Living: Gabe Newell
Dead: Sir Terry Pratchett
Fictional: Commander Samuel Vimes
Stephen Hawking was the only person I’d have used this offer for, now I really can’t think of anyone. Brian Cox maybe?
That one guy’s dead wife obviously.
Keanu Reeves seems like such a nice guy! I haven’t heard a single bad thing about him!
Hmm.
Honestly John Rys Davies, based solely on Dominic Monaghan’s description of him ordering dinner when filming Lord of the Rings.
"John Rhys-Davies… took us to a restaurant. And it was when we’d only just started to get to know John. And we sat down at this huge, long table, and he said, “I think I will order the food for tonight.” And we said, “Oh, ok, on you go John.” And you know, we were having a conversation, and the waitress came over, and John ordered food that would probably have fed 35, maybe 40 people. And there were about 12 of us. And he just said, “We’ll have nine lobster and 15 shrimp, and 12 red snapper, 15 filet mignons, and some grilled mushrooms. I’ll have 12 onions and a wild boar…” You know? All this kind of stuff - just like, “Pheasants, and grouse, and - do you have partridge? Bring the partridge.”
Haha that’s great. I haven’t heard that before
While you have him, please ask him to play Le Cagot in a movie adaptation of Shibumi. I cannot think of a more perfect fit for an actor playing that role.
Living: Bobby Fingers
Dead: Nietzsche
Fictional: Ignatius J. Reilly
“Never meet your heros.” is as old as celebrity itself.
I think many of my heroes live larger in my mind than they could or should ever fulfill; they couldn’t possibly live up to that hype and I wouldn’t want to take it from them through the actuality.
Damn shame.
(Side-glance at you UK BBC.)
Joe Mama
Living: David Attenborough
Dead: Marilyn Monroe
Fictional: Ford Prefect
Brennan Lee Mulligan, would love to just geek out about ttrpg theory with him for 6 hours.
Living: Keanu Reeves
Dead: Marcus Aurelius
Fictional: Jean-Luc Picard
Wallace Shawn
George Washington Carter, my personal hero
Do I have to do it tonight, or can there be a ‘waiting period’? (I have nothing to wear…)
It would be interesting to talk to Decartes, but I don’t speak Français, so it would have to be… idk… Nick Bostrom would be interesting
