Chris Judge mini-con
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seldearOnly just got back, and it was definitely worth the piddling entry fee! Cocktail meet-and-greet and a <150-person convention for just over one hundred dollars? Bargain!
As assorted people have previously commented, Chris is like a big teddy bear. Swears like a trooper, which he had to be careful of because of the handful of kids in the room. *laughs*
The Hair: For those who wanted to know: it seems that the hair is here to stay. Apparently Teal'c was only supposed to be bald for a couple of episodes at the start of the series...but it kept going. Every winter, Chris would do something with the hair (eg. the summer between S3 and S4, he got it blonded and grew the caterpillar) and ask Brad if he could keep the hair. And every year, off came the hair.
Then Brad went off to Atlantis, and Chris girded his loins for a mighty battle with RCC. And RCC said, "What? Oh, sure, do whatever you like."
From what I gather, Chris likes having long hair. He enjoys doing stuff with it - braids, gel, dreads, dye. So, I suspect the hair he had in Midway is here to stay.
The Work: Chris is just about to start shooting something with MGM (possibly a series). He couldn't say what, but he nearly had to cancel for it. As it was, he told MGM that they could wait two weeks to begin shooting something that they didn't have a start date for anyway, and came to Australia.
He couldn't say anything about Stargate: Universe, either. I don't think he could even say if it had a go-ahead, although the way he hemmed and hawwed about it, I think that it does. (Didn't Gateworld report on that the other week or something? I'm sure that someone posted that Stargate Universe had the go-ahead - or at least a premise.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hwcarnage?)
He talked about his webisode series project with Michael Shanks: basic premise - the angel Gabriel is murdered while on Earth, and the angel Raphael has to come down and find out what happened. He called it a cross between Touched By An Angel and 300 (The 300? I wasn't sure if he was referencing the movie or something else.) There was a brief insert about his religious beliefs (Catholic childhood, turned Baptist and possibly something else in there) and about the concept of God being predestination and the concept of Lucifer/the Devil being choice and he spoke about encouraging religious dialogue across belief systems since the whole "don't talk about politics or religion at the dinner table" thing has really been entrenching people, rather than making them more open-minded.
Yeah, it got a little off-topic there. I wouldn't have minded if that had been something to converse about. Unfortunately, no time.
Reminiscences about working with RDA: Apparently, although they'd worked together on MacGyver before, RDA didn't remember Chris at all. And they share toilet humour in the form of amusement in bodily functions.
Cue entertaining story about the farting competitions between Chris, Rick, and the rest of the cast, crew, guests, and assorted people on site - to the point where Chris changed his diet in order to out-fart Rick, where they brought in great, industrial-strength air-filters to get rid of the smell from the main sets but couldn't fit them in the control room, where one day they stunk out the control room and had to quit filming, it was so bad.
Apparently, on one of the producer walls, there's a laminated email from MGM that was sent the next day, stating that any bodily functions that closed down production for the day would thereafter be treated with due seriousness...which stopped everyone else from the fart competition, but which didn't stop Chris or Rick. *snorts*
Atlantis, Season Five: This was my one question and I totally flubbed it. Not enough info at first, then too much, then rephrased it, then... Oh well, I always make a hash of my questions and embarrass myself at conventions. Did it at Torri Higginsen's convention in 2005, and Rachel Luttrell's convention in 2006. I'm quite adept at it by now.
Anyway, I asked Chris if he was going to be in Atlantis Season Five, and it's still possible. He really wants to work with Jason Momoa on Atlantis again (he was pretty forthcoming about his time working with Jason) and is apparently spinning some episode ideas. If there's a Season Six, then they'll probably end up there. If there isn't a Season Six, then they might try to squeeze an episode in - as I said above, Chris liked working with Jason, and he wants to drag Michael Shanks along for the ride as well.
I wanted to ask if he could spin some episodes that did some stuff with Teyla, Ronon, and Teal'c - aliens saving the day FTW, but didn't see an opportune moment. Dammit.
Anyway, Chris says that Jason has way too much energy; he's like the energizer bunny of Atlantis (my interpretation of Chris' opinion) - a difference that's probably all the more obvious since Jason is some twenty-ish years Chris' junior. But they had great fun screwing around ("Not that way! I know how your minds think, but it's not that way!") and Chris definitely wants Teal'c to go back to Atlantis.
The Actor's Strike: I and another girl engaged him in conversation about this during the cocktail party. Basically, the US Actors' Guild strike is still a fifty-fifty proposition. According to Chris, the studios are a bit pissed at the actors for supporting the writers, and are going to try to take it out on the actors. But it's still looking probable. We didn't quite manage to get around to what that would mean for Stargate Atlantis before we had to move on and let others talk to him.
The Video Chris Judge Doesn't Want You To See: A woman asked a question about "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" on YouTube.
Chris went "o_O" then burst into laughter which he wouldn't explain, and thereafter denied that such a video ever existed.
I came home and checked out the reference. *g*
Linked here for your delectation and amusement (and possibly horror):
"The Devil Went Down To Georgia" (featuring Chris Judge at some...stamp-pony club or something) - circa 1989, and very NSFW!
Honestly, I love the Culture Shock/Armageddon Sydney conventions. Melbourne gets a bit too big - the Melbourne SF TV crowd is bigger and more fanatical than Sydney. Torri and Rainbow were good but their con had about 300 tickets so that was one of the larger Sydney cons. (They'd been expecting Joe Flanigan as well, but he had to cancel.) Rachel and David Nykl and Tony Amendola were nicely sized - not to large, not too small - probably about 180 tickets. And this one was small and loads of fun at around 150 tickets. Plenty personal.
Plus, I made at least one new acquaintance! Always good to widen the fannish contacts in the local area.
Feel free to link up to whatever Teal'c-centric groups or communities might be interested in this report, but please link, don't copy.
As assorted people have previously commented, Chris is like a big teddy bear. Swears like a trooper, which he had to be careful of because of the handful of kids in the room. *laughs*
The Hair: For those who wanted to know: it seems that the hair is here to stay. Apparently Teal'c was only supposed to be bald for a couple of episodes at the start of the series...but it kept going. Every winter, Chris would do something with the hair (eg. the summer between S3 and S4, he got it blonded and grew the caterpillar) and ask Brad if he could keep the hair. And every year, off came the hair.
Then Brad went off to Atlantis, and Chris girded his loins for a mighty battle with RCC. And RCC said, "What? Oh, sure, do whatever you like."
From what I gather, Chris likes having long hair. He enjoys doing stuff with it - braids, gel, dreads, dye. So, I suspect the hair he had in Midway is here to stay.
The Work: Chris is just about to start shooting something with MGM (possibly a series). He couldn't say what, but he nearly had to cancel for it. As it was, he told MGM that they could wait two weeks to begin shooting something that they didn't have a start date for anyway, and came to Australia.
He couldn't say anything about Stargate: Universe, either. I don't think he could even say if it had a go-ahead, although the way he hemmed and hawwed about it, I think that it does. (Didn't Gateworld report on that the other week or something? I'm sure that someone posted that Stargate Universe had the go-ahead - or at least a premise.
hwcarnage?)He talked about his webisode series project with Michael Shanks: basic premise - the angel Gabriel is murdered while on Earth, and the angel Raphael has to come down and find out what happened. He called it a cross between Touched By An Angel and 300 (The 300? I wasn't sure if he was referencing the movie or something else.) There was a brief insert about his religious beliefs (Catholic childhood, turned Baptist and possibly something else in there) and about the concept of God being predestination and the concept of Lucifer/the Devil being choice and he spoke about encouraging religious dialogue across belief systems since the whole "don't talk about politics or religion at the dinner table" thing has really been entrenching people, rather than making them more open-minded.
Yeah, it got a little off-topic there. I wouldn't have minded if that had been something to converse about. Unfortunately, no time.
Reminiscences about working with RDA: Apparently, although they'd worked together on MacGyver before, RDA didn't remember Chris at all. And they share toilet humour in the form of amusement in bodily functions.
Cue entertaining story about the farting competitions between Chris, Rick, and the rest of the cast, crew, guests, and assorted people on site - to the point where Chris changed his diet in order to out-fart Rick, where they brought in great, industrial-strength air-filters to get rid of the smell from the main sets but couldn't fit them in the control room, where one day they stunk out the control room and had to quit filming, it was so bad.
Apparently, on one of the producer walls, there's a laminated email from MGM that was sent the next day, stating that any bodily functions that closed down production for the day would thereafter be treated with due seriousness...which stopped everyone else from the fart competition, but which didn't stop Chris or Rick. *snorts*
Atlantis, Season Five: This was my one question and I totally flubbed it. Not enough info at first, then too much, then rephrased it, then... Oh well, I always make a hash of my questions and embarrass myself at conventions. Did it at Torri Higginsen's convention in 2005, and Rachel Luttrell's convention in 2006. I'm quite adept at it by now.
Anyway, I asked Chris if he was going to be in Atlantis Season Five, and it's still possible. He really wants to work with Jason Momoa on Atlantis again (he was pretty forthcoming about his time working with Jason) and is apparently spinning some episode ideas. If there's a Season Six, then they'll probably end up there. If there isn't a Season Six, then they might try to squeeze an episode in - as I said above, Chris liked working with Jason, and he wants to drag Michael Shanks along for the ride as well.
I wanted to ask if he could spin some episodes that did some stuff with Teyla, Ronon, and Teal'c - aliens saving the day FTW, but didn't see an opportune moment. Dammit.
Anyway, Chris says that Jason has way too much energy; he's like the energizer bunny of Atlantis (my interpretation of Chris' opinion) - a difference that's probably all the more obvious since Jason is some twenty-ish years Chris' junior. But they had great fun screwing around ("Not that way! I know how your minds think, but it's not that way!") and Chris definitely wants Teal'c to go back to Atlantis.
The Actor's Strike: I and another girl engaged him in conversation about this during the cocktail party. Basically, the US Actors' Guild strike is still a fifty-fifty proposition. According to Chris, the studios are a bit pissed at the actors for supporting the writers, and are going to try to take it out on the actors. But it's still looking probable. We didn't quite manage to get around to what that would mean for Stargate Atlantis before we had to move on and let others talk to him.
The Video Chris Judge Doesn't Want You To See: A woman asked a question about "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" on YouTube.
Chris went "o_O" then burst into laughter which he wouldn't explain, and thereafter denied that such a video ever existed.
I came home and checked out the reference. *g*
Linked here for your delectation and amusement (and possibly horror):
"The Devil Went Down To Georgia" (featuring Chris Judge at some...stamp-pony club or something) - circa 1989, and very NSFW!
Honestly, I love the Culture Shock/Armageddon Sydney conventions. Melbourne gets a bit too big - the Melbourne SF TV crowd is bigger and more fanatical than Sydney. Torri and Rainbow were good but their con had about 300 tickets so that was one of the larger Sydney cons. (They'd been expecting Joe Flanigan as well, but he had to cancel.) Rachel and David Nykl and Tony Amendola were nicely sized - not to large, not too small - probably about 180 tickets. And this one was small and loads of fun at around 150 tickets. Plenty personal.
Plus, I made at least one new acquaintance! Always good to widen the fannish contacts in the local area.
Feel free to link up to whatever Teal'c-centric groups or communities might be interested in this report, but please link, don't copy.
