Chicago Con 2008 - Day 2 Photos - Charles Malik Whitfield

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Whoops!  I skipped Malik!  FAIL!  And he was so good too!

My main memories of Malik's panel was how grateful he seemed to be doing what he was doing.  His childhood was less than ideal and he credited many people for his success.

Here are some more photos of Malik's panel:











And for my reference here's the CW Source report on Malik's panel:

We’ve got more from the convention! We just caught Charles Malik Whitfield’s session, and yes, he’s just as fantastic as we expected. Here are some of the high points:

• Malik was ready for Agent Henricksen to join the boys in his fight against evil – so he was not happy when he found out he died! “You’re killing me? But… I get it! I want to be an ally and help in the crusade!” We think that would have been awesome!
• A fan asked what kind of awesome Huntermobile Henricksen would have driven, if he HAD survived and HAD ditched his day job to become a full-time Hunter. But Malik had a different approach. “I’ve thought about it – I’d be a fugitive, and the FBI would be coming after me. I would be so much fun to be the guy who would pick up random cars. Someone would come outside and say ‘Where’s my car?” And I’d be saying ‘Yeah, I’ve got it, I’ll see you in the next scene.’”
• He wasn’t initially interested in auditioning for the role, but one of his agent’s assistants insisted he go. Thank you, assistant!
• He can’t pick a favorite line from the show, because Henricksen had so many good ones! “I’d b thinking, did they really give me that line? Because on a lot of shows, like in sitcoms, if the lines are too good on the other side, it takes away from the main character.” That was never a problem on THIS show, he said.
• If he could have a superpower, he’d go all Magneto on us.
• Malik confessed to being a problem child – he grew up in The Bronx during the crack cocaine epidemic, and he sold drugs as a kid. A mentor of his introduced him to acting, and initially he wasn’t impressed. Then he wrote a monolog about a friend who had died, and a kid who saw it came up and thanked him, saying he felt like Malik was speaking right to him. “That blew me away. For the first time I felt like my words were important.”