The Noah Cruz Interview

[marinschild]

http://www.pasteldefender.com/tsh%20cha ... 20001.html
This is SUPER SPECIAL AWESOME!!! The guy who plays Virtue is the biggest surfsley every. I hope Jennifer does more of these interviews.

This set picture is great too. http://www.pasteldefender.com/to%20save ... 20tsh.html

[peachsynapse]

Jennifer, you are incredible. I registered just to say this. Every time I think I've got you pegged, you do something else that's brand new and amazing. Never stop!

That picture of the "set" is so evocative... and it gives me a distance from this story that I needed. I'm getting way too wound up in it!

[Monocheres]

Like, going behind the magic 'n' stuff, and like, seeing what the, like, real dudes are like, is like, wicked gnarly, you know? I mean, like, totally!

[Anna]

So Virtue and Wailan aren't "dead"?
...sniff...

[Coda]

Virtue and Wai are dead.

Noah and Mory are alive and well.

[Plasman]

Very well done, Jennifer. Very well done.

PS. Lighten up on your actors, would ya? They're only human!

[Monocheres]

What I wanna know is, dat midget dere what plays Only, you know, da lil bald wop wid da hairy arms --- what kinda seegars do he smoke? Dem looks like mighty fine stogies. I wanna get me summa doze.

[Volair]

That. Is AWESOME.

"Miles of tail" ... good GOD, man.

[Jennifer Diane Reitz]

Welcome, peachsynapse!

I am really happy everyone seems to like the Comicstar Interview concept. It grew out of thinking about the 'Outtakes' in Unicorn Jelly. It also grew out of a manga artist I like, Johji Manabe. He did things like Outlanders, Caravan Kid, and Capricorn.

Manabe has a kind of gimmick, one which I greatly admire. He has a stable of favorite character designs that he uses over and over in new roles - a tall, strong humanoid tiger, a superhuman female lead, a mysterious super-sexy woman, and so on. They get new names and new personalities, but it is obvious that they are the same character designs.

Now Manabe openly admits that this is because he is kind of limited in which characters he can draw well, and so works with these because he really likes them. He seems kind of embarrassed about his limitations, and even asks his readers to forgive him for not being more imaginative. In one interview, he jokingly said that he considered them almost like actors, which he was putting into the movies in his mind, which he drew as manga.

The second I read that, I thought to myself "Hey! Why should that be a joke? Even if a person could draw an infinite number of new characters, why not work with a favorite stable of well established designs? Why is that bad? It works for Hollywood. Rather than being an excuse for a lack of talent, why couldn't an artist just run with that and build on it proudly? I bet it could add a meta-story to every story! That would be awesome!"

As I have slowly developed as an artist myself, I decided that it might be interesting to put that thought into actual practice.

Just maybe, I might run with this notion. I just might pop the occasional UJ actor into other roles. It might be fun.

What do you think?

Oh - I intend to do interviews with the entire cast. Mostly the entire cast. You'll see...

[Monocheres]

What do you think?

Dat sounds just peachy. Anybuddy gives ya any trouble bout dat, me and da boys'll have a few woyds wid dem. Capisce?

[marinschild]

I have to agree the with one armed man here. I personally can't wait to see what the other actors are like (especially Vola's actress). I'm also wondering what the actress who plays Kaye looks like without all that make-up.

[Anna]

... I'm also wondering what the actress who plays Kaye looks like without all that make-up.

We have already seen her:
http://www.pasteldefender.com/to%20save ... 20029.html
http://www.pasteldefender.com/to%20save ... 20308.html



No, I can't learn english by reading Monocheres

What do you think?

Dat sounds just peachy. Anybuddy gives ya any trouble bout dat, me and da boys'll have a few woyds wid dem. Capisce?

[Mitsukara]

We have already seen her:

Also this: http://www.pasteldefender.com/to%20save ... 20250.html

This idea and it's execution are hardcore awesome.

[Monocheres]

No, I can't learn english by reading Monocheres

Well, that wasn't actually English. That was more Bronx Eyetalian.

[Monocheres]

We have already seen her:
http://www.pasteldefender.com/to%20save ... 20029.html

Jennifer, I do hope you paid her well for the nude scene. While it can be a career enhancer short-term, in the long run it can limit an actress' career.

[Anna]

...
Jennifer, I do hope you paid her well for the nude scene. While it can be a career enhancer short-term, in the long run it can limit an actress' career.

This is only an american problem, in Europe it will be the opposite. Never seen an uncut french movie?

[Plasman]

I thought that "nude uber-Kaye" would have looked a bit more like Rebecca Romijn as Mystique... ie. all teal and no "sexy details". It doesn't look like the H-Hold gave her any nipples, as they would hardly be neccesary for a Jellese human-impersonator.

Besides, a nude scene doesn't always derail an actor's career. Look at Chloe Sevigny, for example.

EDIT: okay, so maybe she wouldn't be teal after all...
EDIT AGAIN: and perhaps it would have other bits, if not nipples

[Mitsukara]

Off-topic, but, that "elite class sex worker" line was the first hint about Jellese status in Kaye's home splay, now that I think about it.

[Tychomonger]

We have already seen her:
http://www.pasteldefender.com/to%20save ... 20029.html

Jennifer, I do hope you paid her well for the nude scene. While it can be a career enhancer short-term, in the long run it can limit an actress' career.

Notable exception: Charlize Theron

[Wizard CaT]

Off-topic, but, that "elite class sex worker" line was the first hint about Jellese status in Kaye's home splay, now that I think about it.

All I can think about is your negative view towards sex workers.

Plasman, as I recall the no nipples was originally like that because she didn't want to show them at first, though she has since in other works, not a limitation of the H-hold.