More on Kate and the bat

Kate Flannery was nice enough to answer a few questions about working with a bat during last week’s ‘Business School’ episode:

OT: I assume you were acting with an animatronic bat during the garbage bag scene. What was that like? Was it being remote-controlled off-camera? Or was Rainn operating the bat? Or was it fancy editing, and nothing was actually IN the garbage bag?

Kate: We went from real bat (which we had to be extremely quiet around! basically pretending to scream!) to animatron bat — operated by a guy who was literally on my ass with a stick attached to the bat — to a motorized bat to just the bag. It was pretty wild.

OT: How many takes did you have to shoot?

Kate: I’d say we did about 5 takes of each stage.

OT: What was Joss Whedon’s direction to you?

Kate: Joss was great — he’s not afraid to work with a bat! He told me to just keep the bag as close to my face as possible.

OT: How hoarse were you by the end of it? — you did a lot of screaming!

Kate: I did a lot of screaming. I am actually pretty good at it — I screamed in a stage show in NYC for 8 shows a week — so I learned how to not hurt myself. But I was a little out of practice so I had some ice cream.

Read more at Kate’s TV Guide blog. (Thanks, Kate!)

P.S. Kate recently appeared on the TV Guide Channel show, What’s ON?, and the Adam Carolla radio show (97.5 in LA) — if you have a link to clips, let me know!

13 comments

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   1. kayla  Thu. Feb. 22, 2007 | 10:14am

   That scene was too funny. And her hair and face when the camera pans to her after Dwight says “you’re welcome”? Genius.

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   2. Tori Weber  Thu. Feb. 22, 2007 | 10:19am

   Very cool of Kate to answer these questions!

   That scene will go down as one of my Office favorites.

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   3. Pamcasso  Thu. Feb. 22, 2007 | 10:38am

   Woo hoo - did you read that she was “so impressed” with Jenna in this episode - and that it’s very “juicy”….hmmmmm………

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   4. Brad  Thu. Feb. 22, 2007 | 11:01am

   I wanna know what her bleeped out line was in the deleted scene. It cracked me up and I don’t even know what she said! Something about Roy and rice. lol

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   5. Bryant  Thu. Feb. 22, 2007 | 11:23am

   maybe they’ll “unbleep” her in season 3 dvd….*fingers crossed*

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   6. temp  Thu. Feb. 22, 2007 | 11:32am

   That was one of the funniest scenes ever. She’s a riot.

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   7. adamcarolla  Thu. Feb. 22, 2007 | 11:32am

   http://podcast.971freefm.com/klsx1/240966.mp3

   kate on adam carolla

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   8. What's Second Base?  Thu. Feb. 22, 2007 | 12:35pm

   I don’t think what she actually said is important - the joke is that they had to bleep out practically all of it. Revealing what she said wouldn’t be as funny as just the idea that they had to bleep everything except the word ‘rice’.

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   9. tanster  Thu. Feb. 22, 2007 | 1:03pm

   Thanks for the Adam Carolla link! — wish they had let Kate talk more …

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    10. JimHalpertIsLife  Thu. Feb. 22, 2007 | 2:18pm

    speaking of links there’s an opinionated article revolving about JAM on meevee..
    http://content.meevee.com/?q=node/fullstory/1979
    no spoilers or anythig.. just someone arguing that they should get together or no one will care anymore

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    11. tanster  Thu. Feb. 22, 2007 | 3:46pm

    Thanks, GMMR!

    Actually, GMMR works for Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC, and the WB. ;)

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    12. CrazyGringa  Thu. Feb. 22, 2007 | 4:25pm

    How cool that you got to interview Kate! You go girl!

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    13. CrazyGringa  Thu. Feb. 22, 2007 | 4:26pm

    I used to say “raise the roof” but that’s lame… ;o)

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