Sorry I’ve been slow to the Comic-Con posts the past few days. It turns out that I had succumbed to some sort of Con Flu (actually, more likely Plane Flu) from my trip, so I wasn’t exactly all that enthused to be up late into the nights writing posts. I’ve finally bounced back, so the posting shall commence!
One of my favorite press rooms to attend while at SDCC this year was that of TNT’s Leverage. Not only am I a big fan of the show, but almost the entire cast was present, including guest-starring actor and CliqueClack friend, Wil Wheaton. Also, the press rooms over at the nearby Hilton actually have windows and a door that opens to actual, outside air, which — let me tell you — is an incredible blessing.
When Wil came to our table to talk, along with Leverage creator Chris Downey, Wil gave me the ultimate ego boost by announcing to the table that, because he’d written with me at TV Squad (but am now with CliqueClack), I was thereby granted the first question. I had planned for this room, so because Wil put me on the spot, I was going to put him on the spot:
Me: When are you getting your own show, and would you want your own show?
Wil: (Laughs) I don’t know. I kind of really have a great career right now. I get to play wonderfully crafted villains on a wide variety of shows, and it’s almost like being employed full time without the grind that is typically associated with being employed full time. So I still have time to write, and I still have time for my family, and I have these wonderful extended families on the set that I get to go and visit in Portland and Vancouver and Hollywood. And while it would certainly be nice to earn the kind of money that you earn when you have your own show, I’m just incredibly grateful for what I have right now.
Me: Would you turn down even the thought of it?
Wil: No, of course not. Like, that’s the dream, right? That’s what you work for. I would love to be able to, five years from now, go kind of live wherever I want to live because I’ve worked on a regular series long enough.
I wonder if that’s what Mark Sheppard‘s thoughts are, as he’s appeared as a guest star on so many of my favorite shows in the past few years that it’s borderline absurd that he doesn’t head up his own show at this point. Maybe the sort of commitment one’s own show requires simply isn’t as freeing as he’d want right now. Incidentally, I did get to speak with Mark Sheppard at his criminally line-free signing booth, which I’ll talk about later.
The other thing I wanted to know from this set of interviews was something I know Deb also wanted to know: when are we getting more flashback sequences? Will be be seeing more soon?
Chris Downey: We really want to. Sometimes the cost effect is such that we can’t always do them. But when we can, we really try to get them in there. The answer is yes.
I wish I had time to ask him why these scenes cost so much more to do, but I wasn’t able to get that in. BUT, there are more coming, he says, so that’s all good. While I was at it, I was able to ask Christian Kane what his favorite flashback scene was (like you care — but I wanted to know). His answer: the monkey. Good answer.
Clacked by Keith McDuffee 
on Aug 02, 2010 @ 15:00 EST5EDT
