Wondercon has been expanding into the Anaheim Convention Center since it first landed in this venue several years ago. Convention rooms and pressrooms are now at full and often overflow capacity. My day was filled with interviews and photo sessions to promote films, TV shows and web shows old and new. Fans added lots of color to the event with their creative and colorful costumes.
Next up: Photo ops and roundtables with the stars, writer, and director of the taut new thriller, “Bad Samaritan” about two low-level house thieves who stumble upon an eccentric millionaire armed with the latest in high-tech wizardry to conceal a very nasty hobby. Definitely a film worth seeing.
Next up: Photo ops and interviews with the cast, writer, and producer of “Into the Badlands.”
And what Wondercon would be complete without a star from the latest Star Trek series “Star Trek Discovery.”
My day ended on an interview with “never a loss for words” Alicia Lutes, who hosts the “Nerdist” show “Fangirling.” The show by, for and about women nerd culture, features a smorgasbord of pop culture experts and guests who visit movie sets and TV shows, talk about books, nerdy artists, and expound on news and events of the week with a unique female POV.
And last but not least, the fans:
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Stay tuned for my roundtable video interviews currently being edited….
Alex A. Kecskes is a published author of "Healer a Novel" and "The Search for Dr. Noble"—both now available on Amazon. He has written hundreds of film reviews and celebrity interviews for a wide variety of online and print outlets. He has covered red carpet premieres and Comic-Con events for major films and independent releases.
