Questions from Alan to the fans he brought on stage with him were seemingly random but very entertaining. The panel of his own design was a dash of improvisation and a bit of Salt Lake Comic Con magic. The format of the panel flowed naturally as Alan commanded the stage from beginning to end. This trading of questions would continue and Alan would then sign a different item from his bag of “stuff” and then send the happy contestant back to their seat. Tudyk’s whimsical – and often personal – questions in front of thousands of strangers, Alan would allow the fan to ask him a question back. He then rotated eager fans from the line to the chairs and asked them questions before they could ask him a question in return.
He had fans come up to the stage, taking turns sitting in one of three chairs he had set up to his right. I don’t know if you want to hear this, but a leaf on the wind… is deadĭuring the Q&A, the “I, Robot” star took a novel approach. He left the reason for the bag and its contents a mystery and started into the thick of his time with Salt Lake Comic Con attendees in the South Ballroom. He quickly noticed a young one in the crowd and apologized for the use of language but insisted that the bag was indeed a “bag of ”.
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He told the crowd that the bag was full of random things from around his home and that he always brought a “bag of ” with him to conventions. Tudyk did not need a moderator, only the bag he had brought with him on stage. “You know what I’ve realized? I don’t know if you want to hear this, but a leaf on the wind… is dead. The fans erupted in applause and as it quieted back down, a member of the audience shouted a popular quote from Alan’s character in Serenity, “You are a leaf on the wind!” Alan didn’t miss a step and replied: Tudyk turned to look at the back of the stage and that’s when he commented, “Wow, there are a lot of people in here. The roaring applause began to die down when Mr. He smiled, waved at the crowd, set down a large bag and then took a seat in a director’s chair. The enigmatic Tudyk walked onto the stage of the south ballroom at the Salt Palace Convention Center wearing a black button-up shirt over the top of a t-shirt with the word “nerd” emblazoned in red. With acting credits that span across the spectrum of stage, screen and video games, Alan Tudyk is perhaps best known for his role as the character Wash in Firefly and Serenity. This article originally appeared on the Salt Lake Comic Con Blog. I was so happy, and I told Ken that next Saturday, and he goes, ‘Juilliard? (Sucks his teeth) Sounds like a lot of work.Salt Lake Comic Con: Alan Tudyk Panel Recap “About three weeks later, I got the call that I was accepted into the drama program at Juilliard. If you’re Ken, you flash forward 25 years and you’re still in that bar? That would be his dream come true! Because Ken was performing! I was just serving drinks. The nightmare is that you flash forward 25 years and I’m still behind that bar.
I’m very sensitive and dramatic in that way and here was my future spelled out in a badly sung lounge song. It was like that moment when Scrooge sees his tombstone in ‘A Christmas Carol,’ it felt that serious. “But no, I was the clichéd bartender who dreamed of being an actor. I wanted to be Davy who was still in the navy! I wanted to be Paul, the real estate novelist! Anything else! I needed something I could be active in (sings) so I could get outta this place (laughs). I started making plans to get to New York without Juilliard. “For as much as I was drinking that night, I was more sober than I had been in a while. I was in charge of closing the bar, so I closed the bar and pulled down a bottle of Glenfiddich and just sat there drinking and thinking.” “So I eked through the rest of that evening, making Old Fashioneds and pouring rye - it was always rye there, not bourbon. Something has led you to this terrible place and you need to take stock of your situation and you need to remedy those mistakes and fix it, because you are in a dangerous, desperate, sad place. “This slow motion thing has happened since and it feels like my body is telling me: You’ve made a horrible decision, you’ve taken a wrong turn.
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