So we slip in and there's our trio standing about six feet away under a camera crew filming the interview. And my god these lads are beautiful in the flesh. Sean looked positively stunning, fit and handsome as all get-out in a white brimmed hat, T-shirt and baggy khaki shorts, Dom was a little scruffier in his good-natured charming way, T-shirt and jeans, and Elijah, oh lord help me, but he's beautiful, in tight jeans and a fitting white striped short sleeved shirt--all eyes and cropped hair and trim little line of facial fuzz. They all have their arms about each other and Kevin and the interview is wrapping up and Elijah is saying, "Hey, I want copies of these photos!"
The crew begins to break up and Elijah looks over at Dom and gets this little minx grin and says "I'm going for it!" And to everyone's shock leaps out of the curtain and sprints down the convention concourse as fast as his little legs can carry him (which is damn fast) whooping with glee while three security guards all in black race after him followed by the entire line of screaming fans. Meanwhile, the New Line people are standing there in shock, mouths agape, mumbling "Where is he going?! Where is he going?!? Security!! Security!!"
Leah and I were bent over with laughter, it was the funniest thing we'd ever seen. I guess, later we found out, that Elijah being the game player geek he is, was dying to get out on that floor and had decided to make a break for it despite New Line's assertion that doing so would create a security problem of Con-wide proportions. Which it evidently did, getting New Line folks into very hot water with the Con security people. Not that they could do anything about it. Elijah, essentially escaped. I heard later that he was mobbed of course although he managed to claw his way to the ROTK gaming booth to play a few minutes of the demo they had running there next to the main New Line booth and tower of Orthanc. Somehow Dom also got down there, but their adventure was short lived as hoards of fans were tearing down the walls to get at them. Very funny to me, but not so funny to New Line who were plainly freaked out. They later told Elijah he could go out on the floor if he agreed to wear a full masked costume like half the attendees, but I never heard if he did that or not.