Season three of The CW’s The 100 has found fan favorite characters meeting their makers. It’s also found Devon Bostick’s character, Jasper, suffering from PTSD following the devastating death of Maya (Eve Harlow). At the 2016 WonderCon in downtown Los Angeles, Bostick talked about what it’s been like to play a darker, depressed Jasper in season three of the series and what it might take for his character to be able to work through the loss of Maya.
Devon Bostick Interview:
Can you talk about the changes in Jasper from season one to season three?
Devon Bostick: “I love where Jasper’s going. I think it’s so true to see a character actually going through the PTSD that’s he’s actually going through. There’s so many things that happen on the show that our characters just push through it, and it’s nice to see someone really processing all the things that have happened. Also, I love playing Jasper the exact opposite of how he’s been since the pilot which is just so consumed in darkness.”
What are we going to see in terms of his relationship with Monty going forward?
Devon Bostick: “It’s interesting. It’s hard not to blame Monty for the death of Maya along with Clarke and Bellamy, especially someone that was so close to him like a brother. It pains Jasper deeply and I don’t think he understands that Monty was just doing what had to be done. It’s difficult. They had the big blowout and I think now they’re going to take some space from each other.
Hopefully, they can both learn to accept all the things that happened, but it’s a difficult friendship. I mean, I’ve never murdered any of my friend’s girlfriends so I can’t really relate, but yeah it’s going to be an interesting journey. I love that we’re seeing ‘Jonty’ go through all of the stages of friendship and also grief. It’ll be an interesting journey but hopefully they’ll get back together because nothing makes me happier than Monty and Jasper together.”
Going back to the PTSD, did you do any research to play that?
Devon Bostick: “Yeah, I’ve done some research and I was actually supposed to be doing this PTSD soldier film before this came about so I had done some research back then. The main thing I sort of brought into Jasper this year was he was unable to make eye contact with a lot of people. I just wanted to feel completely disconnected and reliving this horrendous day over and over and over again. He’s left alone to his own thoughts. Everyone’s off doing these crazy missions and I guess the main thing, yeah, is just being consumed by that day and reliving it over and over again. And then the thing we’re going to see, hopefully the progression with Jasper will be as he’s given this distraction by Raven, a mission to kill A.L.I.E. or whatever it is she wants to do, it’s giving him something that takes away from his thoughts for a moment. So we will see pieces of Jasper that we used to see before and hopefully he’ll be coming out of this shell shock.”
It seems like Jasper’s decided that he’d rather live with the pain that he has in The 100 season three than go to the City of Light and sacrifice all the other memories he has.
Devon Bostick: “Yeah. I think the main thing is this parallel between Raven and Finn and Jasper and Maya. And yes, he wants to forget that horrible day. He wants to forget the image of Maya dying in his arms. But is that worth getting rid of all the good memories? Do the bad memories make you who you are? Am I going to get lost even more down in the City of Light? Yeah, it’s going to be a weird moral decision for Jasper whether he goes in or comes out. But, yeah, I think the good memories hopefully outweigh the bad. It’s hard though. They’re pretty visceral.”
Do you see Jasper as making a 180 and returning to the Jasper we used to know?
Devon Bostick: “I certainly hope so. I think he’s got to go through a lot for that to happen to ever be the boy he once was. I don’t think it’s even possible to fully be as innocent as he once was, just with all of the things that they’ve seen. But hopefully I think he’s going to work toward it and that getting out of his head and being able to apply it to the greater good and something that’s happening within the story will bring him back to who he is, hopefully.”
Watch the full interview with Devon Bostick on The 100 season 3:
Rebecca Mader and Greg Germann in ‘Once Upon a Time’ season 5 episode 16 (Photo by Jack Rowand / ABC)
Episode 16 of season five of ABC’s Once Upon a Time found two Storybrooke characters and one Wicked Witch pulled down to the Underworld. The episode titled ‘Our Decay’ didn’t spend a lot of time with Hook, Emma, Snow, or David, and instead focused most of the action on the return of Zelena and her bizarre connection with Hades. Episode 16 also found Henry dream-writing/drawing new pages for the book, although unfortunately none of the new pages addressed the key problem at hand for the Storybrooke folks stuck in the red-tinted Underworld: how to return home.
The Recap:
Flashback to years ago in the land of Oz, Zelena (Rebecca Mader) is apparently celebrating her birthday by herself while watching old home movies in the mirror. In flies a winged monkey with the Scarecrow who Zelena is going to use to help her with a time travel spell. Before she can take his brain, Dorothy (Teri Reeves) rushes in to rescue the Scarecrow and protect Oz. Toto’s there too and he drops a curtain on Zelena so Dorothy and the Scarecrow can make their escape.
Zoom forward to present day Underworld and Hades (Greg Germann) is holding the photo from the book showing he and Zelena. He wants Rumple (Robert Carlyle) to hurry up with the portal to Storybrooke. Combining their powers and using Rumple’s Dark One blood will be painful, but Hades is holding the contract that will allow him to take Belle’s baby if Rumple doesn’t go along.
In Storybrooke, Belle (Emilie de Ravin) delivers formula for Neal and Baby Hood (who still does not have a name) to Mother Superior who is acting strangely. It turns out Mother Superior is actually Zelena and she’s come for her baby. In the Underworld, Hades demands Rumple use the portal to snag Zelena’s baby. If he delivers her, he’ll rip up the contract and Belle can keep her baby.
Zelena picks up the baby and Mother Superior and Belle demand Zelena put her down. Meanwhile in the Underworld, Rumple and Hades are opening up the portal right below Zelena’s feet. Belle grabs the baby and falls through, quickly followed by Zelena. But much to Hades’ dismay, no one appears through the portal and he wants to know where Zelena’s baby is.
Belle, Baby Hood, and Zelena don’t know where they’ve landed until Zelena notices the red sky and figures out they’re in the Underworld. Zelena realizes that means Hades is the one who made the portal because he wants her baby. Belle – not believing Zelena is trying to protect them – runs off with the baby.
Back in Oz, Zelena questions the munchkins about the Scarecrow. She knows they’ve tipped off Dorothy to the fact she’s back in charge of Oz and she starts turning munchkins into piles of ash when they won’t tell her where he is. Hades strides in and introduces himself, telling her he likes her style of killing. He’s heard she’s dabbling in time travel and is there to help her out. Hades thinks Dorothy is powerful because she has the love of the people and no one loves Zelena, but Dorothy can be defeated if Zelena and Hades team up. Zelena turns down his offer, saying she’d rather go it alone.
In the Underworld, Snow (Ginnifer Goodwin) and David (Josh Dallas) realize they’re regulars at the diner on the road to hell which freaks out Snow. She really wants to speak to Neal and the Blind Witch tells them they can do it by haunting Neal. It’s relatively easy. All they have to do is go to a phone booth and they can talk to their boy.
A scene from ‘Once Upon a Time’ season 5 episode 16 (Photo by Jack Rowand / ABC)
Meanwhile, Regina (Lana Parrilla), Robin (Sean Maguire), Emma (Jennifer Morrison), and Hook (Colin O’Donoghue) are looking through Henry the author’s new pages which show Snow and Charming getting the good news about the phone line that can deliver ghostly messages. Hook says he doesn’t care what they have for breakfast and thinks Henry should concentrate on getting them out of the Underworld. But poor Henry doesn’t even remember writing or drawing the new pages; they just appeared when he woke up. Henry gets upset with the gang because they all seem to think they know what he should write and being a typical teenger, he rushes upstairs to hs room. Just then Zelena knocks on the door and although Regina hopes that means she’s dead, Zelena explains she came through a portal with Belle and her baby – and she tells them the baby is in danger.
Back in Oz, Hades hasn’t given up on making a deal with Zelena. He knows about Regina and how she got everything while Zelena got nothing. He gets it because his brother is Zeus, and Zeus got everything while he got the Underworld. What a pair! He says only true love’s kiss can free him from the Underworld, but that’s impossible since everyone hates him. Hades tells Zelena he knows where the Scarecrow is and he really wants to help her so he can travel back and take Zeus’ place. They both share that overwhelming, all-consuming need for revenge.
Robin and Regina set out to find his daughter without a tracking spell because they don’t have anything of the baby’s. Zelena tags along because they can’t stop her.
Belle walks into the library but it’s so different she doesn’t understand what she’s seeing. Rumple shows up and he immediately thinks she’s dead, but Belle quickly tells him she came through a portal with the baby and Zelena. He figures out that’s why the spell didn’t work and Belle’s confused as to why he made a portal in the first place. She asks why he wanted to steal a baby and Rumple blames it on Hades, explaining he made a deal to save Baelfire in exchange for his second-born child. That’s how Belle learns she’s pregnant! She’s happy, and then realizes he’s already sold their baby. And when he says he’ll use his power to fix it, she realizes he’s the Dark One again. He admits it, drawing out the dagger and saying he loves both the dagger and her. He says he’s a better man now but not a different man. He is who he is, and he’s always craved power and refuses to give it up – not even for her. He explains she fell in love with him because he was a man and a beast, but neither exists without the other. He says she can choose to love him this way, but Belle refuses to make any choices until he gets her back to her friends and he fixes everything.
The line for the phone to haunt loved ones is super long, and Snow and David wait in line trying to figure out how and if it really works. No one in line is sure the messages get through, but they’re all hopeful.
Robin, Regina, and Zelena search the woods and Zelena goes off on a rant about what horrible name they saddled the baby with, hoping it’s not Britney or Marian. Robin says he hasn’t named her because he doesn’t know the baby yet. Regina tells Zelena she’s there to help her friends who have become her family, and Zelena starts crying that she’s there because she loves her daughter – and, strangely enough, she sounds completely truthful.
In Oz, Hades and Zelena go to the Wicked Witch of the East’s house and find Dorothy’s bicycle. They hop on and Hades promises it will help them find the Scarecrow. Zelena’s giggling like a little girl, saying it’s like a broom with wheels. They crash but they’re both still having flirty fun. Hades then tells Zelena she needs to enchant the bicycle so it will take them to Dorothy and the Scarecrow.
In the Underworld, Robin and Regina finally find Belle and the baby. Belle doesn’t understand why Zelena’s with Robin and Regina and tells them Zelena was in the process of stealing the baby in Storybrooke when they fell through a portal. Regina assures Belle it’s okay, and Zelena whips out a bottle to feed the baby. Robin allows her to feed the baby but tells her she has to give her back when she’s done. But of course when she’s done with the feeding, Zelena refuses to give her back, saying, ‘Not now. Not ever!’ and runs away.
Snow and David tell Emma and Hook they made a call to Neal and can only hope it got through.
Zelena run/limps through the woods and notices the baby has a cut on her face. She also figures out her magic did it and starts crying. [I can’t believe I’m feeling sorry for Zelena this episode.]
Back in Oz, Zelena and Hades locate Dorothy. Hades lavishes compliments on Zelena and tells her to go get the Scarecrow. Dorothy pulls a sword but it’s no match for Zelena who takes the Scarecrow’s brain. [And now I’m over feeling sorry for Zelena!] Dorothy tells Zelena she’ll never be afraid of her but Zelena says she’s not going to kill her. Instead she’s going to spread the word to all the munchkins and assorted creatures that Dorothy can not protect them. “Then my pretty, you’ll have nothing.” Zelena calls out to Hades, proudly showing off Scarecrow’s brain but Hades isn’t there. The bicycle stands alone.
In the Underworld, Robin, Regina, and Belle track down Zelena who’s hiding inside a house. She comes out willingly and tells them it’s her fault and that she can’t protect the baby. Robin wants to know exactly what happened with Hades, and she reveals he wants to use the baby for a time travel spell to satisfy his thirst for vengeance. Regina immediately understands why he needs the baby (because it’s the symbol of innocence). Zelena hands the baby over to them because they can save her. Zelena’s crying and acting solely out of love for her baby. “Good bye, little one. Mommy has to let you go,” she says, breaking down crying while limping back into the house.
Back at the Charming home, Robin holds the baby and Belle asks about the name. Hook thinks Zelena was actually telling the truth and Robin says he’ll take the baby to the forest to hide her. Then Henry runs downstairs with new pages. This time the pages show baby Neal looking up at crystal charms and hearing the voices of his mom and dad singing a lullaby. They thank Henry and Snow says she’s really ready to go home. “We’re gong to take down Hades and we’re going to do it now!” Snow proclaims.
Back in Oz, Hades has set up a romantic dinner for two. He watched Zelena take Scarecrow’s brain and thinks she was wonderful. [This is a seriously twisted couple.] He says he’s not going back to the Underworld, and Zelena realizes that he believes they’re in love. Hades confesses that when he was on the bicycle with his arms around her, he felt his heart flutter just for a moment. He really believes that if they kiss, his heart will start again and they can be together. They lean in to kiss but then Zelena says no! She doesn’t believe him and thinks he’s tricking her into kissing him which will free him from returning to the Underworld. She believes his plan all along has been to steal the time travel spell. He swears that’s not it and he just wants her, even going as far as to declare his love. But she says no one can love her and even if he did, that would mean he’d take away her best chance for revenge. She tells him to go back to the Underworld and he tells her she’ll regret her decision before leaving.
In the Underworld, Zelena faces Hades in the middle of the street. Hades was looking for her and she still believes it’s because he needs her baby in order to complete the time travel spell. But, again, he says he wouldn’t hurt her now and he wouldn’t have hurt her back then. He says true love doesn’t end and that he was just trying to rescue her baby from the heroes and had no idea she was there. Hades also finally explains why the Underworld looks like Storybrooke. It’s because he created it to look that way for her since he knew how much she wanted what her sister had. She realizes he gave her her very own Storybrooke! Hades asks, “Wouldn’t it be nice to not be alone anymore?” He chooses her and they can have it all, but Zelena says she gave them her baby because she thought the child was in danger. Zelena is still leery about trusting him and says it’s too much. She will get her daughter back without Hades. He stops her by saying, “April 15th.” That’s her birthday, something she told him years ago she never knew. He tortured someone to get the information. If she changes her mind, he’ll be waiting for her at home…like he always has.
Craig Roberts and Paul Rudd star in ‘The Fundamentals of Caring.’
The Fundamentals of Caring starring Paul Rudd, Craig Roberts, Selena Gomez, Jennifer Ehle, Megan Ferguson, and Frederick Weller will premiere on Netflix on June 24, 2016. Rob Burnett adapted Jonathan Evison’s book for the screen and also directed The Fundamentals of Caring, which had its premiere as the closing night film at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.
The film currently stands at a 70% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with Variety saying, “[…]Burnett has a pair of aces up his sleeve in Paul Rudd and Craig Roberts.” Even the negative reviews compliment the cast, singling out Rudd and Roberts for their performances.
The Plot: The film follows the story of Ben, a retired writer who becomes a caregiver after suffering a personal tragedy. After 6 weeks of training, Ben meets his first client, Trevor, a foul-mouthed 18-year-old with muscular dystrophy. One paralyzed emotionally, one paralyzed physically, Ben and Trevor take an impromptu road trip to all the places Trevor has become obsessed with while watching the local news, including their holy grail: the World’s Deepest Pit.
Along the way, they pick up a sassy runaway and a mother-to-be who help test the pair’s survival skills outside of their calculated existence as they come to understand the importance of hope and true friendship.
Barbara Hershey and Bradley James star in A&E’s ‘Damien’ (Photo by Ben Mark Holzberg Copyright 2016)
Damien‘s currently in the middle of season one on A&E but if you’re not already hooked, you still have time to catch on. Airing on Mondays at 10pm ET/PT, the series is a sequel to the 1976 horror hit The Omen and stars Bradley James (Merlin, iZombie) as Damien Thorn, the son of the Devil. Barbara Hershey co-stars as Ann Rutledge, a mentor/protector of sorts to the Antichrist. James and Hershey were part of A&E’s Damien panel at the 2016 WonderCon and also took part in interviews to discuss the horror series which finds Damien learning the truth about his background over the course of the season.
Bradley James and Barbara Hershey Interview:
Barbara Hershey: “The thing I keep hearing sometimes from people is how did the little boy who smiled with knowledge at the camera at the end of the original film The Omen, how did he get to this point? How come he didn’t [know]? How is this related to that? And what I just wanted to say is that he is half-human, like Christ was half-human, the human part of him couldn’t handle the facts and blanked it out like people do when horrendous things happen in their childhood. And he was always attracted to pain and became a war photographer – and what’s more painful than war? I’m sure whenever these ideas came in, little feelings, you’d push them out. That brought him to the present. That’s what I always thought was the answer to that.”
Is that what you thought, too?
Bradley James: [Laughing] “Yes.”
Is Damien sort of in denial right now as it becomes more and more clear to everyone around him that he’s connected to these terrible things?
Bradley James: “That’s probably a good way of putting it. I would say that anyone being informed that they’re the Anti-Christ would try and hold off for as long as possible before agreeing to that. Yeah, I don’t think that’s something that you hear and then go, ‘Okay.'”
How much of Ann’s ultimate plan do you know at this point?
Barbara Hershey: “Ultimate plan…I kind of am clear on it, yeah. How she gets there, I’m not so clear on. What her plan is, yeah. What her desire is, yeah.”
What has been the most taxing scene for you to play?
Bradley James: “I’m not sure if there is a specific scene largely because you find yourself mapping out… I mean, the difficult scenes are ones that are technically difficult. The difficulty of it is just finding the truth, being truthful, and that tends to be something that happens over the course of an episode so it’s difficult to sort of narrow that down into one scene. I think as long as you’ve done your homework. […]I enjoy this role so much that I’ve never had difficulty working, which makes it sound like I find it really easy which isn’t the case. It’s a challenge – a wonderful challenge.”
Barbara Hershey: “It’s not just one scene, it’s trying to come to something truthful, something real. And that can be in a simple scene as well, the challenge is hard.”
Bradley James: “There’s a challenge to it and that’s what’s brilliant about acting is when you get those challenges right and you take them head on. It’s what I get excited about it.”
You said you’ve enjoyed the role. What is it about playing Damien that you’ve enjoyed?
Bradley James: “I’ve enjoyed – cast aside, I’ll wax lyrical about the cast – I had a fantastic time coming onto set and bouncing off these people. And also just an opportunity to explore parts of myself, parts of humanity that are not ones I as readily sort of delve into. You sort of have to tap into your own I use the word darkness and it’s not really the right word, but you just have to tap into those aspects of yourself which may be perceived as a bit negative or to use a crass word, evil. I think we all sort of have that within us and it can be somewhat cathartic to sort of explore that within yourself and just get a better understanding of it.”
What do you hope audiences will take away from this show?
Bradley James: “I hope they ask a lot of questions of themselves. I hope they have a better understanding of the fact that we’re not all one thing, it’s not black and white.”
You played King Arthur in Merlin and now you’re playing the Devil reborn. Do you prefer the evil character?
Bradley James: “I prefer the variety. You know, acting always drew me as a kid. I got to be lots of people and have fun with it, and that’s what I’ve been very fortunate with with Damien because I did King Arthur obviously and then I was looking for something that was going to be completely different and fortunately enough Damien came along.”
Did you do all of the stunts in the train scene?
Bradley James: “Yes. The only thing that was missing was the train car. They were rushing above our heads, actually, and it sounded like whenever one came through it was like, ‘I’m pretty sure one of those cars is going to just fall through the floor.’ No, it was in terms of [that], one of the more enjoyable scenes was the whole subway stuff largely just because I got to run around and jump over stuff. It was fun. You can take your mind off of it a little bit more and just throw yourself at it physically. I love all that stuff. I love the physical aspects to the character. Like, ‘Get the stunt man out of here. I’ll do this.'”
How is it to see the finished episodes with all the effects added in?
Bradley James: “I’m quite happy. I’ve seen the whole lot. I’ve seen the ebb and flow of it and how it sort of finds its feet and starts to get stuck in. It has a great running towards the end and I’m very happy with the story that’s been told.”
How do you think Damien, with a journalism background, deals with the supernatural that he discovers is around him?
Bradley James: “That is the discovery that we’re about to make.”
Did you get to do a lot of cool stunts over season one?
Bradley James: “I wouldn’t say…obviously it’s not as stunt-heavy as some of the stuff that I’ve done. I’m trying to think if there’s one in particular that matches up to it. I think the set pieces are more of a mental play than a sort of action. There’s action in it; there’s certain moments like the train scene in episode three, but obviously I’ve had in previous jobs an intense level of stunt work to do that it’s sort of water off a duck’s back at this stage.”
In the original movie there were unexplained things that happened during filming. Did anything unexplained happen to either of you?
Barbara Hershey: “No, for me, but there was a lot of stuff with birds that was happening. Glen [Mazzara] was having coffee with his wife and we were shooting a segment the next day with this bird that was in episode two and this bird inside his house crashed into the window. He picked it up and it died in his hands. It’s strange because they couldn’t figure out where it came in. He went out and came back and there was another one there in the same spot. And then a lot of bird things happened to people during filming. One guy was attacked by ravens when he was working out, out running. There were a lot of those types of things going on, but nothing to me.”
Bradley James: “I think I get a hall pass for that, being Damien.”
Barbara Hershey: “I didn’t think about that. We’re on the right side! There are perks to the darkside.”
Is this the darkest character you’ve ever played?
Barbara Hershey: “I don’t look at the character that way. To me, she has a belief system and it’s the same as a Catholic person or someone who’s very steeped in their powerful belief system. Hers just happens to be the other side. From her point of view she’s not dark or evil. That has to do really with who’s talking. I mean, throughout history a lot of people from religions have killed a lot of people. Are those people evil? So I kind of think of it that way. She’s protecting him. Is that evil?”
So she believes she’s doing the right thing?
Barbara Hershey: “Absolutely. And she might be…”
Watch the full interview with Bradley James and Barbara Hershey:
Charlie Day as Charlie, Rob McElhenney as Mac, Glenn Howerton as Dennis, Kaitlin Olson as Dee, and Danny DeVito (Photo by Trae Patton Copyright 2016, FX Networks)
Season 11 recently wrapped up and season 12 will debut in 2017, and now FX has announced It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia was renewed for seasons 13 and 14. The half-hour comedy improved in ratings with season 11, up 13% in total viewers and ranking #1 among scripted comedy series on basic and pay cable. Season 14 will bring It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia to a tie with The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet as the longest running live-action comedy series.
“If anyone doubts the power of a camcorder and a dream, just look at It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which was a DIY backyard pilot when Rob, Charlie and Glenn brought it to FX and will go down in TV history as one of the most loved and enduring comedies,” said Nick Grad, Presidents of Original Programming for FX Networks and FX ProductionsGrad. “Few shows make it this far or have such devoted fans, and we owe it all to the creative vision and great humor of the creators and cast who keep Sunny fresh and inventive every season.”
The series was created by Rob McElhenney and is executive produced by McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, Charlie Day, Michael Rotenberg, Nick Frenkel, Tom Lofaro, Scott Marder and David Hornsby. The cast is led by McElhenney, Howerton, Day, Kaitlin Olson, and Danny DeVito.
The Plot:It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia follows the misguided dreams and blundered schemes of everyone’s favorite bar owners – The Gang at Paddy’s Pub – Mac (McElhenney), Dennis (Howerton), Charlie (Day), Dee (Olson) and Frank (DeVito).
Tim Rozon, Dominique Provost-Chalkley, Melanie Scrofano, Shamier Anderson, and Michael Eklund at WonderCon. (Photo by Richard Chavez / Showbiz Junkies)
Syfy’s Wynonna Earp centers around the great, great granddaughter of Wyatt Earp (Melanie Scrofano) who fights demons with help from her sister, Waverly (Dominique Provost-Chalkley), gunslinger Doc Holliday (Tim Rozon), and Agent Xavier Dolls (Shamier Anderson). Michael Eklund co-stars as one of the main bad guys in the supernatural action series set to premiere on April 1, 2016 at 10pm ET/PT. Grouped together for interviews at the 2016 WonderCon in downtown Los Angeles, Rozon, Eklund, and Provost-Chalkley offered insight into their characters, the show’s tone, and what viewers can look forward to when they tune into the series based on the IDW comic created by Beau Smith.
Eklund’s playing Bobo Del Rey who is the antagonist of the series. “But as you watch the show, there’s a lot of twists and turns. I was thinking about this the other day. Is there really a bad guy and a good guy in this show?” asked Eklund. “It’s all shades of grey. Everyone’s up to no good in some capacity. But as the token bad guy, I’m the bad guy in the show. Bobo Del Rey – I’m the leader of the revenant.”
Provost-Chalkley’s tackling the role of Wynonna’s younger sister, Waverly, who she describes as bubbly and wonderful. “I feel very fortunate to be playing her. I think Emily [Andras] writes these amazing female characters and I feel really fortunate to be able to take one on,” said Provost-Chalkley. “What’s really nice is that I’m her younger sister and I think that when you find Waverly in the show, she’s at a place in life where she’s been following the rules that she thinks…she’s fitting in the way that she thinks she should. And through the series she finds who she wants to be. There’s a huge journey that Waverly goes through.”
Rozon’s taking on the legendary Doc Holliday who’s one of the best known figures of the Wild West. “I tried to do due diligence and do my best interpretation,” said Rozon. “I hope people dig it. But like Michael said my character also lives in the grey area. There’s not really a good or bad, per se. I mean even Mel who’s our protagonist, she’s got her own demons and I mean not just the ones she’s got to kill to survive.”
Rozon’s loved Doc Holliday since he was a kid and was excited about being able to sink his teeth into the character. “I was a big fan of Tombstone, obviously, and Val Kilmer and the Dennis Quaid one, Wyatt Earp. I’d seen all of these interpretations already. I made sure not to go back and watch them because they were so good that I just didn’t want that. But I can’t explain how in a way it was almost easy for me from when I got the first script and I read it, I just knew he was in there. I just had to get him and he was there, and I couldn’t wait to send the tape. I said, ‘Someone’s going to be really good at this to get this part because I am going to be really good at this. So whoever gets it, they better bring it because I’m going to bring it for this.'”
Although Rozon has yet to actually make it to Tombstone, he did order a replica of Doc Holliday’s gun, the Colt Thunderer. “I made sure that I had it. I wanted to be comfortable with it. Props and production were amazing. That’s the gun that I ended up using was the Colt Thunderer. I just wanted to be as accurate as possible,” explained Rozon. “I mean the mustache that Val Kilmer had would have been nicer to go, but that wasn’t accurate. It was that big, bushy – it took me four months to grow it. It was a big mustache that he had.”
As for the tone of the show, Rozon says he’s a huge fan of the genre but finds Wynonna Earp‘s tone hard to pin down. “I’m a huge sci-fi fan and all I know is people are going to love it. I can’t explain the genre because it’s originally from the book and Beau Smith’s book is so amazing,” said Rozon. “I think it’s a lot like the comic book, which is kind of awesome. But it’s not a Western; I don’t want people to think it’s a Western because we keep hearing that. My character’s from the Old West, but other than that there’s not [much Western in it].”
It’s contemporary but there are some influences from Westerns. “It’s put into a modern way,” offered Provost-Chalkley. “Even like there’s references as if it’s going to be to a horse but it’s actually a really cool motorbike. It’s a modern twist.”
Rozon added, “It’s fun. The tone is fun. It’s sexy and it’s dark and demons’ heads are getting blown off, but at the same time it’s funny and then it’s tender. It’s got everything.”
Watch the full interview for more with Michael Eklund, Tim Rozon, and Dominique Provost-Chalkley:
‘Sleepy Hollow’ stars Lyndie Greenwood and Zach Appelman at WonderCon 2016 (Photos by Richard Chavez / Showbiz Junkies)
On screen couple Lyndie Greenwood and Zach Appelman teamed up off screen to discuss Fox’s Sleepy Hollow season three at the 2016 WonderCon in downtown Los Angeles. During our interview on the current season of the supernatural series, it was obvious that both Greenwood and Appelman not only have enjoyed the journey their characters Jenny Mills and Joe Corbin have been on over the course of season but also that the two actors genuinely like working together on the series. While they wouldn’t come close to revealing what’s coming up on the final episodes of season three, Appelman did say there’s lots of crazy stuff to come, lots of things happening, and he guaranteed big surprises are in store for the finale.
Lyndie Greenwood and Zach Appelman Interview:
Zach, you actually look like you could be Clancy Brown’s son.
Zach Appelman: “Well, what was funny was when I initially got the audition the phone call from my agent was, ‘I’ve this audition for you for Sleepy Hollow. You’re playing the son of Sheriff Corbin and you’re a dead ringer for this guy’s kid.’ And I said to myself, ‘I wonder if it’s Clancy Brown,’ because I hadn’t even seen the show before so I didn’t know. And then I IMDB’d it and I was like, ‘It’s Clancy Brown,’ because I’ve been seeing him in movies for years and I was always like, ‘I kind of look like that guy.'”
What’s it been like to play out the Joe and Jenny relationship this season?
Lyndie Greenwood: “It’s been one of my favorite parts of the show in general, to be honest with you. It’s very rewarding as an actor. And also as someone who loves Jenny, it’s been very cool to see her sort of blossom a bit and allow herself to experience love outside her sister and see how difficult that is for her but how patient Joe has been and just working through these scenes. I mean, some of the scenes with Joe and Jenny have definitely been my favorite things in the series.”
Zach Appelman: “Jenny’s had such a tough life that I think it’s nice to suddenly see some positive, some nice, good things happening for her.”
Is their father back for a while?
Lyndie Greenwood: “We’ll definitely see more of the father. I really don’t want to tell too much but it’s definitely an interesting story that continues so we’ll see more of that.”
Do you see Jenny and Joe as sidekicks to Abbie and Ichabod or that you are one cohesive group that doesn’t work without each other?
Lyndie Greenwood: “I think sidekicks, to be honest.”
Zach Appelman: “The show as it is right now is very much it’s Abbie and Crane’s story and we do feel like we’re there in support…”
Lyndie Greenwood: “…of their mission, which is a communal mission, obviously. I’d say I’m Robin.”
Zach Appelman: “Wait, if you’re Robin then I’m…”
Lyndie Greenwood and the interviewers: “Nightwing.”
What’s been your favorite scene this season?
Zach Appelman: “For me, there’s been a couple. I actually think it was a couple of episodes after we fought the ghoul and fought Nevins, the scene where we wake up in the morning in her trailer. We’re just lying on the couch together talking about our dads. It was a short little scene at the end of the episode. It was one of my favorites. I loved when I read it in the script. I found it really moving and just simple and human. I thought it was shot beautifully. I kept saying when we watched it she just looked amazing the way it was lit.”
Lyndie Greenwood: “Every now and again I get that right angle.”
Zach Appelman: [Laughing] “Every so often. It was just a very human, simple scene.”
Lyndie Greenwood: “I liked it when I kicked your ass when we were kickboxing.”
Zach Appelman: “You had magic powers. I was holding my own.”
Joe’s really working on finding who he really is. Can you talk about that?
Zach Appelman: “I think as an actor you find the thing at the beginning that you can latch onto. It’s hard to latch onto the supernatural but what I could latch onto at the beginning coming into the show was I’m a guy who’s just lost his dad. He doesn’t know why his dad died. He doesn’t know the circumstances and he’s got a lot of shit to work through about that. So that was my way in. That’s something that just as a person you can identify with independent of any supernatural thing. So when you have something like that with a character you find that as an entry. It’s like, ‘Okay, I’m a young man trying to mourn and process the loss of a parent. That’s the way in.’ That was the starting point and fortunately they’ve let that be kind of a continuing storyline for Joe throughout this season. That’s always been a thing for me to anchor to, I think.”
What are your favorite Sleepy Hollow monsters?
Lyndie Greenwood: “I really liked the Banshee.”
Zach Appelman: “Loved the Banshee. That was one of my favorites.”
Lyndie Greenwood: “And the Wendigo.”
Zach Appelman: “I don’t like the Wendigo. I love that they brought Kindred back.”
Why do you think the fans love the Mills sisters so much and are so protective of them?
Lyndie Greenwood: “I’m happy they are and so am I. I think it’s a really unique relationship that we don’t see very often in television, two really strong women that come together for a common purpose and are nice to each other and love each other and don’t fight over petty things like boys…not that boys are petty. I think it’s an important relationship to show particularly to young women, women of all ages and men. It’s just a great relationship to look at. And it’s wonderful to be a part of. Working with Nicole [Beharie’s] great. Our scenes, I think, are always really touching and awesome.”
Zach Appelman: “The genre’s been so historically dominated with male characters so I also think for young men to get to be watching a genre show where the women are capable and in charge is really good. They’re not just in tiny little sexy superhero costumes. They’re actually just humans, you know? Beautiful humans.”
Were there any particularly difficult things to play this season?
Zach Appelman: “I’ll say that there were times when I think we had so many back and forths in the relationship this season where like they would be mad at each other and things would be tense. And there were definitely times when I was just like, ‘Oh, come on! I just want it to work,’ and as an actor I was getting frustrated by that. But then I realized the character is feeling the same way, ‘I just want this to work.'”
Like the trailer argument?
Zach Appelman: “The trailer argument, but that was one of many.”
Lyndie Greenwood: “That was an interesting episode because actually a lot was cut out of the episode because it happens in TV. You have one storyline and then it doesn’t work. So there was so much more…”
Zach Appelman: “We fought a giant plant.”
Lyndie Greenwood: “Yeah, we were supposed to fight this giant plant. One of the reasons Jenny was so angry when she ran away is because there was more to that story, but we didn’t see it.”
Zach Appelman: “I’d taken something from the trailer and put it in the Masonic cell and it activated. It was like a little houseplant but it was actually supernatural and the Masonic cell activated it and it became like this thing.”
Lyndie Greenwood: “There’s all this backstory and really you just see Jenny really pissed off, which she was pissed off anyway but she was particularly pissed off because of the plant storyline – not really that mad at Joe.”
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Buddymoon, the Slamdance Film Festival Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature, has been picked up for worldwide distribution by Gravitas Ventures. Formerly titled Honey Buddies, the bromantic comedy features Grimm co-stars David Giuntoli and Claire Coffee as well as Flula Borg from Pitch Perfect 2.
The comedy was co-written by Alex Simmons, David Giuntoli, and Flula Borg. The three friends also executive produced Buddymoon and Simmons made his feature film directorial debut with the project. Gravitas is planning a July 1, 2016 release in theaters and On Demand.
“Gravitas couldn’t be happier in working with the Buddymoon team,” said Dan Fisher, Sr. Director of Acquisitions from Gravitas. “From the moment the opening credits rolled at Slamdance we knew this was a special film that balances zany humor and true camaraderie set against the beautiful backdrop of the Oregon wilderness.”
The Plot: When David (Giuntoli) is left by his fiancée just days before the wedding, Flula (Borg), his relentlessly upbeat best man, insists that the pair go on David’s previously planned honeymoon together: a seven-day backpacking trip through the breathtaking mountains of Oregon. On the trail, the two friends cross paths with a multitude of personalities and creatures while the unrelenting trek tests their friendship and their very lives.
Ariana Grande will be taking the MTV Movie Awards stage for the first time as a performer and Halsey will also perform on this year’s awards show, according to MTV. Grande will sing “Dangerous Woman” and Halsey’s set to perform “Castle” off of the soundtrack to the upcoming Snow White and the Huntsman prequel, The Huntsman: Winter’s War. The network also announced Kendrick Lamar has been confirmed to present the trophy in the new True Story category.
“This will be the first time I perform ‘Castle.’ This song is so important to me as a woman; it’s about not letting anything get in your way. I’m so happy MTV & the Huntsman are giving me the opportunity to present that message on television. Plus it’ll look sick,” said Halsey.
Additional presenters include Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth, Jessica Chastain, Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Olivia Munn, and Gigi Hadid. Will Smith has been selected as the recipient of this year’s MTV Generation Award. Central Intelligence co-stars Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart will host the 2016 MTV Movie Awards airing on Sunday, April 10 at 8:00pm ET/PT.
In the span of a year, Grande captured #1 on the Billboard Top 200 twice — first with her Republic Records debut Yours Truly and also with its 2014 follow-up My Everything. Yours Truly yielded the game-changing pop smash “The Way” featuring Mac Miller, which went triple-platinum, landed in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, and seized #1 on the iTunes Overall Top Songs chart. Meanwhile, the platinum-selling My Everything garnered a Grammy® Award nomination for “Best Pop Vocal Album” and spawned the six-time platinum hit “Problem.” Upon the single’s release, Grande became “the youngest woman to debut with over 400K sold first-week,” while the song ranked as the fifth “highest digital song debut for a female artist” and ninth highest ever.
2016 sees the release of her mega-anticipated third full-length album, Dangerous Woman, driven by the title track which captured #1 on both iTunes Overall Top Songs Chart and Top Pop Songs Chart minutes after release. “Dangerous Woman” also debuted in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 earning her the distinction of becoming the first artist to debut on the chart with the lead single from her first three albums.
More on Halsey, Courtesy of MTV:
Born in New Jersey, Halsey went from last year’s MTV Artist to Watch to selling out Madison Square Garden to a Gold-certified debut album, Badlands (Astralwerks) in less than seven months. Halsey’s very first tour sold-out in minutes, as did her second sold-out headlining tour last year. She also joined both Imagine Dragons and The Weeknd as the opener for each of their arena tours. She has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and Last Call with Carson Daly.
Badlands was released on August 28, 2015, reaching #2 on the Billboard 200 chart and spawning the hit single “New Americana,” which reached the Top 20 on Billboard’s U.S. Alternative Songs chart. Her new single is the emotive “Colors,” with MTV Teen Wolf‘s Tyler Posey starring in the clip with Halsey. Upon its premiere, the video went viral, trending globally on twitter for several hours as fans eagerly watched and shared the video’s twist ending. Halsey’s upcoming headlining BADLANDS tour has gone global in 2016, with tour dates sold out across 5 continents.
‘Shadowhunters’ stars Matthew Daddario and Harry Shum Jr at WonderCon 2016 (Photo by Richard Chavez / Showbiz Junkies)
Freeform’s Shadowhunters earned a second season order, weeks before season one was set to air its finale, after ranking as the #2 premiere on the network among adult viewers and consistently scoring high ratings. The series stars Katherine McNamara as Clary Fray, Dominic Sherwood as Jace Wayland, Alberto Rosende as Simon, Emeraude Toubia as Isabelle Lightwood, Matthew Daddario as Alec Lightwood, Isaiah Mustafa as Luke Garroway, and Harry Shum Jr. as Magnus Bane, and is based on Cassandra Clare’s bestselling book series, The Mortal Instruments. And at the 2016 WonderCon, all of the main cast members showed up to talk about the series which will finish up season one on April 5th at 9pm ET/PT. We had the opportunity to sit down with the cast during the event, with Matthew Daddario and Harry Shum Jr teaming up to answer questions.
Matthew Daddario and Harry Shum Jr Interview:
Did you know from the first scripts that the series would catch on with fans of the books and with people who haven’t read Cassandra Clare’s novels?
Harry Shum Jr: “Honest answer, I don’t know. I didn’t know because I fell in love, I thought it was a really cool role, I thought it was a really awesome character and then I thnk it’s a testament to what everyone else brought from the crew, the writers, to the other actors brought into this. AAnd also with the books and having an incredible foundation, but also you can’t make an exact same thing because then it’s like, why? Why not just leave the books as they are? If you’re trying to put them on a different medium, you kind of have to bring a little bit of your own pizzazz or experience. So that was really sruprising to me because when you get on a show you’re like, ‘I hope it’s good and I hope everyone does their part.’ And it’s been exceeding my expectations. It’s been awesome.”
Were you aware of the fan base and nervous at all about taking on these characters and satisfying the fans?
Matthew Daddario: “I learned sort of the day of just the level of enthusiams that exists for this show and for this series. My girlfriend actually had figured it out prior to me going to California to test. She sort of texted me afterwards and said, ‘Do you have any idea what you’re getting yourself into? I’ve been googling. It’s insane! Things are going to be insane if you book this.’ And I booked this and she was accurate.”
Harry Shum Jr: “And then she became one of those insane fans.”
Matthew Daddario: “She jumped right on board and read all the books. She tweets along with us and watches the show, and yells at me for things Alec did. I look at her and I’m like, ‘Are you serious?'”
The series does have a really active social media presence. Do you worry or pay attention to that?
Harry Shum Jr: “No. I’ve learned from the past you can’t. You know, you respond, you talk back to the fans but everyone’s going to have an opinion. We live in a world right now where all of the opinions are being put into public display, you know? You’ve got to accept that. You’ve got to accept that people might love it; you’ve got to accept that people might hate it. You’ve got to accept that people might feel either way, but what’s been really great to see is to see tweets or people say, ‘I was so mad and I hated it and then like now I love it.'”
Matthew Daddario: “Yeah, those are the ones. Those vindicate the whole show.”
Harry Shum Jr: “Yeah, you’re going to feel a certain way when you have an expectation of something and then when you keep watching hopefully that changes.”
How did you prep for your characters?
Matthew Daddario: “Well, in my case I decided based off of what I read about Alec I decided on who Alec was going to be and then I just sort of stuck with it. I think what’s good is I’m happy with the choices I made early on because they ended up playing, in my opinion, they played well and I’m happy I didn’t have to sort of change up my approach halfway through. That would have been a disaster. It was a lot of reading who he was and trying to get the sense of this young man.”
Harry Shum Jr: “For me it was kind of bringing that rock star quality. This guy is a rock star, you know? Imagine if a rock star got to live 400 years and then the great things and also terrible things that they would get into but I think we room to go into the backstory. Obviously a lot of it has been written out whether it be the Bane Chronicles and also there’s a lot of in between the lines that could be explored. So, for me it’s what would a rock star really kind of go through. We put them on a pedestal but at the same time they’re in pain. They go through hardships, they go through heartbreaks, and also they put on the heartbreaks. That was really fun to kind of dig into and see what we could bring from Magnus’ perspective.”
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