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where do I go here thank you it just a
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pleasure to be here in Dallas first and
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foremost want to thank Fan Expo for
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having me uh for all the the work that
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they do in front of and behind and
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things that you guys don't see which
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allows us they allow us to come and
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spend time with you so round of applause
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for the people who work here
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who take their time and uh their
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dedication to putting all this together
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this takes a lot of work so thank you
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and thank you to you guys for coming out
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and spending some time with me whether
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it was in the autograph line or doing
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being here i'm sorry that we are a
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little bit behind on this panel i wish
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we could open it up even more um but
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sometimes that's just the way it is when
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you get caught with other people and
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things that are out there with pictures
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and and whatnot so from the bottom of my
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heart I'm glad I'm so happy to be here
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okay so we're going to do roundabout
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question yeah lightning round um you've
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had the unique experience of being on
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series that have gone for multiple
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seasons and that is so rare in your
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industry how do you keep your
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performance fresh and how do you keep
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the character alive you you it's through
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repetition and I think when you get
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through the repetitions of character and
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you continuously work on the character
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with an acting coach that I have in Ivon
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Chvik who is we were very dedicated to
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the types of characters that we that I
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was playing and even especially with
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Emily we would go together and we would
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work on the scripts we would decide the
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moments and the subtext that we would
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use for each moment of every episode and
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um that allowed us to kind of
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continuously push the envelope there um
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the SEAL team was the same it was a very
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constant grind uh the guys were great
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that were on it we had uh some real
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operators dev crew people that uh you
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know gave their time and were on the
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show and we played it in a very
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authentic way so for me I have to
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continuously just keep the reps going
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and keep grinding and don't just sit
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back and say "Oh well I've done I've
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gotten through season 1 or I've gotten
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through an episode and I can just phone
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it in." I would be doing as a disservice
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to the fans um it's really what you guys
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see what we put out there that is
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exciting for me so you have to
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constantly work at it um however that is
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as an actor and how you want to attack
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it that's great you're So you've played
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so many iconic characters is there
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anything from your resume that you feel
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oh well you know I've been fortunate to
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do some really great stuff i mean
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obviously from what you've seen um The
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Family Guy was pretty hilarious came out
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you know that was kind of hilarious did
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a film called These Girls which I really
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loved uh I thought that was a really
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smart independent film we shot i went to
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the Toronto Film Festival um you know
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The Crow was crazy i mean we had crazy
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time shooting that eddie Furlong you
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know Dennis Hopper you know things that
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you have the people that you work you
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know did a film with Alan which
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was great it was his film it's called
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Ghost Hunter and it wasn't originally
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called Ghost Hunter but ended up being
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called Ghost Hunter another story but uh
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you know you you take each one for what
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they are and you apply your work to it
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and see how it comes out so on Buffy and
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Angel you play technically the same
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character but he has many incarnations
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we have Liam we have Angelus and we have
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Angel did you find it difficult to
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switch back and forth or did they each
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have a unique profile you know I it's
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just a flip of the script for me in my
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head it's an easy compartmentalizing
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thing i love playing hero characters but
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yet I also like the villain aspect of it
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so it's a mental kind of a switch that
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goes off and you kind of find that evil
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personality and angel and you have this
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kind of oh shucks kind of teddy bear
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kind of guy and angel and you marry them
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somehow i was able to do that and you
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learn your gears you learn how to shift
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them was inspired by some great actors
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that I admire very doubly Gary Olden um
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and a professional that was very strong
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for me as far as what he did on screen
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and his you know his ticks and his
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whatever his personality that he would
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play i would you know kind of look at
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that performance like "Wow he's got some
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really good change up in there." So um
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yeah so this weekend is Emily's first
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what has it been like getting to
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experience this with her you know great
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it's like stepping back on set i mean
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really like literally it felt like we
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were back in action she was telling me
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what to do consistently she was telling
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me where to sit where to stand what to
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eat what not to eat you know have this
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have that you know it's kind of like um
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it's a thesaurus of words with her it's
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a it's it's an aquarium full of so many
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different types of fish right it is so
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beautiful and so many different
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personalities to her that uh it's been a
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blessing to be with her here these past
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few days and to sit with her and talk to
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oh wow okay attention everybody stand up
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and move to your left
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okay Star Wars today i'm a fan let's go
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so unfortunately I only have time for
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one more question before they're going
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to tell us we don't have to go home but
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uh is there an actor out there that you
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haven't worked with that you would like
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to work with um Darth Vader
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seems to be crawling down my shoulders
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right now they you know you aspire to
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work with people that are so embedded in
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their focus and embedded in their craft
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daniel B lewis is such an icon to me tom
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Cruz I love you know Harrison Ford i
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love um guys that really you know Tom
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Hardy are intense and have a heroic kind
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of sensibility to their personalities
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and that are strong and the
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david thank you so much thank you guys
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this is the quickest panel I've ever
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done but I thank you all thank you
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people in Texas thank you Dallas i
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appreciate every single one of you from
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my patches to all the things that you
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give me so I really appreciate you thank
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you good news is you can come see David
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at the table so we hope to see a lot of
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you there thank you so much