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17 December 2015 @ 06:11 pm
Gale Bilbao Convention Transcripts - Part 1
I sincerely apologize for the delay in posting the transcripts. Time and circumstance cracked their proverbial whip and made it impossible to post earlier. *sigh* If anyone is still interested, here are the transcripts from the Bilbao Convention.
Again, huge thanks to mytearsinheaven for giving me the tools I needed and to wren_kt7oz for her help with the Saturday transcriptions. I'll be posting the rest later.
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OPENING
(Gale’s words in red)
(Rules of the Con in Spanish)
I’ll say it in English for those who don’t understand Spanish. It is absolutely prohibited to record videos, okay? This is the most important point. You cannot record the convention anywhere. You can take photos without using a flash. But you cannot record videos, okay? There are, as you can see, signs around the room and there are staff members who will watch you at all times, and if they see someone recording a video, it will be erased and you will be asked to leave, That’s very important, okay?
So let’s get it started. Everybody, give a warm welcome to Gale Harold!
CLAPPING AND CHEERING
Did you have a good flight?
Si.
And do you want to tell us, how was the flight? Was it very long?
Cincuenta minutos.
Cincuenta minutos. That sounds rather short.
Spaceship.
Spaceship? Ah, sounds like fun. So are you excited to get this thing started this weekend?
I don’t know.
LAUGHTER
Is the audience excited?
(everyone yells out ‘yes’)
Okay, so should we get this thing started then? Let’s say goodbye to him for now. He’ll be back very soon.
LAUGHTER
Unless of course, you’d like to share something with us.
Uh, no. I have some Euros to exchange.
I’ll take them.
Gale says something in Spanish.
Okay, we’ll see you after. Thank you!
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(Gale’s words in red)
Okay. Okay.
Gale, what are you working on this year?
Uh, a short film and uh maybe a short story or two to make into a film. Um, there’s not that much time left this year, so it will probably be next year.
Okay, what were you working on previously?
Um, I worked on something that’s been shelved, unfortunately. It may never see the light of day. And, uh, I did a couple of films last year, one which has been screened once, I think, and one which is still being edited.
What about The Lock? Are you still working on that?
Yeah. Well, The Lock is, that’s just the fake name. We had to reconfigure the entire project because the central point of the entire project has been usurped by another project. So we have to re-introduce what it’s about. But I can say that pigs are involved.
Pigs?
Yeah. But only as a metaphor.
No owls?
Well, the owls were something that came from outer space. I was told that I needed some owls. So I put the owls in. The owls are a metaphor as well, but they’re not a specific metaphor that occupies a position in the film.
Gale, excuse the question, but why did you delete your twitter account?
Why did I what?
Delete your twitter account.
Why did I delay....
Delete your twitter account.
I got tired of it.
What?
It’s not good for the mind.
Come back soon, please.
I don’t know. You gotta clean up your house sometimes. You can’t— You gotta do the laundry, you gotta wash your clothes (dirty socks everyday).
I understand but come back soon.
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SATURDAY PANEL
(Gale’s words in red)
Everyone please, give a warm welcome to Gale Harold!
CLAPPING.
Just want to say one more thing before we get started. It is completely prohibited to record videos, okay? Completely. If I didn’t mention before, there are staff members around and signs on the walls, okay? And if someone sees that you are recording, you will have your videos erased and you will be escorted out. Okay? You can take pictures without flash but no video.
What she said.
Questions anyone?
I saw some pictures of yours, like sunflowers. They were pretty good. Are you still taking pictures?
You mean of sunflowers?
Yes, sunflowers.
Those are from my phone. Just stuff. Nothing....
They’re my favorite.
I know. They’re everybody’s favorite. But I don’t shoot very much now.
What are you filming right now?
What—
What are you filming right now?
Um, nothing. But if someone’s using they’re camera phone, they’re in big trouble. Nothing at the moment. I’ve worked on some things but they’re not ready to go yet. And I want to say thank you all for coming. I forgot to say that. That’s bad manners. But now I’m saying it.
CLAPPING.
Question about what three songs he’s heard recently.
Oh God. Um, I heard a song that— It’s called Shoegaze by Alabama Shakes. And that pretty much counts for the other two. I love that song.
You guest-starred on a lot of tv shows. Is there any show you’d like to guest-star on now?
Peaky Blinders
What was it?
Peaky Blinders. It’s on Netflix. It’s about the time between the first and second world war in Birmingham in England. And I’m not even close to being right for that show, but I just love it so much. I would love to.
And it’s on Netflix.
Yeah, yeah.
I’d also like to know when you were in Field of Lost Shoes, did you enjoy riding a horse?
Yeah, of course. It was a very short period of time to do that. I would have liked a chance to ride more. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
Question about his preparation for the role in Particles of Truth.
Preparation? Um, paranoia.
OCD maybe?
He was more of an agoraphobe. He was afraid of being outside, afraid of being next to people, afraid of being touched by people. He had a lot of issues. His Dad mixed him up real bad, his father. But, that’s a long time ago. You know, how you go outside walking down the street and you feel like everyone is trying to stick you with a pin. You ever have that feeling? That’s what I uses a little bit. He was afraid to get out of his car.
What was your favorite role and why?
Um, when I played Wile E. Coyote in an episode of Roadrunner. You probably never saw that. The work I did in the Jungle Book was really good. I’m being very, very facetious now. I’m not being honest. I’m not being serious. I don’t have.... I mean I don’t want to choose a favorite because I don’t want to stop.
Until now?
Until now? But now is now. The present is making the past happen. Right? You know what I mean? So I don’t want to jinx it. I don’t want to jinx it. I don’t want to jinx it.
Are you sure you don’t want to tell us?
Um, I’m putting that answer on hold, you know?
Okay.
We can change every day. Maybe next time I’d answer differently
Last year you talked about a book, The Flamethrowers, by Rachel Kushner. I read it. It’s beautiful. I liked it very much. Can you suggest another book for us?
Um, a friend of mine gave me an autobiography of Viviane Albertine. She was in a band called the Splits. That’s a good one. That’s a great question.
We’ve been talking about films. What about the stage? Would you like to go back on the stage?
Yeah.
And specifically, would you like to do Shakespeare?
Yeah.
Because actually I have a character in mind. I think you’d be absolutely perfect as Iago. I keep seeing you as Iago.
Make it happen.
Shall I?
Yeah. Do it.
CLAPPING
I’m gonna get to see a screening of the new Macbeth. You hear about that?
Yes.
How was shooting with Italians? Do you have some stories to tell us, like some—
Shooting with Italians? It was great. It was— On some...you know like any aspiring American who thinks they know something about film, it was...it was very inspiring and exciting just to be there, and I had a little bit of time to walk around Rome.
What did you like about Rome?
Uh, everything, everything. It’s very cliche to say this, I know. It’s like some kind of travel magazine you’ve ever read. Just walking around and seeing ruin after ruin and um, all the art work and access to the sculpture that’s there. Um, it’s almost like— You have to go back, you know? I have to go back, you know? And when I was there, the Trevi Fountain was being...was being.... They were repairing it, new lines for the water, so I couldn’t really get too close to it. It was cordorned off. But I saw it the last day I was there, the morning I was walking around the corner to get into the car to go to the airport. I saw it and the morning light, that was pretty incredible. Yeah, everything, everything. The food was horrible, but other than that....
LAUGHTER
Initially when Scott announced Adoptable, I think he mentioned you might have a part in it. Is that still the case?
Unless he changed his mind.
Also, about Wyatt Earp. That was a great role. Did you enjoy that?
I did. I did.
That was a great series, too.
Yeah, one of the best.
Three years ago, there was a video of the readings of Rachel Kushner’s Flamethrowers. Because there were English subtitles, we were able to—
Wwwait, wait, wait. Start from the beginning and end it before you said—
Before I said what?
What was the beginning of it?
The reading of Rachel Kushner’s....
Reading? Oh, yeah, okay.
During the readings there was something about five feet of pepper grinders—
Say it again? Five-foot pepper grinder?
Pepper grinder. The people bring at weddings.
Pepper grinders.
Grinder. Why are there five-foot pepper grinders and why do people—
Why is there a five-foot pepper grinder?
At the weddings.
In philosophy? Or in the world? I don’t understand.
At the weddings.
There is a— I’m trying to remember, is there a five-foot pepper grinder in the book? Or do they just talk about it? Has anyone read that book? Do you remember? There’s not a five-foot pepper grinder.
She says during the readings—
Yes, I’m playing Burdmoore Model. I think there might be something lost in translation. Ask her if the five-foot pepper grinder is something that’s in the book itself, is it a part in the book, or is it just something that someone said during the reading as a joke?
It’s on page 161.
161. A five-foot pepper grinder.
“...where the waiter comes to the table with a pepper grinder that’s five feet tall.”
Read the whole thing to me, please.
“...special occasion establishments where the waiter comes to the table with a pepper grinder that’s five feet tall.”
Maybe that’s uh— Put Burdmorre, B-u-r-d-m-o-r-r-e and put that as the first word in a search for five-foot pepper grinders and see if that comes up because it’s one of his lines.
(Waiting for the search)
Please hold. What’s your favorite ‘hold’ music? It’s gotta be a Dionne Warwick Musak.
It’s gotta be the Beatles or it’s not music?
No, that is not Musak.
Hey, that’s a good one. Look up the word Musak and find out the origin of that whole phenomenon. (He returns to the search about the five-foot pepper grinder) Anything? Nothing? I don’t know. I can’t remember. Maybe it’s part of the story. I think it depends on which character says that. Do I say that? Does my character say that?
No, someone else. She promises to find the moment—
Ask her if she remembers— Is it the guy sitting across, the tall guy with the black hair?
Oh! I know what it was! Um, what’s the question?
LAUGHTER.
I think it was a sarcastic, facetious attack on the bourgeoisie. I think he was saying something about bullshit dinner parties because I think when that scene happens in the book, the scene that we read that day, was a dinner party, and there were some (says it with an accent) patrons. Patrons? Patron. Patron of the arts. Some of the people in that scene, they could give money to the arts, to let them make their art. I think that part of the reading in the book, he’s one of the artists who’s there. He’s talking about how he’s been.... I think he’s making a reference to the fact that once you take the money, that you’re kind of beholden to the patron. You have to make the art they want you to make. And he’s—if it’s the part that I think it is, then he— Help me.
I’m still checking.
I can’t— I can’t remember. But that was a great question.
LAUGHTER AND CLAPPING.
This part is not the question: I have to rape you and take you back to Italy for the fans from Italy.
LOTS OF LAUGHTER.
And to take photo of your hands. And they want me to tell you you have to come to Italy as soon as possible. Okay, the question is, I’d like to ask you about your twitter account.
My what?
Everyone calls out ‘twitter account.’
Not all at the same time. The what?
Twitter account.
Yeah. What about it?
It was kind of a connection, you know?
Yeah.
We can see you. We can talk to you. Don’t want to interfere, but if you want to share why....
I think they should change the name of twitter to Rabbit Hole. Right?
LAUGHTER
Thank you.
But wait, I didn’t— What was the first thing that you said? What did you say about— I’m sorry, I didn’t hear the whole thing.
(Explains the awkward and funny misunderstanding about kidnapping him. She was trying to say that the fans in Italy had told her she had to kidnap him and take him back there, but instead of ‘kidnap,’ she used the word ‘rape.’ And she said that they loved his hands.)
That’s very kind.
They love your hands.
My hands? Say again? What do you think about that? (he asks his hand as if it’s a puppet). He says ‘you’re really freaking me out.’
Another question about going back to Italy soon.
Si. But no raping.
Are you trying to write something?
Write something?
When will we see your work? Your play or your novel?
It’s not a play, no. It’s a...It’s a...I’m not sure what it is yet. I’m not sure what it is. It’s an extrapolated short story. It’s still too disorganized. It seems like a film. It seems like a film but I have to whittle— You know the word? I have to cut it down, cut it down. So I’m trying to make sense of what it is. It’s based on a lot of notes from a lot of time, so it’s got to come down and down.
Do you like comedy or tragedy? Which do you like?
There’s no difference. I like them both. Do you mean what is my favorite? I like really funny horror stories. I like funny scary. Bride of Frankenstein, case in point. Um, it depends. I don’t have a favorite, one or the other. The mood of the day, you know? What about you? You seem like you might like tragedy more than comedy.
I like comedy.
Oh, okay.
Can you describe the Queer As Folk family members in one word?
Say it again?
Describe each Queer As Folk family member with one word.
Which family?
Queer as Folk.
But that’s not a family. Sooo, all those people? Describe them all in one word?
Audience calls out, “Each. Each one.”
Ohhhh nooooo. Let’s save that for another panel. I have to think. It’s been a long time. I might confuse them with you know, somebody else.
Okay, that was the last question. Thank you.
CLAPPING.
Continued here: kinwad.livejournal.com/375189.html
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