Wil Wheaton mentions Aaron in his latest blog entry ….

Note: This is a snippet of Wil Wheaton’s blog where he mentions Aaron. To read the full blog, click HERE.

Eureka: all the rage – day zero

Last night, I had dinner with my friend Aaron, who is also an actor and lives here. While we were waiting for our check, he asked me if I was excited to “go be an actor for a week.”

“I really am,” I said, “but I’m also a little nervous. I’ve spent so much time being a writer, I’m afraid that I’ll get stuck in my head once I’m on the set.”

I was talking about this thing that can happen to actors who are over-prepared or inexperienced. To really live in a scene and to really be connected to the other actors, we have to stay in each moment, reacting honestly and simply to what the other actors are doing. I do a ton of character preparation. In addition to knowing what my lines are, I know why I say each one. I know all sorts of stuff about my characters, because the more I know about a character, the wider my range is when I play him. I need to know what I want from each other character, what my purpose is in a scene, and then let all of that stuff fall away into some kind of subconscious background noise while I’m actually performing the scene … or I’m stuck in my head, thinking about things and watching things, instead of living in the scene.

I continued, “so I think I’ll probably be a little rusty at first, but I’ve done this long enough to trust that I’ll settle in. Not as quickly as I’d like, but I’ll settle in.”

“Well, I’m sure you’re going to have a great time,” he said, in that way one actor tells another to get the frak out of his own way, trust his instincts, and just enjoy the work, without really saying that. It’s sort of a pep talk between friends, I guess, and it’s one of those things that I just love about being an actor with some good friends.

Source: WWdN: In Exile

Wil Wheaton mentions Aaron in his latest blog entry ….

well, at least i got a good story out of it…

My table in the vendor’s room at the Phoenix Comicon was right next to Aaron Douglas. Aaron is a good friend, and he knows that I’m a huge fan of his show and admirer of his work. He also knows that I’m way behind on BSG (near the end of season 3) so he’s made this heroic effort to protect me from spoilers.

On the second day of the con, Gil Gerard walked over to Aaron and, with a huge smile on his face, very excitedly said, “Hey, Aaron! [GIANT FUCKING BSG SPOILER] man! Cool!”

I clamped my hands over my ears as fast as I could, but it was too late. When Gil walked away Aaron looked over at me with tremendous compassion behind his massive beard and said, “Sorry about that.”

“It’s my own fault,” I said, “and it’s actually pretty incredible that I’ve known you this long and been at cons with you without that happening.”

I let a solitary tear fall from my eye and splash onto my table. “I’ll be okay.”

I guess if you’re going to be spoiled, you should at least get a cool story out of it, and I bet there aren’t a lot of people who can say, “Oh yeah, Gil Gerard totally spoiled Battlestar for me.”

Goddamn my life is weird sometimes.

Source: WWdN: In Exile

If I’m remembering this correctly, Wil said during the ‘Geek Out’ guest panel that Gil’s spoiler was that Aaron was one of the final five cylons. Awwww, poor Wil.

wil’s 2009 phoenix comicon schedule

Friday, January 23rd
12:30-1:30pm – Geek Out With Wil Wheaton, Yuri Lowenthal, and Aaron Douglas
Yuri and I worked on Legion of Superheroes together, and instantly became friends when I dropped an obscure geek reference that he not only got, but topped with an equally-obscure reply (that I also got.) Yuri knows Aaron, and I spent most of a con in Sacramento last year sitting next to Aaron Douglas. It turns out that we’re all big geeks, so we thought it would be fun to spend an hour getting our geek on together. Topics of conversation will include voice acting and being a geek who gets to work on these geeky things that we love.

Friday, January 23rd
10pm – MOTHER FUCKING ROCK BAND BITCHES YEAH! \m/
This should be a lot of fun: I’ll play with three people at a time, taking whatever instrument they don’t want to play. We’re supposed to be there for an hour, but once we start rocking, we’ll be there until they pry our fake instruments from our cold, dead hands. There’s a very good chance Yuri and Aaron will join us for a song or two. Also, if all of this isn’t filmed and put online, I don’t know why we even bothered to fight the Spanish American war, people.

Source: WWdN: In Exile

Last weekend Aaron and Wil Wheaton were both guests at the From The Land Beyond convention in Sacramento. Wil mentioned Aaron in his latest blog ……..

Trip report: from the land beyond

I spent the entire day sitting at a table next to Aaron Douglas, who plays the Chief on BSG. We hit it off pretty quickly (it turns out that we have a mutual friend in Yuri Lowenthal, who I worked with on Legion and who I currently work with on Ben 10: Alien Force). If you get a chance to see him at a con, and you’re even a tiny fan of BSG, you should go for it. He’s really nice, totally unpretentious, and seems like a really good guy. I’m way behind on BSG (Nolan and I are still in the 3rd season on DVD) so I worked really hard – and Aaron helped – to avoid spoilers all day. As I said on Twitter, ” Aaron Douglas is awesome. A++++ WILL SIT NEXT TO AGAIN!1!”

Source: WWdN: In Exile