National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund -
Les Girl 7
Event - Meeting Lucy Lawless
by Janna
MaryD:
Janna has requested that the portrait
she gave to Lucy not be posted online
because it was a private special moment
- we all have moments like these and
it's for Lucy and Janna to enjoy.
Click on the thumbnails for the
larger images My friend Robert and I were waiting
outside Avalon for Lucy. The autograph
collectors were out in full force and
they were waiting too. I had a portrait
that I had done for her and was very
nervous about giving it to her. I had
met Lucy only once before at Comic Con
and still go into "freak out mode" when
she's right there...does that ever go
away?
So our plan was to try to get to her
before the collectors did because they
wouldn't let you do anything, they would
completely monopolize all of her time
and I wouldn't have a chance to give her
anything (I think the TMZ video proves
my point-if I had tried to give her the
portrait in that mess it would have
gotten destroyed.)
Basically the collectors were looking
three different places, some people were
walking from across the street, some
people were being dropped off, and some
people were parking themselves and
walking up from there. Well I don't know
where the collectors'
attention was when she pulled up, but my
Robert and I saw her and casually went
over to the lot. Thankfully I had time
to give her the drawing, get photos, and
we also helped Lucy with her things
before she ever came in contact with
those guys. Robert is the one in the TMZ
video carrying Lucy's garment bag and
you can see me with my camera running
around the outside as she walks up to
them.
Then they walk down the long hall to the
bottom steps. I was stupid, I didn't
keep going with them inside, it's one of
those things where if you don't keep
walking with someone then you're not
with them anymore. Probably about half a
second after I stopped walking I thought
"you fool, you should have kept going",
but maybe it's better that I didn't go
with, don't want to be a bother. Robert
came back out and told me that Lucy
asked my name again and that he got to
walk her all the way to the dressing
room and that she kissed him on both
cheeks.
When we spoke in the parking lot when I
first approached her she told me that
she was late but she still didn't seem
in a rush when she interacted with us,
and we didn't take that long anyway. She
loved my drawing and I was very happy
that she liked it, of
course. She looked gorgeous in her black
dress as everyone has seen by now. I
asked her what she was going to sing and
she sang the title for me as we were
walking... "Don't you Feel my leg" and
she smiled big. :)
Well I hadn't heard of it before, but
there wasn't time to bring that up to
Lucy. I looked it up, here are the
lyrics and if you go to this link you
can select to listen to a clip of it.
It's Blu Lu Barker and it's definitely
the Blues. Needless to say I wish I had
been able to hear her sing this song.
"Don't you Feel my leg" lyrics
Source
Don't you feel my leg, don't you feel my
leg cause
when you feel my
leg your going to feel my thigh and if
you feel my
thigh your going
to tell a lie so don't you feel my leg
Don't you drink that wine, don't you
drink that wine,
cause when you
drink that wine you'll try and change my
mind and if
you change my
mind you'll feel my fine behind, so
don't you feel my
leg.
You said you'd take me out like a
gentleman- treat me
fine, though I
know that's just something at the back
of your mind.
If you keep
drinking oh your going to get fresh and
you'll wind up
begging for
this fine, fine flesh.
Don't you feel my leg, don't you feel my
leg cause
when you feel my
leg your gonna feel my thigh, and if you
feel my thigh
you gonna go
up high, so don't you feel my leg
I took some video of Lucy talking to the
press. Somehow I missed her when
she posed for still photos. But she was
in a big hurry and I think she only came
out of the club to talk to the press for
like 3 minutes tops. You can't hear her
really well in the video because there
was so much talking all around me when I
took it. Sorry about that.
After the event was over Lucy came out
and she had helpers from inside the
event this time carrying her things. She
stopped for me as you can see on the TMZ
video that's online, they didn't include
that part on the TV version. She said my
name, and I was surprised because we all
know that Lucy always talks about
forgetting things and not having a good
memory, etc. and she said "Thanks
darling" and bent down (I'm short) and
gave me a kiss. Then she started signing
for the guys and I asked her to sign my
photo op from Comic Con and she stopped
for me right after she said she would
only sign as she was walking. :) She
wrote "To Janna with love Lucy Lawless"
and the collectors followed her all the
way to the parking lot.
As she drove off she waved goodbye and
honked the car horn a couple times and
then she was gone... but I was very
happy!
She is so incredibly cool. |