HLHost says "I am really excited about the show. We have a very special guest joining us in the studio tonight, Roy Dupuis from the hit TV show "La Femme Nikita". Let's all welcome Roy to the show!"

HLHost says "Hi Roy!"

RoyDupuis says "Hi!"

HLHost says "How're you doing?"

RoyDupuis says "Doing fine!"

HLHost says "Billions of questions are rolling in."

maria772 asks "Roy, how do you prepare for a role; how do you become the character?"

RoyDupuis says "I start by reading the scenario. And, each character has their own demands. Like Michael, for me, was mostly a lot of observation and inner feeling and a lot of logic and understanding. There was a movie made before that I liked. One of the reasons I decided to do the series. I let time act on me, too. I don't rush things."

HLHost says "That's good, take it slow ... let it unfold."

ravenmc asks "What do you do to get in the mind frame to play Michael with no emotions showing?"

RoyDupuis says "By understanding the section, what it's all about. By understanding what Michael's all about how he survived. The fact that he doesn't show emotions is because he wants to survive in there. All he's got left is life. It's a lot of concentration. Michael is always very focused and doesn't do any movement for nothing. Very minimalist. That was a choice that I made for this character. I don't even know if I made the choice or the character did."

Reeeh asks "What is your favorite and least favorite things about Michael's personality?"

RoyDupuis says "My favorite thing about Michael's personality is that he's a very intelligent character. It's fun to play intelligent people. The mystery of this character is fun to play, too. I hope he's fun to watch! My least favorite ... I don't think I've discovered it yet."

HLHost says "Oh, that's good!"

RoyDupuis says "That would be my answer."

Rowan1 asks "Roy, how difficult was it to speak Spanish for your new film, Aire Libre? Do you know when it'll be released?"

RoyDupuis says "No, I don't know when it will be released. It was not that difficult. Spanish is pretty close to French and I was surrounded by Spanish people. We shot in Venezuela and that helped. It was mostly fun. I like other languages and am thinking of learning German or Italian."

HLHost says "Spanish is similar to French, isn't it?"

RoyDupuis says "Yes, it's Latin. So, a lot of Latin words are almost the same."

LFNRoyFan asks "What does Michael really think of Nikita"

RoyDupuis says "I don't know if I can say! There's still a lot of the shows that are based on this question. What I can answer is that we will ... along the way, learn a lot more about that this season and hopefully, next season. Maybe that will be clarified this season. But, that's what I can answer right now. Be patient!"

MicheleN asks "Out of all the movies you've done, which one are you most proud of and why?"

RoyDupuis says "Oh. It was the first one I did, "Being At Home With Claude." Because it was one of the most rich characters that was given for me to play for cinema. I'd done some theatre before that with some great roles there, too. But, this movie ("Claude...") I had to transform myself a lot to this character. He demanded a lot to me so I could reach him. Since he was gay and a prostitute, and over that, a killer. Of course it was an act of passion, but he did it. So, there was a lot of intensity. And, the script used to be a play in Quebec by one of our greatest writers. This story and the color of his language was so rich and so well done that it was an honor for me to do it. I think I did well. That's the one I'm mostly proud of."

Row8 asks "What sort of films do you most like working in, comedy, drama, horror, sci-fi?"

RoyDupuis says "I don't have any specifications I would say. No? That's not the right word?"

HLHost says "Specifications. That works. Absolutely!"

RoyDupuis says "What counts for me is the story, the character. People want me for ... yeah, I'm willing to do all those styles if I feel my place is there and if I feel I like it .... if it touches me. And, even more if I feel the movie's important and has something to say."

LindaVa asks "Roy, I really loved Emilie, how old were you when you filmed that?"

RoyDupuis says "That was I'd say six or seven years ago. So, I was .... uuuhhh .... 22? No, 23. 23 or 24. Cause it took about a year and a half to shoot. That's another thing in the category of television it would be another thing I'm pretty proud of. It was based on the novel, a great character."

guest59 asks "Do you resemble Michael's character in any way?"

RoyDupuis ponders thoughtfully.

RoyDupuis says "Oh ... I guess so. There must be a little of me in Michael. Of course there is also a big difference. How could I put it? I'm not in the same situation he's in. I don't think I could pull the trigger on anybody right now. I used to hunt when I was younger, today I don't let anybody hunt on my land. I do it myself cause I don't like doing it. There's also a big gap. But, once you play a character, you put a lot of yourself in it. It's hard for me to explain exactly what is part of me and what is not."

Nightingale_ asks "Had you seen Luc Besson's original movie La Femme Nikita before you got the part of Michael?"

RoyDupuis says "Yes, I had seen the french version before I did Le Femme Nikita. I admire what this person does. I think he's a great director (the film director). Was one of my favorite movies. Still is, I think. When they asked me to do the series, I wanted to make sure it would be respectful to the movie. So, I asked to meet them and try to see if we were on the same track and it felt like that. I also wanted to meet Pita and it clicked from the first meeting. So, yes, I have seen it and I liked it a lot."

HLHost says "Good."

LindaVa asks "Roy, what was your first paying acting job?"

RoyDupuis says "It was a play called "Harold and Maude", based on the movie. It was a tour around Acadie, the cajun in Louisiana. That's where they used to come from. So, they still have this area on the Atlantic coast which we call Acadie where those people came from. We were all on tour around there and it was a great experience. It was my first role after the National Theatre Company in Canada where I studied for 4 years. I was still in the school when I auditioned for the role and I came right out of there. I was pretty lucky."

erin119 asks "How do you feel about all the attention you get from fans? Do you regreat the loss of privacy?"

RoyDupuis says "Actually, I've been ... this is something that happened to me six years ago when we did "Emilie" and this series broke all their records of rates ... How'd you call them?"

HLHost says "Ratings."

RoyDupuis says "Yes. I was living down in Montreal and the day after it showed, I came out of my apartment and noticed a big difference. 80% the population was watching this show. I've been dealing with this for 7 years in my area. I haven't gone to the States since I've been shooting Le Femme Nikita. But, I enjoy it and it's a good feeling knowing that people appreciate my work. Helps me to keep going."

jileyla asks "Who or what gives you inspiration?"

RoyDupuis says "Everybody and everything. I take from ... like I said before, the character has his own demands. I like to observe ... like for "Being At Home With Claude", I had this big transformation to do. So, we had this area where there's a lot of gays an gay prostitutes, so I had to go there and get some feelings out of it. I like to go as close to the real world as possible. I didn't kill anybody to play Michael."

HLHost says "Good to hear that!"

Sister asks "Roy, if you were offered a "mainstream" American film, and it fit your schedule, would you consider it, if the story was good? It would probably result in even less privacy...could you do it? Thanks!"

RoyDupuis says "I like my work. I think cinema is a big ... a lot of importance in today's world. Cinema carries a lot of thoughts and ideas to the entire world. Like most of the arts. And, of course, if I think the story interests me, of course I would do it. I don't think I would think about the consequences of being international. I just do this job because I really like it."

HLHost says "That's what matters."

Glitters asks "Roy, when are you going to do some talk shows here in the U.S.?"

RoyDupuis says "I don't have anything planned right now. Probably. I guess."

HLHost says "Sometime in the future."

RoyDupuis says "Yeah, probably."

DCContingent asks "Roy, during last night's chat, it sounded like you're so very busy. How do you deal with the long hours and keep going through 9 months of filming?"

RoyDupuis says "I don't know! I just don't know. I take it a day at a time. I would even say a scene at a time. I just do one thing not thinking of what's ahead of me. If you start thinking of 9 months of shooting in front of you then it gets really long and gets you more tired than you really are. Stay in shape, take care of myself, eat well. Mostly try to have fun and pleasure doing it."

HLHost says "It's important."

RoyDupuis says "Yeah, I make it a responsibility to have pleasure doing what I do."

PippyFoofenshnoof asks "Did you want to be an actor all your life?"

RoyDupuis says "Not at all. I always liked cinema since I was pretty young. I was the kind of kid that didn't want to go to sleep cause I thought I would miss something. So, the weekends I'd stay up late at night with my mother to see what was on TV. There were no videos, so we had no choice except for what they gave us. It happened by accident when I was in this play at 17 years old in school. This girl I was doing the play with decided to become an actress and wanted to do her auditions for this private school and asked me to do the lines for her."

RoyDupuis says "Two days before her auditions it was my birthday, she arrived with the questionaire that they give you once you subscribed to the auditions. Which was my friend's but he didn't want to go anymore so she gave that to me as a present because she thought I should be there. She wanted me to take his place and make believe that I was him. Because there was a certain time limit for subscription for the auditions."

RoyDupuis says "I said, why not. I went and did the auditions and he had the same time and date that she had so we did our auditions together. We forgot that when you subscribe, you have to send a picture of yourself, so the guy didn't look like me at all! They discovered what I was doing so I had to give my real name. The woman auditioning us asked me to fill out a form and bring a picture and if I was accepted to say it to nobody!"

HLHost says "Wow! That's a great story!"

RoyDupuis says "It's an interesting school where you work with six professional directors every year for 4 years. It was interesting to me cause I didn't know anything about this world. No one in my family is a part of it except my mother teaches piano. That's how I got into it."

HLHost says "I love that story! So many questions here ...."

guest59 asks "Is there any actor you would love to work with?"

RoyDupuis says "A lot of them. I think there's a lot of very good actors and actresses out there. I wouldn't be able to name one right now."

RoyDupuis says "One of the actors I respect a lot is Marlon Brando. And, I met him this summer. I had a small piece in a film he was shooting in Montreal. The director called me and asked me if I wanted to do this small scene with him for fun. So, I got killed by Brando this summer. He didn't deceive me at all. He's very generous. He's a mountain. He's like a father, I like him a lot."

HLHost says "That's great!"

SusanW asks "Roy is there a director that you haven't worked with yet that you would like to work with?"

RoyDupuis says "A lot of them ... again. First name that comes to my head is Jim Jarmusch."

HLHost says "He's fabulous!"

RoyDupuis says "I love what he does!"

HLHost says "Me, too."

RoyDupuis says "There's a lot of them."

HLHost says "I can never remember this guy's name but the guy that directed "Delicatessen." What's his name?"

RoyDupuis says "I'm not very good with names."

HLHost says "He's fabulous. Love his stuff!"

RoyDupuis says "Yeah."

jileyla asks "What is your most embarrassing acting experience?"

RoyDupuis says "Fun question. That's the kind of question I ... (giggle) ... I'm going to find the answer to when I sleep tonite."

HLHost says "That's okay, more questions here!"

guest59 asks "What is a typical day like for you on the set? Hours?"

RoyDupuis says "Today, I was picked up at 6 a.m., and got up at 6. No! Got up at 5:30 a.m. and jumped in the shower and jumped in the car to take me to the set. Have some fruits and cappuccinos. And, then makeup and hair, dress. And, then usually this day will end around 10:00 p.m. at night. Then I come home and check out the scenes I have to do for tomorrow. Think about them while falling asleep. That's mostly what I do during the week."

HLHost says "That's long. Do you have the weekends off?"

RoyDupuis says "Yeah, Saturday and Sunday. I go back to my country house. An apartment in the city, a house in the country."

Nightingale_ asks "If you were asked to star in a movie made of the biography of some famous person's life, whose would you pick?"

RoyDupuis says "Right now ... Einstein."

HLHost says "Oh! Great! My fiance just read a book about Einstein. I don't know which one it is."

RoyDupuis says "What's the title?"

HLHost says "I don't know. It has one of those fabulous crazy pictures of him on the cover with his hair all wild."

RoyDupuis says "Yeah. He was a great human in every sense of the word."

HLHost says "Yeah he was."

Hollydream asks "What advice would you give fans who wanted to work in the enterintament industry?"

RoyDupuis says "To, ummm .... There's no real advice. There's no recipe. So, be yourself as much as you can. And, I would say just be yourself and .... I'd almost say start by doing theatre. It's a very good school. It gives you a lot of knowledge about writing and poetry .. the base of what acting's all about. Saying important things. And, yeah .... And, be yourself. That's it."

HLHost says "That's good. I like that advice. There is no formula, you're right."

tracy5 asks "What do you believe is your greatest strength as an actor, and what is your greatest weakness (that you might want to develop further)?"

RoyDupuis says "I would have to say ... charisma. Cause (laugh) ... cause since I was in National Theatre School it was something that was brought to me very often by directors of the school. They watched us grow through those 4 years. I have a hard time speaking about myself."

HLHost says "It's tough ... the hardest thing to do."

RoyDupuis says "Yeah."

RoyDupuis says "My weakness ... Can't find any! (laughs!!)"

HLHost says "He's perfect ladies and gentleman!"

RoyDupuis says "No!"

RoyDupuis laughs.

HLHost says "What about something else you'd like to work on and strengthen? An aspect of your character?"

RoyDupuis says "I always try to work more and more on imagination. That's the thing I'm always trying to do things ... not necessarily differently .. but in a way that fits the character and pushes that character as far as possible. That goes to imagination. It always has to be worked on."

HLHost says "That's something Einstein said."

RoyDupuis says "yeah."

HLHost says "Knowledge is not as important as imagination."

RoyDupuis says "That's it."

HLHost says "A lot of questions that we're not going to be able to get to tonite. So many!"

Sister asks "Roy, you speak English beautifully! I love your accent on the show, it adds to the mystery of the character. I hope you get to speak French soon on the show! Thanks!"

DeBey asks "Roy, What is the most dangerous thing you have done?"

RoyDupuis says "Physically it would be ... (laughs) .. There is this ... in Montreal there's a mountain and on top of this mountain there's, I would say about 400 feet antennae."

HLHost says "How long?"

RoyDupuis says "400 feet."

HLHost says "That's what I thought you said."

RoyDupuis says "A huge antennae for radio. One day I climbed on top. But, I think (laughs) still the most dangerous thing I've done was the first time I did theatre. It was the most scary feeling I have experienced. Inside of you just goes mama! What am I doing? And, then the magic happens and it's incredible and you want more."

HLHost says "Right, it's invigorating! Absolutely!"

cherylc asks "Roy, is there any one great dream or goal you have that you haven't yet fulfilled?"

RoyDupuis says "Yes. Well, there is since I bought this farmhouse, which is an 1840 house in the country on 50 acres of land. I have this uncle who's been working on a house like this for 40 years now. And, I've worked with him through time and this place has become almost like a masterpiece. It's HIM. He's worked on every bit and piece of it. All the land ... he chose the trees. It's an incredible place. "I want to do this with MY place. I want this place to be ME. When I leave, I want my children to take advantage of it and live in it and to continue this to make this piece of land like a dream. Yeah, that's what I want."

ExciteUser asks "(Chrissy17) :your show is awesome...how many years do u think u will stay with it?"

HLHost says "Believe me, if it depends on these people on here, your show will be on the air forever."

RoyDupuis says "We don't know! It all depends on you guys, I guess. They tell us in May if we're going for another season. It all depends on ratings. It looks good for another year at least."

HLHost says "I hope so. Is there anything else you want to say to your fans? Your devoted fans?"

RoyDupuis says "I'd say A la vie! Which means "to life." And, goodnight everybody. Goodnight and have sweet dreams!"