#magiccon 2018

☆ Actor Craig Parker ☆

Dirk, on his way to solve the case and maybe doing a holistic.

It was a good weekend, but I really missed Mark Ferguson. 

But at least instead we all got to meet Steve O’Gorman (no, you didn’t read that wrong or was it Steven? It kinda changed over the days of the weekend) and Babs.

The Comedy Hour was hilarious and I won’t ever forget watching Dean trying to say “Eichhörnchen” and Craig having to step in to correct him every time or how everyone lost it, when they did that dubbing movie scene and Dean first dubbed Lori’s long whatever-gibberish into a simple “yes” and afterwards turned a supposedly short phrase into an intense monologue. xD

Also I loved that story about that one time they had to film on location and Dean and Aidan went missing, because they were chatting and laughing so much that they didn’t pay attention to where they were going and ended up driving for an hour into the wrong direction, while everyone else wondered where they were.  As a side note, apparently Aidan and Martin were always the last to read the scripts (Stephen Hunter joked that they had a little game going on who would read it last and Aidan won.)

In his panel Graham was asked if he and Dean planned to continue their hostage story and Graham replied that he would need to talk to Dean about it. Apparently they did a follow-up video, but sadly I wasn’t able to see it because I had to leave early to be back at work this morning.

What else... oh yes, I already mentioned this scene with Dwalin and Bombur at one point, which they apparently actually filmed. Basically Graham was asked about the naked dwarf calender and he replied that it was something that came up in make-up like another thing he assumed would come out one day. (The real Adam Brown was also something that was mentioned in this context.) This thing was the Dwalin/Bombur “love story”. But anyway, Graham then started to tell the audience how they just acted out a scene in which Dwalin admits his love for Bombur, which Graham then replicated on stage. So they are at the end of the journey and Dwalin walks slowly towards Bombur saying stuff like “You are really quiet, I like that”, while Bombur watches him with a terrified expression. This goes on for some time, with Dwalin getting closer and closer and just when Bombur wants to say something, Dwalin puts his finger to Bombur’s lips and goes “shh, you will wake the dragon.” Still can’t quite believe that, but well, if they let them do the real Adam Brown, it’s not so far-fetched that they let them do this as well. 

Also, Dean said his man-bun was some kind of midlife-crises choice.