Sunday autograph session:
So it was getting late… and dark. They announced that RDA was not going to personalise anything anymore because it was getting really late. You had to choose what you wanted to have signed and didn’t get the chance to write your name.
So… I hadn’t decided yet and it was almost my turn. I had the picture that was taken Saturday (which I btw forgot to take after it was taken, so I actually had to return…) in my bag, I had slipped in a pic of my Dad and his first dog in the pic holder… I brought the Legend DVD and stalled (sorry people behind me in the queue) when I had to choose a print, because I didn’t want a bleached Mac or a Jack photo, but something that was more RDA than Mac or Jack.
It was my turn too soon, I hadn’t decided yet, so I was in front of RDA and this guy (maybe Paul’s son-in-law?) said: “Great jacket!!” It’s a black Sea Shepherd’s soft shell. RDA recognised me “Hey, it’s you!” and agreed. I said: “My T-shirt is a Sea Shepherd’s as well and quoted him: “Their T-shirts are better” and winked. He smiled and asked me what I wanted to have signed. Told him I hadn’t decided yet. So he looked at all the stuff, we talked for quite a while about Legend, overacting versus physical comedy, that he got “so much trouble with the other producers…”over it (big smile and wink), I told him at that time on our little spot on earth ‘the girls’ weren’t too happy about him cutting his hair - in The Hague guys also had mullets -> actually a lot still do - and the girls especially did not like the moustache.I told him I didn’t really mind at the time… It goes well with the genre” … but you didn’t have to cut the hair
. I asked him if I could slip him a note as well (this was after the Q&A of course, wrote it while waiting in the queue). RDA said: “Yeah, of course!” He looked at it (I had folded it, but it had become wrinkled. I didn’t care. He didn’t either and smiled. I had been waiting for such a long time that I just figured I’d see what I could get away with timewise et all… it was a lot . I finally decided on our photograph. So he slowly put down ‘Richard’, made the eyes in the R… and put a dot in the d. I said: “Oh, wait… stop right there! I don’t want the full name! Just ‘Richard’ is fine by me.” He looked up, huge grin and said: “Ah, so we’re on that level, huh?” and winked. So I replied: “Sure, why not, I mean, it’s not like we’re on Ricky Dean level… yet. He was actually lost for words haha. I said: “Just kidding, but hey, read the note.” I winked. He laughed, said he would and with a big grin drew a big heart at the bottom. We said our goodbyes and I was in 7th heaven.
