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 Le Coureur de bois en conversation avec Madamoiselle Madeline Stowe(sorta...)

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lane batot Posted - November 01 2011 : 09:47:52 AM
Pardon mon Franch(if you knew how I suffered through French language classes all through High School AND College, you'd understand why I revel in purposefully butchering this language!)...but continueing on with my(limited) series of brief encounters with the Stars and other VIP's in "Mohicans"--I DID ACTUALLY have a (very brief)conversation with the MESMERIZING Mz. Stowe one day. It was rather odd, I thought, and I always wondered if the main big stars had some kind of "contest" going as to who could approach/get away with conversing with the most local peasants--there was most definetely a mischievious twinkle in her eyes as she came up to me and initiated the conversation. And that woman has THE MOST EXPRESSIVE face on any human I've ever seen--and as an accomplished actress, she also has control of her expressions when working--why she hasn't become a MUCH BIGGER star than she is, I don't know--I would think Directors and Casting folks would form a constant queue behind her wherever she went, requesting her participation! I wonder about this "contest" theory, because I saw other stars doing the same throughout shooting--they would always be interrupted by some kind of AD or PA or some such critter, who seemed to make a concerted effort to purposefully interpose themselves between the Stars and us peon locals--most certainly part of their duties. But it seemed like the Stars like to purposefully irritate the production staff by continually interacting with the peasants--it was funny to watch! I could be totally misinterpreting this, of course. Just an impression I got.....They(the Stars) may also have been fascinated and entertained by us local fellers accents and mannerisms--I know when I was in London, England, briefly many years ago, I purposefully started conversations with folks just to hear them speak! I still have NO IDEA what that old Cockney lady was telling me at the bus stop we were both waiting at--but she shore sounded interstin"!...to be continued....
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lane batot Posted - November 09 2011 : 09:44:53 AM
....yeah, that's the impression I got, and actually ALL the upper eschelon stars seemed to be quite friendly and polite to folks, but the production staff seemed to go to great effort to keep us seperated! I can certainly understand WHY on a set with HUNDREDS of Xtras milling about, but I think they carried it a bit too far, and were far ruder than they needed to be. Anyway, because of this enforced segregation, I have very few stories about interactions with the main stars to share on this website! Though I can ramble on interminably about my other experiences as a peasant Xtra(as you poor people are finding out).....
richfed Posted - November 05 2011 : 12:04:38 PM
Madeleine is very easy to talk to.
lane batot Posted - November 01 2011 : 12:58:29 PM
....but back to Mz. Stowe...One day while we were filming the interminable surrender/evacuation of the fort scene, between the many, many cuts and consultations that went on as a matter of course on that production, I was sitting on a burned stump by the evacuation road about halfway between the fort and where that scene ended(to jump to another location later for the "Massacre Valley" shots), kinda in a dazed limbo from the heat, nursing the contraband canteen between my legs now and again when no Production people seemed to be looking. I was kinda off to myself a bit, the other Coureur De Bois and French Indians scattered about elsewhere, when I heard someone talking right by my head, and I looked up to stare RIGHT INTO Madeline Stowe's eyes! And they were twinkling with mischief! Did she find me amusing or something? I'm not sure, but I was so suprised I was speechless for a moment--I'm sure my mouth was hanging open, too. I hope I wasn't drooling. She and the others who were near her in the evacuation procession had stopped nearby between shots, and she had just seperated herself out and sauntered over and started talking to me! Maybe I was pitiful looking in the heat or something, and she was just trying to be friendly and encouraging--I don't know. Maybe she wanted to hear a local boy drawl. Maybe they were having a contest to annoy the P A's. Anyway, I FINALLY managed to blurt a few things, and somehow we started talking critters(virtually always the subject I will steer every conversation towards, given the chance), and she was saying how excited she was as she had recently aquired a new horse of her own, also how Johdi May had rescued a kitten from a local dumpster--I'm SURE I was plugging my wolf-dogs for the Indian Village scene somewhere during the conversation. One of the stunt guys joined us--I think he was a wrangler, because the talking focused on horses once he joined in. Yeah, I remember now, the Wrangler was also telling me that if my wolf-dogs were not Michael Mann's idea, to forget it! But then, alas, we were NOTICED by one of the annoying P'A's, who rushed over to screen Mz. Stowe from my unsavory self--he literally SQUEEZED between me and her, his back to me as if I did not exist, blocking me from DARING to cast my unworthy eyes upon her sacred self! She looked rather annoyed, but continued on in the conversation--I merely laughed at this INCREDIBLE RUDENESS, and went and sat back down on my burned stump. Another scene was started up soon afterward, and so ended my only brief encounter with Mz. Stowe. She was Royalty, I was but a Peasant, that is how things were on that set. There were people there to ensure the schisms were enforced. C'est la vie!
lane batot Posted - November 01 2011 : 10:03:04 AM
....and I'm sure that old Cockney lady found my foreign accent(yeah! I was the foreigner fer a change! It was kinda fun!) purty strange and interstin'. One fellow I conversed with in Hyde Park, a very sophisticated fellow with a classic Oxford type accent, seemed quite puzzled by my voice, and finally just had to ask, "Exactly WHERE are you from, actually; Australia?" I got that A LOT overseas--people knew it was some sort of English-descended accent, but couldn't quite place it, and for some reason, Australian was the most popular guess. Which flumoxes me, as I think the Aussies sound more British than anything! I think maybe I looked kind of "bushy" to most folks there. But I replied to this fellow's question, "Southern United States". "Oh well; THAT explains it!" he said both cheerfully if rather condescendingly! He could have said(as he may have well been thinking), "you backward provincial git!", and I would have eagerly returned "Yessir! Thank you very much sir!" He could have insulted me any way he wanted with that splendid British accent, and it would have been fine by me! I think that's REALLY why the Brits took over so much of the world previously--man you jest cain't argue with summbody that tawks so purty!....to be continued....

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