While we were speaking, the ‘Lizzie Bennet Diaries’ DVD Kickstarter surpassed its goal of $60,000. It had been online for less than three hours:
The DVD Kickstarter was released today. How does it feel to know someone is happy to pay $250 to have you record them a voicemail message? You look worried, did you know that’s what you’re going to be doing?
Oh yes, Bernie was wise enough to ask for my permission before offering. It’s not like, “‘A lock of Daniel Vincent Gordh’s hair’ – what? I didn’t agree to that.”
‘The ability to clone him in 30 years.’
Oh well, I wouldn’t mind a few more Daniel Vincent Gordh’s running around. They would be my army!
I don’t think the fans would complain.
Hopefully no one would complain. I would have them working on really good stuff.
More shows?
Yeah, more shows, or maybe build me a spaceship or something.
How does it feel? It feels a bit surreal. Throughout this process I don’t really know how to conceive of it. I have been doing this a long time, but this is the first time in my career that I have had this amount of engagement with me, and people have cared this much about my work. It’s still at a point where I have nothing to say except for thank you. To me, I’m just a normal human being, who’s trying to get by and living my life, but at the same time I have people whose work I really respect. It’s surreal.
It’s a strange way to quantify it, because while there are a lot of fan appreciation things floating around tumblr, now you know someone will literally spend $250 just so you record them a voicemail.
I also like to think that they believe in the project and want to support it. There’s an amount that it feels, to me at least, that it’s really nice to see people who are willing to pay for something that, a lot of it, they can see for free. Because I think there’s partially a realization from people that we’ve gotten this gift, people have done this for us.
Because none of us have done this for the money, it’s not like we’re making tons of money from these projects, we do legitimately need the support to create more of this content. And over the last year a tremendous amount of people have been watching this at no cost to themselves. So in that way, it feels like they’re saying thank you. So in that way I’m like, you’re welcome.
I don’t know anything about this book or next project though. I am probably behind a lot of people on what this project is – I read the Kickstarter too and was like “I don’t get it.”
So they haven’t asked you to be involved in Welcome to Sanditon? Because it’s Darcy’s company.
I know Allion [Paige, Gigi Darcy] is involved. I’ll probably talk to Bernie next time I see him and be like, “Spill it. What actually is this?” It sounds interesting, I just haven’t gotten involved in any part of that next project yet, but I am very curious to find out what it’s going to be. And I trust the team, because they all care tremendously, so I know that none of them take their jobs working on this stuff lightly. Whether or not people like it is another issue, but I know that they’re doing their best.
If they asked you to film a couple more of the Domino phone calls or something similar, would you be up for that?
I would gladly do that, if they asked me. Who knows what the future holds. I also love Allison, she’s a good friend and a talented actress and a wonderful person. As are everyone I work with, so I’d love to.
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