Karl Urban (Caesar)

No one can accuse Karl of being too formal with the fans. In Pasadena, he strode onto the stage barefoot, with long curly hair and a silly hat. He also toted gifts for the fans (this seemed to happen a lot this weekend): two posters to be given to the best questions he received. He gave out one poster when the crowd rowdily called for it after one question, but forgot to give the other one to a question, so he just dashed into the crowd to hand it to a random person at the end of his session.

When asked the pressing question of what's happened to Cupid after the Twilight of the Gods, Karl insisted that Cupid has not died. He was "on holiday" at the time that Xena was mowing down Olympus, so Karl's sure Cupid is still alive and quite well.

One questioner pointed out to Karl that Caesar was one of the only men that Xena went after who did her wrong and left HER instead of the other way around. Karl, though, took issue with that description. According to him, "Caesar would tell it differently." He said Caesar was just being sly about wanting Xena and managed to get her to come to him.

This subject also brought up a funny story about filming Destiny. Karl asked us all to imagine being a guy in his young twenties who finds "this goddess" in THAT dress "doing this panther-like seductive thing" across the bed at him. Karl hilariously demonstrated how wide and unblinking his eyes were as he was rooted to the spot... until finally his contact lens got dry and popped out. Which made Karl blink madly and grope around, and Lucy to break down laughing on the spot.

Karl, when asked for his inspiration for his death scene in Ides of March, pointed to Timothy Dalton in Antony and Cleopatra. He said that he thought the way Dalton showed such "animalistic urge to live" was absolutely right for Caesar and tried to express the same thing himself.

(Very minor spoiler alert for the next paragraph! If you're truly spoiler-phobic, this is the end of Karl's report.)
Someone asked how Caesar could be returning in next week's episode (When Fates Collide), seeing as how he's dead and all. Karl refused to say much about the show, but reminded us all that on Xena, "Death doesn't mean death - it just means hiatus" and gave us the teaser to imagine what could happen if "someone messed with the strands of time."

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