xx info // ring*con 2002 // transkript des panels mit mark - englisch

Mark: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no...
Craig: Look, ...uh, we answered questions yesterday, so there should be nothing left to say, so we can just go, really, shall we? See
ya, thanks, bye!...
Mark: Uhm, no, no, that´s not true. Well, I would like to say before, before we even start, that Craig and I flew over, we flew over from New Zealand, which, I don´t know, if you been there? It´s a long way away.
Craig: We were in an airoplane. We didn´t do it... just flying...Just a case...
Mark: I´m sorry. I should have explained that. We flew in an aeroplane. And (laughs) we were talking – as you do – on the way. And
uhm...
Craig: A little bit, uh, a little bit like this: “Mark, have you ever done a conference before...convention?”
Mark: “Uh, no, I´ve never done a convention before, Craig.”
Craig: “What do you think it´s gonna be like, Mark?”
Mark: Uhm, before I could answer I was falling asleep with my head on his lap and uhm...
Craig: And then, as I strugged his head, said “Mark, I´m frightened...”
Mark: Yes. Craig was very frightened, uh, before coming.
Craig: But I´m not frightened now.
Mark: No, no...
Craig: Ich bin glücklich.
Mark: (laughs) Ah!! Enough of this idle check! Uhm, I think we have a, have a question in, in the middle there (points two Girls in the audience)

Girl1: Okay, Mark, Craig, you promised yesterday you´ll come to the party. Where have you been?
Mark: I was there, where were you?
Craig: Yeah. I was there. But I came as, uh, an Uruk-Hai.
Mark: That´s right.
Craig: And no one talked to me, all night. Uhm...
Girl1: We searched for you, we haven´t seen you.
Craig: No, I´m sorry. We, uhm, I went to bed. (laughs) I´m very old and I was tired (laughs)

Girl2: And, one more question: Mark, you promised us yesterday...
Mark: Okay, I´m going, I´m going...
Girl2: ... to go breakfast with us. Where have you been tomorrow? We wait for you. We were starving for you!
Mark: You were starving for me???
Girl2: Yes, we waited.
(Audience: huge applause)
Girl1: You will need a very very good reason for that.
Mark: (fetches his video camera) Uh ..., could, could you say “we were starving for you.” One more time?
Both Girls: Okay. Mark, we were starving for you. (laugh)
Mark: (focuses Craig and then himself with his camera. Then puts it aside)
Girl1: Will you show that to your family?
Mark: Uhm, I´m sorry. I´d, I didn´t know you were starving for me. But if I knew you were starving for me, I would have been there.- Where?? Sorry, just anybody...?
Girl1: And the reason? The answer?
Mark: Oh, I, uh, I...I wasn´t sure what the question was? Where, where was I supposed to be?
Girl1: Where have you been yesterday evening and tomorrow? ... uh, today at breakfast...!
Mark: (laughs) Can you try to make a date now?
Girl1: Today at breakfast. We wait for you. Where were you?
Mark: Last night?
Girl1: Nein! This morning!
Craig: Fruhstuck... (grins)
Mark: Nine o´clock this morning?
Girl2: Yeah, breakfast.
Mark: Breakfast!... What have I promised you?? That I would see you at nine o´clock? – I was having breakfast, where were you? I waited and waited... I was starving for you...!
(Audience: huge applause and laughter)
Mark: But then I had something to eat. And then I wasn´t. So...anybody else that have a question?

2: Uhm, I don´t have questions, but I want to say something: Uh, first to Craig: I just, uhm, talked to my brother on my cell phone and he said “Say hi to Craig for me.” So, hi! (laughs)
Craig: Hi! (lifts up one hand)
2: Yeah. He´s a real fan of you. He loves this workshop stuff. Jep, alright. And to Mark: Hi from me! (laughs)
Mark: Hi back! (grins) That´s interesting, isn´t it? The brother sais hi to Craig...
(Audience: applause)
2: Oh, yeah, he loves you.
Mark: Gotta figure...
Craig: (shy) Anyone got a question?... Hi!  

3: Huh, I´m blinded by you two stars... I have two questions, cause I do a little bit of translation for those who, uh, who don´t dare to come or so... Just for you to know. So, my first question is, uhm, my own: Craig, why do you know that much german? It sounds quite good. I just wandered.
Craig: Mark was my t... on the plane over – Mark speaks fluent german – and, uhm, on the plane over; well, at the airport I bought a little phrasebook of german. And travelling cross the...I would say “How do you say this one? How do you say this one?” So, uhm, he was my teacher. I have everything from Mark.
Mark: Yes, I was his teacher.
3: Mark, can you prove it?
Mark: Yes, and I was a very strict teacher. Everytime he got something wrong (hit his hand)
Craig: Aaaah!
3: Can you prove it, Mark?
Mark: And when he got it really wrong (puts his hand on his back)...
3: No, I mean, your german.
Mark: Uh, oh, I would prove, that I am a teacher? Auf german?
3: No, that you know german.
Mark: Oh, look, I´d like to, but...but it would make Craig feel really bad, uhm, make him feel sehr schlecht. Was that right? I don´t know, if that is right. Is that right?
Craig: (clears his throat, sets micro onto his lips) Oh, no, that´s ...

3: Okay, second question. Craig – sorry Mark – this is of the other person, naturally a lady. Who wants to know, Craig, whether you are bound to someone. Or whether you are solo or...
Craig: What am I? Sorry?
Mark: What, uhm...
3: Are you solo or are you already fixed to someone?
Mark: Are you fixed? (laughs)
3: No, no. No drug experience...
Craig: It´s a very small operation, uhm...
Mark: No, the question was: are you bound to someone?
Craig: Am I bound to someone? Uhm, no. No, I, I, uhm, I´m not married and, uhm... no, I do, uhm, I do quite fancy the idea of getting a european passport... uhm, so...
Mark: Oh...!
3: What is your style?
Craig: (takes some money out of his pocket) Look, 50 ponds! Does anyone give me a passport? (puts it back) Uhm, no, no, I´m... I´ve managed to avoid getting married so far. Thank you.
Mark: No one will have him. (laughs)
3: I doubt that. Thanks a lot.
Mark: Bitteschön.

4: Hello to both of you, by the way. Would you like to see a parody of the Lord of the Rings being filmed, and if so, which actors would you recommend to play your parts?
Mark: (laughs) Uh, my idea of a good parody for Haldir would be Craig Parker to play it.
(Audience: huge laughter)
Craig: Do you know, uhm, do you know the english comedians Dawn French and, uhm, Jennifer Sawnders? They are absolutely fabulous at faired. They, uhm, oh, they are english, brilliant english comedians and they, uhm, they did a parody of it. And it was remarkable! So, that was, uhm, if you can get a copy of it, it´s well worth it. There are lot of, uhm, oh, it´s just very funny. I laughed a lot. They´ve lots of scenes, you know, that... in the film there´s sort of think all forth perspective where, uhm, two characters are sitting there, but they´re, they´re shot in such a way that... It´s   like when I stand next to Mark. He looks quite tall. Buht he is not. I´m actually taller than him, we just stand in a certain way. And, uhm, I´m not going to try to explain the joke, because that would be really sad, wouldn´t it?
Mark: Yeah, sure.
Craig: Uhm, but if you can get a copy of it, it is very funny.
Mark: Buht the question is... nice trying avoid the question... the question is: who would you like to play you in the film parody version?
Craig: (looks bewildered)
Mark: Should I explain that to you in german?
Craig: Yeah, please, yes, do Mark.
Nark: (looks at his watch) Oh, we don´t have time.
(Audience: laughter)
Craig: (laughs, makes a longer pause) Mr. Bean.
(Audience: huge applause and laughter)
Mark: Hmm... who would play me? Uhm, Lucy Lawless?? Yeah! She would kick some Orkbutt, wouldn´t she? (imitates her throwing her Xenathing) Is, i...is that good enough?
4: It will do.
Mark: Are you, you, uh... are you gonna make one of these films?
4: Uhm, no.
Craig: All you need is a video camera. It´s very easy.
Mark: That´s right. And then, maybe, a hundred million dollars, but that´s...

Craig: Yeah.looks other way) I see a Drow... It´s very hard to see the Drow. I could just see some white hair. The Drow...
Mark: Right. In der, in, in der Mitte? (wants to impress Craig) Oh, sorry,  it just slipped out, Craig, I´m sorry... In der Mitte... (grins)
Drow: (laughs)
Craig: Wichser...
(Audience: huge laughter)
Mark: (tries to kick him off the stage)
Drow: Well, Mark, I wanted to ask you, if we may see, uh, parts of your video in the internet. I would like to.
Mark: Oh!?
Craig: Mark, can we see a video of your parts on the internet?
(Audience: huge laughter and applause)
Drow: No...! (laughs)
Mark: oh... what, what was the question?? Will... will we, we see...?
Drow: The video you made. The three days.
Mark: Oh, this video?!  
Drow: This video. I would like to see it in the internet.
Mark: Should I put it on the internet?
(Audience: applause)
Mark: Yeah, I... I don´t see why not.
Craig: (takes a camera out of his pocket) Uh, this, this does video as well. So, we´ll do, uhm, uh, uh, what, what do we say to the
internet users? Hm... Maybe “Hello world, uh, wouldn´t, uh...”
Mark: Welt
Craig: “... Welt... auf der Wolk... de le RingCon.” Or something like that. Does that make sense? So, uhm, anyone has to shout out, what are we gonna say, uhm “hello world,...”
Mark: Uh, “greetings from ...”
Craig: “...RingCon 2002” Okay, but properly in german.
(Audience: applause)
Craig: “Greetings world, hello from RingCom 2001”.
Audience: ...Two!!
Mark: Yeah. And it´s, it´s quite...
Craig: (looks down to his watch, nods his head) I´m late, sorry. I´ve, okay, oh...!
Mark: Yeah, and, Craig, you may have seen on some of the signs: it´s RingCoN.
Craig: Con...?
Mark: Yeah. (laughs) Alright...
Craig: Houselights? Can we just, these, light it up?
Mark: Houseligts? Can we bring them up? Does anybody help? Licht? Hauslicht?
Audience: Licht an! (lights brought up)
Mark: Ahh! Oh my God! Look at you! (laughs) Alright, ready?
Craig: (points at the audience with camera) Eins...
Both: Zwei, ... Drei!!
Craig: (zooms)
(Audience: makes some noise)
Craig: (gives them a sign to stop) Well, shameless you are!
Mark: (laughs) So, that´s gonna go on the internet, is it?
Craig: Yeah!
Mark: Okay. Yes, I´ll, I´ll try and work out how to do it. Uhm, but if; I´ll find out how or get someone who knows how. And I´ll put some of that on the internet. Oh, on which site?
Audience: RingCon!
Craig: RingCon!
Mark: Wh...where are we, Craig?
Craig: What?
Mark: What is it called?
Craig: Con. RingCon.
Mark: Yes.
Craig: Convention.
Mark: That´s right.

6: I was wandering, if you could tell us about the weapons training you had for the film.
Mark: Ahhh! The weapons trainig...
Craig: Ah!! Thank you!! Uhm, there was one of your compatriots ca... an english man called Bob Anderson; who, uhm, was the sword master on the show and...
Mark: Who is a God...
Craig: He is a God. He was a man, who, uhm, fought with Erol Flynn. So, he´s, you know, he´s getting on but, uhm, a terribly wonderful gentleman. Very english gentleman. And, uhm, he also...he was Darth Vader in, uhm, the lights over scene in the second Star Wars, I believe. So, he did the, uhm, the fighting. And he was a very sort of elegant elderly man, who would, uhm, pick up a saber and go  (imitates him) “Well, this scene will go (tries a horribly wild choregraphy).” And ...we would go “Oh, right, that´s great, Bob.” And thinking “ How scary is that?!?” You know, this little tricky thing. Then, when he´d go “Now I, I´ll show you how it´s done...” And he is a man, he would have been in the 70s, I think, in stage. And he would pick up a sword, and you wouldn´t see his hand move. The sword would just (shows with one hand how it would have looked like)... It was brilliant! So, uh, he choreographed a lot of the fights and, uhm, there was an amazing group of, of , uh, stunt team. – Who worked through the whole film in terrible conditions. You know, they were often in full body suites on, uhm, hot days, and being you know, their job was to let us hit them. And I´d be constantly “Oh, sorry, did I hurt you?” And they go “No, no, no, no, just wack on me! Wack on em.” So, you... (hits Mark)
Mark: Aaaaah!! (holds his hand)
Craig: See, that´s the difference between stunt people and actors. (laughs, strokes Mark) Sorry, Mark. But, uhm, it was phantastic, but...
Mark: (comes from behind and behaves as if he wanted to hit Craig with his micro)
Craig: ...the, the wonderful thing is... the actors go on “We do it!” And feel really flashed. And then, while we were having lunch or looking some other way, they bring on the really cool guys who put put our same costumes on, then, yeah, do the stunt work. And... make the actors look fantastic! (laughs) So, uhm. Buht it was an, uh, an amazing stunt team. They were really good!

7: Uh, what is your dream role? Both of you.
Mark: Ouhhh...dream role?...
Craig: Uhm, I don´t actually know... they, uhm, tend to care you in whatever place ...sort of you everywhere you do, you always like this a lot. And the, uhm, the next one you like in place, so...
7: It´s like... a specific story or something?
Craig: My dream role, I think, at the moment would be playing, uh, being in a film that shoots in, uhm, Fiji or Tahiti. In which I´m in one scene. But it´s shot over the entire shoot time of about three months and... it´s an american film that pays a lot of money and... they put you up in a very nice hotel on the beach and... most of the time you can just sit by the bar or in the water and drink. So, uhm, that, that would be the film I would like to do now.
7: I´ll have a recked up for you.
Craig: Thank you very much! (laughs)
Mark: That´s, that´s Craig´s idea of a great film. Mine would be, uh, being in a sort of film that would change people´s lifes for the better. (nods his head) But that´s that´s just the difference between Craig and I. Buht...

Craig: (focuses the next person) Uta, hi!
8: Hi. Nice to meet you. (laughs) Uh, I have a question for both of you. Uh, how did you like the convention, so far?
Craig: Fantastic! It´s been...
Mark: Yeah!
8: You said some nice words yesterday about the fans and could you please repeat it for all?
Mark: Uh, wir, wir lieben dich? (laughs)
8: That was only for me, or...?
Mark: Oh, uhm... wir lieben dich, Europe. Uhm, well, uh, I, I speak in...on my own behalf: We didn´t know what to expect when we came and that, that´s absolutely true. We had no idea. And, uh, partly because obviously it´s the first one of these. But, uh, we´d never been to a con anywhere, uhm, so we didn´t know what to expect. And, uh, everything has been fabulous, the organisation, uhm, the guys who were running and looking after us. And we just like to sy a big thank you to them They´ve been sensational!
(Audience: applause)
Mark: Uhm, but the, uhm, except you (points someone in the first line). Except Jan. No, particularly Jan, but, uhm, the, the fans, which
is what, what it´s all about, uh, have been wonderful. Uh, interested, uh, gracious, uhm, intelligent, uhm...
8: I missed that, yes.
Both: (laugh)
Mark: Uh, which we should have expected, because fans of these books and this film are probably a little bit smarter than fans of some other, uh...
(Audience: huge applause)
Mark: We´ve had a wonderful time. Craig?
Craig: Dear so.
Mark: Auch ich.
Craig: Auch ich.
Mark: Ich auch.
Craig: Ich auch. (laughs) Und mehr...

8: May I ask another one? Craig, just a question for you, I´m sorry, I fellt in love yesterday, I´m sorry. I´ll be back in reality tomorrow, okay? But, please answer this to me, uh, I need to know the name of your after shave.
(Audience: huge applause and laughter)  
Craig: (bursts out laughing, sniffing on his t-shirt) I think, it´s probably, it´s, I think it might even be german, it´s Diesel Green. Which, uhm, I think Diesel is german. I think. Is it?
Mark: Is Diesel german?
Craig: I think it is, yeah. Is a deutsche.
8: Okay, danke.
Mark: Deutsche Cologne.
Craig: Comes from Cologne.
Mark: There we go.
Craig: Hey! (looks into the audience)

9: Hello there! Well, first thing first: you are aware, Craig, that before you settle your score with games work shop you have to step by our booth to convince yourself that the card game is by far superior?!
Mark: (laughs) Oh, what´s like that?
Craig: Ohhhh...
9: A challenge... now, my question – also to Craig – how do you explain to yourself that Haldir in the Two Towers and the Fellowship of the Ring, who is supposed to be a beautiful and noble elf...
Mark: (bursts out laughing)
9: ... always looks like he´s not properly shaven?
Craig: (grins evilly) Raging testosterone...
(Audience: huge applause and laughter)
Mark: (laughs)
9: Great answer for the ladies, and I think it will suffice for me, thank you. (laughs)
Craig: Bitte.

10: Hi, it´s me again.
Craig: Hi, Frodo!
10: Hi. Uhm, my question is about the Fellowship. I hope you can answer it. Uhm, I wanna know, when did they learn their words, because three films at the same time, that´s lots of stuff.
Both: Uhp, uh... (stopping each other in beginning to answer)
Craig: Uh, the...when... the difference filmed...
Mark: Do you... starting now?
Craig: The biggest... you, you watch the film and you go quick scene, that´s a minute scene. Often that minute scene took two weeks to shoot. And, uhm, the reasons, visually, oh, what, what are reasons visually the film is so beautiful; beyond New Zealand´s good ascenary, was the care and attention to every shot that goes in. So, when you see a scene, that shoot there of Mark – close up of Mark talking – may have been half a day shot setting up. Then the reverse shot of the other person took maybe the other half of the day. The white shot may have been another day entirely. So, and all those that were single shots. So, there´s an awful lot of time when you sit around and wait. And, uhm, a good time to learn your lines (laughs) This, uhm, d´you uh, do you know the actor, uhm, called Michael Cane? English actor. Heard of him?
Audience: Yeees!!
Craig: He sais a wonderful quote, that sais, uhm, I´m “They pay to sit around and do the acting I do for free.” Which is, uhm, the thing you do mostly on a film set is just sit there and, you know, if you smoke, you smoke 20.000 packs of cigarettes, but smoking´s dumb, so don´t do it.
Mark: (laughs)
Craig: Uhm, kids... (grins)
Mark: Uhm, lines, lines tend to be, uh, more of an issue when you´re doing, uh, stage work. Uh, on film, uh, as Craig was saying, uh, the actual shots are quite short, so you don´t have to remember a huge amount of lines, uh, before you do them. But you need to know them, uh, very well. But, but must actors, uh, because of what you do, you get used to, to learning lines quickly. And, uhm, everybody has a process for, for doing that. But some, sometimes it´s it´s very difficult.
Craig: Or you could just write them on the other person´s forehead (acts as if he wrote something on Mark´s head, walks round him)... “Yes, Mark, I think we must go to Mordor...(back)...to take the ring of power...(belly) ... back to Mount Doom!” (butt)
(Audience: huge laughter)
Mark: ...Where was Mount Doom? (laughs)

10: And another thing: Craig – sorry Mark – but Craig, you are very very cute!
Mark: (laughs)
Craig: Ai, shut up!...little puppy...!
Mark: O, over here. (moves to the other side of the audience)

11: Okay, uh, my question for you is: you have flown such a long way to come and see us, and we´re all really greatful cause you´ve been brilliant!But are you going to use this opportunity to see any more of Europe? Or are you gonna fly straight back?
Mark: Uh, uhm, to, to different parts we are gonna go not fly back together – because we´re sick of each other. (laughs) Uhm, but, uh, Craig, you start. Uh, Craig has to go straight back.
Craig: I´m, I´m doing a play at home at the moment, so I´ve managed to convince them to let me for a cupple of nights off for to fill in, but I have to go back and work.
Mark: What play´s, what play is that, Craig?
Craig: (looking proud) It´s called the Rocky Horror Show, Mark!
(Audience: applause)
Mark: And, uhm, you´re playing Rocky?
Craig: (laughs) No, I´m playing the Horror.
(Audience: laughter)
Craig: So, yeah, unfortuna... I was, I was hoping to, uh, to, to go on and, and spend some time in Germany then sort of live, but, uhm, that´s not happening now. Buht, uhm...
Mark: Uh, and I, I leave for St. Petersburg in Russia, uh, tomorrow. For no particular reason, but, I haven´t been there, so... (laughs) uh, they tell me it should be about, uh, minus 10, uh, yeah, so, uh...
Craig: Is there anybody from St. Petersburg here? Leningrad stand on up!
Audience: Moskau!...
Craig: From Moskau?  
Mark: From Moskau? Uhm,...oh, uh, do you know anywhere I can stay in St. Petersburg?...
Craig: Got any family there, or, or, uh...?
Mark: Anything I should do or not do or what sort of food I should avoid, uh? Yeah?... No? Uh, is... Jan has got a question.

(person in the first line asks, if Craig and Mark would do the Aragorn/Arwen-kissing scene again)
Mark: Hmm...
(Audience: huge applause and laughter)
Both: (grin)
Craig: Can I bo..., can you pass me that D2 chair, that just there?
Mark: I...I,I used to like you, Jan... okay, okay.
Craig: Now, just for a change, Mark, to make it easier, so you´re not bored. I´ll play Aragorn. (grins)
(Audience: laughter)
Craig: (steps onto the chair, hands Mark his necklace)
Mark: (tries to put it over his head, but fails) You´ve got a really little head, Craig! ... How does it start? Where, who comes on first?
Craig: I think, I think, uhm, Arwen is singing an elvish song as she walks through the, uhm, through the woods. (laughs)
Mark: (sings, then recognises Craig, stands before him and puts his head against Craig) Aragorn,... son of...Baragorn...I desire you...like no elvan daughter of a rock star. (makes huge lips)
(Audience: huge laughter)
Mark: I, I, I wish...to not only give you... my heart... I, I wish to give you (tries to pull necklace from his head)
Craig: (whispers “star of Elendil” into his ear)
Mark: Star of Elendil?
Craig: (to the audience) Star of Elendil?
Audience: Even Star!!
Mark: I use to give you this ...
Craig: The evening star! The evening star!...
Mark: Have you seen the film? Really, really, Aragorn, you should see the film, I was very good. (laughs) I wish you to take this, this rather unattractive necklace ... (laughs) that´s quite cheap, really...!
Craig: (laughs)
Mark: Please take it.
Craig: No, I, I can´t! Or I can? – No, I can´t. For if I take this, you will grow old and... not look so beautiful as you do now, uhm... I thought  I was signing up for an elf, and, you know, beautiful for all eternity but, you´re gonna get old and stuff, well... actually I´ll gonna go and see that Éowyn down the road, uhm... (goes off)
(Audience: applause)
Mark: Oh, God!… (laughs) Ya know,… ya know, Craig, sitting in a bar a few years ago, us talking, would we have ever said: “You know, Craig, I bet one day we´ll be in large auditorium in Bonn, Germany, doing a parody of Lord of the Rings, I bet you.”?
Craig: Didn´t think of it, no…
Mark: No, no. (watches the audience)
Craig: Enough of us, please! Hallo!

13: I have a question for Mark. And, uh, I´m not sure, if it´s been asked yesterday, but, uhm, in the extended DVD there are storyboards for the prologue with a big scene with Gil Galad in it…
Mark: (seems to cry)
Craig: (takes him in his arms)
13: …a big, very beautiful scene with Gil Galad getting slain  by Sauron (laughs). I´m sorry, Mark, I´m really sorry. I just wanted to know, uhm, did you actually take these scenes, did you…?
Mark: Oh, we filmed them. We filmed them, I, uhm, oh yes, and they are spectacular (laughs). Uh, yes, yes, I spent, uhm, I think three days in a, in a car park in Wellington, uhm, being throttled by a very tall man. Uhm, with a , with a, uh, a metal glove on, uhm, I think I told this story, it´s about, uh, so I´ll get quickly. Uhm, he had very very long middle fingernails, uh, Sauron´s glove. And I was standing there and…uff! (imitates graping hand of Sauron) like that, grap my throat. And And hoist me into the air on a small sea sore, with four guys lifted me into the air. While he was graping my throat. And the first take: up we went, boo, straight up, hands were on my throat, straight back down again… I passed out! (laughs) Completely blacked out… uh, on the way down. Hit, hitting the ground really really hard, and, and, yeah, so we… I watched the stunt guy, uhm, who was set on fire and flying across the car park. You know, I was a little upset, that that didn´t get in. But what about that guy…! Playing, playing flaming Gil Galad (laughs) and, you know, he was already to get, get sit down on that, that premiere pick in going “Hey, you know, I played flaming Gil Galad.” It´s on his first date, he wanna impress the Girl. “You wait, you wait. Yeah! It´s coming up, soon. You watch. Set on fire… where´s that?!?” – Not there…
Craig: (laughs)
Mark: Uhm, so, yes, that, all of that stuff was, was shot. And the battle scenes… there were many many more battle scenes. Uhm, of lots and lots of, of Orks. Orks slain. Uhm, but yeah, write, write to, uh, New Line. Demand that gets put back in.
13: Uhm, do you have, do you have any idea will we have a chance of seeing these full chearch? Uh, so, I mean, if, if it´s filmed: do you know has it been, uh, in preproduction? Did they do some special effects for it or has it just been filmed and cut out right away? – Which would limit the chance that we would see it.
Mark: Uh, I don´t know, it, it must be, it must have been processed, it must been fully developed, because I´ve seen lots of the photos, uh, on the cards. All of those photos were from the missing scenes. Uhm…
Craig: I, I´m sure somewhere in, uhm… somewhere in the next few years will be a DVD of… you know, all the extra stuff. Cause there were so much… wonderful stuff s…
(Audience: huge applause)
Craig: I´m not promising!!
Mark: (laughs)
Craig: I´m just to be, you, you know, personally I assume there will be a DVD!…
Mark: No, no, no, you promised them, Craig. If it doesn´t happen, you see him…
Craig: (takes his camera again) We´ll take this home and make little mock ups and it´ll pretend us that to sell us…
13: Okay, thanks a lot.
Mark: Bitteschön.

14: Uhm, why do you think, Gil Galad give the ring to Elrond and not to somebody else?
Mark: (grins) …Ouhhh! Oh, here we go... (laughs) Because they were lovers, and they were… Hey, hey, you got two guys, you know, at war for thousands of years away from home, yeah… yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah…
(Audience: huge applause)
Craig: (grins)
Mark: Uh, I d, I don´t know. It kooked good on him. Uhm, (laughs)…
14: Yes…
Mark: Uh, that´s my answer. (laughs) I don´t know, I don´t know. I, uh…

15: Uhm, how do you prepare for your role?
Mark: (to Craig) Uh, how did you prepare? For your role. I, I…read the book a lot and, uhm, you, you spend time reading he script and which does deffinitely work obviosly, uhm, talk to the director, see what their vision is… make up, costume, they all contribute, so, uhm… the end product, I think of, of any role is, is, is the `Gestalt´. Which is a german word – of, of a lot of people´s input and work, so… I, I´d, a role is never sort of entirely the actor´s piece. It´s kind of, it´s the combination, it´s the focused point of a lot of different people´s input. So, you kind of hope that it all… messures together right at the end. Does that make sense?
15: Yes. Thank you very much.
Craig: Danke.

16: Hi. Uhm, one question, uhm... did you two have the chance to see WETA-workshop? And what did you see there?
Mark: Ooh, uhm…
16: How much time were you given to see, uhm, there?
Mark: Amazing, amazing things. Uh, don´t know, know how many of you know, but, but WETA is, uh, is been something that´s been growing over the years, and, uh, ooh, Richard Taylor is, is an extraudinary, extraudinary talented man. And, and great fun to work with. Because, uhm, being an actor with, uh, when especially with the, especially text and, uh, that side of, of WETA. There, there, they´d make you, make it bearable, when… you´re sitting in a chair for hours and hours, uhm, having all that stuff done to you, but, uh, got… the actual, the actual space…
Craig: It´s, uhm, it w… it was the most exciting part, I think, of the film, was the first day, uhm, Richard giving me a tour of place. And… there were, it, it´s fa… it´s, you know, this huge building that has people doing all sorts of things. And you walk past and there is a rotting body lying on the floor, just as guarded. And it´s, it´s not like… a cheap plastic mannekin that´s been done up. You go “Oh my God, that is a  real person, or a real Ork or an Uruk-hai. And they´re rotting and it´s … they are sooo life like and real, and, uhm, disgusting! And there were, uhm, they had a, a rack of, uhm, Uruk-hai face masks. And this, these were only the masks for the Uruk-hai who where in the far backround. So, you never actually see closed up. And just, probably ten… four rows, five rows of ten of these masks. And each one was individual, each one had… was like, uh, an individual character. Beautiful, flawless! And yet, these were only the ones for far in the backround, so, that level of detail was remarkable. And… the place is kind of interesting, cause everyone who works there is brilliant. – But they work with incredibly powerful chemicals the whole time.
Mark: (laughs)
Craig: So, there is a slight idea of madness. And (laughs) the fumes from the bat, Sort of making them all of a “Oh, it´s great! Yeah!! I´ve been working 24 hours on this ear! Yeah!! Yeah!! Oh, it´s beautiful!!” So, uh, there are very happy a lot of people… in WETA. It´s great. (laughs)
Mark: Yeah. But, but they, they´re incredibly, uh, obsessed by detail. You know, uh, when you wouldn´t, uhm, I had a, sort of, uh, chainmail, uh, that I wore. Uh, and, and I should have realized, that you don´t go down to the, to the lokal supermarket and buy a, uh, a chainmail west. But then hearing that someone had, had made that sole job for something like six months was, was making, uh, these, those chainmailes, for, uhm, for the, these battle, battle elfs. And, and everyone of those links was individually, uh, crafted and, uh, and built. Link by link by link by link… And that´s what WETA´s like. You walk in and there´s a guy: making those things (laughs) link by link by link! And somebody, you know, uhm, they´re putting the finishing touches on all the weaponary. The weaponary!! Was, was incredible, and also there were whole ranges of weaponary that didn´t end up getting used in the film. Uh, for various reasons. That, you, you could, never even saw one. But, uh, but also so beautiful!
Craig: It´s a fantastic place… Is there anyone just sitting down and wants to… ? We probably got to finish now, but, uhm, (looking at his watch) anyone just sitting down, who wants to say something? Chuck your hand up!
Mark: Just some, rather…?
Both: (scanning the audience)
Mark: Nothing?
Craig: Lovely!
Mark: (pulls one of his ears up) I´m an elf! (laughs)
Craig: (laughs) Well, thank you very very much. Uhm, it´s been such a sensational… convention. And, uhm, thank you for making us
feel so wellcome and… thank you for being, well, not normal, but (laughs) thank you for being lovely! Uhm,…
(Audience: laughter, applause)
Mark: Thank you very much! We´ll see you again, soon.
Craig: Thank you.
Mark: Bye!
Both: (lift their hands, go off)
(audience: huge last applause)

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