"выплюнуть или проглотить" - как это было SUNDAY STORY: How I out-witted Misha Collins
Okay I'm doing this from my phone in my seat at the convention, because I made one tweet about it, and people I didn't even know jumped on me and demanded I tell this story.
At Misha's panel just now, there had been a question about him eating burgers for My Bloody Valentine. He told a story about how it would get to the point where he dreaded swallowing the meat and that it hurt to do. So, every once in a while, the woman in charge of props would let him spit the food into her hands. Simple enough, right?
The girl who went before me asked what other genres he would want to explore as an actor. Someone in the audience shouted, "Porn!" and the conversation devolved from there. After all was said and done, Misha made a comment about how a good, innocent question got twisted into that.
After his real answer, I approached the mic. I said, "Well, my question is not about porn."
To which he replied, "Next!" and turned away. There was a laugh, then he turned back to me.
I then said, "I could make it about porn, if you'd like."
To his downfall, he said, "Go ahead."
I said, "Okay, here's the porn question. Just now, you briefly spoke about eating on the set and what went into it. So, on the whole, do you prefer to spit or swallow?"
The audience broke out into screams, laughter, and applause. Misha dropped his head and laughed, too, speechless for a good few seconds.
"I could ask my real question now if you want," I said, trying to help him out. He could only continue to laugh.
After a bit, he got up out of his chair and started sifting through papers on the podium beside him. After a few more moments of that and allowing the audience to cheer, he sat back down and stared at me. He was still a bit stunned, but he eventually recovered.
"There should be an award for that question," he said, "but there's nothing up there. I can't give a clever answer to a question that clever to begin with. So, by my own admission, I accept defeat."
The audience cheered again, loudly. I took a bow, then asked my real question.