Resoconto, foto, video e news dalla Convention 2010: Renee

Renee ha fatto la photo op con i fans ieri con il costume da Amazzone(ogni anno mette un costume di Xena per la foto).

Durante la convention ha parlato del suo Film Words Unspoken, Fitful e del suo nuovo film Beyond the Farthest star.
Ha risposto alle domande dei fans. Ecco qui i dettagli:

First a Renee/Gabrielle tribute video, with songs by Lucy!

Renee makes an unusual entrance. A short film tells the audience that yes, Lucy and Renee are still friends, and "Fins, Femmes, and Gems" is her current favorite episode "because Ted Raimi (Joxer) looks cute in pink!", but that's all old -- how about something new?

To the strains of the Indigo Girls' song "Fleet of Hope" (Emily Saliers did the music for her film Words Unspoken), Renee comes on stage dressed as a fisherman, with lantern and pole.



She tells a story about when she was a teenager on vacation in the Bahamas, and was in the water. She had the feeling something else was in the water, but the water was perfectly clear and she couldn't see anything.

A minute after she got out, a giant shark came up. "I knew it was there, even though I couldn't see it and had no proof of it."

She said that for the last five years, she's been on a journey to more self-awareness and she wants to share it with the audience.



She said she'll always keep making films, because that's what she does. But this is something new, to have the opportunity to know there is so much more out there all the time and we don't have to go into the movie theater to see it.

Said she and Emily Saliers are good friends and she's such a huge fan of Emily, and when she asked Emily if she could use the song with the film today, Emily said yes, she was honored and was only sorry that she couldn't be here today.

She said it was a great match in her life to play Gabrielle, someone who was so loving and so strong. So now she wants people in her life who serve that. She and Lucy were talking yesterday about the "synchronicity of the role."

She said she used to compartmentalize her life. She could either be an actor, or a mother, and she didn't know she could be both. She can be a mother, and a filmmaker, and an actor, and a teacher. How do you not get caught up in looking at yourself as a fraction?

She said she used to let people shame her, and then she chose Hollywood, of all places, where you have to look a certain way or weigh a certain amount, "And I chose that!"



Said she was a West Hollywood event where lesbians and gay men were fighting over the battle against Prop 8, and she was shocked to see everyone at odds who should be united. She said that she knows it's a hell of a time for a lot of us, but we're all in it together.

She asked to have the house lights brought up so she could see everyone, and started taking questions.

Said she's been studying with Mary Rocomora, who "took me step by step and guided me" and helped Renee start to believe in her dreams, however big they are.

She asked everyone to get up and dance in their seats, took off her bulky jacket and went down into the audence and danced with them to a song I didn't recognize... everyone clapped and danced and waved their arms in the air.



She wrapped up talking about her forthcoming film Fitful (see earlier update), and said a project she was excited about fell through because someone turned out to be "a shark, in a bad sense," and she felt bad that she didn't pick up on that sooner.

But then she ended up doing Fitful, and it was a small budget but great film,and she thought, "Thank you. This is what it's all about." It was being around people who are friends, and who love working together.



Then she said she would be working on another film (see previous update). "This one is about a family who are a shell of a family, going through the moves of life." She said she loves to be an actor, because you put yourself into someone else's life and come out the other end having learned something."

She thanked everyone for letting her share herself, and left the stage to a huge, screaming standing ovation.

Da AfterEllen.com update 13:http://www.afterellen.com/blog/christiekeith/blogging-the-15th-annual-xena-convention

Renee è stata intervistata nel backstage della Convention 2010:

Gabrielle was the little sidekick who could, an innocent and idealistic girl powerfully drawn to a troubled warrior with a dark past. Before the six-year run of Xena: Warrior Princess was over, she'd lost her innocence, learned to fight, and made some dark memories of her own. More than that, she became a hero in her own right, and Xena's -- and possibly humanity's -- salvation.



So while the titular warrior princess probably has more name recognition in the culture at large, for serious fans of the show, Gabrielle, her staff, and her bilious green sports bra are right up there next to Xena, her chakram, and her whip.

The actor who brought Gabrielle to life, Renee O'Connor, appeared twice at this year's Xena Convention: On Friday with Lucy Lawless, and again today on her own. Before the convention, she spoke exclusively with AfterEllen.com.



Since last year's convention, O'Connor saw Words Unspoken, a film she wrote, directed, produced and starred in, make the rounds of a film festivals. She also starred in Fitful, an independent film by award-winning director Rich Brauer, which will open in Los Angeles later this month.

Fitful is a comedy/suspense feature set on an abandoned Michigan ferry. The caretaker, Vigs (Larry Joe Campbell), has applied for historical status for the ship, and O'Connor plays Paula, an inspector for the national trust who ends up being forced to spend the night on the ferry after her car is disabled during an inspection.





"I've been wanting to work in independent films for a long time now," O'Connor said. "And when something like this comes my way, with an incredible script and a great character, when you find work that just fits you, you have to do it. And I can't say enough about Rich as a director."



"Career wise, I'm focusing mostly on producing, writing and developing, and also have considered a couple of directing projects that I ended up passing on, as they weren't quite right. But I see a future in directing independent films, and some of those have come my way as well. We'll see what happens."

O'Connor's been busy off-screen, too, working on a personal growth seminar she'll be conducting in London in May. "It's not religion or philosophy or therapy," she said. "It's just me sharing some experiences about how to be aware, tools I've learned that have helped me in life. It's about getting out of your head and living in a more heartful place. Why do we have to go to the movies or listen to music to be feel like we're in our hearts? Shouldn't we just live that way all the time?"

More Renee and lots more photos this afternoon!

Su AfterEllen.com( Update 10 ) http://www.afterellen.com/blog/christiekeith/blogging-the-15th-annual-xena-convention

Ecco le foto di Renee alla Convention:

http://tinyurl.com/ydnml3m

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9302308@N03/4333733593/

Renee da sola(38 foto)
http://lucylawlessitalianfansite.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=8116345

Foto da Ausxip:
http://ausxip.com/conventions/2010LAX/images/index.php?spgmGal=Friday/Renee#spgm

Renee sarà in un nuovo film: Beyond the Farthest star. Dove fa la moglie di un evangelista che ha alcuni problemi.

Qui più informazioni:

Renee just wrapped up her photo op session with fans -- garbed this year as an Amazon instead of last year's astronaut. We were talking before she went on stage, and she said that she was just signed to a new film, due for release around Christmas time.

It's called Beyond the Farthest Star, and it's the story of a has-been television evangelist who has one last chance to regain the spotlight -- or to sacrifice fame and save his wife (O'Connor), daughter and his own soul.

Renee's character, Maurene Wells, is a romance-novel-reading mom of a disaffected 15-year-old Goth teenager. She and her husband, Adam, were childhood sweethearts who married despite his father's objections when she became pregnant after being raped.

Renee's incredibly excited about the project, and said to tell you: AfterEllen.com readers got it first!

Back later with more, including some of those Amazon photo op shots.

Da AfterEllen.com Update 11: http://www.afterellen.com/blog/christiekeith/blogging-the-15th-annual-xena-convention

Il sito ufficiale del film:
http://www.beyondthefartheststar.com/

tutto in inglese

Foto scattate da Ross Olmos:

http://ausxip.com/conventions/2010LAX/images/index.php?spgmGal=Sunday/Renee/Photos_by_Ross_Olmos&spgmPage=1&spgmFilters=t#spgm

Video tributo a Renee durante la Convention(questo video ha vinto)

https://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=batch_download&batch_id=S1VCZ28zTWNFc0pMWEE9PQ

Foto di Renee alla Convention da Ausxip:

http://ausxip.com/conventions/2010LAX/images/index.php?spgmGal=Sunday/Renee/Photos_by_MaryD&spgmPage=1&spgmFilters=t#spgm

Oddio mi sento morire...in quelle foto col berretto in testa sembra mio nonno quando andava a zappare l'orticello...

sì in effetti non è venuta molto bene quì

Renee era vestita come nel film Words Unspoken, e ha fatto una scena all'inizio dove pescava.
Poi si è anche tolta la camicia e il cappello appena finita la scena. Ed era con una maglia aderente molto sexy

Eccola

Senza camicia e cappello

Ho appena notato cosa c'è scritto sulla maglia:
"I am aware". Renee si è davvero impuntata con sta cosa della "Consapevolezza".

Foto di Renee, domenica:
http://ausxip.com/conventions/2010LAX/images/index.php?spgmGal=Sunday/Renee/Photos_by_Christa&spgmPage=1&spgmFilters=t#spgm

Foto di Renee, venerdi:
http://ausxip.com/conventions/2010LAX/images/index.php?spgmGal=Friday/Renee/Photos_by_Christa&spgmPage=1&spgmFilters=t#spgm

Xena ha scritto:

Ho appena notato cosa c'è scritto sulla maglia:
"I am aware". Renee si è davvero impuntata con sta cosa della "Consapevolezza".

In che senso? Ho letto i vari articoli che hai messo in inglese ma mi sa che mi sono sfuggite alcune cose!

Nel senso che Renee da quando ha seguito lezioni sulla "Consapevolezza" da Mary Rocamora, ne parla spesso.
Infatti sulla newsletter mensile, ci sono dei video dove Mary Rocamora spiega cos'è questa Consapevolezza e come si raggiunge.
Renee farà un seminario a Londra, a Maggio di Quest'anno chiamato: Awareness Seminar, ovvero un seminario sulla Consapevolezza.
Comunque non ha niente a che vedere con la religione

Altre foto di Renee

https://s297.photobucket.com/albums/mm215/piper77_2008/2010%20Xena%20Convention%20Renee%20OConnor/

Foto di Aurora
http://www.auroragoddess.net/throughthelens/events/xenaconFeb2010/XenaCon/Renee/index.html

Renee
http://ausxip.com/conventions/2010LAX/images/index.php?spgmGal=Friday/Renee/Photos_by_Jennifer_Crawford#spgm

Renee O'Connor(domenica)
http://ausxip.com/conventions/2010LAX/images/index.php?spgmGal=Sunday/Renee/Photos_by_Jennifer_Crawford#spgm

Foto di Lida Verner

Renee(B/N)

http://lidaverner.smugmug.com/Cons/2010Xena/2010-ROC/11447263_ycdqv#804897078_qY8UJ

Photo Ops con Renee(Con il costume da amazzone)
http://lidaverner.smugmug.com/Cons/2010Xena/2010-Photo-Op-with-Ren%C3%A9e/11452344_4LFDE#805368399_gtyLz

Autografi:
http://lidaverner.smugmug.com/Cons/2010Xena/2010-Autographs/11512854_YQuxi#810255517_FBSjT