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Winterfest Interview with Brooke Rodriguez
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| Title: | Winterfest Interview with Brooke Rodriguez |
| Interviewer: | Winterfest |
| Interviewee: | Brooke Rodriguez |
| Date(s): | 2007 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Beauty and the Beast |
| External Links: | Winterfest Interview with Brooke Rodriguez, Archived version |
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In 2007, Brooke Rodriguez was interviewed for Winterfest. It has a focus of Beauty and the Beast, Carousel and Caverns Community and A Life Without Limits, a 20th anniversary convention.
See Winterfest Interview Series.
Some Excerpts
I wasn't aware of anything until the end of the 1st season. Then one day I read in the newspaper that the man who played the Beast was going to be speaking at a Hotel near LAX (Los Angeles airport). I couldn't get there fast enough. I was alone and scared to death. I ended up talking to another painfully shy person who turned out to be Don Davis who did the music. I also spoke to Howard Gordon who was one of the writers. One of the few dealers was selling T-Shirts and started a mailing list. I took her phone number home with me. Kimberly Hartman who did Helpers Network called me one day and asked me to start a fan club in my area. I didn't have a clue what to do so I called the lady with the mailing list. She set a date, time and place for a meeting and that is how our group started. We soon learned that the majority of us attended that first really small convention.
Once our local B&B group, Carousels & Caverns, had formed we would keep in contact with the Studio’s office from time to time - just to be nice and let them know that the fans appreciated them. Sometimes people in our group would bake - holiday cookies, etc. and we would send it over to the B&B offices. I usually wound up being the person to actually make the delivery since often my job and/or errands would take me by the general area of the studio. As a result, they sort of knew me there. Just to say hello to, nothing major. But on the last day of filming for Season 3, actually the last day of filming EVER, I went over to drop off a small gift that I had wanted to give to Roy Dotrice. It just so happened that Roy was walking by just as I got there! He invited me in, and I went, but was very much in shock and tried to be as unobtrusive as I possibly could.
For me, [visiting the set] took away the magic of believing. There are no more tunnels under the subway system of New York. The Tunnel Entrance is now just a dirty drainage ditch in Griffith Park with fake trees around it. The tunnels are painted Styrofoam on a movie set in a horrible industrial part of town. When I watch an episode I don't see the scene as it's supposed to be. I see all the technical things around it.