David Hewlett News and Info

[SerenityS]

Tweet Update

Last night DH tweeted:

Stargate Universe wardrobe fitting today. Holy mother of nerd what a beautiful set! Parked in a spot marked @DavidBlue, that a problem? ;-)

This morning, Joe Flanigan tweeted this:

Receiving cryptic SOS's. It's Hewlett..needs help...he's..omg..guest starring on what? SGU. What was he thinking?!..must..warn..others

That got these responses to Joe:
KyleJMcconkey: @JoeFlanigan jealous envious maybe
karenford1: @JoeFlanigan what is the world coming too?? how can they have him on there BEFORE you!!! something's not right with that, lmao
domdomjohnshep: @Mckaysgirl in addition I really prefer @JoeFlanigan ' s attitude.He respects what he has always said.It.'s why I respect him a lot. ·
rockstarsister: @JoeFlanigan whoa thats it the world is ending you need to get there quick and save it ·
vida_boheme: @JoeFlanigan What WAS he thinking? Dullest show on earth - even McKay can't fix that one
jenjen_tx: @JoeFlanigan yes please they are going to crucify McKay! Then us fans will get the poos again and start campaign and tptb will get cranky
teamsoph: @JoeFlanigan He misread the ship name, he thought it was the Density....
lckav: @JoeFlanigan when will you be in SGU and when is the atlantis movie i miss atlantis
esgaril: @JoeFlanigan Yay, your're back! ) Hurry, grab a P-90 and rescue @dhewlett before it's too late!
Tashirasbubble: @JoeFlanigan No worries - The natives should always come first You may need to rescue Hewlett though - SGU is known to zap your humour ·
luvvancouverbc: @JoeFlanigan apparently @dhewlett 's costume is chafing on SGU
domdomjohnshep: @JoeFlanigan INDEED.Have you read his interview on GW.Poor DH.Bonne journée ici c est l'heure de l'apéritif et du rose.Poor David lost onsgu
kender: @JoeFlanigan Poor Hewlett may never be the same again after SGU..
joesmimi: @JoeFlanigan Please don't ever guest star on SGU. I don't want to have to watch it
Mckaysgirl: @JoeFlanigan guest starring? im thinking v.small cameo with toned down Mckay sorry can not be enthused with sgpoo!
KathrynDowney: @JoeFlanigan It would be amusing if you guest starred on SGU and made it the highest rated episode of the series
Ionaonie: Oh, @joeflanigan, you do make me laugh. Although I also wonder what Hewlett was thinking *g* ·
Tashirasbubble: @JoeFlanigan They couldn't have Shep on the show - with his aptitude & McKay's brain, Destiny would have turned round and back home already! ·
telpethoron: @JoeFlanigan will Sheppard be coming to McKay's rescue on SGU? That would almost make me watch the show.
mischief53715: @JoeFlanigan Grab your P-90 and go save your geek! Team Leader's job! Where's Momoa and Luttrel when you need to kick ass? ·
AtlantisJackson: @joeflanigan *sigh* yes, @dhewlett is going on sg-university, but that's 'cause they need the ratings. He's being generous. ·
domdomjohnshep: @Tashirasbubble @joeflanigan Maybe you're right.I read on GW this will be the 15th ep so McKay will bring sol so destiny will come back END ·
ophelia1880: @JoeFlanigan Send Sheppard,Teyla, Ronan, McKay and Lorne into SGU, they'll sort it all out in a jiffy
ugahill: @JoeFlanigan: Please do. No one else needs to be sucked into the madness... ·
domdomjohnshep: @Mckaysgirl @joeflanigan They fooled us one time they are fooling us again.Got worries about McKay character they could use him only as foil ·
MajorBerry: @JoeFlanigan I've been crying for McKay ever since I heard about his appearance on SGU.The worst decision possible A real shame!
drst: @JoeFlanigan Hewlett on SGU? Still won't get me to watch the show. (OK, no power on earth would get me to watch it.) ·
http://twitter.com/home?status=@drs...ply_to_status_id=23913110518&in_reply_to=drst
http://twitter.com/Tashirasbubble

 

[SerenityS]

just to add a few more:

luckystars9218: @JoeFlanigan Poor McKay, if the "interesting" characters on Destiny dont shoot him, the writers will assassinate his character. Silly David

lisawest99: @JoeFlanigan My standard response to SGU twitpic.com/2mf7e0

(Love the picture in this last one LOL)

 

[stclare]

A lot of those tweets smell of shill to me.

Well im quoted on there im defo not a shill guess who!

 

[stclare]

nerdbetty perhaps?

Oh you got me

 

[stclare]

I wonder if the parking space for David Blue is extra wide so that he can get his generously sized bulk out of the car ?

I wonder how he can be so chumy with David Hewlett whilst saying sgpoo is the best show in 5 years etc etc etc..i couldnt face someone in similar circumstances.

 

[Rac80]

For an actor being able to lie shamelessly is a sign of a job well done!

 

[stclare]

For an actor being able to lie shamelessly is a sign of a job well done!

its a shame that ability doesnt transfer to the big screen or maybe its because im mesmoriesed by the running scenes ((bounce, bounce))

 

[SerenityS]

File this under "How things change"
Hateworld just posted an interview they did with David back when he was at the Vancouver Con:

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2010/09/tuesdays-with-meredith/4/
Exerpt:

GW: Have you had a chance to watch Stargate Universe? Have you seen any of it?
DH: I watched a bit of the pilot, but I joke that I’m having a hard time watching other people have all the fun. You know? I did it for five years. I really enjoyed it. I miss it. I find it very hard to sit down and watch it now.
You know, it’s not my Stargate. And good for them! I mean, enjoy it. Go make the most of it. Those guys should. I mean, they’re all very talented. And they’re taking it a different direction, which is probably good. The show’s been on for what? Fifteen years or something now? They’ve gone in a different direction with it, but for me it’s not sour grapes. I just have my memories of Stargate, and my Stargate is Atlantis.
So, I may have started with SG-1, but my heart is in Atlantis. Yeah, that’s it. So that’s why. Maybe give it some time. Maybe I’ll be able to sit down. Maybe I’ll watch it with my kid.

and about SGA:

GW: [Laughter] What would be written in this chapter of the Book of David? The Stargate chapter? The association with the franchise as a whole?
DH: Well, I always felt like it was like I was like this little solitary nerd who was suddenly introduced to this whole fandom. This whole world of … the sort of “culture” of Stargate. I came in as a standalone nerd and I left as a part of this fantastic sort of community of Stargate fans, and the show as well. I mean, obviously.
But it’s such a unique experience. I mean, you can’t explain to people what it’s like. Especially with Atlantis because Atlantis was – I was saying today – Atlantis was kind of like the “Disney” of science fiction. It was the kind of show that you would sit down with the family and watch. And I always loved that. I always loved that you’d have grandparents and grandkids talking to you about the show. You’d have mothers and sons, and mothers and daughters. And there was this wonderful sense of family about the show.
GW: Not necessarily that it was always necessarily wholesome, but that it was safe.
DH: No, it wasn’t. I mean, well, it was …
GW: As far as family viewing.
DH: Yeah, there was probably too much violence for some people. But, even that … I mean, I feel like there were different levels for different people. You could take away from that show what you — the different age groups, I think, took away what they wanted from that show. Some people got more out of it. Some people got less out of it. Some people were more character oriented. Some people were more sci-fi oriented.
I’m very proud of the fact that we had a show that kids wanted to collect your figures, as well as the people who collected figures. You know? I mean, I really enjoy that aspect of it. That didn’t necessarily make it the sexiest show in the world. You know what I mean?
GW: Right.
DH: Or the most ground-breaking or the edgiest drama on television, or anything.
GW: [But] it resonates for a reason.
DH: Yeah. There was a heart. There was a heart to it that I loved. And that came from the writers. It came from the producers. It came from the cast. And the cast are all … they’re good people. And that’s rare these days. It’s hard to find, you know.

 

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"DH: Yeah. There was a heart. There was a heart to it that I loved. And that came from the writers. It came from the producers. It came from the cast. And the cast are all … they’re good people. And that’s rare these days. It’s hard to find, you know."

And that's why we love and miss SGA and hate SGU, TPTB. Are you listening?

 

[SerenityS]

I just want to confess here publicly how disappointed I am in David Hewlett that he is doing an episode of SGA and tweeting what a great time he is having.
I know I shouldn't think this way, but it's like a knife in the gut.

 

[park8]

I just want to confess here publicly how disappointed I am in David Hewlett that he is doing an episode of SGA and tweeting what a great time he is having.
I know I shouldn't think this way, but it's like a knife in the gut.

That's ok, I feel the same way. I know he has to work, and that he loves playing McKay, but I don't want him on that show.

 

[Gatefan1976]

Don't give the guy any grief for doing his job guys, I for one know exactly where DH is coming from. One last chance to play a character that he enjoys and get paid for it?? Sign me up for that shit.

 

[SexyDexy]

The character he loves...post lobotomy

Don't give the guy any grief for doing his job guys, I for one know exactly where DH is coming from. One last chance to play a character that he enjoys and get paid for it?? Sign me up for that shit.

I don't hold anything against him for guest-starring on the show, but if he's expecting to play the character he enjoys, well, I'm not so sure that's going to work out for him. I think we will see on SGU a McKay post lobotomy, much dumber, and with his negative personality traits multiplied by ten for that sake of making him fit into SGU. Look what they did to O'Neill

 

[Gatefan1976]

I don't hold anything against him for guest-starring on the show, but if he's expecting to play the character he enjoys, well, I'm not so sure that's going to work out for him. I think we will see on SGU a McKay post lobotomy, much dumber, and with his negative personality traits multiplied by ten for that sake of making him fit into SGU. Look what they did to O'Neill

Don't get me wrong, I fully expect him to be "the shrine" Mckay, rather than the somewhat lovable social retard that I grew to love and admire. I just don't think peeps should hassle DH for wanting to reprise the role in whatever capacity he is allowed to do it in. Am I "upset" that he has to do it through SGU, yeah, sure I am, but if you are given no choice? All DH can do is try to deliver the best performance he can with the shit he forced to work with, and, for his sake, I hope he blows it out of the park.

 

[SexyDexy]

I hope so too!

Am I "upset" that he has to do it through SGU, yeah, sure I am, but if you are given no choice? All DH can do is try to deliver the best performance he can with the shit he forced to work with, and, for his sake, I hope he blows it out of the park.

I hope he blows it out of the park, too. If anyone can manage to rise above the shitty writing, it will be him. And the best thing would be, if all the viewers who've never seen SGA before were like: "Hey, who's that guy? he was cool. Wait, he was on SGA? I'm going to watch SGA now. WOW! SGA is awesome! Way better than SGU!" and then they proceed to never watch SGU again

 

[Gatefan1976]

I hope he blows it out of the park, too. If anyone can manage to rise above the shitty writing, it will be him. And the best thing would be, if all the viewers who've never seen SGA before were like: "Hey, who's that guy? he was cool. Wait, he was on SGA? I'm going to watch SGA now. WOW! SGA is awesome! Way better than SGU!" and then they proceed to never watch SGU again

HAHA
Yeah, that would rock and I do hope it happens as well. As to "converting" SGU fans, meh, why bother? They will love what they love and nothing any of us say will change thier minds. One day perhaps they will wake up and see they are watching "days of our lives" in space, but maybe they won't. Then again, maybe TPTB will wake up and see what made "stargate" the awesome show it was and how they have damaged it.
But probably not

 

[fumblesmcstupid]

I was really excited about seeing David in Splice.

The movie itself was a turd, but I liked seeing David in something other than Rodney.

I can't wait for his Snow Monkey movie and the movie with Rachel Weiz.

I can't comment on SGU never watched it. I do think (totally kidding) that David did SGU as a dare from Joe..

 

[heisenberg]

David Hewlett: My 'hilariously unhappy' life as Dr. Rodney McKay

If David Hewlett cracked you up as Dr. Rodney McKay on Stargate: Atlantis, wait'll you meet the REAL David Hewlett! We're thrilled that he's agreed to join us regularly here at Blastr to answer your questions and share whatever happens to be on his mind.
The glorious geeks at Blastr have asked me to blog a little blog, for what I have assured them are my billions of like-minded nerd minions. That and someone has to give the AbFab of sci-fi, Jewel Staite, some (un)healthy competition.
I thought I might start by introducing myself, but then I realized that if you don't know who I am (star of film & television—legend in my own mind), then I'm not sure I want you hanging about. The reality is that any highly intelligent, attractive, world-changing, leader-types should already be following me on Twitter!
Then again, who am I to pass up an opportunity to talk about myself ...
David Hewlett (I feel that the third person makes me sound so much closer to how important I think I am) started out right on track as a scrawny little Doctor Who nerd staggering around in twenty feet of multi-colored, hypoallergenic, wool-less scarf and planning on becoming a Time Lord. Alas, Master Hewlett then wandered off course, trying to be cool, dark and edgy and fit in, all at the same time. Eventually, however, the wayward Hewlett fell back into step and returned to what he was best at—being a wildly uncomfortable nerd. David Hewlett has starred in numerous films and television series, many of which you will have missed, or should have. One might get a glimpse of such questionable Hewlett performances during the odd hours of night, nestled between infomercials for erectile dysfunction treatments and home gyms.
A few sci-fi related highlights from my stellar (interstellar?) career are probably in order:
Pin was a creepy little movie that I starred in back when I was cool and thin and had so much hair I didn't know what color to dye it. It's a great psychological horror flick and really helped put me on the map in my film and television career ... it also paid for freedom, in the form of my first apartment. There should be a sequel ... I look so much scarier now!
Cube was the first big science fiction film I was a part of. It was a fantastic directorial debut by one of my oldest friends Vincenzo Natali and it remains one of my most painful and uncomfortable roles. It's also one of my favourites. I firmly believe that discomfort and tension gets picked up by the camera, and that it's never a bad thing, even in a love scene!
Boa vs. Python was a mad Bulgarian adventure. I have always been a fan of creature features. I revel in movies where the monsters tower more over the tiny budgets than the characters they threaten. Career aside, I met my wife the week before I flew out to shoot this monsterpiece. Jane and I spoke long-distance every night on the phone. Naturally she was powerless to resist my super power ... the power to babble. Jason Momoa, who's always coming to me for tips on how to look good and live cool, wondered out loud how I could possibly have ended up with someone as fabulous as Jane... as I told him: "trickery and deceit... now for the love of God will you please put a shirt on!" The film consists of me and a couple of playboy bunnies being harassed by giant snakes... how can you lose with a triple-threat powerhouse combo like that?
A lot of hair ago, I showed up on the set of Stargate SG1. Thanks to some fantastic writing and the support and patience of the lovely and talented Amanda Tapping, I became Doctor Rodney McKay. Rodney's snarcastic genius and lack of social skills seem to have appealed to a lot of people. I like to think that McKay is what a grumpy Grover would look like in the role of C-3PO. Rodney showed up for another episode or two of SG1 and then went on to five wild and wonderful years on the hit show Stargate: Atlantis. During the run of SGA I wrote and directed my first feature film A Dog's Breakfast. I married my wife Jane (twice in fact). My son Sebastian ("Baz" as we insist on calling him) was born the day after we wrapped season 4 (I was still peeling pieces of 10,000 year old Rodney McKay makeup off my face while Jane was in labour). I am Stargate's biggest fan for life.
Most recently, 2010 began 7,000 feet up a mountain in Bulgaria, experiencing the pleasure and pain of directing and acting in what I'm calling an "evil snow monkey" movie for the fine folks at Syfy. I had the geek pleasure of working on Caesar: Rise of the Apes, which, after signing a small forest worth of non-disclosure paperwork, I can say nothing more about, except perhaps what a pleasure it was working with the kind, gracious and hilarious John Lithgow, the magical Andy Serkis and the giant brains of Weta, all under the watchful eye of the fabulous director Rupert Wyatt and the many charming Blackberries of Chernin Entertainment and 20th Century Fox!
I had a far too fleeting return to an old acquaintance, Stargate Atlantis' Dr. Rodney Meredith McKay, with the vastly talented SGU cast and crew, which will air as Season Two episode 15, I believe. I roamed Hollywood Blvd. with a police escort, signing photos and such before walking the black carpet at Grauman's Chinese Theatre for the huge Hollywood premiere of Splice (which Stephen King just named one of his top ten movies for the year!) And best of all, I participated, observed and meddled, with Yoda-like instruction, as my son Baz went from age two to three!
While some people shun the spotlight, I google myself every 180 seconds and I highly recommend you do the same ... I am fascinating. I also take everything everyone says about me to heart ... well, the good stuff anyway. A recent movie review described me as "hilariously unhappy" which I thought summed me up really well, more as a person than as an actor. If I ever write an autobiography, Hilariously Unhappy could very well be the title.
In the hopes of having something to complain about in future blogs I welcome any and all questions (that I like) right here on Blastr. And I also welcome you all to follow me on Twitter, where I do my utmost to make my mind-numbingly dull life sound wildly interesting and potentially life threatening ... try me!
All the best, from the best ...
Hewlett!

This guy is awesome...He has even replied to some of the comments on blastr


http://blastr.com/2011/01/david-hewlett-my-hilariou.php

 

[Tropicana]

DH is damn freakin awesome!

This line cracked me up -

I like to think that McKay is what a grumpy Grover would look like in the role of C-3PO.

I would love to see more of DH.

 

[park8]

Seizure will be the only episode of SGU that I watch live. I will sit through anything, including the gods awful Hellcats, for David Hewlett and Rodney McKay!