Vincent Kartheiser is an intelligent, talented and astute young man who has the ability to enwrap you with intellect one moment only to have you laughing in the aisles at his off-the-wall and slightly weird antics the next. On stage with Julie Benz on Saturday, Vincent displayed both these traits and helped to contribute to a very entertaining if not exhausting hour. Vincent played the role of Connor throughout the whole of Season 4 and for two episodes in Season 5 and during that time, fans witnessed Connor transform from a lonely, vengeful and hurting teenage boy to a well-adjusted teenager, Vincent truly enjoyed playing the two sides of Angel's son. "It was fun. I actually like playing the happy Connor more because generally I get roles where I'm a psychotic murderer or a drug-somatic syndrome boy or a nice kid who every once in a while goes out, gets hammered and rapes a woman. So it was nice to play a role that [cared] about other people." Vincent muses if he would have liked to have continued playing the new and improved Connor if the plug hadn't been pulled on Angel and there had been a Season 6. "I think I would prefer to see him come back but I don't think he would. I think they decided to do those episodes once they realised this was going to be the last season. I think they wanted to tie up loose ends and try not to leave too many things unresolved so if there was a season six, I don't think I would have snuck in at the back end of season five. But I would love to played light-hearted Connor more than I did because I played the other one for a year and a half."

Considering Connor had his memories returned and the impact that Cordelia had on him, Vincent pondered why Connor did not enquire after Cordelia, "I don't know, I think Connor probably has someone young and sweet at college," he joked, "He probably got his memories back but the last time he saw [Cordy] there was virgin blood on her belly that was blown open by a seven-foot tall black woman. Maybe he was a little turned off by that." At this point a audience member reminded Vincent of a lady that a year previous had tried to put makeup on him at End of Days. The lady in question was the gentleman's wife and after looking forward to Hyperion for so long, she was disappointed that illness had prevented her from coming and partying with her favourite actor. Being the dutiful husband, he asked Vincent if he would mind signing a 'Get Well Soon' card for her and of course Vincent agreed. While he was doing this Julie offered to field all questions including those aimed at her young companion on stage, so when she was asked whether Vincent wore Boxers or briefs, in the interest of staying true to her word, Julie leaned over towards Vincent, pulled the waistband of his trousers back and treated herself to a quick looky-loo. "Boxers!" she replied with a cheeky smile. Of course this answer would please most ladies in the audience, but the men didn't want to be left out and Vincent was asked if he should return the favour and check out Julie's preference. "No!" comes a shout from the back of the Main Hall as Julie's husband John Kassir made his feelings known on that particular subject. "Let's just say they're small and pretty," Julie said hoping to divert World War III. "Very small," John confirmed. "Very pretty," Vincent smirked, destined to have the final word but quickly gave way to John, "I really have no idea!"

Once the subject of cats reared its furry head during this session then the feline topic kept cropping up all over the weekend. During his solo Q&A session the following day, Vincent actually divided the audience and had a meowing competition getting half the audience to meow like a 'happy cat' and the other to meow like a 'hungry and angry cat'. "I actually bought my cat for my ex-girlfriend," he confesses, "and when she broke my heart and trampled all over it like a rhinoceros over a rice paddy field, I stole the cat." Vincent then goes off into one of his unique commentaries as he continues, "I swear it was like 1941, it was raining out and we jumped in the car and went 100 miles east to a little motel. We stayed down for three days and finally I go into my house and she's there [dramatic gasp], she's going to confront me. She walks up to me and she's like, 'So I guess you're keeping the cat?' I go, 'Yeah,' and she goes, 'I don't give a s*** as long as I don't have to see you again!' So I still have the f***ing cat." When Vincent goes off on one of his eccentric ramblings, there is nothing anyone can do but sit back and go along for the ride yet when he gets like that, how does anyone get any work done? "Actually on set I'm very, very focused and very quiet," he says quite clearly not taking himself seriously, "and I spend a lot of time meditating, getting in character, I do exercises..." Behind Vincent, Julie is pulling all kinds of faces at his words and starts to mime that perhaps he smokes something that makes him delusional. The crowd responds with laughter.

As Vincent is so good at ridiculing himself sometimes in rather a self-deprecating way, there can't be many moments when he gets embarrassed yet he quite easily recalls a moment from the second episode he ever appeared in, "I was wearing those leather pants with a seam from my navel to the top of my behind," once again he transforms into dynamic voice mode as he tells his tale, "I remember I was doing the scene where a young lady had been taken hostage in a car and I leapt onto the car grabbing a demon and slamming him down. In rehearsal I leapt up on the car like so and my pants ripped from the butt to the front and I looked down and I saw Jimmy! And I'm like it's your jimmy Vinnie, you've got to put him away!" Although there was a lot of joking and fooling around on stage, there were some moments where Vincent actually gave a straightforward answer to a straightforward question. Being in films from a very early age, Vincent was asked if there was any one film where he thought he could break away from the teenage angst roles and found his chance at being an adult actor. "There were probably a few in a row that I was really psyched about and I was like, 'This is going to be the one that is going to propel me into an adult career,' but it's funny, throughout my career ever since I was 11, it'd be 'you know this'll be the one kid, after this you won't be able to walk into a bar anymore' and I always looked at them and thought they were complete idiots and I was always right. So I get a lot of that even now and they're always wrong. Regardless of what film it is or who it's with I always find a way of helping it bomb," he joked.

Vincent's last film Dandelion played at the Sundance Film Festival yet he admits that there are no projects on the table at present other than appearing in Angel reruns. "I have a theory on this, which really pisses off every person that I know as it is exactly the opposite of what they all believe," he explains when asked about his ambition, "I have this idea that life is meaningless and everything in life is meaningless and pointless and that helps me sleep at night. I have this theory that we basically come into this world with everything we have and leave this world with it and regardless of how much money or how many projects or what you create in this world, it's all gonna go to dust and the only thing that really matters is the way that you treat the people you love and so I'm really abusive. No, seriously, ambition for me is to love the people I love. I'm not really interested in too much anymore. When I was young I wanted to star in a movie but then I did it and I realized that it didn't really fulfil me. It was fun but it's like the goal is never enough. If you're in a cycle of want or if you're in a cycle of ambition, you will always be there."

*** Throughout the course of the weekend the Autograph sessions were separated into 2 groups; the first featured Amy, Julie, Sarah and Claire, and the second Andy, Vincent, Jenny, Dayne, Brody and Sparky.

*** The Photo session, as always, ran well even though Vincent's ever present 'cup of coffee' was a continual moment of distraction as it was taken out of frame. Of course, the group shot was not the only opportunity to get a permanent reminder of your time with the guests. The shoots ran through both Saturday and Sunday morning offering single shots and parings from Pylean duo Andy & Brody and mother & son (Darla & Connor) with Julie & Vincent.

*** Favorite guest, I think, was Vincent Kartheiser because he's totally bombed, very-very funny, very entertaining.

*** Season Three we Vincent came in and we liked him right from the start, he was just a great kid but I've got to tell you something, he was a pain in the ass when he was a baby.