» ENCOUNTERS Primetime Preview Weekend     |     12 September 2004     |     Kit “He looks good!” Bobbi said suddenly. I was on the mobile to her after the question and answer event at the ABC Primetime Weekend. “Who looks good?” I asked. She paused. Clearly I had lost my mind if I had to ask. "Dom,” she said patiently, using that tone we use with simple minded people. “ABC already has pictures up on their website.” It was time for me to get out of the hot sun. If I had to ask WHO looks good, it means my brains are fried. Because ladies, on this site, there is only one “he.” “He” of course and his fellow cast mates were part of ABC's Primetime Weekend at California Adventure. Thanks to lost-tv and ABC, we had a press pass and joined a smallish group of journalists from various magazines, tv shows and radio shows to do short interviews. ABC was supplying tapes, cameras, actual camera man guys to run the cameras – wow. Just like ET or something. I brought my video camera so we'd have SOMETHING to upload straight away, as it will be a day or two go get the beta tape transferred to some other format. (NOTE: That video will be hosted on lost-tv, but the Dom clips are here at starDom). The press area where we were was set aside for “Lost” and “Extreme Makeover”. The ”Extreme Makeover” people came out first and were duly photographed and taken to their part of the “sound stage” which had been set up for the interviews. Then the “Lost” cast came out – Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, Dominic, and Harold Perrineau. Dom was wearing his “sunnies” and the photographers asked if he'd take them off. He seemed reluctant at first – til he was advised that Matthew Fox had taken his off. So off they came, Dom pretending to be blinded by the sunlight. The four actors posed for the photographers and then were shown to their “sound stage”. The interviews were not one on one. It was more like one interviewer for two actors: Dom and Harold, and Mathew and Evangeline. What I thought would be 3 minutes each, was three minutes for two –hence 90 seconds each. It would be nice to have an actual sit down with him. As it is, I've been cursed (or blessed) with snippets of time in chaotic situations – the Ink Works booth at Comic Con, and the ABC thing. And just when things start to get interesting, the guy off to my right indicates that my 3 minutes are about up. I like to pose questions that indicate I've paid at least SOME attention to what's going on and who I am talking to. In Dominic's case there is so much territory one wants to cover. Here is a guy with diverse interests, an obvious intense curiousity about the world and a joie de vivre that can be infectious. He abandons living room furniture to the lizards. (I'd like to know what kind of lizards and do they have names) He's painted his mobile. He's a grown man who likes to write on his hands. He is just himself. We could all learn from his example and just be ourselves. You can see the video clips here at starDom . I'll say this though: Charlie writing on his hands was Dom's idea, bec ause he likes to do that, and bec ause he knew that people in the audience who knew him would cop on to that. He further said that the words Charlie wrote would change from episode to episode. He also gave us an indication of what starts Charlie's descent into his own personal hell. And I asked him what about Charlie – what negative bit about Charlie was most like Dom. The “bad bits” I called them. “Charlie is very sensitive to his environment,” Dominic told me. “He picks up on other people's moods and he's affected by them, and I kind of have the same thing. I kind of find myself being affected by other people's actions.” I wanted to know why this was a bad thing? I expect that in some of the situations in which he finds himself, it can be very intense, and occasionally more than a little unpleasant: press interviews, parties, autograph signings, a throng of people, and each of them with their expectations and their desires and their fantasies about him. Some are fans, some are co-workers, studio executives. One has a life and friends of one's own – and all this besides. How does an actor cope with all that? But time was up. I had to give up my spot to the next journalist. Maybe one of these days I'll find out the name of the couch potato lizard. What Dom is reading these days. And why being sensitive to the people around him is a bad thing. Maybe I'll have longer than three minutes. If not, well, at least I had my three minutes. After that, the cast went to another part of the park for fan photographs. I didn't see much of it as I was at the back of the crowd, but seeing how jazzed some of these girls were -- and watching Dom, especially with the young kids was just delightful. An undercurrent of noise followed Dom wherever he went: the ladies who thronged about him! And after THAT were some previews of some of the ABC shows including “Lost” and the Q&A. When it was all over, I was overheated, and tired and I hadn't had anything to eat all day. I called Bobbi to give her the highlights of the Q&A. That's when she told me, “He looks good.” Yes, he does. He most certainly does. [ main | fans | encounters ] CURRENT PROJECTS • I Sell The Dead (2008) Official Site Character: Arthur Blake • X-Men Origins: Wolverine (05/01/2009) Character: Barnell Bohusk/Beak • Pet (2009) Character: Seth GALLERY UPDATES        FEATURED MEDIA  Mad TV  Date: 26 April 2008  Credit: Lisa  Size: 160.0 mb  [ download ] HOT TOPICS Favourite Piece From Dom's Collection? 5 Questions for Dom Dear Dom... 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