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Could you link any original sources where the entire cast/crew talks about Rayllum?

“It’s a very emotional moment where our main character thinks he’s about to lose the love of his life, ‘cause she’s plummeting to her certain death.” —Frederik Weidmann on The Leap (tdp composer)

“I gotta say, speaking to the Rayllum fans out there, um, I — I cannot say enough nice things about Jack and Paula, and how realistically and like chaotically and awkwardly they do teen — teen love and teen romance, because it’s — I just love it. I think they do it so well, they’re such — you know, there’s such honesty and reality to like, you know, the little like jabs at each other, or you know, and the artists too, of course, giving them their little sideways glances and stuff, it’s really really lovely. And yeah, I—I’m excited to see what the future has in store for, for Callum and Rayla.” —Jesse Inocalla (hot brown morning potion podcast #6)

“Oh yeah, you know, I was saying this — we had a party here, a week or two ago now, where we had, it was like a Bardel cast and crew gathering, we got to bring our friends, we watched through the entire show, and something that kinda remarked on me, as I was watching it again, was like, I love how Jack and Paula do like teen romance so well. Like, they’re so starry eyed for each other, and like, it’s so clear that, oh my God, they’re so desperately in love with each other, as you only are when you’re a teenager, and just, it’s really really beautiful. They kill it this season [...] Yeah and it’s like, it strikes me as very natural, and very like — it just it’s really well done, all around. Props to everybody involved in Rayllum being a thing.” —Jesse Inocalla (interview podcast + racquel belmonte)

“And I will tell you, there was s storyboard that came back for episode 4, and it’s after they’ve pulled [Captain] Villads’ ship over to the island in the storm, and Callum and Rayla are sitting on the edge of the boat, and there’s flash of lightning. And in that storyboard, in that flash, there was something about the way Rayla’s looking at him where we all went, ‘Ohhhhhh!’ Everyone in the room saw it.” —Aaron Ehasz (co-creator)

“[The almost confession scene in 2x09] was such a shocking moment to read in the script, I remember being so excited, Rayla changes so much with this” —Paula Burrows (2x09 cast & crew commentary)

“I was actually, I was kinda thinking like, if Callum were taking Rayla on a date in the human kingdoms, I feel like his first instinct would be to try to do like, a date fit for a prince more or less. Like, he saw the way that Harrow treated Sarai, and you know, she was upgraded from a more normal life to the life of royalty, and I think like, because he’s young and because he doesn’t—he’s not really done this before, he would have a sort of like impulsive panic to just be like, “Okay, we’re gonna have a fancy feast, we’re gonna dine in the great hall, we’re gonna wear fancy clothes.” And I actually think it would go kinda poorly for a while, like Rayla doesn’t really want this stiff formality on the date, and I think like, to me it ends up as something like, they abandon all pretence and go sit up on one of the rooftops of uh, the castle and—the stargazing thing was such a nice thing that maybe like that kinda scene plays out between them, after this.” —Devon Giehl (TDP’s head writer)

“Jason Simpson (Viren’s VA): [speaking about Rayla and Sarai holding Callum] Love the parallels though, right? The hugging and the comforting— Justin Richmond (co-creator): I remember the boards on this coming back, and they were like this, and then they changed them slightly and I was like no no no, put it back put it back to what it was, it was so intimate.” (2x09 cast & crew commentary)

“I think, initially, Rayla demands that Callum plans the date, but Callum turns that around kinda, by saying show me more beautiful places in Xadia, but surprise me. Like, this is what I want, but you’re the one who has to like, pick the places and show me like, you know, like Aladdin show me the world kind of thing. So, um, I’m gonna pretend that they have, I don’t know, a phoenix or one of those cool, flying Sunfire mounts or something just to make this part easy, um, but I think they—she kinda takes him to a bunch of extremely magical beautiful places in Xadia, as many as they can fit into one night. And then Callum flips out about a bunch of different magical things and Rayla kinda glows when she sees Callum so excited about all these different things that he’d never he’d see in his whole life, and Callum tries like, some spells in different kinda primal source power locations that he’s been studying in the years post-Dragon Prince Season Three. She’s extremely impressed.” —Iain Hendry (another main writer)

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dork-empress · 6 years

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Actor Interview: The Tonight Show

Part of my ‘100 Dragon Prince AUs’ Oneshot Collection

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The actors for the live action show 'The Dragon Prince' are interviewed on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon about their experiences.

I just used the VA names for the actors, I'm hoping they are easily understandable, except for Amaya's actor who I made up a name for.

“From their new show ‘The Dragon Prince’ please welcome, Jack de Sena, Paula Burrows, Raquel Belmonte, and Jesse Inocalla!”

Four well dressed teens stepped out and took their seats on a pair of couches, Raquel and Jesse above and Jack and Paula below. “Welcome, welcome,” Jimmy Fallon said, “So, the Dragon Prince is all about fantasy, dragons, elves, mages, etc. What does it take to make that world?”

“A lot of make-up,” Paula, who plays Rayla immediately piped up, earning a laugh from the audience.

“Honestly, I will say, the art design on the show is simply incredible,” Raquel, who played Claudia, said. “Like I think there is some assumption that all of the effects are CGI, and a lot of them are, but there’s a lot that is right there and made for us to interact with. The costumes, the sets, the props, it really just puts you into that space, and helps you believe all of it is real.”

“That’s awesome, Jimmy said, “Now Paula, you brought up your make-up, how much is involved to get you into that elf look on the show, we have a picture here.” He brought up the picture of Rayla.

“It can be a bit intense, I have to be on set a couple hours before everyone else. ” she said, “We went with a wig that I have to put on every morning, along with purple foundation all on my face and arms, and then I have the horns which are a, uh...not sure what the name for the material is, but it’s like a foam prosthetic piece that clips to the wig. It was the worst with the river episode, because they had to seal it on so that the makeup wouldn’t run, and that was the WORST thing to try and get off at the end of the day.”

“Right,” Jimmy said, bringing up a behind the scenes photo to show her soaking wet, and wearing a green sleeve on her finger “and they digitally remove your pinky finger for every episode, is that right?”

“Yeah, because elves only have four fingers,” she nodded, “which is an interesting little detail, I think they just try and show my hands as little as possible.”

“Awesome,” Jimmy smiled, “Now, Jesse, you play a knight, is that right? Did you have to do a lot of training for that.”

“Uh, yeah,” Jesse said, “I play Soren who...well he has armor and fights with a sword, which I think is close enough to a knight. I’ve actually done some sword fighting when I was younger, fencing and then later re-enactment kinda fighting, which is very different. But I still worked with a fight choreographer for the show, and she really taught me a lot.”

“Oh wow, amazing,” Jimmy said, shuffling through his cards, “Now, Jack: Rayla, or Claudia?”

The audience laughed as Jack smiled meekly. Paula and Raquel each raised their eyebrows, very interested in his answer, “Uh, well, um,” he swallowed, “Soren, definitely.”

“Yeah!” Jesse said, giving him a high five and making the audience laugh again.

“Uh, but really I think we have something on the show that’s nice where there isn’t so much that focus on romance. Like, Callum seems to have a crush on Claudia, but it doesn’t really affect his actions so, we’ll just have to see where we go with that in future seasons.”

The audience applauded. “Alright, now a question for all of you: there are a lot of great actors working on ‘The Dragon Prince’ who is your favorite to work with?”

“Sasha!” Paula immediately piped up, “He plays Ezran, who couldn’t be here tonight, unfortunately, but he is just the best ever. He’s so sweet, just like Ezran, and he’s basically like the little brother I never had.”

The audience ‘awwws’ as the question turns to Jesse, “I would have to say Raquel,” he put a shoulder on her arms, “We do a lot of scenes together as brother and sister, and it’s just always fun, she’s great to play off of.”

“Aww,” Raquel said, putting her head on his shoulder, “For me it’s Jason Simpson who plays our Dad Viren.” Jesse removes his arm with an exaggerated ‘disgusted’ gesture. “No! It’s just he’s so much nicer than he is in the show, and he’s always there to help, he’s a great show-dad. Also his actual kids are adorable and I love them.”

The question turned to Jack finally, who thought long and hard about the answer, “I would have to say Hiromi Zhang, who plays Aunt Amaya. First off, it’s just awesome to be playing with another asian actor on set, especially one who’s so kick-ass. Also she is actually deaf, and was the one to help me with a lot of my signing. I technically only had to learn how to do my one part, that’s all the producers required of me, but with that little bit, she came in and actually started teaching me some basics so I could talk to her without an interpreter on set. I’m still really bad at it, but I’m working on it.”

The audience clapped at the sweet response. “Well there you have it,” Jimmy Fallon said, “Be sure to catch ‘The Dragon Prince’ now streaming on Netflix. It’s great, so enjoy, and make sure to come back after the break where our actors are going to play ‘The Dragon Feud’ a fun family feud style game we’ve cooked up for them.”

#the dragon prince #tdp #tdp rayla #tdp callum #tdp soren #tdp claudia #100 dragon prince au's #laura writes #fic

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