Starship Troopers Q&A(Casper Van Dien,Denise Richards,Dina Meyer, Michael Ironside) Dublin Comic Con

hello so how are you all doing good to see you we're doing good we're doing good thank you so as usual in Ireland we always have to ask this question first who has been here before and who is it their first time first time first time first time enjoying it so far so far so good yeah same for yourself Denise love it all all the greenery hopefully the weather picks up a bit now cuz it's nice today but hopefully it stays that way for the rest of the week tell me this is summer in Ireland is that true yeah oh you poor buggers we always say it's like oh yeah our our summer was that first week of June is usually what happens here of course Casper I know you've been here before yes I have I I my wife and I got engaged down in carrye your first wife I've been to Ireland before I thought you meant this oh my God you have been to our country I love Ireland yes many times I thought you this physical so of course Starship Troopers it is just such an iconic film I think it we can all agree on that here and you all get to meet up sometimes at conventions but am I right in thinking that this is the first time you've all four of you have been together for a little while I haven't seen Denise since the Press tour right after the film that was the last time I saw you yeah a 100 years ago Casper I can't he's always around and uh you and I I think what last year was the first time we'd seen each other in years wasn't it are you talking to me oh yeah no yeah actually was the first time yeah you made a couple of months ago it was a good cast a lot of fun and it really really seemed it but one of my favorite stories that I've heard through the grapevine Michael is how Paul convinced you to join the cast is it true that he had a very um how shall I put it a blunt kind of political statements that he gave you Paul and I had worked together before we did Total Recall and um when he came to doing Starship tropers the author of Starship Troopers it's a long story you really want to have this long story we' got time look at back scii science fiction was not thought of as a legitimate literacy you know and books and back in the the 40s they had a club called the Sci-Fi Club science fiction magazine was in if you ever heard of Science Fiction magazine it was originally an inter club newsletter and there was about a hundred of them and alist Crawley for example was one of them my grandfather Finley Ironside he was one of member of it too and uh I read Starship Troopers be out of a shoe box you know um I read that I read Dune I read they they would send him to my grandfather and say things like jock can you see if you can find any bugaboos in this because he was an an engineer in uh mechanical and electrical engineer so he would they would send it to him and see if he could find any any technical so Frank Herbert sent a mograph copy of the script I think my sister's got it now I had it for years and uh Starship Troopers was one of them it was uh but with Paul when Paul said he wanted to do it I said Paul the author how do I put this the he wrote he liked drag he liked the drag nothing wrong with being a drag but uh he had a way of sort of like on homosexuality and stuff like that but he dressed he would write in drag and uh and he was a super right-wing person very very heavy right-wing he believed if you weren't willing to kill for your country shouldn't be allowed to vote and uh being raised new Democratic in our family Labor uh I thought that was a lot of so I went to Paul and I said knowing Paul Paul was a war rat in the Netherlands when he was a kid part of the games would to find old 88 shells put their foot on them and hit them with a hammer watch these anank shells go skipping off across so Paul had a fairly rough upbringing after the second world war so I said to him I said why are you doing this this very right-wing very nazish kind of film he said why you question me and I said look it just once I'd like to know and we'd already done something he says yes you're right he says I'm going to make a perfect world where everyone's beautiful and they're young and they're gorgeous he says and nothing's wrong he says except all of it's only good for killing bugs and I went all right I'm in no but quite the the original novel was really a heavy heavy right-wing Manifesto the book he wrote after that was uh the citizens handbook if you ever get a chance to look that up it's a real piece of you know oh I guess I always love that it's just like I was like oh I'm in great that went on for a while sorry about that that's all good and Denise up until you started in Starship Troopers like am I right in saying that this was like your first big action movie so for yourself how was it when you stepped onto the set for the first time it was my first movie in a movie theater so it was uh it was amazing it was daunting it was intimidating it was exciting to be part of this huge big budget movie all of us except for you and Clancy were primarily but you had come off of a big movie um unknown so it was just such a fun experience yeah and it always looked like there was such great camaraderie especially amongst yourselves and that has kind of translated into your personal lives as well because Casper Marrion saying that you've kept in touch with a lot of the the cast members and had some of them in like wedding parties and things like that yeah Pat mun who's friends with everybody is was in my wedding party and and uh so was a a stunk guy um he Garrett was who was on there he was in my wedding party and new Meer my wedding party um just six six years ago so yeah I kept lot and we see each other all the time we haven't seen each other since malib but Michael I've seen a long time I you know we we worked out together a lot of us worked out together then they all signed up for a boot camp the ru necks were supposed to do a boot camp before but she even came to the she wanted to be a part of it so she participated in that so we had this um camaraderie that was it was definitely was definitely there because we we just they asked us if we wanted to do it and we did it and we had so much fun just running around together but uh with uh Captain Dale Dy and many years ago was it how many years 28 years ago 28 years ago it's the Paul was very good at casting they if you look at the film the innocence in these three is amazing Paul cast them for that kind of wide o wide-eyed open absolutely bright intellectual lovingly innocence that they had you know I don't know if it's still there oh I went away a long time ago but no it's it was really well cast I think the film pretty much took that out of us so cuz yeah it actually cuz there was so much action in it that it is it must have been very intense to shoot at times and Dena am I right in saying that you actually got a concussion while you were shooting I did pulling him out of the pit I did was it was funny we all we all I think I think uh Michael also had a little uh something that happened uh when we were in that vermiculite pit were you're talking about shooting me in the face Yeah well yeah shooting in the face yeah there was that um but yeah when we were pulling uh Michael out you know was we were in this it was like sand you it was hard to get your footing you know and we're pulling Michael out and he has no legs I mean he does but not in the film um and uh and we pulled him out and and I pulled them out so hard that I W up hitting my head on the on the ground which was you know because we were in this hole basically the Sandy hole so when I pulled him out I kind of like flung myself back and smacked really really hard and smacked my head I was wearing a helmet though wasn't I I was wearing helmet didn't doesn't work doesn't really work but it was a barrier so I didn't at least it was just a bang anyway uh yeah got a a slight concussion had to be observed by a nurse uh for 24 hours to make sure I didn't die oh my gosh the dedication you guys to explain that statement of mine during one of the shoot scenes um in the fort we were shooting bugs the bugs aren really there they were imaginary we had three mechanical bugs and when we were shooting at them we had these Silhouettes out on the it was actually the special effects were done by satellite Telemetry they had literally were writing the software they didn't know whether it was going to work or not while we were shooting the film so we're literally firing at these Silhouettes cutouts on the and then but to explain what happened is we were firing and den and Denny stepped forward and now she did she turned around I went the other way and it red me right across the face and I got three 3 days off for that got my fist my all my all my lips got bled those those those machine guns we have yeah I think we got an insurance day for my for my it was there were M16s that had the stocks cut off them the M the the firing mechanism was inside those outlandishly sci-fi looking things and there were full loads in it they were because Paul wanted very large Flames coming up the budget on the ammunition was a million eight I heard it we in the Guinness book of records for firing the most amount of um ammo in a film and still I was just told by that by somebody that we still were I knew at the time we were we broke I think we made that record with within we shot for six and a half months straight and we made it in two and a half months we broke the record either million or a million was spent just on the ammunition that is absolutely wild and there are a couple of like explosions and things like that and am I right in saying that as you're escaping from it's pretty much nearly like the final scene for yourselves and Jake Bucy am I right saying that that was like the last shot that you did and it was kind of like we got we have one shot at this yeah I I'll never forget the three of us Casper myself and Jake Paul said just do not fall while you're running because the fire is coming up behind you but we all made a pack that if one of us Falls we're going to help the other one up and not leave you behind and start on fire so we were scared shitless but we we we did it and we got through and we felt the flame as it came as it as it came up over us we did feel the flame we felt all of it it was you know cuz we're in a tunnel so it's just a vacuum and they have um they had this big Wall come down the Rocks come down but it was a wall and with all these little foam rocks and everything so what it did was it pushed the Flames forward more so they they they you know knew what was going to happen but we felt the flame as we were going but we were in you know she didn't you didn't have a helmet on did you at that point yeah I did but I tried to be we tried to be like right right next to her and we tried to be right you know so we could cover her a little bit because she didn't have that and we're like don't use hairspray today do not use hair spray today good tip good tip and you know Johnny Rico he's pretty much like in your blood nowadays and you've even been a part of the new video game that's coming out soon so what can you tease about uh the new Starship Troopers game well I'm hoping I can get all of them in it one way or another I would love that I I would love to have everybody in it in one way it's a it's like being in the movie when I first saw the movie I said we should make this a video game like we make movies not video games and I was like I just thought it would be a cool video game and it's like being in the movie it's it's incredible I love I love playing it and these people big fans of it they went out before they they shot made it they all got the entire PE the entire group of them 122 people they bought t-shirts went to the movie rented it out and watched the movie before they started working on on the game it's it's incredible they're really thoughtful and they have all these ideas they have it rights for 10 years it's with Sony and everything too so I'm hoping we'll see more of it but it comes out October 11th um on PlayStation 5 Xbox and uh and Council right now it's out on PC you can steam it I do as general J Rico F and we actually got our first look at him recently at Gamescom I think they announced what he looks like so do we know how he lost his eye oh yeah that was in the fifth movie so they they had that so they they continued it on from it they they took all five uh movies and they put it in and the things that that they missed in the other movies because of budget constraints everyone's like it's not like stard Troopers of course because we weren't going to put that kind of money in it again they were able to fix it in the video game and I think that's awesome so they they really love it they're huge fans and and they they're like so excited to see even me with all you guys they're they're they're just nerds and it's so cool I love it so much I love that and like outside of Starship Troopers you know you've all gone on to have like absolutely massive careers and Denise you know hi Berry was recently talking about U working with Pierce brosman on um D other day and she was saying how he was like an absolute gentleman and things like that so did you have a similar experience working with him oh yeah Pierce is a Class Act he was so fun so funny uh I will say and I don't think he'll be upset that I'm saying this he's very clumsy so which is actually even more endearing to to see him play Bond and see that in real life he's kind of clumsy and stuff so you know but he obviously pulls it off on camera but he's lovely he does I always love the story of how um I think it was with f Jansen that during one of their fight scenes he accidentally broke one of her ribs but she wouldn't tell him because she knew how bad he would feel so he only found out during the Press store the poor guy and you know Dena I I think my friends and family would probably disown me if I didn't ask you about working on Friends because friends was such a big show I know around the world but especially here in Ireland like who else used to watch it on the Monday night on rt2 like it was like an iconic Staple in our household so what was it like being amongst the cast and working on the SES because I'd say like looking back now you're like wow that was wild I mean it it was it was it was very surreal uh think the thing about friends I mean first of all it was such and still is to this day such a successful sitcom um the cast all great um I at the time I remember being like feeling a little insecure because um I'm more of a film I was I did some TV but it was um but we we filmed the TV I mean this when you work on friends or when you on of sitcom it's a it's a half hour that you shoot once a week you um rehearse all week you have your read throughs you do your rehearsals um but then you're in front of a live audience so you can't just say wait wait let's you know let's go again or I'll take you have a lot of people watching so there's a little bit more uh do you find Denise you did also I was so scared working on that yeah it's right uh it's it's a little it's a little I was so nervous daunting because you actually have a live a live audience watching you perform and if and you're performing with the cast of Friends on this hugely successful show so you're kind of like you better not mess up because it's G to be really embarrassing um so you have that pressure and then of course you do mess up and you're like God you know um but anyway but it was a great experience I had the three you know I had a nice little Arc uh Kate Miller for those of you that watched you know she was like the very uh snoody actress that didn't want to do a soap and then like goes off and does a soup so or something like that um but yeah it was a great it was a great experience and Matt LeBlanc is super you know I knew him before the show so he made things a little bit easier for me but it was it's scary um but fun and awesome and it was a great experience yeah and Denise cuz yeah you were one of the the Geller cousins weren't you yes I played Monica um her cousin and uh and her brother's cousin too and there was like a weird scene with him so that was funny but no like what Dina's saying it was uh I was terrified and I'm not I'll never forget rehearsing with them they're a well oiled machine we would do one thing they' walk through I'm like wait I don't even know what everyone's doing and they're on to the next scene and then it's uh but it was just to be part of such an iconic show I so excited to be part of it and Michael for yourself you touched on it there earlier but Total Recall I think has gone down in history as one of the like in the top 10 if not in like the top spot for Sci-Fi movies so for you that no um I think scanners is a much much more iconic film cuz was done with no money and at a very very I think 1979 1980 you know um I would also film it's a good film it's a good film but it's you know there's lots of others out there when are we going to get questions from the crew uh the Casper the audience here I have one more question for Casper and then I'm going to open it up the floor sorry it's all good Casper for you Sleepy Hollow it is one of those films that I always put on around October time because it's just such a classic and actually Tim Burton is filming in Ireland at the moment with Wednesday so a lot of Irish people are now kind of learning what it's like to work with him so what kind of tips would you have for anybody who's going to be extrating on Wednesday yes tips we'd like some tips in case we work with them Tim Tim Burton was uh he's really he's really funny and uh and he's really kind he never yells he's uh um just uh very thorough but when I worked with him he they worked a 12-hour day and that was it so you were done on as soon as no matter what you were doing in the middle of a scene we just just come back the next day he was very casual if something happened he'd be like okay well uh are you going to be able to fix that today and you're like no okay well we'll see you tomorrow that's my experience with him he was very he knew what he was doing he was so prepared like verhoven was so he's just amazing man but he had a it was really funny and just uh you know it was a lot of fun to do it I I got to ride my the horse in in that movie and I had uh which was the original Black Beauty from the TV series it was 18 hands I'm not a throw bread guy I'm a quarter horse but I got to ride that horse it was really powerful and I I heard in the commentary that he said that thank God Casper could ride a horse because I just did another Western somebody goes hey I listened to it and he said this so you can still ride I'm like yeah I can still ride I love horses amazing well look I think it's time to set up to the floor so would you like to learn more would you like to know more I see what you did there I couldn't resist right so we have some microphones up over here so if you want to queue up and then we'll start like dotting around to them but while people you can ask us anything while people are getting up to the microphones there was a question that I was asking got go to the microphone okay you know most of them are dead now I'm 74 years old I've been around for a while no I really like working with first-time writers and directors um I really do it's uh no I'm just looking forward I've got I've got there's about five of them in the pipeline and four of them are first-time writers and directors and I love working with them you know and uh no I there's nobody out there I wanted I wanted to work with uh no I don't want to mention your names I don't know you know what I mean it's it's just uncomfortable to do that I've done 370 films I've pretty well bit of a horror aren't I no don't don't collap to that I came home my father my father um was I'm working class when he used into Toronto and my father when I I went to art college and when I was 19 and he said you know how are you going to make a living at that so he made me take an engineering course up at un University of Toronto he never understood the Arts he never understood any of the Arts and when I was when IID had about 30 Films under my belt we bought him a TV he lived up in the country outside of Toronto and he I sent him a bunch of films on videotape and he watched them right so I hadn't seen him for about two or three years and I went up and I said so what do you think Dad and he said and you stand there he says you're a bit of a aren't you and I I said what he said no no no I mean like doesn't mean you're bad in bed you know and I went dad and my brother leaned over and he said Michael he's trying to give you a compl compliment and I went yeah I guess you're right Dad you know and he said oh good good and he went back to his newspaper but uh I am a bit of a you know um I I've always known I'd never be a leading man I'd always be the supporting I'd be like you know there's the steak I'm the potatoes of the asparagus you know I'm the garnish and I just love working I'd rather work than sit on my hands at home because when an actor's offset I think oh you know can sign this we're just normal people and that's boring you know it's better to be out there and creating something out of nothing so that's a long answer but thank you very much so what we'll do is we're going to go one two three four so we're going to start over here cool thanks uh my first Bond girl is sitting on the stage so I am absolutely Starr Denise hello how are you I'll ask a Star Strip Troopers question though with streaming now do you think is there a whole new generation of people discovering your movie definitely even though my kids still haven't seen it it's that's what I think has been so great I don't think any one of us thought that we'd be here today having people still enjoy it and and the fans and it's something that I think that all of us are really proud of and I am and um it's really interesting to see different Generations that find the movie and still enjoy it and in some ways it was a little before it time and I think that the younger generation is catching up before we even all did you know at times so I I think it's uh wonderful to be part of something that many people can still enjoy watching and we will watch it over and over again so thank you thank you thank you next question over here Regina Meer on the set of saw what was your favorite movie to shoot out the few featured in I'm sorry on the set of of Saw was the what was the on the set of saw what was your favorite movie to shoot out the few you featured in um I'm I don't know what was the what was your favorite scene to shoot on any of the Saw movies that you were in on any of the saw [Music] um to go through them um okay I have to think one that had the two scenes in one and then it did all the stuff with Donnie I enjoyed working with Donnie for sure um the the angel trap scene that's the most you know the the craziest scene for sure but it wasn't the most fun to shoot because when you're being tortured when you're in pain and and it's and it's it's it's it's length it's a lengthy shoot and there it involves Prosthetics and special effects and you know mechanical stuff and standing and or hanging being suspended by a bicycle seat in your hoo-ha you know to look like you're hang I mean it's uncomfortable it looks amazing I mean like the final product is awesome and I think it is one of the best or I've been told it's one of like the best were you traps were you ever scared shooting what I ever scared uh shooting the angel trap scene was I scared to shoot it yeah like acting it out uh no I wasn't scared to shoot it it just requires a lot of intensity a lot of emotion you know to have that you know I'm I'm going to die that my ribs are about to be ripped open um I don't want them to be I got to get out of this so it's like it's just as an actor I think like you know when you you know like you start getting this like headache and you're just everything is like all clenched and veins are popping out it's staying like that in that mindset for an hour two three four hours it's uh it's challenging but the final result is it's worth it I think so thank you very much thank you we're gonna go down the back here oh hi you could be any other character in Starship Troopers who so if you could be any other character in Starship Troopers who would it be who said [Laughter] that where are you oh there you are I'd be Denise uh-oh I I chose the one I I wanted to be the most I don't even think there's one I would I could see myself playing other than uh uh no no I can't it's I I'd go for disc I did not want to play your part because I did not want to take my top off I didn't want to I didn't want to but I felt like it was kind of necessary to show that soldiers were kind of a you know there's this equality thing and We Were Soldiers and it really didn't matter what was going on upstairs um or well like it was it wasn't about the sex in the but that was that whole political thing Paul wanted which is that one for all and all for one exactly like we had to be completely like it it doesn't even matter because in the future we don't give a it's just it's we're soldiers and we're fighting and and that's it so I felt it was necessary I didn't think it was gratuitous although you know I was like do I really have to anyway but um I didn't want to be your character because I wanted to shoot bugs more um you know I'm just so I feel so lucky being Johnny Rico and and having this for so long the the triangle the PE of our triang me and this triangle so no why would would I have wanted anything else I would have been crazy too so um I I love being this and I love uh the luckiest guy in space yeah I think everybody all the other guys read for this role too and they picked it like Seth Gillian read for this role and I think a lot of them were reading and they were just going to decide decide what they wanted but Paul had a a strict Vision that Michael clarified earlier and and that's what he wanted to go with thank you they're going is there someone over here a good question very good question nope there actually isn't there so we're going here hello uh what's everyone's opinions on bugs kill them all Yum Yum Yum kind of a neutral or a positive what the question is that well you it's in theme for the movie are you being specific like bed bugs you've been to France lately the only good bug is a dead bug I'm with him exactly I I rescued them and put them outside me too I do too I do too I my I just say babe come here get this yeah my kids go it they they go Dad bug yeah that's Paul wanted it to be symbols of the meth kind of um a general kind of enemies of the state attitude that right Wings have and stuff you know for Nazis it'd be Jews and Gypsies and stuff like that immigrants he wanted for anything that celebrates the differences rather than the similarities this is what we talked about before I did the film and I said what do you want what do you want the bugs to be he said all the things that what I was qu quoting before you know and it's I think that's very important what did he want the brain what do you want the brain bug to be well it was a satar when you have when you have Doogie hser putting his hand on the bug and going it's in pain and everyone cheers you know here do you want to know more handing guns to children it's kind of a very heavy political statement Paul expected that film to be very very big in the United States it wasn't it wasn't we had questions during I remember during our press tour they had asked me why would you make a right-wing Nazi picture what you know over in Europe you guys got it you all got that kind of you know that tongue and cheek Nazi kind of right-wing fascist you know and the United States was slow to catch up on that they're catching up now when after having the Great Pumpkin there for the last six or eight years they are they're catching up now you know in I did when I did the Press tour and I was over in Kaya Italy with Paul one of the Foreign Press tried to get me to do a Nazi salute and I said I'm not doing that my my grandfather fought against the Nazis I'm totally against this and they go well this what this film is I go then you didn't watch the movie you didn't understand it if you if you're thinking that this is a pro-fascist movie in any way shape or form then you have no idea what you're talking the bugs Paul wanted was any sign of prejudice whether it's National racial political he just wanted that you know the interreaction between human beings where we treat other human beings like bugs it might have been a little more sophisticated than most Americans could get so I'm Canadian I can say that yeah that makes sense because like they're all like equal in the mov movie right like sorry I'm not going to never mind every everybody's equal in this movie like the humans are equal and that's to like more like refine the IDE into against bugs specifically not not like into and the fact that we needed everybody because if you lose somebody then you have less people fighting against the bugs so it doesn't matter what anybody is that's the the unifier inst worship Troopers that's why they were you know it didn't matter we could have the co-ed showers didn't matter what we look like or who we were or what our anything about us it didn't matter we were all in it together against the common enemy that part of it too it's also in Paul's nature to just want to cause trouble yes he really does he doesn't really take a political stance on anything he wants people when they leave the theater to either argue or discuss what they just saw he likes to cause a certain amount of dialogue about what he's done if you've seen most of his films you know all have that um they all have that kind of I don't know suum in your eye kind of feel about them they force you to have a position and uh anyway thank you very much thank you you're welcome we're going to the front right here hey folks how's it going nice to meet you I love the movie by the way um you you have great taste I I know I know I know thank you very much um I have a question for Michael if you don't mind um I'm a big fan of of the spinter cell video games we playing them love those games and was wondering could you you give me your take on what's it like going back into that role cuz I believe there's a new one been announced I I I got to tell you I'm not a gamer I'm not into violence I don't like guns I'm a I basically am a golfer and a gardener and uh Splinter Cell was sent to me when I was doing a a series on motorcycle on it was called last chapter in Canada and they sent this thing to me and and the idea and there was a lot of money and I thought you know it's going to be like pong like and all I could do is do a narration over it I said sure give me a quar million dollars I'll do that and uh and then they sent the script and it was such a piece of shite it was really bad because you got all these techn Droid guys you know these Geeks I know they say geekland here but I mean these are real you know guys with little plastic holders and all the pens in them and stuff that was subis soft the five owners were like they' never been out in the sunlight you know and uh I Saidi can't do this it's crap and they saidwell would do you could you help us with it so the game video games are like 85% technology and it's about 15 or 20% story so they let me rework the story we sat down and rewrote the story uh let me cast it with people that I knew in Canada at the time they allowed us to rehearse for two days before the game so we could have some kind of camaraderie and stuff and some continuity in it and I think it worked you know and to create a character who can't give affection or accept affection was the whole purpose of that you know was to create you know with Sam fiser it was you know we knew we already knew if the game was successful it was we're going to in the second or third game we were going to have his family killed you know so there was a lot of pressure on that you know and it was also the first interactive game that had ever been done so I didn't think it would be successful you know because when you're really doing these things if you've done them you're standing in a bloody 4x4 glass booth for ing stuff you know and then they go off and match it up with animation later on um but when I did that for by the way anyone know what Ubisoft stands for in Parisian slang no does anyone remember a play by uu You by Alfred xar you course you would it was from 1947 called ubu Roy King turd Ubisoft means soft you know like he that's some real sof you got there so um the original owners five of them had a floor and a half in a factory on santon Boulevard in Montreal after the first game they bought the building that's how successful it was after the second game they bought the building beside it you know so it was like 14 floors of nothing but their technology and on the third game they bought another building in up in Toronto and put another building up in Los Angeles and San Francisco uh four of the owners ended up retiring and living on islands and the Singapore archipelago somewhere the one guy that stayed was named Stefan and he's a Wonder wonderful creative guy um he's pretty well responsible for all the stuff that's going on there now but uh I did not know it was going to be what it was I had no idea what gaming is I still don't play video games you know I like things that cause dialogue between people anything it locks you away in a room by yourself you know I mean there's a whole 12ep program now for video games you know it sounds funny but people have lost the ability to communicate with each other you know just sit off there and jerk off in front of a screen you know it's like a seriously you know oh you laugh now you you'll probably rush off to the hotel and watch PornHub or something but uh what I do in my spare time is none of your business no I no I wasn't talking I was talking about the behind you back there with six rows sorry I'm not shy uh but listen don't you hold back okay no no no no no I'm serious about that it was like I did not not have any idea the impact that game was going to have um so you do you regret doing it then or no not at all I met some really good friends on that you know awesome thank you very much yeah perfect s' got a key coming up look I apologize if my language or anything I'm doing offends anybody I don't have a good memory I don't have a good memory so I I can't lie so I have a tendency to just tell the truth it's the best way I think that's okay you're you're with Irish people we not easily offended oh you'd be surprised do we have a question down the back here oh no there just people standing next to the mic Grant we're going over here uh my question similar to the last is from Michael um is there anything uh that you would want to do more or you weren't able to do with the character of Sam Fischer that you wanted to do or like are you fully satisfied with the ARs that you were able to do as him while voicing him absolutely there was no way no way I could by the time I did the the by the time the sixth script came there's no way I could do the physical animation you know the um for Christ 6 I'm 74 years old you know and Sam supposed to be in his mid-30s early 40s and uh the fellow we handed it off to the actor made an absolute piece of out of it he was he did a horrible job a horrible not the fellow that's here now there's another fellow that took off took over after him but uh I actually recommended this fellow for the part he didn't know that because I knew his mother I actually held him in my in my arms when his mother was an actress in Canada and he was a bit of an arrogant little prick he didn't know what to do and he ran the G game into the ground the sixth game actually went landed on its face boom I'll tell you what though Netflix bought it for Ubisoft they've done an an anime kind of uh series with it that is supposed to be out I think late this fall or early spring and they've done a six-part miniseries that was shot in South Africa during the pandemic mic and Le shers playing Sam and I think that's a fantastic choice you know so I'm looking forward to seeing that but no I I pretty well did what I wanted to do on that I would have liked another check of course but uh they were very very uh fair with their money you know but thanks for question thank you thank you very much so we've got time for one question here and then I was actually given a question from a fan earlier on today as well so here you go hi um Regina um what was it like what was it like working on parts of pray uh what was it like working on it uh it was it was great it was uh again like you know Wonderful to be a part of the DC family um playing such an iconic character as badgirl and Oracle of course Barbara Gordon um uh I think one of the most challenging things for me was I'm I'm actually like very I like being physical in like most of my role in my roles I'm just a physical person I like to I like to like to kick I like to jump I like to do all those like shoot bugs I like to fight I like to just do lots of physical things so for me to be stuck in a wheelchair at the time it what I was like I was excited to play her because in the comics she's she's she's badass I mean she's she's in a wheelchair but she's strong and she's tough and she's got her esrea sticks and I was I really was looking forward to you know being a badass character in the wheelchair but then they the production they're like yeah so we're not going to give you like a regular client in the comics we're going to give you this really cool like uh you know far out Modern Blue Light you know and all you have to do is like you know push a remote control and you're you know this is really I'm not going to be using my arms I'm not going to no you're just gonna this look this is going to look cool or it's like really Hightech and so for me being in that chair and having to you have to hit your marks for lighting everything is very um precise with with with the filming and TV and because you have lights and marks and you want to be in focus and you want to be in your light so with the with this thing I was high up in the chair and you couldn't I couldn't see the marks on the floor um so it was very challenging in that regard but to be to play this this part was very special for me um and and the fact that Batgirl was you know shot by The Joker for those of you the DC fans she was shot uh paralyzed and although you know she wasn't able to fight crime as battir anymore she kind of reinvented herself as Oracle and became even stronger uh and and it was pretty awesome to play that she didn't let her disability get bring her bring her down you know she she actually was Stronger thank you very much thank you we only have time for one more question I'm afraid so we're going to go over here thank you hear how about protecting your and yourand you're GNA have to do it more into the mic I'd like to hear how you're going to protect your art and your brand in light of the rise of AI is that a general question for all of us yeah for the panel look I've sent three scripts that are AI generated in the last year and they're all pieces of and I I mean this seriously I'm not they a machine can imitate something but when it comes to understanding emotion or something like that it's just not going to do it they really are it's almost like I don't know it's like do you know how paint by you remember paint by numbers you remember what they used to you used to buy and you painted and stuff like that and you look at it when it's all over it kind of looks like art that's what AI is like it really is it's kind of like the things they create is kind of like paint by numbers Humanity's and the nature of humanity and and spirit the spiritual idea of a human being they're unpredictable machines aren't you know and I'm telling you the three I've had three and four scripts one's a a treatment they're all really kind of like oh my God this is so bloody boring it's so predictable you can see the patterns in it it recognizes patterns and stuff I'm sure it'll get more sophisticated I'm sure it'll get it'll help those guys that sit in the nude and play with their games at night and stuff hey I was actually talk the guy beside you with all the hair it's but uh you know you know what I'm saying it's not going to be able to imitate life nothing nothing takes the place of the unpredictability of emotions in humanity right and the spirit of a human being you know it's uh I think we're kind of seeing that in the Ukraine right now so thank you thank you very much I'm sure some does anyone else want to say something about that I'll just say what he said I'm with him agreed it's soulless it's nothing to be afraid of it really isn't it's I I did one project just recently where they used it for all the background lighting and all the background stuff why excuse me you who asked me the question are you in that industry are you part of the AI industry should we be worried good yeah you can throw at him if he is but uh no it's great there's a couple of project that was used for filling in the background you know where projects that you know the budget's going to be 17 or 18 million and they've only got $4 million they can invest $2 million in Ai and you're going to have all the background and the scenery and a lot of the industrial stuff and all that it's usually done by blue screen or green screen done by Ai and it's done superbly but when it comes to emotions in human Spirit a machine's never going to be able to recreate that and I can say that with all the confidence in the world I'm not threatened by it you know I'm not how could it be threatened by a machine and and as as far as it taking over you know our personal selves as as as a a thing good luck I mean I'm I'm screwed up enough as a human being and let it try to be that screwed up individually and try to go through all the the life experiences I've had and I I I I think it's like like Michael said it's that human human emotion and also everything we've gone through they can kind of you can kind of feed that into it and go this is what it was but they wouldn't know how to to really feel it or so good luck you know I I'm tortured enough as it is every time technology takes a huge leap in humanity gets involved I mean there's we can all be Lites you know do you know what Lite is they were the ones that hated Machinery they were actually Dutch they they called them Lites um if you're a lite you're somebody who doesn't like technology you're somebody that up the Machinery they used to take their wooden shoes and throw them into the machinery and screw up the Machinery because they didn't want it to affect their their agrarian culture or their stuff machinery's always been a threat to humanity like automobiles be the death of humanity it takes a human to you know it doesn't matter what vehicle you're in they always going to take a human being inside it to be to get it to go somewhere that's important otherwise it's just going to go around in circles if that makes any sense to you you know what I mean it's not the buildings it's what's in the buildings you can't replace human spirit with a machine you just can't no matter how how complicated it gets it's nothing to be afraid of should be embraced yep the big thing you got to be careful of is the out there will try and use it to take advantage of you you know to profit and and and prostitute you to to God I'm sound like an evangelist propaganda hate on uh absolutely that that part of it is you because they can Target different sides of the the coin or whatever and try to enhance the hatred on both sides and and and just make people think that you know in general I think people are kind and I don't know if a a machine could also be kind in that way you know you can be programmed to be but you wouldn't have it so I think you know I I don't know if it it could ever replace Us in that way I know a few people it's the nature of what I've done for a living that I've know a few people that are in NORAD and some of the large and uh they are not interested in have any kind of computer program running any of the Defense Net mechanisms for North America or Europe they're just not they do not so the big art the big question about AI being able to start a third world war it's not that's everyone's a aware of that they're absolutely aware of that it's good for Science Fiction it's good for stories in reality it doesn't work Hitler proved it it's good for a story unless it's written by AI then it's going to be very true and on that note folks please put your hands together for opinion Richard inside thank you yeah come see us they we're going to be back on the stage tomorrow for anybody else who's going to be here tomorrow as well and but for now thanks very much we'll be right back than you