{"id":10549,"date":"2017-11-09T19:51:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T03:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/?p=10549"},"modified":"2020-04-01T20:50:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T03:50:28","slug":"gatecon-2016-stargate-the-homecoming-featuring-garwin-sanford-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/2017\/11\/09\/gatecon-2016-stargate-the-homecoming-featuring-garwin-sanford-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Gatecon 2016: Stargate The Homecoming Featuring Garwin Sanford Interview!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Welcome Gatecon and Stargate fans! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Click<\/a>Gatecon 2016 The Homecoming was a fun filled weekend for Gatecon newcomers and veterans alike. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

With many Stargate guest panels, photo and autograph sessions, vendors, and various other exciting events throughout the weekend, there was never a dull moment.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Day 1 – Thursday 8 September 2016<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The festivities began with a harbour cruise where attendees enjoyed the views, a nice lunch, and talks with Richard Dean Anderson<\/a> and Sea Shepherd Australia’s Jeff Hansen<\/a>, and Canada’s Simon Ager.<\/a> The day ended with an evening of mingling. Several of the weekend’s guests attended the Meet and Greet with the fans. (Please click here to see Richard’s interview<\/a>).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Richard Dean Anderson tells the people on board the Harbour Cruise about his welcome of the RV Martin Sheen at Coal Harbour, Vancouver.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Day 2 – Friday 9 September 2016<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Simone Bailey (Ka’lel) and Alex Zahara<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the first day of panels, there was a common question asked to all guests. What do you prefer, cats or dogs? Corin Nemic <\/a>likes cats, but doesn’t like living with them for the obvious reasons. Andrew Jackson<\/a> has 3 cats. Erick Avari<\/a> has a Boxer. Carmen Argenziano<\/a> has a couple of dogs “with my wife, who also has my house”. Mike Dopud <\/a>has a parakeet and gerbils and says his son is raising some Queen ants.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

All the guests have been having a busy year. Virginia Hey<\/a>, who lives in the UK, has been away from acting for a few years and has started getting back into it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Corin Nemic has a couple of movies coming out this year. Drone Wars<\/a> and Star Trek Renegades<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Corin shows off a prop for the upcoming auction.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Andrew Jackson,\u00a0 played Supreme High Councillor Per’sus in Stargate SG-1. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Among many other roles since he became an actor<\/a>, Andrew recounted a serious real life story of when he accidentally blew the cover of an undercover cop while doing some gangland research for the series Gangland Undercover! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It was very nice to see Andrew at GateCon. He has been successfully doing some cartoon work and great projects including three act adaptation of Frankenstein<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Andrew Jackson and Roger Cross<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Busy Carmen and Eric Avari.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Carmen Argenziano has, as he says, “been doing nothing. I’ve been waiting all year to come here”. Seriously, he has been busy. He filmed Future World<\/a> with Snoop Dog<\/a> and James Franco<\/a>, has been teaching acting, is directing a play, and completed Don Quixote, also with James Franco. Most recently, he is working on Aurora (working title) with John Cusack<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

While also having had surgery for a ruptured bicep tendon, Mike Dopud<\/a> has been in Virtual Revolution <\/a>which has screened in six film festivals and won best film at DragonCon<\/a>. This film will be released in November. He stated that the director loved that he could do his own fight scenes. Mike has also recently been in episodes of Dark Matter<\/a>. (Please click here to see our interview with Mike Dopud, Jodelle Ferland and Roger Cross<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Mike Dopud, Jodelle Ferland and Roger Cross of Dark Matter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tony Amendola<\/a> described his own injuries. <\/span><\/span>He had been in a musical in New York and the platform gave way and he injured his rotator cuff and back and was off for a year. He spent that time re-evaluating what he is doing with his life.!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Tony Amendola on stage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tony sold his house, packed his RV that is dog is not happy with, and went back to a Shakespeare company he worked with previously. He says that he is in a transitional state. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Tony wants to buy land and build a tiny house. He is currently in a film called Project Eden<\/a> with Mike Dopud and Cliff Simon<\/a>. He had been in a Scifi pilot in LA called Hieroglyph that didn’t go anywhere due to change of heads of the applicable television station. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Aaron Pearl and Dan Payne on stage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tony received a loud cheer from the fans when he said that the new Stargate movie is being written now and “if they don’t cast me, I’m going to kill them!”.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Mike finds the audition room weird; it has a weird energy. Andrew told a story of the dangers of rehearsing in weird places. He was once on a train and was sitting by himself going over his lines. There was a lady on the train who was \u201cfreaked out\u201d by him. He had gone to get a drink and the barman told him to apologise to the lady because she thought he really was a gunman who was going to shoot everyone on the train.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Simone Bailey (Ka’lel) and Alex Zahara<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Carmen was asked if he would become a snakehead if the Tok’ra were real. He said he didn’t want to be a snakehead but he would become a Tok’Ra.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the guests do accents. Andrew does Russian, Icelandic, and Belfast Irish. While filming Big Wolf on Campus, he played a Russian. His nephew was being bullied at the time. He took care of it….After being approached by an imposing Russian who told him that the Russians were watching him by satellite, the bully left his nephew alone.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Because he hails from Montreal, Mike plays a lot of French characters. Some French fans would tell him that he had a terrible accent but as soon as he started speaking perfect French, it was ok.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Day 3 – Saturday 10 September 2016<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday’s guests included Alex Zahara<\/a>, Dan Payne<\/a>, Sharon Taylor<\/a>, Christopher Heyerdahl,<\/a> Simone Baillie<\/a>, Aaron Pearl<\/a>, Jill Teed<\/a>, Patrick Currie<\/a>, and Tom McBeath<\/a> (as in the title character in the Scottish Play), and Garwin Sanford<\/a> (see Garwin’s interview below). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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