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Leverage S3. With Audio Commentaries!
Sep. 27th, 2013 10:31 pmSo, I started watching S3 from the beginning, this time with audio commentaries. This is something I really adore about the Leverage DVDs - all episodes have an audio commentary, every one of them. And they're awesome! Because they actually discuss the episode, not just some completely unrelated crap!
Stuff that I learned...
* Christian Kane is a Cherokee! I remember reading somewhere, a long time ago, that he had American Indian - as he himself calls it - ancestry but I didn't know that he identified himself as a Cherokee. I read that he got to play an Indian only once and he made the most of it because he knew that, with his looks, he wouldn't get a role like that often/again.
* Aldis Hodge really plays a violin. It was really him playing the violin solo in The Scheherazade Job. The writers asked him back during S1 what he would like to do on the show, if he had a special wish. And he told them that he had been playing violin for 5 years and he would like to give it a go on the show - and they gave him one of the most difficult violin solos ever written! LOL!
* The victim in The Jailhouse Job? Aldis Hodge's older brother! The part was written for him specifically.
* I didn't know that Gina Bellman was from New Zealand! I thought she was English. New Zealand! Huh!
* I really loved what the writers said, that they were always on the set and that they always worked with the actors, asked their opinions, let them adlib stuff, whatever, that cooperation was their goal, not a dictate. That's so, so awesome. Especially compared to the attitude of writers on shows like SGA whose ego would fill the room to overflowing. I guess that's why the Leverage characters were so awesome and consistent, why they didn't do OOC stuff. Because the actors were allowed to keep track of them.
Stuff that I learned...
* Christian Kane is a Cherokee! I remember reading somewhere, a long time ago, that he had American Indian - as he himself calls it - ancestry but I didn't know that he identified himself as a Cherokee. I read that he got to play an Indian only once and he made the most of it because he knew that, with his looks, he wouldn't get a role like that often/again.
* Aldis Hodge really plays a violin. It was really him playing the violin solo in The Scheherazade Job. The writers asked him back during S1 what he would like to do on the show, if he had a special wish. And he told them that he had been playing violin for 5 years and he would like to give it a go on the show - and they gave him one of the most difficult violin solos ever written! LOL!
* The victim in The Jailhouse Job? Aldis Hodge's older brother! The part was written for him specifically.
* I didn't know that Gina Bellman was from New Zealand! I thought she was English. New Zealand! Huh!
* I really loved what the writers said, that they were always on the set and that they always worked with the actors, asked their opinions, let them adlib stuff, whatever, that cooperation was their goal, not a dictate. That's so, so awesome. Especially compared to the attitude of writers on shows like SGA whose ego would fill the room to overflowing. I guess that's why the Leverage characters were so awesome and consistent, why they didn't do OOC stuff. Because the actors were allowed to keep track of them.
