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