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Благодаря интервью Джеймса, я, наконец, до конца осознала, что значит термин «омнисексуальный». Это значит, что от этих бравых парней не безопасен даже пудель!!!!!!!!!!!
А от их пикировки, кто из них был «женой», у меня истерика.

«...The two captains banter back and forth about who had been the “woman” during their five years spent trapped together in a time loop.
Captain Jack: It was like having a wife.
Captain John: You were the wife.
Captain Jack: No, you were the wife.
Captain John: Oh, but I was a good wife.»

Да.., Спайку и не снилось.

И два интервью Джеймса, в основном о Торчвуде, но не только.

James Marsters Previews His Sexy Torchwood Role
By ILEANE RUDOLPH
TV GUIDE
We'll always have Spike, but James Marsters' blond Buffy bloodsucker isn't the only sci-fi character the actor wants to sink his teeth into. Marsters was happy to share his upcoming otherworldly projects with TV Guide, including his flamboyant turn on the Season 2 premiere of Torchwood (Saturday, Jan. 26, at 9 pm/ET on BBC America). In this first of two parts, Marsters talked about his wild past, his romantic present and some future roles. In next week's Part 2, we'll discuss his return to Smallville.

TV Guide: In your guest role on Torchwood, you once again play a witty, randy scoundrel with a Brit accent. It's not a Buffy crossover, so who are you?

James Marsters: Captain John is a Time Agent — a thief who travels through time stealing the wealth of whole planets. His partner used to be Captain Jack [series star John Barrowman], who's now reformed. I show up in town wanting him to come back to his villainous ways and have fun with me.

TV Guide: Early on, Jack and John do something that Buffy's Spike and Angel never would have done, no?

Marsters: No, no, no. We kiss. My character is way beyond bisexual. Spike was a romantic; this guy would do anything that moved. I cast a lustful glance at a poodle!

TV Guide: Yikes.

Marsters: Hey, when Captain Kirk went to different planets, he slept with different species. They just all looked like hot pinups from Planet Penthouse. We're a little more realistic. [Laughs] On some planet, you might find yourself having a relationship with something that looks more like a fish!

TV Guide: OK, so how was the kiss with Barrowman?

Marsters: I had never kissed a man on film before, but luckily my girlfriend, Patricia, was there, and she said it was always a fantasy of hers that I would kiss another man. I probably can't give that to her in real life, so she came to the set. She thought it was really hot. I was turning my girlfriend on — it was all good.

TV Guide: Who is your girlfriend?

Marsters: I can tell you that she's Patricia and she's studying design and fashion in Germany now. She's very, very wonderful. We've been together three and a half years.

TV Guide: She's living in Germany — and you're not. How is long-distance romance?

Marsters: That sucks, especially because, as I say, she's wonderful and so being away from her is very hard. And at the same time, I'm so busy that if I had a girlfriend who thought I would be there for her seven days a week, I'd have a very frustrated girlfriend right now.

TV Guide: How did you wind up on a British sci-fi series?

Marsters: I was on a concert tour in the U.K. — I broke up my band, so it was just me and my guitar — and my tour manager, Lisa, got me to watch Dr. Who. I thought it was a really well-written show and would be fun to do. So my agent called Russell T. Davies, who wrote Queer as Folk and is responsible for Dr. Who. Russell said no, but he would love for me to come on Torchwood, the spin-off. It's a funny, subversive show like Buffy. I feel very much at home.

TV Guide: What was a favorite subversive moment on Buffy?

Marsters: What I'm most proud of is when we had a kid in a bell tower with a rifle right after Columbine, and especially the relationship between Willow and Tara. That was a big deal, and Joss [Whedon] got a lot of pressure to step off of that. To his credit, he didn't and gave a lot of gay women something to feel good about. That's one of the best things I've been part of.

TV Guide: So is the Spike spin-off absolutely dead now?

Marsters: I don't think it's absolutely dead. I told Joss that I didn't want to do the character as an old vampire, which would be really sucky. [Laughs] But I'm holding up better than I thought I would. With the right lighting, we might be able to get away with it.

TV Guide: What was it like on the Torchwood set? More high-brow than the usual Yank sets?

Marsters: [Laughs] To the uninitiated, it can be a bit of a shock. It's a sexually charged show, so there are a lot of sexual jokes and a lot of double entendres in the air, but none of it is serious. After the first four days, I was saying stuff that made John start to blush. I told him, "Dude, you shouldn't have unleashed it. I told you I was nastier than you."

TV Guide: You return later this season, but will you be back next season?

Marsters: I'd like to. The character is sexy and villainous. Why stop doing that? Plus, Wales is great. If anyone wants a great vacation and they don't mind seagulls, go to Wales.

TV Guide: Didn't you write some of your new album, Like a Waterfall, there?

Marsters: I finished three songs and worked on several others. That was a good time. Unfortunately, when I went back to shoot the last episode, I had a broken hand and I couldn't play guitar.

TV Guide: How did you break your hand?

Marsters: Um, it was up in Canada. And for reasons of professional courtesy, I think I'm not going to say any more than that.

TV Guide: Did you get into a fight with an actor on the set of Smallville?

Marsters: No, I haven't been in a fight in, like... 12 years. I'm a good boy now, don't be spreading that around.

TV Guide: When were you bad?

Marsters: When I got kicked out of college, I went pretty super-wild for a few years. The head of Juilliard said [in a British accent], "You should quit before you get bitter. You'll never make it. So get out now." I'm not bitter because I did just fine. But right after, it did hurt and it did lead toward a dark period — a very funny dark period.

TV Guide: You recently released Like a Waterfall on your website. How would you describe your music?

Marsters: I'd say it would be folk- and blues-driven with sprinkles of punk and pop and rock. There's also a taste of Joni Mitchell and jazz. We got the guitarist Ben Peeler from the Wallflowers to play. A lot of the songs were inspired by or directly about my girlfriend. I wanted to name the album after her, but I decided to be a little more discreet. She's got really nice hair that falls like a waterfall around her shoulders.

TV Guide: You were married previously. Do you have kids?

Marsters: I don't want to talk about this too much, but yes, I have a son and I take care of my niece. I'm so proud of them.

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James Marsters Interview (January 2008)
Best known as rock 'n' roll vampire Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, James Marsters is the latest addition to the cast of Torchwood. He plays Time Agent Captain John Hart, the dark reflection of John Barrowman's heroic Captain Jack.

Is Captain John American or English?

He's English. I come from the stage so you develop an accent for anything that you might be cast for, so I have a workable German, French, Russian. I have a fair Italian in my pocket too.

There's a joke in there somewhere… So, tell us about Captain John.

He's a doppelgänger for Captain Jack, which is to say that he's enough like the lead to shed new light on him. I am a Time Agent just like Captain Jack but unlike him I haven't reformed - I am not trying to dump my past and become a good person.

So I come to Earth fully thinking that Jack has got some scam going, that he's conning somebody, and I'm really impressed by the con because he's got so many toys. But he won't let me in on it and that p****s me off, frankly. I ultimately find out that it's not a con, that it's actually real, and I don't understand that. My basic job is to seduce Jack back to the dark side.

So you're the bad guy?

I'm very bad - I love it. I mean, they only let Spike [who Marsters played in Buffy the Vampire Slayer] be bad for three episodes, then they put him in a wheelchair and they took his teeth out and beat him on the head and made him wear a dress. John is just unrepentant evil which is so fun to play. Sociopaths are the best.

The jacket John wears looks slightly Adam Ant.

Hell, yeah! Basically, he's got a jacket from fighting in the Napoleonic wars. He's got a snakeskin sword from Korea that I think he had to kill someone for, his boots are from Italy circa 1640 and he's got gun holsters from the American West.

If you have a cool costume it all goes well. It affects you as an actor - you walk around, you feel cool.

Torchwood's a sexy show - everyone fancies everyone. Anyone John has his eye on?

John's a Time Agent and I understand Time Agents go for anything with a postal code, which is wonderful. So John's got his eye on everyone, including a poodle that he sees. Seriously, it's in the sсript - "Look at him/her; oh my god that's beautiful." "That's a poodle."

John's from the 51st century. What's futuristic about him?

Well, he has a different perspective with regards to sexuality. And a different perspective with regards to power and money.

When he talks about sexuality, it amazes him that people can only love one person. It just seems like a real waste. When he says he can make a lot of money, he's talking about enough money to buy a planet. And power - he's used to a level of power that Earthlings don't understand, and that leads… Well, if you have ruled or destroyed entire planets or tried to conquer a whole galaxy, then the workings of one planet seem a bit tame.

The role must be quite a laugh…?

Oh my God, dude, I'm having the time of my life! I don't think I've had this much fun on a set in my life, to tell you the truth.

Were you a fan of Doctor Who or Torchwood before you joined the show?

I knew Who from the '70s. I knew the fuzzy headed Who [Tom Baker] and loved him well. But I've moved around America all my life - California, New York, Chicago, Seattle - and [the show] does not get into all of those markets, so it was kind of hard.

In America only the really smart, cool people had the Doctor Who t-shirts, so if you see that - "Oh, I wanna talk to you". Also, artists, writers, they know Doctor Who. I was on a music tour about eight months ago and one of my tour managers, Lisa Power, said that she wouldn't go out to the bar with me after the show because Doctor Who was on, so if I wanted to hang out with her I had to bring my bottle up to the room, so I did.

About 15 minutes into the episode, I was convinced that I wanted to be on that show, so I called my manager, who was in the next room, and he called Russell [T Davies] and asked if there was any room for me on the show - and he said "No" [laughs]. But they said they would be willing to put me on Torchwood. And Lisa said, "Oh my God, I love Torchwood more than Doctor Who! Go on that!" My only real question was, is Russell T Davies producing this as well? They said "Yes". That was all I needed.

What was it like coming into an existing ensemble cast?

That's the point - they are a true ensemble cast, they support each other, they understand that their performance is dependent on everyone else's. So I was welcomed with open arms. I love the cast. There's no egos, man. There's nobody saying, "Look at me" or "I need more attention".

Eve [Myles, who plays Gwen Cooper] is God's gift. I have never worked with an actress who is that cool, that game for violence. We have quite a lot of physical stuff and, look, I'm used to Buffy Summers, man, so every time we did a stunt it was like, "Are you OK?" or "I actually touched you - oh my God!" And Eve was like, "Try to hurt me, pal. Bet you a pound you can't hurt me!" [laughs].

John Barrowman's a larger than life character on set, I believe…

The first day on the set I was a little taken aback (I have issues. I had a weird childhood) [laughs]. And he noticed that I was a little uncomfortable with how forward everyone was with each other. The first day he saw me kinda going, "Oh my God". And the second day we do a big fight scene and he's a totally different person - 'cos he knows that I am weak, basically, and scared, and he totally changes. He's my acting partner and he wants to know what I'm comfortable with, what I'm not comfortable with, and how we can protect each other during the day.

He is a natural born leader and he sees everything on the set, he notices everybody's mood and he acts in a way that helps. I felt safe with him. I felt like I had a true acting partner, 'cos we both come from the stage and we understand what that means.

But the dude's playing a Time Agent who will stick it into any hole he can find, so he's in character and that's what he's thinking. One day he drives up to the set in a big red sports car, gets out, looks at me and goes, "I just did that car. I just had her." And I'm in character too, so I'm like, "Well, she's winkin' at you. I'd do her too." He's like, "The gas cap, man, that's a nice hole." I'm like, "She's winkin' at me now too, I might have to take your lady. Can I have her?" "Yeah." "Nah, I already had her." [laughs] They took the freaky Yank and they broke him in!

You and John are both musical as well. Any collaborations in the pipeline?

I'd love to. He has a fabulous voice. But I don't think he has the time. He's filming, like, three television shows right now. But I did get to play with Gareth [David Lloyd, who plays Ianto Jones]. I played The Point [in Dublin] and he got up on stage and sang a Doors song with me, which was just fabulous. I think it was the highpoint of the evening.

Which song?

Roadhouse Blues. It's on YouTube, bro.

Do you get recognised as Spike without the bleached hair?

Yeah.

Do you get tired of that?

I believe that celebrity is toxic to the human soul. I don't want to lose [my celebrity] but I have kept it at arm's length.

My fans are really great, they're very sensitive, they don't cross any boundaries, but at the same time I realise that I can't let their kind words affect me too much or I'll start to think I'm really cool - and as an artist you're going to lose your ability to be human if you start to think of yourself as a star. I mean, somebody flew in from another country yesterday just to stand on the street and watch the action. That is so good for the ego that you have to be careful…

What about Spike? It was left open whether the character was dead or not. Do you see yourself playing him again?

I'd love to. I told Joss [Whedon, Buffy creator] that he had seven years. He approached me about a movie at the end of Angel and I said, "Dude, I will follow you to the ends of the Earth. But you have seven years because my character's immortal and I am not." I'm ageing and Spike shouldn't. One of the cool things about vampires is they're immortal…

You seem to be a bit of an anglophile…?

It sounds weird but all the smart kids in my public school growing up were anglophiles. There's something about the language, I think. I don't know. Just a fantasy of another culture that might be smarter, and smart people in America hunger for smarter culture. The Italians developed opera, the French developed ballet and the English developed the language. As an actor, I can dance, but not that well, I can sing, but I'm no opera singer - but I can talk real well. So, Eng-land!

What have you been up to on your days off from Torchwood?

I do not have them. This is my one day off. I'm spending it with my girlfriend, Patricia, who is my secret weapon: we were doing a fight scene and all the fight crew were busy and I didn't have the political power to get them to stop doing what they were doing and help me. So I showed the fight moves to my girlfriend and she picked them up in one pass, dude! So we were backstage doing the moves, and when I was in front of the camera we got it real quick.

The same with lines - I show up better prepared for this role than any other in my life. Just because anything that I do with Patricia is real fun. So if we're doing lines or if we're cooking dinner - whatever it is - it's heaven. I just got a kiss for that - right on.

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