LEXX: EVEN MORE EXTRA STUFF
Hey, thank you for watching Eating P-p-p-pattern.
Ok, this is myself, Paul Donovan, I am producer and co-writer, Jeff, Lex, co-writers.
Ok. We're gonna talk to you - bring the camera back here -
I'm gonna talk to you first about ....
we're gonna talk about the show, we're gonna tell you about the actors,
we're gonna tell you about how we've brought Brian Downey as Stan,
Eva Habermann as Zev and MM as Kai into the whole.
But first of all I'll tell you about our Rainer Matsutani.
He's the director, he's half German, half Japanese.
I think he's the only one.
Probably not too many access directors left these days
but he is at the top of the ladder. If he had a little of Italian blood,
but... he likes Italian food so I guess... it's pretty much recovering... yeah...
"Ok, so generally so spoken but that means ""quiet, please"
you know and it's when... that's a great thing about our German director bark commands boil like
a... we're not you know, obviously,
hands across the ocean - absolutely, that's important.
Oh yeah, Rainer is in episode two "Super nova"
which you may remain not have seen but you should have seen...
There's a of a memory, where he is wearing a brunnen-G weigh like Kai does and he is awarding a medal.
He is probably have been revoiced so Rainer we love you you're cutest but... It's a great performance.
Ok, enough about Rainer, here is what we are going to do: we're going to tell you about Brian Downey as Stan.
See... If you saw the original promo, which is at the end of the picture one in the filial material
there's Brian Downey. And I'd worked with Brian Downey in the number of films. He's from this place called Newfoundland.
Newfoundland is this very poor wind-swept rock setting of the East of Canada.
Hard clubbing capital of the world
But in Newfoundland there're wonderful people.
And they have a number of fairly good actors - there's no explain that - and good musicians.
Brian was sort of living the life of a poor actor in Newfoundland and also going to British
from time to time when he actually want to live like an actor who got payed as oppose to the community theatre in the
And I just knew he was a guy with talent but in Canada or in US no one ever discovered him
because he didn't live in Los Angeles
and so we're kind of thought that he had to be the perfect Stan
and so he became the Stan of our show but we didn't realize that he IS Stan.
A, Jesus!!! Dangerous bar here. Dangerous! Dangerous, too.
What was that on my shoulder? And your name is... This is a... It's a feeding tube for a very large baby.
And these would be the nipple and this is where the pabulum comes out and... no, wait now... vacuum cleaner!
It's a vacuum cleaner! What could it be? It could be almost anything.
But in fact it's a feeding tube in the galley of the Lexx,
the most powerful destructive force Salter Street ever created.
Salter Street is gonna rip the world apart. Name of my character is Stanley H Tweedle.
Don't mess with me, I will betray you! It's a difficult character in some ways to describe because the composite...
It's sort of like: do you ever walk in the beach?
It comes from its parts like all kinds of shells and rocks and you know things like that, seaweed.
That's sort of what Stanley Tweedle's character likes... It sort of, I don't know...
Charlie Chaplin but not quite as clownish, like Benedict Arnold, but not quite as traitorous.
Stanley Tweedle is one of the drivers of the plot. The plot has beautiful it's a German made.
He drives the plot.
Simply because he just wants to escape terminal and he really wants to get laid,
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...
I know what I need you... oh, you mean for something... ok.. oh, Jesus..
He is great, he is a terrific guy, he IS Stanley Tweedle.
You know, in fact if the show ever cause tense up he will get the job as a security guard probably.
So, Stanley Tweedle is Charlie Chaplin lost in space.
I can him doing all the wrong things for all the wrong reasons.
Somehow in the end you know he's a... absolved.
It's a really interesting character because it has...
a lot of stuff... enough that I'm comparing.. you know... This directing anyway shape perform
Charlie Chaplin and what he did. There's something of the element of every man.
I mean every man has you know some hero, some coward.
And this character has elements of that plus despaired need to escape all the time.
Michael McManus. Well, you should really... cause you know him ....
I don't like to talk about that. MM is a... well,
he was sort of... he's one of these "artists", right? That's why we don't...
one of the reasons, why Kai is not a man of many words
because if you let Michael go on for any length of time...
"I mean, it's the stream of you know artistically pretentious oblique
that really doesn't make any sense at all.
This to me... this stuff is a... It's a kind of... It's in the realm of the lyrical satire.
I think it's got a really... There're some beautiful things
like people flying semiorganic planes like insects
and dragonflies. And the Lexx is like an overblown dragonfly.
And my character comes from a very romantic culture
still lingering somewhere there in the background civilization.
And then the idea of the satire or the parody is
that each visit to every planet...
ultimately when we start visiting planets
and things human characteristics are kind of sent up or make fun
like in the galleries travels or something else.
So it takes place in space and it's space of a future
but I think it's attacking things...
Dead, yo, I'm dead... And in fact that I'm dead alive and there's one whole movie,
one of these movies where one of the big issues is whether I'm dead-dead or dead-alive.
I'm in my cryogenic tank and they try to wake me up and I don't wake up so
they decide that I'm dead-dead
so they bury me on the litter surface of the planet Klaagia
and it turns that I'm not dead.
And the spill from some parasites of the planet...
they spilling on me and it's heats me up
and I get to wake up and come back and save the [...] just in time...
Or sort of saving
My character never quite save the
he sort of draws all the fire on himself
and he gets slit up into bits and his limbs get cut up
and then Stanley Tweedle - the sort of antihero of piece -
he just pushes some button and vanquishes the enemy.
Just like that. But I draw the heavy fire.
But I think that the fantastic quality of the setting in the piece and everything comes from peoples' childhood,
children who'd never quite grow up.
You know, and I think that's... It sounds actually... bit sounds like an
when I say, but I mean it!
....and he's got a good heart too
and now finally he has got some money because he was always on me ...
But I knew that he was... He had something.
And I actually think he does a terrific job as Kai.
When you first met him but he's got something else.
Eva Habermann. Eva turned twenty by the way
and she had a twentieth birthday during the shooting of the show.
Happy Birthday... Yeah, there was a big abend. She I think was the youngest person of the set...
I haven't seen anything like this before on TV and I think it's...
I mean, you see the sets, you see the costumes, you see everything it's very original.
Right now I'm standing near the orifice. It's the entrance to the Lexx, to the big
So, I am inside of the insect's body right now.
Eva did children�s television in Germany,
She's not quite an experienced actor
but she deserves discovering how to be a half cluster lizard ....
She was a girl and now she is a woman...
Well, in Germany I've hosted a children show for year.
So, that's what I've been doing I've had some small parts in other TV plays,
but this is the first time that I've got a lead part in the series.
I was a little bit worried because
if you shoot with the same people for a longer period
then often there problems than occur
but here I still think that the crew is very fantastic, it's like a big family,
because everybody is just really enjoying what they are doing.
For me as the young actress
I can learn different things from each director,
each director will point at different things to me
and so it's a very good experience for me.
I am on the Lexx alone with a robot head 790,
who is utterly inlove with me
because he got the injection
I was supposed to get in the transformation I was supposed to be a love slave and...
but instead of me getting this injection for falling in love whoever you see first, he got it.
So, he saw me first and so he's utterly inlove with me
and he does everything I want him to.
But of course he is a little... sad,
because I don't love him really.
I am inlove with Kai, who has been dead for two thousand years
and who has been like the chief hitman for His Shadow
and he has no wants, no emotions, nothing,
but somehow he cares for Stanley Tweedle and me
because we are his friends, we are all trying to escape from His Shadow and from the evil insect ruler.
And Stanley Tweedle... he is a sweet loser .
Just everything he does goes wrong.
But he is quiet loveable.
Everything in all the series is just weird.
I mean, already that we are on the lexx
which is an genetically ulted insect is already weird
because this ship has also needs
and needs to eat and always does things on it's own,
so everything is pretty strange about the whole thing.
And then, there is Wist, it's played by Doreen Jacobi, and she is a... ha-ha...
well as you can tell you know that... about the lovefit that she was wearing...
We had a lot of problems working on the set with that because it distract the crew,
we were easily distracted.
Routger Hayer could not focused, it was a mess...
it's made of leather and it's very comfortable as you might have noticed eventually.
I don't actually know what I am supposed to tell the story
but someone else was supposed to play the part
and she broked her leg
and then... so here I was...
and I had no idea what was gonna happen with me.
When I went to the audition which is like month ago
it's just sounded like an interesting project cause I like science-fiction
and it was the first science-fiction offer I actually got
so I thought I might just will take my chance.
And... I read the script and the script was fine,
it was... different
and so it was very interesting for me to work for those people and
it's fun... it's fun working here.
He's a good actor, he's a famous actor
but I don't see him as RUTGER HAUER
I just see him as somebody I have to work with.
And of course it's easier to work with someone you get alone with.
A Bog.. he is a character and I love him but I love all my characters.
If you in a traditional sense... this is very much of a fairy tale
and it's very extreme.
This is fairy wicked and dark sense of humor
I'm sort of thinking my character is adverse menace who pretends to be something else
but it doesn't really matter that much.
Its comes out all the time you know who's the real character there.
I mean the unreality of what we do
to me is the best part. He has nothing to do in life.
Ok, so... 790.
The only thing I want to say about that is
you know Lexx got the series named after him so I grabbed the robothead.
Yes, he grabbed the robothead and we will show you...
Can you notice the similarity... Look at these lips. If you could get closer..
I think this is mine profession If you're going for plastic surgery,
right, I think, go all the way don't cheap out on it because you know, this...
Where're the women? Where are they? Where did they go?
Come back, come back!
I'm trying to keep it animated. Is the eye blinking?
And now I just make the same kind of movement.
In any conversation my eyes are always gonna be moving.
Code access denied, buttercup.
All access denied, except of the gates of my heart.
Oh, I will love you forever!
Oh, darling... It's not quite in the script, but a little improvisation here...
It's not a number one here anyway!
Bye!
Sublitles: Lunatic, Bankolya, HELEN