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Children’s show and puppeteering history – Jim Martin interview

Jim Martin is a lifelong puppeteer. He was Garry Gnu on the Great Space Coaster and he worked on Sesame Street for 22 years. We talked about his distinguished career and his efforts to save and reshow The Great Space Coaster.

0:27 – Jim talks about how he got into puppeteering.

1:20 – Jim talks about what puppets he liked and the fairy tale worlds he liked putting them in.

3:25 – Jim talks about how his career progressed.

5:32 – Jim compares animated characters versus puppet characters.

6:10 – Jim talks about his time with Great Space Coaster.

7:20 – Jim talks about the business side of making the show including directing.

8:24 – Jim talks about how great a guest Mark Hamill was on the show. Mark loves puppets and enjoyed being on the show.

14:15 – Jim Martin was on Sesame Street for 22 years doing oscar the grouch’s right hand and also directed some of the shows.

15:00 – Jim talks about the different ways a puppeteer works.

15:55 – Jim jokes about how Ron Burgandy was stolen from Garry Gnu.

17:22 – Jim talks about what it takes to be a puppet performer.

18:15 – Jim talks about what happened to the ownership of the Great Space Coaster after the show was over.

22:29 – Jim talks about how great it is to see old versions of the show on youtube.

23:05 – Jim talks about licensing challenges with re-showing the Great Space Coaster.

24:53 – Jim talks about his inspirations.

31:10 – They have a website at Thegreatspacecoaster.tv where people can find out more about how the show was created. They’re on twitter and facebook at TheGreatSpaceCoaster.

Links of interest

http://thegreatspacecoaster.tv/

https://twitter.com/tgsc_official

https://www.facebook.com/TheGreatSpaceCoaster/

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Guests: Jim Martin

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: howdy doody, captain kangaroo, puppeteering, jim henson, muppet show, big bird, great space coaster, Mark Hamill, Mr. Spaghettio, sesame street, puzzle place, teenage mutant ninja turles, Ron Burgandy, sunbow productions, sony, hasbro, youtube, mr. rogers, jazz

Game of Thrones actor – Ian McElhinney (Bannister Selmy) interview – Great Philadelphia Comic Con 2018 – AAD58 – youtube

My interview with Ian McElhinney (Barristan Selmy) of Game of Thrones with re-engineered sound. https://youtu.be/nvam8jQs6n4

Ian McElhinney has been a stage and screen actor for close to 40 years. He’s done a wide range of roles including acting in both the Star Wars franchise, Krypton, and in Game of Thrones as Barristan Selmy. We talked at the 2018 Great Philadelphia Comic Con about acting in general, how he got into it and how he does his work, and also about his work specifically in Star Wars and GoT.

0:46 – Ian talks about how he got into acting. He started at University trying to study something serious. He was getting a degree outside of Boston, Brandeis, and they had a theater degree. He decided he loved acting too much to not get a theater studies degree.

3:11 – He went back to the British theater and taught for a few years. Then he went back into the gaming game and had to get an equity card. At age 30, he went back to Northern Ireland to work as an actor in Belfast.

5:12 – He did a lot of screen work that reflected modern Irish politics and he was often put in a box. He had more freedom on the stage.

10:16 – Ian discusses what its like playing a character in sci-fi and fantasy including the Game of Thrones.

14:06 – Wearing a knight costume gave an Ian a different sense of movement. Wearing armor and wielding a sword gives one a new sense of weight and such. Props can give you a new sense of how you relate to others.

16:36 – Ian loves being on stage and getting the feeling of having connected with the audience. He’s also started enjoying rehearsing a lot more.

18:58 – Ian addresses how he approached his roles in Star Wars and Game of Thrones.

19:46 – Ian loves acting and will keep doing it as long as he can.

20:57 – He was in a Ken Brannaugh production and he met Jack Lemmon. He had always been a big fan of Jack and loved working with him. It was the only time he did a fan thing and he asked Jack for a favor.

24:06 – He had to give up science while in school because the system required one to choose science or the arts. But he really liked science and misses having learned it.

25:11 – He’s more of a fan of gritty dramas rather than sci-fi or fantasy. However, as a child he would have liked to be able to fly and enjoy the freedom and sensation of flight.

27:34 – Ian believes that apart from entertaining people, actors can help people think outside the box and to broaden their minds.

29:44 – Ian has a twitter account @serianmc

Links of interest

https://twitter.com/SerIanMc

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Guests: Ian McElhinney

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: science fiction, fantasy, actor, barristan selmy, game of thrones, star wars, rogue one, General Dodonna, sci-fi, acting, props, Belfast, Ireland, Brandeis, Krypton, Superman, tv, film

Stargate actor – Peter Williams interview

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Peter Williams is a Jamaican-born Canadian actor best known to sci-fans as Apophis on Stargate SG-1. Peter has done a number of roles in movie and tv and we spoke at Shore Leave 2018 about acting and his interests and insrpirations.

0:48 – Peter talks about how he got into acting. He grew up in Jamaica and emigrated to Canada in 1981.

2:58 – Peter said he got into acting for superficial reasons. To work you have to be in the union and to get into the union you have to have worked. He talks about how he got into the business and he did a lot of comedy to start but he doesn’t consider himself a comedy guy.

4:19 – He was never typecast as Jamaican but he didn’t get the role in Cool Runnings because he wasn’t considered Jamaican enough.

5:22 – He had a degree in geography and archaeology and loved Egyptology so getting on Stargate was fun for him. The budget for the show was stout so it had a lot of quality production people. Most of the set impressed him.

7:00 – He loves studying the Roman Empire and especially the rise and fall of empires. He’s a language nerd too.

10:30 – He vaguely recalled wearing armor in a previous role. He loves costumes and would like to play a centurion or Roman would be fun.

11:28 – He liked Star Trek and Lost in Space. 2001, and he loves Back to the Future. He’s gotten more into sci-fi through thye fandom.

12:45 – He’s into biology, plants and their healing properties. He’s recently seen the rings of Saturn and the moons of Jupiter, and a ring nebula and was fascinated by them.

14:30 – He lives in a small town and people seem to want to hear his opinion as an actor. He’d also like to get into a social consciousness role if he had the chance.

15:23 – He’s on twitter @actualapophis.

Links of interest

https://twitter.com/actualapophis?lang=en

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Guests: Peter Williams

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: science fiction, Stargate, Ancient Rome, Egyptology, Jupiter, Saturn, acting, Cool Runnings, Jamaica, Canada, plant healing