V – The Series

Sorry for not posting lately. Still busy with working on my sister’s new house. We moved all her stuff there the last couple of days so… I’ve been rather busy, just got home.

You can watch the new Sneak Peek for S01E03 – A Bright New Day at:

http://abc.go.com/shows/v/

Have fun!

V starts tomorrow, wednesday, November 3rd at 8/7 central!

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We’re back!

We (or I) haven’t been around for quite a while now.

I’ve been busy with work and my sister had a bad car accident, so I didn’t really have the time to post news.

To make sure such a disaster can’t happen again, I’ll from now on recruit other people to watch out for news as well!

Interested? Email to admin@v-the-series.com !

EW just posted their new edition of the Press Tour Diary – this time it’s about V and, as always, also includes some LOST.

WHO: Elizabeth Mitchell, Morris Chestnut, Joel Gretsch, Lourdes Benedicto, Morena Baccarin, Scott Wolf, and exec producers Scott Peters and Jeffrey Bell.
PREMISE: The rodent-eating lizards are back! Slick production. Great cast. Not scary enough. (Watch the trailer) The last session of press tour!

5:21 pm: Mitchell confirms for the umpteenth time that she will be returning to Lost. “I am going to be traveling to Hawaii for Lost more than once,” she says. “I can’t say whether Juliet is alive or dead, but as with all things on Lost, it will be tricky.”

5:31 pm: Wolf’s dimples remain a force of nature.

5:32 pm: Scoop! V will premiere on Tuesday, Nov. 3 at 8 pm/ET.

5:34 pm: Iconic scenes from the original V—like alien queen Diana devouring the hamster—will be replicated in some form. ”We would be morons if we didn’t find a way to pay homage [to the original],” says Bell. “But if we had her do exactly what was done in the original, been there done that.”

5:36 pm: Paging Jane Badler… E.P. Peters says some of the original V actors will definitely be making cameos on the reboot as a “tip of the hat” to old fans.

That’s a wrap, folks! Heading off to the ABC cocktail reception to get scoop for next week’s Ask Ausiello. I survived another press tour! Yay me!

Source: EW

So now we also FINALLY got the premiere date. It’s November 3rd!!

Elizabeth Mitchell talked to E!Online about V and her future on LOST.

When I read the pilot script, I absolutely called that the part of Erica Evans was written for you, despite the reports that you were just a guest star on the series.
They actually said that it kind of was, but they didn’t think I was going to be able to do it. I love the idea that it was so different from Juliet. We have someone who’s got a lot more hope, a lot more excitement.

For the fans who don’t know too much about the show yet, can you discuss your character Erica?
Erica is a federal agent doing counterterrorism. She deals with finding sleeper cells and basically eradicating them as much as possible. She’s smart and intelligent and all the things that you would want someone who is protecting our country to be. I must have a hero complex—I keep gravitating toward these roles. She has a son, and she’s in love with her son, and her son is in love with the Visitors. She has to deal with the fact that she has to save him for the most part. Her husband just left her, so she’s a brokenhearted counterterrorist detective.

When it comes down to it, what’s more important, protecting your son or protecting the world?
I think it’s going to come down to both being the same thing. I think her son is becoming a huge example of what is going wrong, of the fact that this is becoming insidious, that these people are like toxins seeping into our groundwater. They’re going to be everywhere. I think it’s a little bit terrifying. She’s actively trying to do something about it, and it’s like the smallest person you can imagine against an army of millions. I like those odds. I think they make for good drama.

Does she trust anyone? It seemed like she trusted her partner Dale Maddox [Alan Tudyk], but we find out that little secret about him. It seems like she’s very much on her own.
I think she’s got the priest [Joel Gretsch]. She at least knows that the priest is not an alien because they were both cut at the same time. [Note: In the pilot, both characters are literally sliced open behind their ears to make sure there's bone, not reptilian skin, underneath]. I can’t think of anyone else she can trust. There’s no one.

Would she fight to the death to save the human race?
She would fight to the death to save the human race. She will. What I like about it is that it’s so based in reality. It’s basically a “What if?” What if we were here? What if this were happening? What if these spaceships came down? What if these people were here? How would we feel? I mean, they’re promising to cure cancer; they’re promising to cure the things that have plagued our society for years. I, for one, would welcome someone coming in and curing the people that I love. I think it’s kind of fascinating.
Lost, Josh Holloway, Elizabeth Mitchell ABC/MARIO PEREZ

Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse did announce that Juliet would be returning this season on Lost. When are we going to see you?
Pretty immediately, and then I’m not sure after that, but I think that it will be satisfactory.

Based on the faux commercials they showed at Comic-Con, it seems that things have been reset. Is Juliet going to have a happy life now?
That would be so amazing. It really would, and I think we’ve all expressed a desire for that, but you know [Damon and Carlton], they’re devious. They’re devious little genius little guys, so my feeling is that I don’t know, but I’m willing to go along for the ride to find out. I would hope after everything that they put her through that she does have a happy life, but it doesn’t always work that way.

Does that mean a happy life with Sawyer?
She was pretty happy, huh? That was awesome.

Do you want to see her with Sawyer?
I don’t know. I didn’t at all, and now I’ve watched the episodes [from last season], and I’ve watched him, and he just captivated me. He was so happy, so in some ways I feel, like, “Good for him!” when she’s around.

Are you going to be in many episodes, or is V going to affect that possibility?
V doesn’t affect it all. Lost is done. They’re set in what they’re doing. The success or failure of V doesn’t in anyway influence Lost. They’ve had this last season planned for a really long time, so I think that it will be whatever it is. I’m not sure exactly what that is, but I know that it will be enough that they mention me.

Source: E!Online

Michael Ausiello from Entertainment Weekly interviewed some of the V cast members. Elizabeth Mitchell, Morena Baccarin, Morris Chestnut, Joel Gretsch and Scott Wolf chatting about V and also a little bit of LOST.

Enjoy!

Here we also got a video from ComicCon. A quite funny press conference with Elizabeth Mitchell talking about V and Lost.

Enjoy!

Here we got an interview with Elizabeth Mitchell. It covers some parts of V, though it’s focused on Lost.

There’s this thing about women named Juliet: They’re famous for meeting tragic ends. Elizabeth Mitchell’s character on Lost was no different — after finding unlikely love with Sawyer (Josh Holloway), she sacrificed herself to set off a crucial bomb — but luckily, Mitchell’s career has new life after that death. In addition to a mysterious number of additional episodes she’ll shoot for Lost’s final season, she’ll be seen later this year toplining ABC’s reboot of the alien miniseries V.At Comic-Con, I talked to the actress about Juliet’s journey, the tumultuous period after she learned of her Lost fate (then had it somewhat revoked), and the alien-hunting yet to come.

Congratulations on the smooth transition between Lost and V.
I know! Who would have thought?

How did it go down? When you were told you’d be coming to an end as a regular on Lost, were you immediately offered V by ABC?
Basically, the two things happened within days of each other, which I was very surprised by. And, of course, the decisions were left to people more powerful than me. [Laughs]

But surely you had some input.
Well, V was actually a very personal choice on my account. It was somewhat brought to me, but it was along the lines of, “Oh, and then there’s this.” But I’ve always loved the idea of playing a female protagonist on a sci-fi show. I just like it — that’s the kind of thing I watch. [Gesturing to her husband, seated nearby] Like, we’re huge Battlestar Galactica fans. I think sci-fi is sexy, I think it’s fun. I love watching procedural shows, but I’m not as fascinated by them — not really at all. Being in them and acting in them is not really my thing, so I realized that if I was gonna do [a TV show] again for a long time, I would want it to be fun and incredibly challenging for me, something I’d have to stretch to reach.

So what’s the stretch for you in V?
First of all, the thing that was really fun about Juliet is how still she was, and how she watched everybody. For three years now, I’ve been in her mindset, which is a really unique and bizarre and kind of wonderful place to be and I’ve loved every minute of it. The character I play now [on V] — which I’ll be doing at the same time as Juliet [in future Lost episodes], which is going to be really interesting — is incredibly intelligent but vulnerable at the same time. Her anger and her emotions are far more forthright than mine or even Juliet’s are. There’s an honesty to the way she does things that’s fascinating.

And I think the idea of my character having a son who’s sixteen is gonna be…I mean, I have a son who’s four, and already, I can’t believe the words that come out of my mouth. There’s a thing about motherhood that I have never had a chance to play, which is weird at 39, right? You would think that I’d have played so many mothers by now. [Her husband interrupts: “You don’t look 39.”] Ah, that’s nice. [“Getting there, though,” he adds, as she laughs.]

Are you happy that you have a role where you can wear different clothes, as opposed to Lost, where you’d wear the same thing for multiple episodes?
I think my mom is happiest about the makeup. She’s like, “You get to wear makeup, you can finally look pretty!”

That can be kind of jarring — it’s like when people from Survivor appear on the reunion show, and you’re like, “Why did you put on all that makeup?”
I always feel that way! What I always enjoyed about Lost is that we’re there with almost no makeup on our face, we’re emotionally naked, we’re sweating, we’re hot, and we’re generally pretty disgusting, and the camera catches it. There’s a certain beauty to seeing people the way they are.

Even before this last season of Lost, you talked about how you thought Juliet would probably have a tragic ending.
Yeah, I always figured that she would. I actually had thought that she would end up doing something terrible, but then as it went on, I kind of thought she would end up doing something incredibly noble, which is what she did by sacrificing herself. The character was insanely complex and insanely fun. As she started going more in one direction, I thought, “Well, obviously this is going to come to its natural conclusion.”

Do you mean she finally became happy, and that never lasts long in Lost?
Yeah! Happy and not as complex, do you know what I mean? She and Sawyer had found this kind of peace that I fought very hard against and Josh fought very hard against, and we were so wrong, which is really nice. When I watched it, I liked it, and I don’t usually like anything I do.

Why didn’t you think it would work?
Well, I had always liked Sawyer with Kate! I mean, not to be a fangirl — which I am — but I just really actually liked them together. I liked their chemistry, their passion. What I didn’t anticipate is how Josh would play it and how he made it so honest and so happy and so real. When I was watching him, I was like, “That’s why that relationship works.”

Were you worried about incurring the wrath of your fellow fangirls?
I mean, I came on the show incurring that. I immediately hooked up with Jack and they were like, “Uhhh, no!” [Laughs] So I wasn’t as worried about that — I think as an actor, if you’re worried too much about people liking you, then you don’t really get to play the character so much. It’s not that it’s not great when people do like you or love the character or any of those things — it’s the most amazing thing ever to have that — but if I went into it thinking something like that, I don’t think I could have done it.

This year, though, the fan approval for your character and her relationship with Sawyer seemed to shoot through the roof.
Yeah, it was surprising.

Do you think it’s partially because audiences started trusting Juliet? During your first two seasons, it never seemed like she laid all her cards on the table, but this year, she felt complete.
We finally felt like we kind of knew everything [about her]. Every time something would come up before, she always had a wealth of new information and you kind of got the feeling that she shared it when she needed to.

On a show like Lost, was it a nice thing to think, “Oh, I think I finally know everything important there is to know about my character?”
I think I didn’t, because I have this crazy active and oddly weird little mind that tries to find all the wiggle room in places, so I think that I was still going through all the ways that things could be more complicated than it was. And when it turned out to be very simple, I was very happy. I was happy watching it more than I was playing it.

It’s funny that you began your tenure on the show sharing scenes almost exclusively with Matthew Fox and Michael Emerson, and you finished by sharing them almost solely with Josh Holloway.
I was very, very sad — and I hope that it’s rectified — that I didn’t have a final scene with Michael Emerson. I thought that built to a crescendo that then just died. There was a reason for that, but as an actor, that was hard for me because I just loved him so much. The same thing happened with Jack and Juliet — they got to a certain point and then they disappeared. But I love the fact that [the writers] do their thing and kind of just write whatever they want. It’s great.

Obviously, when you started shooting V before the season finale of Lost aired, speculation began that Juliet would be killed off — so much so that you were being officially billed as a “special guest star” in V, even though ABC has now confirmed you play the lead. Were there machinations involved to try to keep all that secret?
There were some machinations, but the thing that’s so fantastic about Lost is that they tend to keep things mysterious. I mean, I literally don’t know what’s going to happen and no one else does, and that’s what’s fun about it. As an actor, they asked us to sign all this confidentiality stuff and I don’t think we ever did, so it really comes down to the moral question of, “Who are you loyal to?” And where I’m finally loyal to always is the work. It’s more fun for me when people don’t know what’s going to happen.

I mean, the thing about Lost is that you may say, “Well, Elizabeth’s on V now, so we’ll never see her on Lost again,” but that’s probably not the case. As it is, it’s a complete surprise, and anything that happens further on in the series is a complete surprise, and I wanted that to be the case. When Lost is over and V is over, then we’ll have to have a big chatfest and talk about everything and that’ll be great, but for now, I was very happy that no one was saying anything one way or the other. One thing happened with Lost, and then another thing happened with V, and then something [else] happened with Lost…

You mean, they came back to negotiate for additional episodes after you booked V?
It’s been a rollercoaster, yes.

So originally, you didn’t know you’d be coming back to Lost?
I didn’t know what was going to happen. They also said that they didn’t know either, at the time. It happened in three weeks, it was just crazy…When V came up and everything happened that happened, it was at the very, very end [of the season]. No warning, kinda. [Laughs]

When you do your additional episodes next year, you won’t be a regular anymore, which means that these scripts will sort of exist in a context-less vacuum for you. Are you afraid that you won’t have any idea where your scenes fit into Lost lore when you film them?
No, I trust those guys. I trust those guys to write beautifully. The way they write those characters and scenes and emotions, it’s very wise to trust in their words.

Source: MOVIELINE

So here’s the original Fall Preview of V from ABC.

You can discuss it in the comments or on the forums which should be up in a few hours!

PS: Characters and descriptions will be up soon.

Welcome to the blog!

Here we’re gonna release news about V to keep you up to date until the final web site is finished. We will of course use the same database so there’s not going to be any data loss!

Here are some promo photos. I know they have been released quite a while ago, but we were not really active by that time. Now we are and so here you got your promo pictures!

Source: watermarked in the pictures.