Nan Desu Kon - Day One Highlights |
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This page has a reputation of generating straitlaced, never-crack-a-smile, serious stories on panel discussions at anime conventions (except for the time that actor Jessica Calvello joked about getting naked during a recording session). That attitude went by the wayside during the "metaphorical panel" concocted by Becca Norman of Nan Desu Kon. It was a variation on the old "what kind of tree" questions that Barbara Walters made (in)famous. Animator Scott Frazier didn't know what to expect as he crept into the panel room... |
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...especially when actor Amanda Winn Lee was asked what kind of drink she would be. "I would be a Russian creme soda," she answered. An astonished Frazier, when asked if he had ever done anything ridiculous for love, admitted that he had bicycled in a driving Japanese rainstorm to get his wife some peanut butter to make cookies - and came down with pneumonia. |
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Actor Talisen Jaffe (left) said he did something almost as bad as Frazier's efforts, getting himself soaked in a wool cloak for a woman's sake. And one of the women in the panel audience was impressed with game designer Mark Baldwin (right), shouting "I'll take him!" when another question was asked. |
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When Matt Greenfield of ADV Films was asked what he would do if space aliens invaded, he replied "Try to negotiate a deal for them to buy Evangelion." Of course, ADV had the rights to the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series, but Manga Entertainment got the rights to the Eva movies. |
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Finally, actor Scott Simpson said that he wanted to see a series of action figures for movies that never had action figures: films like On the Waterfront, The Godfather ("real skull-cracking action," he promised), Pretty Woman (Amanda Lee suggested a Julia Roberts figure with "real knee-bending action") and Altered States (Scott wants an action figure of a transforming William Hurt). |
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