>> Mike: We're back. Our first guest is nominated for a Gemini for his portrayal of Nick Haskell in Black Harbour. You might remember him as Nick Knight in Forever Knight. Welcome Geraint Wyn-Davies. (Applause) Geraint Wyn-Davies, ladies and what a great name. >>GWD: Thanks >> Mike: It almost sounds like your daddy's yacht broke down out front and you walked in. >>GWD: Actually, I should have a little polo on, right now. Actually, I do work on the East coast and I work on yachts. It's great. >> Mike: How did you get that name? >> GWD: My mom and dad went to see an opera in London before I was born in Wales, called, Gerontonius, and there's a Welsh name, Geraint, ah that means tip of the spear. >>Mike: Wow >>GWD: I'm not going to go anywhere there. >> Mike: Keep talking -- I feel like I'm in Stratford. >>GWD: Actually, that was my first job - carrying a spear at Stratford. Yeah, it means tip of the spear, and it's just a regular Welsh name. In one of the villages that I grew up in - there were four of us. >> Mike: Oh, you were born in Wales? >>GWD: Yep. There were four of us there, and here -- no one! Is anybody named Geraint out there? Okay, does want to be named Geraint? Okay we have, what, seven Geraints! >>Mike: Actually, there's more involved. You have to go to court, pay a lawyer. >>GWD: Okay. >> Mike: So you came here from Wales, at what age? >> GWD: Six and-a-half. >> Mike: Wow. Incredible. Now what possessed you to pick up and go? >> GWD: My dad's a preacher, and my mom's a, a teacher, are they decided Canada would be a good place to come. >> Mike: So even then, you did what you were told. >> GWD: Actually more so, to be honest. >> Mike: So, when you got here, when did you start acting? >> GWD: Before I got here, actually -- acting as if I wanted to come! >> Mike: Atta boy! The ink isn't dry on the green card, slag Canada, smart move. Now you've won awards for your portrayal of Hamlet,that was at Stratford? >>GWD: No,that was in England. >> Mike: Oh, in England you won for Hamlet, the home of Hamlet, you won on the home turf, not even on the road show. You won for Hamlet in England? Wow, Lawrence Olivier played Hamlet. Were you up against him? >>GWD: He won a bigger award than I did. I got the "not quite as good as Olivier award." >>Mike: Now do you love doing Shakespeare? >>GWD: Yeah, absolewtly, but it's just part of the whole package. I mean I love doing Black Harbour and Forever Knight. >> Mike: We'll get to those .>>GWD: Absolewtly. It's a whole different set of muscles than you use, when you get to something - you know -- we do television we get a whole day to try to get one scene right. >> Mike: Right. >>GWD: And we have three and-a-half hours to spend together in the theatre to tell a whole lifetime. So that's a lot of -- >> Mike: You did Stratford and from there you went, and this is a stretch, the return of the 6 million dollar man. The six million- dollar man. You actually did the tv movie. >>GWD: I was a bionic bad guy. I saw a write-up outside the studio tonight, a huge poster with Sandy Bullock on it, and this was one of Sandy's first jobs. She played a bionic girl, I was a bionic guy who tried to make out with her but she fell in love with a bionic sports guy, and then the original bionic man, lee majors, and lindsey wagner was the bionic woman -- >>Mike: And nine months later she gave birth to a boom-box! You -- not only are you a great actor, going from Shakespeare to bad tv, but, you also direct, which I find amazing. What have you directed? >>GWD: Mostly stuff that I'm in. >> Mike: You hold the camera like that? >> GWD: On Forever Knight we had a thing called an ego cam and I would waltz around the room carrying the thing and the crew would be on coffee break, and I'd say, "that was good!" But the problem was that the camera was so close it made me look like a fish. So they didn't use it that much. Yeah, I've directed myself -- I guess I've done 16 hours of tv. It works out really well. I enjoy being in it because I have one less thing to worry about. >> Mike: Are you planning to direct at Stratford later on? >>GWD: I don't know if I could sit and watch it that often. I'm kidding! That's a bad thing to say. >> Mike: I don't think you should be dissing Stratford -- I was there in grade 8 and Ienjoyed it thoroughly. (Applause) >> GWD: It's funny, you know, you work at Stratford and a student I was there from about grade nine to 13 as well, and you only ever catch the first act because your always trying to use that fake I.D. At the local bar. >> Mike: Stratford made a smart move taking out the smoking area. The kids stay for the whole play now. What's in store for your character on Forever Knight -- >>GWD: That's off the air. >> Mike: Sorry, I knew that. By the way, we had an argument today. I said you were a day walker that. >>GWD: No... >> Mike: Somebody said you were a vampire, a vampire who could be up 24 hours a day. >> GWD: No, he started smoking literally. He was very light sensitive. >> Mike: I could have sworn I saw scenes where you're like walking around in a park at noon. >>GWD: It's sort of like the pyrotechnics you talked about earlier. >> Mike: So, on Black Harbour, what's in store? >> GWD: I get to make mad passionate love to younger women and I bond with a tuna. -- (laughing) >>Mike: Younger tuna? >>GWD: A lightweight tuna. Actually, it's a tin (laughter) but there's a lot of things in store -- >>GWD: Actually, I'd like to read aloud from the book on Forever Knight. How big is it? Can I read that from there? >> Mike: I was just playing a little joke on the crew. Hello, everybody? I was just playing a little joke wanted to see how well everybody knew me after eleven months? Apparently, no one! Good luck on the Geminis on Sunday. Hope you win. Provided we don't another nominee on tomorrow! >>GWD: Yeah, Paul Mike: There's more to come! Jane lynn white. (Music) (applause) >>Mike: Her interview list from her days at new Music reads like the cover of rolling Stone. Today she's in one on one show, with old and are wiser stars, old and are wiser than they were before. Please welcome Jane Lynn White. (Music) (applause) >> Mike: Sitting with the two of you I feel like some horrible birth experiment gone awry! You two of the most physically beautiful people I've ever seen in my all life. transcribed Jan 21/99 81kilo@home.com