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As a departure from our normal format, Akadot has decided that Luis Reyes' interview with voice actress Amanda Winn Lee, best known for her role as Momiji in "Blue Seed," depends so much on context, we've expanded the feature. This is the first installment in a serial "Random Q and A" that will surely go down in Akadot history. Luis: What is your favorite "James Bond" line? AWL: My favorite "Bond" line is from "Goldfinger" when he's strapped to that table and he's like "Do you expect me to talk Goldfinger?" and he says "No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die."
Luis: What was your scariest dream? AWL: God, I've had a lot of recurring ones. This isn't even going to be a funny part. This is the ultimate, my grandmother being justified, whatever, because I've never been into the Jewish thing. I do the guilt, but the whole ceremony ... didn't do. But I have dreams about being chased by Nazis, in a concentration camp, trying to escape, being shot. I really don't identity with the religion at all.
Luis: You just said you did the guilt thing. AWL: I do do the guilt. But so do the Catholics.
Luis: But you do the Jewish guilt, a very specific kind of guilt. AWL: It is. My family is a master of the Jewish guilt.
Luis: But you don't do the ceremony? AWL: We did do a Passover ceremony this past year because I was really missing my family. Really my family just uses the Jewish holidays as an excuse to get together to get drunk. So I was sad, missing my family. OK, the Passover ceremony is so cool because you have to drink at least four glasses of wine, you have to slouch, you're not allowed to sit up straight, you can put your elbows on the table, it's awesome. If we were orthodox we'd have to drink Manishevitz. But my family's very snobby so we all get together and drink really good wine. Then we're sitting there going through the Passover sader and I'd be like "OK, dododo, and then the Jews left Israel and, I don't like that part, it's stupid ... and, oh, drink another glass of wine." That was my Passover ceremony.
Luis: Is that how you celebrate most religious events? AWL: Well ...
Luis: Do you have a birthmark? AWL: Oh my god, I had the cutest little birthmark and my mom made me get it removed when I was a little kid. I had this big, blue freckle on my butt. It was so cute. It was called a "Blue Meavis."
Luis: It wasn't a bruise? AWL: No, it was like a big, blue freckle. It was so cute. And my mom made me get it removed.
Luis: What animal would you be if you could be an animal? AWL: I would be a bunny because I really like bunnies right now. I have two bunnies; they're named Jeremy and Maru. I used to have a bunny named Bokko. I got him when we were doing "Wonder Three" (Osamu Tezuka manga converted to CD Rom by Digital Manga, Inc.). And actually we thought that Bokko was a girl, so we named it Bokko. But Bokko is a … then we got Maru - "maru" is Japanese for circle because when I first got her she was this little lop-eared bunny and she was just this little circle thing, so cute. We brought her home and that was the day I found out that Bokko was a boy.
Luis: Did you ever ditch school? AWL: Oh God, I was the master at ditching school. I was really sick for a while when I was 14/15, and my mother and father both worked. So there'd be times in which I'd be really ill and have to go home and no one was there. So my mother left a note at the desk saying, "Amanda could go home whenever she wants." Come my junior year I didn't even bother to sign out anymore. I'd go in, I'd leave my books on my desk in math class. I'd go out, go to this local theater that I'd hang out at, smoke a couple of cigarettes, come back at the end of class and pick up my books. I was the master at ditching class. The one time I got caught, my mother covered for me because she didn't want it going on my permanent record. My entire junior year of high school I never attended a full day of school. I was bad.
Luis: Hey, you're not bad. I did the same thing and I turned out all right. AWL: Yeah!
Luis: Of course I say this while swilling a glass of cheap Cognac. AWL: : (Slurring) Yeah, we're just fine, school is for pussies.
Luis: What is you most embarrassing convention moment? AWL: The first ACEN when I didn't realize that everyone could see my panties when I was putting the dollar in Pen Pen's ... the second one I deliberately took my shirt off, but the first one I didn't realize that everyone could see my panties. But that wasn't really embarrassing, that was more like giggle, whoops.
Luis: What's your favorite sci-fi film? AWL: I'm kind of a dork; I'm a really big dork. One of my favorites - "Tron."
Luis: Are you kidding? I love "Tron." AWL: I love "Tron."
Luis: Of course, I'm a dork. AWL: I'm a dork.
Luis: Cool. AWL: I loved the "Matrix," because I loved the fact that Keanu Reeves made fun of himself. When Morpheus jumps both buildings and Reeves goes "Whoa," he must have known that he was making himself look like a total dork. I respect that.
Luis: "Star Wars" or "Star Trek?" AWL: "Star Wars." "Star Wars." But, you know what, "The Next Generation" didn't suck.
Luis: What would you change about the U.S. Government ... besides electoral policy? AWL: If Bush wins I'm emigrating to Canada. But ... less focus on arms, more focus on education.
Luis: Anything more radical? For the answer to this and many other random questions that Amanda was gracious enough to answer, check in with us next week for Part Two.  |
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