Re: [lost-world] David Orth/Will Snow transcript

[Michael Martinez]

At 01:07 PM 3/24/2001, you wrote:

>Michael Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >The chat is a long one, too long, I felt, for
> >posting the content to a mailing list.  I know how people don't like
> >to get big surprises in their mail boxes.  :)
>
>Well, there's always the issue of copyright infringement in
>posting copyrighted material on the mailing list.  :-)

Yes, but I don't think they're going to pick me out of the crowd.  That 
doesn't make it right, but I try to point people to original sources when I 
copy something.


>That said, I did notice *this* in the interview:
> >Question: How did you both react to the news that Summerlee
> >{Michael S.} would be leaving the show for an undetermined amount of
> >time?
> >
> >Snow: With a great deal of shock.
>
>For an undetermined amount of time!?  I thought he was
>simply fired.  Hmm...  Seems to me that the producers are
>hedging their bets in case they want to bring him back.

Michael was never fired.  Each season the actors' options have to be picked 
up.  Michael's option wasn't picked up last year.  He will be returning in 
episode 21 of this season in some sort of flashback sequence, but he was 
also contracted to provide some new dialogue (or at least some new looping, 
which is where the actor records the dialogue in a studio for later dubbing).

The non-renewal of his option has handled very poorly.  Michael put off 
looking for more work for several weeks before he found out that he wasn't 
going back, and then he found out through a third-party.


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