Fet has been a fan favorite since his introduction, but with this season there’s a new fan favorite in Quinlan. The fan base is split online, what’s your take between the two?
Kevin: I think it’s awesome! When I read the books, Quinlan was my second favorite character! I love that character, I had thought “hey if I don’t get to be Fet, maybe I can be Quinlan, that’d be cool.” I am just happy for whatever is good for the show. You watch Rupert Penry-Jones play that character, the first time I saw him deliver lines to myself and Setrakian I was mesmerized, I thought, “That is really working.” What an awesome take on the character, between what Rupert is doing, and just from the look of him, he’s just such a cool character. I love that he’s becoming the favorite, it just means that more people are going to tune in. I just want people to watch the show and see the whole story. So I was a fan of Rupert’s as we were shooting, but now watching I’m a bigger fan.
Has Fet learned his lesson with explosives yet?
Kevin: No, like Setrakian, they’re both into the method of “you have to fail so many times before you succeed.” How many opportunities in real life before this vamp-ocalypse did he have to blow up buildings? To actually blow up a building like he did in that episode, you realize he’s still learning. He’s a smart guy, and so every time he fails he’s coming closer to ultimate success. I don’t think that’s the last time he blows something up.
Can you talk about working with the makeup and effects? What do you think of it?
Kevin: Well the artists are amazing on the show, I’m more in awe than anything, I’ve played a lot of characters in my career, leading up to Fet, where I got to spend anywhere between 3 to 8 hours in a makeup chair doing prosthetic work so I just have a lead of respect for the artists putting it on and also for the actors who have to put up with it. it’s tough! It’s kind of annoying, like if you can imagine waking up 4 or 5 hours earlier than everybody else in the cast and going to the set, it’s cold, it’s Toronto, and then you sit down in a cold trailer and they BASICALLY take a piece of Wonder Bread and coat it with Mayonnaise and slap it to your face and then blow dry it. And then you wear it all day! I’ve done a lot of it, I just really respect the process and it’s amazing to look it and, and they take you where they need to go. At the same time, I look at it and it’s kind of beautiful as well just from the amount of detail that goes into that work is incredible and then they just destroy it at the end of the day, they take it off and they start all over. It’s a cool process.
Do you have a favorite creature on the show?
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Kevin: you know, i got to say… the Feelers really get to you. When you see these adorable little kids walk into the trailer and they come out as these little demons and they’re crawling around. that’s gotta be up there. But one of my really good friends on the show, Robert Maillet, who played the first Master, to see him walking around with that makeup on in all his glory, his size, it was just mesmerizing, and you catch yourself kind of just staring. His hands are already giant! But then you add the extra tips to those fingers and all the work they did on him is phenomenal.
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