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McClintock, Kelly, & Kenny on the Final Season of Warehouse 13

By Jamie Ruby

Warehouse 13On April 14th Syfy will premiere its fifth and final season of Warehouse 13. Recently stars Eddie McClintock and Joanne Kelly, along with executive producer Jack Kenny, talked to the digital media about the final six episodes.

There were a lot of great memories from the show. Were there any characters or storylines that they would have liked to have explored more if there was more time? There were quite a few. Kenny told SciFi Vision, "I would've loved to have done a little bit more with Pete's mom, but scheduling screwed us on that. But most people don't know that half the time when you don't see a character come back on a show it's because they got another job.

"But there were several characters that I would've loved to see a little bit more of that we really liked."

Eddie McClintockMcClintock added, "[It] would've been great if Judd [Hirsch] could've come back."

Kenny continued, "Would've loved to have had Judd back. Yes, there were a lot of characters I wanted to bring back - Amy Acker is Joanne's sister. She was a lot of fun. And we had a lot of really funny characters...I would've liked to have opened up the world - broaden the world and really explore those characters more."

The two also talked to SciFi Vision about what is next for them after Warehouse 13. McClintock told the site, "I'm doing the Season 6 finale of Castle. You know, it's pilot season and I went on a lot of auditions - which is always a lot of fun - nothing really to speak about. I did this show Mind Games...We'll see what happens. I have an audition today and then I start work on Castle tonight."

Kenny told the site, "There's always stuff going on...I'm meeting on several projects and things. I've got a couple of vague pilot things in various places, so I have nothing specific that I can talk about at this point.

"But there's always stuff going on, and a friend of mine is producing a one-act play festival here in Los Angeles called Sci-Fest, which is the first of its kind science fiction one-act plays. And actually one of our writers, J.P. Nickel, has a play in the festival, and coincidentally they didn't know I was connected to him. They asked me to direct it, so I'm directing one of the one-act plays.

"There're a lot of cool stars in it. Eddie's on the Advisory Board and there's a lot of cool sci-fi stars in the festival. Faran Tahir's in it, Armin Shimerman...David Blue, Madison McLaughlin, Julie McNiven, Angeline-Rose Troy, really it's a lot of cool people involved in it and it's going to be the month of May here in L.A. and they're trying to get excitement going about that. It's the first of its kind and we hope it'll be like Comic-Con to L.A."

McClintock added that Kelly worked on Hostages this season.

Syfy Conference Call
Warehouse 13
Stars Eddie McClintock and Joanne Kelly and Executive Producer Jack Kenny

April 4, 2014
2:00 pm ET

QUESTION: What does it feel like for you guys to wrap this up? And I know you have already wrapped but, to say goodbye to this, how do you look back and what kind of legacy do you think this show leaves for Syfy and maybe even for cable shows in general?

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Well, I think that the legacy - we’ll see. I’m sure back when they did however many episodes of the original Star Trek they never dreamed that despite its being canceled early in most estimations that it would go on to be such a huge cult success.

So I guess we’ll see what happens. Joanne and I were just talking. It’s like I haven’t seen her. I miss her. She’s my friend who I’ve spent the last five years with and so it’s hard. It’s difficult not to see everybody but I know we are all wishing, we all are pulling for one another and I’ll look back on Warehouse 13 as one of the great times of my life and my career.

I watched my boys grow up and I think I may have even grown up a little bit myself, but don’t tell anyone I said that or I’ll have to kill you. What do you think (Jo)?

JOANNE KELLY: I think, yes I - you can never foretell what’s going to happen. So all I can say is from my own personal point of view in regards to the show, I learned so much during Warehouse 13.

I think now that it’s over - since we stopped shooting you realize how special it was. And very much, there’s a ton of times where you don’t really understand what something is to you until it’s no longer there.

I think that’s a cliché for a reason and it’s really true for me that Warehouse 13 was a really special time. And I don’t think I understood that until I stopped, until we - you’ve stopped - until you’ve stopped showing up every day and you say, “Oh my God, I’m not going to see these people,” these people - so used to seeing every day. These people have been such a big part of my life. It’s a huge change.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: And I finished all four episodes last night. We watched the last one of course is “Savage Seduction” and so wait till you see that one. It’s so bizarre. It’s so off the wall and Aaron Ashmore...

JOANNE KELLY: Is that my favorite part?

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: It’s - what’s that?

JOANNE KELLY: Which one is that?

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Yes, that’s “Savage Seduction.”

JOANNE KELLY: Oh, okay.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: And Aaron Ashmore is just so awesome, brilliant, fantastic, fun, if you know Aaron he’s pretty quiet and he’s pretty reserved. And to see him play this character - he plays two characters on the show. It’s just hilarious so...

JACK KENNY: I’m on guys. Sorry I’m late.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Hi Jackie.

JOANNE KELLY: Hi Jack.

JACK KENNY: Hey, thank God Gary emailed me. I thought it was 2 o’clock our time. It’s 2 o’clock EST.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Hey that sounds like something I would do.

JACK KENNY: I know. I thought we’d been in Freaky Friday.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: That sounds so me.

JACK KENNY: It’s Freaky Friday. Are you being responsible and giving good answers?

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: I know.

JACK KENNY: Hi guys. I really apologize for being late. I really - I had 2 o’clock down.

QUESTION: Was there a storyline that you would’ve like to have seen play out on Warehouse 13 that you didn’t get to see?

JACK KENNY: Yes, one that lasted 13 episodes.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Hello. And 13 seasons. I really was disappointed that we didn’t delve into Trailer more - his past. And I was on Jack a lot about that and he never really answered my question so it goes unanswered.

JACK KENNY: What question?

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: About Trailer’s past. Where did he come from? Just bam, one day he was there...

JACK KENNY: I’m honestly planning a whole hour long at USA about that so I can’t tell you how it ends. And before you ask...

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Oh, a spin-off and you didn’t even ask me to be a part of it?

JACK KENNY: Before you ask there’s – no, there’s not a part for you. But I will be able to hire your dog.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Can I fetch your coffee?

JACK KENNY: Yes, you can always fetch me coffee. Not all iced tea. You know it’s iced tea.

I would’ve loved to - I would, at the end of last season we gave Joanne a cancer story [line]. And I really would’ve loved to have explored that a little more realistically, a little more over some time have her character get more involved with that. But when they told us we had six - we had to end the entire series, we did not want to spend five of those episodes dealing with cancer because it just would’ve been a real downer, I think a downer for the fans, a downer for the actors.

It would’ve been no fun for Jo to have to do that and it was just, I don’t feel proud of this but we ended it quickly and moved on, because if we hadn’t it would’ve been an entirely different kind of an ending to the series and I don’t think what the series actually deserved. So we...

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: And cancer sucks.

JACK KENNY: Yes it sucks and I think we could’ve dealt with it in a really cool, interesting way. But instead we wrapped it up and moved on because I needed to - I wanted to get into, we had ten stories planned.

We had ten stories broken out for the next season and when they told us we had six and we had to end it, we did five stories and five episodes and then in the last episode we did six stories. So we really crammed it all in there.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Yes.

QUESTION: And Joanne?

JOANNE KELLY: Sorry guys. I lost everybody and I just got back so I didn’t hear what anyone was saying. Sorry about that.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: So are there any storylines that you would’ve liked to have seen be played out that didn’t have a chance to be played out?

JOANNE KELLY: Oh. I think I just heard what Jack said about the cancer storyline, that they had to wrap it up early and that I felt, I think everybody kind of felt like, “Okay, we have to move on.”

I think we’re all upset that we had to move on so quickly. But also, I think that the writers did such a good job with this show. It is really chock full - looking back after five years and we’ve done a little bit of pretty much everything, so I don’t really have any regrets in that way, not at all.

QUESTION: Should we start a Kickstarter campaign for the Warehouse 13 movie?

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Of course.

JACK KENNY: Yes.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Are you kidding me?

JACK KENNY: Absolutely. I mean...

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: My wife just bought her third pair of Christian Louboutins. Daddy needs the money.

JACK KENNY: You know, we would love to. We would start a Kickstarter campaign to bring the series back. Because we all felt like we had a lot more to say and a lot more to do.

And it was the best professional experience of my career so far and I’m very sad that it ended. I’m very proud of the way we ended it, but we left it in a way that we could very easily do a movie.

QUESTION: Well that would really be awesome. I know the fans are all upset that we only get the final six episodes and I know you guys weren’t real happy with that decision either. So maybe that’ll come about and maybe it won’t but we’ll all enjoy what we’ve got left, that’s for sure.

JACK KENNY: It’s kind of a dangerous thing that fans have to support movies. I think we’re setting a dangerous precedent. I don’t want the studios to start thinking that they can’t pay for stuff.

QUESTION: [Eddie] and Joanne, you’ve spent a lot of time and effort building these characters. So when you hear that their tales are coming to an end, how involved are you in determining how their stories conclude and how involved did you want to be in that process?

JOANNE KELLY: I’m an actor, I’m not a writer. But we have great writers and I trusted them to wrap it up in the best way that they knew how. I think it can become an - with a lot of actors once they get involved in that process.

And some people are different. Some people are really good but for me I just trusted the writing staff. Let them do their thing. They’ve done it for five years. Let them do it a little bit longer.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Yes, I would say the same thing. I trusted Jack and all the writers for, I don’t know. I always had the greatest amount of faith in them and like Jack said I’m just - I was the resident meat puppet so just give me the words and I’ll say them, but don’t have me try and write them because then it gets bad.

JACK KENNY: But we did come up with a lot of cool stuff on this set sometimes. We always improved stuff and came up with - and you guys were always really - had a lot of input in that and we had a good time.

So I wouldn’t say that we just handed you the scripts and forced you to say what was there. I thought you guys collaborated really beautifully with stuff like that.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Yes well thanks.

JOANNE KELLY: Thanks Jack.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: But I’d wake up at nights hearing Jack screaming, “As written, fucko.”

JACK KENNY: Well that’s only because I sneak over to your house and yell outside your window.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: It’s actually you yelling, “As written, fucko.”

JACK KENNY: But we did talk, for instance the cancer story - I sat down and talked to Joanne for a while about that. I said, “How do you feel about this and how would you want to explore it and what are your feelings about going in this direction?”

We did the same thing with Eddie when he was going to be in a relationship story with Paula Garces’ character and other - we always try to talk to the actors about the storylines that we’re thinking about and get their input, because I think you get a way better performance and way better involvement from the actors if they’re involved in the stories.

We like to write to everybody’s strengths and what makes everybody happy.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Yes. At the beginning of the series I remember Jack had us all in and sat us down individually and said, “Okay, what do you think about this character? Who do you want this character to be?” And so we did have our input in that regard and I think it made it a lot easier to play these characters and show up every day because personally for me there wasn’t a whole lot of acting involved for me.

I just basically showed up to work in the morning and then acted a fool just like me.

JACK KENNY: We did try to find out what you guys were into, what you liked and write to who you guys are because I think it makes it more fun. It makes it easier. You connect yourselves with the characters more. Pete’s whole past with alcohol and everybody’s strengths and weaknesses, we try to exploit them in the best sense of that word.

Joanne KellyQUESTION: So Eddie, going back to your first answer: never grow up.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Yes.

QUESTION: Never, never grow up.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Living in a state of arrested development.

QUESTION: Yes right. You’re coming to Chicago soon and I wanted to. ask you what you planned on doing when you’re not at the convention?

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Well, when I’m doing conventions I really don’t have time for anything else because it’s really a lot of hard work for me personally.

I can’t speak for anyone else but personally it’s like I really - I have a lot of fun when I’m meeting my fans and meeting people who appreciate the show. And so when I’m done for the day I’m exhausted. Maybe I’ll get out to go to dinner someplace but I just did a TV show called Mind Games. I was up in Chicago for three weeks during the winter so it’s one of my favorite cities for sure. Yes, I’m from Ohio so I used to come over to Chicago and...

QUESTION: For the music. I remember you telling me that.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: That’s right. That’s right. Wax Trax - I was big into Wax Trax. You know, Goff guy.

QUESTION: I was just wondering for each of you what moment during the series or all five seasons did each of you think of as the defining moment for you - either for your character or for yourself?

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: What jumps off for me is there’s an episode here in the last six called the - is it “Savage Seduction,” Jack? Is that what it’s called?

JACK KENNY: Yes, “Savage Seduction,” the telenovela episode.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: It’s called - it’s “Savage Seduction.”

JACK KENNY: “Savage Seduction.”

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: And Jack came up to me. He’s like, “Okay, listen. You’re going to have to learn Spanish, so start now.” And I was like, “What?” And the storyline is we get caught in a Spanish telenovela.

So Joanne and I and Artie were - or - and Saul were all having to take Spanish lessons for about two - I don’t know, couple months, I guess. We took lessons in between, during our lunch breaks and it was probably the hardest I’ve had to work on any of the shows or any of the seasons.

It was hard, having to learn the words and make sure that the inflections were there and make sure that it sounds as though we know what we’re saying, and then translating it back to English as you’re saying it in Spanish.

It was hard for me. I’m like four IQ points above the short bus so it was difficult, but I watched it last night for the first time and it’s so wild and wacky and I’m so proud of it.

I think it’s really funny and I think it’s going to be one of the best episodes of the series. And Jack directed that so it’s one of the ones that I remember the most fondly.

JACK KENNY: It was a wild ride, I will give you that, but I also made you guys learn to tap dance this summer too.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Yes.

JOANNE KELLY: Well, I don’t know if I ever actually learned.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Exactly.

JACK KENNY: Well, you got close enough. It was close enough for government work.

JOANNE KELLY: See, he has the tap against me. I think that my era as Jack was saying, we had to learn how to tap dance for this episode. And I am many things but a dancer I am definitely not.

And I was freaking out about it and he kept telling me that it was going to be fine. It would be fine. Just try and learn, try and do my - and then when we did it I took the risk of just letting go and having a great time, which I’ve struggled with throughout like my whole journey through Warehouse.

I actually had a great time. So this is actually important and I think I finally learned this episode that whatever, let go and just have fun.

It’s one of the most rewarding experiences because definitely I had such a blast doing that episode and I was so worried about it. And I think that’s probably one of my favorite memories from this year.

JACK KENNY: And let’s point out that that was the second to the last day of the entire series.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Yes.

JACK KENNY: And Joanne finally let go.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: I think that’s why we’re such a good balance. Jo was like, “I don’t know if I want to have fun.” And I’m just going, “That’s all I want to do is have fun.” So I think it was a perfect blend of not fun and fun.

JACK KENNY: It’s hard, we had such a good time. Honestly, we really did have a great time. Almost in every episode there’s a day that I can think back and go, “Oh my God, that was so much fun.”

And there’s also a day where you go, “Oh, that was a nightmare,” because it was raining or cold or whatever or boiling hot. But there was almost - we had such a good group of people and there was almost in every episode a couple of days or more where we just went, “God, we’re so lucky to have this and we’re just having a great time.”

So it’s hard to reduce it to, “This was my favorite day on Warehouse,” because there were so many. But this last summer - these last six because we knew it was ending and we knew how we were going to do it and everybody was just so into it and having a great time.

I think that’s why we keep referring to these last six because they were the best time, because most shows don’t get the luxury of ending their series in the way that they want.

A lot of shows are yanked prematurely and suddenly. So we got the great luxury and gift of being able to say, “Hey, we’re going out and this is how we’re going.”

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Yes. And one memory that comes up that I think is one of the funniest or one of the times I laughed the hardest with Jack and Jo and everybody was when the (ginge) and the Speedo was doing the yoga by the pool with the...

JACK KENNY: Yes. Yes. We had a...

JOANNE KELLY: I always thought you were going to say when your moustache came off in the...

JACK KENNY: Yes. I had to apologize. There’s lack of the moustache.

JOANNE KELLY: I think that’s the hardest...

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Yes.

JACK KENNY: I lost the moustache right off Eddie’s face.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Yes. Yes.

JACK KENNY: But we did have a background performer who - we had a pool scene and people in Speedos and bikinis and this guy felt that he was particularly good at yoga and was...

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: And he had an unusually robust growth of red pubic hair that was coming from all parts of this Speedo.

JACK KENNY: Speaking now to this too and he was doing some major yoga poses.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: The splits.

JOANNE KELLY: He had a small animal underneath there.

JACK KENNY: Yes. I did want to go up and say, “Hey, you know, we’ve all noticed your doing these amazing yoga poses. And what we’d really love to do is have you go and do them in the parking lot. You’re fired.”

But we didn’t do that. We just let him do it and made sure the camera was never pointed at it.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: “Wow. you’re really great at those.”

JACK KENNY: “Yes. you’re really great at those.”

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: “Go do them somewhere else.”

JACK KENNY: “You can do that at home.”

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: It was crazy. This guy was just insane.

JACK KENNY: Yes. We were laughing quite hard.

SCIFI VISION: Yes. Thanks once again for such a great time at the set. It was a lot of fun and I’m very, very sad to see all this go. But I really love the four, especially the telenovela one.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Jamie, hey, just thank you so much for being so supportive of the show. You and Michael [Hinman] have been here from the beginning, and you guys were just really supportive and showed a lot of love to the show so just thank you from me personally.

SCIFI VISION: Well it’s been a lot of fun along the way.

Is there anything that you’ve explored throughout all the seasons, maybe a character you’ve seen or an artifact, just anything that if you were to go back and like revisit that and maybe add more scenes or something to learn more about it, is there something that particularly interested you that you’d like to do that?

JACK KENNY: I would’ve loved to have done a little bit more with Pete’s mom.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Oh yes.

JACK KENNY: But scheduling screwed us on that. But most people don’t know that  half the time when you don’t see a character come back on a show it’s because they got another job.

But there were several characters that I would’ve loved to see a little bit more of that we really liked. I mean, I love...

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Judd Hirsch would’ve been great if Judd could’ve come back.

JACK KENNY: Would’ve loved to have had Judd back. Yes, there were a lot of characters I wanted to bring back - Amy Acker is Joanne’s sister. She was a lot of fun.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Yes.

SCIFI VISION: She was great.

JACK KENNY: And we had a lot of really funny characters.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: We did. They’re all dead now.

JACK KENNY: I would’ve liked to have opened up the world - broaden the world and really explore those characters more.

I can’t think of an artifact. Can you guys?

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Artifact?

...

JACK KENNY: I, you know, we wanted to do a whole musical episode. We ended up doing just a musical [number].

QUESTION: You spin a little bit of baby talk in these episodes. Are we going to see some of that unresolved tension get resolved anywhere before the season ends or the series ends?

JACK KENNY: We might.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: All I can say is this: PICA.

JOANNE KELLY: You always say that. You’ve been saying that for five years.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: It’s my hook. It’s my hook, man.

JOANNE KELLY: I do think you see a fundamental change in these characters’ relationships, as I think you do across the board in the show. That’s all I got to say about that.

JACK KENNY: What we tried to do in the, I mean, there’s an arc that Eddie and Jo have in the last six episodes that’s really fun to see unfold. And you see a lot of it unfold, you see the beginning of that - sort of a cracking of that iceberg at the end of Episode 4. But then it really starts to come to fruition in 5 and 6 and - but everybody - every character has a - kind of a revelation of sorts in the last episode. Every character is granted a revelation in the defining moment and something really cool to deal with and in I think a way that really works.

So I hope that everybody’s going to be very pleased with the final episode. I think they will be.

QUESTION: I watched the four episodes. I really enjoyed them. I think it’s the best ever especially the last episode, the telenovela one. I was laughing all the way through.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Oh yes. Thanks.

JACK KENNY: You know what’s funny? I - just as a quick side story with that, Diego Gutierrez wrote that episode.

And we were in pitching stories to Syfy for the last season and Diego had come in and said, “I was thinking maybe we’d do sort of a Downton Abbey kind of a thing, that they all end up in this Downton Abbey world.”

And we thought about it for a while and think, “There’s just something - it feels kind of old fashioned. It feels like they maybe did. That doesn’t sound like a lot of fun for our guys.”

And I think he said a couple of other things and then finally he said, “Well, you know, we could do a telenovela.” And we all just went, “Of course. Of course we can do a telenovela. Where was that idea, Diego Gutierrez? Where were you holding that idea?”

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Yes.

JACK KENNY: Diego who’s now working with Robert Rodriguez on El Rey is in here pitching me Downton Abbey. Like, “What are you, nuts? The telenovela - absolutely.”

QUESTION: Oh, that’s a great job on the Spanish all of you.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Oh, thanks.

QUESTION: Jack, you started to say something about you had planned to do a musical episode.

JACK KENNY: Yes, we did. We did want to write a whole musical episode and having done just the one big musical number in the finale, I think thank God we only did the one number and not a whole episode because I think it would’ve killed us because it’s just really, really hard.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Yes.

JACK KENNY: I think for anybody who needs a musical jones to be filled, they’ll get it filled in the finale because we have a pretty big fabulous number for everybody.

QUESTION: Oh cool. Everybody sings and dances?

JACK KENNY: There’s not a lot of singing...

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Not a lot of singing.

JACK KENNY: ...from our guys but there’s some dancing and there’s a big event, let’s just say that. There’s a big event.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Event.

QUESTION: Twenty years from now if someone were to ask you what the legacy of this show would be, what would you say?

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Gosh. That’s a good one.

JACK KENNY: I think it’ll be remembered as the show that brought fun to the Syfy channel.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Oh, there you go.

JACK KENNY: Yes. I think Eureka started that tradition and I think we really brought it home with full-out action/adventure/thrilleromedy. Eureka was kind of limited to being stuck in that one town, but I think we brought sort of an international world of fun to the Syfy channel.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: There it is, international world of fun - Warehouse 13.

JACK KENNY: I want to eat there, don’t you?

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Yes.

JACK KENNY: I want to eat there.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: I think Jack answered that question for sure.

Jack KennyJACK KENNY: I get paid for the words.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: He’s good.

QUESTION: I understand you get to visit a variety of different warehouses in Season 5. Could you tell us which one was your favorite?

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: I like the alternate universe Warehouse 13. I thought that was - it was actually in a - what was that facility Jack where they had the...?

JACK KENNY: It’s an automobile testing facility in – oh, I can’t remember the name of the town - just south of Toronto. It’s got a lot of clean rooms. It had a wind tunnel. It had a room that could be cooled to 35 degrees below zero. It was just this really cool, modern feeling structure and we needed a futuristic modern version of the warehouse and we got to shoot there.

They opened it up to us in every way. It was fantastic. We got to shoot a whole bunch of stuff there. It was really fun.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Yes. And it’s the complete opposite of the old creaky warehouse. It’s very clean and contemporary.

JACK KENNY: Yes it was. I liked Warehouse 9 too. It was fun but we didn’t, we were limited in terms of how much space we could have when we were in Warehouse 9 in the same episode in the premier of Season 5 premier.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Oh that’s right. That’s right.

JACK KENNY: So that was fun in a different way. It was just we were way more limited in what we could actually show there, so it was fun to go to a whole new place.

We were on location for almost the entire summer in various locations.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Yes, there was actually a dream moment come true for me in that episode when I finally after years of doing it alone I finally got to do my Shatner - ,Jack let me unleash a Shatner in the premier and with my little...

JACK KENNY: Remember when you were saying the line, “Kind of that way?” And I said...

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: And Jack just goes, “Go full Shatner.”

JACK KENNY: “Go for it. Just give me the full Shatner.” It was just so fucking hilarious.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: It’s just stuff like that for me is what makes the shows. Like when I think it couldn’t really get any funnier and then Jack would come in and go, “Do this,” and then I’m just like, “Why can’t I be you?”

JACK KENNY: No. But you were.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Yes. Yes. I was. Thanks.

JACK KENNY: You made it work. I couldn’t...

QUESTION: It’s sad to see the show go.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Yes. It’s a bummer.

JACK KENNY: We wrapped at the end of August so it’s been such a long time for us. We’re reliving the pain now. Thank you.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Yes.

QUESTION: I wanted to know if there were any mementos that you guys took from the warehouse, costumes or a prop or whatever.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Oh my, I cleaned the place out. Let me tell you a Google or eBay, you know what I’m saying? No.

JACK KENNY: Yes, he’s paying for his kids’ future.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: That’s right. Everybody was like, “I want a Tesla. I want the H.G. Wells grappling hook and the Sylvia Plath typewriter.” I wanted the Tesla rifle and production and Syfy and everybody was kind enough to let me have the Tesla rifle.

And I got my cast mates to sign it and I’m going to mount it and put it in my house a monument to an amazing time in my life.

JACK KENNY: You also got the bongos.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: What’s that? What Jack?

JACK KENNY: I said you also got the bongos, which I thought was the coolest thing to take.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Well yes, that’s true. That’s right. There’s a pair of bongos or a set of bongos in Artie’s office that I used to - between takes I’d pick them up and annoy everyone with for five years.

And at the end of the five years I just said, “I’m taking these bongos,” and I had everybody, cast and crew, sign these bongos so that’s another good one.

QUESTION: So you really did clean them out.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Oh, yes man. I took gloves. I took - what else? Shirts, clothes, wardrobe - I got all kinds of stuff. They’ll be in auction later on this month. What about you, Jack?

QUESTION: With all that stuff you’d be making Warehouse 13 out of your garage.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: That’s right.

JACK KENNY: In Season 4 I got the astrolabe, which was all I really wanted. I got the astrolabe so I have that prominently displayed in my office.

I have a Tesla and I have Farnsworth’s Farnsworth, which was really kind of - I got Claudia’s Farnsworth and there’s only one of those and that’s what I wanted.

They gave me the football and I know Eddie you wanted the football too. They gave me the computerized football but I gave that to Andy Gore who is the Head of Quantum Mechanics who makes all of our props for the fans. And he was just beside himself with the idea that - because it’s a one of a kind. It’s the only prop - it’s the only version of that that exists. There was only one made.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Right.

JACK KENNY: And so now Andy has the computerized football, which is kind of a cool thing to have from the show I think.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Yes.

JACK KENNY: So everybody got cool stuff. Everybody did want something cool from the show and Mark Stern Mark Stern asked for something. I can’t remember now what - he wanted the sign Welcome to Univille and...

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Joanne, did you ever get those chairs - the deck chairs?

OPERATOR: Joanne’s line has disconnected from the call.

JACK KENNY: You know, we need to get Joanne a Farnsworth.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Exactly. From analog.

JACK KENNY: Yes, Joanne wanted the Adirondack chairs that were on Artie’s balcony. I’m sure she did get them. I’m sure they sent them to her. Yes, people did want to save things. It was fun.

QUESTION: I got to play with the Tesla rifle when I was on the set so I...

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Oh you did?

QUESTION: Yes.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Keep your hands off it.

QUESTION: I got a great picture holding it too so...

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Ten bucks.

JACK KENNY: Classy. Classy, Eddie, right to the end.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: You know what? Send me a copy of that and a check for 30 bucks and I’ll sign it and send it back to you.

JACK KENNY: Oh wow.

QUESTION: I will do that. I’ll tweet the pictures to you today.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: All right brother.

QUESTION: And the check is in the mail.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: There you go.

SCIFI VISION: I’m laughing right now because I remember when I was on the set Eddie you took those bongos when they weren’t done with the scene.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: That’s right.

SCIFI VISION: And I remember Jack yelling at you, taking them back. So at least you got them finally.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: I did.

SCIFI VISION: Eddie, I think you mentioned one thing earlier, but do any of you have any shows planned or anything you can talk about coming up that people can watch later?

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: I’m doing the Season 6 finale of Castle. You know, it’s pilot season and I went on a lot of auditions - which is always a lot of fun - nothing really to speak about. I did this show Mind Games, which just got canceled so I got that going for me. But...

JACK KENNY: You’re falling back into your old pattern.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: That’s right. [I’m] spending a lot of time on the couch but right now Castle, and we’ll see. They always do recasts for pilot season and unfortunately it means someone else has either died or been fired for you to get one of those jobs.

But we’ll see. We’ll see what happens. I have an audition today and then I start work on Castle tonight.

SCIFI VISION: Awesome. What about you, Jack? Anything in the works?

JACK KENNY: Yes, there’s always stuff going on. It’s starting staffing season now so I don’t know what’s going to come from that. You never know.

I’m meeting on several projects and things. I’ve got a couple of vague pilot things in various places, so I have nothing specific that I can talk about at this point.

But there’s always stuff going on, and a friend of mine is producing a one-act play festival here in Los Angeles called Sci-Fest, which is the first of its kind science fiction one-act plays. And actually one of our writers, J.P. Nickel, has a play in the festival, and coincidentally they didn’t know I was connected to him. They asked me to direct it, so I’m directing one of the one-act plays.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: That’s awesome.

JACK KENNY: There’re a lot of cool stars in it. Eddie’s on the Advisory Board and there’s a lot of cool sci-fi stars in the festival. Faran Tahir’s in it, Armin Shimerman - I can’t think of...

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: David Blue.

JACK KENNY: David Blue, Madison McLaughlin, Julie McNiven, Angeline-Rose Troy, really it’s a lot of cool people involved in it and it’s going to be the month of May here in L.A. and they’re trying to get excitement going about that. It’s the first of its kind and we hope it’ll be like Comic-Con to L.A.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Well that’s awesome.

SCIFI VISION: And I’m guessing Joanne’s not there but hopefully she has stuff coming out too.

JACK KENNY: I’m sure she does. She was on – Eddie, what was - she was on...

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Like Hostages or...

JACK KENNY: I think she was on Hostages, yes.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Yes, Hostages. Canceled.

QUESTION: I have a totally frivolous trivial question here. Eddie I noticed your hair was different this season and I was wondering whose decision was it that - you came up with that or they came up with that or how’d that work? Looks great by the way.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Oh thanks. Well, you know...

JACK KENNY: All Eddie.

Warehouse 13EDDIE McCLINTOCK: It’s just such a pain putting that Dippity-Do in my hair. I have hair issues, and ask Joanne. From the beginning of the - it all stems from when I did this arc on Bones.

My hair was kind of long and they wanted to cut it and I was like, “Sure. Go ahead and cut it.” And then I let them do what they want and they cut me this Dorothy Hamill haircut.

And then on my Twitter at least once or twice a week to this day -- this is six years later -- people are like, “Hey, I just saw you on Bones. Great job. What was up with the hair?”

And my wife was just like, “You know, the whole spiky thing - just let it go. Just let it grow out.” And it’s just something different.

It was a lot less high maintenance to try and just let it grow out and be natural so that’s kind of how I’m thinking about it.

QUESTION: I liked it. It looked good.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Thanks. Thanks.

QUESTION: You should keep it. You should keep it that way.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: Thanks. Thanks. I’ll tell my wife you said so.

QUESTION: Yes. I don’t know, spiky hair never looks good.

EDDIE McCLINTOCK: I’ve already had people on my Twitter start going, “I’m not sure if I like Eddie McClintock’s new hair in the previews.” And I’m just like, “Don’t start. Do not. No wisecracks about my hair.”

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