Adam Storke

Moderator: Good Evening (morning to all of you on the other side of the Atlantic) and welcome to SCIFI.COM.

Moderator: My name is Karl and I'll be your host for the evening.

Moderator: Our Guest tonight is the one and only Adam Storke, star of the classic TV show - Prey.

Moderator: Tonight, many of you have seen Adam and Vincent Vantresca reunite on Invisible Man.

Moderator: If you haven't seen it, tonight's chat will most surely ruin the surprise for you so proceed with caution.

Moderator: Adam is here with us now so get comfortable and get ready for Adam Storke!

Moderator: Brief word about the drill - please send

Moderator: your questions for our guest to me, Moderator, as private messages. (To

Moderator: send a private message, either double-click on my name or type

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Moderator: Welcome Adam. It's nice to have you with us tonight.

AdamStorke: Hello, and thank you for coming!

Moderator: <Rueben> Bill Schmidt has done a script called "tom's story" and pitched it to Sci-fi. Would you reprise your role?

AdamStorke: I'd have to say that there's something mysterious about leaving Tom

AdamStorke: the way he ended inthe final episode of Prey.

AdamStorke: There's something romantic in the idea of there being

AdamStorke: an open-ended end to a story.

Moderator: <Matey> What does Adam do when he's not acting - any other interests?

AdamStorke: I take my craft very seriously, so I spend a lot of time studying

AdamStorke: and working in a theater lab.

AdamStorke: I'm an avid reader and I like to paint, play the guitar, and watch the Sci-Fi Channel!

Moderator: <Jill> We understand that you are an excellent cook. What is your favorite dish to prepare?

AdamStorke: Actually what I enjoy about cooking is the experimentation.

AdamStorke: I enjoy opening up a cookbook with someone and picking whatever there is inside

AdamStorke: and having a go at it.

Moderator: <Cordelia> What projects have you been working on since Prey and what's in the future?

AdamStorke: I just shot two films.

AdamStorke: One which is called "Johnson County War", which is a Western.

AdamStorke: And another film called "Roughing It", which is a Mark Twain story.

Moderator: <Openmind> Do you prefer to work in comedy, drama, action, scifi, or a mixture?

AdamStorke: Wherever they'll have me!

Moderator: <corrsfans> as a graduate of union uiniversity, what do you think of the albany area and have you been back since your college days?

AdamStorke: Yes, I have been back!

AdamStorke: I find upstate New York to be one of the most beautiful regions in America.

AdamStorke: I'm sad to hear that Schenectady is having trouble economically,

AdamStorke: but I'm glad to hear that Union is doing so well.

Moderator: <preyternaturalWALES> Could Adam please settle a 2 year debate on the PreyforUs message board. How tall is he?

AdamStorke: I'm 7'1"! No, actually, I'm 5'10".

Moderator: Brief word about the drill - please send

Moderator: your questions for our guest to me, Moderator, as private messages. (To

Moderator: send a private message, either double-click on my name or type

Moderator: "/msg Moderator" on the command line - only without the quotes.)

Moderator: <BelfryBat> <Christy> Adam - when are you coming back to tv?

AdamStorke: I don't know yet!

Moderator: <Lisa-Smartypants> Can you elaborate on your experience filming with Vincent Ventresca again in an "Invisible Man" episode that was on earlier tonight (eastern)?

AdamStorke: Well, unfortunately, it was short-lived,

AdamStorke: but Vincent is not only a wonderful actor, but a wonderful man as well.

AdamStorke: So any time spent with him was in my advantage.

Moderator: <LadyDreamTimeOZ> what is the work you are most proud of and why

AdamStorke: I'd have to say that I would like to be proud of all my work,

AdamStorke: but I have a a special affinity for the stage

AdamStorke: and a great appreciation of the written word.

AdamStorke: In other words, the better the piece, the more I can be proud of it.

Moderator: <PreyforTomDanielsEngland> do you read the fanfiction? and did you receive the christmas Prey anthology which was mailed last year..Do you know that all the writers are here tonite

AdamStorke: I haven't read the fan fiction, but I am aware of the Web sites and am in great appreciation of all of it!

AdamStorke: Thank you!

Moderator: <MythicGirl> Thank you for taking the time to join us tonight. You have a worldwide fan base. Would you like to do more theatre work in the future?

AdamStorke: Absolutely!

AdamStorke: In fact, my goal is to commute between the theater and film.

AdamStorke: My first love has always been the stage.

Moderator: <Trinity> Adam- whats your favorite tv show on the Scifi Channel?

AdamStorke: My favorite shows are The Invisible Man, Prey, and The Chronicle.

AdamStorke: Elaine Hendrix rocks my world!

Moderator: <Lisa-Smartypants> If you had not become an actor, what would you liked to have become?

AdamStorke: An art thief!

Moderator: <preyternaturalWALES> Adam's work has shown a gift for regional accents, but I've wondered. In which role (if any) has he relied on his native accent?

AdamStorke: I would say that Prey was in my accent!

Moderator: <Liz> How did you feel when you found out that Tom was going to finally be free... any closure?

AdamStorke: In my eyes, I looked at it as a metaphor,

AdamStorke: so it's not so much closure as I feel free to move on.

Moderator: <Trinity> If possible, would you do more episodes of Prey?

AdamStorke: Again, I find it mysterious and romantic that there is no end

AdamStorke: and we can all use our imaginations as to what really happened.

Moderator: Brief word about the drill - please send

Moderator: your questions for our guest to me, Moderator, as private messages. (To

Moderator: send a private message, either double-click on my name or type

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Moderator: <quiksilvr> Ask him: What was it like working with Vincent again?

AdamStorke: He was great!

Moderator: <Jill> What's one thing people would be surprised to know about you?

AdamStorke: That I like martinis.

Moderator: <preyternaturalWALES> Which other actor do you most admire (living or dead)?

AdamStorke: Oddly enough, I was raised to appreciate British actors

AdamStorke: insomuch as the range of Olivier more than the depths of De Niro.

AdamStorke: But as I grew older and studied more, I became a Stanislavski diciple

AdamStorke: and learned to appreciate, admire, and incorporate the American Method.

Moderator: <Zooropa> Is there something you especially put attention to when preparing for a role and playing a character

AdamStorke: If you really want to know, the three things that are most important

AdamStorke: for an actor are sense of self, object, and action.

AdamStorke: Those are the fundamentals of how I work.

Moderator: <Jeanne> Did you enjoy working with Debra Messing?

AdamStorke: Yeah!

Moderator: <Trinity> do you have your own website?

AdamStorke: No, I am lucky enough to have excited and avid fans

AdamStorke: who are much more adept at creating a site than I would ever be!

Moderator: <Jeanne> Have you ever done work in The Actors Studio in New York?

AdamStorke: No, I haven't, but I have worked with equivalent groups.

Moderator: <MythicGirl> Did you enjoy singing and playing the guitar in "The Stand"?

AdamStorke: Actually, I read the book years before the movie was made

AdamStorke: and fell in love Larry Underwood and was lucky enough

AdamStorke: to actually get to play him.

AdamStorke: Little did they know that I could play the guitar, but I couldn not sing.

AdamStorke: So I worked extremely hard on the song that I played

AdamStorke: and what was most important for me was the emotion behind the performance.

AdamStorke: In fact, there is a version of "Amazing Grace" that I sang

AdamStorke: in the prison on the first day of shooting that was not aired

AdamStorke: in the movie but was profoundly emotional.

AdamStorke: So much so that when I finished there was not a dry eye on the set.

AdamStorke: So, inanswer to your question, yes, I enjoy playing the guitar!

Moderator: <bitbat> Is there any particular school of painting you like most? Impressionism.....?

AdamStorke: Actually, I am a huge fan of early 20th century Viennese painting.

AdamStorke: Notably Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt.

Moderator: <Jeanne> What's your favorite kind of music, Adam?

AdamStorke: Well, it's wide-ranged, from the blues, like John Lee Hooker

AdamStorke: to the savior of rock-n-roll, Bruce Springsteen

AdamStorke: and in very contemporary terms, I'm a big fan of

AdamStorke: David Gray, who I've seen live 3 times in the last years.

Moderator: <CelticPrey9> Have you ever worked on location outside of North America.? If so where and what did he like/dislike about it?

AdamStorke: Yes, I have.

AdamStorke: In fact, I worked specifically in Paris for three months

AdamStorke: and who in their right mind would not love Paris for three months?

Moderator: <Rueben> - Were you disappointed when Bill Schmidt left Prey in the early beginning. Vincent and Debra both expressed disappointment.

AdamStorke: Yeah, I was disappointed.

Moderator: <Trinity> did you ever have stage fright that you had to over come?

AdamStorke: Every day!

Moderator: <preyternaturalWALES> What character from literature would Adam most like to play?

AdamStorke: Well, I am a huge fan of Shakespeare and read him constantly

AdamStorke: and am obsessed with Hamlet.

Moderator: <bitbat> What about character Tom Daniels intrigued you the most?

AdamStorke: What fascinated me was the concept of evolution

AdamStorke: and that we could evolve into people whose brains were

AdamStorke: more evolved than ours.

AdamStorke: I spent much time research what that might look like; hence the reason my hair was so short

AdamStorke: because I wanted my forehead to be more prominent.

AdamStorke: There was a correlation between the master race trying to be created in

AdamStorke: WWII Germany and Prey.

AdamStorke: And what would happen if Hitler's right-hand man decided

AdamStorke: that the philosophy was wrong?

AdamStorke: That is what drove me in Prey.

Moderator: <Rueben> - Are you aware that Prey has been seen in 36 countries since 1998 and that Prey is an international sensation with viewers?

AdamStorke: Yes, I am!

AdamStorke: Because I am concious of all the wonderful letters that have

AdamStorke: been sent to me from all over the world.

AdamStorke: And know that I am appreciative of each and every one!

Moderator: <CelticPrey9> Do you still have ambitions to write plays?

AdamStorke: Oddly enough, I have spent the least year trying to write a screenplay

AdamStorke: and because of my appreciation on the written word, it has driven me f*cking crazy!

Moderator: <member-03> What wa it like working with Mr.Faison?

AdamStorke: It was great!

Moderator: <Quinn> have you ever been in a band, or aspired to be in one?

AdamStorke: No, but I've certainly done a lot of air guitar!

Moderator: <ECROY> Did you have a lot of freedom and input with Tom's character?

AdamStorke: Yes, I did, but we were under incredible time constraints and

AdamStorke: hurdles you could never imagine.

Moderator: <Jeanne> How would you like Tom's character to develop if the series had continued?

AdamStorke: I would have liked to have seen how Tom would have incorporated

AdamStorke: his new understanding of emotional life in a society

AdamStorke: that usually denies vulnerability.

Moderator: <LaPeep1> I'd like to pass along a Thank You from 2 of his Prey fans that have been seriously ILL, Benita and Kekathat He sent Photos to signed and with personal notes,and wondered if He recieves much of the Fan mail folks send

AdamStorke: Whenever I hear of someone who is ill, I feel compelled to respond.

AdamStorke: At the same time, I live a life that is quite busy, and though I

AdamStorke: am unable to respond to everything, I am deeply moved by anyone

AdamStorke: who sends me anything at all.

Moderator: <bitbat> I'm also an avid reader......what's the most recent book you've read?

AdamStorke: The most recent book I've read is a book by a friend of mine called "All the Finest Girls"

AdamStorke: by Alexandra Styron.

AdamStorke: The one I'm reading now is a biography of Frank Delano Roosevelt's

AdamStorke: called "No Ordinary Time".

AdamStorke: Given the immediate circumstances, I need to draw inspiration from another difficult

AdamStorke: time in our history.

Moderator: <BelfryBat> Were you close to the New York attack?

AdamStorke: No, I was in Los Angeles at the time.

AdamStorke: but felt deep remorse and unfathomable understanding

AdamStorke: of what occurred.

AdamStorke: But what excites me the most is that we are a courageous nation

AdamStorke: and I draw strength from the courage of every one

AdamStorke: who has survived and not survived.

AdamStorke: Where else can we see the human drama but in a phone call to home

AdamStorke: to say "I love you" before knowing that we might die?

Moderator: <pufinsjak> what is your ideal date???

AdamStorke: Hmm.. dark, mysterious, feminine, sweet-smelling, and little bit naughty!

Moderator: <PreyforTomDanielsEngland> what do you feel is your greatest accomplishment

AdamStorke: Loving my family.

Moderator: Well that's about all the time we have tonight. Adam, how about we take one more question?

AdamStorke: Sure!

Moderator: <Trinity> Mr.Storke- do you have any tips for those people who want to be actors when they grow up

AdamStorke: Yeah! Study, get an education, believe in yourself,

AdamStorke: and come to grips with the fact that there is nothing else

AdamStorke: that you want to do except act.

Moderator: Thank you for joining us tonight Adam. I hope you had as much fun as we did. You are welcome back to SCIFI.COM any time.

AdamStorke: Thank you very much!

AdamStorke: I hope you all know how much I appreciate all your attention and good

AdamStorke: intentions. In this difficult time in our country, I hope you know

AdamStorke: that as much as your prayers are with me, my prayers are

Moderator: Good Night Adam.

AdamStorke: with you. Thank you very much!!

AdamStorke: Good night!