Behind the Scenes

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THE ACCOLADES, THE FUTURE ET AL

One of the unique rewards of being an Angel and/or Buffy fan is that there is opportunity to express how much you really enjoy the show. As is often mentioned in our features, the internet Bronze Posting Board offers a rare connection to the actors as well as the writers, producers and composers of the shows. Another chance to gather with other fans is the annual Posting Board Party held in Los Angeles every February. Fans from all over the country and the world for that matter get a night to meet each other as well as most of the cast and crew.

Bronzer, Carl Hansen and Elisabeth at
the PBP 2000 in Los Angeles
(photo by Tim McGinn)

This years PBP was no exceptions and Liz was right in the mix of it. We reached one admirer who goes by the board name TaraAnyaKate4ever and expressed her thoughts on both Liz and Kate. "I have always been a fan of Buffy and now Angel," she says, "I have many favorite characters. Rarely do I find a character that I LOVE. Then, I was introduced to Kate Lockley. Her wit, her beauty, her strong female leadership inspired me. Elisabeth Rohm puts forth so much girl power on the screen that men should be shaking. If there was ever a role model on television, it is and should be Elisabeth and Kate. Both women are an asset to the world. Elisabeth, please keep inspiring us young women. We need a strong role model like you."

Along with accolades like those comes exposure from the oddest places. Some of which Elisabeth wasn’t even aware of, such as the Angel Comic Book line from Dark Horse. In this months issue #11 Kate Lockley graces its cover, and if you’re a collector of the new Angel Trading Cards by Inkworks then you’ll find extensive coverage of Kate within the episode cards along with a feature profile in the subset, the Woman of Angel. But no better attention can one achieved than by the dreaded blooper! We were privy to viewing the post production party gag reel while we were down in Atlanta earlier this summer.

Angel Comic Books and Trading Cards
capture Elisabeth Rohm as
Det. Kate Lockley

"Of what?" Liz eagerly asks with embarrassed laughter. Nothing too damaging I assure you but we asked her if she wouldn’t give us another funny moment that happened on the set. "David Boreanaz is filled with funny moments," she admits without missing a beat. "He’s hysterical."

"For me personally," she recalls, "we were doing that scene where I first ever see Angel as a vampire. (Somnambulist) They didn’t get enough footage to make the entire scene long enough so we had to shoot some more of it. Basically, me crawling on the floor and seeing him and being scared. David was already onto the next episode as everybody else was so they had to paint on another stage, literally maybe 5 feet by 5 feet, gray paint on the floor, a gray stone wall on two sides and I had to sit there and pretend. He wasn’t even there because their schedule was so busy that I had to have all that terror and fear to nothing. I mean, if somebody had been filming us it would have been the funniest thing because I don’t say anything. You’re seeing this guy on a camera, watching this girl on a 5 by 5 just gray square, freaking out with like a 5 foot high ceiling on two sides. It would have been a very funny Hollywood picture. You know, because there was no reality at all," she finishes laughing. But when it comes to all the funny stuff? "Funny stuff is always David, David’s funnier than I am." Though she admits, "He and I are funny together."

There aren’t many people that can boast the schedule that Elisabeth is juggling in her life at the moment. With two television series, finding time to travel or squeezing in a ride on her own horse, we might even expect a film in the not too distant future along with her interests in writing.

"It would have been a very funny Hollywood picture. Because there was no reality at all."

"I’m always open to meeting people about anything, because I would really love to do films. Right now, I have written a book and that’s kind of taking up a lot of my free time. I mean, free time being time. I might do it on a web sire or pursue publishing it but either way it’ll be around. It’s a novel, it took place in 1911 in Scotland and it’s this young girl’s journal. But I’m also working on producing a film and acting in it. So I have a lot of interests. But right now my plate is happily filled with Bull and Angel." So we’ll be seeing a lot more of Kate this season? "I hope so! I really personally hope so but they’ve got to write it and the fact is I’m busy so it’s hard for them to count on me. So they’ll bring me in when they can and I’ll be there with bells on. With guns on!" she laughs correcting herself. We wish Liz much success that all of her endeavors will allow and look forward to seeing her in the future as well as every Tuesday night! "You too. God bless, thank you!"