Dr Jennifer Keller/ Jewel Staite Appreciation/Discussion

[Rachel500]

Just stopping by to say we're now open for author and artist sign-ups for the Women of the Gate Ficathon and Art Challenge 2011.

There are some great Jennifer prompts and there are specific art prompts this time too.

Hope you'll join in! First time authors/artists welcome!

Here's the Sign-Up Post

[Jper]

Jewel Staite: Stargate stunts, my favorite superpower and more

http://blastr.com/2010/11/jewel-stai...r-and-more.php



If you like Jewel Staite as Kaylee from Firefly and Serenity and Dr. Jennifer Keller from Stargate: Atlantis, you'll love the REAL Jewel Staite! That's why we're so pleased she's agreed to join us regularly here at Blastr to answer your questions and share whatever happens to be on her mind.

Bonjour, dear Reader.

Yes, I know, it's been longer than a month. But I'm still on Parisian time! My mind is muddled with excess, having just lived on copious amounts of champagne and cheese, meats stewed in lusciously decadent sauce, chocolate soufflés and salted caramels, and more champagne to wash it all down. The fact that I'm still breathing is impressive after the whirlwind trip I just had. Also impressive? I can still do up my pants. While lying down.

We started off in Ghent, Belgium, for FACTS, an annual pop-culture extravaganza where we bumped into some old friends (the hilarious Robert Picardo being one—j'adore!) and made some new ones (the lovely Kristanna Loken, and Pinhead himself, Doug Bradley, who is a lot better-looking than he is in that movie). We bonded like all actors do at these things and ended up capping the weekend off at an amazing restaurant on the river called Belga Queen, where we gorged ourselves on sea bass and shrimp croquettes and drank copious amounts of red wine. My apologies to the wait staff, who weren't having as good of a time as we were. And to Joos the waiter in particular, who my husband kept trying to hug. I told you to cut him off, Joos.

Next stop was Paris for some R&R, which turned into more gorging and feasting. Luckily Paris is great for strolling, and we walked for hours every day, exploring each arrondissement for the perfect café to sit and watch the world go by. Man, do you French people have this whole living well thing down! No one bats an eye at you for drinking champagne in the middle of the afternoon! If anything, they encourage it, with a little side of duck confit! (My Pilates instructor is crying right now at the last year of work I've totally destroyed.) I won't bore you with our culinary pleasures, but I will say that there was many a wine-fueled conversation on how to get our cocker spaniel shipped over to the City of Light so we never had to leave. Nothing's cuter than a cocker spaniel in a beret! When you're drunk!

But leave we did, for one of my favorite places in the world, London! Hallowhedon was happening that weekend, an all-things-Joss Halloween party, and I was fortunate enough to be invited. Once again, we ran into some old friends (Alan Tudyk, one of my very favorite people) and made some new ones (the beautiful Stephanie Romanov, the impossibly nice Anthony Stewart Head, and the devil himself, Robin Sachs, who made me laugh until I cried on an hourly basis). Every day was filled with Joss-themed events and parties, including a trivia game with crazy-hard questions even some of the biggest fans there couldn't answer. "What's on the poster in Badger's office?" Seriously?? That's like asking, "How many people has Inara slept with?" Um, insurmountable much??

Suffice to say, we had a fabulous time. Thank you to all who made the trip better than I could have ever imagined. My liver, however, hates your guts.

Okay, on to your questions, since you've been so patient:

#1: Dear Kaylee: Does it annoy you when people use your characters' names to address you?

First off, adorable! And nope, doesn't bother me at all. My favorite nickname, however, is Meryl Streep

#2: What's the one question you've always wished someone would ask, but no one ever has ... and how would you answer it?

Question: "Hey Jewel! Any chance you could star in this hit show that's guaranteed to run for the next seven years?" Answer: "Is the Pope Catholic??"

#3: Did you do your own stunts as Elia the Wraith in Stargate: Atlantis?

Some, but not all. My first day of work on that show was the scene where Sheppard and I go toe-to-toe in the woods. We had to do this wrestling bit where I was on top of him (get your mind outta the gutter) and he's basically trying his best to kill me. On one of the last takes, my face somehow connected with his fist, and at the end of the day when they took the prosthetics off, I had a wicked little cut and a bruise under my eye. The next morning I was due to fly out to LA for a publicity photo shoot for Serenity, which was just about to come out. So for the entire shoot, I had a little black eye, courtesy of Joe Flanigan. I never told him about it, since he obviously isn't in the habit of punching girls in the face on purpose. But I never forgot it, either. Watch your back, Flani. Watch your back.

#4: Do you ever imagine yourself with a superpower?

Doesn't everybody? Mine would be the power to heal, which isn't all that funny or interesting. But I wouldn't go around telling everybody about it. Just the people I liked. My husband has this bizarre fantasy of having the power to produce bacon out of his pockets. Which may heal the world in itself, really. Plus, how cool would it be to be able to tell people I was married to Bacon Boy?

#5: What would be your dream role? Steel Magnolias? Sigourney Weaver kick ass? Sigourney Weaver goes Steel Magnolias then kicks ass?

Hmm. How many times do you think that guy's seen Alien? But to answer, I have a few, usually involving Johnny Depp in some capacity. Oh wait--you said dream ROLES!

Alright, enough outta me. Thanks for your questions, once again! Send them my way at www.twitter.com/jewelstaite for the next blog installment!

Until then, adieu.

XO
J




Source link. Retrieved on November 16, 2010

[Jper]

Also, one of Jewel's new projects:

EXCLUSIVE - Debbie Macomber's Call Me Mrs. Miracle - Hallmark Channel - On Location

Call Me Mrs. Miracle airs 11/27 8pm on Hallmark.

[Jper]

Jewel also has a new twitter pic, but I can't download/see the full format.

[ReplicatedJedi]

Hi everyone! this is the first time i have been on this thread as a member.
I was looking forward to watching Call Me Mrs. Miracle, but i have AT&T U-verse and I found out that they dropped Hallmark and its movie channel due to a carriage dispute.

[dragongirl]

Look at the Sig mrscopterdoc made

[Jper]

Hi everyone! this is the first time i have been on this thread as a member.
I was looking forward to watching Call Me Mrs. Miracle, but i have AT&T U-verse and I found out that they dropped Hallmark and its movie channel due to a carriage dispute.

Welcome! Hi!

Look at the Sig mrscopterdoc made

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i1...ons/purple.jpg

Very very nice!

[Krissie678]

Hi everyone! this is the first time i have been on this thread as a member.
I was looking forward to watching Call Me Mrs. Miracle, but i have AT&T U-verse and I found out that they dropped Hallmark and its movie channel due to a carriage dispute.

I have AT&T U-verse too. Maybe Hallmark will put it up on their website.

[ReplicatedJedi]

I have AT&T U-verse too. Maybe Hallmark will put it up on their website.

Hopefully.

[Everlovin]

Just got done watching "Call me Mrs Miracle", cute movie! Jewel was beautiful as always!

[bailey1ak]

Merry Christmas everyone. Thought I'd share a little creation I worked on for a different thread.

[Dr Lee]

[Perv Mode] ON

now that's a present i'd like to unwrap

[Perv Mode] OFF

[Rachel500]

I'm pleased to announce a new Women of the Gate LJ community initiative, our 11 in 11 Challenge!

Can you commit to posting 11 posts in 11 months about your favourite female Stargate characters? The posts can be 11 posts of fanfic, art (icons, banners, wallpapers, recommendations for your favourite characters (art, fic, vids), meta about your favourite characters or a combination of these different categories! You can post on any female character or characters, whether regular, recurring, minor or background, or obviously just on Jennifer!

Just 11 posts in 11 months. That's one a month. Or 11 posts in February or 11 posts in December. The timeline is up to you!

Sign up by commenting over at LJ here: Women of the Gate 11 in 11 Challenge Sign-Up

EDIT: And for those that might have missed it, the link to the 2011 Ficathon and Art Challenge Master List

[mrscopterdoc]

If anyone is interested I have some Jewel sigs available for snurching here.

[aearduin]

So this could have been discussed earlier in this thread but I have bronchitis and quite frankly not enough energy to scan all 258 pages so I'm just asking - has anyone ever found anything about Jennifer's age during the series? I've been doing serches and all anyone seems to know is she graduated highschool at 15 and undergrad at 18 which doesn't really tell me how old she is in the series. I have a long term fanfic I've been working on and her age was coming into play which made me suddenly realize I had no idea how old she actually is. Any help would be appreciated