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James Marsters Q&A TV
Guide |
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In the first installment of our
interview with James Marsters, he talked about his love life
and his sizzling new turn on Torchwood. Here, he chats about
his return to Smallville (Thursday at 8 pm/ET, the CW), his
starring role in the live-action Dragonball movie, and why
he plays bad and doesn't want to be famous.
TV Guide: You're
returning to Smallville for a couple of episodes. What's fun
about playing Brainiac? He's certainly smart, but not quite
as sexy as Torchwood's Captain John.
James Marsters: [Laughs] I
really like working with the cast, and I loved it in Season
5 when the audience didn't know what I was there for. That
was pretty delicious.
TV Guide: When Brainiac was posing as
the history professor Milton Fine?
Marsters: Yes. I was pretending to care about Clark's
feelings, and that was cool because I really didn't care at
all; I just wanted him to be my tool. He sort of kicked my
ass, of course.
TV Guide: The last time we saw
Brainiac, wasn't he reduced to his black liquidy real self?
Marsters: My schedule had filled up and I couldn't come
back, so that was a way to close the door. Then [executive
producer] Al Gough called at the beginning of this season
and asked if I was available. Luckily, I had some time.
TV Guide: What's up with the evil
creature?
Marsters: He's gone from trying to rule the world to trying
to survive, hanging out with tramps, warming his hands over
open fires. My wardrobe is way cooler, and I get to eat a
rat. I assume he'll soon be back with his machinations and
making life tough for Clark. What was really fabulous was
that I got to work with Marc McClure, who played Jimmy Olsen
in the Christopher Reeve Superman movies. He plays a
scientist. I can probably say he's a good scientist.
TV Guide: Are you ready to do another
series as a full-time player?
Marsters: Sure. I love to work. When I was a kid, I
would invite my friends over to play, then I would take them
over to a recycling=2 0plant and we would haul glass all day.
They hated me for this, but I thought it was fun. I love to
sweat.
TV Guide: Is that one of the reasons
you like doing sci-fi — hard work and lots of sweating?
Marsters: One of the reasons. But you know, some of
the writers from Buffy are on the best shows around — Grey's
Anatomy, 24 — you name it. And they all have the same
complaint: "This is great, but I just want to have a big
demon come out of a rift hole and suck someone into some
interesting universe." I'm like, "You're on 24, man. There
could be nuclear war at any time!" And he's, "Yeah, it's
boring. I'm stuck to reality!"
TV Guide: You're plunging into a big
sci-fi feature next. Can you talk about the live-action
Dragonball?
Marsters: Dragonball is the coolest television
cartoon in the last 50,000 years. Its only failing is that
the female characters aren't drawn well — we're going to fix
that in the movie. It's got a Shakespearean sense of good
and evil and there are incredible action scenes with
characters of unbelievable power. It's going to be really
visually exciting. I was told the budget is about $100
million.
TV Guide: Nice to know you're so
enthusiastic. Who do you play?
Marsters: Lord Piccolo. He's thousands of years old
and a very long time ago he used to be a force of good but
got into a bad argument and was put into prison for 2,000
years. It got him very angry, and he finds a way to escape
and then tries to destroy the world. The cool thing is,
anybody who has seen Dragonball knows that Lord Piccolo
transforms into a character named Piccolo, and that is a
whole other ball of wax. That is one of the most popular
characters in the whole series. I've been told I'm working
for people who will just flay me alive if I give too much
information, but what I can tell you is the character is
green, bald and has pointed ears. Heroic wouldn't be the
wrong term by the end, but it's a long journey.
TV Guide: On the opposite end of the
spectrum, aren't you playing serial murderer Ted Bundy in
the Lifetime Movie Network miniseries The Capture of the
Green River Killer?
Marsters: John Pielmeier, a wonderful man who won a
Tony for Agnes of God and who I worked with in Seattle in
the '90s, called and said that he was doing this drama and
he didn't have a good Ted Bundy, and could I come up for a
day and film. Everyone said that I was really scary. They
kind of put my hair in that shape and put me in the costume
and the director came into my trailer and said, "Oh, my god,
you look just like Ted Bundy." Eff off! I don't want to hear
that.
TV Guide: Will you be back as the fed
(Detective Grant Mars) on Without a Trace?
Marsters: I was scheduled to do five episodes and I
thought that it was over; when I got Dragonball, they seemed
a little miffed that I wasn't available to them anymore,
which was both a surprise and kind of a compliment. My
character doesn't die or kill anybody, so I think I could
come back. It is a wonderful show to work on; everybody's on
top of their game.
TV Guide: Most of us know you from
Buffy, but weren't you acting for years before that?
Marsters: Oh, my god, yes. I'd done 100 plays before
that. I never really wanted to be famous. I got a taste of
it in high school. In a conference of student thespian
societies, I was cast as Jesus in Godspell and suddenly I
was like the Who and the Stones. Girls would burst into the
bathroom to try to see my penis! Fame didn't seem like fun.
I went into theater — I ran my own theater in Seattle and it
was wonderful. But at the birth of my son, I heard this
voice going, "Go make money, James Marsters. Go south now.
[Your son] did not decide to be poor. He will not be happy
sleeping in the back of your theater like you are now."
TV Guide: And the rest is TV history.
Is it true that a few years ago, British filmgoers voted you
and Keira Knightley the actors they most would like to see
as Romeo and Juliet? Supposedly you beat out Leonardo
DiCaprio and Orlando Bloom!
Marsters: It's true. Overseas, Buffy was a lot bigger
than it was in America. The characters even had their own
stamps in one of the former Sov iet Union countries. But
that was fun to hear. Of course I said, yes, I'd do it, but
Keira wouldn't comment. [Laughs]
TV Guide: So life after 40 seems
pretty good, doesn't it?
Marsters: Yeah. Forties are good! I'm thinking with
my brain now, which is a lot more clear, and women seem to
appreciate that. It's a wonderful decade where you're in
control of yourself but the women are still interested.
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