Personal Interactions with the Actors

[angiebelle]

Everyone has different Twitter habits. I’ve noticed Emilie doesn’t usually tweet to fans at all, but she is amazing at greeting everyone who comes to watch filming. Ginnifer is the other way around- doesn’t often pose for pics at the set but will sometimes stick around to reply on Twitter. I prefer not to judge. You never know what is going on in their lives, in their heads. I can only imagine what it must be like to be famous like that. Everything you do or don’t do is scrutinized.

[sarah_tn]

@Toothfairy wrote:

@SpinningGold wrote:

https://twitter.com/EmyyRivera/status/318413945981530112
THIS WASN’T ME!

But it made me laugh sooooo hard. It really shows the ehm… fangirl crazyness?(gotta put it mildly, right?) of some of the Hook fans out there.

Poor Colin, what must he think of us now? The one time he reaches out, and all his worst fears are confirmed. Part of me wants to tweet ‘Don’t worry, we are not all crazy, some of us can actually utter whole sentences in your presence…well probably”, but the other part thinks that might be misconstued and it’s best to leave the poor boy alone.

Don’t bow down to human beings. They’ll disappoint you every time. These actors are human beings just like everybody else, and are subject to the same moral codes as anybody else. Our society treats these people like they have to be tiptoed around, like they’re gods, or like they have their own special privalges preset due to some higher place in society. None of this is true. Like anybody else, they, myself, nobody is above reproach. To behave in any other way would be disingenuine. Colin O’Donoghue needs to be a bit more shall we say…..unselfish. I like Colin, don’t get me wrong, but….When Lana, the EvilRegal died last week. Don’t you think he could have retweeted condolences? There’s nothing that shows up on his page that isn’t somehow directly, or indirectly related to himself. It really shows a lot about who a person is, in how they relate with other people. He needs to answer his fans. Not all the time, but maybe every once in a while. Maybe something in his profile stating he can’t answer everybody. Maybe all he needs is structure. Anybody needs that, or these things can have a way of taking over our lives. Maybe his profile needs to state he can’t tweet everybody, but will answer 10 fans say, every other Friday from 4:00-4:45 CST. That would provide method to eliminate madness.

We’re not wearing his shoes so we can’t judge, so let’s be nice, but….

The scheduling idea is a great one! I’ll tweet the suggestion to him sometime today.

I know that for myself, I have to schedule everything I do. I am ADHD anyway (seriously), and so I have to use what I call “guard rails” to keep myself from being overwhelmed by too many moe hills that if piled on top of one another, can become really intimidating and oppressive mountains!

Twitter should be fun, not anything “obligated” or subject to because of what other people want. Adding some “guard rails” to the formula there may just help him enjoy it because otherwise, I don’t blame him at all if he doesn’t want to tweet much, and won’t blame him at all if he eventually decides to close his page. Like I said it should be fun, and how can it be if people are fussing at you for how you use it?

[spinninggold]

@Toothfairy wrote:

Don’t bow down to human beings. They’ll disappoint you every time. These actors are human beings just like everybody else, and are subject to the same moral codes as anybody else. Our society treats these people like they have to be tiptoed around, like they’re gods, or like they have their own special privalges preset due to some higher place in society. None of this is true. Like anybody else, they, myself, nobody is above reproach. To behave in any other way would be disingenuine.

I agree with you up til here. But I can’t agree with what you say next.

Colin O’Donoghue needs to be a bit more shall we say…..unselfish. I like Colin, don’t get me wrong, but….When Lana, the EvilRegal died last week. Don’t you think he could have retweeted condolences? There’s nothing that shows up on his page that isn’t somehow directly, or indirectly related to himself. It really shows a lot about who a person is, in how they relate with other people. He needs to answer his fans. Not all the time, but maybe every once in a while. Maybe something in his profile stating he can’t answer everybody. Maybe all he needs is structure. Anybody needs that, or these things can have a way of taking over our lives. Maybe his profile needs to state he can’t tweet everybody, but will answer 10 fans say, every other Friday from 4:00-4:45 CST. That would provide method to eliminate madness.

Colin is an actor, his only obligation is to act, nothing more. He has no obligation to his fans. Of course, being total jerk to them will lose him fans and jobs in the long , but that’s his choice. It’s not in the job description.
And let me be clear, he isn’t a jerk. He just isnt a twitterbug like some others are either, he’s more private. And we have to respect that or find yourself someone else to moon over. To be honest I couldn’t care less that he doesn’t tweet his every heave and sigh, I prefer an actor that has some sense of privacy and is a bit reserved. I respect that. I do not see how not RT a tweet about a girl he doesn’t know is disrespectful’, even if she’s a fan of the show and she died. I don’t see how not answering fan questions is disrespectful. To have a look at his life through twittter is already a privilege he does not have to give.
You know him, he does not know you, and to many fans forget that. They think that because they see him on tv, he owes them something, and it’s simply not true. Let him be, Let them all be, not just Colin. Really you could fill in any actor’s or actress’ name here. They are NOT our property. They can do as they please without any obligation to the fans. If they want to interact with us, fine, that’s a bonus. I have the utmost respect for Adam and the load of horrible tweets he gets poured out over him on a daily basis, and yet he still stays respectful. I could not do that, if it were meI would have locked up my account. I couldnt blame him if he would.
It’s a privilege if someone lets you be part of their life. It’s NOT an obligation. This counts for everyone. To give them privacy is not tiptoeing. It’s common decency. It’s respect.

[RumplesGirl]

This just happened to me. *___* First response from an actor on the show.

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[PriceofMagic]

Congratulations on getting a response RumplesGirl. 🙂

All magic comes with a price!

Keeper of Felix

[rini]

SpinningGold – a very astute, honest observation.

[angiebelle]

That’s awesome, RumplesGirl! It’s not just a one line response but an interaction with an invite to communicate again. 🙂

I definitely treat interactions with the actors as a bonus. I wish for a response, of course, but certainly don’t expect one. One reason I addressed my fanletter to the whole cast was to cast a wide net. If just one person acknowledges it, then I know at least that it was received and read, and that alone would be awesome.

[angiebelle]

I got two more! I tweeted Keegan Conner Tracy (Blue Fairy) that I loved that she wrote “professional pretender” in her profile, and she wrote that David Anders had already snagged “I lie for a living.” hehe

Then Lana Parilla had commented that Beverley Elliot has a great singing voice, so I chimed in that I had always wondered if any of them liked to sing as well since I love singing, and Beverley favorited my tweet. 🙂

[rini]

Can we start trending #lightenuponadam on twitter? I’m so incredibly tired of aggressive Oncers, and their terrible, accusatory tweets. I know nothing can actually be done, but still.

Everything I’ve seen in personal interactions on this thread makes me so happy! So genuine, and respectful. Very nice, forum Oncers! 🙂

[angiebelle]

I’m on a roll!

Jared Gilmore was tweeting the other day. I said to him “How excited are you that Henry is finally going to leave Storybrooke and go to an enchanted land?” and he answered that he was very excited and couldn’t wait to see what good things would happen to Henry…or something like that. (I do not know how to post tweets on here directly.)

Ginnifer answered one of my questions when she did an #AskGinny last week. I asked her to describe a typical day on the set, and she said “16 hours of challenges and joy.”

Then the other day, Beverley Elliot tweeted about doing an accent for an audition, and I chimed in that accents are fun and mentioned getting to work with a dialect coach for Brigadoon, and she favorited my tweet again.

And then most awesome of all, Michael Coleman (Happy) did a facebook text chat on one of the OuaT fan groups last week. There was a small enough group of us that we all got to ask questions and interact! He “liked” several things I said, and when I mentioned that I was taking screen acting classes, he said to keep going with it and join them soon!

Then today, he did a really great Skype interview that I watched. I complimented him on it and said that it was obvious why he was cast as Happy, and he tweeted this back to me:

Thank you, Angela. You are kind, sweet, and beautiful.

Wow…I am just blown away. What a nice guy!

That is 6 actors from the show who know I exist now. 🙂

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