Friday, July 23, 2010

Willie Garson...

While Willie Garson might have had notes to make certain he covered specific points -- and introduced each of his fellow cast mates at the White Collar panel he moderated, the man quickly proved he did not require a script to entertain the gathered fans!

This is a cast that has clearly come together as a group of friends -- to the point I couldn't help but wonder as we watched a video they made for the panel, in which they were on the set of White Collar, discussing costumes they could wear at Comic Con if the actor's themselves had suggested the video, and perhaps done a tiny bit of ad libbing!

Tim Dekay and Tiffani Thiessen play husband and wife on White Collar, and during the panel mentioned that they are each married in real life, and loved the chemistry and strength of the relationship between their characters on screen... the marriage felt real to them.  It was a solid, though not perfect relationship, and something they have enjoyed bringing to the screen.

The cast shared stories about what it is like to film in New York City -- complete with Willie Garson relating the tale of tourist busses driving by, and his being able to hear the tour guide detail the nearby sites, including Willie standing in the median (trying to shoot a scene) by the sounds of it, Willie felt like a statue on display for the good tourists that day.


While there must be a thousand and one decisions to be made with bringing cast members to a panel at Comic Con, one of the interesting decisions is inevitably "bring the entire cast, or just the key players?" (And what if one of the key players has a conflict and can't make it?)

White Collar chose to bring the entire cast, and it was a true delight to watch this "gang" interact.  Poking fun at one another, sharing jokes, and fun experiences from the set -- giving the attendees a chance to glimpse the inside jokes and apparently true behind the scenes fun.

I don't attend Comic Con panels on television shows with expectations that the coming scenes major plot twists will be spoiled for me, and feel almost anti-climactic by the time I see them... but finding out that a props man accidentally served real alcohol during a scene that had to be shot several times, and the actors were a tad tipsy when they realized this was a slightly more than minor Oops???  That's entertainment!

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