11/11/2022 0 Comments Supernatural season 10 bloopers![]() ![]() I heard this little girl’s voice going, “Mommy mommy, that’s Maggie Evans over there.” That was extraordinary. I think when I first realized how big the show was, I actually had a bit of holiday in West Africa and early in the morning, I was in a Land Rover watching a pride of lions feeding on a wildebeest when another Land Rover pulled up. Within a matter of weeks we had a crowd of youngsters out there. Scott: When Jonathan first came on the show playing Barnabas Collins, young kids started showing up after school outside the stage door. Some had named their cat or daughter Angelique! It’s all very flattering. Then people began to have conventions that we were getting invited to and this mob of people would come up to us and tell me what I meant to them when they were growing up. We just came to the realization slowly and then the show went off the air. Kids tended to think I was Angelique and that I was that evil and cruel. Parker: I think the first couple of times I was really aware was when I’d walk on the subway platform after work and the kids would just be getting out of school and they’d start screaming at the top of their lungs, running away from me as fast as they could. When They First Realized the Show Was a Cultural Phenomenon I actually see the character the appeal in how evil she was. I’ve stopped seeing her as a performance. The interesting thing is that the older I become the better Angelique gets. We never had any idea that people would start watching it again. We would look at each other and say we never had to do that again. Some of the acting, the purple clothes, the absurdity, unintended campiness of it all. Parker: We would watch the show that was airing that day and just cringe. ![]() On Revisiting the Show on DVD, Warts and All There were many many things that went wrong which went on the air. Everybody got a fly on their nose - that was sort of the initiation. ![]() So when you bumped into a styrofoam gravestone it fell over and the walls shook and the paintings fell off the wall. There were three rehearsals in the morning and then we did the show with absolutely no editing, no cutting, no stopping and starting over to fix the mistakes. Most of us had done theater, but none of us had ever done a soap operas before. Well, now with these DVDs, all of those painful mistakes and bloopers are there for everybody to see. He would say that nobody was watching but housewives and kids. We would beg Dan Curtis to do some editing, but of course that never happened. Obviously things went wrong - we would walk out the studio shellshocked because so many things had gone wrong. So when we started doing a lot of special effects, often we had very little time to actually rehearse the dialogue because we had to rehearse the special effects. There was never an opportunity to edit the show or redo it. We did the commercials and everything, all in that half hour. Scott: It was like summer stock because every day - we had 30 pages of dialogue to learn, but we came in in the morning at eight, and by three we were in front of the camera doing a live show. On the Challenges of Working on a Show Like This In honor of Burton’s take on the TV classic that opens wide this Friday, Indiewire caught up with two of the show’s stars - Parker and Kathryn Leigh Scott, best remembered for playing Barnabas’ lover Josette (embodied by Bella Heathcote in the film) - to discuss the show’s enduring legacy and their time spent on Burton’s set shooting their cameo appearances. “Dark Shadows” is also fondly remembered for its infamous bloopers (looming boom mics frequently made an appearance) thanks to the fast-paced environment which didn’t allow for second takes - or editing for that matter. The show’s best remembered for the character of Barnabas Collins (played by Jonathan Frid, who recently passed away, and by Johnny Depp in Burton’s film), a 200-year-old vampire fresh from the grave and hellbent on saving his family’s cannery in Collinsport, Maine from the vengeful hands of the beautiful witch Angelique (played by Lara Parker Eva Green in the film) who initially cursed him back in the 18th century. The complete DVD box set comes in a mock coffin, and runs a whopping 30,000 hours over 131 discs. ![]() For fans of the 1966-1971 ABC supernatural soap opera “ Dark Shadows” (and they are legion), a lot is riding on Tim Burton’s blockbuster film adapation to deliver the camp, romance and frights that made the show the hit that it was. The brainchild of producer Dan Curtis, “Dark Shadows” is legendary for pumping out a remarkable 1,225 episodes during its five-year run. ![]()
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