Fumbling as I was and
praying the voice recorder would play ball then realised this was behaving as
badly as it did when I was interviewing Dillon Casey I was so glad that Eve has
the patience of a saint. I set the recorder down beside her and prayed for the
best. Thankfully the counter was working.
The first question came
from Natalie Vanstone, who had met Eve previously and had had such a blast with
her. Natalie had asked two questions, the first of which fell flat, for a
question that would wind up on a page and not on an audio interview but still
fun to ask and listen over on the recorder later. I handed Eve the written
words, and she replied. “Arse biscuits!” Natalie also asked if she’d like a
pint of wine.
Eve: I actually haven’t’ been drinking in 8
months, I’m on a bit of a health kick but thank you very much!
Katya
Armbruster said she
looked forward to seeing Eve at MD Con next year.
Eve smiled and said “OH yes that is going
to be fantastic!”
John
Bond-Winstone wanted to
know what the funniest moment Eve had had at a convention.
Eve: I think it was John Barrowman making
me do Pamela Plastic hip in Canada and then us making Gareth David Lloyd do
Asparagus Man. Hysterical! Or Ian Gelder
doing an orgasm that lasted nearly 15 minutes, yeah because we all know they
don’t last 15 minutes. She laughs.
Emma
Tennant Jemison wanted
to know if Eve would ever consider working on Doctor Who again?
Eve: Yes yes of course
Clare
Witch Project asked: When
you were emotional in Torchwood you broke many hearts, what did you think of
when you did these scenes?
Eve: Oh that is very complimentary, thank
you very much. Because when you get
given scenes hopefully people will believe in them and unfortunately people’s
hearts got broken because they believed in it.
Amy
Atkinson asked what
Eve’s favourite Gwen outfit was
Eve: I think it’s the classic black with
red top, black tight jeans, yeah. Kind
of classic look!
Mickie asked what do you think is Gwen’s
defining episode?
Eve: I would say the last episode in the
series of Miracle Day when she has to shoot Jack, to save the world.
More signing, including
signing someone’s sling. Molly has come over with her recording and Eve is
having a right laugh at it. Watching her actions prior to this filming was
amusing from where I stood earlier!
Eve apologised several
times to me during the breaks in the interview as more people requested an
autograph but I didn’t mind one bit.
Would
you consider a role as a zombie, as Gareth is playing Jacob Fitts in I am
Alone?
Eve hadn’t heard of the
new film, so after giving a brief description of Gareth as a zombie, judging by
his make-up, Eve replied, “I’m the biggest kind of horror fan of the world so I
would do anything that was to do with a horror. “
I’m in a film at the
moment called ‘Bad Blood’ and made up as a zombie.
Eve: I love it, I’ve just worked with a
director, who is a huge director in horror and a writer in horror as well and
we’re discussing a film together.
Oh, cool that will be
brilliant!
Eve: Hence why Countrycide is my favourite
episode.
If
you were allowed to take 3 physical things from the set of Torchwood what would
they be?
Eve: My thingymajig, you know the
thingymajig that was in Children of Earth?
It looked like the Doctor’s pen but we don’t know whether it was or
not. And Owen’s sex perfume and the
glove.
You’re
back acting again with Anthony Head; can you tell us anything about your role?
Eve: I play a character called Lauren Gray
who is a very upper middle class English girl whose travelled the world several
times and finds love in an airport with Anthony Head. He is 59 in it and she’s 33 and of course the
prejudices around the family and friends think that this isn’t going to work
and it’s ‘who is this guy?’ and it’s a ‘creepy kind of thing to do’ but they
are the normal people who are desperately in love with each other and it’s the
people and the family around them who are the nightmares. It’s a comedy on UKGold and I think it’s
airing October but I’m not sure, there’s an air date very soon. It’s very funny. It’s Gold’s first original comedy.
Were
there outtakes when you were doing it?
Eve: I’m sure there’s a ton. This is the
thing with comedy you can’t really mess about too much in it, because it’s the
timing, comedy is the hardest thing you can do.
It’s so difficult. Give me a
Greek tragedy any day, it’s so difficult so technical, structured it’s really
difficult.
Who
directs that?
Eve: Simon Hind. Scottish director
actually, wonderful guy, he’s completely brought me out of my shell confidence
wise with comedy. It’s going to be a
really fun show. It’s going to be 6 x 40
minutes
We
loved Frankie and were gutted that it never made a 2nd series, and we signed
the petitions.
Eve: I know I can’t quite believe it, I
can’t get over the response, none of us can actually because it did better than
any of us predicted. We’re blown away by
the figures every week and the audience appreciation.
When
they altered the day it completely threw it.
Eve: It completely threw it. Football -
England versus someone, it don’t think it helped that they didn’t publicise
that we were back on at the same time on the following week. It was a difficult
thing to do, but every week it just got more viewers. People loved it, it was a huge disappointment
to everybody involved that we didn’t get it, because we were all raring to go.
Do
you think it helps having a good production crew, in order to give your best
performance and are there some you haven’t clicked with?
Eve: The thing is every production has a
small production team or a huge production team, all shapes and sizes, but what
you have to understand is that you’ve got to work with these people a lot
during the day and over an amount of time and the crew and cast that I’ve
worked with in every production has been amazing and I can’t speak enough about
them. To me it’s about the job and to make friends, it’s great!”
In
the gun room scene in Torchwood when Jack was teaching Gwen how to shoot, how
much of that was scripted?
Eve: When he teaches her to shoot? I would
think 95% of that was scripted, but some bits and bobs were adlibbed. I mean
not a lot, we have to be strict we’ve got to be really precise, there were
little bits we could get away with.
I thanked Eve for the
interview and she thanked me too, and we shook hands. It was ten minutes before the photo shoot, so
time to get ourselves over there before the queue began to grow.
