So we’ve finally arrived at the end of this particular chapter of our journey. We’ve had an absolute ball. Thank you to everyone who’s written in, tweeted, commented, or hash tagged over the past 2 years, because while The Descent is Easy is not going anywhere, this is our last official episode (famous last words…)about the TV show Shadowhunters. Best bits, MVPs, and best episodes – hold onto your hats.
Fan: We didn’t get to
see a Christmas episode, but if we had, if your character were the Secret Santa
of the person to your right, what would you get them?
Tessa looks forlornly at the empty chair to her right…
Alberto: I don’t want to be that guy, but Simon’s Jewish…
(cheering)
Isaiah (to Dom): I’d probably get Jace a set of fighting
knives. That double as steak knives.
Dom: And he would love them! And so would Dom! — (to Matt) I think I would get Alec a
series of stress balls. Not just one, but like a whole box. (turns to Matt) And
I’d get you like a portrait of a cow…
Matt (to Anna): What does Santa Clause get bad kids in France? Coal? It’s the same? Well…
Anna: Thank you!
Anna (to Luke): I would get you something with fire or heat.
Maybe like a straightening iron or a lighter…
Luke (taking Anna’s microphone): They didn’t give me a
microphone because they hate me… (crowd: AWWWW) (to Kat) I would get Kat, erm..
no.. I would.. what’s your name?
Kat: Clary!
Luke: Clary! I would get Clary another twinning rune because
she liked the first one so much!
Kat (to Will): I would get Sebastian/Jonathan…
Will: That’s my name!
Kat: I would get him therapy. Maybe a warm hug.
Will (to Jade): I would get Meliorn… you know Billy Bass,
the fish? You press a button and it goes (does a Billy Bass impression). I
would get him one of those, but it wouldn’t say anything! It would just (turns
head and opens his mouth, silently)
Jace (to Alberto): I would get Simon a list… you’re dating
Izzy? Okay.. (mimes unrolling the longest scroll) – These are the things you
need to know!
Alberto (to Tessa): What would Simon get Heidi?? (laughter)
Probably a restraining order…
Tessa (to empty chair): Well…
Dom: You go around, you get Luke!
Tessa: Ah man. I mean, I gave you a bunch of dead werewolves
and you didn’t like that…
Isaiah: Thank you for those
(laughter)
Dom: Great question to start off with! Well done! Now Dan,
the poor fellow has to translate all of our nonsense!
Michelle: It’s Sunday
morning so I thought I’d start you off easy – What’s your favourite dinosaur?
Matt: Am I supposed to start us off?
Kat: Sure!
Matt: You all know what my favourite one is. The one that
goes.. What does it do? Show me what it does! (600 people mime the frills of
the Jurassic Park dinosaur) And then it spits acid in the dude’s face. I like
that guy. Someone told me the name for it and I don’t remember it and I’m sure
I’m going to get yelled at for it later.. Chastise me later!
Anna: I like raptors. Cause I’m from Toronto! (Luke cheers)
Kat: They’re very wraith like as well
Matt: Raptors are? Pterodactyls more like it! Ridiculous!
Anna: Also raptor have really short front legs, like my
corgi.
Matt: You have a corgi?
Anna: Yeah, his name is Jasper.
Kat: Do you guys have Land Before Time? I’m not sure…
Alberto: (unprompted) It’s a brontosaurus.
Kat: No, I’m not sure.. I like the stegosaurus.
Lots of discussion about who is who in Land Before Time, Spike is mentioned, Cera is mentioned, no one seems to quite agree who is who and what dinosaurs they each are.
Luke: I take brontosaurus!
Dom: If you play videos of lemurs running backwards it looks
like a herd of brontosaurus running forwards, because their tail sticks up like
that. It’s great!! (clearly searching for it on his phone)
Kat: In the way that Matt is an encyclopaedia for
everything, Dom is an encyclopaedia for cute animal videos. He knows them all!
Dom: Oh yeah! Try and shock me with one today. You won’t!
(still searching on his phone) Oh! My internet just died. Ok. Let’s keep going!
Will: I’m going to say triceratops BUT… you know those suits
people can wear when they want to dress up like a dinosaur? It’s like half
dinosaur, half arm flailing tube man. I know there’s a human inside, but I actually
want one of those! I could BE a dinosaur.
Jade: Brontosaurus as well. Long neck. I think it’s because
of Jurassic Park.
Alberto: Mine’s the albertosaurus. It’s actually a dinosaur…
Tessa: It’s what happens when you’ve not eaten in a few
hours..
Alberto: What?
Tessa: It comes out when…
(everyone else catches on to what Tessa just said. So does Alberto…)
Alberto: Whoa…
(laughter)
Tessa: Erm… Anyway… Mine’s Pterodactyl or I could just take
a train and leave..
Matt: Isaiah, what’s your favourite dinosaur?
Isaiah: You baby!
(they laugh, then high five)
Everyone pauses and looks at Dan. Kat apologises.
Fan: If you were a
warlock, what would your warlock mark be?
Lots of cooing and awww’ing from the cast, as the question
was asked by a very young girl, before everyone starts talking to the person
next to them, failing to actually talk
Matt: Are we discussing this or what?
Dom: I’m sorry, we were explaining warlock marks to Dan.
Matt: Alright! Warlock marks. A warlock mark. What happens,
is that you’re a warlock and you get a mark. Sometimes you get fish gills.
Sometimes you get cat eyes. Yes, that whole cat thing. – – I would have a
prehensile tail.
Kat: What kind of a tail?
Matt: It could climb trees. Overall it would be a pretty
neat-o thing.
Dom: Okay, I would have wings then!
Matt: Get out of here, you can’t have wings.
Dom: Why can’t I have wings?
Matt: It’s not a mark.
Dom: It is a mark!
Matt: No, it’s a thing.
Dom: What do you mean it’s a thing? You get a tail.
Matt: It provides you too much benefit.
Dom: You get a tail!!
Matt: Yeah, *I* get a tail. *You* don’t get wings!
Dom: I get wings. I want wings.
Matt: We already discussed this
Dom: We did not discuss this! I’m having wings! I want wings
Matt: You get nothing! And like it!
Dom: You get a tail, but it’s this big (holds fingers a few
centimetres apart. Cheering and laughter.) It wags when you get excited… that’s
all you get!
Luke: Anna and I had the same one, which is horns
Kat: I was also going to say wings but…
Matt: But you can’t!
Kat: But I’ve decided that I would rather have legs that
have the ability to run really fast. So that I can travel really far distances
Matt: (sputters) No! See! No! That’s not a mark!
Luke: That’s a superpower!
Dom: Like the legs of a cheetah or something?
Kat: Yes!
Dom: Okay, cool!
Matt: (eyerolling) I’d like to have a canon for an arm
Kat: But it’s the same as having like gills and stuff!
Alberto: I would want gills!
Kat: Cause Madzie had gills
(laughter)
Kat: Apparently we are unclear on what a warlock mark can or
cannot be.
Luke: Gills don’t allow you to swim under water, do they?
Can Madzie swim under water?
Jade: Yeah they let you breath underwater!
Matt: Although there are other necessary organs!
Jade: She can totally breath under water!
Dom: Well, you would need gills, but you would also need the
respiratory system of a fish! If Magnus just had the eyes, could he see in the
dark? I don’t know!
(cheering and whooping)
Dom: Wait, if I had wings, could I fly, or would my bones be
too heavy? Because birds have hollow bones… (Matt mouths something at him) Oh!
My wings are just this big? (holds hands a foot apart) They’re like chicken
wings. I could only fly this far of the ground (a foot).
Matt: Are you serious? Chickens fly!
Dom: Yeah. But I’m bigger than a chicken!
Matt: I mean, big chickens exist…
Kat: You could have ostrich wings!
Will: What Alberto said is amazing! I was going to say
claws, but now because of this, I want to adapt them, into those things that
Spiderman has, that allows him to climb walls.
Matt: Like a gecko?
Dom: Or a spider. It’s Spiderman.
Matt: Oh yeah! Right. Wouldn’t your bones be too heavy for
that, too?
Dom: Or the lesser known superhero Geckoman.
Alberto: What would you call that? Tentacle hands?
Dom: No, they’re like hooks. They’re little microscopic
hooks on your fingers.
Matt: Fine hooks
Dom: Like Velcro
Matt: Well no, not like Velcro.
Alberto: If you shake someone’s hand, can you feel them?
Dom: No! They’re retractable, right?
Kat: Like Magnus’ eyes!
Dom: Like, how does he let go? Does he retract them into his
hands?
Matt: I don’t know anything about Spiderman
Will: Also it can’t be Velcro! Otherwise I could only climb
Velcro buildings.
(laughter)
Matt: Have you ever seen those cats climb the side of a
wall?
Dom: Yeah!
Matt: Wow!
Jade: Ok, since I don’t want deformed small wings, I want
skin that can glow in the dark, or that makes me invisible. Or like reflects
everything, so I’m like…
Alberto: Like a chameleon?
Jade: Yeah! That’s a mark, right?
Dom: That’s pretty good!
Matt: That sounds good
Dom: That’s the most sensible answer so far!
Alberto: I would have gills. Because it’s the whole
respiratory system.
Dom: So you’re
including the whole.. everything?
Alberto: No, gills are the repertory system. It’s all of it.
Matt: Well that’s going to suck when you’re not in the
water!
Alberto: You’d have lungs, too!
Matt: You can’t have both!!
Dom: I’m not sure whether you can have both..?
Alberto: Can you not have both?
Kat: Madzie can breathe above water!
Dom: Yeah, that’s true. She had gills, didn’t she? But her
gills just murdered everyone… they had a different power. They sucked the air
out of the room
Matt: (to audience) Is this a conversation that any of you
can understand??
(Audience cheers)
Matt: Okay. It’s very important to me that you understand
what we’re saying.
Tessa: Jade, is your skill that you turn into stuff or are
you just invisible?
Jade: My skin is reflective, so I’m kind of like a mirror,
invisible thing…
Tessa: I want to *become* the material I’m near to.
Jade: Oooooooh… like a cuttle fish?
Matt: A cuttle fish!
Dom: Yeah, I like that!
Isaiah: I would want diamond teeth. So if I smiled, it would
be the brightest smile in the world. And if I went broke, I could pull a tooth
out…
Alberto: You’d have a really strong bite, too. You could
bite into anything!
Dom: Like Jaws. – – Oh wait… What was the bad guy in that called?
Isaiah: Jaws…?
Dom: So it was Jaws? That makes sense, doesn’t it?
Matt: I like that you were thinking about the financial
security, too.
What’s next for your
characters? I know Jonathan and Lilith for example are dead….
Luke: I mean… we’re not a 100% certain on that…
So are they in
paradise or in hell? What’s next for Clace? Sizzy? Malec? And Luke as a
Shadowhunter? And Meliorn, now that the seelie queen is dead?
Dom goes to start, but Isaiah draws breath
Dom: Do you want to go first?
Isaiah: I’ll just go real quick, cause it’s really easy. Luke
would do whatever Alec asked him to do because now I work for the inquisitor.
(laughter)
Dom: That’s a solid answer. Jace would probably do the opposite of that because his brother is the boss now. So he’d be all “Jace, go and do this thing!” and he’d be like “oH SuRe, oKaY!”
Jace: But potentially with the way we ended the story, he
would get to not do what he’s told with Clary, which is nice.
Kat: So back to normal.
Dom: Yeah. Yeah. Except maybe you’d listen this time…
(Audience ooooooohs)
Dom: Oh come on!! Put your hand up if you died because of
Clary!
(Dom, Alberto, Luke, Will & Anna raise their hands)
Matt: It had never occurred to me how many people you are directly
responsible for murdering…
Luke: And some of them aren’t even here!
Matt: I’m going to make things a little easier on you. Alec
actually quits as inquisitor. He opens a small hardware store of exit 60 on the
New Jersey turnpike. 3-4 employees. Pretty solid life. Every now and again he
goes to the jersey shore during the summer.
Isaiah: Do some woodwork?
Matt: Yeah, do some woodwork. You could be an employee if
you want to be? Do you have an apron?
Isaiah: I like construction!
Matt: Good. Build houses maybe. Do some contracting jobs.
Move up in the world. It’d be great.
Isaiah: Nice craftsman style
Matt: Craft stuff? Yeah, that sounds great!
Isaiah: Okay!
Anna: So we can answer if we’re dead? I think Lilith would
have a change of heart. Things don’t ever work out for her. I think first she’d
apologise to Meliorn. (to Jade) Sorry for what I did.
Jade: It’s okay
(audience coos)
Dom: FIRST she would apologise to MELIORN??
Anna: Well… it was the last thing I did…
Luke: Yeah but… Out of all the people?
Anna: You’d be last
Dom: Okay. As long as I’m on the list…
Anna: (turning to Luke) I would cook you breakfast. Make
your favourite pancakes. With lots of fire.
Luke: Thanks mama! –
– I choose to believe that Clary didn’t
kill me. It just looked like that. I think she strangled the evil out of me and
I woke up in Toronto, by myself, really confused, wearing the weirdest outfit
and I now have a job making coffee.
Kat: Java Jonathan!
Luke: Yes!!
Kat: The Morningstern siblings have it rough, both waking up
in strange places, dressed very strangely… I think Clary’s draw to the shadow
world is undeniable and that love she has for all those people takes her back
to it, no matter what so I think she would be a part of it somehow, whether she
remembers her past or not. She’d be welcomed back and maybe she could make up
for all the deaths she’s caused?
Matt: Get back to murdering
Kat: She could re-join the family? Maybe murder the right
people?
Will: Well, Sebastian: Dead! Jonathan: Dead! So it’s turned
out pretty well for me, let me tell you!
Luke: I would like to apologise for that..
Will: If I was not dead, I’d probably get some therapy, and
then I would go and see mommy dearest and then I’d be like “Who’s this guy??”
(pointing at Luke) and then for the rest of my life I’d just be sorting this
situation out. What’s going on??
Jade: (pointing at Will and Luke) This is so cool! Seeing
them together!!
Jade: I would… well. I’ve discovered I’m the new seelie
king. And I would make some changes… Like, why do we have to be assholes? So
yeah, I would change stuff. I would hang out more. I would sing. We’d play. And
merge the realms.
Alberto: I think Simon will continue training as a downworld
deputy but he would also teach a class to shadowhunters about understanding
mundanes. And he would start an initiative to teach shadowhunters how to use
social media, to figure out demonic activity. He’d be like ‘Yo! People are
posting on Instagram about this shit going down right now’
Dom (as Jace): Great day at the institute. Hashtag Selfie!
(audience laughing and cheering) And everyone would be like ‘Jace, you’re doing
it wrong. That’s not…’
Alberto: You don’t say hashtag, you *do* the hashtag…
Dom looks confused, Alberto tries to mime explain his joke,
they are sitting very far apart, it’s clearly not working
Dom: We’ll talk later?
Alberto: We’ll talk later!
Tessa: Heidi is also dead. I think she’s in hell. Kicking it
back. I think she’s finally where she fits in. Feeling really good. Hosting
some sensible cocktail parties perhaps. I think she’s finally found her place
and she’s thriving!
(Dan translates everyone but pauses and says he didn’t hear
the beginning. He knows Dom/Jace would do the opposite of Isaiah but he didn’t
catch that…)
Isaiah: I’m doing roadwork with Alec. We have a hard wear
store… I make the keys in the back…
(Dan despairs)
Dom: Just say it in French. It makes no sense in English either, seriously, just say ‘he makes keys’ in French.
—
And that was the last question of the panel, much to Dan’s relief we are sure!
Dom: Hello everyone! (loud cheering) Thank you for having us
in Paris! (cheering) It’s been wonderful so far and we’re very excited to get
started with this wonderful weekend and all you wonderful people
Matt: Hello! There’s a lot of people here today. That’s
exciting, we’re going to have a lot of fun, and you guys are going to be loud. (loud
cheering) (in THAT voice) Let’s have a great time.
Will: (At what Matt said) That’s beautiful. I mean, that’s
beautiful! The sentiment there… just beautiful! (to crowd) Hi guys! How’s it
going? (loud cheering) So good to be here, so good to see you all… and introducing
this guy (pointing at Luke – super loud cheering)
Luke: (shy wave) Hi
Will: They were going to give us just the one chair, and
just switch us back and forth…
Luke: To be fair, I thought they were one chair short and I
was just going to leave… (AWW)
Harry: Hello… (Insanely loud cheering) we’re going to have a
lot of fun today. Can’t wait to meet you all and answer some deep questions.
So.. let’s give it another scream! (cheering)
Kat: Good morning everybody! (cheering) THOS con Paris was
our first Shadowhunters convention and it always feels like family and it
always feels like coming home and we’ve got the whole family here today!
Alberto: Hello hello (cheering) It’s really great to be here
again. I see a lot of familiar faces, I see a lot of new faces. Can’t wait to
meet all of you or see all of you again!
Nicole: Hello (super loud cheering) It’s so amazing to be in
Paris. I love Paris and like Alberto was saying, it’s really cool at this point
in our journey, all of us together as a family, us and you guys, to start
seeing people that I recognise and also to see new people and it’s been an
amazing time so far in your city, thank you for having us!
Jade: Wow! (cheering) Bonjour! (cheering) Ca va? (loud
cheering!) Jade continues talking in French to lots of screaming about how it’s
good to be back in Paris and to see how the convention has grown.
Emeraude: Hello everyone! I am so excited to be back, and to
see everyone. It’s been a while and I can’t wait to see you all and take
pictures and do fun things together and I will see you guys soon.
David: Buongiorno. Did I say that right? (NOPE!) Good to see
you guys. So happy you guys came out. Is anyone else sweating? It’s so freaking
hot! (cheering) You guys are awesome. I’m always excited to come to these
conventions because of the love you guys give us. I love you guys so much and I
can’t wait to meet you.
Kat: Do we get to answer questions now?
Dan: Yes! Are you ready?
Kat: So ready!
Dan: Deep questions
Jade: What’s your favourite…. Pony?
Alberto: Wait. Can I ask a question? How many people were
here last year? (cheering) How many people is this their first convention? (quieter
cheering)
(Kat congratulates Alberto for breaking the ice)
If you could live in
any time period, which one would you choose and why?
Emeraude: The 1950s, the 20s, I don’t know. Any time where
the girls were dressing cute!
Alberto: I’d like to say that I would live in a different
time, but there are a lot of comforts in this time that I’m not sure I’d want
to live without…
Dom: I agree. All my friends are here. My family is here. I
want to stay in this time (audience coos) No no no no! Not them! My actual
friends.
Harry: But don’t you think there is another version of all
of us in another time?
Dom: Where we all run a speakeasy in the 20s or something?
Harry: That’s a wormhole right there!
Nicola: I mean, not to get too serious, but at least for
women and for a lot of people, this is the best
time there has ever been. As women, it’s now or never baby. We’re at the
beginning of a future of women actually achieving equality so for me, I’m
sticking with right now and the future!
Emeraude: That was a fabulous answer. So I agree with her!
David: On another serious note, once upon time, there was a
time, when there was no time. So…
Kat: Now that’s deep!
David: I don’t know where I was going with that… Anyway.
Elvis. I love Elvis. I want to meet him!
Jade: Atlantis! Some of you think it’s not a real time, but
it is! That’s where I belong.
Matt: (off microphone) But it’s underwater
Jade: Yes!
Dom: Use your microphone Matt!
Nicola: He’s saying he’d chose Atlantis, before it was in
the ocean
Harry: ooooooh
Dom: Isn’t the ocean part the bit that makes it cool tough?
Otherwise it’s just a city!
Matt: (to Jade) You do like mermaids a lot!
Dom: The mermaids wouldn’t be there if it was above ground! –
– Hey Dan! (Dan is the translator) Loving your life so far? (laughter)
Did you know each
other before the show or did you get to know each other during the show?
Dom: It’s a mixed answer. I knew Will from London and Kat
and Luke from LA. I met everyone else on the show. Aaaand… that’s it.
Kat: I knew Dom beforehand and I met Luke during, outside of
the show. And the other ones became family. I never forget the first day when I
got to Toronto all these guys were pretty much there already and we all went to
dinner. And I was really nervous about it. I was the youngest one on the cast
and going to be living in a foreign country with all of these people and I only
knew Dom. Having everybody become a family so quickly… we pretty much laughed
until we cried that first dinner and it really set things off in a great way.
Harry: Yeah, Kat was like 12 years old when the show started.
Nicola: Jade and I met working on a play together in Toronto
as we both do theatre and we’re both Canadian. When we got the play we started
rehearsals and Jade was worried because he had to take two days off to do this
TV show that I’m doing. And I was like ‘Oh my god me too!’ What’s the show?
Shadowhunters! What about you? Shadowhunters!
(Jade, in French, talks about knowing Anna Hopkins, pointing
at the photograph up on the screen. Audience says no, he’s confused, looks at
the picture again, realises it’s Emeraude, searches the screen, realises Anna
isn’t on it (as she’s only here Sunday). Jade: Nooooooooo.
Jade also knew Alexandra Odolis, who plays Ollie, and the
Seelie Queen.
Harry: What’s Seelie queen in French?
Jade & Dan: Reine De Fee? (They start discussing the
difference between fairy and seelie and whether that’s the correct translation.
There’s mumbling on stage. Nicola joins in. The first few rows of the audience
join in. Everything is talking amongst themselves and confused)
Matt: I DIDN’T KNOW ANY OF THEM! And that’s a really quick
translation! So we can do that… (Matt realises that no one’s paying attention
to him) What’s happening here? What are we deciphering?
Jade: Fairy and Seelie
Matt: oooooooh..
Will: Should I answer the question? Will that make it more
difficult? I did know Dom and I messaged him to say ‘You got this amazing job!
Well done!!’ and then, who knew, a few years later, I’m on the show… it’s
crazy!
Harry: I didn’t know anyone either. At first I thought I was
in an episode of Project Runway. Everyone is just so good looking!
Emeraude: (mocking) Project Runway?!?
Harry: Nevermind. America’s Next Top Model! I don’t know the
difference… But what I love about this project is that everyone is so different
but the thing that they all have in common is that they all have such good
heart and they’re all so talented and know they all have really bright futures
ahead of them and it’s really cool to be part of this project that almost had
people from all over the world and I think that’s why (dramatic pause) y’all are
here (super loud cheering)
Emeraude: I knew Harry but Harry didn’t know me because I
was a fan of Glee!
If you could take
your character to a concert, which band or artist would you take them to?
Jade: (sing-song) Ga-ga!
David: Kpop
Emeraude: That is so weird! Raphael at a Kpop concert??
David: I know! But I just saw Kpop on Instagram and I
thought it was fun. Any Kpop fans here today? (cheering) Okay, well in that
case Raphael’s going!
Harry: I have to agree with that. We got a lot of
inspiration for Magnus from BIGBANG, their make up and stuff. So I think Magnus
definitely went to a couple of BIGBANG concerts. Maybe some BTS I guess.
Emeraude: I really like Halsey right now, and I just really
want to meet her, so I would use Isabelle as an excuse to meet her.
Nicole: I would take Maryse to see Jade live. I love Jade’s
music and if you haven’t checked it out then do so, it is unbelievable! And it’s
so empowering and I think Maryse could use some uplifting empowerment and I
think Jade’s music would help her do that so I’m going with Jade all the way.
Alberto: The first impulse thought was to take Simon to a
Barenaked Ladies concert. That would be so much fun.
Dom: Do you want to translate now Dan? Before we do the
second half of answers? We’ll try really hard to concise these answers because
you have a queue of people and we’ll ramble for an hour and a half about what
our favourite band is.
Emeraude: (interrupting Dan, before he can start
translating) I’m really interested in Matt Daddario’s answer! What would it be?
Matt: I don’t want to waste time!
Emeraude: We’re not wasting time! I’m sure everyone wants to
know what your answer is!
Matt: It’s not us, it’s our character-
Emeraude: Stop avoiding the question!!
Matt: I’m not, but we have to think about-
Emeraude: JUST ANSWER THE QUESTION
Harry: He can’t think of any band name. At all.
There’s a pause when everyone turns to Dan, waiting for him
to translate
Kat: Matt, you’ve got time to google! Go!
Harry: (giggling to himself) The beatles!
(Dan translates)
Kat: I would like Clary to take me to a Simon Lewis concert!
And outside the Shadowworld, I think Clary and I would enjoy a P!nk concert.
Luke: We had a long discussion because we were wondering if
it was on the same line, and it is…
Will: Well, it kind of is…
Luke: It is! Like, very similar
Will: Well, you say yours and then I say mine
Luke: Mine would be Blink182
Will: And I was going to say Black Sabbath, which I don’t
know if that’s the same
Luke: It is! It’s heading in that direction.
Will: It’s true. I need to say Sebastian as well, and we
think…
Luke: ..we think for Sebastian…
Will: …It would be like Disney on Ice or something like that
Matt: (pointing between Luke and Will) This is really cute,
what’s happening here
Luke: It’s really funny, I want to compare notes. I’m like ‘what
do you think about this? What’s going through your head right now?’
Will: We really should have done this before the show ended.
Luke: Yeah, awkward.
Kat: Alright Matt, it’s your turn now
Matt: I already said I’m not sure!
Emeraude: Well say something!
Matt: There’s no point trying to force me to say something.
I don’t know what the answer is.
Kat: What about the symphony orchestra or something?
Matt: He might not want to do that necessarily, or he’s
probably done that before!
Emeraude: You’d probably rock out to Beyonce or something,
right?
Matt: I think the Jade answer is a great answer. It’s a
solid answer and I think it would be fun for him
Emeraude: Dom, what did you say?
Dom: I haven’t yet. It’s cheating a little bit but I would
like to take Jace to see someone like Elvis. Someone who is so spectacular at
what they do, and I quite like the idea of Jace watching him like “why is he
moving like that? Is he in pain? Is he hurting?”
Matt: Elvis isn’t alive anymore…
Dom: hey hey hey
David: Don’t you talk about my Elvis like that!
Since you started
filming Shadowhunters, how has your life changed?
Kat: Being barely 19 when I started the show-
Harry: 12!
Kat: 12. Yes. Coming out of the show in my mid 20s it’s a
huge influential part of your life-
(Alberto interrupts and whispers to her)
Kat: Early twenties. I’m rounding up, it’s fine. Okay, I’m
not rounding up. Coming out of the show in my 20s, I’m so thankful to have been
surrounded by such wonderful people, both in the fandom, and all these people
up here on stage, the crew and everyone. If there’s anything I’ve learnt it’s
that you are an amalgamation of all the people you spend the most time with and
that influence you and I can’t thank everyone enough for everything I’ve
learnt.
Harry: I’ve grown an appreciation for everyone who wears
make up and what it takes to take it off at the end of the night. I have made
progress from taking it off by wetting tissue and just like smearing it, and I
see girls and they’re just like ‘ooooh, don’t do that!!’ and now I dab and I
take it off really softly and nicely. So I’ve grown an appreciation for anyone
who wears make up, eyeliner or nail polish.
Will: I’ve learnt a lot from Jonathan (turning to Luke) I’m
sure it was the same for you…
(laughter)
Luke: I learnt what NOT to do.
Will: No, seriously. Before I started this job, I was a nice
guy, but now, if anyone pisses me off….
Luke: I’ve learnt if anyone pisses me off, I just cry about
it. It’s pretty much all I did.
Will: I just scowl at people. I’ve learnt to scowl. And I
enjoy that!
Nicola: My life changed in huge ways. I had a 6 month old
baby when I started shooting Shadowhunters and suddenly I had kids in their 20s
and that was kind of fun. And it gets very lonely sometimes when you first have
a baby and you don’t see your friends very much, especially if you’re a working
mum so these guys were the first friends I made. Dom was the first person to
say ‘come out, come with us and have some fun’. Everyone was so welcoming and
they were the first friends that I made after I became a mum and it was a very
significant thing for me to have all these guys at this point in my life. It was
an epic shift for me, so it was really beautiful.
Jade: Honestly meeting all of these guys has been the best
part! (to Emeraude) You’re my favourite. But this, THIS here is very much part
of it and has very much changed everything which is why we’re in Paris right
now, together, and going around the world. The show is cool, and it’s nice, and
it’s fun, and it’s magic and like, ‘oooooh, a TV show!!’, but it doesn’t
compare to the experiences that we have right now and in between shooting.
These are the best parts.
What were some of the
funniest moments?
Nicola: I always loved it when one of us was pretending to
be dead or knocked out. There’s something funny about pretending to be passed
out. We had a scene, with Dom and me, where I’m meant to be passed out and
Magnus comes and saves me and it’s so hard to not laugh when you’re pretending to
be dead or passed out. I think everyone at some point had to be dead or passed
out and there’s something funny, too, about watching your friends trying to be
dead and be like ‘I should do something to make them laugh!’
Matt: It helps if you sleep
Dom: Not if you’re supposed to be dead! I remember this. They
did a shot over me, when I died, to Kat and Alan, and I just heard Drew go “I
can see you breathing!”
Emeraude: There’s a video we did for Matt Daddario’s
birthday that we all had to keep a straight face, and I thought that was a cool
moment
Harry: It was! We did it like 6 times and you just couldn’t
keep a straight face the whole time!
Emeraude (deadpan): Happy Birthday Matt
Harry: There you go!
Kat: I think one of my favourite memories was one of the
first dinners we ever had and we played that game where you all put your phones
away and then whoever touches their phone first-
Matt: That game? That GAME where we put our phones AWAY at DINNER?
Kat: Yes!
Dom: You all put them in the middle and if someone grabs
their phone, they have to pay for everything
Kat: You were there!!
Matt: I don’t remember that
Kat: We were all still getting to know each other
Jade: Who won?
Kat: We had to split the cheque in the end because we were
all good! But it was one of the best conversation we had because we were forced
to get to know each other
Harry: So the lessons is-
Matt: Wait wait wait. This is the funniest thing I’ve ever
heard. We went to dinner and we put our phones out in front of us and that way
we were forced to get to know each other? Otherwise, what happens? Would we all
sit there like this (pretends to be on phone).
Kat: Literally that’s what people do
Harry: I’ve seen a lot of dinners like that
Dom: Yeah
Matt: On their phones?
Harry: Literally, eating and on their phones.
Matt: (eyerolling) Wow… that sounds like a great dinner
(silence)
Dom: Dan? (laughter)
(Dan translates)
Harry: The last thing I’ll say was the funniest moment was the
baby goat legs? Did you see that? The blooper? I think I gained like 4 abs from
laughing. I don’t even remember the line, but I had to do a serious line like ‘here
is this beautiful baby’ and then plonk.
Dom: And it was! It literally was this noise (drops
microphone)
Harry: And we couldn’t… usually you want to be professional
but we could not get through that scene.
Kat: I looked over and Matt is purple and Harry is crying
and everyone is losing it
Dom: The only person who kept it together was the mother
Matt: Well the nurse-mother has a scene earlier where I go
upstairs and I’m looking for her and she comes out and very seriously goes ‘Shhh.
Baby’s sleeping’. And I couldn’t get through that scene either because there’s
something so funny about the silence and then that very serious line. The goat
feet though. Thank got they got rid of that, because that did not work.
Dan: Sorry. I’ve lost you.. what was it you had in your
arms?
Harry: A goat feet baby.
Dan: A baby?
Harry: A baby with goat feed
Kat: A human baby with-
Matt: Prosthetics-
Harry: And I’m holding a real baby, too!
Lots of confusion, everyone is trying to help, talking simultaneously,
but making it worse
Nicola: Jade, do you want to translate this?
Jade: Okay, so it was a real baby with fake goat legs?
Dom: Yes, real baby. Fake goat legs. We couldn’t find a real
baby with real goat legs.
Dan: Okay, but the thing that fell on the floor was a fake
baby?
Kat/Matt/Dom: No. No no no.
Matt: Goat feet
Dom: A real baby. Actual real human baby child.
Harry: Fake baby, real goat feet.
Dom: No!
Harry: I don’t know where they got the goat feet from but…
Matt: (to audience) Right, you’re just going to have to
explain to your neighbour what happened!
(Dan starts to translate. Everyone on stage watches the sign
interpreter)
Alberto: What is the sign for goat feet?
Dom: Yeah, we’re all quite curious here, what’s the sign for
goat feet?
(Interpreter translates their questions into sign)
Matt: Oh no! Now she has to explain what we asked!
(Interpreter shows the guests what the sign for goat feet
is)
Dom: This is all I’ve learnt. I’ve been watching this
spectacular woman signing and translating everything (applause) and all I’ve
learnt from it, is goat feet, which is cool, but…
What are your
favourite hobbies outside of the performing arts?
Will: Oh, okay. I do a bit of music on the side, but now I
can’t say that! I do a lot of photography which I really enjoy. And travel as
well. I love travel and I haven’t been able to do it enough. So I want to do it
more!
Anna: I love to write. I write a lot. I love spending time
with my dog. Oh, and my boyfriend!
Luke: Dog (puts hand above head). Boyfriend (puts hand below chair)
Anna: Also be with friends and also I hide in my house a
lot. I like being alone. That’s a hobby.
Luke: I also really love photography but I also like going
into a dark room and developing my own photos. I started in high school and
it’s a bit like meditating, cause you’re just on your own in this dark room…
Will: That’s so much cooler than what I said!
Luke: Well basically my whole aim is to just take everything you say and say it better (laughter) And then with any remaining free time – it’s really trite to say, but it’s the truth – I work on my charity stuff as much as I possibly can. It also feels like meditating in a way because it’s so far removed from the performing arts.
Anna: Luke does some amazing work with Oxfam.
Have you ever heard your French dubbing voice?
Anna: Yes! It’s so much better!
Luke: Mine sounds like a Disney villain. (pretends to speak Disney Villain French) Like, what is happening here?
Will: I haven’t heard mine! How have you heard yours?
Luke: You just go to Netflix and you change language
Will: Aaaah. Wait! Do you and me have the same one? Cause that would be amazing!
(Audience says no. Will and Luke are sad.)
Will: Oh. Okay. Is mine any good?
Everyone: NOOOO
Anna: He’s like ‘I’m here guys’. He’s probably sitting in the back, really sad!
Luke: Oh no!
Anna: Don’t be mean to him! Wherever you are, thank you for
your work!
Describe your first
day of shooting
Luke: Mine was hilarious because I had known for a few months that I was going to be Jonathan and I was super excited and then they flew me to Toronto and then I had to wait another two weeks and it was great, I got to work the space, and me and Kat spent time together. And the night before I went for a fitting at 8pm and I ate something bad, so I had food poisoning on my first day of shooting. I was up from 2am and I had to be at the studio at 5am and I was just being sick all day. I was trying to work and the whole time I was just like ‘Don’t vomit on Kat. Don’t vomit on Kat. Don’t vomit on Kat.’ And I remember being in this scene and looking around thinking if I had to vomit, what would I do it in. And there was this big urn… I decided I was going to vomit in that. (laughter) There was a point during shooting where I thought I was going to pass out, I just felt so bad. And then a fire alarm went off and we all got evacuated for an hour, because there was a potential gas leak. There wasn’t. Everything was fine. But I think maybe I made it happen… I think I manifested it, so I could sleep for an hour, because it was the thing I needed to actually finish the day.
Anna: Well I’m sorry you got food poisoning, that sucks!
Once, on another show, the whole cast and crew got food poisoning. It was
really hard. – – Anyway. My first day was just one scene, so I’m going to talk
about my second day of shooting, which was my first real day on Shadowhunters.
We had to do all the black Lilith in the goo and because of scheduling we had
to do black Lilith, then regular Lilith, then black Lilith again. We were
shooting out in the church and I’d just met Brian, the make up artist, and he
said ‘We’re going to get to know each other really well today’ and I was
wondering what he meant by that. So he covered me in goo, but because we’re in
the church, we can’t go back to Base Camp, so we had to go to a hotel room, so
I walked through the hotel lobby, covered in goo. And we all go into a room and
they sent me to the bathroom, telling me to take it off, here’s some make up
remover, but it wouldn’t come off, and we were on such a tight schedule, Brian
and two assistants had to come into the bathtub with me, and scrub my body
clean. My whole body! It was insane. And the bathtub, this gorgeous bathtub,
was turned black and we couldn’t get it out…
Luke: We’ve both been covered in that goo as well! All three
of us have been covered in it and it’s horrid!
Will: My last day of shooting was in the goo. And it was in
a tank. The front was Perspex and there was the entire crew watching me and I
was basically naked except for this tiny.. cloth they give you. And I’m having
this stuff dripped on me from the top and I just thought ‘this is NOT what I
signed up for’. And it stains, doesn’t it?
Luke: I was finding black in my ears! In my hair! And I
remember we had some quick changes and I was standing in the middle of the
studio in this G-string that they give you, and I had three people spraying
this.. I’m not even sure what it was, It was like Windex or something! It was
so gross.
Will: It’s really odd. Like, when it first goes on, you
think ‘oh this feels quite good. This is alright! This could be quite fun’. And
I know this wasn’t quite the question you asked but that day, they called ‘And
that’s a wrap on Will’ and it was my last wrap ever and I was in what felt like
a zoo cage, me covered in goo going ‘aaargh’ and I had to get out, except
everyone was packing up and I couldn’t get out because of the Perspex… Anyway.
My first day of shooting was when I meet Izzy in the alley way and that was a
nice introduction actually, because it was quite cool coming in, doing a big
spin and getting a sword out and attacking people. And it set up the character
of Sebastian quite well. This ideal of what he wanted to project. So that was a
nice contrast to what he became later on.
What’s your Hogwarts
house?
Anna: Oh shit. This is really fucked up guys. I’ve only just
watched the first film!
Will: (in a hero voice) Gryffindor!
Luke: You don’t get to choose that. You’re a Huffelpuff! (laughter) I have been asked this and it’s very contentious because I chose to believe that I’m a Gryffindor. But I have been accused of manipulating the results, so I will get Gryffindor. But the hat lets you choose the house, so I can chose Gryffindor. – – – But also maybe I’m a Slytherin.
Anna: For a newcomer.. How do you choose your house?
Luke: The sorting hat is this ancient hat that you put on-
Anna: Where do you get it?
Luke: You don’t-
Anna: Can I order it?
Luke: No, it’s not on amazon
Will: We should say that this is in the fictional world of
Harry Potter, there’s a sorting hat. Here you can go on a website and find it
out. I’ve done this, and apparently I am a Gryffindor. But while I was
answering the questions I thought ‘I’m such a Slytherin. Everything I was
answering was like Slytherin. Slytherin. Slytherin. And then it came out
Gryffindor and I’m like ‘hehe maybe I’ve tricked the system’
Luke: I am coming around to the idea of being in Slytherin.
Anna: From what I know you look like those people… In a good
way. Like, hot and scary?
Luke: That’s just the one! Crabbe and Goyle do not look like that…
What’s your favourite
French food?
Luke: Oh god, all of it! The butter! So much butter!
Will: The French butter is amazing
Luke: I just use bread as a delivery vessel for the butter.
So much butter, it’s the best!
Dan: Okay, but regular butter, or salted butter, or butter
with the salt crystals on top?
Luke: OH MY GOD the salt crystals? And it’s crunchy? And oh
god! If I moved to Paris, which I desperately want to, I would have a heart
attack I’d say within 6 weeks. But also croissants. Pain au Chocolate.
(Audience interrupts to be outraged about stuff)
Anna: It’s a controversy apparently
(Dan explains the war between part of France using ‘Pain au
Chocolate’ and ‘Chocolatine’ – Luke makes audience cheer for one or the other,
to see how the crowd splits.)
Anna: I’m from Quebec and we call is Chocolatine (lots of
cheering)
Will: But… they’re basically the same thing, right?
Luke: It’s a potato / potahto situation
(Dan ends the fight by saying that it’s a pain au raisins,
not raisintine, so there you are!)
Luke: I made the mistake this morning at breakfast there
was… a croissant with chocolate – I’m not going to say it, I don’t want to take
a side here – but I thought it had chocolate and I bit into it and it was
raisins and I was just so sad. I just felt so.. betrayed!
Anna: I mean, I eat everything and food here is insanity. I
like just a straight up jambon-beurre (ham and butter) sandwich. Tartare de
boeuf. (Will starts jumping up and down on his chair) Frites. Crepes. Fuck,
just everything.
Will: Yes, I just got incredibly excited at the beef tartar.
It’s so good! And also steak here. Just a steak with – I know this isn’t food –
but the wine! It’s so good. Steak. Wine. Butter. And a doctor to help me
through that.
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Let us first say that Nicola is incredibly well spoken, thoughtful, kind and down to earth. She also has the most stunning smile you will ever see.
Now, on to the quotes….
Nicola, as soon as she sat down and spotted the person who had made her fanbook: First of all.. My fanbook?!? This lady here is the most incredible woman. Me and my husband were going through it yesterday and just going ‘OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!’ It’s like a work of art, it should be in a museum. It’s phenomenal. Thank you again!!
Fan: I loved that Maryse walked Magnus down the aisle and the emotion you showed in the scene. Did you talk about this beforehand? Walking Harry down the aisle? And how did you feel with where Magnus and Maryse ended up?
Nicola: (blows out a long breath…) I remember getting the script. It was in the script that she was going to walk Magnus down the aisle. But it all happened so fast, the show getting cancelled. We were all told ‘Yay we’re definitely getting a season 4! See you all in August!’ and we’re all ‘Yay great!’ and then that happened so we had no idea what they would do… we all had some ideas what was going to happen in season 4 and we just had no idea how they were going to do it in two episodes. So the scripts came and we’re all like ‘oh my god what’s it going to be??’ and when I got to that point in the script and it said “Magnus comes around the corner” – I got goosebumps reading it then, and I have goosebumps now – so I read “Magnus comes around the corner, escorted down the aisle by Maryse” and literally my husband was in the other room and I went ‘OH MY GOD BABE!!’ I was so thrilled. (Nicola rubs goosebumps on her arm). So I knew. It was in the script.
What was so beautiful about shooting that scene, was that normally we don’t get the music that you hear when you’re watching it, because having music in the backgroundmeans you can’t hear the sounds in the room or people talking. But what the director did that was so beautiful, was that all of the walking down the aisle stuff, all of us, Matt and Paulino who plays… erm… he plays… I forgot my husbands name…
Fan: Robert
Nicola: Yes! Hah! I’ve got Luke now, so I’ve forgotten Robert’s name. But all of it, me and Harry, the flower girl, everything with her.. we hadn’t heard the song yet and the director said I’ve got the song, and I’m just going to play it and you’re going to walk down the aisle and we all just started bawling right away. There was literally no acting in any of the scenes walking down the aisle, that’s just Harry and Nicola crying. Cause the song is so beautiful as well, right?
And in terms of the character development… what’s so beautiful, is that there’s been all this stuff that I’m sure some of you have done as well as other fans, who juxtaposed Maryse and Magnus facing off at the first wedding and then walking him down the aisle at the second wedding and this just makes my heart explode. What’s so beautiful about that relationship is that Maryse was fairly closed and had made a lot of choices about putting business before family, in a way that was detrimental for her and her family and seeing her open up to her family and realise that this was important was one thing, but to have Magnus be the person she relates to the most… After rejecting him, he’s the only one who understood what she was going through when she was de-runed. Luke did too, with what happened to him later, but at the time, the two of them ending up being friends and such important allies is a great symbol for what needs to happen in the world right now. If we could start seeing what we could gainby connecting with people around us, the world would be a different more beautiful place. So for me it was a symbol of everything. It was so important.
And also it was so fun, because Harry and I finally, after having one scene together going ‘I hate you!’ ‘I hate you!!’ and then all of season 3 it was me and Harry hanging out and it was really lovely.
At this point Nicola stops, and realises that her translator has been taking notes, and is frantically scribbling
Nicola: Oh god you have to translate all of this! I’m so sorry!!
After the translation is done, Nicola says (in French) that
she speaks French a little bit, but not enough to do that! But she does understand,
so when she’s nodding along, it is because she does understand
Michelle: Sort of on a similar vein in regards to Maryse’s journey. We’ve got a SH podcast where we did breakdowns of each episode, and since the show got cancelled we’ve been doing character episodes for the 8 main characters and we asked people to let us know if they wanted us to talk about any of the other characters and the most requested character was Maryse Lightwood
Nicola: Awww, great!!
Michelle: So what do you think it is about her journey that makes people connect to her so much?
Nicola: I think Maryse is representative of what can happen if people do what we need to be doing in the world. We’re living in a really scary time, right? It felt like progress was happening and now… especially with what’s happening in the United States and I know there’s stuff happening in this country, too… You feel like we are moving away from progress. Especially with LGBTQ rights, womens rights, acceptance of people, just human rights in general, and that’s without even starting to talk about the climate and everything else…
I think the thing with Maryse is that she starts out in a place that represented pain for a lot of us. She caused her children a lot of pain. She caused herself a lot of pain. And over the course of the three seasons she changes in the way that I think we all wish that people in our lives could do. And they can, but not everyone chooses to. And I think what’s specially about Maryse is that she made a choice. She didn’t wake up one day and was different, because that’s not real. That’s not real life.She chose to work on herself and become a better person.
What I love is for example in season 2, at Max’ rune ceremony, the party at Magnus’ house, you see her trying with Magnus. She’s like ‘oh god, I’m in a warlock’s house. But that’s okay.. I’m going to try…’ and the thing where she goes “I hear you like to drink…” and gives him the bottle and it’s like oh god, Maryse, what are you doing? But she’s trying! She knew she made a horrible mistake trying to get Jace killed. She acknowledges that and she reaches out to him to changes. Her journey is very realistic, to what people need to do. It’s hard work. People don’t just forgive you, you have to earn that. I think that’s why she’s so special. And to me the thing that is really key about Maryse, you see it in my first episode in season 3, when we find out she’s going to get de-runed and Alec says ‘Let’s fight to keep your runes! I’m going to fight for you!’ and Maryse says ‘Don’t fight. Because I did these things. I hurt people. I deserve this punishment so I will take the punishment and then I will make up for what I have done.’
I think if we had that attitude of ‘I admit what I did and I’m sorry and I’m going to do something about it’. That to me is the only way to really apologise and move forward. I think that’s what people have connected with. That it’s possible. Let’s do what she did. And it was written very realistically and we saw the struggle of it. She takes responsibility and it’s something we’re really lacking in all of our culture right now.
Nicola pauses, looks at translator: Can I just add one more thing before you translate? I’m sorry! I’m so sorry!!
What I think a lot of us are dealing with, with sexism and homophobia etc I think is a lot of people say ‘I’m not sexist! I’m not racist! I’m not homophobic!’ and they get defensive. When what we need is for people to say ‘You know what? I think I am a little bit. Or at least I was. And I don’t want to be… so help me fix that.’ And then we could help people fix that. But if we don’t admit it, then we end up with what’s happening in the United States right now, with people going ‘I’m not racist, I just don’t want these people in my country’ and I’m sure it’s happening here too with immigration. Just admit ‘I’m scared’.
Or if a parent, rather than disowning their gay child, could say ‘I just don’t understand… But I want to…’ so if we could just be honest about that and if we could take responsibility, then things could get better really quickly you know?
Fan: What did you put into Maryse, from yourself and what
did you take from her, for your personal life?
Nicola: It’s funny. Maryse and I had very little in common in season 1. I’m a very empathetic person. I hate conflict. That first episode when I come in and I’m like ‘ARGH! You’re all terrible! I hate you!’ and they’re all crying… It’s horrible! It’s fun to play, but so horrible. So we had very little in common, so what I tried to bring to Maryse from the beginning was the element of myself that somewhere in the back of her head was that this wasn’t how she wanted to be.
Maryse season 1 was very hard, but I was trying to have a little bit of Nicola in the back going ‘It could be better’, and I think that’s in the writing as well. That scene with Isabelle where she says ‘you remind me so much of me’ and then the next minute she’s all ARGH again. But there’s those little moments where she’s trying. Maryse and I became much more similar as time went on.
What I also related to with Maryse is the career element. I am a working mum. I have a busy career. I question… I think all working mums… well, women in general. We’re always forced to question whether what we’re doing is right. Am I too focused on my career? Am I not focused enough? So I related to that struggle a lot.
What I got from Maryse was a couple of things. One of the reminder that you can change at any time. Maryse is significantly older than me. When I started the show I was 32 and Matt was like 28. (lots of eyerolling and laughter) Maryse is meant to be about 20 years older than me, in angelic time. So what I’ve taken from Maryse is that as you get older your life changes and sometimes you wonder if you are who you want to be. What I got from Maryse is that you can change your life at any point. It’s never too late to change your life and to reinvent yourself. That has been huge for me and I think about that a lot. The scene with Luke in the bar where Maryse says ‘I’m lost’, and he says ‘We’ll get through it, we just have to figure out what’s next’ – so that was very inspiring to me and I’m trying to take that forward in my life.
Fan: What did you think when they told you Luke was going to
be your love interest?
Nicola: Well we’ve all seen Isaiah… there is NOTHING wrong with that!
There was a rumour that this was going to happen in season 2, when we shot that scene where I apologise to Luke and everyone was like ‘Huh! That’s interesting…’ and the writers wouldn’t tell me anything, and we’re all like ‘oh my god is this going to happen??’
I thought it was amazing, because I think Luke is the best possible person to bring her back to family and that she was the best person for Luke, to have a strong adult in the world that he hadn’t had since Jocelyn died. And I know it doesn’t follow the book, but I think for the story we were telling for Luke and Maryse, it was perfect. I also think it was really nice for the kids, like Clary and my kids, it was nice for everyone. We ended with a real family. Which I thought was lovely.
Fan: In all of your career, which character that you’ve
played is closest to you? And on your website it says you sing, but I’ve not
been able to find any songs..
Nicola: I’m on a TV show that you guys can get in Europe now, called Burden of Truth, and that character is most like me. I read for this character and my husband was helping me with the lines and he was like ‘oh, it’s you. Right. They should give you this, because this IS you’. Loving kids, loving people, she’s very much like me. Sometimes you get to play a part where you’re basically playing yourself and other than the smalltown element, she’s basically me, and that’s nice occassionally!
And with the singing. I was a professional singer until I was about 24. I did a lot of musicals. I recorded a self produced album, but I never distributed it. So it’s out there, with my family, on CD. I have been talking to some friends of mine who are singers about just doing some fun stuff together, but I decided that singing was very personal to me, and I decided that trying to make it a job was too stressful, so I decided to focus on acting as a job and singing as something that I did for myself. But I will see if I can put something online for you!
We are told that that had been the last question, but someone asked if she could just very very quickly ask something related to this, very very quick.
Fan: What’s your favourite musical role?
Nicola: I did a bunch, but I played Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar which was definitely my favourite!
Nicola thanked us all for coming, we took the group picture and she wished us a great rest of the convention.
