As part of his interview on TV Guide with John Fugelsang & Teresa Strasser that we posted on a previous occasion (Link), Alex also did the ‘TV Guide Water Cooler Quiz’ with them.
Teresa: Hey everybody, welcome back to TV Water Cooler. Alex O’Loughlin, or as I like to call him Count ‘Hotchula’ from Moonlight is here. Now our interview with a vampire takes a turn to the dark side as Alex faces his worst fear yet, The Cooler Quiz.
John: ‘Renfield’, lights!
[Laughs]
John: That’s my ‘Renfield’ impression.
Alex: Very good.
John: Alex, your character became a vampire in 1952 at age 30.
Alex: Yes.
John: That makes you 86 years old.
Alex: Yes.
John: Isn’t that a bit young for CBS?
[Laughs]
Alex: Is there ….Yes.
John: Correct.
Teresa: Alex, this might be a personal question, but what’s the most delicious tasting blood type?
Alex: O positive.
Teresa: Yes.
Alex: Excellent finish.
Teresa: Nice nose.
Alex: Thank you.
John: Yes the oldest blood type. Recently your character was temporarily made human.
Alex: Hmmm.
John: You’re Australian.
Alex: I am.
John: Couldn’t you do that to Rupert Murdoch?
Alex: OH! He’s a gorgeous man.
Teresa: I agree
John: We’ll accept that answer.
Teresa: I agree, cause you know what, uncle Rupee could buy and sell all of us.
Alex: Rupee.
Teresa: We love you Rupee.
Alex: I love you Rupee.
John: Right.
Teresa: Okay, so you’re on TV Guide’s sexiest list. Who do you find sexy?
Alex: Ahh … My mom is really … have you seen my mom? Have you?
Teresa: We can’t accept that. We can’t accept that.
Alex: Ah …. Seal ….. And I find Seal sexy and Tom Hanks and Heidi Klum and Jack Black.
Teresa: We’ll take that.
John: We’ll accept that. You’re a vampire. Do vegetarians really taste better?
Alex: No.
John: Oh, I’m so disappointed.
Alex: I’m sorry. No.
Teresa: Please say this line, “A dingo ate my baby”.
Alex: “A dingo ate my baby”.
[Laughs]
Alex: I did that in ..
Teresa: Where?
Alex: Nothing.
John: What was scarier, Francis Coppola’s Dracula, or the ingredients in Count Chocula’s cereal?
Alex: [Laughs] The cereal was …
John: That’s correct. Much scarier.
Alex: Thank you.
John: Much scarier
Teresa: I read that you were considered for the role of 007.
Alex: Yeah.
Teresa: What in the world does Daniel Craig have that you don’t?
Alex: I love talking about that. It’s the role that I didn’t get. We should talk about more roles I didn’t get.
Teresa: You know what we could talk about some girls who broke up with you too, later.
Alex: OH!
John: Okay. That’s worse than being undead. And finally, you’re a singer songwriter like fellow Aussies Nick Cave and Olivia Newton. What’s the name of your favourite song that you’ve written?
Alex: Am I really a singer songwriter? Ah … “Balls” . What’s the name of …
John: What’s the name of your favourite song you’ve written?
Teresa: That was it.
Alex: It’s called …
Teresa: “Balls”.
Alex: “Balls”, I think.
Teresa: Okay, let’s leave it at that. Alex.
John: Okay.
Teresa: Thank you so much, for being such a good sport.
Alex: Thank you.
Teresa: And obviously that song is about Cricket.
Alex: Yeah.
Teresa: Check out the final 3 episodes of Moonlight first season, Fridays on CBS.
John: Coming up, “Lost” teaches us about the secret of the second-hand smoke monsters. What we just uncovered about more of the Island’s secret.
Teresa: But first breaking news on Miley Cyrus controversial photo Is it threatening her Hanna Montana franchise?
John: Balls
Teresa: Why Tom Cruise is bouncing over at Oprah. And how J.Lo is keeping it real. Stick around.
John: Alex O’Loughlin.
Teresa: Alex O’Loughlin.
Alex: Thank you.
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My Thoughts:
- In the coming up section right at the end, there was some interesting coincidences that caught my eye.
- They talk about ‘Lost’ – of course just 2 years later Alex would be working with Daniel Dae Kim on a permanent basis and later many other actors from ‘Lost’ on Hawaii Five-0.
- And they talk about J.Lo keeping it real – I doubt that if someone told Alex on that day of this interview, that just over a year later (in June 2009) he would be filming a movie with Jennifer, that he would have believed it.
- I found it really funny that they would compare Alex’s singing-songwriting to that of Nick and Olivia – Always wonder where these interviewers or their research people get their info from?
- For those that might not know: “A dingo ate my baby“ is a phrase attributed to Lindy Chamberlain and also to Meryl Streep’s depiction of Chamberlain in the movie A Cry in the Dark (1988) – also known as Evil Angels – about the death of Azaria Chamberlain, an Australian baby girl who died in 1980 at Uluru in the Northern Territory.
- And: R. M. Renfield is a fictional character and an antagonist in Bram Stoker’s 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.
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