Alright, I know this has been a long time coming, but here are some of the highlights from the first Flanvention in Burbank back in December...
“Yeah, there are a couple of things about the movie that I would f***in’ change.” – Ron Glass after being asked if there was anything he would want to have seen done differently in the film. Nathan responded quickly with “Look, we had a meeting. We voted. Two people didn’t show up!”
The guys were asked what was their favorite episode.
Nathan: “Anything but Jaynestown. Which, by the way, I phoned in.” Then, in response to fake horrified gasps from Alan, he said “You know you did the same thing.”
“I only showed up to school so that I could perform at night. Wait, that didn’t sound good.” Sean
Ron explained that when he was in school, he was picked on, but once he DID stand up to the bullies.
Nathan: “Did you fight dirty?”
Ron: “No!”
Nathan: “You fight me, you’re gonna get kicked in the balls.”
Adam: “That ain’t dirty.”
While Ron was talking about when he was in middle school, Nathan says, "So you get to school, tie up your horse, and go talk to your friends."
Alan: "When I was in high school, I used to always wear this big sombrero. And when I got to class the teacher would make me take it off, but it was so big, it wouldn't fit under my desk. So they'd put it on the teacher's desk. So every class, there was my big sombrero up in the front of the room."
“Great, now I have a f***ing unicorn on my back” Jewel on what she thinks now about the tattoo she got when she was 18.
Alan on set having to do a wild line over and over: “Sweet barbecued crap!” And Nathan, holding his script like a menu, saying “I’ll have the same.”
“It’s the Morena Baccarin show!” What Morena calls the deleted scenes on the “Serenity” DVD because it was mostly her scenes that were cut.
“Oh, I heard how you peed on it, yeah” Morena on Jewel’s difficulties with the pink fluffy dress in “Shindig”
Jewel: “I thought I had the whole dress up around me, and I didn’t!”
Morena: “And I’m in there with her, and I hear ‘Shit, I peed on my dress’, although when I first heard ‘Shit’, I thought ‘Uh-oh….’”
“We’re NOT doing “Objects In Space”; I slept through that whole f***in’ episode!” Adam on his choice for which ep we should watch with cast commentary.
Alan: “If we're all family, does that make what me and Zoe do incest?”
Morena: “Well, you know what they say, if you can’t keep it in your pants, keep it in the family.”
Alan: “Who says that?!”
“Why didn’t you just kiss him? Stupid bitch.” Jewel to Morena as we watched the scene where Inara and Mal say good bye in “Out of Gas”
“Got wood?” or “Honey, get me a needle, I got a splinter.” Alan fooling around during the filming of his death scene.
“I made sure to get my mouth and tongue all over that bottle.” Adam on what he did to the bottle of booze right before he slid it over to Sean in the “I aim to misbehave” scene.
The male BDH’s were asked what kind of part they would want to play if they could choose. Nathan’s answer was a superhero, which elicited laughter, of course. Adam and Ron started making jokes about Nathan’s answer and Alan asked: “And what would your special power be if you were a superhero?”
Nathan: “Uh, to get Ron and Adam to shut up when I’m doing a panel.”
Later, on another panel, Adam was getting carried away and Alan says, "Nathan, use your powers!"
“The hardest part about throwing people on cables is stopping your face from doing this: (makes an amazed and impressed with himself face). Nathan on how cool it was to do Caleb on “Buffy”.
Adam: "Yeah, I got to do that to Boreanaz, that was great." (Referrring to his time on Angel as Hamilton.
“And not making the punching noise when you hit people. Dzzzh! Dzzh! Dzzh!” Adam as he throws fake punches.
Nathan talking about how he felt bad throwing around the Potentials, "Take this girl and you... throw her over there! This girl, she's maybe... 90 pounds?"
“Maybe he was a celebrity!” Nathan speculating on why the Alliance treated Book at their medical center.
“You could bench press me. And probably my house.” Nathan to Ron on why he wouldn’t want to cross him.
Ron: “Well, it’s difficult to address that question because…”
Nathan: “….you can’t remember all the roles you’ve had. You don’t have a grip on yesterday. I’m Nathan.”
“I said you were a good kisser. I wasn’t telling the truth.” Jewel to Sean
“No, Nathan’s the best. Right, Summer?” Sean
“I had a real bad experience on CSI Miami and I’ll just leave it at that.” Sean, on his worst job.
Jewel: “Note to self: Don’t do CSI Miami.”
Jewel: “I know Sean actually performed brain surgery to research his part.”
Sean: “On Summer. That’s why she’s crazy.”
Jewel: “Nathan would shake a pretend bag of marbles when Summer had to act crazy. It was really funny.”
Summer: “It wasn’t that funny.”
“No, he’s an asshole.” Sean responding to a question about whether Nathan crosses the line with his joking around or if the rest of the cast really enjoys it.
“Not enough room for the twins, huh? We only need one!” Nathan when it was discovered there weren’t enough chairs for the twins at the panel.
“I’m gonna guess life after death. Tell me I’m wrong, Ron, tell me I’m wrong.” Nathan after a fan asked Ron what spiritual influence he would’ve wanted his character to have in the future.
Fan - "Caleb and Hamilton. Who would win in a fight?"
Joss - "Lets find out!"
When asked who their favorite woman on the cast was:
Alan: "Gina. Not many people got Wash and Zoe, but it worked for me and Gina because we got along so well."
Sean: "I'm not going to answer that!"
Ron: "Morena. I always gave her a hard time, especially about her costumes. One time she came out from wardrobe, and I looked at her and said 'What is this, a f***ing carnival?'"
Adam: "Summer, because she was the set scapegoat. Anything that went wrong, lighting, someone missing a line, whatever, we'd blame on Summer."
Nathan: Unbuttons his outer shirt and has a Kaylee t-shirt on that says "Shiny."
Jewel: (about Nathan above) "Wait, what? He's wearing me on his chest?" (to Morena) "I wonder if he's secretly in love with me? One time we were doing a panel and he says 'Have you ever had a dream about me?'"
Morena: "I think at this point, we've all probably had dreams about each other."
Jewel tells Morena to share a particular story, she refuses, laughing, at first, then caves, saying "You guys CAN'T tell Sean Maher this... he's gonna kill me. Okay, I had this dream that we were in my car, and I was making out with Sean! He was trying to talk me into it!"
Jewel: "The best part was, they had their pants off! It gives me the willies..."
Morena: "He gave ME the 'willies' too!"
Jewel: "Well that didn't take long..."
Sean (later, on another panel, after hearing that Morena told the dream story):
"You betrayed me!"
When asked about if there was anything they were obsessive about:
Nathan - Harry Potter
Alan - Halo for XBox
Adam - Mountain bikes
Sean - Lord of the Rings
Ron - Golf
Jewel - Lost (and the cooking channel, she loves Rachel Ray, but Morena isn't a fan)
Morena - Shakespeare
Summer - Her evil dog
Joss - Veronica Mars and Little Women "One day I was talking about it so in depth with Tim Minear, that the other guys at the table had to start talking about football."
Different ways that Jewel and Nathan give each other the finger. Nathan's magic trick, and his Caleb doll at the end of the outtakes. Jewel getting 3000 people to do it to him at a con.
Alan talking about meeting the cast for the first time: "I met the captain, and remember thinking, this isn't going to work at all. This guy is no good as the captain, etc." Later, he made a reference to this to someone and they said "No, he's the doctor!"
A fan said that they heard Summer was really good with accents, so they asked her to do some for us, and Jewel says, "In other words, dance, monkey, dance!
Summer, tired of being the set scapegoat, saying on set "I'm just trying to do my job!"
A fan asked why she was the scapegoat, and Summer says "Probably because I was the youngest, least experienced..."
Morena and Jewel are both shaking their heads. Jewel: "That's not why. It's because you're perfect! You never make mistakes!"
Morena: "I remember this one time on Firefly, we were on set, and Nathan comes over to me and says, 'I just want to let you know that you were spectacular today, you did a really good job, your acting was just incredible... if you like eating horseshit!"
Jewel: "Yeah, one day he came up to me to give me this beautiful jewelry box. He said 'You're so great, you bring so much to the show, etc.' Then I opened the box and he had cut out the bottom and put his middle finger in there!"
After we watched Out of Gas, Morena saying "Wow, Nathan, your performance in that episode was really great."
Nathan: "Thanks."
Morena: "If you like eating horseshit."
At the banquet, someone asked Jewel about the strawberry scene in Firefly. She said the script only said "Kaylee enjoys a strawberry." That was her take on it, the rest of the cast gave her a hard time. Joss was like "Umm... okay." She said she doesn't even really like strawberries that much.
During BDP autograph signing:
Nathan asks what the hold up in the line is, Jewel laughs. Nathan yells "J-E-W-E-L, it's not that hard!"
Nathan yells Sean's name a few times to get his attention.
Sean: "What?!"
Nathan: "Are yuo writing 'Stay Shiny?' You don't get that, that's what I write, that's MINE."
Someone points out that Alan is using it too.
Nathan: "Alan, are you writing 'Stay Shiny' too?"
Alan: "No, I'm just writing 'Shiny.' 'Stay Shiny' is lame."
The other actor reading for Mal was Neal McDonough and that when they finally called Nathan back in, Joss joked that he got the role of Inara and Nathan said, "I can do that." When he was told he got the part, he didn't want to have to tell Neal that he got the part over him, so he tried to sneak out, but Neal saw him. So Nathan started running like he had to be somewhere and Neal shouted towards him, "Nathan you forgot your coat." and Nathan says, "Just keep it!" as he kept running.
Jewel is about to tell a story about a fan, and Sean says, "Wait, are you sure he's not in the room?" Then Joss pretends to pull a mask off as if he's the fan.
Nathan (about Joss): "He's not a nice man, he's not a kind man..."
Joss enters the room.
Nathan: "That's so weird, we were just talking about you."
Joss: "Well I've been talking about you guys too. (Pointing at someone in the audience) Specifically, you. Yeah, what was that? My wife was there. That was awkward."
Alright, if I think of anymore, I'll edit this post.
I'm going to post some pictures, on my
site.
