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By Gustave | Season 1 | Episode 14 | Aired on 03.07.2002
Are you getting recognized more, now that you've done this?
Yeah.
What's that like? How do people react to you?
It's nice, but I'm a private person and when I get recognized I feel very exposed all of a sudden. My first instinct is to retreat. I hope that no one interprets that as anything but…that. I'm really weird about that. [laughs]
I don't think it's weird at all. I would totally be creeped out if strangers walked up to me on the street thinking that they knew me. And I've heard that people act really familiar toward you if you're on television. It's like they think you've been inside their homes every week.
Right. I mean, it's great because it means that people are watching the show. And everyone has been really nice. Overall, it's a good thing.
Has anyone come up to you and said, "How could you betray your country?"
Actually, no. I've gotten a few people who've said, "We miss you." It's strange.
That's what we're all saying on the forums. It's funny. People get very emotionally involved in the show, and if there's any character that people hate it's either Spawn for being so stupid and codependent or Soul Patch for being so nosy and lazy. I mean, technically, Jamey did more damage but people had a lot more affection for her.
Really? That's so sweet!
You know, this interview is great because your questions aren't typical. Usually I'm being asked stuff like…
"What it's like to work with Kiefer"?
Yeah!
Uh, sorry, but my next question was going to be, what's it like to work with Kiefer? I'm so sorry! My readers will literally kill me if I don't ask.
[laughs] He's terrific in so many ways. It's an honor to get to watch him. He's really so good. I was trying to figure out what makes him so good and I realized that it was because everything he does is so specific. Every single line has so much meaning. You can tell that he's just made a choice about everything. And he takes everything to a heightened level.
He's very intense. You are all intense. I mean, I guess that's a contradiction to what we were saying earlier about you being less "intense" as Jamey, but I guess I mean that it's not an extroverted intensity…
Exactly. That's why this part is perfect. I'm a very serious person. Although I hope I get to do a comedy at some point. I need to lighten up here, do you know what I mean? [laughs]