Felicia Day

Hey all!  Went on Jimmy Fallon last night, he is such a nice person, as are all the people who work over there, including producers Mark and Gavin. Doing a talk show is pretty nerve wracking, but having done it once already, it was actually fun!  Here’s the interview we did:

And here’s the trailer Bioware released this morning, super cool!

I am so excited to share this with you this summer! Right now I’m heading back to LA from doing interviews and plan to go underground to get the Guild script done (and to avoid having people get sick of my face online, haha), but here are some interviews I’ve done about the project the last few days, if you’re curious:
Newsarama
MTV

IO9

Kotaku
Many months of post-production work ahead to get the episodes together, director@peterwinther is so awesome though, we are in good hands. Alright, thank you so much for your enthusiastic response to the announcements, after 11 months of insanely hard work, it was such a gift to see

Almost eleven months ago, my agent@georgeruiz called me and said he’d had a conversation with someone from EA/Bioware about the possibility of working together, but they weren’t sure on what. Thus started the LONG road to today, when I can announce my next project: Dragon Age Redemption. USA Today was nice enough to cover us HERE and in print.  Also, here’s a profile on me as a gamer with a different picture.  What an amazing way to tell the world about my new baby!

I have had a TON of opportunities to work with amazing people in the last few years, but my ability to balance something other than The Guild was a real challenge. When I finally reached a place where I felt like I COULD do something else in between seasons, I was very very picky. I never want to go backwards, I always want to challenge myself and the web video space. So, nothing struck a nerve with me until the name “Dragon Age” came up. One of my favorite games, and they would let me write in it? Act in it? Be an ELF in it?! Really?! Um, can we shoot YESTERDAY?!

To pull off a full fantasy world on a web series budget is near impossible. But to do Dragon Age justice, I had to try. I called everyone I knew in my almost decade-long Hollywood career and asked them, “Do you want to work on something cool?” The awesome part of this is that they read the script that I wrote, (After ANOTHER DA playthrough and TONS of hours of research, I even read the novels!) and instead of recommending an assistant or a colleague, they agreed to work on the project themselves. Wow! Peter Winther, who produced a short I acted in years ago, who’s an amazing director and who loves fantasy novels as much as I do, agreed to direct, he got John Bartley, the DP from Lost to agree to do the project. My friend Dan Kaplow who produces United States of Tara came on board to produce with@kimevey and me. Greg Aronowitz, Guild favorite, did the production design and SFX makeup (and designed my outfit), Shawna@trpcic agreed to come do costume design, (we worked together on Dr. Horrible), I contacted Doug Jones on TWITTER and asked him if he would be interested, on and one and on. Down the line, every single crew member pulled all the strings they had to bring a world alive. And Kim and I treated them to a coffee truck every morning in exchange. It was kinda the least we could do, haha.

I will be talking about this project a LOT in the coming months, so I don’t want to talk about too much too soon, but I can tell you that I’ve gotten to work with some of the most amazing people I’ve ever worked with during this process, on the Bioware side and on the filmmaking side. I am the hardest-core fantasy fan there is, so every detail had to be as amazing as we could get it! And the results are turning out to be…well, you’ll see.

We shot 12 days in January, and keeping it under wraps was so incredibly challenging! I look forward to telling you about every aspect, and showing you some amazing episodes full of magic, stunts and…well, quippiness. Oh, and I’ll be on Jimmy Fallon to premiere the teaser exclusively, so be sure to spread the word and tune in! I have a beautiful dress I got just for the occasion!!!

In a few weeks I will be able to speak a LOT more about something I’ve literally been working on since LAST MARCH.  So…I’m not talking about it more   Rather, here’s a list of random things I’m enjoying lately between working!

DOWNTON ABBY

My friend @Lbartsch linked this series to me last week before I went on vacation.  I hadn’t heard about it, but on first click my corset drama obsession reared it’s ugly head, and I watched all the episodes streaming on PBS.  GREAT acting, wonderful scripts, obsess-worthy characters.  Upstairs Downstairs in TV form, I’ve heard unedited versions can be purchased on iTunes as well, so…I think I will go to there

ALASTAIR REYNOLDS
I discovered Alastair Reynolds over my holiday, and I AM OBSESSED.  House of Suns is a stand-alone I believe, but the author has a body of work I’m gonna start lapping up as you can tell from my effusive House of Suns Goodreads Review.  Between this author and Iain Banks, I feel like I’m in my own personal sci-fi revival!  Now I’m obsessed with writing my own sci-fi web series

SOLIPSKIER

A better browser game I haven’t played in a long time. Many screenshots and text pictures between me and a few friends trying to beat each others’ scores. I have yet to win, but the fun of it is monumental. Strangely, the game is even MORE fun on iPad/iPhone. Love when that happens

SPF 100 BABY!

I just went to Maui for 6 days and I used this crap all over every day, didn’t get burned at all. I used a zinc/titanium dioxide physical sunscreen on my face (since that is the only 100% way to block the rays according to my dad) but for a spray, this kept my fish underbelly white skin crystal clear!

Instagr.am

Gross, another social network. I’m kinda sick of providing my personal content to inflate someone’s service, but Instagr.am really knocks it out of the park with photo sharing, much better than the abysmal yfrog and twitpic. Also the filters make you feel like you’re fancy, even when you’re not. This is a service that Flickr should have provided a year ago for mobile users. It better get something going soon, or Instagram will fill the void totally! Of course FAIL PART: I can’t link a picture in my account here because it’s totally mobile SO I HAD TO UPLOAD IT TO FLICKR. Ugh, GUYS PLEASE BE COMPREHENSIVE SOON!

Shaky Alibi

I will assert that this might be the best cappuccino in LA. The foam is just so good. And try the Belgian Liege waffles while you’re there, I guess they’re the only place in town that makes them fresh. Mmmm!

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Oh BTW, we’re doing a Guild Comic and Season 4 launch signing at Barnes and Noble in LA, at The Grove this month! Feb 22, 7pm, Q/A then signing. Come say hi, various other cast members will be there!