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10 Questions with Clare Grant
1) All of us at Yodasnews have been big fans since you and Rileah's short film, Saber, won two awards at the 2009 Star Wars Fan Films, including the coveted Audience Choice Award. Three long years later, we finally have a sequel in Saber 2: Return of the Body Wash, let's start with how you came up with the new concept? Rileah came up with the concept immediately
after we shot the first one, but we got so side tracked with Team Unicorn, that
we didn't have time to focus on anything else.
It was a two day shoot. One day for the exterior shots, and one 14 hour day for the interior shots.
3) Your husband Seth directed the sequel, did you have to cook his favorite meal and wear the Slave Leia costume around the house for a week to peel him away from his gazillion projects to work on this with you? Actually, when we he read Zeb Wells' version
of the script, he got really excited and presented a different take on the idea,
asking us if he could direct it. Working with the Nerdist Channel was an
obvious choice for us. We love Chris Hardwick and Peter Levin over there. Their
interests are the same as ours, and both Nerdist and Danger Maiden (My &
Rileah's production company) share the idea that we should all be one big happy
nerd community family.
5) In just a few short hours Saber 2 is already into the thousands of views and by time we publish this, it may be into the tens of thousands - knowing how much fans love these shorts, did you ever think of making them a web series? We are thrilled that Star Wars fans out there like our videos, we made them for the biggest Star Wars fans we know-ourselves. So yes, as long as people keep watching, we would absolutely like to create more Saber parody commercials. 6) Your followers and fans on Twitter and Facebook know you are big into Cosplay, assuming you will be at SDCC and hopefully Celebration VI this summer, do you have any new costumes you plan to debut? Team Unicorn plans on cosplaying this year
for sure. We have created our own super hero costumes and can't wait to unveil
them at SDCC.
Absolutely. We loved G33K & G4M3R Girls, and
already have another super nerdy song recorded and ready to go. Next step is
getting everything together to produce the video and share it with all of you.
8) What is your favorite Star Wars film? Ok. I would like to state for the record that
you asked which is my favorite Star Wars film, not the best Star Wars film. And
to that, my favorite is Return of the Jedi. However, I would never argue that
the best one is Empire Strikes Back, which is definitely Rileah's favorite Star
Wars movie.
Oh my gosh! That would be a dream come true. Obviously we
would LOVE to have merchandise, especially our own Saber Girls action figures,
but that is a hard accomplishment to manage.
Thanks for taking the time to chat with US!! I have two
independent movies coming out soon, The Insomniac, starring John Herd, Danny
Trejo, Eddy Salazar, directed by Monty Miranda. And a movie starring James
Preston about Jimmy on the road to becoming James Dean, called Joshua Tree 1951:
A Portrait of James Dean. And then there is this little show I just lent my
voice to called Star Wars: The Clone Wars, where I play a bounty hunter in
leagues with Boba Fett named Latts Razzi. She had a couple episodes this season,
and will be coming back next season.
Images via Clare Grant - You can follow Clare on Twitter at www.twitter.com/claregrant and Rileah Vanderbilt at http://twitter.com/#!/rileah
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