DE: Degrees of Separation

[yakalskovich]

 I just discovered that my Degree of Separation from Mads Mikkelsen is 1 (and hence, 2 to everybody else involved in creating the 'Hannibal' TV canon) -- because a photographer who has taken a very good picture of me (that I use on all my more official realname channels as user pic) also has an interesting picture of Mads Mikkelsen in his portfolio -- the same lens has seen us, and the same acute and kind photographic gaze.

So, talk about your degree of separation from the creators of your canons? Any of you got down to a zero, that is, met them?

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[2goodarms]

Being a regular DragonCon attendee means I've met a good chunk of the BSG cast: Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Michael Trucco, Richard Hatch, and -- of course -- Alessandro Juliani. I didn't make too much of an ass of myself in front of any of them, so I call it a win. \o/

...though I did confuse AJ a bit by asking him to sign a drawing of a kazoo. Long story.

EJO's also got a link to Chris Evans, thanks to Agents of SHIELD, so that puts me...what, three or four degrees from everybody involved with Snowpiercer? Sadly, I've got no idea about any of the Legends of Korra crew.

(And in canons I adore but don't play in Milliways, I found out yesterday I'm two or three degrees removed from the entire Hamilton cast -- a HS classmate of mine made it to Broadway a few years ago, and it turns out she was in a play with Okieriete Onaodowan, aka Hercules Mulligan/James Madison. This will delight me unaccountably for a long while.)

[alexiscartwheel]

HERCULES MULLIGAAAAAN!


sorry, not sorry

[2goodarms]

I will do the whole Battle of Yorktown rap right here right now, SEE IF I DON'T

[shes_so_fetch]

I will rap along. Heather can attest. I just messaged part of Guns and Ships to her like five minutes ago. XD

[lunamystic]

She did. It's true.

Zoe does the same thing all the time.

I am surrounded by Hamilton references.




(LAFAYETTE!)

[sunbaked_baker]

(We rendezvous with Rochambeau to consolidate their gifts.)

[shes_so_fetch]

(We can end this war at Yorktown, cut them off at sea...)

[2goodarms]

(But! For this to succeed, there's someone else we need...)

[shes_so_fetch]

(HAMILTON!)

[sunbaked_baker]

(...You wanna fight for your land back?)




omg these songs stuck in my head are nnnnon-stop

[alexiscartwheel]

Well.

I have met the creator of the Tracksuit Draculas, the illustrious Matt Fraction, when he and Chipper came to my comic shop last year. I asked Chip to lick Matt, on behalf of a friend. There's a video.

(That's totally diegetic music, btw. True story.)

A couple months before that, I met then Carol Danvers scribe and general writing hero Kelly Sue DeConnick at Dragon Con. I took a duckface selfie with her and Patty. So we have also been seen by the same lens. Sometimes she reblogs me on Tumblr and I freak out.

Also at Dragon Con, I met Eaddy Mays, who played Allison's mom on Teen Wolf, and is also a really kind, funny person who really gets fandom more than many actors. I can't remember if Victoria and Stiles even had any scenes together, but still, that's 1 to the other actors and creative team.

As far as I know I have no connection to anyone involved in Downton, and I've never met Seanan McGuire.

[lunamystic]

I met Tamora Pierce. To this day, I remain grateful she was so preoccupied with my British first edition of Alanna ("I haven't seen this version in SO MANY YEARS!") that I did not blurt out "HAHA sorry about that time I married your character off to the Antichrist!" It was a very real concern, okay? I am not good at meeting my heroes. Also Ji quickly stepped in and asked her about the original adult version of the series, and yeah. Dignity salvaged!

I used to live in tiny Conyers, GA, which is where Holly Hunter is from, and a friend used to point out her house all the time. Does that count?

Also I thought about apping Lagertha for a while, but then decided it would all be a bit weird because Tony has, with the help of my second cousin's ridiculously detailed and extensive genealogy research, worked out that Rollo is my ancestor. XD

[bjornwilde]

We are (likely) distantly related then, as Rollo is an ancestor of mine! And I play him, which was weird to realize.

[lunamystic]

Probably! *fist bump*

I think it was the link through William the Conqueror. I think. I was too busy facepalming to pay much attention. We had just started watching Vikings, and T was very amused about it. XD

[bjornwilde]

Same, and through Cromwell (and from there through William the Conqueror) in my case...if my memory isn't acting up.

[a_rare_benedictine]

My mother insists there's a connection to Cromwell somewhere on her side of the family. I haven't found it yet.

[bjornwilde]

I think, as I mentioned just above me, that Rollo would be my only degree of separation, as he is a distant ancestor of mine on my mother's side.

If I had ever played Aloysius Crumrin, I could have claimed a 1 degree as I used to hang out with his creator long ago.

When I was playing Brimstone from A Daughter of Smoke and Bone, I did email the author for a question and asked if she minded if I played him. Does that count? And for the record, she was onboard and seemed to love the idea of someone playing her characters.

[lunamystic]

You did? Cool. I didn't know that. Now I wonder if she ever found our threads.

I am 98.5% sure Tammy has read Some Stuff in Milliways due to comments she made on her journal ages ago. I am both intrigued and horrified at the idea. Mostly I would flail and babble at her about how important she was to young!me if I ever knew for sure. XD

[bjornwilde]

I couldn't recall or find if Brimstone has hamsa and so asked. I hadn't expected a reply but she did and I was =), though I felt foolish when she pointed out that he hadn't been resurrected and so couldn't have them. = ]

I honestly don't remember if I mentioned Milliways by name or gave links, as I know Seanan Mcguire doesn't/can't read fanfic, so thought it'd be more polite to wait for Lani to ask if she were interested.

I don't know how I'd react if an author found my portrayals of their characters. Likely complete chagrin.

[aberration]

Well, technically Bryan Fuller and the main cast of Hannibal heard my voice, because I answered a trivia question during a panel. (I imagine on their part this was a five second thought along the lines of "wow, that girl's a nerd.")

And I ... saw, but did not speak to, Bryke at NYCC. And not actually a canon I play here anymore, but Grim Fandango creator Tim Schafer liked my tweet about being the only person in the world who likes the original tank controls.

Really, I'm pretty sure the only celebrity I've "met" as in spoken to at length for any period of time is Martin Sheen, which then-14-year-old me was super excited about given that I was really into The West Wing at the time. Which gets me to Korra through the degrees of separation game through Jennifer Hale via Mass Effect, and Hannibal through Laurence Fishburne (it took me a really long time to get that one, I haven't seen Apocalypse Now in a long time okay).

[genarti]

Beats me! I don't tend to do the signatures/photo op/etc stuff at cons even if I'm at the kind of con that big names come to. I do go to panels that authors are on, but I rarely introduce myself or anything, and I'm not aware of any school friends working on big name stuff (though they could be).

I guess the closest it comes is that I've had conversations on twitter or DW or LJ with people who are probably a degree or two from Patricia C. Wrede, though that's just an educated guess. Victor Hugo: no. The Les Mis movie and Broadway/West End/etc shows: not to my knowledge, and anyway the musical isn't really the version I'm pulling from, icons aside. MCU: again, not to my knowledge, though that's a big enough movie industry that I do probably know someone who knows someone who worked on them somewhere.

[agonistes]

I know someone who's a BioWare writer and is credited on Dragon Age: Inquisition.

And way, way back (literally ten years ago) when I played Trogdor, the Brothers Chapman and I lived in the same Atlanta suburb -- Decatur, GA. They frequented the same bowling alley we did.

[harryhotspur]

In grad school we joked about holding a seance to speak to Shakespeare? Does that count?

[clayforthedevil]

I hear he talks in French now. Because it's such a superior language, you know.

[harryhotspur]

Oh good thing I've been practicing

[i_am_your_host]

I've met Alan Cumming a few times, but any photographic evidence of us together is from a very long time ago. However, I can share this, which is Alan wearing a tank top that I gave him after a show. He had previously tweeted about being twice the age of his castmates and ended it with the hashtag #dirtyoldman, so...

https://www.instagram.com/p/sATOGmh48I/

[dejah_thoris]

Okay, that's EPIC. #HIGHFIVE

[i_am_your_host]

It was a pretty epic moment! I think it became his "Good Wife" makeup chair shirt for a while. I recall seeing another pic of him wearing it again.

[onceaviking]

Awesome :)

[dejah_thoris]

I used to live in Tarzana which was the home of the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate. He's actually buried there. If I visited his grave would that count as one degree?

[have_no_mercy]

I've tweeted back and forth (briefly) with one of the writers of Smallville and the woman who plays Tess, so I don't know how that all works out. Otherwise, I've got no degrees anywhere.

[never_shall_yield]

I have...been three feet from Hugh Jackman in a theatre? Though that doesn't count as 'meeting'. But through that nebulous breathing-the-same-air contact, I'm also linked to Russell Crowe as Javert, Aubrey and Pearly's PB. And also therefore Fra Free, who plays Courfeyrac. So another step through them to the creators of the 2012 movie, whomever gets most credit for that, plus the movie canons of the other two pups.

I've met one of the creators of Life of Mars and tweeted with the other. Also been about six inches from Phil Glenister in a theatre, who plays Gene. And PG was in Kingdom of Heaven, directed by Ridley Scott, who leads on to RC and Les Mis again.

I've met an actor who has done movies/is friends with Robert Downey Jnr, so three steps to Mark Ruffalo's Banner and 4 to the MCU overlords. Actually, that same actor gives me a Christian Bale number of 3, so 4 to Christopher Nolan/Batman producers. And on checking the Bacon Number website thing, apparently that actor is actually two steps from Ruffalo, so...I'm getting very confused now.

....oh, I've just remembered an easier way. A friend of mine was in a movie with Colin Farrell, who was in Winter's Tale with Russell Crowe, and therefore is probs a quicker link to just about everyone else in Les Mis 2012.

[athelstanthescribe]

I went to university with the guy who played Jonathan Strange in the miniseries. I haven't seen or spoken to him in about fifteen years, but we were in the same drama soc circles back then.

[harryhotspur]

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

[athelstanthescribe]

Truth! I've been stalking his career with somewhat unjustified pride. Pride by proxy.

Edit: Vicarious! That's the word I was trying to think of.

[ceitfianna]

Most of my connections are to actors that aren't part of canons I play with one big exception. I've now met Seanan McGuire twice.

In terms of other actors and all, I've met John Rhys-Davies, Doug Jones and been at the same con that Kaylee's actor was at. I've also met Ursula Vernon and Tamora Pierce, they're both amazing.

I bought a purse from Karl Urban's Dad in Wellington, New Zealand. I think that's all. Oh and I've seen Alan Cumming in Cabaret.

[miss_yt]

I have no connection to any creator of Abe no Seimei's canon (because folklore) or any of the canons I use bits and pieces of when playing him.

But, as some of you may recall, I used to play YT from Snow Crash, and I have met Neal Stephenson, while he was doing a book tour for Quicksilver. I actually brought in my ratty old paperback of Snow Crash for him to sign, and told him I'd read it multiple times. I think he was genuinely touched. :)

[forceimbalance]

Eddings - no clue.

Henry Mills - I've met several OUaT cast members at D*C, but not his. Nor the creators.

Lois Lane - I have met several Smallville actors at D*C! I even dressed as DCAU Lois for the occasion. So not er, but close! Never met the creators.

Evelyn Trevelyan - I probably actually have some weird contact through some games people I know, but I don't know of any off the top of my head.

Star Wars - I met Chewbacca at Dragon*Con! *endless squee* Other than that, no. ...I should never meet Lucas, I would thank him for creating the best space fantasy he should never be allowed to touch again.

Tavi - I regularly see Jim Butcher at conventions (especially D*C) or on tours and talk to him whenever I do see him. And might ask him detail-oriented questions he probably thinks are totally insane. I got to talk with him for like twenty minutes more or less one on one in 2014. Also my sci-fi group took him out to dinner once. Maybe one day I'll stop being so frightened that I just slide into auto-respect and call him 'Mr. Butcher' all scared and things.

[onceaviking]

LOTR - I talked briefly with Viggo Mortensen once at a signing in a bookshop. I was there with a friend. We told him we'd enjoyed his photo exhibit at Brandt's Klædefabrik and he offered us some strawberries.

And my dad used to be on a committee with Viggo's aunt, Tulle.