Unfortunately Mark Sheppard had
to cancel about a week or so before the event, due to work
commitments but everyone else was still on course to appear.
Randomly checked twitter on the Thursday night just to see if
Miracle Laurie or Dichen Lachman had tweeted that they were
already in the UK (trying not to panic about Volcanic ash
disruption) when I saw Miracle mention that she had dinner with
old friends including Enver! It could have been a wicked red
herring but I was hoping that she had let the surprise guest out
of the bag. That said though it was too late though for me to do
a 'Victor' portrait.
The opening ceremony - Miracle, Dichen,
Fran and yes - Enver!! and finally Tahmoh were announced in
turn. Fran's mannerisms are very Topher-esque and you could see
he was extremely nervous as it was his first Convention, Enver's
too - but he seemed far more relaxed. The cheer for Enver was
huge, I gathered that lots of people hadn't checked Twitter.
At the meet and greet it took a
while for the first guest to get to our table - we had a few Con
newbies on ours their enthusiasm was infectious. Tahmoh came
over first, he is very softly spoken and although he was sitting
two places away I really struggled to hear him talk. Fran next
and he was trying to overcome his nervousness, he'd just flown
in from St Petersburg and was jetlagged too - he chatted to us
about asking the Simpson's team to do a Topher picture which he
showed us on his phone. Miracle and Dichen both recognised
myself and my friend from last year, we talked to Dichen about
politics and The Wire - a favourite show of hers, which she is
crusading. Miracle fessed up to her Twitter mistake.
