We've done several of these interviews with the people
on "Warehouse 13", and they are all so funny! You can't help but laugh
throughout, and they are laughing, too. It's just hilarious. These
actors are both very different, yet they both were cracking me up, and
each other up. You just have to read the transcript below, but you still
won't get the total experience of how funny they are. Some of it was
kind of a "you had to be there" moment.
Syfy Conference Call
Eddie McClintock and Saul Rubinek Warehouse 13 Holiday Episode December
2, 2010 5:00 pm CT
Operator: Ladies and gentlemen thank you for standing by. Welcome to the
SyFy Warehouse 13 conference call. During the presentation all
participants will be in a listen only mode.
Afterwards we will conduct a question and answer session. If you have a
question please press the 1 followed by the 4 on your telephone at any
time during the presentation. At that time your line will briefly be
accessed from the conference to obtain information.
If at any time during the conference you need to reach an operator
please press star zero.
As a reminder this conference is being recorded Thursday, December 2,
2010. And now I would like to turn the conference over to Gary
Morgenstein. Please go ahead sir.
Gary Morgenstein: Thank you. And thank you everyone for joining us. So
we’re bringing back the boys of the warehouse, Eddie McClintock and Saul
Rubinek to talk about the December 7th holiday episode and they will
also talk about their upcoming and they will also talk about their
upcoming movies, Saul is co-staring in Barney’s Version and Eddie is in
Bulgaria filming The Boogeyman.
So (Yeseme) please feel free to start bringing the people forward to ask
questions.
Operator: Thank you.
Eddie McClintock: I’m your Boogeyman.
Operator: Ladies and gentlemen if you wish to register a question please
press the 1 followed by the 4 on your telephone.
Saul Rubinek: They have to register a question.
Eddie McClintock: I’ve got a question, Eddie why would you go to
Bulgaria to do a movie called The Boogeyman?
Saul Rubinek: Because it would be fun and you have a family to support.
Eddie McClintock: Answer, because it’s awesome. No it is fun man, I’m
having a blast.
Saul Rubinek: Cool.
Operator: And our first question comes from the line of Jamie Steinberg
with Starry Constellation Magazine. Please proceed with your question.
Jamie Steinberg: Hi. It’s a pleasure to speak with both of you.
Saul Rubinek: Hi. How are you doing?
Jamie Steinberg: Good. Thanks for taking time out of your Boogeyman
schedule to speak with us Eddie.
Eddie McClintock: No problem. It’s my pleasure.
Jamie Steinberg: It’s fun just to say Boogeyman.
Eddie McClintock: Yeah it is. I’m going to have some of my musician
friends do the recording of the KC and Sunshine Band Boogeyman Song, see
if we can get it for the theme song of the movie.
Jamie Steinberg: Good luck. Fingers crossed.
Eddie McClintock: Thanks.
Jamie Steinberg: Eddie what are some of your typical holiday traditions?
Eddie McClintock: Well, my favorite holiday tradition would be having to
pick my mom off the kitchen floor and put her into a cold shower, after
she had had too much cooking sherry. But other than that, I have two
sons now and they’re just starting to really enjoy Christmas and the
holidays and we try and make sure to put out some cookies and milk for
Santa and make sure that they have lots of toys under the tree as it
were.
Jamie Steinberg: And Eddie you’re an active participant on Twitter. Why
are social networking sites like Twitter important to promotion of
special holiday episodes like Warehouse 13’s and new projects that
you’re working on like Boogeyman?
Eddie McClintock: Well I think just the climate of the entertainment
industry has changed with the introduction of these social networking
sites and the fact that a lot of magazines have folded because of the
economy.
So the use of a publicist maybe isn’t necessarily as prominent as it
used to be so getting out there and kind of being able to talk to the
fans and let them hear from me personally is a cool new thing and I have
a good time, it keeps me busy and it’s just fun to have that instant
feedback that you get from Twitter.
And I think it’s important because for instance I have some friends who
have a million, I have like three or four friends who have about a
million followers on their Twitter account and I told them before the
premiere of Warehouse 13 I asked them if they would do like a blast to
all their followers.
So before the premiere this year I had direct blast to about 3.5 million
listeners who already follow the things these people say to begin with.
I think that has, there’s a lot of power there, marketing power, so I
think it’s a good thing.
Jamie Steinberg: And real quick Saul, can you tell us why people keep
tuning in to watch Warehouse 13?
Saul Rubinek: Because of Eddie’s Twitter probably.
Eddie McClintock: Nice.
Saul Rubinek: It’s really interesting. Last year I crossed the country
with my son, we were moving from one coast to the other and I was kind
of used to people recognizing me from either Unforgiven or Family Man or
Frazier or something like that but it was so, it was very often, more
often than Warehouse 13.
And what was unusual is I used to be able to pick out people who were
recognizing me from what show, my kids and I used to play a game where
that was a Frazier fan, that’s definitely a Star Trek fan, that’s a True
Romance fan because of the tattoos.
But with Warehouse 13 it’s impossible to tell because we’ve all
discussed this, but quite often people are watching this with their
families, which makes all of us really proud. I mean it’s a 9:00 show,
it’s really appropriate for kids ten years old and up, and it’s violence
is kept at a minimum.
And it’s the kind of show because of the humor and because of the
adventure fantasy that seems to work, thank god, for the whole family so
that nobody feels either talked down to or talked up to and I think it’s
the secret of its success is that. Now why that is because there are a
lot of smart people and producing it and writing it and they’re
brilliant in their choice of actors, just brilliant. But other than that
it was, it’s...
Jamie Steinberg: Yourself included.
Saul Rubinek: Yeah. But we have a great time and I think it’s kind of
contagious, you can tell I think that we all have a good time doing the
show. We really enjoy it; we really look forward to every day of
shooting we have a great time.
We have a wonderful and imaginative show runner Jack Kenny who keeps
things humorous and allows for collaboration and we’re very lucky, we’re
very fortunate and some of that I think transmits through the airways to
the people and people tell each other.
And that’s what’s going on. I think another reason is because not one
episode is really formulaic and you can’t really tell what the next step
what’s it’s going to be like other than the fact that we’re tracking
down artifacts, you can have quite a dark episode, you can have a really
light one, there isn’t a formula and I think that that is attracting
fans as well, so I mean those are my guesses.
Jamie Steinberg: Thank you both so much for your time.
Saul Rubinek: Sure.
Eddie McClintock: Thank you.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Jamie Ruby with
scifivision.com. Please proceed with your question.
Saul Rubinek: Hey Jamie.
Jamie Ruby: Hello. Hi. Thanks for taking our call.
Saul Rubinek: Sure. Our pleasure.
Eddie McClintock: Sure.
Jamie Ruby: Great. So can you both talk about the Christmas episode and
also like what was your favorite part filming it?
Saul Rubinek: Go ahead Eddie.
Eddie McClintock: I think the Christmas episode is it’s right in line
with what we’ve always tried to do with the Warehouse 13 episodes.
They’re a lot of fun and there’s some tense moments but again at its
heart it’s a nice family show about this family of people that have come
together at this strange warehouse out in South Dakota and I think it
just stays true to the series and it’s fun.
And Paul Blackthorne who is our guest star does an amazing job and I
guess my favorite part was when the nutcracker...
Saul Rubinek: I could’ve told you that that was his favorite part just
because he gets to say the word nutcracker.
Eddie McClintock: And I get to say nuts.
Saul Rubinek: Yeah. I could’ve told you that. I have three favorite
things that happened to me.
Eddie McClintock: That’s news.
Saul Rubinek: Yeah you’ve talked long enough. I have three favorite
things. One is that I got to work with Judd Hirsch who I’d never met but
had been such a fan of for so many years and we’d never even meet
before, and that was a huge thrill, he’s a wonderful performer, great
actor and was just a pleasure to have him on the show, and they had to
age him up a little bit to make him old enough to be my dad, but that
was a joy.
And the second thing was that for the first time Jack Kenny, our head
writer and show runner directed an episode and he was wonderful to work
with and it was great to have him as the director of the show, and he
wrote the script as well, so that was a pleasure, a real pleasure.
And then I got to perform this little nocturne, or at least part of it,
that I had been writing myself on the piano, which took the place of the
nocturne that Artie has been working on for years that his father is so
happy that he finished it. So I got to do that, so those were three
great things for me.
Jamie Ruby: Awesome. So I don’t know this may I guess be revealed in the
episode but I haven’t seen it yet, what do you two think would be what
your characters would most want for Christmas thinking of anything?
Saul Rubinek: You meant Hanukkah for me didn’t you?
Jamie Ruby: Yes. Hanukkah I’m sorry.
Eddie McClintock: Pete would like to get all of his CD collection back
because apparently it was lost in the mail from Washington, D.C. to
South Dakota. He’s kind of stuck out there at Leena’s with no tunes,
because Leena has Justin Bieber and she plays the same CD all day.
Saul Rubinek: That’s funny.
Eddie McClintock: I know.
Saul Rubinek: I think it actually happens for Artie. I think Artie is
kind of like a Christmas and Hanukkah grump and he’s kind of not really
into all of that stuff and really would prefer it all to go away, and
partly because it would remind him of the family that he doesn’t have
and he’s reminded that he does already have a family, which are these
people, in fact we’re all reminded of that in this episode.
And Artie’s life has been so solitary and so removed from ordinary
family life and he has to deal with so many dark things that holiday
season for many people around the world brings up what they don’t have
and what they can’t have, and that’s certainly true for Artie and it’s
brought home to him in a very real way by having his estranged father as
part of the episode.
Jamie Ruby: Okay great. Thank you very much both of you.
Saul Rubinek: Sure.
Eddie McClintock: Thank you.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Pattye Grippo with
Paszaz.com. Please proceed with your question.
Saul Rubinek: Hey Pattye.
Pattye Grippo: Hi guys.
Saul Rubinek: How’re you doing?
Pattye Grippo: How are you doing today?
Saul Rubinek: We’re good.
Pattye Grippo: Great. Glad to hear that.
Saul Rubinek: Where are you?
Pattye Grippo: Los Angeles.
Saul Rubinek: Oh you’re in L.A., okay cool.
Pattye Grippo: Yeah I’m over here. Actually I wanted to know are there
going to be any new or special artifacts in this episode?
Saul Rubinek: There always are, right. There always are and so yes
absolutely there are, there is stuff that we can’t talk about on pain of
death but that’s one of the joys of the show is that they throw in stuff
more than one usually. But in this case in our show I think it’s just
one, right Eddie, it’s just one artifact. I think...
Eddie McClintock: Yeah.
Saul Rubinek: ...as far as I remember.
Eddie McClintock: Yeah.
Saul Rubinek: Yeah it’s just the one. It’s unusual, usually they throw
in a bunch but it’s a special Christmas artifact that’s all we can tell
you.
Pattye Grippo: Okay. Well we’ll look forward to it.
Saul Rubinek: Yeah.
Pattye Grippo: And I wanted to ask you Saul about Barney’s Version, I
saw it at AFI Fest this year and how did you get involved with that
project?
Saul Rubinek: Well I’ve been involved with the project before. There was
a four-part radio version of it done by the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation where I had played Barney and I’ve known the director
Richard Lewis and the producer Robert Lantos for many years and also I
had worked with Mordecai Richler, the novelist, way back 30 years ago I
had done not one but two different projects that were based on his short
stories. And it was really nice.
As you know now from the movie, I can’t talk too much about who the
character is without giving away something crucial that Barney doesn’t
know about.
Pattye Grippo: Right.
Saul Rubinek: But it was only you know one great scene, I had to go to
Rome to shoot it so that was kind of fun and just me and Paul Giamatti
and it was really great. That’s how I got involved there was, also
because I’m Canadian originally and it’s a Canadian film.
Pattye Grippo: Right. Did you work at all with, well I guess you only
did one day, you didn’t even get to see like Dustin Hoffman or Minnie
Driver or the rest of the cast then.
Saul Rubinek: No. I worked with Dustin before though because I directed
a movie called Club Land with Steven Weber and Alan Alda that was
written by Steven Weber that was produced by Dustin, so that was about
ten years ago. Yeah.
Pattye Grippo: And real quickly let me ask one more about the episode.
What can you guys tell us about this bad Santa that we’ve all heard
about from the episode?
Eddie McClintock: You don’t want to mess with him because he will kick
some A-S-S. And I have to spell that out because my five-year-old’s
right here.
Saul Rubinek: You know there’s a great cartoon that, the great
cartoonist Gahan Wilson his stuff is quite often in the New Yorker, I
don’t know if you know his cartoon.
Pattye Grippo: Right.
Saul Rubinek: And there’s one I remember from years ago is there’s a
little boy with his covers up with his eyes huge with terror and the
door is cracked open and a very angry looking Santa is looking daggers
at him and the caption underneath is “I hear you’ve been a naughty boy
this year Jimmy.” And it’s that kind of terror that this bad Santa
brings.
Pattye Grippo: Okay. Well I’m looking forward to it. Thanks a lot
guys.
Saul Rubinek: Sure.
Eddie McClintock: Thank you.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Michael Hinman with
AirlockAlpha.com. Please proceed with your question.
Saul Rubinek: Hey Mike.
Michael Hinman: Well hello everybody. How’re you doing?
Saul Rubinek: Good. How are you?
Eddie McClintock: Michael, how are you man?
Michael Hinman: Hey Eddie. What time is it in Bulgaria anyway that’s my
question.
Eddie McClintock: 10:18 p.m.
Michael Hinman: Oh, that’s so late. Hey by the way I enjoyed the
Christmas episode, I thought it was awesome and...
Saul Rubinek: Thank you.
Michael Hinman: ...when you guys first, when you guys first heard that
they were doing a holiday episode was there, you know was there
excitement about it or was there maybe a little bit fear thinking back
to the whole time when Star Wars tried to do this?
Saul Rubinek: Star Wars?
Michael Hinman: Yeah you know the infamous Star Wars Christmas special
that they did...
Saul Rubinek: No.
Michael Hinman: ...back in the ‘70s.
Saul Rubinek: No. What happened?
Michael Hinman: Yes. Oh that was like probably the most embarrassing
thing that has ever been broadcast but...
Saul Rubinek: Really?
Michael Hinman: ...if you look, yeah if you look it up on YouTube it’s
scary.
Eddie McClintock: Even more...
Saul Rubinek: Wow.
Eddie McClintock: ...even more embarrassing than that was that creature
on the, oh my god what’s his name, on the Star Wars, (Jib-Jib), what was
his name?
Michael Hinman: Oh Jar Jar Binks, yeah.
Saul Rubinek: Jar Jar Binks.
Eddie McClintock: Yeah.
Michael Hinman: Yeah worse than that, I mean seriously it was...
Eddie McClintock: More embarrassing than Jar Jar Binks?
Saul Rubinek: No we were kind of excited about it, we were excited right
away that we were doing a Christmas episode. In fact...
Eddie McClintock: Yeah.
Saul Rubinek: ...that was kind of, yeah we were looking forward to it.
Eddie McClintock: Yeah I think it’s great because it kind of reminds
people that we are there and it kind of fills in the gap for fans who
are bummed that we don’t come on, but every summer it’s a long time to
wait so it’s a nice little gift.
Saul Rubinek: Yeah and then the idea got stolen right. A good friend of
mine Tim Hutton is starring in Leverage and I had done the pilot of
Leverage and Tim Hutton had asked me what we were doing this season
last, before we started and I said we’re doing 12 plus one, and he said
what do you mean 12 plus one. I said we’re doing 12 and then a Christmas
episode. And he said what a good idea. The next thing I know Leverage is
doing a Christmas episode so.
Michael Hinman: Lot’s of people, I didn’t even know about that, and also
too you know just going with the episode a little bit with Paul
Blackthorne’s character, what would be a like a bad Santa version of
Pete? Like how would, what would he be like?
Eddie McClintock: Like kind of James Brown meets Carrot Top.
Michael Hinman: That would be kind of crazy. Well good luck with the
movie out there Eddie too by the way.
Eddie McClintock: Just think, think James Brown with not as many dance
moves and bright orange hair.
Michael Hinman: That is pretty scary so well you know, good luck with
the filming out there Eddie and Saul Happy Hanukkah, great talking to
you.
Saul Rubinek: Thank you. You too. Goodbye.
Eddie McClintock: Thanks. Thanks Michael. Good to talk to you man.
Michael Hinman: Yeah. Same here.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Jenny (Rarden) with
tvismypacifier.com. Please proceed with your question.
Jenny Rarden: Hi guys.
Saul Rubinek: Hey Jenny. How are you doing?
Jenny Rarden: I’m good. Eddie, you know you’re addicted to Twitter
when you’re in the middle of a conference call and you’re still
tweeting.
Eddie McClintock: Jenny you know I’m an addict baby.
Saul Rubinek: Is that what you’re doing Eddie; you’re tweeting as
you...?
Eddie McClintock: I’ve been trying to tweet you back here but the
Internet is actually like...
Saul Rubinek: How the Bulgarian...
Eddie McClintock: ...two guys out on a bicycle.
Saul Rubinek: Yeah. The famous Bulgarian Internet.
Eddie McClintock: Two guys out on a bicycle and they’re causing friction
to make electricity so it’s kind of, it’s taking a little while here.
Saul Rubinek: Yeah by the way they take it very kindly out there in
Bulgaria when they hear you making fun of their country, you should,
you’ll have a really good time at the service tomorrow.
Eddie McClintock: I’m not making fun, there are actually two guys, hey
guys go a little faster. I’m telling you they’re out there. I just threw
them a couple sandwiches.
Jenny Rarden: Well I’ve obviously spoken to you before Eddie but Saul
this is the first time I’ve been on a call with you so I’m very excited.
Saul Rubinek: Nice to meet you too.
Jenny Rarden: At the end of the last episode Myka left, obviously
she’ll be back, the show obviously wouldn’t be the same without her. I’m
assuming she’ll be back for a holiday episode. Is that a correct
assumption?
Saul Rubinek: No. The holiday episode is a stand alone, this Christmas
episode; this Christmas/Hanukkah episode is really called the long lost
episode in a way. It’s a stand alone episode that has nothing to do with
any of the other story arcs and...
Jenny Rarden: Oh so her leaving...
Saul Rubinek: Is still in play. Yeah.
Jenny Rarden: Right. Okay. Well then that answered that question.
Saul Rubinek: Yeah.
Jenny Rarden: And then this obviously won’t have anything to do with
the holiday episode but we were sad to see Pete’s girlfriend go and Saul
already has this definite flirtation thing going on with the doctor. Can
you guys tell us where your love lives are going in the near future?
Saul Rubinek: Well I mean if Eddie’s character and Allison’s character
have anything to do with it they would like to have Artie hook up with
somebody just to get him off their back so much, but also because I
think that they want to see him have love and some kind of connection
other than work in his life.
And so he would but he’s very reluctant, and people get stuck in their
ways when they get older and if he hasn’t had it already he would be
very nervous about it.
We definitely, or I know that we’re going to have Lindsay Wagner back,
and it’s a wonderful character that she and the writers have created and
it’s a very interesting little dance that’s going on between Artie and
her and that Pete is trying to encourage.
One of my favorite episodes of last season was this, when Eddie and I
got to work with each other, actually the truth is that whenever Eddie
and I get to work with each other now we have a blast. We don’t do it
that often, very often you know he’s with Myka and I’m with Allison
which have their own joys for us but when we have gotten together in
episodes and we do have byplay we really have a blast, so that’s some of
the favorite stuff we’ve done.
Eddie McClintock: Yeah I mean for me watching Saul and getting to see
Lindsay Wagner and Saul work together for me was just, two such great
pros and I just sat, you know if you remember the scene up in the loft
where Lindsay’s character is inadvertently tickling Saul, or Artie and
it was just so great.
I mean it was funny and it was kind of one of those surreal moments for
me as an actor, who by all rights should be probably digging a ditch in
Ohio somewhere that I can sit back and watch two pros finesse a scene
and I always try and learn from stuff like that.
So I would love to see Lindsay come back and have an opportunity to
participate in some more of those scenes.
Jenny Rarden: Now my last question for both of you how are you most
like your characters?
Saul Rubinek: It’s an interesting question. When you’re doing a
television show or a movie and spend a lot of time going into a movie as
you know for a few days or a few weeks sometimes I’ve been the lead but
more often than not I’ve been a supporting actor and you create
characters that are only meant to last for, and given a quick
impression.
When you’re playing a lead in a television series as the four of us are,
we really have to rely on our own personalities a lot and the writers
start to write for us.
So we aren’t a lot different from the characters that we’re playing you
know I mean there are aspects of ourselves that may not you know, come
to the fore and I’m certainly a family man, I’ve been married 20 years,
I have two kids and I didn’t do what Artie did which was sacrifice his
entire life for his work and for some greater cause like that, in that
way I’m completely different.
But when you’re doing a show week after week you can’t really put your
character in quotation marks, you’re using yourself at all times and I’m
pretty sure Eddie’s going to agree with me.
Eddie McClintock: Yeah I mean like Saul said when you’re doing the same,
playing the same character for such an extended period of time it just
feels like to me if I try and be anything other than just kind of who I
am the audience is going to catch me in a lie, so I just try and just
kind of be, there’s more of me in Pete than I would care to admit I
guess because. Yeah.
Saul Rubinek: Or that we can tolerate frankly.
Eddie McClintock: Yeah. Yes. So I mean I just basically show up and just
hang out with my friends, that’s basically what it’s about.
Saul Rubinek: That’s the issue with what happens on any television
series and all the actors that I know who are on long term television
series say the same thing. If you really got to play some very
eccentric, quirky character week after week that has nothing to do with
you you’re going to have a problem, the audience will start to feel that
the character is false.
You really have got to find a way, the writers, the producers, the
network, everybody’s got to be behind them creating a character that
suits you once you’ve been cast, or they’ve got to fire you and find
somebody else that suits the role better, you know.
And in this case pretty much what you’re seeing is who we are. We
obviously didn’t choose to work for the FBI or the Secret Service, we
chose a different line of life, a line of work. But our personalities
are very similar, maybe with the exception of CCH Pounder who’s kind of
goofy and funny and not nearly as serious as she shows herself to be.
Jenny Rarden: Right.
Eddie McClintock: Yeah I would say that...
Jenny Rarden: Well, it was nice talking - I’m sorry, what?
Eddie McClintock: I would say, sorry, I would say that her, she has the
biggest contrast in regards to who she is.
Saul Rubinek: Yes.
Jenny Rarden: Well it was great talking to both. Thank you very much.
Eddie McClintock: Great to talk to you.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Sammi Turano with TV
Grapevine. Please proceed with your question.
Saul Rubinek: Hey Sammi.
Sammi Turano: Hi. How are you? Hi. Happy holidays.
Saul Rubinek: Thank you.
Sammi Turano: Okay my first question is what is your favorite holiday
memory? I know someone mentioned tradition before but I want to hear
both of your favorite holiday memories.
Saul Rubinek: Wow. My holiday memories, well I grew up with Hanukkah and
married a woman who grew up with Christmas and my kids have both with
great exuberance for, my daughter’s 19 and my son is 15 and we celebrate
everything.
We love holidays and my wife Eleanor has been a huge fan of that. We
love ritual, those rituals. We love comfort food and favorite holiday
foods. We’re going to have a Hanukkah party next week with Latkes, those
potato pancakes and dreidel playing and we’re going to have, we love...
Eddie McClintock: The guy from Taxi?
Saul Rubinek: Yeah right. And we’re going to do Christmas as well. We
love all of it. So I don’t know if it’s a favorite one thing but it’s
certainly those ceremonies including Passover, Christmas, all of those
things are really important to our family, so those are special times
for us.
Sammi Turano: Wonderful. Sounds good.
Saul Rubinek: It is good.
Sammi Turano: And, I’m sorry?
Eddie McClintock: For me, I remember waking up as a kid one morning and
going downstairs and my parents had gotten me the Guns of Navarone...
Saul Rubinek: Well that explains it.
Eddie McClintock: ...army man kit, like the army man set. It came with a
big, giant plastic mountain with the Guns of Navarone in there and the
Germans and the American like commandos and it came with tiny little
barbed, like plastic barbed wire and there were tanks and stuff so.
Saul Rubinek: Wow.
Sammi Turano: Wow it sounds cool. And my next question is, sorry?
Eddie McClintock: Yeah.
Sammi Turano: Yeah. My next question is dream guest star. I know Allison
wants Betty White but who do you guys want?
Saul Rubinek: Oh for favorite guest stars. Well I want my friend Brent
Spiner to come do the show and I’m hoping that they create a character
that he wants to do. I worked with him probably 25 years ago doing
second season of Star Trek the Next Generation in a great, great episode
and we had done theater together in New York years before that too. So I
would love to have Brent, who’s kind of a Syfy icon, and a great guy and
a wonderful actor on the show.
Sammi Turano: Very good. Who? Sorry?
Eddie McClintock: Bruce Campbell.
Sammi Turano: Okay. Oh very nice.
Eddie McClintock: Yeah. I’d like to see how his chin and my chin
cohabitate. See if our chins could fit in the same frame.
Saul Rubinek: Yeah. That’s not likely.
Sammi Turano: That sounds interesting.
Saul Rubinek: And also a really boring reason to have an actor on a
show, but there you go, that’s our Eddie.
Eddie McClintock: Me. There you go. Yeah I’ve been drinking.
Sammi Turano: And he’s not sharing.
Saul Rubinek: Drinking the beer in Bulgaria, well he’s in Bulgaria what
can you do, you know.
Sammi Turano: I know. I know, its good for you.
Saul Rubinek: At 10:00 at night, you know.
Eddie McClintock: I’m drinking potato vodka.
Saul Rubinek: Yeah absolutely.
Sammi Turano: Oh nice. Sounds good.
Saul Rubinek: He’s not.
Sammi Turano: No he’s not.
Saul Rubinek: No he’s kidding.
Sammi Turano: Okay. Well thank you both.
Eddie McClintock: Am I?
Saul Rubinek: Thanks a lot.
Sammi Turano: I don’t know.
Eddie McClintock: Thank you so much
Saul Rubinek: Who do you want to see on the show?
Sammi Turano: Who do I want to see on the show?
Saul Rubinek: Yeah.
Sammi Turano: I’m agree, I’m with Allison, Betty White.
Saul Rubinek: Betty White. Okay. We’ll start the campaign going.
Sammi Turano: Oh we already have on Allison and I.
Saul Rubinek: Okay excellent.
Sammi Turano: On Facebook.
Saul Rubinek: Excellent.
Eddie McClintock: Go Betty White.
Sammi Turano: Yay.
Eddie McClintock: I want Leslie Nielsen.
Sammi Turano: Oh.
Eddie McClintock: Too soon?
Sammi Turano: Too soon. Yeah I miss him.
Saul Rubinek: Yeah, too soon yeah.
Sammi Turano: Yeah. Well thank you both. I appreciate it. Happy
holidays.
Saul Rubinek: Thanks.
Eddie McClintock: Thanks so much.
Operator: Our next question...
Saul Rubinek: That’s really good Eddie, a Bruce Campbell chin joke and a
Leslie Nielsen dead joke. Really good. You’re doing well. Maybe you
should be drinking potato vodka.
Eddie McClintock: My wife is just sitting across the room looking at me
just shaking her head.
Saul Rubinek: Yeah. So we’re all shaking our heads. And we better get
another question. Get another question here so you can really screw
things up. Go ahead.
Eddie McClintock: Help me. Help me.
Saul Rubinek: Yeah. I’m trying, you know, but you’re 6,000 miles away.
Go ahead. Who’ve we got next?
Operator: And our next question comes from the line of Suzanne Lanoue
with The TV MegaSite. Please proceed with your question.
Saul Rubinek: Good luck Suzanne. I hope Eddie answers your questions in
some kind of amusing and intelligent passion.
Suzanne Lanoue: Well I hate to have to follow that but.
Saul Rubinek: Yeah it’s going to be tough.
Eddie McClintock: So do I.
Suzanne Lanoue: I do have a semi-serious question anyway.
Saul Rubinek: Okay.
Suzanne Lanoue: Syfy has a little promo click on their Web site where
Claudia goes to talk about father into coming to see him because she
said that he’s dying and there’s a young guy with her, yeah and there’s
a young guy with her. What’s that?
Saul Rubinek: Her brother.
Suzanne Lanoue: It’s her brother?
Saul Rubinek: Yeah there was an episode when he was introduced when
Claudia’s character was first introduced, it was the fourth episode...
Suzanne Lanoue: Right.
Saul Rubinek: ...of the first season.
Suzanne Lanoue: Oh I didn’t recognize him.
Saul Rubinek: That was the guy that was in limbo that she kidnapped
Artie to...
Suzanne Lanoue: Oh okay.
Saul Rubinek: ...in revenge for, yes. So it’s her brother who...
Suzanne Lanoue: Oh okay.
Saul Rubinek: ...worked at CERN and eventually you know, left CERN and
he’s become a kind of recurring character.
Suzanne Lanoue: Oh I did not recognize him.
Saul Rubinek: The role of the family which got left. Yeah. That’s who
that is.
Suzanne Lanoue: Okay well thanks for telling me that because I was just
going to ask why Pete wasn’t with her doing this but yeah that makes
more sense actually.
Saul Rubinek: Yeah.
Suzanne Lanoue: Okay. Well are we going to get to see you think Kate
Logan come back?
Saul Rubinek: What do you think Eddie?
Eddie McClintock: I would say the chances of Kate Logan coming back are
almost definite. You know Tia was so great to have around and she, I
know she is interested in coming back, I think she had a good time on
the show and I think we would all love to see her come back because
she’s just a joy to be around for me.
Saul Rubinek: We’ve created, or at least the writers/producers have
created a kind of a rep company of wonderful actors including the people
we’ve talked about and Lindsay and Rene Auberjonois and wonderful
actors.
And with the success of the show it becomes just easier once people know
what the show is and they like it then it’s easier, it becomes easier
for people to be attracted to the show and to make time to do it and so
that’s really good for us, it’s one of the benefits of being the number
one show on this network and we get great people to work with. So we’re
hoping that that’s an extended family on Warehouse 13...
Suzanne Lanoue: Yeah.
Saul Rubinek: ...because we’ve only, there’s only four of us that are
regulars on the show and we depend on great people to work with and
they’ve been coming in droves. We’ve been very lucky.
Eddie McClintock: Apparently Johnny Depp...
Suzanne Lanoue: Oh yeah you have great...
Saul Rubinek: What’d you say Eddie?
Eddie McClintock: Apparently Johnny Depp has expressed some…
Woman: Oh my gosh.
Eddie McClintock: ...interested.
Saul Rubinek: Though were not in Bulgaria and although he’s not actually
drinking potato vodka he probably should be.
Eddie McClintock: Help me.
Suzanne Lanoue: Maybe it’s something in the water.
Saul Rubinek: It’s just Eddie, you know, that’s the way, I mean the,
these tedisms come out.
Eddie McClintock: Poor Saul has to endure me.
Saul Rubinek: Well he throws out ten bad ones and then one lands. See
normally he’s got an editor but he doesn’t today so we’re getting it
all.
Eddie McClintock: Tell him to de-moan.
Suzanne Lanoue: Unedited, uncensored.
Saul Rubinek: Yeah uncensored Eddie is actually the name of a new horror
film that Syfy’s going to be, he thinks it’s called Boogeyman but not
really.
Suzanne Lanoue: Be a great extra for the DVD.
Saul Rubinek: Yeah. Uncensored Eddie.
Suzanne Lanoue: Just give him a video camera and let him go.
Saul Rubinek: No. They’re trying to sell these DVDs remember.
Eddie McClintock: Yeah.
Suzanne Lanoue: So, well we’ve talked about the holidays, what about New
Years, do you guys have any New Years resolutions that you’re thinking
about?
Saul Rubinek: Resolutions. Oh my god. I’m trying not to make them
anymore. All they do is depress me. I’m going to lose weight, I’m going
to lose weight. I’ve been thinking...
Suzanne Lanoue: You say it now it’s, if you say it now it’s out there,
all of us have heard it so you have to stick to it.
Saul Rubinek: Now I do? Okay. Okay. Artie’s going to lose weight but I
didn’t say how much weight, could be ounces.
Suzanne Lanoue: Okay.
Eddie McClintock: I’m going to try and be nicer to Saul.
Saul Rubinek: Yeah. This is not time, you know. Do you actually ever
have a New Years resolution, do you ever do that Eddie?
Eddie McClintock: Not really no.
Saul Rubinek: See I told you, I knew I’d get the truth out of him, not
really.
Suzanne Lanoue: No.
Saul Rubinek: There you go.
Suzanne Lanoue: Well I guess...
Eddie McClintock: New Years.
Suzanne Lanoue: I was going to ask, but Myka’s not in the episode right,
so I was going to ask you if there was going to be any mistletoe, the
thing for Pete and Myka, anyone else?
Saul Rubinek: Myka is in the episode because the holiday episode is a
stand-alone episode that has nothing to do...
Suzanne Lanoue: Oh okay. I’m sorry.
Saul Rubinek: ...with the way the season. Yeah you haven’t seen it yet.
So she is in the episode and it really is kind of call it the long lost
episode as if it happened the Christmas before and so it isn’t related
to any of the story arcs that, and you know, that...
Suzanne Lanoue: Okay. So will there be any...
Saul Rubinek: ...have happened.
Suzanne Lanoue: ...mistletoe, in fact, oh there is, yes there is, I
forgot.
Eddie McClintock: There’s a little...
Saul Rubinek: Well I forgot, somebody had asked if we had any special
artifacts there are quite a few actually. Now that I remember there are
quite a few being used, there’s one really special artifact, Christmas
artifact and then there are quite a few others of which maybe mistletoe
is one. There you go.
Suzanne Lanoue: All right. Well that’s very, good fact out of you,
that’s good.
Saul Rubinek: Yeah.
Eddie McClintock: Warehouse 13 explores a little guy on guy.
Saul Rubinek: Eddie, Eddie, Eddie.
Suzanne Lanoue: So Pete and Artie are going to be kissing under the
mistletoe.
Saul Rubinek: Eddie zip it. Eddie.
Eddie McClintock: Come on. Come on Saul.
Saul Rubinek: Oh man. And he’s actually got a script that he’s willing
to give you I’m sure.
Suzanne Lanoue: Just text it to me all right.
Saul Rubinek: All you have to do is ask him, he’ll tweet the whole
script.
Suzanne Lanoue: What about Pete and Valda. I think that would be a good
thing that we’d see.
Saul Rubinek: I mean yeah, no that’s an after 1:00 am episode. Yeah. So
you don’t...
Suzanne Lanoue: I think five Web sites just sprung up Pete loves Valda.
Saul Rubinek: Valda, yeah. There you go. Thanks for that though, for our
family show trying to sell our holiday family show now images of Pete
and Valda are in my head, excellent. Thank you for that.
Suzanne Lanoue: There’s a bunch of fan picked out there already I’m
sure.
Saul Rubinek: Yes. And they’re very healthy fan based material.
Suzanne Lanoue: Well just one last question. Eddie are you going to be
back in the states in time for the holidays with your family or are you
going to be just stuck out there in Bulgaria?
Eddie McClintock: Well let me just restate for the record that I’m, I
love, I’m having a great time here in Bulgaria doing this, I’m doing a
movie for Syfy but I will be back on the 19th. We come back and then
we’re going to jump in the car and drive six hours to Scottsdale after
our 17-hour flight from Bulgaria. So yeah.
Saul Rubinek: Well planned.
Eddie McClintock: Yes. Lots of traveling. Actually we’ll have our
(soup)…
Suzanne Lanoue: All right. Well you have a good time.
Saul Rubinek: Thanks. Good holidays to you.
Suzanne Lanoue: All right.
Eddie McClintock: Thank you.
Suzanne Lanoue: You too both. Thank you.
Saul Rubinek: Bye.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Adam Harris with
SpoilerTV. Please proceed with your question.
Adam Harris: Hi guys.
Saul Rubinek: Adam.
Eddie McClintock: Hey Adam.
Saul Rubinek: SpoilerTV. Excellent. How are you.
Adam Harris: All right. Yeah. Good. Nice to meet you. How are you?
Saul Rubinek: Good. We’re good.
Eddie McClintock: Hey man.
Adam Harris: Good, good, good. I have a few questions sort of revolving
around Warehouse 13 and my first is you’d said earlier that you saw
yourselves in the role when you know in the writing and in the acting of
it.
And so I was wondering if you could use your foresight to perhaps say
where you think Season Three might be going or with Pete obviously
Myka’s quitted and Kelly’s left him so where do you think Pete is going
to go and where do you Artie’s going in Season Three?
Saul Rubinek: You know we, go ahead.
Eddie McClintock: Go ahead.
Saul Rubinek: We’ve been told some stuff so I can’t tell you. If I
haven’t been told anything I could’ve started guessing. Now I feel if I
pretend to guess stuff I’m going to lead you away from what I actually
know is going to happen and we’re not, and you’re called SpoilerTV so...
Adam Harris: So you know what’s going to happen.
Saul Rubinek: I know some of the stuff that’s going to happen, they
don’t tell you that stuff because of your addiction to tweeting so we
keep a lot of things from you Eddie, a lot of things. So I can’t tell
you actually and because then Eddie would know and then if Eddie knows
the world will know so that’s...
Eddie McClintock: My best friend used to call me the town crier.
Saul Rubinek: Yeah and all the rest, yes he cries and the rest of us
weep. Here’s what’s really going on is that they’re going to have to
deal one way or another with the fact that Myka has left the warehouse
and try to figure out what to do about that so obviously that’s going to
be dealt with.
And the other thing is you’ve got a show that people like, the audiences
have liked it, it’s a hit show for them, they’re going to continue doing
what they’ve been doing, but that said you know we’ve had unpredictable
shows. We’ve had two unpredictable seasons.
We’ve had villains who are not painted with just one color. They’ve been
wonderful, Jaime Murray and Roger Rees have played multi-faceted
characters, great actors and the writing has matched their inclusion in
the show.
So giving them a lot to work with and I suspect that that’s going to be
something that will continue, giving an audience the unexpected and
continuing that family feeling that we’ve got on the show and that
people care about us.
As far as the particular adventures are concerned and what the arcs are
they’re, that’s going to be stuff that’s going to be revealed probably
starting with the first episode you’ll start to get a feel for where
that’s going to go.
And we love the fact that our fans guess and make, look we like the fact
that our fans are critical as well. If they’re involved in the show and
there are things that they don’t like they talk to each other. A lot of
people read what they like and what they don’t like and it’s a new
universe, as Eddie said a few interviews ago. It’s a brand new universe.
We have an interactive television audience that’s never existed this way
before.
Adam Harris: Yeah definitely.
Saul Rubinek: I mean it’s really by leaps and bounds so it’s going to be
a new media. I just read for example there was some kind of press
release recently that said there was going to be a comic book of
Warehouse 13.
I’m hoping that eventually there’ll be a really good game, that there’ll
be webisodes dealing not necessarily even with our characters, that the
universe of this show can expand on a lot of levels because it’s 3,000
years old this warehouse and been doing things for a long time.
A lot of great stories can be told in different ways so I think that the
modern term for this is called transmedia.
Adam Harris: Yeah.
Saul Rubinek: So it’s not just social networking sites, it’s gaming
sites, it’s comic books, it’s webisodes, it’s shows, it’s documentaries
about the show, it’s the reality shows that are based on the fact. There
is a kind of reality show already that Syfy is doing that has to do with
artifacts.
And so what I’m hoping is rather than to talk about just what our
characters are doing and what arcs are going to happen and what
adventures were going to happen. What I’m hoping happens is the show
continues and if the fans keep us on the air, because that’s what’s
going to keep us on the air more than anything else, is that the show
deepens its platforms and that there is many more ways to explore the
life of Warehouse 13, its history and its adventures rather than not
just on the show but in many other ways.
And I think that the people at Syfy and at NBC Universal are thinking
along those lines. And the fans, Eddie and I have been, Eddie had been
to a few more conventions than I have but I’ve been to two or three and
I’m amazed by how bright, how involved the fans are and they can tell in
a way that they never have before in any other decade how interactive
and how important their contribution, what they think gets listened to.
Adam Harris: Yeah. I mean on our Web site definitely the general
consensus is that the best aspect of the show is that it manages to mix
the story of the week, stand alone episodes really, really well with the
bigger mythology and I think that’s probably one of the big pluses
you’ve got because there so many different ways that the show can go in
future seasons.
Saul Rubinek: And yeah, and the louder the fans are about what they like
the more we’ll listen to them.
Adam Harris: Good. I just have another question about Judd Hirsch
joining for the Christmas episode, and he’s obviously a very important
person in Artie’s life and during the show we see he sort of tends to
shy away from any personal relationships, he’s quite secretive. So was
it really exciting for you to get to explore a relationship with a
family member and what can you...
Saul Rubinek: Yeah.
Adam Harris: ...tell us about Artie’s relationship with his father?
Saul Rubinek: Well it was a long lost relationship, I mean over 25 years
of estrangement for both the bitterness on both sides and the show deals
with a little bit of that, it doesn’t explore it too deeply but it puts
them together in a way that they would neither of them have expected.
But as I said to another interviewer before, yes Artie shies away from
personal relationships, people that he’s hired to be agents like Pete
and Myka have been killed or disappeared or been in limbo or god knows
what kind of places they’ve gone to if they haven’t taken things
seriously enough.
And the dangers of working in a place like that are mammoth and as a
result he’s afraid of losing people, somebody who hasn’t got a partner
and doesn’t have children and doesn’t even have a, a cat or a dog. He’s
learned to isolate himself for three decades or more.
Adam Harris: Yeah.
Saul Rubinek: And a personal relationship is just fraught with the
possibility of loss, abandonment and death. Those are very dark things
to live with when you have the responsibility that he has. And that’s
what’s most fun about the character for me to play with is that there’s
a line of madness that deals with that kind of isolation, that kind of
monomania, that kind of obsessiveness that’s really fun to bring out
just in parts.
We’re not doing a show like Fringe, as good as Fringe is, we’re not
doing a really dark show where those qualities would come out so much,
it’s what allows Eddie as Eddie’s really a wonderfully, spontaneous
performer and really, and because if he does do that he has that kind of
wonderful ability to throw himself humorously into situations no matter
what’s going on.
Adam Harris: Yeah.
Saul Rubinek: It encourages that side of the show and so for all of us
actually that’s a really, really good thing I would say led by Eddie.
And it’s encouraged by the writing and by all aspects of the show.
That said there’s I think Artie represents a darker side to that. But
then there’s, as you can see from the show, Eddie has been really great
when some of the darker stuff has played. He’s had two or three episodes
in two years where really dark sides of his character have come out and
it’s been some of his best work and I know he’s really proud of it and
deservedly.
Eddie McClintock: Thank you.
Adam Harris: Yeah.
Saul Rubinek: And Artie has very like moments so we’re a little
unpredictable and I think there’ll be more of the same, don’t you think
Eddie?
Eddie McClintock: Yeah. One of the things I really love about the show
is its unpredictability and being able to open up the script every week
and go wow, this is what we’re doing, this is where we’re going, I mean
it’s that kind of spontaneity that I think really for me keeps me
energized in regards to what can be a pretty tedious, grueling 15 hours
a day, five days a week, you know 2,000 miles away from my family type
schedule.
So the writers have created this world and it’s really exciting to be
able to go there from week to week when we’re shooting.
Adam Harris: Yep. So just one very quick last question, well it’s more a
just like a, if you had to do a one sentence statement about the episode
coming up on December the 7th like a one sentence teaser to get everyone
to watch the show what would you both say?
Saul Rubinek: It’s, as magical as Warehouse 13 stories are this one has
extra spice.
Adam Harris: Thank you very much. And Eddie?
Eddie McClintock: Mine would be watch this week’s stand alone Christmas
episode of Warehouse 13 and win a chance at a million dollars.
Saul Rubinek: Yeah great Eddie. Good. Please don’t publish that in any
way, okay. Please. This is Eddie in you know, in Eastern Europe.
Adam Harris: And drinking his potato vodka or whatever he’s.
Saul Rubinek: Yeah. Potato vodka. Yeah. There’ll be, for as many people
that don’t believe it there’ll be people that do.
Adam Harris: Well thank you very much and both of you have great
holidays and it was great to speak to you.
Saul Rubinek: You too.
Eddie McClintock: Good to talk to you.
Adam Harris: Thank you.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Joseph Dilworth with
Pop Culture Zoo. Please proceed with your question.
Joseph Dilworth: Hey guys. How are you doing?
Saul Rubinek: Hey Joe.
Eddie McClintock: What’s up Joe?
Joe Dilworth: First of all I have to say best conference call ever.
Saul Rubinek: Really? Oh good.
Joe Dilworth: Oh yeah you guys have been great.
Saul Rubinek: Okay cool.
Eddie McClintock: Like TiVo and Twitter stuff.
Joe Dilworth: My first question is, yeah exactly. My first question is
considering that you, you know you shot this in probably this summer in
Toronto how hard did you find it trying to get into the holiday spirit
that early in the year?
Saul Rubinek: You know there’s an old joke about doing winter in summer.
The writers on MASH used to get, years ago used to like getting comments
from actors and they used to get all kinds of notes.
But then sometimes, this is a story Alan Alda told me, that sometimes
you know one actor would say well he’s getting changes, maybe I should
get changes and sometimes when they got too many changes the writers
would write a winter episode shot in 102 degree Calabasas desert where
they’d be around a barrel filled with fire wearing parkas, you know.
So they’d be shooting this in 102-degree weather and that was the way
they would get back at the actors. It was tough, we were hot, it was
August and it was (unintelligible) turn into winter and covered in
whatever they called, whatever that snow was, I think that’s probably
why they set part of the episode in Los Angeles so that they could at
least get outside and do summer looking Christmas but.
Eddie McClintock: Yeah the snowball that Myka throws at Pete...
Saul Rubinek: Yeah what was that?
Eddie McClintock: ... it hits me in the back of the head and then it
kind of fell down into my shirt and it was this gooey, the glyceriney
like conglomeration of like goo. It was like a ball of goo.
Saul Rubinek: Excellent. A snotball.
Eddie McClintock: A snowy snotball if you will, but I remember Jack
Kenny, the exec producer when we were, because he also directed that
episode as Saul had said earlier and he was like you guys to production
make sure that these...
Saul Rubinek: Oh yeah.
Eddie McClintock: ...stages are air conditioned and he forced production
to go and rent like two or three extra...
Saul Rubinek: Mammoth’s, yeah that’s right.
Eddie McClintock: ...mammoth AC’s so that we weren’t just burning up in
there. I mean not just for the fact that they wanted the production to
look decent but also to keep us comfortable, and that...
Saul Rubinek: Yeah. The good fortune of having a show runner that used
to be an actor so he can feel for us sometimes.
Joseph Dilworth: Right.
Eddie McClintock: We’re not just meat puppets to him, although he may
not admit that in public.
Saul Rubinek: Yeah I think one of the favorite things that Jack used to
say was that you know, Alfred Hitchcock is misquoted, he never said that
actors were cattle. He said they should be treated as cattle.
Joseph Dilworth: Right. Well Saul the highlight for me for the episode
were the scenes with Judd Hirsch and you guys just nailed it and it
seemed like you guys would be father and son. How easy was it to...
Saul Rubinek: He’s too young to be my dad. He’s too young by at least
ten years. But they aged him up a little bit you know and he walked a
little bit more slowly because he’s probably in better shape than I am
and so I noticed actually watching the episode that he, it’s very subtle
what he does with his movements, how he gets up and off a couch, how he
sits down. He aged himself in very subtle ways.
When you’re working with great people it’s effortless, you show up,
you’re in the scene, before you know it’s over. It’s very simple.
And I’ve noticed that my friends who are in different professions that
are similar where skills are used in front of an audience like
especially athletes, that when athletes are working together
collaboratively, when a team is working, when you watch a great double
play, it just looks easy doesn’t it?
Joseph Dilworth: Right.
Saul Rubinek: It looks easy and when it looks easy it’s because it is.
The years of experience have allowed it to be that way or people like
each other and they’ve collaborated well. Of course in acting sometimes
you’re watching a movie and you find out later oh my god these people
hated each other but those love scenes were so hot, you know.
And there’s the magic of editing and the magic of movies that I guess
wouldn’t happen in the same way in a double play situation. But...
Joseph Dilworth: Right.
Saul Rubinek: ...all I can say is that it was a joy, it was really a
joy, it was very simple. I felt like I’d worked with him for years. It’s
kind of a similar thing happened to Allison and I the very first time we
worked together, I felt like we’d worked together for years, even though
there’s, you know, 30, 40 years separating us in age.
Joseph Dilworth: Right. Well one last comment, Mrs. Frederic was sorely
missed in this episode but I only assume with her ability to get in and
out of buildings undetected she was out helping Santa Clause, so.
Saul Rubinek: Perfect. Yes. Excellent. I like that.
Joseph Dilworth: Great episode and looking forward to Season Three.
Thank you guys.
Saul Rubinek: Thanks a lot.
Eddie McClintock: Thanks man. Thank you.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Ian Cullen with SciFi
Pulse. Please proceed with your question.
Ian Cullen: Hey guys. How’re you doing?
Saul Rubinek: We’re good.
Eddie McClintock: Hey Ian.
Ian Cullen: Hey. I’ve got a bit of a hypothetical question for you guys.
You know before you were talking about what actors you would like to see
come on the show so I’m going to (unintelligible) a little bit and ask
what classic cartoon character would you like to come on the show and
how do you think that’d play out?
Saul Rubinek: Wow what classic cartoon character would work well on
Warehouse 13? What an interesting question. You know, I always try to
think of what would be the least likely not the most likely cartoon
character, so rather than any of the superhero characters or any of
those characters would seem to fit into our universe, what occurs to me
immediately is those Tubby and Nancy comics and you know...
Eddie McClintock: What?
Saul Rubinek: ...or Peanuts characters.
Eddie McClintock: Tubby and Nancy?
Saul Rubinek: Yeah don’t you, that’s before your time. There’s, well
Peanuts characters would be awesome on our show because it’s so
un-Warehouse, it says nothing to do with our universe whatsoever. But to
have...
Eddie McClintock: How about Archie and Jugghead.
Saul Rubinek: Yeah. To see, well actually Jugghead is probably, that hat
is probably an artifact you know.
Eddie McClintock: My god that’s a question that, man I don’t know.
Saul Rubinek: Well we’re answering it anyhow.
Eddie McClintock: I’ve just got Wylie Coyote was pitched to me on here
on Twitter from Tvismypacifier, so that would be a good one.
Ian Cullen: That’d be cool. You know what about Daffy Duck?
Saul Rubinek: Yeah Daffy Duck, excellent, because he’d probably take
over from Artie and start running the warehouse and that’s what he would
do immediately, we’d have to get Elmer Fudd in there to shoot him and
there would be a big mess, there’d be animal rights people, it’d be
terrible.
Ian Cullen: Yeah that’d be fun. One of my favorite episodes from Season
Two was the one involving the artifact from the comic book. Now if
either of you two, you know have super powers or could have some sort of
super power what would it be and how do you think you’d use it?
Saul Rubinek: The idea of having super powers it’s like, the expression
a busman’s holiday, it’s like a bus driver who goes on vacation but it’s
ending up on a bus going on vacation. It’s like bringing coals to New
Castle.
Having super powers is kind of like the daily life of Artie. He’s got
these artifacts that when you use them actually do approximate having
super powers and all he knows about super powers is that all they do is
they have to be cataloged, they have to be neutralized, they can really
destroy people’s lives. In fact they can be dangerous to the planet and
so he doesn’t fantasize about that, doesn’t fantasize about having super
powers.
What he fantasizes about is not having to deal with any of these things,
have a life of normalcy where cause and effect have logical and natural
order. You know what I’m saying? For anything to do with super powers
it’s not in his, his everyday life is doing that.
If he could really have them, if he could create anything that would
have a super power it would be that these things didn’t exist, that
there were not such thing as artifacts that could be imbued with these
powers that were deadly and insane, and that there was no need for a
world where Warehouse 13, where all these 13 warehouses had to exist in
order to protect humanity from itself and from the things that they’ve
done and so that’s my answer.
Ian Cullen: And what about you Eddie?
Eddie McClintock: If I had super powers it would be the ability to get
my sons to go to bed before 11:00 at night every night.
Ian Cullen: That’s a great one. And one final question.
Eddie McClintock: Yes.
Ian Cullen: One final question for Saul. You’ve been doing a movie
called The Suspect at St. Mark’s Place. Could you tell maybe a little
about it please?
Saul Rubinek: No. It’s on IMDb as a movie that I have been doing, it’s
not been shot. I think they’re still trying to get their financing. So
that IMDb quote is put up, you know I’m not in control of what IMDb puts
up there. So that movie no, has not been done yet. I hope it is done and
I can’t talk too much about it until it’s actually you know, ready to go
so. Sorry about that.
Ian Cullen: Sounds like IMDb getting it wrong again.
Saul Rubinek: I don’t know if they’ve got it wrong, they’ve put up stuff
and what do they say about it, they say that it’s in production?
Ian Cullen: Yeah. Said it’s in production and the comment says here is
that it’s set in 1919 New York City against a backdrop of a group of
young men to have a safe tested and one is befriended by a notorious
(unintelligible) family.
Saul Rubinek: That’s very funny. No the most recent film that I’ve done
is Barney’s Version with Paul Giamatti and Minnie Driver and Dustin
Hoffman that’s going to be released in the theaters generally in
January. I think they’re doing a pre-Oscar qualification in December in
New York and Los Angeles. But that’s the most recent film that I’ve done
that’s coming out.
Ian Cullen: Okay guys. Well thanks for the time and answering my
questions. Loving the show.
Saul Rubinek: Sure.
Ian Cullen: I’ve not missed an episode and I hope you all have a happy
holiday, great holidays.
Eddie McClintock: You too man. Take care. Thanks.
Saul Rubinek: Thank you so much.
Ian Cullen: Will do.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Lance Carter with
Daily Actor. Please proceed with your question.
Lance Carter: Hey guys.
Saul Rubinek: Hello. How are you?
Eddie McClintock: Hey man.
Lance Carter: I’m well. Now you guys prefer working on a film where
you’re creating a character for a couple months or when you’re doing a
show like where you guys said earlier basically playing yourself?
Saul Rubinek: That’s a really good question. After all these years I can
tell you it depends on so many things and on what the people are like
and whether you’ve got a great script. It really can be a nightmare
doing a television series where you’re locked into something with people
that you have trouble with.
And I’d have friends who’ve been on series where you know the show
runners and the writing staff and it’s all been, there’ve been
tremendous insecurity from the network and so things change constantly,
everybody’s nervous about how much money they’re spending, trying to get
an audience.
I’ve never been in a show that’s been the number one show of a network
and I’ve never been on a show ever that’s had this kind of support from
a network and a studio and had such a happy experience. So there’s
nothing really in all the 40 years that I’ve been working that can
compare to doing this show. I can say that without any qualms, it’s
really a joy from beginning to end.
Of course we all like doing different things. We like variety and we are
getting a lot of variety on this show. The character isn’t stuck in one
area. So it really depends, I’ve done radio and theater, I’m trying to
do more theater now because it’s a completely different joy that happens
as an actor, as you know.
But yeah, the show is offering all of us a lot of opportunity for
versatility.
Lance Carter: Yeah. And what about you Eddie?
Eddie McClintock: Well I mean the closest thing I’ve ever come to doing
a film was I played Lauren Deen’s hands.
Saul Rubinek: (Unintelligible) he’s doing with his hands now.
Eddie McClintock: In Lawrence Kasdan’s Mumford.
Lance Carter: You’re doing a film now though.
Eddie McClintock: Yeah. I mean it’s a TV movie so I think it’s a little
different, you know. But I’m not, I can’t really remember what the
question was exactly (unintelligible).
Lance Carter: (Unintelligible) and my last question is what’s your
advice to actors?
Saul Rubinek: About what?
Lance Carter: Just in terms of you know, somebody wants to come to L.A.
and give a go at it?
Saul Rubinek: Here’s one piece of advice, don’t listen to anybody giving
you advice. There’d be one thing to not do. You know if you can be
advised away from doing acting you probably don’t belong there, you
know. It’s a terribly difficult thing to choose, it’s kind of got to
choose you.
Eddie McClintock: I can say that I can just speak from my experience,
and I’ve had a lot of young people from back in Ohio where I’m from who
have asked me what they should do. And I mean I don’t know what they
should do but I can tell them what I did.
And that was I got into, I started taking class here or in L.A. because
you know it’s, the business itself is so cold. I mean not to be too
trite but it’s a cold, cold business and when you’re in class for me, it
becomes a bit of an extended family because you’re probably from, you’re
probably not from L.A. when you get there.
So you learn, you develop a support system in class and it’s a great way
to meet people and do showcases and I met my manager through my acting
class and a lot of people that I know that are still working I met
through class.
So that was probably the most important thing for me is I got in class
with a good, reputable acting coach and I studied and studied and
studied and worked really hard to feel that I had, that I was qualified
to actually walk into a room and call myself an actor so.
Lance Carter: Cool. Thanks guys. Appreciate it.
Saul Rubinek: Sure.
Eddie McClintock: Thanks.
Gary Morgenstein: Yeah. We have time for one more question.
Saul Rubinek: Okay.
Operator: And our question is a follow-up question from the line of
Jamie Ruby with Scifivision.com. Please proceed with your question.
Saul Rubinek: Hey Jamie.
Jamie Ruby: Hello again. I’ll make it quick.
Eddie McClintock: Hi.
Jamie Ruby: Can, you both I know Saul you have a little bit already, but
can you both talk about your movies that are coming up?
Eddie McClintock: Sure. I guess I’ll start. I’m doing a TV, they call it
a creature feature here on Syfy and it’s called The Legend of the
Boogeyman and it’s really, it’s really a lot of fun, SyFy has been
really, really good to me and they want me to kind of bring my comedy to
what otherwise would be a kind of a horror film kind of creature
feature.
And again I think it’s kind of like my all time favorite, one of my all
time favorite movies is Evil Dead 2 and the reason being is Bruce
Campbell was so brilliant in his ability to inject comedy into what was
just a very well done Sam Raimi horror film and the only reason I
reference that is because if we can do anything that’s even close to
that, that would be my dream.
So young Emma Sams is in the movie with me, you remember Emma Sams from
Dynasty and she was also on General Hospital back when Luke and Laura
were getting married and she is amazing and I’m in Bulgaria for three
weeks and I actually tweeted a picture today from the set.
Jamie Ruby: Yeah I saw that.
Eddie McClintock: And (unintelligible) I said that the film is not about
moonbeams and daffodils so it’s really kind of a clever story about who
the boogeyman actually may be and I play a local cop who stumbles upon
this terrible, terrible creature and hopefully I can help save the day.
Jamie Ruby: Awesome. Saul...
Saul Rubinek: Along with, well Barney’s Version is coming out in
January. I did another film that I’m hoping is going to get a U.S.
release and for anybody who wants to find it it’s called Kill Me Please
and you can look it up by googling Kill Me Please Belgium movie and take
a look at it because I had to go to Belgium last January and did a film
where I improvised in French.
It’s a really a very small, independent film, however it won a number of
prizes including best film at the Rome Film Festival this year. And it’s
a really interesting movie about clinics that actually exist in
Switzerland where people go to commit suicide, but even though that
sounds really somber and bleak it’s a very funny black comedy, very
funny movie.
So I’m hoping that, I know it’s released now in Europe and who knows, it
might even be in Bulgaria there Eddie. But it might, but I’m hoping
because it’s winning prizes and great reviews that it’ll come to North
America soon. People want to look it up it’s called Kill Me Please. They
should look that up, it’s really funny.
Jamie Ruby: Okay great. Well thank you both of you. Merry Christmas,
Happy Hanukkah.
Saul Rubinek: Thanks a lot.
Jamie Ruby: Thanks a lot.
Eddie McClintock: Thank you. Happy Kwanza.
Gary Morgenstein: Thank you all. The Bulgarian authorities have been
waiting patiently to their call (unintelligible).
Eddie McClintock: Nice.
Saul Rubinek: To get Eddie off the air, yeah because Eddie’s taking up
all the bandwidth for the country right now.
Gary Morgenstein: Now you’re in trouble, they’re going to come looking
for you.
Eddie McClintock: Hey. Yeah the producers for the movie have been
knocking on my door for the last 20 minutes I’m afraid to open up the
door.
Gary Morgenstein: Are you sure it’s the producers? Anyway thank you
Eddie, Saul thank you so much and thank you all for coming in and
talking to them. Remember the holiday episode of Warehouse 13, Tuesday,
December 7th at 10:00 and the leader is the holiday episode of our
sibling Eureka.
Thank you all. Very happy holiday to everyone. Take care.
Saul Rubinek: Take care Eddie.
Eddie McClintock: Thanks you guys. Thank you.
Saul Rubinek: Goodbye.
Gary Morgenstein: Have a good trip home Eddie.
Eddie McClintock: All right. Saul I’ll talk to you soon pal.
Saul Rubinek: Okay take care.
Eddie McClintock: Love you and Gary thank you and I’ll see you all soon.
Saul Rubinek: Yeah thanks. Bye.
Eddie McClintock: Bye-bye.
Operator: Ladies and gentlemen that does conclude the conference call
for today. We thank you for your participation and ask that you please
disconnect your line.
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