Witchbomb. Saturday part 1

Saturday started with the photo ops. And we certainly had a packed couple of hours. Particular praise to Kat and Dom, for getting through a very long line of people wanting their duo photo impressively quickly, while finding time to make every person feel valued and given time. It moved faster than the line I was in and some of us ended up shuttling from one side of the photo room to the other to get it all done.

Saturday saw the first of the uniform photos. Emilie had brought two uniforms with her and Saturday was the lab coat, which is just iconic of Izadora. Several of us dressed in lab coats as well. This led to a number of interesting discussions in the queues, who were scientists / medics in real life and who was cos playing. Yes, I understand that you can do both.

This is Emilie as Izadora. Normally I don’t agree with cropping photo op pictures, but this was my photo op and I have edited myself out of it. Yes, I was in a lab coat too. And I got Emilie to autograph it later. It was probably my favourite photo of the weekend.

The autograph sessions are normally a time to chat, while in a long queue. But the sessions had been split in half so things were easier to manage. And we had the chaos that is the Hickson sisters.

Taylor was signing autographs and Tiernan was there ‘helping’, allegedly. At one point, Amalia had gone to take a break and that left the table next to Taylor temporarily free and Tiernan was around and she has the same chaotic energy that Taylor has. Several fans already knew her from her video channel and someone asked her to sign their convention poster. Then other people wanted her to sign their posters too and she soon had her own autograph queue. And it was a loud queue. Of course Taylor noticed and stopped signing autographs to get her phone out and take photos of her sister signing autographs. Everybody was quite happy to let her get on with it, even sorting out suitable pens for her. In real life they are just as chaotic as they are in Tiernan’s videos. Sanity was only restored when Amalia returned to reclaim her table.

Now I am going to get a bit out of chronological order, leaving the Dom and Kat panel to the next post. Emilie did a solo panel, but it clashed with one of the fan meets that I was doing, meaning that I only caught the end of it. So here is what I got.

I missed the actual question, but Emilie started to explain that when she was hired Izadora was only estimated to be in about 3 episodes. But then the pandemic hit and things changed for the second season. It was easier to hire local actors for filming because it was very difficult to get anyone to come due to the pandemic restrictions. Even getting people from other parts of Canada was difficult and getting people internationally was very problematic.

This helped locals like herself and Cat. She explained that she only lived about 15 minutes away from the studio. And then people get sick and things have to be flexible. That really played into her character.

Brian (Studler) was fascinated by Izadora. He pushed for the character to develop. So she became an actor in service of the story.

Question. Which episode would you pick, if every character in the episode was played by a muppet?

[When she stopped laughing]. 3.09, the wedding episode. Camarilla. Fighting. Getting her throat slit. With Penelope. Weird with muppets, but why not? Dark choice.

Question. What was the worst thing you got away with as a child?

Emilie, it was so long ago. He had it coming. She explained that she was the youngest of three children. She had a brother 4 years older and a sister 2 ½ years older. The brother would team up to bully people. So she and her sister decided to team up together, they were very competitive. She was maybe 8 and her brother was 12. It was winter, so they put snow under his jacket till he cried.