Today was a good day for tours. So all of you that DIDN’T come visit me – pooh on you.
The weather was perfect, there was lots of activity to see, lots of actors around, and no grumpy guests! Yay!
But the best part of my day happened at the end of my last tour.
I was waiting for my guests in the museum, and I was just looking out the windows, being absentminded. I saw a man walking around outside – he looked familiar, but I didn’t dare trust that it was really him.
But it was! It was Alessandro Juliani from Battlestar Galactica! (If you just said, “Who? What show?” outloud, then blame your parents for not giving you a steady diet of sci-fi television when you were a kid.)
So I did what any sci-fi nerd would do – I ran up to him, told him I cried when (SPOILER ALERT! if you haven’t been watching the show all along) his character died and that I am planning on naming my son after his character Felix Gaeta (sorry, future husband, but this is a non-negotiable point).
I was so flustered to actually be talking to Alessandro that I was totally babbling and he had to move me out of the middle of the street so we didn’t get hit, and after a few minutes, another tour guide came out of the museum to remind me that I was still on the clock and actually in the middle of a tour.
But before Brad came and broke the spell Alessandro had cast over me (thanks, Brad!), I did manage to ask him if I could take a picture with him. He said, “of course!” and the result is below. He also hugged me goodbye.
(internet is too slow tonight and it’s too late, so i’ll post the pic later. it’s also my profile pic on my facebook page.)
SIGH.
Oh, and when I asked him why he was on the lot, he told me that they are scoring the final epsiode of BSG on the Eastwood Scoring Stage. So excited that the end is nigh (so many questions to answer!) but am really sad the show is ending.
If catching up on four seasons of BSG is not your thing, you can see Alessandro in Warner Bros.’ film Watchmen, which opens next month.
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