Jamz said:We should make a thread with a collection of all the video interviews. It's ridiculous how many times I've watched them. She could read the phone book and make it interesting and funny. And like other have said, her laugh is infectious.

Not just video, also press interviews are great :) So, two separate threads – one for video interviews and the second one for the press interviews. I can start the video one when I'm back home after work tonight, since I have a lot of video interviews collected in my Youtube account, so it's just gonna be "copy-paste" links :)

My quote and reply isn't working either, as usual…Kitten, you mentioned my other 2 favorite nonverbal dialogue moments! I just love that tiny, tiny smile she gives Castle after the "tall" comment…even with that heartbreak still all over her face.

And that eyebrow raise at the end of the ep after she says he makes her job more fun…I like how you describe it as imploring/waiting for Castle's response…I had always imagined it to be like she was saying "You know what I mean? We are so awesome togther…who knows what can happen between us?" with that eyebrow raise.

Amazing acting when you can convey so much more to so many viewers with just a facial expression!

I can't wait to see the new thread with the videos. I have lots in my youtube account as well but it'll be nice to see if I have them all.

I so agree with all of you about her facial expressions. Whether she's delivering the line or just reacting to something said it's incredible to read all that emotion.

dmcw, I know, it's amazing that she's got such controlled expressions that say so much and still leave room for interpretation. I think I read the eyebrow raise as imploring because I don't think that's she completely sold yet on how great they could be together. Just the week before, in yet another great facial dialogue moment, right after Kyra says "he's all yours", it's almost like it finally dawned on her that there could be more to a relationship with Castle, the look that went across her face was bewilderment at the idea that someone else saw them as a pair and then realization of Castle as an actual love interest. So at the end of "Sucker Punch", that look to me is just waiting for his response because she's finally been totally vulnerable and honest and let her guard down and it seems like she's not entirely sure whether she will get a response from the the grown up Castle or the 12 year old Castle.

I've always liked the way she plays Beckett with a certain hesitation towards being girly around Castle. We know she likes to buy pretty dresses and that she's been a bridesmaid 6 times, but when Castle sends her that beautiful red dress, she wears it but kind of seems unsure of herself when Alexis says she looks great and she says "Really?".

I just love how multi-facted she has made Kate Beckett, and how she's slowly revealing different layers to "the Beckett onion", it feels like she's had so much more actual character development than Castle has had, and it's a good thing Stana is such a controlled actress to bring her to life.

Um yeah, "violent" is putting it mildly. Not many great lines or careful facial expressions needed when you're gutting a guy with a large knife and then putting a freaking tire iron through another guys face!! She literally stabs him in the face with the tire iron and it comes out the back of his head! Ugh!!!! I watched most of it in fast forward.

I don't remember any lines from that film, just blood. Yet another reason that I'm so glad that Castle really highlights her ability to deliver a line or a raised eyebrow.

Was just watching "Suicide Squeeze", and "Beckett, Kate, Detective, Thank you" is still cracking me up, fangirl Beckett is too funny.

Good point Kitten. Towards the beginning, when the DJ said that people were listening from all over the world, she did seem really surprised that people would tune in from Australia to listen to her. She was like 'Me? They're all tuning in to listen to little ol' me?" I guess it's easy to get embarrassed when you have so many people gushing all over you about how beautiful you are. I also forget that this is her first regular TV show where she's a main character.

Incidentally, I watched clips tonight from the TV shows where she was a guest and was really blown away by her acting, especially in the ER two-parter, and the CSI Miami episode. Also saw her clips from Feast of Love – THAT sure was a surprise, but she still did a great job. Where actors and actresses in general get the ability to dredge up such emotion as easily as the rest of us flip on a light switch I'll never know. But she is exceedingly good at it.

dmcw and Kitten I went back and read your posts carefully a couple times and you're right. She's finally coming around to the fact that others besides Lanie are seeing that something is going on between them. It's easy for her to write off Lanie's comments about her being jealous of Castle and Kyra or about their connection because she's been saying it from the beginning. But when a former love interest of Castle's who Beckett just met says it, it's going to make an impact.

I never quite got that look on Beckett's face after Kyra says "He's all yours" previously, but now I got it.

Joss Whedon once said that the stars of Firefly were born to play those characters and I think it's true for Nathan and Stana. Nobody else in Hollywood could hold a candle to their portrayal. Nathan always said he really got the character of Castle from the time he first read the script and it seems Stana really got Beckett too. I could go on and on as well!

Hi all. I must have missed something, but where does the Beckett quote "Shut the front door" come from? All accounts I've read have said it is one of Stana's best-remembered lines, but I don't remember it at all. Thanks for your help.

ShutTheFrontDoor. said:

Hi all. I must have missed something, but where does the Beckett quote "Shut the front door" come from? All accounts I've read have said it is one of Stana's best-remembered lines, but I don't remember it at all. Thanks for your help.

It came from episode 2x04. It was also used in the promo. It is one of my favourite lines – hense the name! :)

Stana's delivery of this one is just priceless And now it also made it into a t-shirt!

I LOVE SOOOO MANY OF HER QUOTES!! TWO OF MY FAVOURITES ARE "shut the front door" and "That Was Joe Freakin' Torre!" haha I'm hooked on that one now :P STANA IS AMAZING! LOVE HER!

How did anyone choose their favorite quote for the scrapbook deal? I'm waffling back and forth. It's the one thing hanging me up right now.

Jamz, I just picked the quote that I love repeating the most and that I think sums up their relationship – "You have no idea."  After she said that to him, it was over – he HAD to shadow her and use her as his inspiration for his next book, and he knew it. 

I watched Stana's Spirit clips yesterday and one my favorite lines from that movie is this: "Three hours with no vitals, shouldn't he kinda oughta be dead?" I wonder where she got thnat accent from.  It's kinda Baltimore-ish, (since she said Morgenstern came from Baltimore) but not entirely.  Anyway, it's priceless. 

I also love it as she's leaving the doctor's office after first meeting the Spirit, the Spirit holds the door for her, she walks through, then stops, turns on her heel and gives a big goofy smile to the Spirit, then turns on her heel and walks off. 

I mentioned on another forum how much I love her facial expressions as well.  I love all those that have been mentioned already as well, but my favorite is the look she gives Castle as he's speaking to Kyra in the reception hall at her wedding.  It's an incredible combination of jealousy, envy, longing, sadness and probably lots of other emotions.  Joss Whedon once said that all the actors and actresses in Firefly were born to play the character they portrayed and I think tha't true of everyone on Castle – Nathan, Stana, Ruben, Jon, Seamus, Tamala, Susan, and Molly were all born to play their character.  They couldn't have cast the show any better.