studly men' so I really can't complain."
Jay laughed.
"Yeah, Matthew was complaining about those girls gathering around his tent when he was on my show earlier. So but with which >smorgasbord< would Gwen like to cross her genes with then? Something planned you are allowed to tell without being assasinated during your morning pedicure?"
She laughs. "Oh, no, don't put me on the spot like that, Jay!" she cried in protest. "They're all lovely. They really are. William who plays Ethan is very sweet, Sarsgaard and Whitford are both very witty, and who wouldn't like to look at Naveen all day? I do have a love-hate relationship with Ben Browder, though, who plays Jake.
"On one hand, I love doing scenes with him. But on the other, he always, always makes me laugh. And they might need 10 or 12 takes for me to get it right. He always makes me break."
"That's why Farscape was cancelled."
"Is that why? He always told me it was the puppets' fault," she said. "The puppets got uppity."
"Maybe we should leave it to the audience?" she suggested, looking out at everyone. "Maybe they should choose who Gwen ends up with, if anyone."
"Well that thing with the puppets didn't do any harm to the Muppet Show so far ... but why don't we ask the audience about that."
On the screen behind Jay you see a question displayed now:
"Who should hook up with Rachel on Lost." with the three options underneath:
Ben Browder, Naveen Andrews and "Jayman the Leno"
"Your votes please!" he instructs the audience. People start to hit buttons on their little controls.
Rachel turns to look at the screen. "Oh, you're going to get me into trouble," she muttered. "I think I'm a winner with any of those options, actually. Because I do share your admiration for old cars. You wife might have a problem with it, though."
The bars on the screen move slowly but steadily with showing a clear tendence toward Ben Browder. Then Jay rumagges something under his desk and suddenly the results are solved.
"Jayman the Leno wins with 99% of the votes. And vor Mister one percent there ... we're gonna talk about that later!" he threatened a imaginary guy in the audience then faces Rachel.
"May I show you the way behind the stage?" he smiles.
She laughs. "I can't demand a recount, since this is your show, right?"
"This is the United States hun ... we don't do recounts!"
"Sorry, sorry, me and my British ignorance," she said apologetically. "Well, I will talk to Damon and see what we can do."
"Alrighty ... do that! Ladies and Gentleman this was Rachel Weisz!"
He looked back at Rachel.
"You ignored my first offer to show you the backstage area now you have to go there on your own."
"I think I can handle it," she assured him. "Thank you so much! It's been fun!" She waves and smiles at the audience again.
The applause is starting to die down as Jay is adjusting his seating position.
"So ... let's see. Let me come up with a little anecdote: I was travelling from New York to LA lately with one of those red eyes. And no! Cillian Murphy was not stalking me to kill my dad. But I had an encounter with a lovely flight attendant called Betty."
Jay seemes to be lost in thoughts.
"Well, Betty was very nice and kind and I thought to myself: If we would have a plane crash now on a deserted pacific island, of which there are many between New York and LA, I would want her to survive it and serve me drinks by the beach. Then I turned on the TV the other night and hey! My dream came true! Even better! Rachel Weisz on Lost!" he yelled pointing towards the curtains as the band started to play.
Rachel walks out, waving and smiling at the audience. She stops to shake Jay's hand and give him a kiss on the cheek before proceeding to the chair by the desk.
Jay sits down to and as the applause ended again he said sighing:
"I wish I would meet a girl one day who would do it like the French."
Rachel sits and begins laughing at Jay's comment. "Well, I'm terribly sorry to have disappointed you. You see, I'm British. Did you not get that memo?"
"Oh it must be here somewhere!"
Jay begins to rumagge through the papers on his desk like a crazy professor. Then he stops and the papers slowly calm down as he fixes his hairs again.
"But ... you look gorgeous tonight!" he stated as if it would have just come to him.
"Oh, thank you very much," she replied. "It's a pleasure to be here. Hallo, Kevin!" She waves over at the band.
"We are talking German now?" Jay inquired looking suspectively.
"But you surely made his day as noone before recognized the geek over there!"
Leno gave his band member a cold smile with a crazy waving of his hand. Kevin meanwhile was close to getting red and certainly pleased.
"Come on, you have to give props to the band, Jay. Really," she insisted.
Jay screws his eyes and stands up makeing a quick bow down and sits instantly again.
"I am gonna scratch that from there paychecks!"
Rachel laughs. "Aw, you can't have a show without music. We actually do a lot of singing around the campfires on set between takes," she said. "We have a lot of musically gifted people in the cast."
"Yeah ... let's talk about your newest project: Lost!" he quickly changes subject.
"When you first hit the big screen alongside Keannu on >Chane Reaction< people finally started noticing and nowadays you are a carthorse for an entire TV show."
"A carthorse? Oh, that's flattering," she sighed in mock frustration. "I think there are many other people besides me pulling an equal amount of weight. It's a great ensemble drama, which is new for me. I haven't done much in the way of television, and I hadn't done any American shows, but I really fell in love with the script the first time I read it. I thought it was a very intirguing premise."
"Plus, after being chased by mummies and demons and such, the prospect of sitting on a Hawaiian beach for a while sounded rather nice."
"How does a Trolly Polly job sounds that intriguing? I mean besides getting free shots and having the upper hand on a plane. But you know without a plane ... kinda takes the fun away."
She laughs. "Well, y'know, that is a good point," she agrees. "Perhaps it was that very flattering Oceanic Airlines uniform. But really, I think it's the mysteries of the island, and the mysteries of all these people--who they were, where they came from--that keeps viewers coming back. The writers are particularly good at giving you just enough information to make you think that you know something, and then the next week comes and you have no idea what's happening."
"That's exactly what kills me with those shows. Besides having actors of them here and getting told that they cannot give me any insight. Are you also scared to get killed of the show?!"
"I'm terrified, yeah," she nods. "It's a good gig; I hope that it doesn't end soon. But I think we all sort of know that we're dispensable and we could go at any time. And tragic death just makes for good drama. Everyone wants a death scene for their Emmy reel," she says with a slight laugh.
"And the Emmy for the best death scene in a drama or music video goes to ..."
Jay looks back at Rachel.
"But you haven't been spared from awards so far anyway. And Lost is a big favorite for the upcoming awards season."
"I know, that's a great feeling. So many people work so hard on the show, it would be great for their efforts to be recognized," she said. "I don't think I'll be up for any awards, though, because I've never won anything apart from a rope-climbing competition in school. But I still have that green pencil that I won at age 10."
"Hold on to that you never know when it comes in handy to have a pencil ... especially when it's a camouflage one!"
Jay pretended to be serious, easy to look through.
"I worked very hard for that award, Jay," she chided. "And I'm actually sort of hoping that I don't get nominated because then I'd have the pressure of trying to find a dress, and I hate shopping. Just give it to Evie or Christina or Michelle; let them go shopping."
"Wow, I actually can't picture Michelle going shopping for anything but leather pants and metal whips. But combined with a Evy and Christina in underwear that makes a pretty adorable picture. After all you could go with that lovely outfit of tonights pretending you "just had a plane crash"!"
Jay makes big exclamation marks in the air.
"Well, I'm glad I could provide you with that mental image," she laughed. "Yeah, my island wardrobe is fairly similar to my real-life wardrobe. I tend to wear the same things over and over, because I just can't be bothered to go shopping."
"Same here ... I come her every day with the same dirty jogging suit looking like a bum and they do a great job in the wardrobe reinacting "the queer eye for the straight guy" in there to make me look like that after 5 hours.
"I thought that was them back there. Do you think Thom could come decorate my new flat?"
"Well I don't think your charisma is working on him but maybe ... I could ... do something for ya."
Jay sets himself in seductive poses.
She laughs. "You can have your people call my people. And then we'll check with my fiance, because he might have an opinion."
"I am sure Thom would like to check with your fiance ... we surely can arange something that will make "the Bachelor" look like catholic summerschool."
"Good. I'm glad to hear it," she smiled.
"Maybe I can play a small part in it ... but back to Lost. Your character is one of the connection nodes between some storylines. Right? I mean you must have met a lot of them before the accident."
She nods. "Yeah, as a flight attendant, Gwen did have brief encounters with several of the characters on their respective journeys. Not really knowing that she'd ever see them again, so hopefully she was nice to everyone," she explained.
"Has anyone of the flight guests ever asked you to take a snake on to see if you where the same person?"
Jay is looking for something in the top drawer of his desk as he asks.
Rachel puts a hand to her forehead and hangs her head. "Oh, I think I know where you're going with this," she groaned.
"Should have listened to you mother I guess. Well I couldn't possibly spare this of my audience."
He shows the picture to Rachel first so that noone else could see it.
"Evie warned me you might bring that up, after you harassed her about her bikini scene. For the record, that snake was a perfect gentleman," she says, stifling a laugh.
"Oh it was a he ..." Jay inquired looking at the picture again, "What would your fiancee say ..."
He shakes his head sighing.
"And I was not harassing her ... she wouldn't know a gentleman if he would slam a door against her head. As we can see on how she looks at this Sawyer guy."
Jay makes a slow attempt to show the picture to the audience. Everyone is bending forward to get a closer look to the yet unrevealed picture.
Rachel laughs and waves toward the audience. "Well, go ahead and show them. Don't keep them in suspense," she agreed. "And this photo was done for the cover of the very well-respected Esquire magazine, just so you all know."
"Oh you just had to tell that! Like J-Lo donates half her income of her movies to furr asylums. It's still not right." he smirks at rachel turning the picture around finally. The Audience starts to yell and applaude as a camera catches the pic on a big screen behind Jay.
Rachel shakes her head, embarrassed but amused. "I thought it was very tastefully done," she declared. "And afterward, my agent suddenly started returning my calls, so I must have done something right."
"You sure did ..." Jay smiled as he took down the picture.
"But I have to say that I like the Burberry campaign more. Although it still makes no sense to me how someone could possibly walk around checkered like a scottish plaid."
"It does feel like a bit like wearing a picnic table, doesn't it?" she agreed. "But I was very honored to be asked to do the campaign, and to have the chance to work with Ioan Gruffudd who's a really amazing actor. And he has the most amazing cheekbones in Britain. Seriously."
"Girls look for beauty in so many differnet places. My wife always use to say that I have sexy gums."
He instantly shows his teeth and gums in full display.
"But talking about love interests ... yeah, quite a stretch here." he smiles.
"What's going on there on mystery island. We've heard bout ... noone so far." he played it dumb.
"That is a very impressive set of gums, I do agree," she quipped.
"Thanks!"
"Well, it's early days yet. Correct me if I'm wrong, I think the current episode we're on Day 3. So people are waiting on rescue, worrying about food and water, not really thinking about other things. But that doesn't mean we can't enjoy the scenery," she says with a sly smile.
"A nice way of saying that Cuty!" he smiles charming.
"You know if I would be on that island only thing i could think about would be populating the island to make sure that there are still people who can be rescued in ... 50 years. And you, people die off early so you have to compensate that too."
"It's good to have priorities, sure," she nodded. "Obviously Jack, the doctor, is sort of the emotional center. We all tend to revolve around him. So he's got Kate and his ex-wife Sarah to deal with. And I've got what I think Christina's character referred to as my 'smorgasbord of studly men' so I really can't complain."
Jay laughed.
"Yeah, Matthew was complaining about those girls gathering around his tent when he was on my show earlier. So but with which >smorgasbord< would Gwen like to cross her genes with then? Something planned you are allowed to tell without being assasinated during your morning pedicure?"
She laughs. "Oh, no, don't put me on the spot like that, Jay!" she cried in protest. "They're all lovely. They really are. William who plays Ethan is very sweet, Sarsgaard and Whitford are both very witty, and who wouldn't like to look at Naveen all day? I do have a love-hate relationship with Ben Browder, though, who plays Jake.
"On one hand, I love doing scenes with him. But on the other, he always, always makes me laugh. And they might need 10 or 12 takes for me to get it right. He always makes me break."
"That's why Farscape was cancelled."
"Is that why? He always told me it was the puppets' fault," she said. "The puppets got uppity."
"Maybe we should leave it to the audience?" she suggested, looking out at everyone. "Maybe they should choose who Gwen ends up with, if anyone."
"Well that thing with the puppets didn't do any harm to the Muppet Show so far ... but why don't we ask the audience about that."
On the screen behind Jay you see a question displayed now:
"Who should hook up with Rachel on Lost." with the three options underneath:
Ben Browder, Naveen Andrews and "Jayman the Leno"
"Your votes please!" he instructs the audience. People start to hit buttons on their little controls.
Rachel turns to look at the screen. "Oh, you're going to get me into trouble," she muttered. "I think I'm a winner with any of those options, actually. Because I do share your admiration for old cars. You wife might have a problem with it, though."
The bars on the screen move slowly but steadily with showing a clear tendence toward Ben Browder. Then Jay rumagges something under his desk and suddenly the results are solved.
"Jayman the Leno wins with 99% of the votes. And vor Mister one percent there ... we're gonna talk about that later!" he threatened a imaginary guy in the audience then faces Rachel.
"May I show you the way behind the stage?" he smiles.
She laughs. "I can't demand a recount, since this is your show, right?"
"This is the United States hun ... we don't do recounts!"
"Sorry, sorry, me and my British ignorance," she said apologetically. "Well, I will talk to Damon and see what we can do."
"Alrighty ... do that! Ladies and Gentleman this was Rachel Weisz!"
He looked back at Rachel.
"You ignored my first offer to show you the backstage area now you have to go there on your own."
"I think I can handle it," she assured him. "Thank you so much! It's been fun!" She waves and smiles at the audience again.
