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REVENGE: Get Thee To A Wedding!

December 14, 2013 By Tiffany Vogt Leave a Comment

Two years and nearly three seasons later, the long awaited wedding of Emily Thorne (Emily VanCamp) and Daniel Grayson (Josh Bowman) has finally come. From all the spoiler-filled photos we can see that the bride and groom make it to the wedding cake part of the celebration, and from the fateful opening to the third season, we all watched with horror as Emily was shot and fell overboard from her honeymoon yacht.

So for faithful fans, they have watched with wonder as Emily plotted out every final detail to her big day – not just her wedding day, but the day her ultimate revenge is unleashed on the Graysons. She is just itching to put that final nail in the Grayson coffin and bury Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) and Conrad (Henry Czerny) once and for all for their willingness to sacrifice her father to save their own skins all those years before. Fortunately, Emily’s revengenda has allowed her to pick up a few friends and allies along the way; there’s Nolan (Gabriel Mann), Aiden (Barry Sloane) and now Jack (Nick Wechsler) all working to ensure that her wedding day trap goes off without a hitch.

Last week’s shocker revealed that Lydia (Amber Valletta) had also survived the plane bombing that was supposed to have claimed her and Victoria’s lives in the Season 1 finale. Unfortunately, with Lydia back, so are her nasty suspicions that Emily Thorne is not who she is claiming to be — if only she could find that photo that exposes Emily. [Read more…]

Trailer Park: REIGN Ep. 9 “For King and Country” Sneak Peek!

December 13, 2013 By Tiffany Vogt 1 Comment

A queen on the run, one brother valiantly by her side, two kingdom’s in jeopardy, and many hearts at risk, REIGN returns on Thursday, January 23rd at 9:00 p.m. on the CW with an all new episode “King and Country” — watch the sizzling, heart-clutching preview!

(Provided courtesy of the CW.)

As Queen Catherine, Megan Follows is so delicious on REIGN! It was such a treat to interview her about the series when it first premiered:

I am enamored by REIGN’s fearlessness. It does not hesitate to throw down the gauntlet with its storylines and characters. It is so confident and bold. Lessons other TV shows could learn from REIGN: be bold, be fearless, be romantic, and be more than anyone expects.

In case you missed the mid-season finale of REIGN entitled “Fated” — you can watch it HERE at the CW Now website.

Previous interview articles you may have missed:

REIGN Preview: Adelaide Kane Dishes On A Queen’s Heart Torn Between Two Brothers

It’s REIGN-ing Men! Torrance Coombs Previews Playing the Dark Prince Who Falls For a Queen

It’s REIGN-ing Men! Toby Regbo Explains The Tough Decision Facing the Young French Prince

REIGN Preview: Megan Follows Teases What Evil Mischief Her French Queen Is Up To

It’s REIGN-ing Men! Alan Van Sprang Dishes on the Fringe Benefits that Come with Playing the King of France

REIGN Preview: Jenessa Grant Talks Playing a Queen’s Confidante and Struggle for Her Own Identity

REIGN Preview: Anna Popplewell Previews the Struggle Between Heart and Loyalty for Mary’s Ladies-In-Waiting

REIGN Preview: Celina Sinden on Precarious Position of a Lady of Money But No Title in the French Court

REIGN Preview: Caitlin Stasey Dishes on the Court’s Rebellious Lady-In-Waiting

Tiffany Vogt is the Senior West Coast Editor, contributing as a columnist and entertainment reporter to TheTVaddict.com. She has a great love for television and firmly believes that entertainment is a world of wondrous adventures that deserves to be shared and explored – she invites you to join her. Please feel free to contact Tiffany at Tiffany_Vogt_2000@yahoo.com or follow her at on Twitter (@TVWatchtower).

Trailer Park: HOUSE OF CARDS – Season 2 sneak peek!

December 13, 2013 By Tiffany Vogt Leave a Comment

Netflix debuts the Season 2 teaser trailer with highlights from its first season and the first look footage from the upcoming second season of HOUSE OF CARDS.

The second season of HOUSE OF CARDS premieres Friday, February 14, 2014 on Netflix.

FUN FACT: The series led the recently announced Golden Globe nominations with 4 noms for Best TV Series, Drama; Best Actress in a TV Series, Drama (Robin Wright); Best Actor in a TV Series, Drama (Kevin Spacey); and Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or TV Movie (Corey Stoll).

(Provided courtesy of Netflix.)

HAVEN: A Truly Terrifying Trouble Terrorizes One of Our Heroes

December 13, 2013 By Tiffany Vogt Leave a Comment

Season 4 of Syfy’s drama series HAVEN has brought all kinds of surprises: multiple Troubles, morphing Troubles, and one devious newcomer known as William (Colin Ferguson). We all thought we knew the rules of Troubles. But we were wrong. Just as soon as William popped through the portal door, he was stirring up all kinds of trouble and giving people new Troubles – ones that neither they, nor their ancestors had before. William proved time and time again that he could create a new Trouble and infect anyone he wanted. He also showed that he could also change a person’s Trouble, causing it to manifest at an earlier age or have a wider range than before. William is literally a Trouble-maker. Then we found out that he is but one-half of a Trouble-making pair: Audrey (Emily Rose) is his split-apart – meaning anything that happens to William, happens to her, which was shockingly proven when Nathan (Lucas Bryant) shot William and Audrey developed a gunshot wound too. This has made it exceedingly difficult to get rid of him. Our HAVEN heroes cannot simply kill him, as much as they desperately want to.

That leaves them in a huge conundrum: how to solve a problem like William? Worse yet, the longer he’s around, the more he seems to bring out the worse in Audrey. He’s not just a thorn in her side, he’s actually bringing to the surface memories of her former existence – the original Audrey, the one who may or may not have relished cursing the residents of Haven with the Troubles, one-by-one over a century ago.

Audrey has always yearned for self-identity. From the moment she found out that she was not actually Audrey Parker (an identity claimed from a real woman in the FBI), Audrey wondered exactly who she was. She discovered she had lived at least two prior lives, known as Sarah and Lucy. It made her wonder just how many times she has come to Haven over the years, and why each time she had a different identity and no memory of her prior lives. Agent Howard (Maurice Dean Wint) was her one recurring link between her prior existences and that link was severed when Nathan shot him in the Season 3 finale, desperately hoping to prevent Audrey from disappearing with the barn, which acted as a portal between the 27 year gaps in Audrey’s lives across the timeline.

So without Agent Howard, Audrey thought she would never find out who she really was – and she was fine with that. She liked being Audrey Parker, being in love with Nathan, being flirty friends with Duke, and having a place in the everyday world of Haven.

Then came William. This last trip in the barn reintroduced Audrey to a key part of her past: William. At first, he did not tell her that they had a preexisting relationship. He wanted to see if she could figure it out for herself. He repeatedly told her that once she exited through the portal door opened by Jennifer (Emma Lahana) that Audrey would revert back to the one person she really wanted to be. He just thought that would be the woman he knew – his soulmate. Unfortunately, Lexie chose to be Audrey. That’s who she wanted to be. That left William scrambling as he followed her through the portal and began playing his usual tricks in Haven. He began infecting the unsuspecting residents of Haven with Troubles, all in hopes of stirring up some passion and deep memories within Audrey – to bring out her true inner-self.

When giving people Troubles was not enough to trigger anything, William took it even further and began triggering Troubles in those who already had them, but earlier in their life. He even triggered a Trouble in a baby in order to push Audrey into doing his bidding – he wanted her to give a Trouble to someone to combat or nullify the baby’s Trouble. Unfortunately, Audrey didn’t quite remember how to create a Trouble that complemented an existing Trouble and that seemed to go haywire. The next step was pushing Audrey to give a Trouble back to someone who had their Trouble cured – in desperation, Duke (Eric Balfour) asked to have his Trouble back so that he could kill people to save their families and future generations. It was a risky proposition. Would it work at all? And if it did, where did that leave Duke? He’d be forever cursed with the Trouble of having to kill the Trouble-afflicted, one that had a nasty addictive side and which turned him into a killer. It was his worst nightmare, and one he was only too happy to be rid of when his brother Wade (Christian Camargo) sacrificed himself to end his affliction and save Duke from their family’s Troubled-curse.

So last week’s episode “When the Bough Breaks” left us hanging just as Audrey was about to re-curse Duke and give him that nasty Trouble back. This week’s episode “The Lighthouse” will reveal whether Audrey actually went through with it and if it even worked. It will also show us how it affects Duke to have his Trouble back. Will it have a dire cost on his life? Will Jennifer still feel the same way about Duke now that he choose to get that particularly Trouble back? Will Duke even be able to do what is being asked of him and to kill the father to save the baby? How will Audrey react to re-infecting a close friend of hers and knowing that she is the cause of his pain and torment? Or will they both back away from the brink of this terrible Trouble and find another way to solve their Troubles?

HAVEN has never shied away from the trickier moral dilemmas. It relishes in making its characters and its fans squirm; for HAVEN is not a fairytale. It is a tale of terrible, terrifying Troubles; a curse that one woman may be responsible for, and why she may be paying the price of curing them every 27 years as a different person. Thus, what Audrey has wrought, she must atone for.

Yet William throws a wrinkle into that carefully constructed cure. He likes the Troubles. He loves the woman who created them. He wants her back. And he will literally do anything to get her back. It is something we all relate to. We have watched, cheering, as Nathan and Duke have fought ferociously over the past four seasons for Audrey – whether to save her life, to help her remember who she is, or to win her heart. So why is William any less deserving? Well, first of all, he’s a cold-blooded murderer and, second, he does not deserve her. But in his mind, he is worthy. He had her first. Underneath all those various identities, Audrey is at her heart the woman he loves — his soulmate. He just wants her back.

The Season 4 finale of HAVEN will show whether our heroes will win-out in the tug-of-war for Audrey’s heart. It will also deal with William, once and for all. The answers provided may delight and dazzle, or they may make us all question what we have always believed about Audrey, the Troubles, and those we know and love in HAVEN.

To see how the Season 4 finale of HAVEN plays out and where they shall leave us gasping at the end, be sure to tune in on Friday, December 13^th at 10:00 p.m. on Syfy. Be warned Friday the Thirteenth is a traditionally cursed day of its own, and in true form for the occasion, the HAVEN Season 4 finale shall answer some prayers and unleash a few terrors in the process.

GRIMM: David Giuntoli Previews the GRIMM Season 3 Winter Finale

December 13, 2013 By Tiffany Vogt Leave a Comment

With half the third season already done, GRIMM is taking a short winter break before turning with even more exciting tales of Wesen and Grimm adventures. But before it leaves on winter hiatus, GRIMM shall take a stab at turning Christmas on its head with another gruesome tale.

In a recent press interview, star David Giuntoli talked about what are the challenges and perks of being in their third season, what this Christmas special holds in store, and when the Season 3 villain shall finally make his presence known.

What can you tell us about GRIMM’s take on Christmas?
DAVID: Just guess. Whatever you think is what it is, we just ruin it. We just ruin Christmas for everybody. So I mean there’s an actual legend of Krampus out there, and we’ve had German people asking us to do Krampus over and over again, and we finally tipped our hat to the fine people of Bavaria and we’re bringing this legend to life. So we ruin Christmas for everybody and it’s gory and it’s wonderful.

The first part of the winter finale is about alligators in the sewers. Was there anything like that which you were afraid of when growing up or that maybe you were scared of when you were little?
DAVID: I was just afraid of ghosts. I couldn’t handle the thought of them and I felt constantly watched, and it was like the worst thing in the world.

Does Portland actually does have sewers and did you guys actually do some filming down there?
DAVID: Yes, we did actually. We did some trickery of course. We went into an actual sewer in Portland and then we shot on a sound stage that we built a sewer on a sound stage in Portland. But I got to look like an actual man for once in my life and had a little like sewer suit on with a little hard hat. Got my little soft city hands down a ladder into a sewer. I think everything’s getting better and better all the time. It’s one of these shows we’re very lucky to be on the air as long as we are. Any show that’s on the air is lucky to be on the air, and you got to really kind of find how to do it and constantly improve. It’s been fun and I think the seasons better than ever.

In this Friday’s upcoming episode Nick pulls out yet another new weapon from his arsenal. Is there any one weapon in particular that you really loved playing with? Is it kind of like getting to be a kid to play with all these fun things?
DAVID: That’s the one that had like the knife that shot out of it, right? That one was really cool. I mean that’s one of the first kind of practical weapons. I’ve always been a huge fan of the crossbow. It’s so great for those like little sexy director moments where you see the eyes above the crossbow. I just think that’s seems so cool. This weapon would be my favorite. It’s rare that I get a weapon that actually has some type of functioning mechanism on it, and this was really cool.

What do you think is the hardest thing Nick has to deal with in this series?
DAVID: The creatures get more and more difficult to deal with. I’m trying to think of what the strongest creature would be. Our show’s much like Mario Brothers. Like every level, they just get stronger and stronger and stronger, so obviously in Season 3, I’m dealing with some over-the-top, resilient ruthless Wesen. Krampus is pretty wild, that guy. I mean when I walked onto set and I saw the actor dressed — first of all, we hired a gigantic guy to play this character — and then when I saw him as Santa with these horns, I actually had like a visceral reaction to him. I was kind of frightened in a way. It was a disturbing thing. . . I think that some of the grossest things I’ve seen are like the corpse when they’re all set and bloodied. I remember in Season 1 the craziest thing I ever saw was walking on the set and seeing in a car a body being eaten alive from the inside by live rats, and rats were pouring out of this mouth of this dummy and it was awful. My colleague Russell Hornsby ran away like a scared little boy. There’s some other stuff too. I think the most difficult thing for me was the initial discovery when Nick found out he was a GRIMM and that this whole other world was out there. It’s something we play on in the series a lot. Whenever anybody else finds out who’s not ready to find out about the world of GRIMM, it’s very delicate — because like mental institutions are lined with people who weren’t ready to see something, and they did. So that’s the most difficult part I think emotionally of the whole show was when Nick finds out he was a Grimm. And then Hank had to find that out. And then later on in this season, maybe someone else is going to find that out. You think you’re going crazy and that’s the most difficult thing for the character to deal with.

Most of the GRIMM stories are based on fairy tales and folklore. Do you like that they’ve done something different lately, or do you prefer the more normal type folklore stories?
DAVID: I think anything that kind of throws a curve ball into what the audience is expecting is good for the show. What we’ve done on GRIMM originally is I was passed a book that had all these fairy tales in it, and that was what our episodes were based on. But as the show grows, as does the character Nick, and you discover that some of these other phenomena that take place in the world haven’t yet been added to the book of fairy tales, but they are being added by Nick now. So we are taking other myths and folklore and otherwise just any kind of stories that have been told and putting the little GRIMM spin behind them now. So I enjoy that.

With Nick having gone through a big change at the beginning of the season by becoming a zombie, and there’s some residual effects of that, are we going to see more of that after the winter break?
DAVID: Oh, yes. We’re going to be playing on this one for a little while. It’s like funny. Every time Nick gets harmed, he’s left with this kind of useful side-effect and we’re going to definitely be seeing more of that after the break.

With Nick’s new-found super hearing and his ability to appear dead, do you think that this is something he will learn to control over time, or is it something that you think may put his life in danger?
DAVID: At this point he does not control it at all. So he certainly can use his hearing to his advantage, but this dead thing, I don’t think he knows where it comes from yet. It is certainly not something that he can kind of pull out of his bag of tricks at his own whim. So it either helps him or it hurts him at this point.

Watching everything that’s been happening with the Royals and Adalind (Claire Coffee), is there one person that’s going to emerge as the villain?
DAVID: The writers have done a very good job of what I like to call the slow reveal. I would say coming towards the end of the mid-season we still have probably two or three contenders for the villain. One definitely. We have kind of a new character that emerges who is one of the I’d say two villains, but we have a new character who is one of the greater villains that we’re going to have on the show. But I still place the Captain as a possible villain, and I definitely Adalind as a villain, and then there’s one more guy who’s showing up here soon.

Can you tease a bit about what’s ahead in the European side of the story?
DAVID: There’s going to be a big plot line that’s going on in Europe. Nick is not too involved with it, at least through the mid-season, though I know that’s going to start changing soon. So we have the Verrat and we have the Royals. These are all bad guys. The Verrat I see as kind of the SS, and the Royals, such as Captain Renard, and his cousin, who’s being introduced as Alexis Denisof (a great actor) will be having a major conflict overseas. His cousin wants to get Nick and access to Nick, and he comes very close very soon. Then we have the resistance, a kind of group of rag-tag people trying to overthrow the Royals. So we’ll be meeting some new characters overseas doing that kind of thing and keeping an eye on Adalind. We’ll be doing quite a bit abroad. The passports have all been stamped, so we’re overseas quite a bit.

Nick’s relationship with Juliette (Bitsie Tulloch) has had so many rocky problems in the first 2 seasons and it seems to be going just maybe a little too smoothly this season, except for the whole zombie thing. Are we about to see some more problems between them, or are they going to live happily ever after?
DAVID: Oh, there’s no way they’re going to live happily ever after. I mean, I don’t know what’s going to happen, but if there is a relationship it is the job of the writers to tear it apart, at least temporarily. So I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I can guarantee you there’s going to be something thrown into the works there.

Do you hope someday to really be able to get in touch with your inner dark side a little bit more?
DAVID: Yes. I think the longer Nick does this job the more he is going to become that. I sense that. I sense that it happens, and he’ll become that more and more to the world of Wesen. He’s not afraid of people anymore. So that’s a good sign for my character, getting dark.

When Nick was staring to deal with the aftermath of the zombie period, Captain Renard (Sasha Roiz) made a very interesting observation when he asked Nick what the problem was with killing a human versus killing Wesen. Is that going to ever come up again?
DAVID: Yes, it will. It will come up again. The Captain made a very good point that somehow Nick never really thought of, but it will come up again. It’ll be a theme that is addressed.

Are we going to see more episodes about Latin American myth and folklore? Is there something special about them that you like?
DAVID: Yes, absolutely. For whatever reason when we did La Llorona, we got our second highest rated episode that we’ve ever done, and we’re like, “Oh, wow, maybe there’s a trick here.” But what I really do love is taking actual folklore, stuff that people really grow up being afraid of, that they hear about all the time. There’s plenty of stories in the Grimm’s Fairytales that we could go to that we haven’t gone to yet, but they’re not really stories that have made it really into the cultural conversation or don’t enter your homes through your parents telling you about them. There are plenty of other stories that do enter your family life as a child or whatever that are not Grimm’s Fairytales. So what I really love about these things like La Llorona are they’re actually part of the folklore of a lot of people, and we get to just add that to the Grimm’s Fairytale book now. And we get to utilize Bitsie’s Spanish speaking. I think they’re kind of somehow richer and more realistic. So those episodes, I do enjoy them. They’ve been very strong episodes.

What’s it like now that everyone knows Nick is a Grimm. Is it nice that you no longer have to hide this from Juliette and Hank and the whole gang can like work together now?
DAVID: Yes. I think the show is better for having several more people know about Nick being a Grimm. There are still some people in the dark that I don’t want it to be revealed to just yet. The show can never become a big happy family. There needs to be a lot of problems and that there are responsibilities and dangers that come with knowing about this world, and those who have found out who are not either Wesen or Grimm, there are dangers that come with that, and that’s going to be explored in this season. There’s a reason Nick doesn’t tell everybody. It’s not safer for him, the more normal human beings that know about it. But I am happy that a couple more characters are in this circle, so to speak. I think it opens up a lot of new character dynamics — different people who can interact with each other for the first time. And I love those big dinner scenes where we’re looking at gory, bloody pictures and drinking red wine and kind of discussing it from all these different points of views: Fuchsbau, Wesen, Juliette, Grimm, and Hank. I think it’s fun.

The Wesen decided to hide from the humans. How did that come about?
DAVID: The Wesen rarely ever throughout history, and to this day, want to be seen by humans. Now when it behooves them to be seen, such as they’re robbing a bank and they’re trying to scare the bejesus out of a normal person or threaten them, then irresponsibly, the Wesen will show themselves. And the Wesen Council governs this behavior. So there was an episode in Season 2 where the Wesen Council heard about bank robbers using what people perceived to be masks to rob banks. I believe Blutbaten were doing this, and the Wesen Council got involved because if human beings start to know about Wesen — like remember the Salem witch trials, — it will be slaughter and/or upheaval of some kind. So the Wesen could always be seen by humans, but it is for their health and safety to not be seen by humans.

How have you seen your character further grow and develop this season? Have there been new acting challenges as you discovered with the character?
DAVID: Well, I think he’s become far more confident. I kind of decided this year he’s not afraid of Wesen anymore. They’re not something that’s going to scare him. What does scare him to this day is what happens to his loved ones if he don’t stop the Wesen. So that’s where the struggle comes in. And Nick also see himself now as the only person who has like the rare blood to solve some of these cases. So the stakes are raised in a different way now. He’s not afraid of the creatures, but he knows it’s on him to take care of this case or this next case. Like no one else can figure this thing out because they can’t see anything that he can see. I don’t know if there’s an acting like struggle that’s come there, but you got to like make the decision of what is keeping my character so highly invested in each one of those cases, and that’s a decision I made. But the newest thing, is that Nick is now more confident as he has kind of settled into his role. There’s no reluctance there anymore and he’s willing to go kind of rogue more often.

This season we’re starting to see increasing tension between Rosalee (Bree Turner) and Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell) concerning loyalty to Nick, and you alluded to the Captain as well. Are we going to see Nick eventually lose two members of his support team?
DAVID: You’ll see some wavering, I’ll say that. I don’t want to say I lose them all together. But things are starting to get questioned: Is Nick using Monroe? I just shot an episode where that’s like the central theme, and there’s a big falling out between Monroe and Nick. And it’s great because is he using Monroe? And in the episode that’s what is asked. Nick is sitting with Juliette, and he’s like, “I don’t know. He’s right. I think he’s right.” So I think it’s kind of cool that this stuff’s coming to the surface in Season 3.

What is your favorite Wesen that Nick has confronted over the year and why?
DAVID: Well, it’s got to be Blutbad. They’re like Labradors. They’re so loyal, to a fault. I’ve forged this bond with Monroe. It’s fantastic. And then I would say the Dämonfeuer because they’re just so fun to look at.

Are you happy that you’re portraying a Grimm, or would you rather be a Wesen?
DAVID: I love being a Grimm. I feel like I live inside the character now. I just get it. I know where he’s coming from. You sit with a character for long enough — and it’s the beauty of having a television show that’s running — you really get into it. You don’t even have to try any more. You just kind of know how he would react to a certain situation. And you probably can’t get that in movies. It’s just we spend so much more time with these characters. So I like being a Grimm. I’m sure I would love being a Wesen too, if I were one. But right now, I’m a Grimm and that’s just fine with me.

To see the 2-hour GRIMM winter finale, be sure to tune in on Friday, December 13th at 9:00 p.m. on NBC. Christmas is just never going to be the same again!

SCANDAL: Katie Lowes and Guillermo Diaz Talk the Huck/Quinn Relationship in the Torture Aftermath

December 12, 2013 By Tiffany Vogt Leave a Comment

Right smack in the middle of its third season, ABC’s political drama SCANDAL took a deeper look into the murky spy world that Olivia Pope’s father runs. B13 is not just creating, trapping, blackmailing and coercing people into doing its dirty work, it also keeps them locked up for decades if it suits their purposes. Watching Olivia’s mother Maya working with OPA to find the perfect escape out of the country was trepidatious and stomach-churching. But for long-time fans, the real story was what was going on with Huck (Guillermo Diaz) and Quinn (Katie Lowes).

With Huck discovering that Quinn was working with B13, he was not about to go easy on her to find out what she knew and what she was doing that could hurt those he loves. Not for one second did we ever believe that Huck could truly hurt Quinn, but within just a few minutes of the episode opening, we knew that presumption was wrong. Two teeth later, blood on the floor and Quinn a sobbing, terrified mess, our worlds were shattered. In the SCANDAL-world, this simply should not be happening. Even Charlie (George Newbern) was flabbergasted to find Quinn tied up, naked, and bleeding all from Huck’s hands. That episode was a turning point. We would never look at Huckleberry Quinn the same again. They were no longer mentor-mentee, BFF’s or even co-workers. A line had been crossed and trust and hearts everywhere was shattered.

In an exclusive interview, co-stars Katie Lowes and Guillermo Diaz recounted filming that arduous torture scene and what lies ahead for Huck and Quinn in the aftermath.

Revisiting last week’s really incredibly emotional episode “Yolo,” maybe you could talk about what it was like to actually film those intense scenes together.
GUILLERMO: It was crazy. It was incredibly exciting, but very strange at the same time. We both feel very close to each other as people, so I think it made shooting those scenes a lot easier. I was really up close and I was straddling Katie at one point during those scenes.
KATIE: Oh my god, that’s right. I forgot about that.
GUILLERMO: And we both just really went for it and felt really comfortable with each other. We just jumped in and did our best and I think it showed.
KATIE: It was like one day where we shot all the scenes on Halloween. I think Guillermo and I felt like a mix of being nervous and scared that we had to go to these really dark places, and at the same time, excited and honored and exhilarated that we had the opportunity because of Shonda [Rhimes] and the writers that we get to go to these dark places. It’s always like a mixed bag. But we trust each other so much and I knew that Guillermo doesn’t act without bringing his A-game. That’s just who he is. So I thought I’d better bring my sh*t. I’d better bring my stuff. I think we going at 150% from the first take on, and in between each take, Guillermo’s like, “Are you okay? Are you okay?” And I’m like, “I’m fine. I’m fine. Let’s go again.” It was just so magical. We had just the utmost respect from the director Oliver Bokelberg and the whole crew — the camera department especially. These guys were so up close and personal with the cameras and I’m lying there naked and sweating, and Guillermo’s licking my face and there’s tears everywhere. So we were just in a mixture of tears and blood and it’s all these guys going through this journey with us. I think we ended that day closer than when we started.

It was powerful to watch, but we were perhaps more shocked that the show was willing to go there with two beloved characters.
KATIE: And how great is that?! When we first read the episode, I was like, “Oh my god. They are going there. They are not afraid. They are going there.” I think that in itself is such a testament to the success that is SCANDAL. They are just not afraid. They will go wherever they want to go. It’s so remarkable to be a part of.

At this point are Quinn and Huck friends, frenemies, or are they at the all out war stage?
GUILLERMO: They are definitely not friends right now. I think it is going to be interesting to see how Shonda plays this relationship out. We can tease that in the next episode, the winter finale, there’s a scene between Huck and Quinn and you’re kind of going to see where both their heads are at and get a feel for how they feel for each other. But there’s certainly a disconnect between them now for sure.

It seems like they may be tentatively working together to bring down Papa Pope (Joe Morton). Is that more than we should be reading into it, or is that possibly a big plan that they have in the works?
KATIE: I think that’s intentional, that you can be thinking that is a possibility. But, of course, in Shonda-land nothing is like what it seems. But in the winter finale you will be seeing where Quinn’s loyalty lies, who she is working for, and also Huck too. You’ll see who he is going after as well. And that will all play out and be a big part of that episode.

Quinn and Huck seems so fragmented and damaged right now. Is there hope for both their sanity, or will they spiral out more?
GUILLERMO: (Laughs) I have a feeling you’re going to see them spiral out more.
KATIE: Me too! Especially now that we’re going to do eight episodes [for the rest of the season]. You just know that they are going to be jam-packed and like balls-to-the-wall.

Are we going to see either of them pursue therapy of any kind?
GUILLERMO: We have no idea. We don’t get any advance notice as to what’s happening in the upcoming episodes. We honestly don’t even know. I would hope they would get some kind of therapy, but I doubt that’s going to happen.

Could you see either one of them in a therapist’s chair or would they find a more aggressive way to get through their problems?
GUILLERMO: I don’t think I could see Huck in a therapist’s chair.
KATIE: Not Quinn either. The closest we’ve got to therapy is AA [Alcoholics Anonymous].
GUILLERMO: Exactly! And watching random families.
KATIE: (Laughs) Stalking families.

So who is going to be their emotional touch-stones at this point. They kind of had each other, but now they don’t seem to. Who are they going to turn to for that kind of emotional support?
GUILLERMO: For Huck, I think Huck always turns to Olivia (Kerry Washington). So I think he’s going to return to Olivia with his head kind of bowed down. Like when a dog does something really bad that he shouldn’t of done, he kind of gives you those puppy-dog eyes and keeps his head really low like, “I’m really sorry I did that.” I think that’s how he’s going to be with Olivia.
KATIE: And I think Quinn will look to Charlie (George Newbern).

Is Quinn actually going to trust Charlie?
KATIE: Who knows. I mean, “Who is trustworthy?” Everyone in this world that Shonda created is both evil and good. But I do definitely think there was a turning point in the episode last week when Quinn says, “Huck is the only person I had and he hurt me” and Charlie says, “No, you have me.” I don’t know, but I don’t think Quinn has any other options at the moment.

So where does Jake (Scott Foley) fit in all this? He’s kind of tied to both Quinn and Huck because they are in the B13 world. Does he want to side with either one or is he going to look at the both of them and go, “What did you both do?!”
KATIE: It’s a really good question!
GUILLERMO: It is. I think Jake wants Huck and Quinn to get along. I don’t think at this point he knows to the extent that Huck went with Quinn. So I don’t know. I think that might change his mind a little bit. He might frown on Huck torturing Quinn. I would hope. But who knows. He’s got so much stuff going on himself. He’s pretty into Olivia and he knows Olivia is in love with the President. So he’s got his own things going on.
KATIE: He’s got his own baggage.

So no one’s going to notice that there’s a big problem going on between Quinn and Huck? They are just going to go about their work as usual?
KATIE: No. Nothing like that. But, again, you’ll see in the episode this week how the torture scene ripples through Olivia Pope & Associates. Who feels the effects and how doesn’t and what they do with it.

With Mama Pope (Khandi Alexander) on the loose, it looks like we’re going to go on the hunt for Mama Pope. Are Quinn and Huck going to be temporarily aligned to go in search of her?
GUILLERMO: We have no idea.
KATIE: We’ve only shot one episode ahead and we don’t find out anything. So we don’t know yet.

What would you like to tease about this week’s episode?
KATIE: We can definitely tell you that Quinn and Huck have a scene together again post-torture and you will see how they interact with each other and it’s insanely intense. We can tell you that the Mama Pope storyline will be further delved into.
GUILLERMO: And you’re going to find out what that little blue blinking light is on Huck’s computer means and all that is going to be revealed. That’s quite a shocker.

To see if Huck and Finn are ready to forgive and forget or if their twisted dance of distrust continues, as well as what that blinking blue light really means, be sure to tune in for this week’s all new episode of SCANDAL on Thursday, December 12th at 10:00 p.m. on ABC. More information about SCANDAL can be found at ABC.com.

THE TOMORROW PEOPLE: Robbie Amell Talks The Search for Stephen’s Dad and Trouble with The Founder

December 11, 2013 By Tiffany Vogt Leave a Comment

Only half way through its first season and THE TOMORROW PEOPLE has surprised fans with reveals that genetically-enhanced Tomorrow People can kill, that Stephen Jameson’s dad (Jeffrey Pierce) may still alive but trapped, and the kidnapping of Ultra’s ruthless leader Jedikiah (Mark Pellegrino) who naturally sprang a trap for John (Luke Mitchell) at the end of last week’s thrilling episode. With John’s life on the life, the pressure is on Stephen (Robbie Amell) to step up and protect them all.

In a recent press interview at the Warner Bros. Mondo International Press Tour, star Robbie Amell talked about what the second half of the season will bring for his character and rules that they try to adhere to in order to make THE TOMORROW PEOPLE world more real.

The Tomorrow People have stirred up a little bit of trouble. They kidnapped Jedikiah who has of course escaped and things are all up in the air. Can you tease a little bit about what is upcoming and how wrathful Jedikiah is going to be?
ROBBIE: The mid-season finale is one of my favorite episodes. Episode 9 is really, really awesome. Episode 8 and 9 are the 2-parter where we break what the rest of the season is going to be about. You’ll find out a lot about Stephen Jameson’s dad and where he is and whether we can save him. You find out about Jedikiah’s relationship with Stephen’s dad and John. But the main thing is it really sets the stage for the next thirteen episodes. It shows you where we are going to go and what’s going to happen. You’ve met The Founder now and he’s going to play a large part in the rest of the season. And things are about to get really dark.

What are the elements of the show that you like the most?
ROBBIE: I love filming with the superpowers, but I also like that we don’t use them to use them. We don’t just teleport out of every scene. What people don’t realize is online is that it takes a ton of energy for these characters to teleport and to use their powers. Like if you teleport somewhere, it’s as if you just ran there. So that’s why they can’t always use them; and to teleport a person or an object, you can’t do that. I like that we’re really solidifying the rules in the TP universe. We continue to do that. We’re on Episode 13 and we’re establishing more rules. I think it is an important thing to do because it allows people to know what the limits are and if they are to be broken, there has to be a reason. I’m a big sci-fi fan and I’m a fan of the genre X-Men and all the superhero movies. So when I came into this, I was really hopeful that we would do that and the writers are great at establishing the ground rules. And I like that the show is trying to be as grounded in reality as much as possible. It’s one of those things where I think people can invest in a show a lot easier and a lot more if it feels like, “This is what would happen if people actually had these powers in real life.”

What do you like most about your character on THE TOMORROW PEOPLE?
ROBBIE: The main thing that really appealed to me — well, everything appealed to me. When I first read the script it is one of those really rare roles for someone my age where it’s got this great character drama and good relationships, but it’s still got the superpowers and the action, which really entices me. But the main thing I liked is that we have a lot of similarities in that he’s doing everything he can for his family and his friends. He’s not willing to sacrifice somebody to help somebody else. He’s trying to help everyone. That is ultimately one of his downfalls throughout the beginning of the first season. I would feel the same way. I wouldn’t be able to turn my back on my friends to help my family, or turn my back on my family to help my friends. There’s got to be a way to help everyone. The nice thing is I’ve talked to the writers and it sounds like in the second half of the first season, Stephen stops losing and stops getting his ass kicked and finds a way to move forward helping everyone and really finding out who he should be helping and who might have it out for him.

Now that you’re a star of a CW show, do you have any fun Christmas wishes this year?
ROBBIE: I told Stephen [Amell] that I want to play Batman on ARROW, but he can’t make it happen. He doesn’t have that much pull! (Laughs)

To see if Stephen can help John out of his thorny situation with Ultra and keep everyone safe now that Jedikiah has seen their lair, be sure to tune in for the mid-season finale of THE TOMORROW PEOPLE on Wednesday, December 11^th at 9:00 p.m. on the CW.

ARROW: Colton Haynes Talks Rocks Ahead for the Thea/Roy Romance and Whether Roy Will Forgive Oliver

December 11, 2013 By Tiffany Vogt Leave a Comment

Last week’s episode “The Scientist” had many revelations and shocking moments, one of the biggest being when Oliver (Stephen Amell) shot Roy (Colton Haynes) with an arrow to keep him from getting in his way. That Oliver would actually shoot Roy felt like an arrow piercing our hearts. We felt Roy’s acute pain and disbelief.

In a recent press interview at the WBTV Mondo International Press Tour, star Colton Haynes talked about how Roy is going to react to the Arrow’s betrayal and what roadblocks arise in the Roy/Thea (Willa Holland) blossoming romance as a result of the Dark Archer’s return.

How is Roy going to react now that he’s been benched by Oliver from the activities of the Arrow?
COLTON: He really just hurt Roy in the last episode. He’s really disappointed by that. He’s not very happy. I don’t think his idol has treated him very well. So I think Roy is going to assemble, with the help of people close to Roy, to work hard to unmask the Arrow, and he is going to be very happy if and when that happens.
Will Roy officially join the team with John (David Ramsey) and Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) to help the Arrow at some point soon?
COLTON: He is now hopefully on the path of doing that, but since Roy is very stubborn and he got shot in the leg by Arrow, he’s going to use his stubborn nature to go, “I don’t need you anymore.” But also in this next episode something is going to happen to Roy that is going to in a way make him a lot more powerful than Arrow and I think Arrow is going to need Roy more than Roy needs him.

Will Roy’s relationship with Thea face new challenges?
COLTON: [SPOILER ALERT!] Yes, especially now that Thea is about to find out who her real father is — or she’s about to. Moira Queen (Susanna Thompson) has been trying to tell her and they have drawn that out for a bit. So she’s about to find out a very big thing about her father and that’s going to throw her into a whirlwind. She’s going to go into a downward spiral and it’s going to allow Roy to go back to get into a little bit more trouble.

What do you think you have learned from Roy?
COLTON: I learned to not have such a big guard up all the time. It’s been fun to play someone like that because he’s just guarded. That’s not particularly me, but it’s also helped me just let loose a little bit. Live a little bit more. Be a little more fun ’cause he’s kind of down.

What would be your advice to Roy?
COLTON: (Laughs) My advice to him would be to calm down on the hair gel. He could kill someone with that. No, seriously, I think my advice to Roy would be to go find his parents, or at least the ones that are still living and to have people in your life, to fix some of his relationships so he is not so brooding and carrying all that anger.

On set, who’s the biggest prankster?
COLTON: Probably me. I guess I pull a lot of pranks. Also if someone falls or gets hurt and I crack up, so that happens a lot. Like people tripping and I laugh during a take. I got to do a scene with Susanna, who plays Moira, and we didn’t finish the scene because she was improv-ing the entire scene, like naming extras and talking to them and bringing them into the scene and I was laughing so hard that we couldn’t actually get the take.

What is your favorite thing about Roy?
COLTON: I like that he is dramatically funny. It’s great to know that there is a big backstory behind Roy Harper and that he is not just this angry, brooding character. He has a big heart and he has just a big wall up right now and whoever can figure out how to break that wall down will be pleasantly surprised to know that he is actually a very light-hearted person.

Do you have any favorite episodes, scenes or moments?
COLTON: My favorite episode so far has been Episode 2 of this season. That was a really fun episode for my character. I got to have a really big scene with Stephen’s character, Oliver, and that really started the dynamic of them having this love-hate relationship. So that was a fun scene, and then I got to shoot this really awesome stunt scene that is coming up in Episode 12 with Arrow. There’s massive explosions and amazing stunts. It’s just taking it to an entirely new level.

Have you practiced any martial arts to prepare for the fight scenes?
COLTON: No, no. I’m not very coordinated when it comes to stunts. So I have the best stunt double, Curtis. He’s incredible. We have any amazing stunts team that makes my job so much easier and allows me to learn my lines for my character.

You’ve mentioned that you watched the whole first season of ARROW over two days before you joined the show. What was that experience like?
COLTON: It was a very emotional experience. Before ARROW I didn’t watch a lot of TV that had a lot of action. I think what our show has done is it has integrated really great character moments and great relationships, but when you watch it you feel like you’re watching “Batman” or a 3-hour blockbuster movie, but we’re doing it in 43 minutes. So it was exciting for me to see that amount of time they put into making everything look incredible.

Could you talk a little about the Bose commercials, which feature Roy and Felicity? Those are awesome!
COLTON: Those are so fun. We had so much fun doing those. They were called “Bose and Arrows” at first, but now they are called “Blood Rush.” Emily and I were joking about how, “We hope we get a Season 2!” We shot six episodes in one day and, since Emily is one of my best friends, it was fun to work with her and to get to see the dynamic between Felicity and Roy, before it comes on the show. It was just fun. They made it really funny and light. They are airing those during the commercial breaks and I believe they are going to start airing them internationally as well. That’s going to be really fun for the fans to see that grouping with those characters together.

To see whether Roy and the Arrow can patch things up or if Roy will begin down a dark path out of anger and rejection, be sure to tune in for an all new episode of ARROW on Wednesday, December 11^th at 8:00 p.m. on the CW.

THE TOMORROW PEOPLE: Luke Mitchell Talks What’s Next for John and Jedikiah for the Mid-Season Finale

December 11, 2013 By Tiffany Vogt Leave a Comment

With the mid-season finale of THE TOMORROW PEOPLE looming, fans are dying to find out the fate of John Young (Luke Mitchell), who was captured by Ultra in last week’s episode “Thanatos.” Fortunately, with one more episode to go before taking its holiday hiatus, THE TOMORROW PEOPLE is not going to leave fans hanging and they will see whether John can find a way to escape or if he will become the newest victim of The Founder and his minions at Ultra.

In a recent press interview at the Warner Bros. Mondo International Press Tour, star Luke Mitchell talked about what lies ahead in John and Jedikiah’s thorny relationship, all the fun he is having filming the show, and why it stands out amongst all the other superpowered shows out there on television. [Read more…]

ARROW: Season 2 Shapshot from Stephen Amell on the Oliver/Roy Fallout

December 11, 2013 By Tiffany Vogt Leave a Comment

Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) is not the only terse and succinct superhero on television, but he is the one with perhaps the biggest heart. He will literally do anything to protect his family and those he loves. We have seen him struggle time and time again to walk the line between vigilante and hero. He recently crossed back over to the dark-side in order to save his teammate Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) when The Count (Seth Gabel) had her in his clutches, and Oliver snapped again when he thought that Roy may be endangering Thea – and an arrow through the leg was Roy’s punishment for daring to venture more into Oliver’s forbidden vigilante world.

In a recent press interview at the WBTV Mondo International Press Tour, star Stephen Amell briefly talked about the Oliver/Roy relationship and Oliver’s struggle to stop the killing in his quest to help the people of Starling City. [Read more…]

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