Eric: [reading questions]....okay.
Sprouty: I can't read half her writing--
Eric: Well, you want to ask me and then I'll answer them-- [notices camera] Oh my!
Sprouty: Okay. You're video cam taping this?
Irina: Yeah.
Sprouty: Well, I want on camera--
Eric: Okay--
Sprouty: I can't snuggle in any closer.
Fan: Is this recording?
S: Now. So, what attracted you to the role of Mr. Dimitri, Eric? [She waves her hand toward Eric in a here-he-is fashion..]
E: Hehehe. Umm. What attracted me to the role of Mr. Dimitri? I remember the story of Heloise and Abelard, do you remember the-- There are all kinds of stories throughout history of teachers and students crossing the line. And I know that happens. And it's in the news all the time now so I thought, this- And it was done in such an interesting way because you were never quite sure [Sprouty- Exactly] if we were going to, to do anything improper but you could sense the attraction. And it was so well written and all the actors were so good I --
S: Yeah. Okay.
E: --I was, you know, I'd have been crazy to have not done it. [He grins at the camera, looks at someone else, then swings his head and looks directly at Irina.]
S: And I guess the next question is which role would you like to play?
E: Ohhh.
S: Go nuts here. Hehe.
E: Ah. Geez. I'm, I'm-- Shakespeare. I'm actually a big--
S: Which, which play in Shakespeare? That's not on here but-
E: Well, Henry. Henry IV, part 1 of 2.
S: What role?
E: Henry.
[The rest of us, in unison]: Henry! [Laughter. Eric gets a kick out of this while he looks at us.]
Sprouty: Henry. Well, I thought I'd ask. Okay. Oh well.
[trailing laughter]
S: How many takes of the Kiss Scene did you do? Ohh, hot questions.
E: How many takes of the Kiss Scene did we do--
S: And what was Julia Whelan like? I'm sticking stuff on here now-
E: Julia, Julia Whelan was very-
S: We all like Julia.
E: Oh, she was wonderful.
Fan: Very good actor.
Eric: She was very, very serious [Sprouty- Umhum she looks that way] and very--- She really wanted to be sure that nothing - ah- um- exploitative or improper [Sprout- Ummm] would happen. She was very specific about how far we would go because at one point they were actually talking about having us in bed.
[Gasps from all of us. Excited "Haaaa" from someone.]
S: Oh my God!!
Fan: Oh. my. God. ! [Sprouty briefly rests her head on Eric's shoulder.]
E: Shocking.
Fan: That is pretty --
E: But it never, I don't think it ever made it to script form.
S: Oh, no.
Fan: They would have gotten cancelled, quicker than they did.
E: That would be-
[overlapping conversations here...]
Sprout: Did they ever film the popcorn scene?
Eric: Popcorn scene.
S: There was- I don't know if it ever made it to the final scripts, but there was a popcorn scene--
G/Dfan: It probably would have gone up the ratings [re: G/D in bed]
Fan: Wow, that's heavy duty.
S: As she was leaving the house-
Fan: Yeah, oh about the butter.
S: What was it?
Fan: The butter. The butter.
Eric: Ohhh.
Fan: The butter.
S: Like you would have been leaving the house, to go to see "Rashomon"-
E: Yeah, no they never filmed it.
S: Oh, that sucks because that would have been a good scene.
Irina: You were supposed to sing something. Did you sing?
Eric: In the show?
S: Yeah, you were supposed to sing "Buffalo Gals", you probably don't even know this now-
Fan: Could you sing it now!
E: Oh no no. I did sing it--
S: You know "Buffalo gals won't you come out tonight and --"
E: Because that's their--
S: "dance by the light of the moon".
E: I did sing it and they cut it out.
S: That's wrong.
Fan: Because of "Snuggle Puppy"?
[laughter]
Sprouty: Noooo. Yeah, cause they heard you sing and they-
Eric: Heh. They heard me sing and they didn't like it.
Fan: Oh. Oh come on.
E: I don't know why they cut it out. Umm. Because they cut out a lot- a lot of stuff.
S: Like what? heh.
E: I -- I can't remember. I just remember seeing it and going wow, they cut out a lot.