As I sit, waiting, at a small coffee table in the downtown of Los Angeles. I've just ordered a passion fruit tea and keep looking out the window, my date is fifteen minutes late. I tell myself,
"If this fat Greek motherfucker isn't here in the next ten minutes, I'm leaving." I tell myself I'll just do a piece on cats or something.
But luckily, he shows up before I leave. He's a small time actor--the kind who only does TV and has just a few independent, straight to video films under his belt. I wave him down and he sits down at my table.
"You're late." I tell him.
"I was running on Ω time." He tells me. I roll my eyes, method actors.
"Let's begin this interview, shall we?" I ask setting my Mp3 recorder on the table.
"Okay." He tells me as he waves down on of the Starfucks employees.
"Yes, sir?" She asks him as she walks up to our table.
"Yeah, gimmie a peppermint hot chocolate. Thanks." Then he turns to me. "Ask me a question." Both myself and the girl employee are taken aback by this. Did he really just treat her like some kind of waitress? She has a horrified look on her face, but when he doesn't turn around she just walks back behind the counter like a zombie and makes his order. Honestly, I'm so impressed by his arrogant display of superiority that I forgive his not being punctual.
"Okay, first of all." I begin. "How was it, coming back for another season of Star Force Gemini?" I ask him.
"Well, not gonna lie," He says, taking off his ray-bans. "I didn't like it as much as I thought I would."
"And why is that?" I ask.
"Well, you see, SFG 2 takes place almost entirely in Greece, but the only problem is, it was all filmed in Athens which, don't get me wrong it's a great and beautiful city, it's just," He pauses looking back at the girl making his hot chocolate. "I really felt it should have been filmed in a more rural area, you know?"
"Right, so excluding location, how was it making Star Force Gemini Season 2?" I ask him.
"Oh, it was fucking amazing. The creator really pushed all of us to the next level on this one. If you thought the first one was insanely epic, you haven't seen anything yet."
"Right. How was it working with the same cast, I hear there has been no change in the line-up."
"Nah, the SFG crew are pretty much the same, even though [Jestro] isn't as big of a character as he was in the last one." He tells me.
"Yes, I did hear rumors he was playing the villain in this one."
"Well, he's not really the villain. I'm sorry, I can't really say too much on that subject, we have it in our contracts not to spoil any of the twists."
"So it's a twist?"
"Kind of, even though you figure it out towards the beginning." He tells me, the girl brings his hot chocolate, a world record if you ask me.
"I also hear that the creator is doing some type of viral marketing tool for season 2?"
"Yeah, a little bit. He's using two different channels for publicity, your channel being one of them."
"Right. In Star Force Gemini Season 2 you use the same weapon as before, your beam katana, is it true however, that other things have changed?"
"Yeah, I end up losing my RX7 and getting a Smart Car. It's all tricked out, it's actually really cool. I had to take all kinds of driving classes for this season."
"What other kinds of training did you have to do for this season?" I ask.
"Well, we all had to learn fighting again, and the creator wanted us to do our own stunts, he claims stunt doubles are for Steven Sagal movies."
"Everyone did all of their own stunts?" I ask.
"Yeah, the only real fake thing, was when the Eiffel Tower gets destroyed..."
My eyes widened at this, at he caught my look.
"I've said too much. This interview is over." Then he stormed out.
I was upset, at first, having only a handful of answers for my Star Force Gemini Season 2 interview from one of it's lead characters, Ω but when I realized that I still had four more people to interview, the feeling didn't feel so bad.
-Steve Espino
-Sir Jestro
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