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The young actor looks up at the screenshot projected on the wall behind her and bursts out laughing. "Oh no! Of all the still shots, you picked that one?"

"The Curse of Metallica restoration project was one of your first starring roles, wasn't it?" the talk show host asks. "Was it weird for you to have to act scenes where the rest of the dialogue had already been shot over twenty years before?"

Miko shakes her head. "Nah, it's really no different from shooting a scene with a character who gets added in later with CGI. Like the Pokemon commercials I've gotten to be in."
She leans forward with a conspiratorial look. "I tell you what was weird though: that 80s hair! Like, I have pictures of my mother with the big hair, but I never thought I'd wear it one day!"

"What was the hardest part of filming?"

Miko leans back in her seat. "So, the scenes where my character has the armor appear from the cursed amulet thing, they made it look like 80s special effects. But that was actually done with green screen. So I'd be walking around the set for hours with patches of green just stuck all over my body at random points! And the adhesive kept coming undone because the old studio set had a humidity problem for that week. It was crazy."

A few years ago I did a picture for Fanatic97 that was like this parody of dramatic retro movie posters. And I had this whole fake TV guide excerpt about how it was initially filmed in either the 50s or the 80s, but parts of the film were lost and then remade later.

And I thought, "Miko seems like someone who might grow up to be an actor in monster movies. She likes those."
So then here is a sequel: Miko being interviewed about her B Monster Movie days. The screenshot on top came because when Fanatic and I were talking about it, I said, "Okay but consider: the 80s movie actually looks like a 1980s cartoon. And Miko is drawn in a completely different style. With no explanation."

So I used a screenshot from the old She-ra cartoon. That was more fun than it should've been.

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The young actor looks up at the screenshot projected on the wall behind her and bursts out laughing. "Oh no! Of all the still shots, you picked that one?"

"The Curse of Metallica restoration project was one of your first starring roles, wasn't it?" the talk show host asks. "Was it weird for you to have to act scenes where the rest of the dialogue had already been shot over twenty years before?"

Miko shakes her head. "Nah, it's really no different from shooting a scene with a character who gets added in later with CGI. Like the Pokemon commercials I've gotten to be in."
She leans forward with a conspiratorial look. "I tell you what was weird though: that 80s hair! Like, I have pictures of my mother with the big hair, but I never thought I'd wear it one day!"

"What was the hardest part of filming?"

Miko leans back in her seat. "So, the scenes where my character has the armor appear from the cursed amulet thing, they made it look like 80s special effects. But that was actually done with green screen. So I'd be walking around the set for hours with patches of green just stuck all over my body at random points! And the adhesive kept coming undone because the old studio set had a humidity problem for that week. It was crazy."

A few years ago I did a picture for Fanatic97 that was like this parody of dramatic retro movie posters. And I had this whole fake TV guide excerpt about how it was initially filmed in either the 50s or the 80s, but parts of the film were lost and then remade later.

And I thought, "Miko seems like someone who might grow up to be an actor in monster movies. She likes those."
So then here is a sequel: Miko being interviewed about her B Monster Movie days. The screenshot on top came because when Fanatic and I were talking about it, I said, "Okay but consider: the 80s movie actually looks like a 1980s cartoon. And Miko is drawn in a completely different style. With no explanation."

So I used a screenshot from the old She-ra cartoon. That was more fun than it should've been.