KAVAN SMITH, ROBERT PICARDO, CHUCK CAMPBELL, STEVE BACIC
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KAVAN SMITH, ROBERT PICARDO, CHUCK CAMPBELL, STEVE BACIC
All came on stage to much applause. I haven’t seen Kavan Smith and Chuck Campbell before so another treat for me with new guests.
Chuck began to talk about his latest project, he’s doing a Saturday Night Movie for Syfy, ‘The Abominable Snowman’. His lines mainly consisted of saying “get back!” He said it would make a good drinking game to down a shot every time he utters that line in the movie! To top it all he never saw the Abominable Snowman!
Q. What was your best RDA moment?
A. Chuck – he called Chuck ‘Chad’!
Robert Picardo joined in at this point saying that he called Chuck ‘Chet’, he just couldn’t remember his name. Wolsey just kept saying “Hello you!” He was glad they allowed ad-libbing in Stargate!
Robert said he was on the show ‘Gilmore Girls’ and played the ‘mother’
“I’m wearing my thong now.” He said with a straight face, at this Kavan and Chuck moved their seats away from him!
Q. To Kavan – What was it like working on Eureka
A. Lots of fun, he loved playing the ‘sinister Andy’ and playing ‘himself’ lots of times as Andy clones.
Q. What would you have liked to do more with your characters?
A. Kavan – He felt Lorne should have had more screen time, felt there was much to develop in the character. “Now he works for a Carnival juggling chain saws!”
Robert joins in adding, “Richard Wolsey is now a spokesman for Preparation H”!
Chuck – He put on a sad face and said “Chuck, kept turning up at Bridge Studios, he didn’t know it was all over.”
Q. Were any of you ever involved in set disasters, where you broke stuff?
A. Chuck – as he exited off the Atlantis set after a scene he bumped into one of the huge pillars off to the side of the set. It was not secured at the top and it began to sway, it almost crushed the control room! Needless to say that was fixed afterwards!
Robert – Described a ‘wardrobe disaster’ where David Hewlett changed his uniform ‘Canadian flag’ sleeve patch for an American one as a joke. It cost $150,000 to re-shoot the scene!
Kavan chuckled at this, “he’s an idiot!” He said jokingly.
Q. The person asking this question said that the way they were sitting on stage looked like a police lineup. He asked what crime would they think their character would commit.
A. Kavan – A crime of passion!
Robert P – Write about his exploits on a government website.
Chuck – Hotwire cars!
Q. To Kavan – If SGA continued how would have Lorne developed?
A. Establish character more, would tease Hewlett and McGillion more. Would have liked a sexual romance (guy/girl)!
The next person asking a question of Kavan was asking if Lorne would have been made ‘gay’ in “Season Sex” Of course this slip of the tongue was pounced on.
“Stargate Penis – New series” was the reply.(Didn’t note down who said it!)
Q. If you could work with someone who would it be?
A. Chuck – A monkey that can skate and play basketball.
Kavan – Everyone!
Robert – “Chuck’s fascination with monkeys could bring a new virus into the human population!”
Q. If you could pick a love interest for you characters in the show, who would it be?
A. Steve gives a hangdog expression – I wasn’t in the show.
Chuck – “Most of you don’t know this, I was banging Weir the whole time!”
“She didn’t feel a thing!” someone replied (didn’t make note of who on the panel)
Q. To Steve – What was the difference with working on the set and with the casts of Andromeda and SG-1?
A. “I danced a lot more on Andromeda!” Chris Judge did too! He liked dancing with Lexa!
Q. What is your favourite part of working outside the Stargate franchise?
A. Chuck – “Flies” This was a reference to a story he told at the Celebrity Cabaret the night before. It was a job he did as a student, planting trees in a remote part of BC. No one told him about the flies. He said you could hear them coming, all the other guys had protection, he was set upon by a swarm of them and he said they don’t sting, they bite!!!
Kavan – Deputy Andy.
Robert – Seven years on ‘Voyager’.
Q. For Kavan – ‘Escape From Mars’, Kavan broke in with an audible groan on hearing this. The guy continued, “When you look at script do you look for bad accents and then do bad ones?” There were boos from the crowd, Kavan looked around and shouted…”Call security!” All good natured though.
Q. To Robert – What was it like working on ‘Supernatural’ as a Leperchun?
A. He grinned, “I got to beat the $hit out of Jarred, and I thought I made a pretty good ‘Fairy’!”
He added that Jared and Jensen are gentlemen and great to work with.
Q. To Robert – On Voyager did you enjoy the Doctor’s singing parts?
A. Robert said he actually suggested it, so yes!
Q. There are so many Stargate actors on ‘Santuary’?
A. Due to so many actors who appear in both living in Vancouver.
Q. To Robert – What was it like working on Voyager with Jennifer Lien?
A. It was wonderful, he was sorry to see her go.
Q. ‘Primeval’ with Amanda Tapping directing are any of you on it?
A. Stargate actors will turn up, Chuck hopes he can land a part.
Q. For Robert – Dr Murray on ‘Castle’, will he be coming back?
A. He doesn’t know.
Robert Picardo ended the panel with happily saying that he was glad that other young actors sat with him.
All came on stage to much applause. I haven’t seen Kavan Smith and Chuck Campbell before so another treat for me with new guests.
Chuck began to talk about his latest project, he’s doing a Saturday Night Movie for Syfy, ‘The Abominable Snowman’. His lines mainly consisted of saying “get back!” He said it would make a good drinking game to down a shot every time he utters that line in the movie! To top it all he never saw the Abominable Snowman!
Q. What was your best RDA moment?
A. Chuck – he called Chuck ‘Chad’!
Robert Picardo joined in at this point saying that he called Chuck ‘Chet’, he just couldn’t remember his name. Wolsey just kept saying “Hello you!” He was glad they allowed ad-libbing in Stargate!
Robert said he was on the show ‘Gilmore Girls’ and played the ‘mother’
“I’m wearing my thong now.” He said with a straight face, at this Kavan and Chuck moved their seats away from him!
Q. To Kavan – What was it like working on Eureka
A. Lots of fun, he loved playing the ‘sinister Andy’ and playing ‘himself’ lots of times as Andy clones.
Q. What would you have liked to do more with your characters?
A. Kavan – He felt Lorne should have had more screen time, felt there was much to develop in the character. “Now he works for a Carnival juggling chain saws!”
Robert joins in adding, “Richard Wolsey is now a spokesman for Preparation H”!
Chuck – He put on a sad face and said “Chuck, kept turning up at Bridge Studios, he didn’t know it was all over.”
Q. Were any of you ever involved in set disasters, where you broke stuff?
A. Chuck – as he exited off the Atlantis set after a scene he bumped into one of the huge pillars off to the side of the set. It was not secured at the top and it began to sway, it almost crushed the control room! Needless to say that was fixed afterwards!
Robert – Described a ‘wardrobe disaster’ where David Hewlett changed his uniform ‘Canadian flag’ sleeve patch for an American one as a joke. It cost $150,000 to re-shoot the scene!
Kavan chuckled at this, “he’s an idiot!” He said jokingly.
Q. The person asking this question said that the way they were sitting on stage looked like a police lineup. He asked what crime would they think their character would commit.
A. Kavan – A crime of passion!
Robert P – Write about his exploits on a government website.
Chuck – Hotwire cars!
Q. To Kavan – If SGA continued how would have Lorne developed?
A. Establish character more, would tease Hewlett and McGillion more. Would have liked a sexual romance (guy/girl)!
The next person asking a question of Kavan was asking if Lorne would have been made ‘gay’ in “Season Sex” Of course this slip of the tongue was pounced on.
“Stargate Penis – New series” was the reply.(Didn’t note down who said it!)
Q. If you could work with someone who would it be?
A. Chuck – A monkey that can skate and play basketball.
Kavan – Everyone!
Robert – “Chuck’s fascination with monkeys could bring a new virus into the human population!”
Q. If you could pick a love interest for you characters in the show, who would it be?
A. Steve gives a hangdog expression – I wasn’t in the show.
Chuck – “Most of you don’t know this, I was banging Weir the whole time!”
“She didn’t feel a thing!” someone replied (didn’t make note of who on the panel)
Q. To Steve – What was the difference with working on the set and with the casts of Andromeda and SG-1?
A. “I danced a lot more on Andromeda!” Chris Judge did too! He liked dancing with Lexa!
Q. What is your favourite part of working outside the Stargate franchise?
A. Chuck – “Flies” This was a reference to a story he told at the Celebrity Cabaret the night before. It was a job he did as a student, planting trees in a remote part of BC. No one told him about the flies. He said you could hear them coming, all the other guys had protection, he was set upon by a swarm of them and he said they don’t sting, they bite!!!
Kavan – Deputy Andy.
Robert – Seven years on ‘Voyager’.
Q. For Kavan – ‘Escape From Mars’, Kavan broke in with an audible groan on hearing this. The guy continued, “When you look at script do you look for bad accents and then do bad ones?” There were boos from the crowd, Kavan looked around and shouted…”Call security!” All good natured though.
Q. To Robert – What was it like working on ‘Supernatural’ as a Leperchun?
A. He grinned, “I got to beat the $hit out of Jarred, and I thought I made a pretty good ‘Fairy’!”
He added that Jared and Jensen are gentlemen and great to work with.
Q. To Robert – On Voyager did you enjoy the Doctor’s singing parts?
A. Robert said he actually suggested it, so yes!
Q. There are so many Stargate actors on ‘Santuary’?
A. Due to so many actors who appear in both living in Vancouver.
Q. To Robert – What was it like working on Voyager with Jennifer Lien?
A. It was wonderful, he was sorry to see her go.
Q. ‘Primeval’ with Amanda Tapping directing are any of you on it?
A. Stargate actors will turn up, Chuck hopes he can land a part.
Q. For Robert – Dr Murray on ‘Castle’, will he be coming back?
A. He doesn’t know.
Robert Picardo ended the panel with happily saying that he was glad that other young actors sat with him.
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