[B5JMS] ATTN JMS: B5 Backbiting from actors wins no fans here

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From: Claudia Mastroianni <cmastr at fas.harvard.edu>
Date: 10 Dec 2002 14:48:04 GMT
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Jms at B5 <jmsatb5 at aol.com> wrote:
: Correct, the cameo was a) at the end of the show precisely so that it
: *woudln't* break my suspension of disbelief, because by then it was done, and
: b) it was meant as a surprise.  If I'd said "Yeah, I'm gonna do it but just
: once," then everybody'd be waiting for it, and if they hadn't seen it by SiL,
: they'd know it was there.

With a) in mind, and given that you ended up getting another season
after SiL was in the can... *did* you feel your suspension of disbelief
was broken?  If so, how did you work around it?

Claudia
-- 
 "Who am *I*? 
 I am Susan Ivanova, Commander, daughter of Andrei and Sophie Ivanov.
 I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is going to kick
    your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart.
 I am Death incarnate, and the last living thing you are *ever* going to see.
 God sent me."                -- Between the Darkness and the Light


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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 10 Dec 2002 22:00:36 GMT
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>With a) in mind, and given that you ended up getting another season
>after SiL was in the can... *did* you feel your suspension of disbelief
>was broken?  If so, how did you work around it?

By making sure the episode was never finished (final editing) until after we'd
finished shooting S5.  I let it sit in the Avid, unfinished, until I was ready.
 That also prevented WB or anyone else from getting it and having the cut hit
the streets in an unauthorized way, which I felt could happen if the cut was
just laying around for a year.  By keeping it all in the system, in pieces, it
(and I) was safe.

 jms

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