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Date Posted: 15:12:01 12/24/02 Tue OK, so I have added a bit more here and there and put another page or two on the end... this is about it for the personal part of the interview. I am still working on the Scorpius part. Enjoy and Merry Christmas! Random Questions and Answers with Wayne Pygram November 24, 2002 Burbank, CA 3rd Creation Farscape Convention MF Leopold (aka MissyKat) With much thanks to Richard Manning for arranging this interview and to the dear Wayne Pygram for agreeing to meet with his most avid fan (or is that rabid fan?). I was standing in the hall outside the main auditorium at the Burbank Hilton, chatting with Ricky M. when he began to motion to someone behind me. I began to smile and I am sure that by the time I turned around I had a doofy grin from ear to ear. Wayne was standing there and wanted to know if we could do the interview. I said yes, whenever was convenient. He said that now was fine and so I got my bag of stuff and off I went, following behind him to the back stage. Being the Australian gentleman that he is, he carried my bag for me. Score another one for WP. Wayne was happy and healthy looking, and far more animated than the previous year. After hearing about his health problems during his Q&A slot, both the skin reactions and gluten allergy, I was so thankful that he had gained weight and looked robust. In fact, he glowed – blue, sparkling eyes and sweet mischievous smile. OK, so I have to admit that I was smitten. It is a thrill to actually get to meet someone (anyone, not just a TV personality) you have had a crush on for so long. He was wearing a medium blue button-up-the-front regular shirt and regular pants and moved with the fluid smoothness that fans have grown accustomed to with Scorpius. We sat opposite each other at a long narrow table in a backstage room. I had heard that Creation security was tight for some reason and I did worry about being asked to leave at some point since I had no press badge or some such. We began with general chitchat. I thanked him for the opportunity to interview him, and told him a bit about his fans. We had talked a bit at the Saturday night Cocktail Party and I wanted to get a feel for what type of fan interaction he wanted to foster. He is so pleased with fan response to Scorpius and to him personally. And he does keep every present and note that he gets. And he shows his “treasures” to his relatives, esp. his dad. I could tell by his expression and constant smile that he really feels like the birthday boy who gets the most wonderful presents. There was a stack of promo pictures next to him on the table. These were the Season Three cast photo and he had autographed them as had the other actors. Throughout out our interview, he would occasionally glance over at Scorpius looking up at him and he would seem lost for a split second in his fondness for his character. I noticed that he referred to Scorpius only as he, the third person, and never in the first person, as he had at the 2001 convention. I felt that he was purposefully detaching from his companion of the last four years and that he was morning the loss of such a fulfilling and challenging persona. I’ll go into this more in the “Scorpius” part of the interview. So after a bit, I looked at the long list of questions and began to ask him for random bits of information. *********I know that you played League as a young man – what team and what position did you play? He started at age six in the front row (he was large for his age) and by age twenty one had moved back in the line to full back. He spent most of his career on the second row, even making State in 1975 when he played for Riverina High. And later, he played for the Wagga Magpies and Turvey Park of Group Nine. Some of his mates from those days went on to be famous players throughout Australia. I was curious about his list of injuries as a jock. He was almost proud of his broken nose and fractured cheekbone, touching his face gently as he spoke. Casually, he then mentioned the broken leg and dislocated shoulder. I asked about his knees since I had seen no scars from surgery (as I would have expected) but he said that he had been lucky. No back problems and with any luck, perhaps just a bit of arthritis in his shoulder as he aged. He swims and exercises to keep in shape now. *********In the Aussie equivalent of Cowboys and Indians – which were you? a Cowboy or an Indian? Wayne really looked confused at this question and I can’t say that I blame him. “Cowboy” he said. I was expecting Indian. He went on to explain that “Combat” was very popular on TV when he was little and that he |