Notes on The X-Files PhileFest panel with from last September with the Lone Gunmen: Dean Haglund (Langly), Tom Braidwood (Frohike), Bruce Harwood (Buyers):
- Plenty of laughs as Dean nearly-monopolizes the stage.
- Dean came up with his TXF improv show when Fox asked him to fill 45 minutes of Q&A at TXF Expo; he didn’t watch the show and he came up with the improv to avoid questions!
- Dean auditioned with Gary Jones as Buyers (of Stargate SG-1 fame).
- The director of EBE Billy (William) Graham and Tom knew each other from before, Graham knew Tom was an actor and suggested him: “we need somebody slimy, somebody like Braidwood”!
- Bruce: TXF was a pre-millennium show, very 90s; 9/11 changed that, it was a new world, the Lone Gunmen would not have been at the Capitol riots.
- Personal fandoms: Dean a fan of artist Roger Dean; Bruce of Dr Who, The Prisoner; Tom has an autograph of 1950s Canada Prime Minister John Diefenbaker.
- Memories of shooting in the cold, waiting for shooting to begin, having coffee breaks, gathered around hot soup.
- Story of how a production assistant was sent to do photocopies of a prop ransom note, he forgot them in a telephone booth, the police was called!
- Tom read the ‘Musings of a CSM’ script; the editor told Dean she has that shot of Frohike getting killed by the CSM.
- Tom took everyday photos from behind the scenes, has a shoebox with like 46,000 photos; they are physical photos, he has to start scanning them [do it!!!].
- A young man who was doing software and screen displays had a server that was running from offshore the UK, outside any national jurisdiction, so he didn’t pay taxes; he was in the Pilot of TLG, and TXF s11.
- Bruce: learning tango was hard.
- Shooting with monkeys: don’t look it in the eye, monkeys ate keys off laptops, they were bored of mutiple takes very fast.
