By Caillan from the Slipstream
Andromeda actor Gordon Michael Woolvett says last year's final episodes set up the direction the series will follow in season three.
"There are fresh new directions but it's still Andromeda, it's still the same show," Woolvett told Paul Spragg in the forthcoming issue of Cult Times. "Towards the end of season two, the last couple of episodes you start to see the new direction the show is going to go and maintaining throughlines, keeping the characters the way we like them to be, having them change little by little over time. Not a lot, but still having those same things week to week that we're gonna see that we love to hate or hate to love or love to love. Or hate to hate."
The engineering set has been redesigned for the third season, and Woolvett can't wait to start scrambling around in Harper's new home. "They've built a new slipstream core and it looks like there are some poles and railings and things, basically like a set of monkey bars, so I'm looking forward to getting in there and swinging around."
Monkey business aside, Andromeda's action scenes have always appealed to the pint-sized actor. "I love the physical. I think it probably comes from being a smaller person. Your strength to body ratio is a little better because you've got less to carry around. I think probably because of that I try to find ways to throw myself around; if there's a railing I try to go over it, and so when you're doing things in green screen you have a lot of room to move."
Woolvett also enjoyed the green screen scenes in which he interacted with a holographic Harper. "What was difficult was trying to come up with differences between the character because the character is the same person," he said. "I was trying to keep him as energetic and crazed, as cuckoo as he was before and trying to maintain that so you can see the subtle difference between the two. Which was difficult because the easiest way to make two things seem different [is to] make the other character a little less energetic.
"So when I was trying to do that opposite myself, I actually realized, 'Wow, I really am energetic!' I had to really go far to be more energetic. I think I threw an ad lib in there when I said, 'Now I know why people hate me!' I think that was an ad lib; that may have been a good line. They all start to blend together. I'll take credit for it, sure, what the hell. Zack [Stentz] and Ash [Edward Miller] will get mad at me because I think that was theirs. Sorry guys."
The full interview with Woolvett can be found in issue 83 of Cult Times magazine, out later this month.
Andromeda actor Gordon Michael Woolvett says last year's final episodes set up the direction the series will follow in season three.
"There are fresh new directions but it's still Andromeda, it's still the same show," Woolvett told Paul Spragg in the forthcoming issue of Cult Times. "Towards the end of season two, the last couple of episodes you start to see the new direction the show is going to go and maintaining throughlines, keeping the characters the way we like them to be, having them change little by little over time. Not a lot, but still having those same things week to week that we're gonna see that we love to hate or hate to love or love to love. Or hate to hate."
The engineering set has been redesigned for the third season, and Woolvett can't wait to start scrambling around in Harper's new home. "They've built a new slipstream core and it looks like there are some poles and railings and things, basically like a set of monkey bars, so I'm looking forward to getting in there and swinging around."
Monkey business aside, Andromeda's action scenes have always appealed to the pint-sized actor. "I love the physical. I think it probably comes from being a smaller person. Your strength to body ratio is a little better because you've got less to carry around. I think probably because of that I try to find ways to throw myself around; if there's a railing I try to go over it, and so when you're doing things in green screen you have a lot of room to move."
Woolvett also enjoyed the green screen scenes in which he interacted with a holographic Harper. "What was difficult was trying to come up with differences between the character because the character is the same person," he said. "I was trying to keep him as energetic and crazed, as cuckoo as he was before and trying to maintain that so you can see the subtle difference between the two. Which was difficult because the easiest way to make two things seem different [is to] make the other character a little less energetic.
"So when I was trying to do that opposite myself, I actually realized, 'Wow, I really am energetic!' I had to really go far to be more energetic. I think I threw an ad lib in there when I said, 'Now I know why people hate me!' I think that was an ad lib; that may have been a good line. They all start to blend together. I'll take credit for it, sure, what the hell. Zack [Stentz] and Ash [Edward Miller] will get mad at me because I think that was theirs. Sorry guys."
The full interview with Woolvett can be found in issue 83 of Cult Times magazine, out later this month.
