Spartacus TCA Panel: Q &A con il cast e crew e foto

Lucy e il resto del cast e crew di Spartacus sono stati al padiglione della TCA ieri a promuovere Spartacus.
C'è stato un Q& A a tutti i membri del cast presenti.

Citazione :

On the panel:
Andy Whitfield, cast
Lucy Lawless, cast
John Hannah, cast
Viva Bianca, cast
Robert Tapert, executive producer
Steven S. DeKnight, executive producer/head writer


Q about other works?

Robert Tapert, executive producer: style already came before (300) where
audience would accept a more stylized world...audience will buy into
universe...reason..opportunity was there

Q to Andy:

Andy: Guaranteed to look..the figthing, the women, sometimes at the same
time

Q to Andy about training

Andy: Pretty brutal..flew to New Zealand. a month of four hours a day of
getting smashed by stuntmen...you get to the end of the four months
where you do an 8.5 month shoot and have to stay in that shape.

Q: was somebody else cast initially?

Andy was who we wanted

Q about being picked up for 2nd season

Robert Tapert, executive producer: big relief it was early so we could
start early since shooting and post-production takes so long

Robert Tapert, executive producer: it's a green-screen show. everything
is inside...everything is a photograph or a plate shot...allows you to
play with all of the layers to make sure that foreground and background
are all telling hte same story.

Q about sex scenes and backlash?

Steven S. DeKnight, executive producer/head writer: who doesn't like
sex? ..it was the pre-Christian constraints..it was extremely common to
have sex with your slaves...part of it is the human sensuality...it's
not pornographic...there's always something going on...it's not 'cue the
funky music and let them have sex. it's not just sex for sex sake.

Q about straddling...no, embracing, two very demographics...nudity and
blood. how do you reconcile

Steven S. DeKnight, executive producer/head writer: Sex and violence. It
kind of goes together...the Romans view on violence was you don't shy
away from blood...you liked to watch violence...if you've seen the first
four or five episodes, the plots become really intricate...everyones
maneuvering...and out of that comes blood and often, sex

Q: can you see one side alienating the other (blood vs. sex)

Lucy Lawless: Do you think? I think it's really fundamental? It's
fundamental. It's visceral. It's a primal need. It's fight or flight.

Steven S. DeKnight, executive producer/head writer: We don't try to bunt
or get a hit up the middle...we try to explore the depths of humanity

Q about the fluffer scene

Lucy Lawless: John doesn't do anything with a straight face...he laughed
through 13 episodes

John Hannah: I'm a very serious actor (with a smirk)

Lucy Lawless: It was odd having the slaves around all the time because
we're used to ahving our modern space...but "they're like an extension
of your right hand" (audience laugh)

John Hannah: definitely a difference between Romans and slaves/property

Lucy Lawless: Wondered what slaves (Nigerians) were thinking about them
during the fluffer scene.

Q about international appeal?

Robert Tapert: There is no co-production partner. What we found that was
interesting in casting process, people came in speaking American and we
thought it was too contemporary..that led us to our casting choices

Q about claustrophobia of being inside?

Lucy Lawless: It's not like being in outer space.

Andy Whitfield: It was big enough. The sets were decent size...you get
desensitized...it doesn't have any influence on me...it doesn't rain in
there.

Viva Bianca: Thank God we were inside. It was cold and rainy in New
Zealand.

Q about Spartacus relationship and character development

Andy Whitfield asks for approval..if it's giving away too much

Andy: it's the old situation..will they/won't they.

Q for Lucy and John about fan bases and their responses

Lucy: No. John: Never. (in answer to specific question whether they
considered the fan response when they took the role.)

John: as an artist you want to constantly diversify and take on new
challenges...when I read the script, I never read anything like it
before...the constructs of the world...no car chases, no lawyers, no
doctors...it was just manna for heaven for me.

Lucy Lawless: everyone has to live his/her own life.

Q about how something is treated dramatically...how treat violence
inside and outside or ring with same intensity?

Steven: Ummm...the violence depends on what's happening. The great thing
that happens with the violence we like to build up the drama..very few
times are they on the same page...we wanted to do a more operatic form
of violence.

Steven: There's a lot of blood, but we hope it's more artistic.

Q to Lucy about transformation about sex scenes

A: after the first one i went straight to my car...i was so stressed
about it...slip about fulflling John instead of saying fulfilling the
scene

Lucy: There had to be a protocol..you had to map it out well in advance.
Never skin on skin contact. No matter what you think you're seeing, you
ain't

Lucy: It was an intense year.

John: 8 months for us...you can feel very proud of what you did and what
you achieved.

Andy: you do evolve.

Lucy: We're tired.

Q: where's it going. we know you're not going to kill off Spartacus

Steven: you never know (looking at Andy and smiling)...without gettig
specific, we want to take Spartacus the man in Season 1 and take him to
end slavery in Roman times...putting aside own feelings and own emotions
of what he wants for the greater good.

Q: in season 4 you'll have a message?

Steven: when the Russians translated the scraps about Spartacus, they
had their own agenda...I'm taking a very different tack..like David E.
Kelley shows....at the end you agree with both sides during final
arguments. I want to explore both views of slavery...a lot of slaves had
their own homes, their own families, free to come and go, working as an
artisan.

Steven: There will be two sides to the story...will there be a message?
we just want to tell a really good story.

Q about physicality and casting (curves, extensions, etc.)

Robert: Long ago we learned that replicating something physical is
easy....when get casting tapes, usually just get a head shot...no
disgrace to Andy and his lovely body, but there are Olympians who have
great bodies...in terms of actual casting, no.

panel is over..

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