Creating the Jai Courtney Fansite 2:55 AM

First and foremost I would like to say thank you to all of the supportive people out there and all of the people on the Facebook Fanpage. It's been (and I'm sure will remain) a delight to chat with you guys and get all of your feedback. The Jai Courtney fan base is amazing, you guys rock!

Now I could just go on a total ramble about the site's progress which could get really boring lol so I'm just going to answer questions that have been emailed to me from the very start of the original site launch.

Q: What made you decide to do this (not that I'm complaining)?

Well I think I started out like any other Jai fan. I fell head over heels for Varro on Spartacus: Blood and Sand and decided that I wanted to know more about the actor that played him. Of course after ep. 110 "Party Favors" I really wanted to know what else Jai was in or would be working on. Like the rest of you I found nothing. Nothing but little blips here and there. I have to admit I was very frustrated and a bit confused. Other cast members had facebooks, twitters and websites to keep in touch with fans. So late one night I said to myself "I know I'm not the only one trying to get some kind of information on this guy as an actor. *sigh* If he's not going to do it....I will.. F* it!"

Q: Do you know Jai?

No, not at all. I've never met him (though I do hear that he is nice) I've never spoken to him on the phone or in any online setting. I also have zero connections to him in any way.

Q: How many people visit the site and are they all just from the US?

Well when the site first launched and the last episode of Spartacus had not yet aired we were seeing well over 100 visits a day...now that we are in a Spartacus lull and have had no interaction or updates from Jai or Jai's agency, numbers have slowly dropped in daily visits. No, not all Jai fans are from the US. Other top visiting countries are Canada, South Korea, Australia, Netherlands, and we get visits sprinkling in from other countries all over the world.

Q: Why do you not have "Boys Grammer" on the video page?

If you have seen that short film it is one of tense and heavy subject matter. Jai plays Alex who is one of the boys in the group and you see a little bit of him but he isn't one of the main characters. The video is a bit intense to be put on the site without having something to keep young eyes from seeing (though I think 99.9% of Jai fans are adults). The video is easy to find if you want to see it.

Q: No nudy photos?!? What's up with that?

As much as most of us like seeing Jai's bum I do want to keep the site friendly for all eyes. So...no nude photos will be posted on the site.

Q: Is Jai going to be in the prequel?

I have no idea. I'm hoping that we do get to see a little bit of Varro at least in one of the episodes. *crosses fingers*

Q: Has Jai seen the site?

It's a mystery so far....I wonder that myself....and sometimes worry to be honest.

Q: Do you have his address or phone number? If you do could you please send it to me?

No I don't have any personal information on him. I also don't plan on finding out unless Jai releases any information himself. Not to be rude but even if I had obtained that kind of information while building the site I would not release it to anyone. Even though I really have no obligation to do so....I have a self made strong moral code that goes along with this site.

Q: How can we be sure that anything you put on this site is accurate?

umm...well I guess you just have to trust me. I'm not going to post anything on the website that I don't know is actual FACT. If it is something that we are guessing at (like how tall he is) I'll put up "best guess is that he's about 6'1". Right now being the only resource and place for Jai fans to get to know and appreciate him the last thing I want is false information to spread, even about some of the most unimportant topics like his height. I also do not take information from just anyone either, like the messages "I know Jai from blankity blankity blank" or "I know a guy that knows him yada yada". Random emails with information do not make it to the site because I can not verify any of it as fact.

Q: I see that the new site is getting a store, do tell.

The store was something I mulled over. I thought it would be nice for the fans to be able to have something and well...web hosting is not free my friends. So the items in the store are going to be non-copyright infringing designs. I don't want to step on Jai's toes or on Starz!.

Q: What kind of person do you think Jai is?

That's a question I wonder about myself. I've heard from very good sources that he is a nice guy. Looking at his acting history he's done more theatre work than film and he is part of the theatre company Cry Havoc....so he seems like a theatre buff which many people will argue that he's a very different kind of actor versus most tv actors, his passions are in a different place. This may mean that fans outside of Australia might not see him in something for a while if he's working on more theatrical projects.

Q: You make yourself very pronounced on the site....you don't see a lot of that with fan websites. Any special reason?

YES! I wanted to make it very clear that the site is NOT an official site for Jai Courtney and that the person running it (me) is just another fan like you but I do want to keep the lines of communication open with fans. I wanted more of a sense of community for the site and that's why I'm doing this blog, why we have the facebook page and the live twitter account.

Q: Who is this new "member" of the site you keep talking about? I'm curious!

AH! Yes, Ash is now part of the Fansite team. She is a professional photographer, avid adventurer and all around wonderful, crazy person! She and I have plans that involve the site and essentially all of you. *grins*

0 comments:

Post a Comment