Post by Kaethe on May 5, 2009 14:23:03 GMT -5
Hey there!
I just discovered this german interview of Summer Glau. It's exclusively for a german website about US tv-shows.
So if you understand german, or you want to see a nice pic of Summer you can click here:
www.serienjunkies.de/news/terminator-for-21738.html
I made the effort of translating the whole interview, so that you english people can read it, too
;D
First off, this interview doesn't belong to me, I just discovered it and thought I would translate it, so I could share it with you guys!
And second, though I did my best, I bet there are still enough mistakes in this translation.. sorry for that =/ Hope you can understand it anyway..
Here it is:
by Vladislav Tinchev, Tuesday May 5th 2009
As promised we have the luck to present you an exclusive interview with terminatrix Cameron (Summer Glau). Thanks again to Summer Glau for her time, to the organisation of FedCon in Bonn and especially to Brigitte Scherr, who made the interview possible.
Last Saturday morninAs promised we have the luck to present you an exclusive interviewg I was on my way to Bonn to meet Summer Glau. My excitement for the Interview helped me on my way through the traffic. The Interview at this years FedCon was arranged at 11 am. After 6 hours of driving I arrived at the Maritim Hotel at 10:30am. After the accreditation and before I could even settle, Summer Glau was standing right in front of me: Hi.
Below occurred an, I hope, interesting Interview, which was only interrupted through the coughing of Summer, who had a slight cold. She was talking about her experiences with the Network Television, the future of “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles”, her character Cameron, loyal fans and her favourite TV shows.
VT: Hi Summer. I want to thank your for taking the time to answer some questions for us. The fans will be delighted.
SG: You’re welcome.
VT: The first question: Can you say if “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” will be cancelled or not? Do you know anything about that?
SG: It’s a complicated situation. I am now seven years in the television business and there’s been a lot of change in that time. So it changed the way the networks work too. By now there’s a bit of chaos – seasons are cut short, others are extended, split, at unusual times the networks order pilotes, tv shows are having long breaks, are coming back after that and so on. It’s not like it once was, that as an actor you have a contract and a safe job for at least 22 episodes. Now it can happen that a network oders only three episodes, or ten. The future of Terminator depends on how many pilotes are leaving good impressions on FOX, how many new shows they order and what resources are then left to extend the old shows. Honestly, until 18th of May we don’t know if the show goes on or not. Even though many spread the news that it’s already decided, the decision will be made at the last minute. But we have hope, because we have extremely creative fans, who are fighting a lot for the future of the show.
VT: It seems that it’s always the same for you with FOX. You’re again starring in a Sci-Fi-Show loved by the fans, but the ratings are not enough for the network. After “Firefly” the movie “Serenity” came to the big screen with the help of the fans. Now there’s a new Terminator movie coming and more are proposed. Could you imagine acting in the movies?
SG: Basically yes. The producers already talked to me about the idea to let me appear between the soldiers from time to time, but that’s just an idea at the moment. Because I think the show and the movies are placed in two different worlds and different realities. I’m seeing both as two versions of the terminator story. However I am looking forward to the movie, it will be a spectacle. Generally I’m very proud to be a part of this franchise. I never could’ve imagined that Terminator will be such a big part of my life. It was the first time that I was on billboards, and it was simply a breakthrough.
VT: We hope that the show will be extended and that the third season will play in the future. In my opinion – and many of the fans – that would be awesome. What do think about that?
SG: Yes!! That would be the best. I love the scenes that take place in the future – all this game of cat-and-mouse in dirty tunnels and bald landscapes – that’s absolutely my thing. I had only few future scenes as Cameron and I was always jealous of the boys, who were allowed to shoot in the future.
VT: A plot in the future would help the show a lot, in my opinion.
SG: I think so too. The second season was asking more questions than it could answer; it pretty much exploded into different directions that all need to be further explored, and the fate of the characters needs to be discovered. The cast became bigger in the second season too, compared to the first one, when we have only been three – that was pretty exhausting after a while. We have been wasted. It was more work than we could do. We felt completely drained and cried for help(laughing). And we got help.
VT: You were just saying that the characters are developing into different directions. What about Cameron?
SG: I don’t want Cameron to go, and Josh promised that won’t happen.
VT: We hope that too, because if it would many fans would be very sad.
SG: Thanks a lot, that means much to me!
VT: I don’t think it would work without Cameron, because her character is the difference between the show and the movies. In the movies Terminators are bringing death, whereas Cameron is there to guard, to preserve life and maybe to learn to love(she’s laughing). She is used to reflect human emotions and relationships.
SG: Again, thank you! I’m glad our purpose is understood, that our work is being valued and the direction we took. I’m happy that the character if Cameron is accepted by the fans, ‘cause I know what the Terminator movies means to the fans: Arnold is a superstar and has a huge fan community, and it was never our intention to imitate the movies or to take their direction. Arnold is Arnold. We respect and value his performance and the character he impersonates – that’s why we didn’t try to recreate him, our show has different intentions. I’m thankful that they trust me to play Cameron.
VT: Some fans complained about the second season being too slow – till the end. But in my opinion the slow episodes were important to set up a rapid end, to develop a mature story, from all this different directions.
SG: Yes, that’s it. You have to build the story, especially in a TV show. You only have 3 hours to tell a spectacular story in a movie. But in a TV Show you have 22 episodes, an you need to use them. That’s why the TV audience sometimes has to be more patient than the movie audience, who want a fast satisfaction of their needs. Television pays off in the end.
VT: Can you describe a day at the set of Terminator?
SG: Yes, the day begins with me and my make-up. Very early (laughing). Every morning the stylists and me are awake at first. It’s nice actually, that way we can gossip about everything and everyone at the sat calmly (laughing). Later the boys are coming to shave themselves, we start practicing our scripts and it’s starting to get full. We are like a family, which is the reason why I prefer television. In the movie business that actually can happen too, but most of the time you’re doing your job and that’s it. In television you form permanent relationships. Of course we have our discrepancies, but also enough time to adjust them. Just like in a family.
Well, after we’re ready the fun part begins. Because then Thomas Dekker is the funniest person I know and he can’t work without lots of jokes. Plus Shirleys unbelievable Scottish accent you have the perfect atmosphere. Our cast is famous for our non-serious behaviour.
Often we’re getting to know the respective new director, who is terrified about us, and we talk about the day of shooting. We’re close as a cast and everyone knows his character very well, so that the director feels immediately reassured.
After that we practice stunts, too. We had more on location shooting in the second season, so after our preparations we went to the respective sets. We’re filming about 6 pages of script per day, that mean about 15-16 hours of work. We practically live in the show.
VT: How are you working with the authors? Are you doing what they tell you to do, or is there place for your own suggestions and your point of view?
SG: That’s something we talked a lot about during the second season. While course and process of the show and the development of the characters have been obvious in the first season, there have been so many different directions in the second one, that some of us didn’t know where this is going and they felt the need to be more involved in the development of their character. And the authors admitted that. Thanks to the excellent relationships we have to them, we could develop some kind of trust. It’s not like we’re constantly asking why a character is or isn’t doing this or that on a day on the set that is already exhausting and very busy anyway. We trust each other to do their job. We’re a team.
VT: You’re a very busy actress. Do you have time to watch other TV shows? What’s on your TiVo(DVR?)?
SG: One of my favourites is “Brothers & Sisters”, and I love “30 Rock”. I didn’t like it at the beginning, but my sisters (authors note: Summer Glau’s two sisters are with her in Bonn.) made me watch it again and no I am a big fan. I also like “American Idol”, do you watch that show here too?
VT: We have a “German Idol”.
SG: Oh, I have to take a look at that. I love the competition. This makes the show very interesting for me. I also like “Top Chef” and “Project Runway”. I generally love to watch television when I have the time, but it’s hard during the shooting, I can hardly find time to sleep! We also watch some shows together, the whole Terminator cast, like “Top Chef” and “Project Runway”. That way we can discuss together the next day (laughing).
VT: One last question: What else have you planned? In what new projects can we see?
SG: I recently got an offer for a role in a movie. It’s a movie I really want to do. I won’t say which movie it is, not before I know in two weeks whether Terminator gets extended or not. Because if we get a third season I can’t take this role anyway. But when I read the script I was excited. It’s hard just to go to meetings and look at things, because the first question is whether our show was cancelled. But I have to look at the possibility that Terminator won’t go on, so it calmed me when I discovered this project last week.
VT: Thank you to take the time for our questions.
SG: Thank you for the conversation.
I just discovered this german interview of Summer Glau. It's exclusively for a german website about US tv-shows.
So if you understand german, or you want to see a nice pic of Summer you can click here:
www.serienjunkies.de/news/terminator-for-21738.html
I made the effort of translating the whole interview, so that you english people can read it, too
;DFirst off, this interview doesn't belong to me, I just discovered it and thought I would translate it, so I could share it with you guys!
And second, though I did my best, I bet there are still enough mistakes in this translation.. sorry for that =/ Hope you can understand it anyway..
Here it is:
by Vladislav Tinchev, Tuesday May 5th 2009
As promised we have the luck to present you an exclusive interview with terminatrix Cameron (Summer Glau). Thanks again to Summer Glau for her time, to the organisation of FedCon in Bonn and especially to Brigitte Scherr, who made the interview possible.
Last Saturday morninAs promised we have the luck to present you an exclusive interviewg I was on my way to Bonn to meet Summer Glau. My excitement for the Interview helped me on my way through the traffic. The Interview at this years FedCon was arranged at 11 am. After 6 hours of driving I arrived at the Maritim Hotel at 10:30am. After the accreditation and before I could even settle, Summer Glau was standing right in front of me: Hi.
Below occurred an, I hope, interesting Interview, which was only interrupted through the coughing of Summer, who had a slight cold. She was talking about her experiences with the Network Television, the future of “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles”, her character Cameron, loyal fans and her favourite TV shows.
VT: Hi Summer. I want to thank your for taking the time to answer some questions for us. The fans will be delighted.
SG: You’re welcome.
VT: The first question: Can you say if “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” will be cancelled or not? Do you know anything about that?
SG: It’s a complicated situation. I am now seven years in the television business and there’s been a lot of change in that time. So it changed the way the networks work too. By now there’s a bit of chaos – seasons are cut short, others are extended, split, at unusual times the networks order pilotes, tv shows are having long breaks, are coming back after that and so on. It’s not like it once was, that as an actor you have a contract and a safe job for at least 22 episodes. Now it can happen that a network oders only three episodes, or ten. The future of Terminator depends on how many pilotes are leaving good impressions on FOX, how many new shows they order and what resources are then left to extend the old shows. Honestly, until 18th of May we don’t know if the show goes on or not. Even though many spread the news that it’s already decided, the decision will be made at the last minute. But we have hope, because we have extremely creative fans, who are fighting a lot for the future of the show.
VT: It seems that it’s always the same for you with FOX. You’re again starring in a Sci-Fi-Show loved by the fans, but the ratings are not enough for the network. After “Firefly” the movie “Serenity” came to the big screen with the help of the fans. Now there’s a new Terminator movie coming and more are proposed. Could you imagine acting in the movies?
SG: Basically yes. The producers already talked to me about the idea to let me appear between the soldiers from time to time, but that’s just an idea at the moment. Because I think the show and the movies are placed in two different worlds and different realities. I’m seeing both as two versions of the terminator story. However I am looking forward to the movie, it will be a spectacle. Generally I’m very proud to be a part of this franchise. I never could’ve imagined that Terminator will be such a big part of my life. It was the first time that I was on billboards, and it was simply a breakthrough.
VT: We hope that the show will be extended and that the third season will play in the future. In my opinion – and many of the fans – that would be awesome. What do think about that?
SG: Yes!! That would be the best. I love the scenes that take place in the future – all this game of cat-and-mouse in dirty tunnels and bald landscapes – that’s absolutely my thing. I had only few future scenes as Cameron and I was always jealous of the boys, who were allowed to shoot in the future.
VT: A plot in the future would help the show a lot, in my opinion.
SG: I think so too. The second season was asking more questions than it could answer; it pretty much exploded into different directions that all need to be further explored, and the fate of the characters needs to be discovered. The cast became bigger in the second season too, compared to the first one, when we have only been three – that was pretty exhausting after a while. We have been wasted. It was more work than we could do. We felt completely drained and cried for help(laughing). And we got help.
VT: You were just saying that the characters are developing into different directions. What about Cameron?
SG: I don’t want Cameron to go, and Josh promised that won’t happen.
VT: We hope that too, because if it would many fans would be very sad.
SG: Thanks a lot, that means much to me!
VT: I don’t think it would work without Cameron, because her character is the difference between the show and the movies. In the movies Terminators are bringing death, whereas Cameron is there to guard, to preserve life and maybe to learn to love(she’s laughing). She is used to reflect human emotions and relationships.
SG: Again, thank you! I’m glad our purpose is understood, that our work is being valued and the direction we took. I’m happy that the character if Cameron is accepted by the fans, ‘cause I know what the Terminator movies means to the fans: Arnold is a superstar and has a huge fan community, and it was never our intention to imitate the movies or to take their direction. Arnold is Arnold. We respect and value his performance and the character he impersonates – that’s why we didn’t try to recreate him, our show has different intentions. I’m thankful that they trust me to play Cameron.
VT: Some fans complained about the second season being too slow – till the end. But in my opinion the slow episodes were important to set up a rapid end, to develop a mature story, from all this different directions.
SG: Yes, that’s it. You have to build the story, especially in a TV show. You only have 3 hours to tell a spectacular story in a movie. But in a TV Show you have 22 episodes, an you need to use them. That’s why the TV audience sometimes has to be more patient than the movie audience, who want a fast satisfaction of their needs. Television pays off in the end.
VT: Can you describe a day at the set of Terminator?
SG: Yes, the day begins with me and my make-up. Very early (laughing). Every morning the stylists and me are awake at first. It’s nice actually, that way we can gossip about everything and everyone at the sat calmly (laughing). Later the boys are coming to shave themselves, we start practicing our scripts and it’s starting to get full. We are like a family, which is the reason why I prefer television. In the movie business that actually can happen too, but most of the time you’re doing your job and that’s it. In television you form permanent relationships. Of course we have our discrepancies, but also enough time to adjust them. Just like in a family.
Well, after we’re ready the fun part begins. Because then Thomas Dekker is the funniest person I know and he can’t work without lots of jokes. Plus Shirleys unbelievable Scottish accent you have the perfect atmosphere. Our cast is famous for our non-serious behaviour.
Often we’re getting to know the respective new director, who is terrified about us, and we talk about the day of shooting. We’re close as a cast and everyone knows his character very well, so that the director feels immediately reassured.
After that we practice stunts, too. We had more on location shooting in the second season, so after our preparations we went to the respective sets. We’re filming about 6 pages of script per day, that mean about 15-16 hours of work. We practically live in the show.
VT: How are you working with the authors? Are you doing what they tell you to do, or is there place for your own suggestions and your point of view?
SG: That’s something we talked a lot about during the second season. While course and process of the show and the development of the characters have been obvious in the first season, there have been so many different directions in the second one, that some of us didn’t know where this is going and they felt the need to be more involved in the development of their character. And the authors admitted that. Thanks to the excellent relationships we have to them, we could develop some kind of trust. It’s not like we’re constantly asking why a character is or isn’t doing this or that on a day on the set that is already exhausting and very busy anyway. We trust each other to do their job. We’re a team.
VT: You’re a very busy actress. Do you have time to watch other TV shows? What’s on your TiVo(DVR?)?
SG: One of my favourites is “Brothers & Sisters”, and I love “30 Rock”. I didn’t like it at the beginning, but my sisters (authors note: Summer Glau’s two sisters are with her in Bonn.) made me watch it again and no I am a big fan. I also like “American Idol”, do you watch that show here too?
VT: We have a “German Idol”.
SG: Oh, I have to take a look at that. I love the competition. This makes the show very interesting for me. I also like “Top Chef” and “Project Runway”. I generally love to watch television when I have the time, but it’s hard during the shooting, I can hardly find time to sleep! We also watch some shows together, the whole Terminator cast, like “Top Chef” and “Project Runway”. That way we can discuss together the next day (laughing).
VT: One last question: What else have you planned? In what new projects can we see?
SG: I recently got an offer for a role in a movie. It’s a movie I really want to do. I won’t say which movie it is, not before I know in two weeks whether Terminator gets extended or not. Because if we get a third season I can’t take this role anyway. But when I read the script I was excited. It’s hard just to go to meetings and look at things, because the first question is whether our show was cancelled. But I have to look at the possibility that Terminator won’t go on, so it calmed me when I discovered this project last week.
VT: Thank you to take the time for our questions.
SG: Thank you for the conversation.
