Wentworth Miller: A visit to Sydney, Australia.



It looks like someone else in the photo has become a little bit too fond of Went too.  He’s not keen on everyone peering at his mom’s picture of Went on her laptop. I’d better get on with this blog before he becomes too vicious and attacks you. [she laughs.]

If you had read my last blog about the UK I gave you a little hint that Went and me were on our way to the “Land of Oz!”.  Unfortunately for us, the wonderful wizard was no where to be found. [she sighs with disappointment.]

In Sydney, Went was very busy with interviews as usual.  Everyone wanted to know about this very fine gentleman of course and who could blame them.

Here’s a few interviews I found for you I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – DECEMBER 27: Actor Wentworth Miller and TV personality Sophie Falkiner attend a Harbour Cruise to celebrate Foxtel’s new television deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution, at the Park Hyatt on December 27, 2006 in Sydney, Australia. Miller is currently in town for a publicity tour to promote his latest series of Prison Break on Fox8. (Photo by Paul McConnell/Getty Images)

Wentworth Miller talks to Woman's Day about his family life, his recent Christmas down under, and how playing a jailbird on Prison Break has changed his opinion of criminals.

We hear you spent Christmas in Australia …
I have a younger sister, Leigh, who's down here in Melbourne for a year. Her boyfriend has a scholarship. As a result, the whole family came here for the holidays.

Did your Aussie co-star on Prison Break, Dominic Purcell, give you any tips?
Dominic is a surf fiend, so everything he says about Australia comes down to the surfing. That's useless to me because I grew up in Brooklyn [New York] and it wasn't part of our culture — and I'm terrified of sharks!

What do you do when you're away from the set in Texas?
I like to go to the movies; I like to hang out with my friends from the cast. We're really close-knit. We're lucky in that we don't have the drama or alleged drama that seems to go on in other TV shows. We tend not to go to bars or clubs en masse, because it's like having a blinking neon sign over your head.

Has playing an inmate changed your opinion of jail?
My appreciation of who the men and women are behind bars has changed significantly. People would like to believe there's a world of difference between us and them and that the line is thick and distinct and clear. But the truth is, it's not … you could wind up in prison, I could wind up in prison. I see signs driving down the highway in the States and you pass a construction zone and see a sign that says if you hit a construction worker on the highway, it's 10 years in prison. So if you sneeze the wrong time, suddenly, you're behind bars.

If you had to choose your last meal, what would it be and who would you share it with? It would have to be of course with my family — my two sisters, my mother, my father. They're the core of who I am and what I am. They're the backbone of my support system, which has been invaluable as my life has transformed in the past year and a half. As far as what we'd all be eating, my mum makes a great shepherd's pie. Our version is a layer of mashed potatoes, then meat in between, then green beans and like, a tomato sauce. Then I'd wash it down with a little mint chocolate-chip ice cream, the green kind.

Your lawyer father, Wentworth, and teacher mother, Roxann,  initially weren't supportive of you being an actor. Has that changed now you're famous?
All they knew is that I was off in California, I didn't have a job, I wasn't getting out of bed in the morning at a respectful hour and I didn't have a steady pay. So they were fearful on my behalf. We do talk about the show, usually in the context of me calling up Mom and telling her it's okay for her to watch tonight's episode because I won't be losing any more toes. She gets very upset about these things.

[It baffles me that in some articles Went's mom's name is referred to as Roxann when her actual name is Joy Marie [nee Palm.]

http://womansday.ninemsn.com.au/celebrity/celebrityheadlines/994669/wentworth-miller

Here’s another interview:

ONE OF Hollywood's hot young actors is escaping to Australia so he can throw a couple of shrimp on the barbie for Christmas lunch.

Wentworth Miller, the star of the hit new American TV series, Prison Break, will be spending the holiday season in Australia.

"My youngest sister is living down in Australia," Miller told AAP from the Dallas set of Prison Break.

"I thought I'd kill three birds with one stone and get down to Australia.

"I can spend some time with loved ones over the holidays, visit a place I've always wanted to visit and do a little press for the show."

Miller's sister, Leigh, is living in Melbourne for a year.

"My sister just came back from Uluru with tales of kangaroos and the beauty of the area and she has a number of other day trips planned," Miller said.

"She and her friends have been very good about organising road trips and helping me explore what Australia has to offer.

"Half of my fascination with Australia is it seems to have the largest concentration of deadly creatures in and out of the water."

Miller, 34, who was born in England but has lived most of his life in the US, has had to deal with plenty of slippery characters in Prison Break, which has become an international hit.

Miller plays an engineering wizard who attempts to break out of a Chicago prison with his brother, played by Australian actor Dominic Purcell, and a band of other crooks.

The series is aired in Australia on the Seven Network and Foxtel's FOX8.

Some of the show's biggest fans are inmates who watch Prison Break in jail.

"From what I've heard there are certain prisons where they are not allowed to watch the show because the prison is worried inmates may get the wrong idea," Miller said.

"But, in other prisons I hear inmates rearrange their work details so they can be in their cells to watch our show every week.

"I've also received a lot of requests for headshots from inmates which I understand will get them a pack of smokes or two on the black market."

The first season of the show was shot in and around Chicago, but the second season has moved to Dallas where the cast and crew have been battling nature.

Miller, while shooting in swamps and bushland, has become a victim of chiggers, a parasitic mite.

If Australians see Miller relaxing on a beach over Christmas, they should not be concerned if his legs look in bad shape.  Blame the chiggers.

"Chiggers are a bug that bites you and then burrows underneath your skin and stays there," Miller explained.

"There's no way of getting them out.

"You have to buy nail polish and cover the inflamed spot with a dab of the nail polish.

"That seals the pores of your skin, which denies the chiggers oxygen.

"They suffocate, die, eventually dissolve and disperse into your bloodstream.

"I have had about 20 of them up and down my legs.

"We were shooting out in the woods and I neglected to coat my ankles in sulphur which was the only thing that keeps them at bay.

"I went home looking like a pizza from the legs down."

Miller will likely have his legs covered when he attends a cocktail Sydney Harbour cruise on December 27 to celebrate Foxtel's new long term deal with the Hollywood studio that makes Prison Break, Rupert Murdoch's 20th Century Fox.

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/television/fox-nabs-wentworth-for-holidays/story-e6frfmyi-1111112722773

One of my very treasured interviews:

… and another short but sweet interview I found …

Actor Wentworth Miller has been spotted enjoying a holiday in Australia.

The star of hit show Prison Break and blockbuster movie Underworld, was seen enjoying a meal with friends in Sydney.

Miller was the star guest on a luxury cruise ship which took holidaymakers around Sydney Harbour.

During his visit, the actor took the time to stop and talk with fans, all of whom were impressed by their idol.

'He s so nice. I met him at Pancakes on the Rocks [a restaurant] in Sydney,' lucky fan Natalie told website justjared.com.

'At first I thought he might have just been a look alike but when I heard him speak I knew it was the real deal. We asked him what he was doing here and he mentioned that he was holidaying and that his sister currently lives in Melbourne.'

It is unclear how long Miller will remain in Australia for, but with his sister living in the country, the star is sure to return some time soon.

http://news.opodo.co.uk/NewsDetails/2006-12-27/Wentworth_Miller_in_Australia

 

Thank you for sharing Went's wonderful visit to Australia.

It’s a goodbye from the two of us or should I say the three of us until the next time.

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Wentworth Miller: A visit to see "Big Ben".

Yes you’ve guessed it!  Went and I have touched down in the U.K.  The time machine we’re travelling in sure moves slowly and we have finally reached the year 2006 on our travels….

While travelling I couldn’t find many pictures of Went in the UK unfortunately.  I could only find this one … taken with Jo Whiley when he did an interview with her on the BBC. 

Here’s the picture of the two of them together.

 and of course the amazing interview.

I came across this interview too that I enjoyed reading:

BBC UK’s Jo Whiley recently did a radio interview with Prison Break’s Wentworth Miller where he talks about filming the hit series and Mariah Carey music videos. He wore a "Blonde From Fargo" t-shirt to the radio studio in support of his Prison Break co-star Peter Stromare’s (mobster John Abruzzi) indie band. Wentworth Miller answered some interesting questions –

If you were locked up in a room for a month, it might be a prison room or something like that, who would you most like to share your time with if you were in a room?  A human beng would be annoying after awhile.  I’d probably choose a dog.  A pet.  I grew up with an English bull terrier.  One of the Spuds McKenzie dogs, so I’d probably get one of those and maybe my iPod.

Coming off of that, you’re allowed one book and one CD.  It’d have to be something classical.  Anything else would get old.  Maybe some Tschikovsky.  One book?  I’m a big fan of "Where the Red Fern Grows."  Something I’ve read every year since I was about five-years-old.  It’s by Wilson Rawls and it’s about a boy and his dogs, in keeping with the theme.

Who would be the poster on your wall?  There’s a great poster I’ve seen which is all of the movies that have won Oscars since they’ve founded the Oscars, which would actually give me 50-60 different posters to look at in one.

You’d obviously have a lot to think about your life. Who would you write a letter to to say you’re sorry?  Probably my grandfather because he passed away when I was only about 10 or 11.  And I can remember specifically since I wasn’t allowed to watch a lot of TV at home, when I’d go to visit my grandparents, I would seize the opportunity to sit on the couch all day and watch cartoons.  And I really wish I’d spent more time with him when I could have.

You have to have the same dinner every night, so what would it be? If you had to eat one thing all the time. Pizza.  Morning, noon and night. Day after day.  Pepperoni.  Sausage.  Extra Cheese. Maybe some green pepper if I’m feeling feisty.  No olives.  No anchovies.  Pineapple but only with ham.  Then we have to scratch the pepperoni and the sausage.

Who would you like to most visit you?  Who was it that broke out in Shawshank?  Maybe Tim Robbins.  [Laughs]

When you left the room, what would you like to do first?  I’d probably go for a walk in the park.  I think trees and grass are what I’d miss most. 

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2006/04/06/wentworth-millers-blonde-from-fargo/

Went also appeared on the Richard and Judy show:

And a blog wouldn’t be a blog without more interesting reading material so here’s another great interview for you.

The star of US drama Prison Break, Wentworth Miller, talks exclusively to Mail online about filming the show, his love of scrabble, the perils of dating and why David Beckham is a fan. What is it about Prison Break which has made it such a huge hit?

It's a little bit of something for everyone - action, adventure and romance. It's a story about a family and how far one man is willing to go to save a loved one. Plus I think the idea of prison is universally compelling. I don't think anyone would want to be in my character's shoes but they'd certainly like to go along for the ride.

Does it help that the show is shot inside a real prison?

Joliet State Pen was a functioning prison for over 150 years until 2002. It's the most important character on the show. It lends the show an integrity that we couldn't replicate on a sound stage. It helps to remind you of the reality of prison life.

How much research did you do into prison life before filming began?

There's only so much you can do. It's like the difference between researching a car accident and being in a car accident. I'll never know what it's like to really be an inmate. Working at a facility like Joliet does ground you. We do use the facility and all it has to offer. They planned my character's escape via the real lay-out of the prison.

Have you met any former inmates?

We have many former inmates on set, playing extras. They've all come back which struck me as odd at first until I realised there was a sort of closure going on. People were returning to a place that had caused them a great deal of pain and suffering to achieve something positive by putting together a TV show.

Did they have any frightening stories for you about prison life?

Apparently when the inmates got bored or restless or wanted to antagonise the officers they would dance in and out of the cell doors as they were being automatically shut. Those doors won't stop for anyone and they would close on an inmate from time to time. I did talk to a CO who said he would walk up and down the corridor after lockdown and see a severed finger here or there from someone who wasn't quick enough.

How does the tattoo get put on you?

It's four transfers that are pieced together like a puzzle. There's alcohol to remove the mositure from the skin so the tattoo adheres, then there's the transfer which you spray with water to peel it off then there's a layer of sealant. It's not painful, just a little uncomfortable because the transfer is tacky. Putting it on takes four hours and getting it off takes 45 minutes of scrubbing.

Apparently David Beckham is interested in copying your tattoo. Would you advise it?

I've heard he's getting my tattoo. Isn't that wild? It never occurs to me that celebrities or sports people or actors are watching my show. I only think of my friends and family tuning in. I think his idea to join up his tattoos will work quite nicely, but I don't envy him having it done. That's a lot of work and a lot of pain for a tattoo that size.

Do people treat you differently when you've got the tattoo on?

I've taken it home once or twice. I noticed that I got a better space in the line in Starbucks when I had my tattoo. People associate tattoos with a certain edge. Then I open my mouth and something completely different comes out.

What was it like working with Holly Vallance?

I understand she's something of a pop star here. All I know is that she was able to turn on this incredibly sexy eastern European accent which I found very impressive. Accents are not one of my strengths so I really admire that. She's a very pretty girl.

What's her role in the show?

She is legally my wife in the show. She's someone who I worked out a deal with to get her a green card and she's going to help me access certain things on the outside. She's working as a stripper. We have a couple of phone calls and two or three face to face scenes which take place in the conjugal area of the prison. This is network TV so there's only so much you'll be able to see.

Has your acting success been mirrored in your love life?

Not really. I've managed to squeeze in a few dates here and there, but I'm a workaholic and that's where all of my time and energy goes. Everything else gets to come second. I love the idea of a wife and kids down the line but not right now.

Have you read all the internet fan sites devoted to Wentworth Miller?

I did at first. If you're at a party and there are two people across the room talking about you, naturally you're curious as to what they are going to say, but there's chance that you might overhear something negative.

What negative things have you heard?

I've read unkind reviews of my performance on-line and really taken them to heart almost as if I was getting feedback from my acting coach. Then I reminded myself that this could be written by some eleven-year-old in his mum's basement who didn't get his juice box that morning and he's taking it out on me.

Have you received any interesting presents from your fans?

I've got a couple of scrabble sets. I'm a fan and I've mentioned that in several interviews and people have picked up on it. My highest score for one word has been somewhere in the seventies. They are travel sets so that I can use them on set which is very thoughtful. I've gotten a lot of fan mail from inmates. Apparently a signed headshot from a cast member on the show will get you a packet of smokes on the prison black market.

Do inmates approve of the show?

They do like it when they can watch it, but it's often banned inside prison. I don't think anyone would try to recreate what Michael's doing, I don't think realistically that they could. But still, they don't want to give anyone ideas.

It's a very physically demanding show - have there been any hair-raising moments?

No. We're a very safe set. We have a highly trained team of stuntmen and we rehearse action scenes endlessly. If anything seems too dangerous we have several stuntmen who are my height and my shape and they step in at the last minute. Don't get me wrong I walk away with my share of bruises and scrapes because it's such an action orientated show.

How do you feel when members of the public approach you in the street?

I feel in that moment that I'm a diplomat for the show. They usually have totally positive stuff to say. But there is some awkwardness because on the one hand they know your face as well as they know their neighbours' face, but they also realise when you are standing in front of them that you have nothing in common. We're not used to walking up to total strangers and launching into conversations. So in that awkward moment it's up to me to step into the breach, extend my hand and smooth things out.

What's been the proudest moment of your life so far?

Professionally speaking the proudest moment was when I booked the Human Stain. I knew it had Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris and Gary Sinise on board and the director Robert Benton was an academy award winner for Kramer vs Kramer. When I got a place at the table with this array of talent, that was a proud moment. Slightly scary too, but Robert Benton is the sort of director who made you feel that you're worth it whoever you are.

Have all those years you spent breaking into acting made you a better person now that you've hit the big time?

They certainly made me more grateful for the things I'm now able to achieve and the doors that will open up to me. I have had mental conversations with myself saying "Wouldn't this be better if I was 23 rather than 33".

But the fact is I probably wouldn't have booked the part in Prison Break if I'd been 23, I wouldn't have had the experience of those 33 years to put into the role.

I've learned endurance, patience and gratitude in those years. I've been an overnight success ten years in the making. I really have an appreciation for how lucky I am.

If Prison Break hadn't come along, would you still have been trying for parts in another ten years time?

It's a frightening question. Every actor thinks to themselves, what if I wake up and I'm 45 and I'm still waiting tables, still waiting for that part and it never comes. I think I'd probably still be at it because acting isn't something I can walk way from. I might be doing community theatre and waiting tables during the day. I'd still be at it in some way, shape or form.

What was the worst part-time job you've ever had to do?

I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people's plates. It teaches you a bit of humility and the importance of a good deodorant.

Do you still keep up with your friends from your time as a student at Princeton?

College was where I made the most profound and lasting friendships. There's no other time in life when you get to spend that kind of quality time with people. Those are the friends that I hope to have forever. I'm indebted to that time beause it exposed me to certain things that influenced my work as an actor.

What are your college pals doing now and what do they make of your job?

They're all lawyers and doctors raising children and leading more traditional lives than I am. They all want to hear how Sarah Michelle Gellar was to film with [in his appearance in Buffy the Vampire Slayer].

What's been the legacy of attending such a prestigious university as Princeton?

I'd been to places, seen things, developed a taste for music and art that inspires my work. You can base an entire character on one painting or one piece of music.

You were born in Chipping Norton in England. How does it feel to come back to your home country?

I've been back to Chipping Norton a number of times with my family before now. It's like a picture postcard. My parents are both American but they lived here for a couple of years. They returned to the States when I was about one so I don't have any real memories of it, but I do have my dual citizenship.

Did your father give you any tips on the English?

My father gave me a warning me before I came to London a few years back to shoot a mini-series. He said be careful of the English, they have this charming, manipulative rhetorical tool that they use to win conversations by ending sentences with a question. When I came over I went out for a drink with my co-stars David Thewlis and Anna Friel. I repeated my Dad's advice to them. Anna Friel said, "We don't do that.....do we?"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-384565/Prison-Break-star-talks-exclusively-Mail-online.html#ixzz1jXSJNkEk

And last but not least ….

Well as they say in the cartoons …

“We’re off to see the Wizard … the wonderful wizard of Oz!”

Cherio!

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Wentworth Miller: A trip to Cannes, France.

Well let’s continue on our adventure with Went and I would like to add it’s a question of “Where do I begin … to tell the story of how great a man ...Went is …?" [this sounds like the lyrics from the song “Love Story” [she laughs].

I couldn’t resist adding this song as the lyrics to it are so beautiful and I associate everything that's lovely with Went.

Um … getting back to business …

While filming the television series Prison Break, Went was also very busy doing promotional work for the series as I mentioned before.

He toured all over the world, well almost. [nudge, nudge, wink, wink].

Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution sent Went and the Prison Break crew to Cannes, France in 2006 to attend the largest international audiovisual content trade show, Mipcom.  

These awesome photos were taken at the Carlton Intercontinental Hotel Pier in Cannes, France and goodness me there are so many beautiful pictures that it was hard for me to choose which ones to place here.  I hope you like my choices.

I found this very humorous and down to earth interview with Went at the Cannes television festival:

 The new Brad? Not yet, Wentworth Miller tells Stephen Armstrong

The Sunday Times

Waiting to interview Wentworth Miller at the Cannes television festival, I notice something strange. The seafront outside the hotel is jammed with women. It takes me a while to work out what they are doing there. After all, Cannes is a trade fair. Actors are there to promote their programmes to the industry. The general public is not invited, and rarely shows up. So to see a swarm of semi-hysterical beach babes forcing their way past the door staff is almost unprecedented. Wentworth Miller clearly has an unusual appeal.

Since the American drama Prison Break broke onto the world’s screens in August 2005, Miller’s portrayal of the brooding lead, Michael Schofield, has catapulted him from off-the-shelf beefcake (playing the love interest in a Mariah Carey video, for example) to verge-of-superstardom, bona fide heart-throb. In series one, Scofield broke into prison to rescue his death-row brother, getting tortured, beaten and abused by most of the inmates for his pains. Miller’s “hottie du jour” status was helped by a plot that saw him tattoo the plans of the prison all over his body, and thus stand around shirtless for a large part of every episode. Even so, says Prison Break’s producer, Paul Scheuring, sex-symbol status is almost never conferred on unknown actors over the age of 28 — and Miller is 34.

"In Hollywood, there are only a few actors who could possibly be a leading man, and if they are really the guy, if they really have the chops, they’re already making movies,” he explains. “So when we were casting for a 30-year-old, there were all these journeymen actors — good-looking, quite clever, but had never really caught on. We saw thousands. Suddenly, Wentworth came in, and the room lit up. It was like, ‘Where has this guy been?’"

Miller now stands just about where Brad Pitt stood after Thelma & Louise: his next decision could put him right up in the firmament or leave him rotting as the hottest face on cable reruns. The imminent second series of Prison Break sees the gang of convicts on the run, in the style of The Fugitive, hunted by a remorseless FBI man. Given the fatality rate — a cast member is gunned down every couple of weeks — it’s hard to see the story stretching out over another four series. At some point soon, then, our boy will have to make that big script choice, and he’s fully aware of its importance. Indeed, it seems to trouble him so much so that during the series’ three-month hiatus, he opted to turn down every movie offer thrust at him and effectively vanish, driving across America from the Chicago set to LA. It proved a sobering experience.

“I thought I knew how powerful TV was, but I had no idea,” he explains. “In Chicago, I was used to people tagging us on the street, recognising us — I thought, well, we’re filming here, so of course they’re aware of us. But when you’re pulling into some gas station in the backwoods of Idaho and you find there are fans of the show everywhere you go... well, it was weird. I’ve lost my anonymity. There’s no more wandering into the next town and putting on a French accent just for show, for amusement.”

I tell him that I’ve never had to push through a foyer full of eager women to get to an interview with a television actor before, and his face briefly flickers, as if he’s grateful someone else thinks it’s crazy. “This is a new experience for me, the women over here.” He leans forward, as if it’s a secret. “I’m not sure if it’s confidence — they’re much more comfortable introducing themselves and making their needs known.”

It’s almost endearing how alarming he finds it. You’d expect an actor to crave such attention, but Miller’s private life is very private indeed. There are whole internet sites devoted to working out who he might be sleeping with. Isn’t he ever tempted to take advantage of his status with one of the sun-tanned lovelies queuing outside? He shrugs and spreads his hands out on his knees. “Right now, my work comes first,” he says, speaking slowly and thoughtfully. “I’m a workaholic, which is the sad truth of it. I did manage to go on a couple of dates over the past year, but I’m happiest when I’m on set, so I really need to get all of that out of my system before I can turn my attention to more personal matters. I try to lead a low-key life. And sometimes you just want to go to Chili’s and have a margarita and some chicken fajitas, and not have the experience wind up on a website somewhere. It’s a little bit strange, all that sex-symbol stuff. The fact is, I look the same as I’ve looked for the past 10 or 15 years. My eyes aren’t suddenly a more compelling shade of green. People go on about the ‘brooding look’ a lot, but usually I’m just squinting because my eyes are sensitive.”

Perhaps he’s so awkward with the trappings of fame because his background is about as far from Hollywood as it’s possible to get. Although he was brought up in Brooklyn, he was born in Chipping Norton, just outside Oxford. His father was a Rhodes Scholar, studying psychology amid the dreaming spires, and young Wentworth grew up surrounded by academics. It was expected that he would go to a good university, and he studied English at Princeton. Despite performing in an a cappella group, the Princeton Tigertones, he quashed his childhood acting ambitions while there.

“Princeton is very conservative, and all my friends were looking forward to Wall Street or law school or med school. If you said you were going into the arts, well, that was something you did as an extracurricular activity,” he explains. “I moved out to LA to work in film development. Just watching all our video footage got the juices flowing, so I decided to quit and give acting a try. All my father knew was that I had a lot of free time on my hands, and that’s never a good thing.” He smiles. “Let’s just say my parents had their concerns.”

It took him a long time to make it. “People have referred to me as an overnight success,” he smiles wryly, “but I’m an overnight success that has been 10 years in the making. A lot of times, being an actor in Hollywood feels like you’re pissing down a well. I’ve had 500 auditions, and I have 13 credits on my resume, so I’ve heard ‘no’ an awful lot.”

Now that he has that success, however, he actually seems worried. “It’s just in my nature not to be a part of the Hollywood scene,” he says. “It’s never held any kind of lasting satisfaction for me. I think it’s dangerous, because now there’s so much media attention — 24/7 on every cable channel, papers and online — there’s a real hunger for information, and people can get to feel as though they know you when they really don’t.”

His conversation is littered with this sense of danger, of being trapped by attention and celebrity. The project he feels most attracted to, for instance, is one he’s developing himself about Dracula. “There’s something identifiable in that character,” he says earnestly. “The Dracula story is really, in my interpretation, a story about someone schlepping through the ages trying to find love. Alone. Malformed. A social outcast. Dracula picks his bride to be, and there’s a part of us that wants them to get together. But then the blond, beefy hero comes in at the end and puts a stake through Dracula’s heart. I think it’s kind of tragic. Dracula is about wanting community, wanting to be understood, wanting some kind of connection, someone to accept you, fangs and all.”

Then our time is up, and I have to push my way through the foyer into the blinding light of a Cannes afternoon. Looking back, I see the smoked-glass door of the bar where Miller sits, waiting for the next journalist to step into his gloomy lair. The beach blondes stare at the same door, hoping he’ll come out and join them, but it’s as if the sunshine and the attention are fatal — that if he’s directly exposed to them, he’ll writhe and wither away until all we’re left with is his fangs.

http://www.mahoganycafe.com/wentworthmiller3.html

"Hey You!"

And of course I’ve left the very best for last.  Went’s wonderful interviews. Some of them however have a French translation over them and some may find it hard to hear him speak, but nevertheless it’s so nice to see Went in all videos.

"Oh-la-la....Went ma cherie!"

That sure was some trip down memory lane wasn’t it?

My bags are packed and I’m ready to continue my journey with Went. I've a feeling the next stop is going to be just as exciting and interesting as this was. Cheerio!

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