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Interviewer: Have you ever been to Comic Con?
Thomas McDonell: No first time
Interviewer: Are you excited being here? Thomas McDonell: Yeah I think it is great.
Interviewer: And you guys are going to show the pilot episode during your panels.
Thomas McDonell: Yeah. Interviewer: So are you little worried
about what people might say. Are you excited to go talk to the fans?
Thomas McDonell: Well I hope they like it. Yeah.
Interviewer: And for people who haven't seen the pilot and are not here.
Can you explain what the show is about and more specifically who your character is?
Thomas McDonell: Sure, start with the first thing. Okay.
The idea is that the earth has become so polluted and destroyed by nuclear war that
everyone has to leave and go up into space to live.
So they go up and they are up there for about 100 years and then after all that
time the resources on their spaceship are sort of depleted and so they need to send
people back down to earth to see if they can live their again.
So that is what the 100 is.
The 100 refers to the people that they send back to earth.
Interviewer: And your character?
Thomas McDonell: My character his name is Finn and he is one of the hundred.
The idea is that they tried to send like a group of people from the ship who are
not particularly valuable. So they pick the juvenile delinquents
and I am one of those. Yeah.
Interviewer: So do you have any idea what the format of the show will be like after
the pilots.
Thomas McDonell: The format? Interviewer: Yeah what can we expect each episode.
It is going to be more like a serial.
Do you focus on a specific character each episode?
Do you have any? Thomas McDonell: It could go a lot of different
ways probably with how it works but one thing that will be consistent at least for
a little while is that there are the people who are on earth the hundred
and then there are the people who remain out in space and so that is
one of the most interesting parts about the show I think because you know it
serves family and stuff. Peoples children are, peoples parents
and so there is that happening all the time
and so you will see what is happening here and happening here and then between.
Interviewer: And if you were dropped into this new earth what would you miss the
most about your life. Thomas McDonell: If I was dropped into
the earth that I just described.
The one in the future. From the show.
What would I miss most?
I don't know that is a good question.
It is all the comforts of contemporary life and civilization.
Everything - you know there is nothing left, yeah.
Interviewer: And what would be your survival plan?
Thomas McDonell: A survival plan were I to be dropped in the future into this planet.
Interviewer: With another 99 people.
Thomas McDonell: You have to find water. It is good when it rains.
Interviewer: Alright. Thomas McDonell: Yeah.
Interviewer: So just water? Thomas McDonell: Well that is one of the
first concerns of these people when they you know they have to find stuff that will
keep them alive actually and no one has ever been on earth before you know the
people that you know so they will have to find the stuff that they need.
Interviewer: Good choice and finally what was your most memorable moments filming
the pilot?
Thomas McDonell: We did this zero gravity stuff. That was really fun.
Interviewer: Thing where there was zero gravity. Thomas McDonell: No it was you know we
did special effects.
Yeah I'd love to do that though.
Interviewer: That was like that's really cool.
Thomas McDonell: Yeah that would be really good.