Day Two - the actual XF: I Want To Believe premiere in London's Leicester Square.
Leicester Square is the home of almost every big movie premiere that takes place in London. I was there for Rambo, Sex and the City, Iron Man... None of them was as great as XF one. The biggest fan group came from Germany (that's actually the time when I met Carmen, she came there with the German XF fanclub).
The awesome carpet with the famous X. FTW!!!
The first fans came around 10 a.m. and it all started around 5 p.m.
Carmen's T-shirt she wore for the premiere:
The Empire that held the premiere looked like that (I'd love to have such a huge banner at home):
The day passed rather quickly on talks among the fans on conspiracy and unsolved cases stopped for a quick food and drinks in nearby cafes. And you know what? It was really worth waiting so many hours there because I had a really great place and could see everything. Shame that people who came later were pushing really hard and screaming like crazy :/
and finally the time came and all could cheer up for the big thing start rolling!
All four (Gillian, David, Chris and Frank) came and were really patient with the fans, gave autographs to all. Seeing Gillian and David for the first time live gave a thrill. A magnificent experience.
David came as the first one. Was very focused and not so cheerful. Later we all learnt why but will not discuss such matters here. Xphiles know what I am writing about, the rest of you, just use uncle Google :)
Chris happy and modest as always. Very open to fans.
GILLIAN!!! here 7-month pregnant with Felix. Such a talent she is. Plus all must know "fuck" is her favourite word. ( She's THAT crazy -> a must see video from Jay Leno: GA's bathroom accident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j5cBnFSZGQ )
And Frank who truly adores X-philes. Still answers them online after such a long time the show came to an end. All of them devoted to the XF. A perfect team.
After that they disappeared in the cinema where many fans gathered to watch the movie. The funniest thing was that the movie had premiered earlier in Poland than in the UK and I did not have to go and watch it in London. However, majority of people were spoiler free and the plot was not discussed at that time.
I had to go to Apple Store and write everything that had happened to my friends in Poland who were waiting impatiently for the news. Luckily I found Mac that was not occupied by anyone and could write all almost live. Malwi was not able to come to London with me and she literally was crying back at home. She kept writing to me all the time, not only her, many friends. I had to tell them every single detail of the event. I think I spent in the Apple Store good two hours writing! They had their own private XF journalist or sth! That was a really hard time for Malwi as she has always wanted to be a part of such event especially when it concerned XF, the magic, the unexplained, the feeling of being one huge X family. During the series there were many fans convents all over the world but we could not attend these so honestly that premiere was the only possibility to be a part of it. Well maybe somewhere in the future there will be XF 3...
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