Two more CC interviews
This is a Ben, Eric, Jensen interview.
SPOILERS!
whedonpolis.com
Excerpt:
JA: (chuckles) It is, yes. When Jared and I first got cast for this show, we sat down and had a talk. He was coming out of, like, 5 seasons on Gilmore Girls,” where he’d just pop in for a day or two, do his bit and then have the rest of the week to go party with his buddies. I was coming off Smallville, and I know Tom (Welling), I’m good friends with him, and I knew how much he worked in the first few seasons before they started surrounding him with people to give him some time off, but he’d really had to establish who this guy was in the first two seasons. It was a lot of work for that guy! I did Dark Angel where the same thing happened with Jessica Alba, who was also working out of her mind, so I had some grasp on what to expect, but I thought at least, by now, we’d have some help! (laughs all around) And we are getting some help, which leads me to that, so I look forward to having someone to look at, because God knows I’m sick of looking at Jared! (laughs) And also someone to come in and share the workload a little bit, cos after 22 episodes and 9 months of doing that all day, every day, you don’t wanna burn out. You don’t wanna be like, “Man, I’m sick of this!” because it’s a great job, it’s a great gig, and I love playing this role, and I love this show, and I don’t wanna ever get tired of it, and I hope it helps the show in mixing things up a little bit, where not only the actors are getting refreshed and doing something new every day, but the audience is also getting something new and refreshing while still staying very true to what the show is and what it always was and will continue to be.
Oh yes Jensen, and we love you for loving what you do.
and Eric:
EK: Same amount as usual. It’s three stand-alones in a row, with a big mythology episode. I think we have a simpler mythology on S3; my own personal backseat driving of the first three seasons, or the hindsight is a better word of the first three seasons is, S1, we had a great mythology, a two-word mythology: “FIND DAD.” It was simple, it was emotional, it was clean, and the stand-alones were sort of hit and miss. S2, I’m very proud of our stand-alones; they were unique, and they were structurally interesting, and Ben came to the table, and we started doing, like, the Hollywood episode, and we sort of found our legs. I thought—the S2 mythology I wasn’t happy with; it was a little too dense and confusing, you needed a flow chart to understand it, like, “Here are all the psychic children, and here’s the Yellow-Eyed Demon”, and so we’re trying to learn from that, and we’re trying to have the same intensity we got from the stand-alones in S2 with a simple, pure, emotional mythology from S1 and hopefully that will be S3, and we’re hoping it’ll be the best season yet.
*smishes him*
Then the other one, here
SPOILERS!
whedonpolis.com
Excerpt:
JA: (chuckles) It is, yes. When Jared and I first got cast for this show, we sat down and had a talk. He was coming out of, like, 5 seasons on Gilmore Girls,” where he’d just pop in for a day or two, do his bit and then have the rest of the week to go party with his buddies. I was coming off Smallville, and I know Tom (Welling), I’m good friends with him, and I knew how much he worked in the first few seasons before they started surrounding him with people to give him some time off, but he’d really had to establish who this guy was in the first two seasons. It was a lot of work for that guy! I did Dark Angel where the same thing happened with Jessica Alba, who was also working out of her mind, so I had some grasp on what to expect, but I thought at least, by now, we’d have some help! (laughs all around) And we are getting some help, which leads me to that, so I look forward to having someone to look at, because God knows I’m sick of looking at Jared! (laughs) And also someone to come in and share the workload a little bit, cos after 22 episodes and 9 months of doing that all day, every day, you don’t wanna burn out. You don’t wanna be like, “Man, I’m sick of this!” because it’s a great job, it’s a great gig, and I love playing this role, and I love this show, and I don’t wanna ever get tired of it, and I hope it helps the show in mixing things up a little bit, where not only the actors are getting refreshed and doing something new every day, but the audience is also getting something new and refreshing while still staying very true to what the show is and what it always was and will continue to be.
Oh yes Jensen, and we love you for loving what you do.
and Eric:
EK: Same amount as usual. It’s three stand-alones in a row, with a big mythology episode. I think we have a simpler mythology on S3; my own personal backseat driving of the first three seasons, or the hindsight is a better word of the first three seasons is, S1, we had a great mythology, a two-word mythology: “FIND DAD.” It was simple, it was emotional, it was clean, and the stand-alones were sort of hit and miss. S2, I’m very proud of our stand-alones; they were unique, and they were structurally interesting, and Ben came to the table, and we started doing, like, the Hollywood episode, and we sort of found our legs. I thought—the S2 mythology I wasn’t happy with; it was a little too dense and confusing, you needed a flow chart to understand it, like, “Here are all the psychic children, and here’s the Yellow-Eyed Demon”, and so we’re trying to learn from that, and we’re trying to have the same intensity we got from the stand-alones in S2 with a simple, pure, emotional mythology from S1 and hopefully that will be S3, and we’re hoping it’ll be the best season yet.
*smishes him*
Then the other one, here
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