Newsgroup: it.fan.tv.buffy
Titolo: Intervista a Tom Lenk (Andrew)

http://actionadventure.about.com/library/weekly/2002/aa110402.htm
Tom Lenk will return to Buffy, the Vampire Slayer on November 12 as Andrew,
the middle child of last year's villains, the Trio. He couldn't say
anything about his return, but was happy to talk about his work last season
over a salad and sandwich in a trendy Hollywood bistro.
Is Andrew indirectly responsible for Tara's death? No, because I think
there's a part of him that's meek and gentle. I don't think he would ever
intentionally try to kill someone or hurt someone.
Do you have to see it that way as an actor? Yeah, but a lot of times you
don't know what the outcome is when you're shooting an episode. We didn't
know Tara was going to die. So, since you don't know where the character is
going, all you can do is depend on the past and the backtsory that you
personally give the character, which may or may not be correct as to what
the writers want, but you just need something for you to get through it and
to give you some emotional background to the character so you have
someplace to go to.
How into the Star Wars references are you? That's a funny thing. I think I
got all of the Star Wars references, especially the "Screen wipe/new scene"
line that I have. It was Doug Petrie who wrote it and he explained to me.
I'm like, "Hey, no, don't worry. I got it." It's pretty obscure, but I got
it. I will admit to having a signed head shot of Carrie Fisher that
somebody gave to me randomly. I don't know how I got it. A friend of a
friend of a friend, but like anyone my age, I was really into it when I was
younger and I kept my toys. I haven't been really into the new Star Wars. I
have major issues with CGI. I would much rather see a Jabba the Hut puppet
than? I'm sorry, I'm not a geek. I just play one on TV. So, I get all the
Star Wars references but I'm not [obsessed].
Did you research the fanboy culture? No. I get it. I'm not an obsessive
fan. I don't get fanatical about things, so I personally don't get it. I'll
get back to that. It was funny because right in the midst of it, I had just
finished writing a play and we were putting it on. The artists put the
money into theater space right when I got cast on Buffy. My character in
the show was a Star Trek obsessed militant thinks he's living on the
Enterprise character. So, obviously, I had to have a whole lot of Star Trek
knowledge to make all those references. So, I get it. I get where these
people come from. I have a friend I'm doing a show with right now. She's
obsessive, like met her fiancé on the Red Dwarf message board. She and many
others I know are an inspiration for the character since I don't come from
that place. I just turn to them and find the comedy in it. It's funny, it's
hysterical. I think it's also funny that we're playing these characters
that are obsessed with sci-fi, and in real life we would be the same people
that would be obsessive Buffy fans. The hard-core ones are into everything
sci-fi, fantastical, horror movies and all those things, all those movies
and TV shows lumped into one genre. It's just funny that we are sort of
them. We're playing what the truly obsessive Buffy fans would be. I think
we represent them. And the writers have told us that we're basically them
personified and the discussions that they have when they get off topic in
their meetings and stuff. There are a lot of comic book references that I
don't get. You always have to go ask one of the writers, "What is this
about? How many people are going to get it?" But then you go on the website
the next day and it's like, "I can't believe the Amazing Spider-Man
reference."
How do you respond to critics of the Trio who say they were the show's
weakest villains? When we first started getting comments, the first wave of
opinions about us were very negative. I was really upset about it. [I
feared] we would get kicked off the show early. Then I started ignoring
them. I think that comes from a place of obsessive fans that were obsessed
with Glory and each villain has to be this major thing, this great evil.
And I think that we came at a time where Buffy was in a place where it
wasn't about this other great evil. It was about facing your own demons,
growing up and the whole season was about having to become an adult and
deal with issues. That was what all our characters were about. Critics
missed the entire point of us being there. It was that you don't have to be
this huge thing. We were just like little kids playing with fire. It got
out of control and I think that's commentary on what's happening in the
world today. If they didn't get that, then it's really unfortunately.
Was the jet pack scene fun or just uncomfortable? Did I do any of it? That
was a lovely stunt double. All I did was go on a little teeter totter and
they lifted me up just to get the sense of me going up, and then he did all
the rest. Although I must say that I ended up doing most of my own stunts
by accident.
Which stunts did you accidentally do?You know the seen where Katrina clocks
me in the face? I got a little too close. I got clocked in the face. It was
like, "All right, send Tom's stunt double home. We got what we needed." And
they set me on fire one time. I was supposed to be stomping out a fire and
then my foot catches on fire. They used rubber cement because it's really
flammable, put it all over my shoe. Well, I'm stomping on a piece of paper
with glue on my foot. Paper on fire, foot on fire, foot stuck to piece of
paper. Now I'm up in flames with this entire piece of paper stuck to me,
scared for my life. Adam Busch rescued me that day, put the fire blanket on
my foot and put it out. It was frightening.
What was your favorite gadget? Well, it wasn't a gadget, but I was a big
fan of the Boba [Fett doll]. I thought that was so funny.
Were you disappointed not to be part of the musical episode? It will follow
me all my days with my friends and people that I know because it was so
much like what it did for years. I was on tour with a musical theater
group. It's what I've been training to do for so many years. Everyone's
like, "So, why weren't you in the musical episode?" As if it was up to me.
They'd written that musical episode starting probably back in March or
April of season five. They've been planning that one because they had to
write the lyrics and figure out what they wanted to do. It was such a major
event, so they were doing that all summer and I don't think they even
thought about us until July or August. So, we weren't even a thought while
they were writing the musical. My only comforting thought was that.
Does the notoriety help bring people to your non-Buffy work? When I did a
play last year, people didn't really know who I was yet. It was all
happening at the same time. I've been doing a play for the past month in
this really small space. It was getting sold out as it was, so I decided
that I wasn't going to go out and promote and get lots of people. I just
wanted friends and people who really wanted to to come see it, not just
because I was on Buffy. I want them to come. If they're fans of yours, they
should come and see the show, but I just wanted to have fun and do this
small project.
What was your play about?The last show was my life in high school, about my
family and crazy friends that I had around me. It was scary because it was
about 75 percent true, and it was scary to realize that these things had
truly happened to me. I was sort of a nerd in high school. I was the head
marching band nerd, I was in charge of it all. And I knew it was a nerdy
thing while I was doing it, but I just enjoyed music. I didn't really care.
We had a blind kid join our marching band, which is sort of hard to be
blind and march down the street at the same time. Stuff like that.
How did he do it? It was painful. He didn't do it very well. A lot of
pushing and nudging. Our spin-off [play] is focusing on the tall flag team
because we ended up having these amazingly hysterical dance routines, just
like completely wrong. Like doing a flag routine to the Star Trek theme
song. The spin-off is like if Bring it On were really nerdy, and about
flags. We're working on that.
Jolan Tru
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