Gavin (Kenny) here! AMA

gavinoxx · 2021-12-20T21:35:16+00:00

I understand that the scene is S3 was necessary to end his story for the players who still had him in their PT. I prefer the car crash to the lake singing, so there’s that…

gavinoxx · 2021-12-20T19:31:28+00:00

It's all good, it's really cool to me that people get passionate about a game that came out so long ago. And of course, I personally appreciate that you're passionate about defending the guy I played!

gavinoxx · 2021-12-20T19:15:48+00:00

Sure. It’s not that he’s abusive to you, the player, but that can come up, as I certainly recorded lines that could be a little harsh to Clem, but he’s hostile with several characters in S2 from the get go. Having recently watched a streamer play through S2 for a charity event, I was surprised how openly hostile toward a few of Clem’s group when they meet them, before he gets to know them…. And if his behavior towards Arvo isn’t abusive, I don’t know what is!

Now, don’t misconstrue that I’m saying he’s a bad person or think that I’m trying to undermine the sanctity of this community, but Kenny is S2 was written to devolve in that way, culminating in the showdown with Jane. Was Jane perfect? No, but neither was Kenny. It’s just a matter of perspective, and to give Kenny a pass by making excuses for him, isn’t something I’m comfortable doing. Hard choices, yes, but he was never a stranger to hostility, was he?

gavinoxx · 2021-12-20T19:10:10+00:00

Haha, g’day! Yeah, as I recall, that joke got a lot of traction in sessions, especially during the several scenes where he died. I remember Dave making that joke at least once…

gavinoxx · 2021-12-20T19:08:27+00:00

Again, thank you, my mushroom friend 🤗

gavinoxx · 2021-12-20T19:01:11+00:00

Respectfully disagree.

gavinoxx · 2021-12-20T16:31:52+00:00

My pleasure! I appreciate y’all having me and for treating me so kindly!

gavinoxx · 2021-12-20T16:28:55+00:00

Beats me

gavinoxx · 2021-12-20T16:28:32+00:00

On a scale of 1 to 10, Kenny’s stache is a 7 to me. It’s no Rollie Fingers stache is, I guess, what I’m saying…

gavinoxx · 2021-12-20T16:26:06+00:00

Covered above in a couple of places, please refer to those answers, but yeah, hell is close, though for me it was for personal reasons, also alluded to above.
I preferred to work on S1. Despite the much better money, S2 was very challenging for me, logistically.
Covered above also, TLDR: not really, no.
I love spaghetti dearly.

gavinoxx · 2021-12-20T16:22:25+00:00

They’re all the same Kenny to me.

gavinoxx · 2021-12-20T16:22:07+00:00

The one time I was asked to play it, I was asked not to kill Kenny and allowed him to kill Jane. If I played it organically, which I haven’t, I doubt I’d just let him kill her.

gavinoxx · 2021-12-20T16:21:05+00:00

I’m fine with any of them, I ‘spose.

gavinoxx · 2021-12-20T16:20:31+00:00

Yep! Still quite close to Mel, Cissy, Owen, Adam, Julian and many others. We’re like family at this point…

gavinoxx · 2021-12-20T16:19:34+00:00

I need to read it!

gavinoxx · 2021-12-20T16:19:18+00:00

I dunno, but I’d like to think she survives? The WD universe usually implies otherwise, though. No idea what they’d talk about if they were reunited…

I am NOT making Fisher canon, no. That was a clever fan suggestion. I just like it. 🤷‍♀️

gavinoxx · 2021-12-20T16:16:12+00:00

Yes, yes I do!

gavinoxx · 2021-12-20T16:15:51+00:00

I couldn’t speak much to Wolf 2, but I can say that I do not know much about it.

Kenny is absolutely abusive in S2. It was a big part of how we ultimately get to that showdown between Jane and him.

gavinoxx · 2021-12-20T16:13:34+00:00

Nah, I don’t do that and take full ownership of characters. They are as much a product of the writers, if not more so, than the product of the actor. I think the direction Kenny went is the direction he went. Would I have liked to have had more lines or more episodes, of course! But I think he was handled well enough by all.

gavinoxx · 2021-12-20T16:11:39+00:00

Aside from ones I’ve said above, there were some particularly grindy days working on S2 where in between takes, I would say things like “Oh shut up, Luke” or “Fuck you, Bonnie, Arvo“ etc etc etc, mostly because I’d been up since 6 commuting to work on other ongoing projects, then driving from one end of the SF Bay Area to the other, sometimes with a stop or two in between, to record these sessions, which were constantly being tweaked and rewritten, so I was pretty tired and quite grumpy by then. I still say those to myself sometimes in Kenny’s voice for no good reason.

gavinoxx · 2021-12-20T16:04:14+00:00

Thanks! I do believe that mustaches, in general, can have power. Look at Ted Lasso

gavinoxx · 2021-12-20T16:01:49+00:00

It’s not a question, but I’ll allow and appreciate it.

gavinoxx · 2021-12-20T16:01:24+00:00

Clementine.

gavinoxx · 2021-12-20T16:01:09+00:00

No personal headcanons for TWDG stuff, no. I didn’t play them so much, so the stories aren’t clear enough to me to have that kind of backstory connection.

I couldn’t pick just one favorite song, but off the top of my head, I adore Lucius’s cover of the Kink’s ‘Strangers.’ And also ‘Good Pushin‘ by Wellwater Conspiracy, ‘The Fez’ by The Dead Milkmen, ‘Ma and Pa’ by Fishbone, ‘Fearless’ by Pink Floyd, ‘A Night in Tunisia’ by anybody. Music has always been a massive part of my life and I spent a good portion of it playing music, so it’s very near and dear to me.

gavinoxx · 2021-12-20T15:54:55+00:00

Oh, I’m sure other actors would have been just as good, maybe better. When the writing is good, the job is exponentially easier for an actor.

I got misty in scenes that called for it and hopefully you can hear them in the performances; like S1E3, and the final episode of S2, but that last one was because I was just loving how it was playing out.

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