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Where there any moments in the series that particularly blew your mind?
“Well, there’s a scene where it goes into the future, were things to continue as they’re going in this particular way – 2000-and-whenever – and there’s a big reference to Hal in the future. That future involves a lot of Hal, and there’s a really massive image of Hal in the future… As soon as I got something of that I sent a picture to my best friend who loves the show and to my mum. She was like, “Can we have it?” and I was like, ‘Yeah, but I’m not sure you could hang it…!’”
And what about a favourite episode?
“I really enjoyed episode five [“Hold The Front Page”] – I think that’s absolutely hilarious. Five is Craig’s [guest star Craig Roberts, as Adam]. It’s the one I laughed out loud at the most.”
How does Hal get on with Adam?
“Well, Hal is very, ‘That’s not the way vampires should hold themselves!’ Adam’s all about sex and Hal is all about etiquette and decorum. There’s so many penis jokes from Adam, and for Hal it’s like, ‘He’s talking in front of a lady!’ So they jar slightly, but I think Hal realises that he could take Adam under his wing a little bit and teach him some of the tricks of the trade. I try and teach him some little routines and some exercises to keep him off blood, but he’s absolutely not interested in any of it whatsoever!”
Had you watched the series before you got the job?
“I’d never seen it except for one episode last year, the zombie one. I lived with the girl who played Sasha the zombie, so the only time I saw it was the episode that she was in. Then when I got cast I got the box sets. I really enjoyed series one and series two but I thought that series three went to a different level. The storyline throughout was phenomenal: constantly Aidan’s character was on the back foot, different people were trying to figure out about the Box Tunnel 20, that kind of thing. But the way the storyline leads on from series three and develops the idea of the baby… I just think it’s a very exciting storyline. And there’s so many fantastic tangents that go off the main storyline, too. In episode four we’ve got this great evil ghost who comes in, and in episode six we have a young girl werewolf. There’s lots of different branches off while it still tells the throughline story.
“What’s so great about the show is that obviously it has a bizarre supernatural concept – I mean, “next door’s a vampire a werewolf and a ghost” doesn’t make any sense – but people can relate with all the characters. And for every horrific moment, the next scene it’s usually followed by lighthearted comedy, like being horrendously irritated with people – ‘That’s not how you hold a baby!’ I think its very, very clever and really gives the audience a chance to get involved and become part of the show and really relate to the characters. So yes, Hal is downtrodden and melancholic throughout the series, but there are glimpses of him with a little smirk, or there are moments where he just completely makes a fool of himself in front of a girl that he really fancies. I think that’s how the show functions so well and is so popular: it has horror, blood, throats, all that kind of stuff but there’s a heart behind it. So it’s really, really exciting to work on.”
Ian Berriman
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