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What can you tell us about your role in Underworld Awakening ?
“Quint is a sort of new breed werewolf. When Selene wakes up, she’s been in cryo for however many years, and the world has changed around her. I’m part of the new breed of her old foe. I’m guess I’m the bad guy in the movie. But what I like about the Underworld movies that the werewolves aren’t really the bad guys. They’re just one of two different species struggling to survive.”
Do you have to wear a lot of prosthetics?
“Not so much. My character, when he transforms, is more of a CGI element. I have contacts in, but beyond that I just had to run around naked waiting for the computer to start generating its stuff.
“What’s really cool about Awakening is that it’s incorporating some very new CGI technology, mainly a face mapping technique where they put me in this big ball of lights and captured my face. And they can now put my facial performance and my performance into this CGI character. It’s not so much motion capture, that’s more for the body. This was more like extremely high resolution mapping technique.”
After playing werewolves on Lost Girl and Awakening , are you worried that that’s the only kind of role you’re going to get from now on?
“No, I’m not really worried about that. You know, more than anything I hope it opens me up to the more action/adventure film world. I’d love to do some more big budget films, like Pirates Of The Caribbean . Or something by Ridley Scott. That’s what I’m hoping it will lead to.
“I love those big, sweeping epic movies. I love Ridley Scott. I love his historical stuff. I’d love to play something like that in the 15 th century, or the fourth century or 900 BC, I don’t care. I love those big sweeping epics. Put me on a horse, give me a sword and I’ll win this movie for you kind of thing.”
You did get to be in the first season of The Tudors , as Will Compton.
“Oh yeah. When they found out I could ride a horse really well, they were like, ‘Get Kris in every scene where there’s a horse.’ It’s like a running joke with me. I tell a director I can ride a horse, and they go, ‘Yeah right.’ ‘No, really! I can ride!’ I did three day eventing so I can handle a horse.”
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A while ago you expressed an interest in writing. I think I even read you were developing a TV series idea.
“I had a great idea that I was working towards but the series idea just become too big. And kinda out of my league. And I got busy with Lost Girl and I think someone else is doing a series pretty similar to it now.
“Definitely I’m still thinking about writing and directing. I’m going to try a film first now. A low budget film that I hope will shoot in 2013.
“I was going to start focusing on writing more this year, but a lot of my friends said, ‘You know what, acting is going really well for you right now, so focus on acting. Make sure you move when you need to move in that world. Leave writing and directing till later.’ And that made sense to me.
“In the next couple of years I want to see where things go. Especially with Lost Girl airing in the States now. Let’s see where that leads. Who knows what’ll happen?”
If you had the chance to meet Dyson in a bar, what do you think you would talk to him about?
“The advice I’d give him is… um, something about, don’t be afraid to let your love show. Don’t be afraid to be gentle. Because there’s that side of Dyson that he really suppresses. He doesn’t get a chance to show it very often. ‘You don’t have to be such a tough guy.’
“What I would ask him is, ‘How the hell do I get to live 1,000 years?’”
Who would you put your money on in a fight between Bo from Lost Girl and Selene from Underworld ?
That’s a tough question. I would kinda hope it would end up in a tie and some sort of sexy PVC clad love scene would ensue. Make them lovers not fighters.”
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