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Too old/Osama's b-day
Audio dramas
Were you a fan?
Working on the movieQ: (Re:the q&a at the bottom of this page) You can never be "too old" to play Chang Lee on a time-travel show. How do you think "the Asian Child" would grow up? What would he do next?
A: Well, if I was him (in real life) I'd take the money and make a movie out of my adventure, but FOX/BBC beat me to it already. I'm not sure what the character would be up to say, 10 years later. Hopefully someone will come up with an interesting enough idea to shoot it, or at least make an audio drama out of it.
Q: Did you know you share your birthday with Osama bin Laden? What do you think about that?
A: Interesting. I didn't know that. It's a little freaky at first, but upon closer examination, it's just a matter of chance, really. I share my birthday with 6.5 billion / 365 = almost 18 million people. If the Al Qaeda network had say, 5000 full-time terrorist members, about 13.8 of them would be celebrating a birthday every day; 13.8 of them would share a birthday with you too :)
It's funny, some of us rarely run into enough people to have friends with the same birthday, but statistically speaking, any decent-sized sample of the population will produce a fair number of them.
For example: in a full stadium that seats 100,000 people, chances are 274 have the same birthday as you! Out of the more than half million people who participated in the London Peace Rally on March 22, 2003, 1370 protestors were also celebrating their birthday! Weird, hey?
Q: This is not a knock, but how'd the Big Finish people ever talk you into playing a Professor when your claim to fame as far as the show was concerned was playing a teenage hood?
A: Audio dramas are unique that way, in that an actor may play different characters within the same series, or even within the same episode, and the illusion of the story remains intact, for the most part. The job of an actor in an audio drama is to create a voice character, which may or may not resemble the actor's own voice. Thus the skill of the actor, and not his or her different face, is responsible for the different characterization.
Furthermore, even though I didn't create a voice character that sounds very different from myself, if the part was played with any skill and the piece was produced well, it shouldn't infringe upon the audiences sensibilities at all that I'm playing a character different from "Chang Lee". When you listen to an audio drama, the dialogue and narrative serve to create a vision in the audience's imagination, quite unique and perhaps unlike the visions of the writer, actors, or producer. The only thing that matters, in this case, is the audience's willingness to believe.
Also, the "Big Finish people" could likely talk me into doing a lot of things professionally, as I have the utmost respect for their work and trust their vision.
Q: Were you aware of, or even a fan of Dr.Who before the TV movie?
A: I watched Dr.Who reruns after school when I was in elementary school (age 6-11), along with all sorts of afternoon and prime-time TV. I spent so much time in front of the TV when I was younger that I got completely sick of it. I still don't watch TV much, to this day. But to answer your question; yes, I was aware of Dr.Who and had seen a few episodes, but I didn't watch it faithfully, and wouldn't really consider myself a fan, until I did the movie and found out more about it.
A two part question from the UK! Thanks for being the first to submit.
Q: Did you enjoy working on Doctor Who, what was it like working on the sets?
A: I had a great time, and the sets were one of the best parts! The Cloister Room was a fantastic piece of work, with real working gas torches. (I will find out the name of the set designer and include it here. I'm a schmuck for forgetting in the first place.) On the down side, the torches filled the set with smoke, and everyone was blowing out black soot from their noses - but it was a small price to pay. My favorite location was the water park at the end of the movie, with the man-made lagoon - which I fell into during one of the shots.
Q: Would you like to come back as Chang Lee if asked?
A: I would love to, although I imagine it would be under slightly different pretenses. I might be a bit too old to play "the Asian Child". Then again, with a little movie magic...
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