Longer walk than we thought to the stage. A little bit, little bit, little bit. Yes, yeah that’s right, that’s right.

We have woken up this great morning to come pay homage to all the greatness of you. We are so excited, we’re so happy to be here, we’re so happy sharing this with the auto show. Thank you guys for sharing the space with us.

Actually we have the SPAC from the show back there, but it’s cloaked so you can’t see it right now. They can’t figure out the uncloaking, it’s a weird… but we don’t, we don’t know.

Yeah, Tesla made it so fire. So how has the weekend started off for you all? Um, have you had a good time at the show so far? [Music]

W-B, come on we got to do better than that, yeah. You had a good time Alan?

Yes, yes, been great. I met—there was, I had a first today. Um, a fan of—hey hey—the chicken from… did the chicken dance from weddings, you’ve known this? There was this in it, and there was some of this in it. I got, got that. Good job, good.

That was the first time I thought, “Our show.” Not this show, that’s why I said this.

Amazing, I was like that’s weird, that you, you look weird. Weird. J Sarah loves K, so I was like what’s happening. No.

I’ve already gotten a painting, I’ve already received two paintings and a drawing. You guys are the most creative con, cuz we just got—aw that’s what I’m talking—really impressive. Vancouver, love it, I love it.

Now, obviously with this show having such a strong fan base in comics, because it started off as a comic series, were you a fan of the comic series before you got—

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I was not, because I was not in the comics. Darcy was not in the comics, so I hate that.

I mean well, there’s some precedents though. I mean like Daryl Dixon’s not in The Walking Dead and he’s a very popular character. So Darcy, yeah.

Yeah, see Darcy and Daryl sitting in a tree. I can already see a spinoff for us three. Let’s do it.

I was with it, I was with you, I was with you.

Aren’t you a conglomerate of some—like a couple of characters in the series mixed together? Like there’s a waitress in the diner, so you’re the bartender.

They don’t want to hear about this.

Yes they want all the things, want all the things, don’t you?

Okay, Che, what did you—did you ever read the comic books?

No, I have never read the comic books. And since we did the show I have read them. They’re very different.

Something that I really like about the show is it has a lot of humor in it, a lot of comedy. And it is an hour-long show but it’s, I guess it’s a dramedy. But really, a lot of comedy in the dramedy.

The comic doesn’t. Although being called a comic, it doesn’t have the humor. It’s a lot like a—almost like a procedural TV show. It’s Noir. That’s true, it’s kind of Noir. The sci-fi Noir genre, which I love about it.

But I’m glad our show is funny, because if it was again based on the comics completely, I wouldn’t be in it.

I mean no, no. There would have to be space for you. Maybe not as Darcy, but something just as brand, because we couldn’t have it.

I’d like them to… out of respect. You know what, Paul is on the phone right now. We’ll have him rewrite the whole thing right now.

Thank you, thanks.

And if they could put in a little bit from the doctor, the alien, a little—just a few more son of a [__]. One or two.

This is some [__]. None of that in the comic. None of that.

They do have a couple of—Chris Sheridan, who’s our showrunner, he did reanimate some of the pictures from the comic book. Like the very first boat scene, right where you’re like fishing. That’s in the comic, holding the shotgun.

I was like that’s got to be in our show, come on.

Yeah, going to New York City. Yes, yes. That’s a whole graphic novel.

Yep. Anyway, absolutely fantastic.

I love how geeky you are, that makes me so happy. I have a Star Trek podcast.

Shout it up, come on, plug it. City fans, all right, here we go.

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That does kind of set up a question though. Okay, so if the Grays were to join the Federation, would they be on the right side of things, or would they kind of start off with like the Kons? Would they be an issue?

They would never make the Federation. Ever.

Oh they—I mean the Federation is so finicky. You do one thing slightly wrong, the Federation is pretty… they’re a little bit cancel culture. It’s a little bit like any hint of evil.

And the Grays are just like, “Yeah, we just—we like to disappear people.”

Is that not what the Federation does?

Yeah, definitely not. So it’d be a tough road to hoe.

I got you, I got you. No, that’s fair.

I think in our personal lives we all have people that we assume could be aliens or maybe have suffered an abduction of sorts. Is there somebody in mind that you are thinking of right now that you would love to give a personal shout out? That they could be an alien? That they could abduct? Could be an alien or have been an abductee?

Alec is an alien. Yeah, he is incredibly talented. Indeed, he’s funny, he cries, he does it all. He’s a clown, he’s a good guy, and he’s on our show. And he makes it [__] fabulous.

So I don’t know. I don’t think that’s human. I think that’s very alien, from another planet type of [__].

Yeah, yeah.

I am—I—this is such a weird time to come out like this, but it’s time to come out. I’m an alien.

We do it, we do it. I’m always on spaceships, I’m always doing sci-fi, there’s a reason I feel comfortable there.

Nailed it. It’s part of the relations team, to make us more palatable to alien tissues. I like it, I like it.

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Out of curiosity, based on your own personal love of drinking, if you were at the 59, what drink of choice?

Yes, my—like the actor’s person, the character’s person.

Al’s drink of choice? I don’t drink. The Shirley Temple still works.

Oh yeah, mocktails. There we go. Love a mocktail.

I’m really boring, you guys. Boring. Sorry. Oh, I’m boring. F.Y.I. In my life, not here. Happy here, this is the highlight.

What about you guys?

I do drink, and I like an espresso martini. I like an upper and a down.

Same time, same time.

I like it, I like it.

Always been a fan of beer. I am from Texas, all right, all right. Originally, and beer was always just—there’s such a fondness there. It’s a meal. It can feel like cereal, but it’s grown-up cereal, you know what I mean?

Grown-up cereal. That’s right.

I seriously like that. Tex-Mex. Hell yeah. Hell yeah, man. I’m not a complicated man.

It’s like raisin bran is what you’re saying.

That’s what beer makes me do, that’s what I’m saying.

Like raisins in your beard.

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Now you guys have filmed some of this show here in BC. Are you currently filming in a nearby area that we should all avoid?

Yeah, we’re filming right now. We are filming. All part of the show. You all are part of the show. Hope you signed the release.

We’re about to go to some mines. I met someone who works in the mines—not the actual, I mean, they’re—it’s like a heritage site, you know. Come check out what it was like to be a miner. We’re going to be in there.

Am I giving away things?

Yeah you might be, you might. We’re kind of halfway through.

There may be some scenes in season 4 that involve a… mmm.

Woo.

We film all around BC. We film up north in Whistler for our glacier scenes. We film in Ladysmith for our outdoor, like all the town scenes. The exteriors are fabricated on set, but they also have an exterior version in Ladysmith, as well as in Nanat Bay. And Nanat Bay has the exterior of the cabin.

There. I don’t think it’s permanently up, is it?

It is. A roof on it, just two sides, half of a roof. Yeah, I opened the doors, there’s the lake.

We blew the roof off the place. Sure did. And we haven’t been able to find it since. Gone.

Sure it is.

I love it, I love it.

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Are there any traditions that you guys have for the wrap parties that you’ve had so far? Is there anything that you absolutely have to do to celebrate a great season?

Blooper reel. Love a good blooper reel.

Who has the best blooper though?

I have a special blooper, I don’t know that it was the best. It was a tap on the blooper that I just did at the end of the scene. I was like, “I want to do this also as an option, let me do this thing.”

And they put it on the blooper reel. And Chris Sheridan, who is the showrunner and writes the show, he hadn’t seen that tape. He was like, “I didn’t know you did that.” And then he put it in the episode.

So if you remember last season, season 3 on Netflix right now, there’s a thing where I’m sitting eating and I say, “Comedy is all in the…” oh God, it’s so good. And I do this thing where I’m pulling an imaginary piece of hair out of my mouth and doing that stupid bit. And he just put the whole thing in there, because it was on the blooper reel, and it ended up in the show.

So that’s cool. I love it.

We’ve actually only had one wrap party in four seasons.

We’ll have another one though. We’re going to have another one. But COVID—nobody wants to talk about it, fair. But in the middle of season 1 we got stopped two weeks before filming for COVID. So then we were like, all right, we’ll see if this is ever going to end.

All of season 2 was filmed during COVID, so our wrap party was like a Zoom room. Like, hi everybody, bring your own little drink, beer with raisins in it.

But we have a blooper reel that we’ve been doing every year. There’s a blooper reel that comes out. And last year, I hope this becomes a tradition, last year at the wrap party Chris Sheridan had the blooper reel all ready to go. He tested it ahead of time in the venue.

Of course, everyone’s gathered around, the entire crew, their families, cast, hundreds of people gathered around. And he’s playing the blooper reel and the sound won’t work.

And so Chris is just having a complete meltdown, like hives and everything. And it was like, this is the show. This is the essence of the show—Chris having a meltdown.

He was having a blooper trying to show the blooper. And we all sat around like, “Yay.” And he’s like, “Goddammit.”

It was like, oh yeah, this is the vibe of our show captured perfectly.

I love it. Fantastic.

Life imitates art imitates life. It keeps going. I love that.

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We do have some folks that want to ask you guys some questions. But you guys do things very differently when it comes to talking with your fans here.

You don’t just get them to ask a question—you give something back. Can we atone for what we’re doing?

We have a couple of gifts up here, but we’ll see. I don’t know, I don’t know how we’re going to do it.

Okay, you might get a gift, you might get a gift if you ask a question. So you got to ask a good one.

We’ll start on this side, we’ll work our way back and forth. We’ll start with you, my friend.

What’s your name?

Hi, my name is Greg.

Hey everybody.

Hey.

So I wanted to kick things off with a little bit of a hard-law question. You’re not too chicken?

Oh wow, love a threat to start.

In the production of Resident Alien, how many pies were harmed in the filming?

How many pies? I’m not legally liable here.

Well, first of all legally, what is your definition of harm for a pie?

Uh, they’re no longer with us.

Oh yeah, a lot. Are you counting—would you like us to count the ones that we actually ate while we were shooting, or the ones we ate at home that they gave us after we shot?

I got Alan’s pie every time.

Yeah, and you got your own pie.

I got my own pie. So you eat the pie, that’s on set.

They have back pies. They should go through those pies.

Oh my God, like I got to eat more pie.

You have to understand that these pies live their whole life waiting to get on camera. So although they do lose their life, they died doing what they love.

It’s for a greater purpose.

I’d say probably 50 pies a season.

Oh my.

My guess.

What do we have for the contestant?

Something.

Yeah, we signed… well since we’re talking sweets, we signed a chocolate.

You have to sign this one. Do you like chocolate?

I’ll take anything.

Oh, it’s blackberry. There you go buddy.

It’s got raisins in it.

Love it.

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Hey hey. Hello hi, I’m Brian Martin. My question is actually directed to Alan specifically.

Yes.

I first saw you in A Knight’s Tale back—

Let’s go! [Applause]

It’s kind of a silly question, but your character said he wanted to become a tavern owner, a bar owner, once he gets money.

My question is: do you think he became a D&D tavern keeper giving people side quests?

You know, I think about this so often. Let’s go, let’s go. About time it’s come out, been spoken.

There actually was a really cool thing at the end of the movie that we shot. He was going to do a tavern in the end. He bought a ship right at the end of the movie, when they win the tournament and they all get money.

We shot a scene where I turned to Roland, played by Mark Addy, and I say, “I bought a [].” He says, “What?” I said, “I bought a [].”

And there was a whole plan for a second movie called A Pirate’s Tale.

And the creator was like—so we’re rowing like this, it starts out where we’re all in shackles. Pirates took over our ship and put us down rowing. And Heath is there, and there’s a guy in front of Heath that’s all he has to look at all day long. He’s massive. His eyes are sewn shut, his tongue has been cut out, his ears sewn shut.

And he has this intricate tattoo on his back that we’re looking at. He’s like, “Wait a minute, aren’t those the islands that are just off the coast? Wait a minute…”

And then the guy gets whipped and parts of the map go missing.

Give it to me, give it to me.

I was the one.

And then we take the ship back over, and we got to find this treasure, we got to get—anyway.

My God, long story. Good times.

Where’s this movie? Where’s the movie?

Right.

But when you do D&D—

It was pitched to Netflix, and they said…

And then, I mean obviously Heath is gone, so the idea was that Heath had a daughter with Rosamund, right? And she’s now—we’ve got to go train her.

Anyway, there’s a whole lot of—“anyway” is what they said.

So well, Dungeon Masters, you have it. There it is. There it is.

So I have something to give away. Come on up, I’ve got a couple.

Okay, here’s something. Oh my God.

Oh, while they’re on their way up, ladies—how would your characters, this as Darcy, would they survive well in the Knight’s Tale world?

Oh, thrive. Thrive. I love it.

I mean I would definitely, I would be a W for sure.

I mean, dive bar, bar. It works, it works.

It’s simple, it transfers. The Venn diagram, it’s a circle.

I love it.

All right, so this is—when you go in and you record voiceovers, they have cue sheets obviously. And I did this thing called Creature Commandos.

Yes, it was on Max. And I did all the surfer suits.

I’m also Clayface, and I’m also—come on now—Dr. Foster.

That’s right. But I get all the guys who are like, “Oh no.”

So that is one where I’m just like, “No way.”

Anyway, love it.

Who am I—oh, I think I’m talking over here, but the person’s over here.

No, they were over there, but we’re on this side now.