SIMON, JESSICA, EDGAR, AND KEVIN
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
The Arclight in downtown Hollywood hosted a special screening of the BBC series SPACED to coincide with the long-overdue U.S. release of SPACED on DVD. As I mentioned previously I really wanted to go to this, but I wasn't sure if I would have a chance since I just found out the day before. I thought, "What the heck" though and took a chance. Originally Mike had shown some interest in wanting to go along, but decided after some debate that he needed to work on some Pedal stuff that he had put off. A couple of other friends mentioned wanting to go, but I never got a definite answer, so I decided to just go ahead and go by myself. It...was...AWESOME! Not only did I get there in time to beat some of the crowd, but I actually got to talk to Simon Pegg himself preceded by a high-five from both him and director Edgar Wright. I'll admit I got a little fan-boy giddy. To top it all off, after a series of odd events I actually ended up sitting in the freakin' front row with the panel seated in director's chairs a few feet out and let me tell you I was nowhere near one of the first ones to get in. How awesome is that?! Prior to the screening, Kevin Smith (who was moderating the panel) came out and introduced the co-creators and stars of the series Simon Pegg and Jessica (Stevenson) Hynes and director Edgar Wright. After a quick intro they screened a few episodes (with an amazing audience response, heck I've seen most of the episodes at least three or four times and I was still laughing out loud) and then the four came back up for a Q&A session. It was just a great 3 hours. Aside for my love of the series, my main reason for going down to the event was that unlike the celebrities I see all the time around here, Simon and Jessica reside in the U.K. and the odds of running into them again are not very good. I believe Edgar's actually staying with Quentin Tarantino right now, so that's always a possibility. My only other shot will probably be when Simon, Edgar, and Nick Frost (and possibly Jessica, you never know) do there U.S. tour to promote the third installment of their "Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy", The World's End. I'm sure I'm just going to start to babble on now still riding on that wave of exhilaration from the evenings events, so I'm just going to end it here. My only regret is that because I was so sure that it was a long shot that I would even get to attend, I hadn't charged my camera battery up and it died prematurely -NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! [A quick side note -It was also Simon Pegg's anniversary tonight and his better half accompanied him to the event. Poor girl.]
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