1 00:00:05,407 --> 00:00:09,822 The series began as four two hour made for TV movies. 2 00:00:10,454 --> 00:00:14,845 The success of the movies spawned 20 one hour episodes. 3 00:00:15,659 --> 00:00:20,110 Now in its third season LEXX has mutated once again. 4 00:00:46,111 --> 00:00:49,500 The making of the LEXX 5 00:00:49,666 --> 00:00:54,535 For season three what we’re hoping [to tell] a story in thirteen parts. 6 00:00:56,078 --> 00:01:00,116 With each part of the story… each long part of the story 7 00:01:00,446 --> 00:01:02,249 so be more or less self-contained. 8 00:01:05,114 --> 00:01:05,973 So exactly where are we? 9 00:01:06,438 --> 00:01:07,575 Between Fire and Water 10 00:01:10,349 --> 00:01:12,947 There’re two planets that have a sort of 11 00:01:13,038 --> 00:01:15,946 they’re almost in the same orbit share an atmosphere at one point. 12 00:01:16,198 --> 00:01:19,911 One is called Fire which is totally dry and has not water at all and very hot 13 00:01:19,928 --> 00:01:22,471 and the other is Water which is all water. 14 00:01:23,221 --> 00:01:26,414 The Lexx has been drifting for like over four thousand years 15 00:01:26,791 --> 00:01:30,223 and it drifts into their atmosphere and they think it’s a comet – 16 00:01:30,225 --> 00:01:32,370 the people down on the planet think it’s a comet – 17 00:01:32,387 --> 00:01:35,154 so they travel using hot-air balloons. 18 00:01:35,796 --> 00:01:37,048 So they go up in this hot-air balloon 19 00:01:37,117 --> 00:01:39,588 and they shoot an arrow at it and basically - 20 00:01:39,965 --> 00:01:41,961 it’s like shooting the white whale you know - they get it... 21 00:01:42,110 --> 00:01:44,397 and it pulls them along and then they sort of really get in. 22 00:01:44,819 --> 00:01:45,496 And get on board. 23 00:01:54,318 --> 00:01:57,895 The story arc is clear, the on the characters is clear 24 00:01:58,274 --> 00:02:00,013 and I think the introduction of Prince 25 00:02:00,182 --> 00:02:04,503 like a sort of like a almost a fourth prominent cast member in a sense. 26 00:02:05,843 --> 00:02:06,934 That worked really-really well. 27 00:02:07,199 --> 00:02:09,363 He’s one of these characters that has unlimited power. 28 00:02:09,660 --> 00:02:12,286 He has unlimited power, unlimited abilities. He can do what he wants to… 29 00:02:13,629 --> 00:02:18,539 He just decides what he wants to do and does it. Because he can. 30 00:02:19,621 --> 00:02:24,545 You command the Lexx. And I have learned that the Lexx is a great weapon - 31 00:02:25,921 --> 00:02:29,136 a weapon that will finally tip the scales 32 00:02:33,351 --> 00:02:35,707 I think in some ways Stan represents - 33 00:02:36,329 --> 00:02:38,445 in the broad sense of the word - “the common man”. 34 00:02:39,419 --> 00:02:43,347 Stan wants to survive - he wants to survive the best he can - 35 00:02:44,224 --> 00:02:48,480 and wants to avoid unpleasant circumstances 36 00:02:48,577 --> 00:02:50,999 and wants to engage in pleasant ones. 37 00:02:56,351 --> 00:02:58,504 The sensual man – that’s Stanly basically. 38 00:02:58,870 --> 00:03:02,438 He’s up to find anything to engage anything that brings him pleasure. 39 00:03:03,355 --> 00:03:06,401 And to run as fast as he can from anything 40 00:03:06,508 --> 00:03:09,654 that will require complication responsibility or pain. 41 00:03:10,056 --> 00:03:13,893 You see, an evil planet is gonna be blown into tiny little chunks, 42 00:03:14,361 --> 00:03:18,072 and then the Lexx, hopefully, is gonna eat those chunks, 43 00:03:18,579 --> 00:03:21,456 and then we'll be able to sail away from a place 44 00:03:21,793 --> 00:03:24,609 where I really don't wanna be anymore 45 00:03:25,841 --> 00:03:28,491 So in terms of my own identification with Stanly 46 00:03:28,586 --> 00:03:31,561 I would never wanna be the guy you know but… - in real life - 47 00:03:31,849 --> 00:03:34,520 but in terms of a character I think it’s a wonderful role to play. 48 00:03:34,613 --> 00:03:38,084 I mean its… it’s so broad, there’re so many possibilities in there 49 00:03:38,738 --> 00:03:43,800 as oppose to Michael playing Kai whose role is essentially eliminated. 50 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:47,560 Did they hit us? 51 00:03:50,286 --> 00:03:51,026 Not where it matters 52 00:03:51,381 --> 00:03:55,191 After first day, couple of what are we gonna do, 53 00:03:55,268 --> 00:03:57,465 your character is so dolly. I recalled "no-no-no! 54 00:03:57,999 --> 00:03:59,696 You wrote him dead, he stays dead, 55 00:03:59,854 --> 00:04:05,912 I am gonna do it. He doesn't wanna be alive or be half-human like… 56 00:04:05,982 --> 00:04:08,192 No I’m dead-dead-dead, I just want to be dead". 57 00:04:08,283 --> 00:04:11,718 And then as oppose to that he became more mechanical 58 00:04:11,805 --> 00:04:13,872 and then in the last year the thing was 59 00:04:13,979 --> 00:04:16,436 that he can be superman - sort of - 60 00:04:16,879 --> 00:04:25,678 or he can have a kind of a really extreme physical stability 61 00:04:25,770 --> 00:04:28,453 or whatever but it’s got to be vulnerable as well. 62 00:04:32,383 --> 00:04:35,152 Kai becomes…. Well I don’t wanna actually say 63 00:04:35,221 --> 00:04:38,873 but we will actually see a whole other… possibly 64 00:04:38,964 --> 00:04:41,056 the whole other side of Kai character which 65 00:04:41,107 --> 00:04:45,008 actually even has more to it then meets the eye at first. 66 00:04:45,088 --> 00:04:49,216 Kai? I thought that you had somehow come to life, 67 00:04:50,452 --> 00:04:51,871 but you are still dead, aren't you? 68 00:04:52,556 --> 00:04:53,278 Yes 69 00:04:55,260 --> 00:04:56,512 So how can there be two of you? 70 00:05:03,003 --> 00:05:05,991 One is dead - the other is alive 71 00:05:08,143 --> 00:05:12,349 That had a nice sporting touch with the Japanese bow 72 00:05:13,237 --> 00:05:15,384 which I managed to learn pretty well how to do. 73 00:05:15,476 --> 00:05:18,828 That was fun, that was really fun to get that [artily] in. 74 00:05:31,661 --> 00:05:34,230 Xev gets an opportunity to see a different side of Kai 75 00:05:34,310 --> 00:05:37,691 which she finds shall we say attractive and interesting. 76 00:05:43,269 --> 00:05:45,810 She’s got the appearance of the love slave 77 00:05:45,836 --> 00:05:49,885 and the soul of an independent fearless warrior woman. 78 00:05:50,575 --> 00:05:54,763 She can sort of… she’s very good at serve playing things 79 00:05:54,842 --> 00:06:00,149 to get her way and… plays a double agent a lot of the times I think. 80 00:06:00,850 --> 00:06:01,372 What? 81 00:06:02,907 --> 00:06:09,734 Why I'm happy to accept your deal under the right conditions. 82 00:06:13,414 --> 00:06:23,552 You bring out something in me that doesn't always find proper expression 83 00:06:25,953 --> 00:06:27,553 Jesus Christ… I almost.. 84 00:06:32,734 --> 00:06:33,994 I was just wondering… 85 00:06:36,555 --> 00:06:42,556 what * was I wondering? What was the * line? 86 00:06:43,553 --> 00:06:48,553 Subtitles: Lunatic, ALGC, Bankolya