 PCM's
Cassandra had the opportunity to participate in a conference
call with "Alice" stars Caterina Scorsone and Nick
Willing ! Her questions are below: |
| Q:
Great to speak with you. I just want to comment on how I loved
how you kind of set this up as a second-coming of Alice reference
to the first 150 years kind of gave Lewis Carroll his glory
there as well. |
| Nick
Willing : Yes. |
| Q:
My question is - and a lot of my questions have already been
asked - what was your favorite moment on set? Like how basically
your favorite moment acting, favorite moment with characters
with the actors? |
| Nick
Willing : My favorite moment was when Caterina had a very
important date to go to and we were out in the rain and I left
it for the large part of the day I said, "Okay we've got
to -- I've got to climb up a ladder and throw herself in the
water." And the water was freezing cold. And because she
had to run off and do this very important date though I can't
tell you what it was but she - and poor thing she's like, "Really?
Do I have to do it?" And I said, "Yes, yes, yes,
quick, quick |
| Caterina
Scorsone: This is the only time |
| Nick
Willing : And she did it and she ran
up the ladder and threw herself in the water and it was hilarious
and everybody was so impressed. And then she swam out… |
| Caterina
Scorsone: Across a lake in the freezing
cold in (unintelligible). Yeah. That is a (unintelligible). |
| Nick
Willing : I have to say every day was fun. You know, but
can you think of any other interesting anecdotes from the set? |
| Caterina
Scorsone: Gosh, I mean it was -- oh,
gosh, it was really, really pinch-me moments the whole time.
I mean, you know, it's not shot -- I remember that day when
we were in the woods and a (staffer) was making -- had somehow
- someone had brought a barbecue and like put the barbecue in
the woods. And they were like barbecuing hamburgers like off
the side of the set because it was so far to get food.
And I think we were out on open water in
like a, you know, 1970s, you know, James Bond speed boat with
the sun setting and riding horses across a desert with a thunderstorm
going on.
I mean it was just - you know, and then there
was just snapshots of, you know, our inhibited laughter all
the time. I mean it was really kind of endless the moments
of fun. It was great. And in all directions, you know, (asking)
later then laughing so hard and then, you know, incredible
moments of generosity and intimacy, you know, during heavy
emotional scenes where you kind of looked to Nick or looked
to the other cast member and knew absolutely that this person
wanted you to find that special thing that was going to crack
open the heart of your character and the heart of the audience
and that you had this incredible support and curiosity that
(can handle these) that the whole team was participating in.
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| Nick
Willing : I agree. I'm sorry, I just want to jump in with
my least favorite moment which was when I (unintelligible) poor
Matt Frewer he was wearing a - for him it felt like he was wearing
huge Volkswagen but it was actually a suit of armor and he had
run about behind in line of (Phyllis Enshouder) and shoot an
(arbelet) which is sort of this Roman, medieval weapon which
is like a big crossbow on wheels while there were diving men
on flamingoes dropping bombs on him. So he had all these bombs
going off.
I said, "You run over here, you run over
there and the bombs…" so he ran slightly off into the (race)
and blew it up. And I thought, "Oh my God. Oh my God." And,
you know, but then he was fine because the suit of armor that
he was wearing that he kept cursing protected him from getting
blown up.
But then the very next day I had him in a
hammock, okay you swing out the hammock and you run over here.
Well he's not the youngest guy and of course he swung and
the hammock broke and he fell on the floor and he kept shooting
because again the suit of armor that he kept cursing was the
very thing that saved him.
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| Caterina
Scorsone: And then I think the other
difficult moment was in the casino when we were shooting in
a barn and it got to be about 150 degrees and people were like
dropping like flies.
But then I think probably the favorite moment
for the boys was this sexy burlesque dancer.
|
| Nick
Willing : Oh, yes. Very sexy girl… |
| Caterina
Scorsone: …sort of ground to a halt
and you kind of looked around and these fantastically talented
burlesque dancers are doing this very involved routine on this
mirrored stage and they're wearing feathers and, you know, sparkle
things in all the right places. And you look around and it was
like uniformly in like 360 degrees every male member of the
crew and cast had their mouth like their jaws had dropped. |
| Nick
Willing : Yeah. |
| Caterina
Scorsone: It was funny to observe. |
| Q:
And one final question for both of you. Per Pop Culture Madness
tradition, what is your favorite guilty pleasure movie or TV
show? |
| Nick
Willing : Caterina, what's your favorite
guilty pleasure? |
| Caterina
Scorsone: Goodness, I have so many. That's what this movie
is all about. My favorite - my very favorite movie which I suppose
is a bit of a guilty pleasure in that it's like, you know, every
scene, you know, pushes every button is True Romance directed
by Tony Scott with Patricia Arquette and Christian Slater and
it's a fantastic, fantastic film, very violent, very romantic.
What about your Nick?
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| Nick
Willing : Get Smart. You know, I know I grew up in Portugal
as a little boy speaking Portuguese and I learned to speak English
through Get Smart. Yeah, and he… |
| Caterina
Scorsone: That explains everything. |
| Nick
Willing : Yeah, exactly. And 99 I
had a terrible crush on 99 who was just the most (unintelligible)
thing in the world to me when I was 5. And so that was my -
that's my -- nobody knows it so don't tell anybody that because
it's so embarrassing.
But my favorite film is the first time I
ever watched -- when I was growing up in Portugal I watched
it in a (bit like sort of a parodies) I watched it in a (bond)
when the cinema came to town and it was Pinocchio and I went
along and the drawings were moving on the screen. I couldn't
believe how that was possible, you know. It had been 1923…
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| Q:
Is that what inspired you to continue with the cartoons? |
| Nick
Willing : Yeah, I started as an animator
when I -- as soon as I - because I was drawing even then. I
was 5 and was really drawing. So when I got to 10 I started
making flicker books and then animated cells when I was 12.
And that's what got me into the films. It was completely just
because I wanted to do that, make those pictures move. It was
so amazing. I still remember that feeling - that first - one
of the greatest feelings I can ever remember is seeing the opening
shots to Pinocchio and thinking, "God, this is pure magic." |
| Q:
Well I want to thank you both so much for taking the time to
speak with me. |
| Nick
Willing : Our pleasure. |
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