Published April 2012
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And before you know it, it’s the 20th of the month again and time for another Ferreira Fest, the monthly newsletter celebrating the acting career of Louis Ferreira (Justin Louis)! This time we have an interview with Bradley Stryker, and Louis answers your questions, plus news about his latest role! So grab a pineapple drink at the free bar and come on in!
TOUCH
Louis’ episode of “Touch” airs on Thursday May 10 on FOX. The episode title is “Music of the Spheres” (episode #09, Season 1). Be sure to set your DVR or DVD recorders – check your local listings for exact air times. I won’t give away any of the plot – or even his character name – because it would be a spoiler. Suffice it to say that you will see Louis the way you’ve never seen him before! He is especially proud of this particular role, and you’ll understand once you’ve watched it why it was so important to him. Don’t forget to send your questions via email after you’ve watched the episode!
PS: The episode will be available online at the official TOUCH web site one week after it airs, so May 17. If there are other sites offering the entire episode they will also be posted here at Ferreira Fest, as usual.
THE DAILY LOVE
Please check out the new link for The Daily Love. Here’s what Louis said at the beginning of our last conversation – listen to the sound file here:
FF: Ok, Louis, this is Ferreira Fest and we are recording our conversation from now on. Is that okay with you?
LF: Yes, and helllloooo.
FF: All right, so these are questions that were left at the website and I’m just going to go through it, and you tell me when you’ve had enough. So, all right (laughter).
LF: I would like to start though by saying that, um, I’d like to include, I’d like to share something that has become very important to me in the last little while.
FF: By all means.
LF: And it’s a website, that’s called The Daily Love.
FF: The Daily Love?
LF: The Daily Love. And you can download it for free. And it’s done, um, in three different parts, which is it’s basically giving you quotes, and then you have this gentleman, Mastin (Kipp), who basically blogs about different things on the daily. And, I just find him to be, there’s lots of different things you can check out and stuff. And he’s got about 500,000 followers now, but it’s inspirational on many, many levels. He tackles different things and it’s, he’s tackling stuff that really is what I think it’s all about at the end of the day, which is all about us, our search for the best versions of ourselves. You know. The search for our, higher power, or God, as you know him, or as God as you understand him. And I think that that is beautiful.
And so, I’d like to start sharing, like, Daily Love, I’m gonna like, monthly, maybe, gonna pick a favorite quote, and just make that, like, my quote of the month. And people can feel free to share their favorites with me and vice versa or we can all share amidst ourselves. Because at the end of the day, more than anything, this is really what it’s all about, and self growth, and self love and loving others. This is a wonderful way to start. I’ve started my day with this sort of thing, and if it inspires even just one person to do it, then I feel it’s a good thing.
FF: I love that idea.
LF: Yeah, so there it is.
FF: And you know what? I can also make it a permanent link on the website, in the upper left hand corner.
LF: Oh, that would be wonderful. And you know, for example, like one of these quotes for today, for example, today’s quotes, I love this quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson that a lot of people know. It’s just very simple. “Insist on yourself, never imitate.” And that has a beautiful, lots of implications, but to me as an artist, there is a wonderful, you know, sort of, obviously, you can take things on many, many levels, but certainly, artistically, I can, the idea of being an original and staying true to who you are amidst, people always borrowing and taking stuff and trying to create, hybrids of people as opposed to just going, “this is my authentic self.”
FF: Right.
LF: So, I love that quote. So that’s, you know, something to share.
FF: Also, it encourages you to be creative, which is also nice, you know, try something new. LF: Absolutely. And that’s why I think if you include it as a thing, I think that would be awesome.
Thanks to Kimmy for the transcript!
So there you are! Louis wanted me to call the link “A Little Daily Love from Papa Smurf“. Check it out some time, and see how Louis starts his day!
AN INTERVIEW WITH BRADLEY STRYKER
Many of you will remember Bradley as the ill-fated Sergeant Curtis from the first three episodes of Stargate Universe. Although his tenure on SGU was brief Bradley has been extremely busy making his own movies. We’ve been following his career for some time now and he kindly agreed to do an interview with Ferreira Fest, talking about his experience of working with Louis on his first movie A Weekend to Remember. As usual, you will learn a lot about Louis’ talent and craft, as Bradley has some nice insights in his work. Granted, most of you have not seen the movie but we have some screen caps for you, and hopefully we’ll have an exclusive link here at Ferreira Fest in a few weeks. Meanwhile, read on about the process of Independent Film making with Louis below. Enjoy!
Read the full interview on Bradley Stryker’s Page!
SCREEN CAPS
Louis plays Bradley’s brother in the short film.
Logline:
A loving husband and father organizes the perfect family weekend at their lakeside cottage, only to be confronted by his worst nightmare.
Click here or on the screen cap to see the whole collection.
ASK LOUIS
On Favorite Roles
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Q: Throughout your career, what was your favorite role so far in movies or television, and why?
LF: It’s a hard one because I don’t really have an answer, a specific answer. I think that at different times in my life it was different things. I mean the first time I got a job, period, was a huge thing because it was, I was getting an acting job. You know, growing up the way I did, that first job for me was like “Wow, I got, I’m gonna be on television,” and it was that.
Then, I remember maybe, four or five years later, doing Common Ground with Mike Newell (director), and the first time where I realized I was part of something that had a very strong message. It was about the busing system in the 70s in Boston. And um, you know, about all the race riots and the sort of integration and the segregation of the Irish and blacks in that city. And I remember feeling like I was being part of something that was profoundly impactful. And so you sorta go, “Wow, I want to be that kind of actor.” And I was always drawn to that, to do, to have work inspire, so that, you, through your work could touch people, in ways. And when that came out that was something I was proud of. So that triggered that kind of feeling in me.
Along the way, I remember, personal victories, things like Scales of Justice, (Episode 3, Regina vs Horvath), David Cronenberg directing, and there was like an eighteen minutes scene that we shot in one take, with the cameras rolling.
FF: Good God!
LF: That was beautiful, because I had to play a schizophrenic and you know, change people… literally personalities in the middle of the take. And I remember how rewarding that felt at the time. I was playing a real life schizophrenic who had murdered his mother, it was like this legal court case thing that changed actual laws. The show was called Scales of Justice, and they were things that, it changed the actual laws that were in place, or intact, and because of these specific cases that these guys studied the laws were changed due to certain things.
FF: That’s fantastic.
LF: And in this case, was that, he had been hypnotized by the therapist interviewing him and under the hypnosis, he had gone into his, other personality and under that guise confessed to murdering his mother. But the judge ruled it inadmissible because of a lie detector… it was a lie detector test and it has to be voluntary.
FF: Gotcha.
LF: So the argument was that because he was under hypnosis that, in fact, it was involuntary. So they let him off and a month later he killed again.
FF: Oh, wow.
LF: And then, he spent the rest of his life behind bars. So that kind of thing is always interesting.
I think of the comedies. I loved Hidden Hills and what it represented. I love the idea of you know, I thought it was like, for me, a departure as far as playing a type of character that I had never played. It was light to me. It reminded me of sort of, you know, Modern Family, but like, seven, eight years ago, no, longer than that, ten years ago. It was just, it had that kind of single camera…
Comedy seems to be something that for me, I was like, “this is a good fit.” I was really bummed when that went away, but I certainly loved that role of Doug Barber. I felt that was the sort of father that I was and could be and I got to project that because I come from something that was completely different. So I enjoyed that for that.
These are ones that are just coming to the top of my head.
FF: Sure.
LF: I remember getting Trinity in New York with John Wells (producer) was a big deal just because, you know, who John Wells was. This wonderful cast of John Spencer, and Jill Clayburgh, and Tate Donovan, and Sam Trammell, and Kim Raver, and Bobby Cannavale. It was just such a beautiful group of people. And being in New York doing a series, that was just, kind of like, a big deal.
I remember when Gary David Goldberg (creator/ producer/ writer) hand-picked me to be his lead in Battery Park. I didn’t have to audition even. That was a wonderful, sort of, vote of confidence. You know, it’s kind of neat to have these kinds of moments.
Other roles. I certainly loved DurhamCounty because of the feminist view of serial killing. I felt I was doing a service as far as, you know, kind of, exposing men and the kind of men that, abuse women with many different angles, whether it’s the charmer, the abuser, the aggressor, the controller and that was almost like a lesson in psychology for me. And, you know as a feminist view of serial killing and that was, I felt like I was participating in something special there.
Stargate holds a special place in my heart because I became “Papa Smurf.” It was sort of the culmination of me becoming the man that I had gotten to, which was, you know, the Mark Harmon reference that we talked about before.
FF: A little bit of a coming of age, then. Yeah.
LF: Yeah, yeah. That cast was very special to me. And it was also the first time I, you know, I went to my legal name, which in retrospect is probably hurting me a little bit now. But it’s that thing, of what we just read, never, you know, always insist on being yourself, don’t imitate. And so, the stage name was a version of me, it wasn’t really me. And I’m ready to be me. And sadly, you know, the way the business works, it’s that “Wait a minute? Did you lie to us?” and all this kind of stuff.
So I’m figuring that out, but I’m true, I’m being true to myself in a way that I never have. So Stargate was very, very special for me. And I, even this episode of Touch has a special place in my heart simply because I got to, in changing the name, feeling like the universe gave me the gift of going, you know, and being able to have that name associated with why you would have gotten that role. So, there’s a list of several.
FF: Yeah, I figured there probably was not a single word answer to that one.
LF: No. (laughter)
FF: But, what was really interesting too, remember the last time we talked about how Touch would be your 100th credit, but Dancing Still actually ended up being that. But you know, that’s even better, because now Touch is your 101st credit. So it’s like your first credit in the second one-hundred.
LF: Yeah. Yeah. In the second part with the Louis Ferreira name. Absolutely, I thought that same thing.
FF: And I thought that was… I thought that was really kind of poetic.
LF: And you know, what’s interesting – both Dancing Still and Touch are both very, very, both those characters are both very, you know, one is a little more tragic than the other, but they are both, sort of, about two men who believe or still hold out the belief for love. One wonders what could have been, what might have been, and the other one is just relentless in his pursuit. So I love that those are the two, my 100th and 101st credit.
You know, that that is what I got to, sort of, embody, which is very much, sort of, what I’m becoming as a person. You know, I like that idea. You know, I spent probably the first part of my twenty-five years running away from myself, ‘cause of all my childhood. I would think, “Oh, act, that’s escapism.” I don’t want to be… You know, but as I’ve grown and become the man that I am, I find myself moving towards myself, of embracing who I’ve become, which is an interesting dichotomy.
You know, where you have this, you know, this image of this person running and that’s why I’ve found acting to just get away from me, and now going, “Oh wow, I like what I am and what I represent.” And I want to use that. That’s my deeper purpose. That’s my deeper gift. That’s… I think that’s kind of very neat in a way.
FF: Absolutely. LF: Yeah.
On Future Roles
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Q: Is there a type of role, or a profession that you would like to portray at some point?
LF: Oh yeah, I think there’s lots of stuff that I haven’t. I don’t even know what those answers are, but I think within the characters there is, I mean I’d love to be able to just explore… possibilities. I don’t know. I don’t have a specific; again, I don’t have a specific answer. I just know that I would love to be, challenged with things. For sure. I love the… for me one of the greatest kicks you get is when you’re going, “I’m playing what?”, or “I’m doing what?” Or I’m just… So that that sort of element of surprise is something that I enjoy. I don’t have a specific thing necessarily, you know. I’d love to do a Western, that’s, you know, I haven’t done that. Really, I haven’t done that. I mean I’d love to go out and…
FF: Well, there’s a little bit of that in The Staircase. It’s not really a Western, but it’s sort of that time period, you know…
LF: No. Yeah, no, that’s more a period piece. I mean I’d have to think… I’d love to… as far as profession… no, not anything really that stands out to me.
Scripted vs Improv
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Q: At the beginning of “Intervention”, first episode of season 2 of SGU in the fight with the Lucian Alliance leader Dannic Young was yelling “Kill me, kill me” over and over again – do you remember whether that was something in the script or coached by the director or even possibly improvised by you?
LF: No, then, that was, that was scripted.
FF: That was scripted. Okay.
LF: Yep.
FF: Now, which brings me into how much freedom did you have with the script in general. Were improvisations allowed?
LF: Not very much. Not very much. We pretty much stuck to the script. It was very, ah, yeah. We pretty much stayed on the… it’s one of those lovely things though because as much as it’s fun to improv, it depends on the characters. Brad (Wright) and Robert (Cooper) had a very specific direction and you, sort of, have to stay true, to the sort of tone of the show. And because I was playing a very specific type of character, I think that if I, personally, Louis, in my wacky improvy kind of … it would bring me out of Young all the time. So I had to be disciplined, just like the character had to be, in staying in his uniform. You know, almost it’s like, there was something that was connected to that. Because normally, I do love to improv, and I do love to have fun when you can.
But that’s, in this particular case, it was, the whole idea was that this was a guy that was sort of, become this sort of robotic version of himself due to his training and his upbringing. Which is what forms us all, our childhood. So the idea was that, that was those walls would come tumbling down with time because of this, you know, the extremely, ah… the circumstances that existed. In other words, a tin garbage can floating through space.
You know, so that would change you after time. But there is still, it’s like, it’s like, time is a healer. You know, that was what was interesting about the overall dynamic, which is why it’s too bad it didn’t go any further, because I think episode twenty, the second season left it kind of, in a real sort of interesting place to see. “Wow, three years later, who are these people, now?” You know that would have been neat. But saying all that, I was very, very disciplined in staying true to the script, because it was so anti-me, that if I got started involving myself in it, I probably would have lost the character a little bit.
FF: So sticking to the script actually helped you with the character.
LF: Yes, in that case, yes.
FF: Okay. Excellent.
LF: Sometimes you look at scripts and go, “Ehh, (laughter) please say anything else.”
FF: Yeah. (laughter)
LF: But, you know, there’s sometimes (laughter) that’s just the reality, but that’s just not always the case.
FF: Yeah, but you know it also depends on, I guess, whether the writer has a good relationship with the characters that they are writing for and can hear their voices in their head and can make it their own.
LF: Yeah, yeah.
FF: And you know when that kind of thing works together.
LF: Absolutely.
On Other Art
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Q: Do you do any other kinds of art such as paintings or drawings?
LF: I like–it’s funny we talked about the camera – not having any, but photography has been a hobby of mine for a long time and I used to have my own dark room.
FF: Really?
LF: I used to love doing photography, especially black and white, l still love being in my darkroom and doing my thing. I’m the worst Pictionary partner in the world. I cannot draw for the life of me, but you know I love writing and I certainly love poetry and I love and one of the things I’m working on now more than ever I feel like part of my journey has been I just know the universe prepares us all in different ways and I feel I’ve got to the point now it almost like and now it’s the time for me to write.
FF: Aha.
LF: Whatever reason that light has gone on and it’s like with all my life and all my stories. I didn’t want to do it in my twenties, because I always felt something that just happened to me where it’s almost like cathartic whereas I’m just like, (deep voice) “And now, you are ready to write.” (laughs)
FF: Right. You have something to say.
LF: Well, you know, it’s something to say and it’s also about being true. I was always worried about when people write at a certain age and they’re like twenty years later, “Oh, I said that then”. Also, there is something about being true and steadfast and you know when you embrace a part of yourself and I think you know the business is so weird because it embraces the youth, it embraces the good and young and good looking and all that and I think there’s… it’s sad and tragic that we don’t have enough…it’s like why my two areas that I specifically care about are either the very young or the elderly. It’s those—one is the innocent and one is the wise to me.
FF: Right.
LF: And the wise sometimes get a bad rep, because I’m like I love hearing stories from people who‘ve lived. It’s – no offense to any twenty year old – but you’re figuring your stuff out. You know, so I can sit across, you know, anybody 60 plus or whatever and have such – and enjoy so much more conversations I might have with him for myself just from the perspective artistically because I find that their journey is much wrought and so much more richer with detail and life and there is something about this business where the demographic is 18 or 40—that’s your demographic and I get it. It’s a business, but to me it’s in getting older that and in aging, you know, an acceptance that you sort of have; it’s just got a different kind of sensibility.
FF: Right.
LF: And I think that’s admirable, because I still very much have a part of me that’s very playful and boy-like and boyish in a way, but that’s very different than you know being—does it make sense what I’m saying?
FF: Yeah, it does. I hear you exactly. Yeah, it’s also odd when you watch TV shows, there are 18 year olds but they have the wisdom of 65 year-olds and knowing what to do, and there’s this weird hybrid that you see.
LF: Exactly, exactly. But if they are pretty and sounding old, somehow it’s acceptable. “Oh they’re so smart” and it’s true. It’s basically formula. It’s people being created that the public can buy, what you give them, what you feed is sort of what they believe. There’s something about acting this simple sort of I idea. But I don’t think I can… And it’s very simple. If you believe you are, then you are that and the audience will believe it. More importantly, if you entertain, the audience will forgive the things like “oh this person would never”, you know. There’s a lot of that in our business.
FF: Right. And you know what, when I watch TV and I’m like, I work with that age group every day of my life, and that’s not how they are. They say stupid things, they do stupid things, they come and sit in my office and they cry, and no, they are not the strong people who know exactly what to do. And it’s kind of like strange to see that on television as being, well, these are the young people. And you know it’s not like that.
LF: Yes, sure. And you get this on different levels, too, you know. And it’s gotten better – how many times we see like a sixty or fifty plus year old man and he is partnered with a 23-25-30 year old wife. “Oh, but it’s the movies. All celebrities that are older and are wealthy and successful have young hot wives. Wait, they are playing characters in a movie, it doesn’t make sense,” you know.
FF: It’s really kind of weird, it’s…
LF: Listen, the business, the reality is it’s a lottery issue. I mean you know there is sort of—reality is, there is no rhyme or reason in this business. Bad people become famous, or not bad people, but like you know not necessarily talented people and everything in between. And you hope for the lottery ticket. And that’s absolutely what it is. I mean it’s like you don’t have to be Sean Penn to know you are Sean Penn, yet you need an agent to believe and make that happen. And sometimes, you know, in my career I’d wish for me I had the chance to maybe gotten into the kinds of rooms that would have given me the opportunity to have done better and bigger things. But I just didn’t. And I don’t blame anyone. It’s just what it is.
FF: Right.
LF: That’s where that beautiful art of acceptance and believing that you’re exactly where you supposed to be at all times, it comes in very—it comes in very handy when you have that faith. ‘Cause without it you could really get lost in the injustice of this business, which for me would be ironic, because when at any point did you think there was gonna be justice in this business?
FF: Right. And I mean for better for worse it’s your way, you know? That old song “I did it my way”, I mean it’s really true. For better for worse, it is.
LF: We keep coming back to that quote. It really does apply, doesn’t it.
FF: It sure does.
On Fanworks
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Q: Have you ever been aware that your characters or the characters that you played inspired others to create artwork such as fan fiction or wallpapers?
LF: I got to see a little bit I guess with Stargate – was really the only where I kinda really noticed. They had books and they had drawings and… but it’s not something I‘ve been aware of at all.
FF: Yeah, yeah, I mean it’s an entire subculture and it’s not even something that should necessarily mix. But it’s out there and the nice thing is that people are getting creative by using characters that you’ve created to inspire them to do something with themselves.
LF: Which, you know goes back to what I’ve said, you know having moments of being on something and going wow! when you can impact something. That’s just plain old flattering.
FF: Yeah.
LF: And it’s wonderful.
On Candy Bars
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Q: If you were forced to choose, would you choose Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Snickers bar or…
LF: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.
FF: Reese’s Cups? I am with you on that one.
LF: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, absolutely. And I love Snickers. As a matter of fact I was the voice of Snickers in Canada.
FF: Were you really?
LF: Oh, yeah, yeah. I think that’s where I got my Colonel Young voice for the first time. I think I was just like (deep voice) “Snickers, wolf one down.” Yeah, that was the tag – wolf one down. “Snickers, wolf one down.”
FF: That is awesome.
LF: That’s funny. I remember that.
FF: Snickers, good stuff there.
LF: Ah, but Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups with milk. Wooooo… I wanna run out and get it right now. Out. I mean I have been doing boot camp for the last six weeks. So, I’ve been trying to eat and be a good boy but that’s just… my daily dose of chocolate is—I’m just craving chocolate now like you don’t know. Specifically Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, so whoever wrote that, thank you. Thanks for that.
FF: Here goes another pound. I hear ya. I think about it and I gain weight. It’s good stuff.
LF: No, I’m just kidding. Of course, it’s just great.
On the SGU Cast
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Q: Do you still have any contact with the people from Stargate Universe?
LF: Well, listen to this, I will tell you. Just spoke to Peter Kelamis today. We will be watching the hockey playoffs together come May when he goes up to Vancouver, ‘cause he’s got a place there. So we watched the hockey playoffs last year when Vancouver went into the finals, so we’re hoping that that happens again, so I will see Peter in Vancouver very shortly. I had lunch yesterday with Mr. Jamil Walker.
FF: Oh, did you? Fantastic.
LF: I sure did. He’s my young brother who calls me Papa Smurf and someone I love very much and care for and that was absolutely lovely to see him. We caught up. We’ve decided we’re gonna try to do a weekly meeting as we support one another. I just think the world of him. I last week had lunch with Elyse Levesque and her mother…
FF: Oh, goodness, okay.
LF: …in the Aroma Café, and we had a lovely lovely lovely time and it was nice to see her mom, ‘cause she had visited the set and I was able to see Elyse. I think three or four days before that I had taken Elyse out, and we went out for Thai food together, so Papa Smurf was called and we had a wonderful time, and then two Sundays ago I ran into Ms. Alaina Huffman at the market, which is every Sunday, they just have that open farmer’s market.
FF: Aha.
LF: And I was walking down the market where in the midst of all the people I was suddenly like “Who’s that beautiful woman?” And when she turned around and it was Alaina, I was like, “Ah, it’s you!” And as a joke and we had a wonderful time. We got to catch up, so…
FF: Did she have the baby with her?
LF: She has four children now.
FF: I know she has four, she just had another one.
LF: The babies were not there. She was out there on her own, and I think she was like, “I’m on my own, can you believe it?” and I’m like, “No.” So it was wonderful. She had some free time to just roam around and she looks great. I think she is doing an episode of NCIS or she just completed that. And that was wonderful.
FF: Fantastic.
LF: Then I talked to Brian Smith probably two-three weeks ago, who is currently on stage and getting ready to debut with or may have debuted at this point with John Lithgow.
FF: Oh, okay…
LF: On Broadway.
FF: I knew he was in New York and working in New York in live theatre again.
LF: Yeah. And David Blue about a week ago texts me, goes “I think you just drove by me.” He lives like seven minutes away from me and I said, “That’s very possible, Blue, as I live seven minutes away from you.” So I think he got a job on some show. I don’t know what it is, but it seems to me that there’s some picture out there with him and some spooky sci fi looking thing as well. So, have I missed anybody? Oh, of course, Bobby I will always stay in touch with, we are brothers, and so that’s not bad and oh, I did talk to Ming-Na about two weeks ago because she’s adding her name—another name to her name and wanted to know how the name change was for me and I was like, “eh, challenging.” But I got to talk to her and we were planning to get together to have lunch at some point. So, look at that. That’s—you could not have asked me at a better time that question. I feel so proud.
FF: That’s fantastic. That’s almost everybody. Yeah.
LF: It’s not usually the case. It’s not usually the case.
FF: So that’s nice that you guys are still in touch at least, you know, here and there.
LF: Yeah, absolutely it is. That’s what I was saying about that being a special experience. More than any other show what was special about it was the sort of bond that happened between the people there and it was really nice.
FF: Well, that was one thing that Bradley said yesterday, too, that how much of an impact working on that show—of course he was only in three episodes. But even he said that what little time he was able to spend with the cast how special those people were and it was really an amazing group of people that they gathered together for that show and he was very sad to step through the stargate and be gone and nobody had ever heard of him again. But even the time that he did spend he said was one of the best of his life. And he just had a wonderful time. So it’s not just everybody who was there all the time but I guess people who were there for a short time also felt that.
LF: Yeah, Patrick Gilmore I’ll see when I’m in Vancouver, and Jennifer Spence who got married – I mean, you know, there are tons of people, Michael… I mean it’s like, I talked to John Lenic who was the producer, I talked to him last week, he’s doing Halo the series, a web series, so you know we do stay in touch this far, and BamBam the stunt coordinator I talk to, I mean so there is a bond there, there is, and that’s really nice.
FF: And it’s nice when you can keep sort of going with that and it doesn’t just sort of go away after a while.
LF: Absolutely.
On Robert Carlyle’s Revenge
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Q: Someone wanted to know whether Bobby (Robert Carlyle) ever got his revenge on you people about that camera prank?
LF: No, no, Bobby, Bobby…
FF: He just took it?
LF: … Bobby does not do revenge. Bobby is more evolved than that. Bobby doesn’t have time for revenge. He enjoys his life as it is, he enjoyed the trick. But no, he did not get… there was nothing. Did he do anything? I’m trying to think. No, nothing that I can remember. Yet.
FF: He just took it like the man he is.
LF: He’s waiting for it. He’s gonna do when you least expect it. It will be “Wait! You remember that? Wow!” I don’t know. Yeah, so no. But he is—like I said I had lunch with him I guess it was three or four months ago in Vancouver. He is having a wonderful time on that show and doing a great job.
FF: Oh, I bet he’s loving it.
LF: Hoping to do an episode with him at some point.
FF: That’s great. That would be fantastic. I know that would be—would make a lot of people happy.
LF: It would be great to see it happen. Yeah, yeah.
A Question for the Readers
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Q: Do you have any questions for US, the fans?
LF: Oh, isn’t that nice. Errrr…my question of the month … what’s a good question? Ok, because we talked about Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups I want to know what everyone’s favorite chocolate bar is.
FF: OK, that sounds fair enough. And I am sure people will write in.
LF: I know what I want. Favorite chocolate bar and favorite quote. Two different things.
FF: Favorite chocolate bar and favorite quote. That would be a good assignment for people to do, ‘cause…
LF: That is a good assignment, and we all have quotes, because quotes inspire – and then we can celebrate with our dessert.
On Petsitters
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Q: (About Ferreira Fest 27): They really loved seeing you and hearing you talk about your dogs and your cat.
LF: My beautiful beasts which are all lying in the bed with me as we speak, Leo, Giancarlo and Billy – stay there, buddy. You say their names and they are all over you. And Giancarlo and Billy have taken to doing a nightly ritual of licking each other for half an hour or so, they just lick each other’s ears and it’s kind of cute and it’s kind of annoying ‘cause the noise will not let me sleep. I’m like, could you guys cut that out or please go get a room. But it’s really adorable.
FF: Are you gonna take them with you to Vancouver or are you getting…
LF: You know what, it will be the first time that I do not have my animals in six years plus, I feel like Alaina and the babies, but I have a house sitter who is a wonderful friend of mine, an actor that I actually worked on a film (The Lazarus Child) with Angela Bassett and Andy Garcia, and he’ll be staying here and house sitting and dog sitting and I am very grateful to him because the difference between me going up to Vancouver and getting a place and bringing up three dogs and a cat is night and day, so this is almost a vacation for dad kind of going “I don’t know if I’m gonna be able to hold—stay away that long” because I think inherently I will just miss them. So it will be an interesting experiment, but I know that they’re in good hands and they are with me wherever I go and took—I’ve been taking so many pictures of them it’s ridiculous. But even as I look at them now I imagine myself in my bed in Vancouver without them and I think that’s gonna be difficult for a while, you know.
FF: But for them it’s easier probably to stay at home and be in an environment that they’re used to.
LF: Well, except they are used to everywhere I go they’ve been for six and a half years, wherever I’ve gone Charlie and Giancarlo for 6 plus years have been there with me. Billie is obviously the new one, she is turning one this month, she’s now a year old.
FF: Can you imagine?
LF: Yes. So happy birthday, Billie. I know that’s… so they are used to the traveling but as a matter of fact I asked Christopher to – he is my first, I’ve never had a roommate my entire life and I said, I never had a roommate but would you be my roommate for a week? That way you can get acclimated to the house, the dogs, the lifestyle, and he has agreed to do so, so it’s nice. So I have a roommate for the first time in my life at 46 and it will last for a total of a one week and so far I’m enjoying it.
FF: OK. It’s fantastic. At least you know they are in good hands and everything.
LF: Oh yeah and it’s great, so… they are getting used to him, and last night Charlie stayed in his room with him. Tonight Charlie and Giancarlo will stay in the room with him and I’m literally weaning them onto…
FF: One dog a time.
LF: … Christopher, yeah. And so you know, Leo is just the coolest, nicest spirited cat in the world and he comes and goes as he pleases.
FF: He’ll deal with it in his own kitty way.
LF: Oh, yeah. Yesterday we took the dogs for walk in the neighborhood, just around because again Christopher to get familiar with the neighborhood and we had the three dogs on leashes but Leo decided to do the walk with us. Reminded me at one point in the farm I had five dogs and two cats and when I went on a hike with all of them I picked up a stick and I felt like some sort of Pied Piper because all seven animals would come on a hike with me. I gotta tell you that did something to my spirit. I mean it was just like people going, “Are you walking three dogs and a cat?” and I’d be like “yeah, the cat kinda walks itself so… but yes.”
FF: It’s pretty cool.
LF: Yes.
Thanks to Eszter and Kimmy for the transcripts!
ODDS AND ENDS
Kimmy reports that Louis’ IMDb ratings have been going up for the last several weeks! Check it out every day if you can, and boost that positive trend!
Congratulations to Kimmy for snagging the 1,000th pineapple drink at Ferreira Fest!!
Agi has found Season 3 of MISSING on Hulu, and you can watch it for free here!
Casey and sacredclay came across a picture of Louis visiting with Patrick Gilmore on the set of Primeval.
That classic Louis pose is catching on!
Thanks for sharing, Patrick!
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