The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Bailey
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| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Bailey |
| Interviewer: | The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive |
| Interviewee: | Bailey |
| Date(s): | April 1, 2004 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | X-Men |
| External Links: | interview is here, Archived version |
| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Bailey was conducted in 2004.
Other Interviews in the Series
See The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview Series.
Some Excerpts
It’s funny, but I think I was writing fan fiction back in sixth grade or so. My teachers were always saying how creative I was when I wrote, what interesting characters I came up with... They obviously didn’t watch the same shows or read the same books as me, or they would have recognized Eastwood’s “The Man Without a Name”, or Cool Hand Luke, or Charlie Bucket, or Anne of Green Gables, or Laura Ingalls - I just took my favorite characters, gave them new names, and put them in new situations. And it fooled them every time.
Ah, you haven’t seen my attempts at writing about Mystique! They’re on the XMMFF site. I find her quite fascinating. Don’t think I quite “get” her, but god she’s sexy, isn’t she?I’d love to write about Magneto - he’s the coolest villian I’ve ever seen. But he intimidates me too much. He’s too cultured, and I am so not cultured. I don’t think I could tackle him (ah, but if I were an older woman, what I wouldn’t give for a chance to tackle that Mr. McKellen, eh? Oh, make that if I were an older man - not that there’s anything wrong with that. He’s so great).
Logan and Rogue gave each other these *looks* in the movies that seemed real to me. Hell, the Wolverine’s plain hot and I always like the potentially bad guy (in movies, not in real life - my boyfriend’s a teddy bear and I like him that way). And Rogue’s mutation is just so amenable to angst, I can’t pass that up.
It’s a little manic-depressive? I’m an insanely happy and energetic person (ask my poor officemate who has to deal with my singing and dancing) with a dark, depressing, angsty, morbid, slightly sadistic side. Good lord, my favorite movies of my entire life are (1) Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and (2) Monster's Ball. Go figure. One thing I love about movies (good movies, that is) is that they give you room to take the characters lots of different directions in your head. Take Willy Wonka - is he a twisted, sadistic, creepy pedophile? Or is he a loving, eccentric, honest dreamer? At the end of Monsters’ Ball - has Hank shaken off his father’s racism and his own anger? Or is he going to turn around and call Leticia a n----- the first time they have an argument? I think a good movie leaves you with room for speculation. And I love to speculate.