(This is a transcript of the audio interview featured in the last post. There were a few things I couldn’t catch, either, but I think I have covered all the most important stuff. Perhaps someone from Down Under can fill in any blanks. There were three interviewers, but I couldn’t tell the two guys apart by their voices, so I simply ID any male voice other than RA’s as “guy.”)
(guy) “And now one of the main characters is hanging out with us. Richard (mispronounces last name *sigh*) Ahm-i-tahge.”
(girl’s voice) “Welcome!”
(guy) “Richard, hello!”
Richard: “Oh, yeah, there we go. (problem with mike??) How are you?”
guy: ” Not bad. You’re looking so sharp.”
Richard: “Thank you very much. Well, it was about time. I was a bit rough as that old dwarf–”
(girl) “Sexy rough. All three of us were saying that–”
Richard: (laughs) “A bit rough and dirty.”
(girl) “Yessss.”
(guy) “We got told by a lady today, and I don’t know what part of the world she was from, but she said you were smouldering.
Is that a description that you would–”
Richard: “Well, you know what, I always imagined him as-as a kind of a dying flame that was about to be reignited, and you know you do see him running through forests–on fire, so–I don’t know.”
(girl) “Well, it’s good that you’re allowed to talk about it, ’cause we’re not!” (laughter in group)
(guy) “Yeah, we had to sign a form.” (next words I don’t understand) But that’s OK, because you’ve forgiven us!”
Richard: “You had to sign a form.”
Richard: “You’ll see it, you’ll see it, it is in the movie.”
(girl) “No, we have seen it–”
Richard: “But you’re not allowed to talk about it.”
(girl) “We can say to you that we love that part we aren’t allowed to talk about just yet. It’s just amazing.”
Richard: “Thank you so much.”
(girl) “So tell me, what’s it like being a sex symbol.”
Richard: (laughs) “I don’t know. You tell me!”
(guy) (yells) Owwwwwwwwwww. She just–she just clearly dished it out there!”
Richard: (being downright cheeky) “Clearly she is.”
(girl) But you are. We’ve met a lot, a lot of the fans, and they are just obsessed with you. Like when we went into the ?? in Tepapa? and they were saying, ‘Is he in there? Is Richard in there??'”And they were from all over the world–Finland, Australia, Hawaii–I mean, they’ve all come to see you.”
Richard: Well, you know what I think is because the character has these heroic ambitions. There’s that feeling of him but you know there’s a flaw in him and he’s gonna crack up in the second two movies–”
(girl) “That’s what makes him so much more . . .” (voice fades out)
Richard: “I guess so, and he’s gonna come back and redeem himself.” (thank yous and farewells after that. Richard says “see you soon” and I think of the Cbeebies)
the armitage effect 