1 00:00:09,621 --> 00:00:12,763 LEXX: EVEN MORE EXTRA STUFF 2 00:00:13,551 --> 00:00:16,918 Hey, thank you for watching Eating P-p-p-pattern. 3 00:00:18,090 --> 00:00:26,351 Ok, this is myself, Paul Donovan, I am producer and co-writer, Jeff, Lex, co-writers. 4 00:00:27,082 --> 00:00:30,792 Ok. We're gonna talk to you - bring the camera back here - 5 00:00:31,141 --> 00:00:32,276 I'm gonna talk to you first about .... 6 00:00:32,394 --> 00:00:36,206 we're gonna talk about the show, we're gonna tell you about the actors, 7 00:00:36,430 --> 00:00:39,732 we're gonna tell you about how we've brought Brian Downey as Stan, 8 00:00:39,898 --> 00:00:45,355 Eva Habermann as Zev and MM as Kai into the whole. 9 00:00:45,725 --> 00:00:47,776 But first of all I'll tell you about our Rainer Matsutani. 10 00:00:47,907 --> 00:00:51,096 He's the director, he's half German, half Japanese. 11 00:00:51,199 --> 00:00:52,286 I think he's the only one. 12 00:00:53,013 --> 00:00:55,667 Probably not too many access directors left these days 13 00:00:55,864 --> 00:00:58,443 but he is at the top of the ladder. If he had a little of Italian blood, 14 00:00:58,554 --> 00:01:03,837 but... he likes Italian food so I guess... it's pretty much recovering... yeah... 15 00:01:04,741 --> 00:01:16,907 "Ok, so generally so spoken but that means ""quiet, please" 16 00:01:19,428 --> 00:01:24,512 you know and it's when... that's a great thing about our German director bark commands boil like 17 00:01:24,940 --> 00:01:28,252 a... we're not you know, obviously, 18 00:01:28,481 --> 00:01:33,983 hands across the ocean - absolutely, that's important. 19 00:01:37,893 --> 00:01:41,934 Oh yeah, Rainer is in episode two "Super nova" 20 00:01:42,107 --> 00:01:44,979 which you may remain not have seen but you should have seen... 21 00:01:45,066 --> 00:01:54,699 There's a of a memory, where he is wearing a brunnen-G weigh like Kai does and he is awarding a medal. 22 00:01:55,583 --> 00:02:01,845 He is probably have been revoiced so Rainer we love you you're cutest but... It's a great performance. 23 00:02:01,972 --> 00:02:08,100 Ok, enough about Rainer, here is what we are going to do: we're going to tell you about Brian Downey as Stan. 24 00:02:08,221 --> 00:02:12,560 See... If you saw the original promo, which is at the end of the picture one in the filial material 25 00:02:12,590 --> 00:02:17,431 there's Brian Downey. And I'd worked with Brian Downey in the number of films. He's from this place called Newfoundland. 26 00:02:18,035 --> 00:02:24,775 Newfoundland is this very poor wind-swept rock setting of the East of Canada. 27 00:02:24,883 --> 00:02:29,185 Hard clubbing capital of the world 28 00:02:29,292 --> 00:02:34,292 But in Newfoundland there're wonderful people. 29 00:02:34,293 --> 00:02:39,966 And they have a number of fairly good actors - there's no explain that - and good musicians. 30 00:02:40,552 --> 00:02:51,056 Brian was sort of living the life of a poor actor in Newfoundland and also going to British 31 00:02:51,394 --> 00:02:53,493 from time to time when he actually want to live like an actor who got payed as oppose to the community theatre in the 32 00:02:56,135 --> 00:03:02,167 And I just knew he was a guy with talent but in Canada or in US no one ever discovered him 33 00:03:02,237 --> 00:03:05,511 because he didn't live in Los Angeles 34 00:03:05,627 --> 00:03:08,497 and so we're kind of thought that he had to be the perfect Stan 35 00:03:08,578 --> 00:03:13,137 and so he became the Stan of our show but we didn't realize that he IS Stan. 36 00:03:17,444 --> 00:03:24,832 A, Jesus!!! Dangerous bar here. Dangerous! Dangerous, too. 37 00:03:26,862 --> 00:03:36,669 What was that on my shoulder? And your name is... This is a... It's a feeding tube for a very large baby. 38 00:03:38,218 --> 00:03:47,770 And these would be the nipple and this is where the pabulum comes out and...no, wait now...vacuum cleaner! 39 00:03:47,780 --> 00:03:53,481 It's a vacuum cleaner! What could it be? It could be almost anything. 40 00:03:55,624 --> 00:04:02,699 But in fact it's a feeding tube in the galley of the Lexx, 41 00:04:02,702 --> 00:04:05,450 the most powerful destructive force Salter Street ever created. 42 00:04:06,815 --> 00:04:14,291 Salter Street is gonna rip the world apart. Name of my character is Stanley H Tweedle. 43 00:04:15,339 --> 00:04:24,291 Don't mess with me, I will betray you! It's a difficult character in some ways to describe because the composite... 44 00:04:24,361 --> 00:04:26,972 It's sort of like: do you ever walk in the beach? 45 00:04:27,135 --> 00:04:31,249 It comes from its parts like all kinds of shells and rocks and you know things like that, seaweed. 46 00:04:31,777 --> 00:04:39,867 That's sort of what Stanley Tweedle's character likes... It sort of, I don't know... 47 00:04:39,900 --> 00:04:47,947 Charlie Chaplin but not quite as clownish, like Benedict Arnold, but not quite as traitorous. 48 00:04:48,073 --> 00:04:55,405 Stanley Tweedle is one of the drivers of the plot. The plot has beautiful it's a German made. 49 00:04:55,611 --> 00:04:56,599 He drives the plot. 50 00:04:58,157 --> 00:05:06,296 Simply because he just wants to escape terminal and he really wants to get laid, 51 00:05:06,551 --> 00:05:14,692 this guy is in serious need of a good... He hasn't had any in eight years and then he had to buy it The Cluster is... 52 00:05:20,952 --> 00:05:26,899 I know what I need you...oh, you mean for something...ok..oh, Jesus.. 53 00:05:28,834 --> 00:05:32,337 He is great, he is a terrific guy, he IS Stanley Tweedle. 54 00:05:32,711 --> 00:05:37,305 You know, in fact if the show ever cause tense up he will get the job as a security guard probably. 55 00:05:38,187 --> 00:05:41,120 So, Stanley Tweedle is Charlie Chaplin lost in space. 56 00:05:41,952 --> 00:05:45,571 I can him doing all the wrong things for all the wrong reasons. 57 00:05:45,654 --> 00:05:52,068 Somehow in the end you know he's a... absolved. 58 00:05:52,150 --> 00:05:53,498 It's a really interesting character because it has... 59 00:05:53,674 --> 00:05:57,986 a lot of stuff...enough that I'm comparing.. you know...This directing anyway shape perform 60 00:05:58,168 --> 00:06:00,809 Charlie Chaplin and what he did. There's something of the element of every man. 61 00:06:00,875 --> 00:06:05,050 I mean every man has you know some hero, some coward. 62 00:06:06,042 --> 00:06:13,999 And this character has elements of that plus despaired need to escape all the time. 63 00:06:19,109 --> 00:06:23,207 Michael McManus. Well, you should really... cause you know him .... 64 00:06:23,349 --> 00:06:27,591 I don't like to talk about that. MM is a... well, 65 00:06:29,073 --> 00:06:34,450 he was sort of...he's one of these "artists", right? That's why we don't... 66 00:06:34,579 --> 00:06:36,978 one of the reasons, why Kai is not a man of many words 67 00:06:37,104 --> 00:06:39,618 because if you let Michael go on for any length of time... 68 00:06:39,722 --> 00:06:47,041 "I mean, it's the stream of you know artistically pretentious oblique 69 00:06:44,114 --> 00:06:49,899 that really doesn't make any sense at all. 70 00:06:50,036 --> 00:06:57,785 This to me... this stuff is a... It's a kind of... It's in the realm of the lyrical satire. 71 00:06:58,145 --> 00:07:00,133 I think it's got a really... There're some beautiful things 72 00:07:00,135 --> 00:07:03,071 like people flying semiorganic planes like insects 73 00:07:03,152 --> 00:07:06,196 and dragonflies. And the Lexx is like an overblown dragonfly. 74 00:07:06,564 --> 00:07:08,908 And my character comes from a very romantic culture 75 00:07:08,910 --> 00:07:11,797 still lingering somewhere there in the background civilization. 76 00:07:11,873 --> 00:07:14,652 And then the idea of the satire or the parody is 77 00:07:14,753 --> 00:07:16,635 that each visit to every planet... 78 00:07:16,732 --> 00:07:18,156 ultimately when we start visiting planets 79 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:20,434 and things human characteristics are kind of sent up or make fun 80 00:07:20,500 --> 00:07:22,988 like in the galleries travels or something else. 81 00:07:23,089 --> 00:07:25,409 So it takes place in space and it's space of a future 82 00:07:25,557 --> 00:07:28,879 but I think it's attacking things... 83 00:07:28,941 --> 00:07:34,553 Dead, yo, I'm dead... And in fact that I'm dead alive and there's one whole movie, 84 00:07:34,728 --> 00:07:38,685 one of these movies where one of the big issues is whether I'm dead-dead or dead-alive. 85 00:07:38,794 --> 00:07:41,287 I'm in my cryogenic tank and they try to wake me up and I don't wake up so 86 00:07:41,389 --> 00:07:42,846 they decide that I'm dead-dead 87 00:07:42,906 --> 00:07:44,238 so they bury me on the litter surface of the planet Klaagia 88 00:07:44,241 --> 00:07:46,326 and it turns that I'm not dead. 89 00:07:46,430 --> 00:07:49,790 And the spill from some parasites of the planet... 90 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:51,380 they spilling on me and it's heats me up 91 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:53,203 and I get to wake up and come back and save the [...] just in time... 92 00:07:53,288 --> 00:07:54,227 Or sort of saving 93 00:07:54,285 --> 00:07:56,053 My character never quite save the 94 00:07:56,123 --> 00:07:57,471 he sort of draws all the fire on himself 95 00:07:57,569 --> 00:07:58,870 and he gets slit up into bits and his limbs get cut up 96 00:07:58,963 --> 00:08:01,984 and then Stanley Tweedle - the sort of antihero of piece - 97 00:08:02,068 --> 00:08:04,649 he just pushes some button and vanquishes the enemy. 98 00:08:05,559 --> 00:08:08,124 Just like that. But I draw the heavy fire. 99 00:08:08,295 --> 00:08:14,165 But I think that the fantastic quality of the setting in the piece and everything comes from peoples' childhood, 100 00:08:14,257 --> 00:08:15,724 children who'd never quite grow up. 101 00:08:16,498 --> 00:08:19,288 You know, and I think that's... It sounds actually... bit sounds like an 102 00:08:19,498 --> 00:08:20,984 when I say, but I mean it! 103 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:22,539 ....and he's got a good heart too 104 00:08:22,651 --> 00:08:25,782 and now finally he has got some money because he was always on me ... 105 00:08:25,803 --> 00:08:31,638 But I knew that he was... He had something. 106 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:34,315 And I actually think he does a terrific job as Kai. 107 00:08:34,394 --> 00:08:39,455 When you first met him but he's got something else. 108 00:08:40,045 --> 00:08:42,442 Eva Habermann. Eva turned twenty by the way 109 00:08:42,586 --> 00:08:45,009 and she had a twentieth birthday during the shooting of the show. 110 00:08:46,178 --> 00:08:49,739 Happy Birthday... Yeah, there was a big abend. She I think was the youngest person of the set... 111 00:08:58,485 --> 00:09:00,719 I haven't seen anything like this before on TV and I think it's... 112 00:09:00,811 --> 00:09:08,059 I mean, you see the sets, you see the costumes, you see everything it's very original. 113 00:09:09,551 --> 00:09:19,147 Right now I'm standing near the orifice. It's the entrance to the Lexx, to the big 114 00:09:19,262 --> 00:09:22,162 So, I am inside of the insect's body right now. 115 00:09:22,289 --> 00:09:24,759 Eva did children’s television in Germany, 116 00:09:24,845 --> 00:09:27,121 She's not quite an experienced actor 117 00:09:27,207 --> 00:09:31,259 but she deserves discovering how to be a half cluster lizard .... 118 00:09:31,471 --> 00:09:34,317 She was a girl and now she is a woman... 119 00:09:35,864 --> 00:09:38,972 Well, in Germany I've hosted a children show for year. 120 00:09:39,311 --> 00:09:43,690 So, that's what I've been doing I've had some small parts in other TV plays, 121 00:09:43,786 --> 00:09:48,241 but this is the first time that I've got a lead part in the series. 122 00:09:49,782 --> 00:09:51,472 I was a little bit worried because 123 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:54,486 if you shoot with the same people for a longer period 124 00:09:54,574 --> 00:09:58,363 then often there problems than occur 125 00:09:58,482 --> 00:10:01,131 but here I still think that the crew is very fantastic, it's like a big family, 126 00:10:01,199 --> 00:10:02,494 because everybody is just really enjoying what they are doing. 127 00:10:02,983 --> 00:10:04,379 For me as the young actress 128 00:10:04,455 --> 00:10:06,789 I can learn different things from each director, 129 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:08,614 each director will point at different things to me 130 00:10:08,615 --> 00:10:11,413 and so it's a very good experience for me. 131 00:10:12,122 --> 00:10:16,601 I am on the Lexx alone with a robot head 790, 132 00:10:16,712 --> 00:10:18,268 who is utterly inlove with me 133 00:10:18,382 --> 00:10:20,733 because he got the injection 134 00:10:20,969 --> 00:10:23,545 I was supposed to get in the transformation I was supposed to be a love slave and... 135 00:10:23,709 --> 00:10:27,757 but instead of me getting this injection for falling in love whoever you see first, he got it. 136 00:10:27,996 --> 00:10:31,700 So, he saw me first and so he's utterly inlove with me 137 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:34,722 and he does everything I want him to. 138 00:10:34,786 --> 00:10:38,580 But of course he is a little... sad, 139 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:39,999 because I don't love him really. 140 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,806 I am inlove with Kai, who has been dead for two thousand years 141 00:10:43,913 --> 00:10:47,061 and who has been like the chief hitman for His Shadow 142 00:10:47,580 --> 00:10:50,910 and he has no wants, no emotions, nothing, 143 00:10:51,249 --> 00:10:54,990 but somehow he cares for Stanley Tweedle and me 144 00:10:55,189 --> 00:11:01,496 because we are his friends, we are all trying to escape from His Shadow and from the evil insect ruler. 145 00:11:02,764 --> 00:11:07,822 And Stanley Tweedle... he is a sweet loser. 146 00:11:08,267 --> 00:11:10,331 Just everything he does goes wrong. 147 00:11:10,748 --> 00:11:11,822 But he is quiet loveable. 148 00:11:12,212 --> 00:11:14,859 Everything in all the series is just weird. 149 00:11:15,294 --> 00:11:17,407 I mean, already that we are on the lexx 150 00:11:17,550 --> 00:11:23,787 which is an genetically ulted insect is already weird 151 00:11:23,900 --> 00:11:24,900 because this ship has also needs 152 00:11:24,901 --> 00:11:28,776 and needs to eat and always does things on it's own, 153 00:11:28,872 --> 00:11:31,936 so everything is pretty strange about the whole thing. 154 00:11:32,167 --> 00:11:39,193 And then, there is Wist, it's played by Doreen Jacobi, and she is a... ha-ha... 155 00:11:39,497 --> 00:11:43,931 well as you can tell you know that... about the lovefit that she was wearing... 156 00:11:44,581 --> 00:11:49,569 We had a lot of problems working on the set with that because it distract the crew, 157 00:11:49,798 --> 00:11:53,206 we were easily distracted. 158 00:11:53,941 --> 00:11:56,480 Routger Hayer could not focused, it was a mess... 159 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:04,775 it's made of leather and it's very comfortable as you might have noticed eventually. 160 00:12:05,050 --> 00:12:08,734 I don't actually know what I am supposed to tell the story 161 00:12:08,805 --> 00:12:10,593 but someone else was supposed to play the part 162 00:12:10,719 --> 00:12:12,000 and she broked her leg 163 00:12:12,003 --> 00:12:14,081 and then... so here I was... 164 00:12:14,130 --> 00:12:17,343 and I had no idea what was gonna happen with me. 165 00:12:17,918 --> 00:12:20,659 When I went to the audition which is like month ago 166 00:12:20,808 --> 00:12:23,897 it's just sounded like an interesting project cause I like science-fiction 167 00:12:23,968 --> 00:12:28,002 and it was the first science-fiction offer I actually got 168 00:12:28,285 --> 00:12:29,323 so I thought I might just will take my chance. 169 00:12:29,564 --> 00:12:33,954 And... I read the script and the script was fine, 170 00:12:34,072 --> 00:12:36,504 it was... different 171 00:12:36,590 --> 00:12:39,526 and so it was very interesting for me to work for those people and 172 00:12:39,574 --> 00:12:40,867 it's fun... it's fun working here. 173 00:12:41,296 --> 00:12:44,766 He's a good actor, he's a famous actor 174 00:12:44,887 --> 00:12:47,157 but I don't see him as RUTGER HAUER 175 00:12:47,168 --> 00:12:48,240 I just see him as somebody I have to work with. 176 00:12:48,563 --> 00:12:53,461 And of course it's easier to work with someone you get alone with. 177 00:12:55,001 --> 00:13:00,356 A Bog.. he is a character and I love him but I love all my characters. 178 00:13:00,799 --> 00:13:08,504 If you in a traditional sense... this is very much of a fairy tale 179 00:13:08,815 --> 00:13:13,141 and it's very extreme. 180 00:13:13,580 --> 00:13:18,072 This is fairy wicked and dark sense of humor 181 00:13:18,202 --> 00:13:23,456 I'm sort of thinking my character is adverse menace who pretends to be something else 182 00:13:23,580 --> 00:13:25,149 but it doesn't really matter that much. 183 00:13:25,396 --> 00:13:30,739 Its comes out all the time you know who's the real character there. 184 00:13:30,898 --> 00:13:33,287 I mean the unreality of what we do 185 00:13:33,545 --> 00:13:45,881 to me is the best part. He has nothing to do in life. 186 00:13:47,291 --> 00:13:50,652 Ok, so... 790. 187 00:13:52,332 --> 00:13:54,340 The only thing I want to say about that is 188 00:13:54,490 --> 00:13:57,050 you know Lexx got the series named after him so I grabbed the robothead. 189 00:13:57,427 --> 00:14:00,237 Yes, he grabbed the robothead and we will show you... 190 00:14:00,307 --> 00:14:09,267 Can you notice the similarity... Look at these lips. If you could get closer.. 191 00:14:09,422 --> 00:14:14,300 I think this is mine profession If you're going for plastic surgery, 192 00:14:14,301 --> 00:14:20,524 right, I think, go all the way don't cheap out on it because you know, this... 193 00:14:28,143 --> 00:14:31,125 Where're the women? Where are they? Where did they go? 194 00:14:32,148 --> 00:14:33,606 Come back, come back! 195 00:14:46,095 --> 00:14:49,890 I'm trying to keep it animated. Is the eye blinking? 196 00:14:49,057 --> 00:14:53,695 And now I just make the same kind of movement. 197 00:14:54,301 --> 00:14:56,842 In any conversation my eyes are always gonna be moving. 198 00:15:00,268 --> 00:15:02,235 Code access denied, buttercup. 199 00:15:02,613 --> 00:15:06,007 All access denied, except of the gates of my heart. 200 00:15:06,972 --> 00:15:12,782 Oh, I will love you forever! 201 00:15:13,162 --> 00:15:18,194 Oh, darling... It's not quite in the script, but a little improvisation here... 202 00:15:18,276 --> 00:15:21,506 It's not a number one here anyway! 203 00:15:21,924 --> 00:15:23,101 Bye! 204 00:15:23,102 --> 00:15:32,102 Sublitles: Lunatic, Bankolya, HELEN