that's pretty fun did you guys happen to catch
in one of those scenes a little clip little easter egg
that might have been me you didn't because i wasn't in it
I'm still working on the kids alright please welcome to the nerd HQ stage in
no particular order but this particular order Steven Moffat mark get to sue
vertue and Amanda a baton
hey come on buddy guy's
thank you i love you
hello welcome back
I thanks Ruby yeah um
who has a question I just Judy I and do people actually want to ask questions or
just take pictures what the hell is happening
having yes right there so last time we saw you were pregnant you were about to
give birdie know your reptile didn't take long did it
these things go around the world it super speed
had you done to deserve
I was carrying a little extra weight ok I'll go find enough he's pregnant
congratulate him I don't want me out I was pregnant I was just wondering how is
your character want to balance now being a new mother with also loving the
adventures that Sherlock and Watson goes on
well I'm a mother now of two and i work and violence show ya and John not like
that
so am i yes so Mary Mary's quite tenacious sochi she'll find a way
because she's a badass
next question right there in the glasses and the elvis presley class
well done this then please Talan or note
there you go did she now no please stand up please stand up please stand up
please
yes oh thanks for taking the time to come all the way out here and even and
dude you go away steve or just Steven generally and that unless your mom gate
is in which case you call me Steve
okay all right but that's that's the way it is ok i always think of you and in
coupling which is my absolute faith that was Jack Davenport you're okay so i was
wondering this is a question for everyone on the stage of the last time
I'm you are in a giggle loop was sorry a giggle loop or if Steve could explain
the first even could give me the key
people get your looks from an episode of coupling where I think I explained that
when the last thing you should do is laugh you always like yeah which means
the more tragic if you enroll more harrowing the loss the loader and more
appalling me you will laugh we've been talking about that all day yeah we have
actually yeah
when was the last time our that the last time someone I loved died I can't really
remember
I mean it it's always it's always the worst time I think the last time I was
caught one was probably at a wedding actually which is bad
if you if you snort derisively during the bout it doesn't say you know I know
and I get not good
is this is just for all the panels for all mark I why just tell the story
altogether happen
my my auntie died a few weeks ago and went to the funeral and the celebrant
despite being briefed before hand said we're here to celebrate the life of gene
status and my dad at the back of the church just shouted Curtis top of his
voice and she proceeded to get the name wrong five times at every time he said
it was brilliant and by the end
goodness and by the end we were slightly hysterical
he was good at his big bro the ice breaks the ice and funerals so good and
well actually we were filming a scene and I can't see what the Seymours or who
was new but it's that it's it's that time when you're watching rehearsal and
you know you shouldn't be laughing but I looked over the costume person and she
was laughing at which point i started laughing but somebody else in life I
know what this is and I don't even want one day we'll be over here but
everywhere is like tell us what is it was horrible
anyway been good eventually it just call him and amanda
- similar when it was i was filming with Martin and been a 2 to 1 B and then we
had to get we have to get it done because we were up against time and and
Ben did something and I , but it was now that really made me laugh and it was a
scene where you're not supposed to
and
it's that thing where he catches and you're trying to take and you get and
the other soon as they say action i could Martin when and then Ben went and
I'm just going and we I mean we had service or take five and just all calm
down it's it's so terrifying because you think I'm never gonna get through this
thing
I'm just gonna laugh forever but then clean or series our continuity woman
she's amazing she's just a management you do it properly and officer
yeah it'll be on the DVD
next question right down here in front
hi myself when sister and I were writers and we just got published for the first
time grammys yeah well then we published a sherlock holmes versus James Moriarty
short story and i just want to say thank you because we were introduced to show
up for the first time because of your show you can sue them
that's definitely
now if you could just conduct them to the exit
we will be prosecuting them without without worry along at all yet to be
identified that we
yeah two girls India still concerns
I just want to say thank you because you changed our lives for the better and
writing in your show inspired so far right yeah us up until this point where
it's all a bit you know orange is the new black really from now on
but you sure you're gonna be writing from now on
sorry is is your is your a story is that's the Victorian version of Sherlock
yes the original so what do you do resurrect the morning after we do you
can't can't resurrect the dead
no it's not nice it's got our course I want to bet you want
remember you can't bet against me and that's exciting
oh no my question is we really will have to rock and Moriarty and the abominable
bride
I think they had a really terrific dynamic in that episode so what's your
favorite aspect of writing Sherlock and Moriarty is complicated relationship
I think so let me because it's alton Doyle you know it is so inspired by that
special I mean there is really one scene in the final problem is now and we've
sort of we do it like 38 times that but oh but it's it's a it's that sort of
dynamic which Doyle just created that this supervillain dynamic that's
wonderful sort of IC into play which is like in James Bond it as it cuts the
huge long shall I suppose we just really always enjoyed that the fun of it and
and especially with andrew the kind of twinkle of it
you know he did say the unsayable especially in a line a huge wouldn't
think you could get away with maybe we didn't like it when he blows back of his
head off the cisco I could back cold
I think I like in the original stories the exchange of dialogue in which the
oil beat every other super villain
that's ever going to be having just invented the first one and i love the
exchange everything I've have to say has already crossed your mind then possibly
my answer has crossed yours
I think it is he perfect villain the hero exchange and has never been
bettered that last my favorite i think even you no good soil famous he was very
careless about how I wrote them i think even he must have known that was a good
day
he was writing in the bath but he's pretty chuckled to himself
do i still need to shoot them know we have people taking care of her and I
think we're good spies question they're on their way that they will kill any
women in here dressed dressed in charlotte merchandise that's how we
that's how we identified them so it's it's gonna be a bit of our whatever
slaughter eyes after that happened I do i do enjoy the rest of the panel regard
don't don't let that don't spoil your old thing that got up how it's going to
her in the back 30 years
hi my name is Alana this question is for Mark and i'm wondering i recently a few
times actually seen you and screenings of the National Theatre lives a cruel
anus
yeah I which is good thank you
I'm wondering who was that guy in the common reason
yeah whatever happened to that angel yeah yeah I wondering what goes into
your process for choosing a role for the stage is there anything but money is
right
that's why there's no me me there's no money in theater now that he's allowing
that isn't like this this let actually i had to pay them i think
oh gosh well very simply just the the play in the part you know I mean that
funny enough that with Coriolanus I was Josie rock runs the DA - me to do
another another show which then didn't happen and then she said she talked
about to tee it now
she said you know Coriolanus I I genuine un because I've seen I've seen it twice
and I thought it was a really boring Shakespeare and I genuine i thought i
had not come on
I'm not gonna do this but I you know we talked about it and I thought I better
read it already on the train to Cardiff actually and I thought this is great
play and I think we
that's why I wanted to do and I think we sort of it's like a change people's
minds about it's not a it's not one of the most famous once it's a difficult
play but I I was really proud of him
so it's always just another playing the part
this question right over there hi my name is Kira and I'm a performer myself
just in community theater and it's always interesting to me to hear what
are the most challenging things for you as the performers and even just as being
on set what are some of the most challenging days that you've had for
Sherlock
Mandy not laughing notes and it's not working in television he's a lot of
waiting around us around for a little longer period of time and then you have
to go and you have to sort of didn't get into the character straight away and you
don't get many takes because we're up against it
so you have to sort of know what you're going to do well before
boring I say something interesting but I'm so what was your question again
just what's the most challenging it sounds like sitting around as the most
breathe
correct breathing system its existing just it's only like that to me is the
most picker could possibly what is that is true because it is you do you manage
your energy can just dissipate if you have that mean for instance when we when
we get back tomorrow
Benedict tonight and I mountain of gonna be really big scene to see I keep
talking humans which is that on Tuesday morning and but the big problem with
that is you know you block it in rehearsal and then you shoot it but then
you just have to take it apart you know you do one big wide version then you do
individual virtual leave
obviously want each time you do it to be as intense and as is as good as it is
everything and then you
the gaps in between very difficult you know your stuff to sort of
and that's whenever you have people who visit the set they always divided into
two groups
people who were just fascinated by the whole process and people who simply
can't believe you have to do it more than once and i just bought it t is
instantly they are they so that it isn't that is a big part of the challenge
you see them sitting there after about three takes and two setups they go
we've got a guy went to prison but also I think you're having to do all that and
quite often you have to do that at four o'clock in the morning
you know we've just finished we're just clawing back night now but it's your
fault you keep writing nice take in the middle of summer saying someone yes that
is very so you start you have breakfast at seven-thirty p.m. at night and you
finish in the morning
that's but you still got to form as though it's it is actually means easier
I'm found it's easy being on camera the time goes quick and your energy levels
keep up
actually just being there
guys this is about that sort of quarter to three thing of like Oh what do you
think you're going to die but the answer is absolutely natural place to be the
actual work if you know what if you're pre-prepared and you know your lines in
there it's that's not necessary that challenging because if you if you're
good at your craft and you love it then it
you know if it's it's easier but the waiting around is just it's just boring
it
do you do you like shooting nights at all
no one like you know I do like what I know this might sound crazy but we would
be you know not better
I don't age oh that's true
um but we will be shooting nights and every time i'm shooting nights I always
feel like I don't know I just feel like a kid who's up way past their bedtime
when the rest of the world is all sleeping or like what mischief are we
getting into right now because especially like a film center a TV set
they're closing down fucking streets and shit you own it all your skateboard and
then we know where you're not supposed to be like a bart simpson and realize
this is amazing and everybody's looking at me like what drugs are you want like
we're all sleeping i might come on Jimmy chunga's that's true because when we
film outside - 21 being we're doing
nice it is a lot of fun in there is an exciting you can see through to go and
we have fans like waiting out to the bitter end which is amazing so you have
this little audience of people who are there with you as well so that missed
the last bus home yeah and they want to look it up but that's very exciting i
like doing nights outside know and also I get tired because i get guilty
the next morning I get guilty about the lying in bed but we've told you about
I know so I get up and think what i'm going to do some work so it's a long way
I don't feel guilty about laying like it next question
I do I have a question and a gift I don't know if that's okay
the the gift of quit spending is equipped to the left
is the prince go to that it's for you
in the United it's not okay oh my god equipped
I did I didn't make them my friend made them but talking about having looking at
all
I'll call my know what ten percent of that whatever see I went one way to keep
the other question and the great yes
so for Stephen and sue if you could describe we don't we don't get smart of
the question right bc we did wrong there
I know what you're gonna get damn alta from me now go right
ok I mean I know what the answers will be back any way i did it i don't make
them that was my friend but writer
it was just carry on mm okay well we're still it sounds like how to give up
double every one of those
I don't have one circle because I don't get a gift I just got a question
in a bag where he belongs uh-huh
so what is ten percent of that like one leg what are ya
you get nothing okay princess you can keep the bag you're there you get the
question ok
no girl I got bags ok I got bags what your question was your question okay I'm
sorry
oh don't apologize so far out of time
sorry guys of firsts ooh and for first even out if you could describe season
for it with a song
not like with with with where and then for wait i'm not in that for for for
Marc and Amanda if you could describe your character with the song wasn't good
have you heard of singing hear it you don't actually mean saying
yeah now you don't need to sing it just what is a sound
oh no I was gonna sing introducing up been sick
it sings ooh sing sing like the wind let it out
come on Steven arm
I don't know any songs the National memories tragedy tragedy they go and i
have to sing my character or just what is that that was the question I have to
sing my characters right no yeah
sing what is the song what's a song
even if you don't see it was this time ever I yeah that's the one that's about
me and it
that's very much Mike Ross song very sweet things that when he's in his room
in your home and your bestie
oh yes we didn't know that was in LA was making an extraordinary things when
we're at the Emmys last year
that's to you and we go home we got a cabin was a karaoke cab
my heart absolutely sang at the at the cheerfulness of this driver and by the
end of the journey I was singing diamonds are forever the talking about
is I have imported
yeah it was bringing it was your son then for the show
thank you think mines
smack my bitch up no it's not
Oh God
the prodigy that was the project there is an actual song called I'm though I
can't say that if i can tell you you just did say that you actually just it
who would be the bitch in the area I'm not telling you
can it be me yeah
next question right I'm gonna go through with a green bracelet wristband
thingamajigger
and then i'll go you know and then I'll go to you right after that conjoined
twins and first of all thank you for sending tumblr into meltdown today with
the trailer in it
we're in the process of dissecting every single second of my god we've already
had a question which we will literally baffled by this
this interview is set is it always the plan to bring back the woman we want
she went the fingernails the one well there is some fingernails in it should
be which signifies the return of Irina that
go ahead we'll get on that after this battle
yes so my question as for mark
I'm so everybody seems to be getting in on the action with Sherlock and John and
Mary I'm are you going to be doing some action on this one since it's all
terminal and devastated as I mean action
I'm since you hate legwork maybe I don't know shooting a gun
oh I see oh well yes is quite a lot of me this that but that's no that's not
that's not a fat suit reference
there's a lot of me last time there's a lot of me it's a new dereference yeah
hey I make no I make no claims
haha kind of shooting we don't mind yeah yeah
thank you welcome to America yeah that's question and you got it that's right mr.
Moffat I just wanted to tell you you're writing has brought great joy and
inspiration my life so thank you
no nitrogen atom not - gages not remain
thank you and my question my question is is there a story for the whole panel
that you'd like to bring to us sometime in the future
I'm not asking for spoilers she'll come story it no I meant in any kind of story
is there's a story you are wanting to tell us collectively or just interesting
and ensure that they like to you know I really want you in your sleep in beauty
or something I mean just the store yeah um do we have an idea for another story
yes yes
and why would an idea i really really like for a per story and I pitched it to
sue when we were in we were in Rome or something it was it was definitely like
and ideas
I was very good idea to liked it can I be in it and whatever and I be in it
no I'm not telling you but are you always ask me if I had one and we did we
do have no we do have there is a thing which we may want to do which we would
like to do
yes that is it thing we that's true but we are not being silly that is a true
thing
does it involve is a project 64
caucasian America yes it's specifically written for you
Oh what luck
I know that it's not true but it could be could be the ones she spends half the
day goes
thank you very much next question please yes you right there with the awesome
ears
I have a yeah long and prosper
I have a question for Mark you both right and act in Sherlock so I what I
wanted to know if you've had any particular scenes where maybe you were a
bit self-indulgent or if you wrote to see you see me before bride
we I i refer you to see these bones roof
all right there was also have seen that you can kind of road under like this
device oh no yeah but have you seen people mover I know about you hope I
mean I did actually you know get your period of removing myself I'm not even
marked the only person who's ever written
unknown speaking part for Martin Gator yeah and in the homes of basketball no
one else would do that every not to say hang on that your market is your about
that but like he's got more lines and in the hands of basketball but i do and i
think this is a nice things but I should we try to be fair but also that the
really good thing it actually is is being able to change the things on the
spot
you know that the other day actually have thought I am i sayin like that's
really hard to bird
I'm going to say it like this either rank myself well I had a very stern
words with myself
I made an executive decision is easy
don't let anyone else changed that's no good
next course in the back
i I'm angel of from Canada
well done I just wanted to ask if there are any particular scenes that you wrote
that you have to kind of convince the cast to do that you were kind of iffy
about if you can get them to do it
I don't think so we don't have very everyone's very it was sort of a lively
discussion about things there that might be not not contentious but just a sort
of you know I'm not really sure I the character would do that's all
particularly could I just not say this line or do it with a look or something
like that but nothing we have no - nothing major
no that's been making occasional things can i skip that line or can i move that
around in it but no there are no was refused point-blank didn't begin i'm not
so far it might mean actually mark might someday
yeah see - isn't it wasn't that comfortable from to do necessarily so
you made sure you did that while we were here
that's true yes yes and friday one is known
ya seen on his own but he can complain to himself
let's go up there and there was that three something that you cut a joke it
was a job
now you've done it its twenty right years with the next question right here
I've done it hey um it's a man
um so with a star trek and there's class
there's been a lot of introduction of LGBT characters not to just out them as
LGBT and i'm not talking about Sherlock and Watson here but our can we look
forward to any representation in the next season
not specifically like outing someone is gay but like just like having that there
and just like not kind of ignoring it but not like putting in your face you
know what I mean it like that
walked into that one why do all conversations on this subject end up
being in your face or shoving it down your throat
I mean every time
it's almost invited think of a few things yeah
within this season no but not that's not that's not a policy decision obviously
it's not time as we're talking about seeing the day that they that be
I for me personally as a gay man that the problem is is of trying to burden
popular series of popular films with having to sort of carry everything at
once you know see it is very difficult to to have a gay body because then it
the danger is like all that you're saying that that gay people are bad
where is it you know that's the point the point is that everyone is all shades
of everything that's that's life
obviously when when thing that was far less representation that's that's a
bigger burden but now I think there is much more i think we should be all be a
bit more grown up about it and allowed to say you know you can that you can be
a grumpy bisexual person you can be a very camp gave person you know all sorts
of things but we're not sure you know we don't have any agenda like that
we just want to be doing the show we're doing that doesn't mean we're going to
something out to character or anything just for the sake of it has to be done
with such I think intelligent delicacy - I mean the fact that you
he's a danger if you make that their character know it
the reality of shows like sure log and Doctor Who easy is the subject of who
you prefer to date is unlikely to come up in the middle of the crisis you know
we're being attacked by insects from the bank i mention i like to date my oil x
is that why i don't think this is strictly relevant right now so I mean
that many of those can be no other people rotate through your life a lot
when they're when you're working on the TV series i generally speaking don't
know if they're gay or straight until they turn up at the wrap party because
it doesn't it doesn't really it doesn't come up in normal conversation and out
there are many normal conversations and Sherlock a doctor but I do that I think
it's important that kids watching television see themselves on screen
I think that's important it's very very but it to add to that it must be done in
a way that it doesn't seem as though you're forgiving them you know have so
often you can say this person is gay but there are perfectly normal person - well
to a kid you're saying I didn't know it was in question
I didn't know it was a don't until this point so you have to be careful with it
but yes the representation is hugely important and it's something all of
television has to get better as the truth
we have time for one possible to more
I'm gonna go right Sonny are you area where your fans girl
no i said where your fans that oh well my family I have legs now what do i do
you still have a voice because it's at the end of the movie
that's better
and what's your question my question is well start thank you so much doctor who
mr. Moffitt and sure lack they've been such a huge influence on my life insurer
like when I was little my great grandfather used to read me
I don't know Arthur Conan Doyle's daughter are used to read to me
and so when the show came out I was just so excited because it brought back all
those wonderful memories and so my question is is were there any books or
stories or things that all of you heard or were you know exposed to as children
that sort of influenced your life and who you've become the velveteen rabbit
yeah that was a big influence on me and I still read it to my kids today my 10
year old house because he's a boy is like not wanna watch WWE but my daughter
loves it still and that's a bit
I still live by the love in the velveteen rabbit soup
oh I not the enchanted tree is like all you need to know what I mean yes I do
the Wishing channel that yellow key
no one knows what we're talking about a
all right
Dracula see the velvety to fucking rabbit
although it was actually the box
your life had a bit Tom's bed night garden but yeah it is
I is what I've been ripping off for her all my life
really , i love that but I have absolutely loved them yeah and one right
there
you're the first hand up it's only fair it just happened what does it did you
just be yourself
it's equipped I got just like that
it's not equipped another gift have been
I'm gonna spend his birthday that was back on the heaven holding well here and
i'll make sure i guess that
oh ok maybe we need to question your mom we need a question ok this is to get the
gentleman there in the order that man i'm actually very quick
during the scene we don't brag about that when John
yeah
I mean you did walk into that that's that's on you
that's on you I accepted um OH
when John as Sherlock is better i was there and was there actually an eye when
he took one shot to pacific in the cup and I was an actual eyeball know like a
fake one what it is when you are already
ok so fake but it's not realize well you know that crew that was quick uh-huh
ok when one more than one more right there boom boom 48sec the right or to
look to your left look Sheila
45-6 nice shirt by the way hi i just want to express how much i love Mycroft
played by mark right
you look amazing in the sued you as the writer
can you write more scenes for yourself yes will do have done
okay great I just 118 seconds to go quick
just wanna see more of your things more with your brother
sure look wanted to see our how the expert on stay together with each other
in their childhood like I feel like my crops like a parent to shower up and not
just a brother
wait and see oh thank you work
where are you from where are you from darling where you from
I come from Los Angeles my friend is from China actually rock n roll
well thank you all so much for coming please give a wrong
your washer
keeping all these guys were going to go there
get out get out of here keep going to go get going keep going keep going to go
yourself
Amanda movement hey by the way what's what's your what's your daughter's
favorite animated movie
open it and it's what my round
yeah
I literally I met her backstage and she goes listen I'm so sorry i really don't
want to like you know but me and my daughter really really love tangled can
i take a picture with you and Mike are you kidding me
I'll do whatever you want
was that fun
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