Eve Myles Interview (Part 2)
Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper
In this 2nd part to our interview with Eve Myles, we talk to her about the furture of Torchwood and auditioning via Skype!
To read part 1 of the Eve Myles Interview, click here!
Eve Myles Interview (Part 2)
Well, the site I write for is called ‘GeekTown’, so it would be somewhat remise of me if I didn’t as some Torchwood Questions…
Of course!
How did you find filming the last season of Torchwood in USA?
It was very exciting! It was brilliant! Whenever we bring Torchwood back, we always want to make it bigger and better. And coming of something like Children of Earth, which was just a phenomenon, you know it was huge, we had to do something even bigger, and keep expanding it! It was a wonderful time, and a huge experience for all of us. None of us had really worked in Hollywood before, and to go there with Captain Jack and Gwen Cooper was a real treat. It was like going away with friends. It was brilliant. And you know what… Russell T Davies, and Julie Gardener deserved to have that.
I know the answer to this is probably ‘no’, but do you know whether you’re going to be making another series of Torchwood? Do you know what’s happening with the future of Torchwood?
No i have no idea at all! I know that everything is kinda on hold for a while. But then, this is the pattern of Torchwood from day 1. From the 1st series we didn’t know if we were going to get the 2nd. Certainly didn’t think we were going to get the 3rd. Certainly didn’t think we’d be packing our bags and living in LA for 8 months to do the 4th! So, who knows whats going to happen! There’s always a good 15-16 month gap between each one, so i’m thinking 2013, hopefully they’ll be something up and running.
And with doing the play now, is it nice working with a writer that doesn’t have a habit of killing half his cast?…
(Laughs) Ermmm. Well… My number 1 writer will always be Mr T Davies cause he’s just insanely wonderful with what he does, he’s just a genius, and I treasure every word he gives me to say. And then the way Zack Braff writes comedy is very playful, and just tells you how your meant to be performing it. I’m a very lucky actor to be able to perform words by Russel T Davies and Zack Braff. I’m very fortunate.
I’m assuming you were a fan of Scrubs before you took the role?
Massive. Yep.
How did the role come to you?
I had to actually do an audition on Skype. Which was possibly the weirdest evening of my life!..
My child minder had let us down, so I had to put Alice In Wonderland (cartoon version) on for my daughter who was sitting next to me. So all through my audition Peter Dubois could hear (adopts Queen of Hearts voice) “Off with her head!” and the rabbit going “I’m late, I’m late! For a very important date!”… And I’m trying to do this audition for Zack and Peter… So my daughter became very much part of my audition! So, yeh, it was a bizarre, bizarre audition, at the same time it was surreal because I had JD in my living room. It was hysterical!
About ‘All New People’
All New People opens tonight - 8th Feb 2012 - at the Manchester Opera House,
then move to King’s Theatre, Glasgow (14th Feb 2012) before starting it’s run at
the Duke of York’s Theatre in London.
For more information about Eve’s play ‘All New People’ visit their website.
Eve Myles Interview (Part 1)
Eve Myles
Recently I had the chance to have a talk with the lovely Eve Myles, star of Torchwood, who has joined the cast of the stage show ‘All New People‘ (written and also starring Scrubs actor Zack Braff).
Part 1 of the interview is below.
Part 2 coming shortly!
Eve Myles Interview – Part 1
So you’re in the middle of rehearsing your play ‘All New People’ at the moment, how is it going?
Rehearsals are going absolutely brilliantly. We’re quite ahead, so if all goes well, they’ll be a show!
And the play starts off in Manchester, are you rehearsing up there, or down in London?
We’re still in London, and i think it’s, erm… next weekend actually we go up to Manchester… Oh my god, it is, I’m just realising! It’s next weekend we go to Manchester! That’s slightly given me a big icky feeling in my stomach! But that’s okay! 
What more can you tell me about ‘All New People’?
Well, it’s a wonderful play by Zach Braff, and directed by Peter DuBois. It’s Zack’s first play, and it’s fantastically funny, but with a kind of dark undertone to it. It’s 90 mins, and you’ve got 4 strangers, who all meet for different circumstances, in a beach house in Long Beach Island. They all come together, and have absolutely nothing in common, but spend an evening together. It’s driven by fantastic language and heightened circumstances. You have these 4 very different people, who you never expect to be in the same country, never mind the same room with each other! It’s brilliantly orchestrated.
All New People Starring Zack Braff, Eve Myles, Susannah Fielding & Paul Hilton
How are you finding working with Zack?
Zack is… a genius! He’s marvellously talented… annoyingly so actually… ;)
Zack of course wrote the play, so was there any apprehension in working with an actor who is also the writer?
Well there’s is a certain apprehension to there, but Zack goes out of his way everybody feel completely comfortable with what they’re doing, and to take control of characters. And he’s there to enhance, and to develop what is already there. It’s actually wonderful having the writer on hand all day long, because if something needs to be re-written, he does it at the blink of an eye. And he’s not precious about it at all, he’s massively generous, both acting and writing.
The other obvious question (having seen his recent appearace on The Graham Norton Show), has he learnt his lines yet?…
(Laughs), yes, he’s very much on top of them now!
Your known best for Torchwood and your TV work these days.
When was the last time you worked on stage?
It was 6 year ago at the National, and I was doing the Henrys with Michael Gambon. I can off stage and it was literally 4 months later and i was filming Torchwood!
So were there any nerves about going back on stage?
Nervous, but excited! Apprehensive, but feeling everything I should be feeling really, but more excited than anything else!
People that know you from Torchwood will obviously know your lovely Welsh accent very well, but your doing an English accent for this role. Is that something you’ve done before, and is it coming along okay?
Great actually! I’ve never done a Welsh accent on stage it’s always been RP or regional London, something like that, so it’s going back to roots that i’ve very familiar with. I’m actually looking forward to it, i’ve been screaming to do a different dialect for a long time, but i’ve been solely into Gwen Cooper for 6 years, so I couldn’t all of a sudden turn up going (adopts upper-class english accent) “Oh hello, how has your day been?”, it’s just not going to work. ;)
End of Part 1… Part 2 coming soon, where Eve talks about the future of Torchwood, and Skype auditions…
All New People opens in Manchester tomorrow (Wednesday 8th February 2012) till 11th Feb.
Then moves Glasgow on the 14th-18th Feb, before moving to The Dukes of York in London’s West End.
Official Trailer For The Amazing Spider-Man!
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s awesome trailer for The Avengers, Marvel have released the first really decent trailer for their Spider-Man reboot – The Amazing Spider-Man, with The Social Network’s Andrew Garfield in the title role. Rhys Ifans is also looking suitably creepy as Dr. Curt Connors (aka The Lizard)!
The Avengers – Super Bowl Advert (Extended)
For those you in the UK that stayed up to watch the Super Bowl, one thing you won’t have seen is the rather awesome collection of ads that usually run during the airing in the USA.
However, thanks to this wondrous internet thingy, we can now see them online, and the nice folk at Marvel have gone one step further and posted an extended version of the Super Bowl ad for The Avengers!
Director Joss Whedon assembles The Avengers on Friday 27th April 2012 in UK cinemas.
Red Dwarf X – Video of the new Red Dwarf Model!
Dave Channel have just released this little teaser for the new Red Dwarf - Series X. A quick zip over the new Red Dwarf physical ship model.
I think this is the 4th Red Dwarf model.
The 1st fell off a shelf in the production offices.
The 2nd was rebuild from the first for the series 5 episode ‘Demons and Angels’… and then blown up…
One was then build for the remastered DVDs, along with a CGI version.
Nice to see them still using a physical model.
Star Trek Online turns 2yrs old – Releases new ships and feature episodes!
I know many of you MMO gamers out there (including myself) are playing in a galaxy far far away (Star Wars: The Old Republic right now, but i just wanted to mention that other big space franchise – ‘Star Trek Online‘ who turns 2 years old this month.
Despite some of it’s faults (read our review of STO here), i have a soft spot for STO, and up until SWTOR came out, I found it had one of the most engaging systems for drawing players into an MMO story.
For Star Trek Online‘s 2nd birthday, they are releasing Odyssey class, and the Bortas Klingon Flagship to players (useable at rear admiral level), and a trailer for their new featured episode. Plus STO is now free-to-play, so if you are MMOing on a budget, it’s well worth a look!
