Hi, guys. How you doing today? Great.
How you doing?
Yeah, very good. Thank you.
I wonder if you could just start
by saying a bit more about your character, starting with Andre and working down.
Sure. Yeah. So I'm Andre.
I play Christian Ozera he's a royal mauroy,
but unlike the other royal mauroy, he's a little bit of an outcast.
I think Christian is a very complicated, complex and layered,
layered soul who has his walls up quite high when we first get to see him.
But I think through the character interactions he has and through the people
he meets and the experiences he gets, he starts to let himself
be more vulnerable and open and we get to see different sides of them.
Hello, I'm Kieron Moore and I play Dimitri
Vaclav, who is a half human, half vampire,
dumb paired, lethal machine of a of a of a guardian.
And so I'm a guardian.
So I my role in society is to protect the Royal Marauders and the Marauders
from deadly enemy of this struggle.
Yeah.
So that's that's basically my role in society.
And I think Dimitri takes that role beyond seriously.
Yes. He's seen both sides of that fate.
And I think he
he's been molded by it.
And our story comes along and we'll see what the man underneath that role is like.
I hope. I hope we see that.
Yeah. I'm Andrew Liner.
I play Mason Ashford.
He is a Dampier.
He's a novice.
Next year he would be a guardian.
So, I mean, like like you
said, he is he is made to protect.
He is
half half vampire, I guess you could say he doesn't got
the fangs doesn't need to suck on blood can be out in the sun but
also has like the strength and the speed and the agility and the awareness.
So all the cool stuff really.
But I mean, I do like the fangs.
I'm not going to lie.
I put up with some of
but yeah, I think that yeah.
That's, that's kind of who
Mason is a fun, loving, caring fighter, you know?
Yeah. Amazing.
Because I was just about to ask what was say,
what's so fun about playing vampires and vampires?
The outfits are great. You get superpowers.
What is what is really good about playing these characters in a real.
There's some of them as well.
Yeah I think there's something I lost.
I think that's why I sort of feel that there's a lot of attributes that
this mythological,
mythological tale of a toy as a well,
there's real stories underneath and things which is great,
which drew us all to our characters independently.
Yeah, it's the way that they take the complexity that you say with
with each of our characters shines in its own right.
But then of course, it's also pretty cool
when you're not on set that you go and learn a fight choreography and
you're doing things that you never thought you could even try to do.
It's good fun.
It's really good food.
Nice night shoots are interesting as well.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Very fascinating. Those touches,
I can imagine a lot of spooky stuff happened
because the sets and the castles and location looks amazing.
Then we had a all one particular
Why are we filming a vampire show in old churches?
Because those are one of the they had a whole experience.
You know, it was it's funny because every every place we shot was real, you know,
it was it was it was a real castle,
a real training ground that we had.
And we filmed in, in a real Spanish Civil War.
The town.
Yeah, yeah, town.
So spooky, for sure.
Yeah, I.
Yeah, it must have been hard to come back to like real life then
afterwards because you were playing these like ancient creatures
and were like monasteries is now all controlled and fit.
Different.
It was like a Spanish bubble that we were in for like eight fights.
Yeah. And coming out of that,
I would be walking back home in my streets of Toronto and I'd be like,
Oh, my doing, you know. Well, why am I here?
Like on the Royal Maru?
Exactly.
Why am I out in the sunlight? It's not burning me. It's like there's.
So it was such a good experience and it was it was such a unique experience.
And like, yeah, I mean, coming back to real life was, was a little difficult.
I miss it.
I there's some great out on the world though and yeah.
Yeah, that's amazing
because there's really interesting thing about class structure
and loyalty here that was quite present in the times we live in now.
So speaking of that, did you bring any modern influences into the show?
Yeah, for sure.
I think, you know, with a lot of, you know, Black Lives Matter going on,
anti-Semitism, going on a bunch of, you know,
like the world we live in today, really,
I think our show
holds up a mirror to society in a fantastical way with all the classes.
And we see with with
the Royal Mulroy being above the non-royal Mulroy
and the non-metro Mulroy being above the dawn peers and dawn peers really being
second class citizens and and having just someone that's going to die for them.
You know, so I think that's something
really, really great that Julie Plec & Marguerite MacIntyre did with the show.
Everyone's truth is told, which gives you
a different insight into how these things can arise in the first place.
And I think it's interesting to touch on the audience through
Veil of a fantasy world. Yeah.
And all of these issues
that I think people would turn on the show and maybe not walk away thinking,
well, that's quite a resemblance to get to to this issue.
And approach to that is with delicacy and with
great ruthlessness.
I think as well, though, I think we were talked to the Times,
what we think is worth telling them, right?
Yeah. I think everyone can take
something away from this like I think the story that we're telling
is really about identity and and how we identify ourselves and,
and maybe in some ways how we shouldn't let other things identify who we are
and what we can do.
And I think we tell that very beautifully, and I guess
we have to let people see it, but I think people will really enjoy it.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, thank you so much talking to me today
good luck with the rest of the stupid that
day by.