Ion Overman – Where Is The Love

Q.  What are the current projects that you are working on?

A.  Just my show, the new “Love, Inc.” show, that’s my thing right now, that’s what I’m all into right now.

Q.  What can you tell us about the premise for your new show “Love, Inc.” and your character “Viviana”?

A.  It’s a half hour sitcom and it’s on UPN, Thursday nights at 9:30 p.m.  We’re premiering September 22nd, so mark your calendars!  It’s a sitcom about a dating service, there are five employees who work at the dating service.  We try to hook up the singles of New York City and hopefully make people laugh in the process.  My character Viviana is actually an Argentine national, and so she’s in America and she desperately needs to find a husband so she can get a green card.

Q.  Does Viviana go to great lengths to find a husband or is she using her job at the dating service to find a husband?

A.  We haven’t really learned exactly what she’s doing specifically yet.  Every week on the show she talks about how she needs to find a husband.  Potential guys who call up the agency she might start asking them questions, we’ve only done four shows at this point.  I’m sure as the season progresses we’re going to see more details as to what Viviana does outside of the office.  As of now, any able bodied American man who walks through the door is a potential victim! 

Q.  What made you want to be a part of this show?

A.  Well,  first and foremost I was an actor and I went on an audition and I needed a job.  So, that always is a motivator for actors in L.A.  I read the script and I thought it was a very cool concept, I think it is a great idea, I haven’t seen any shows like it up until this point.  The audition process was kind of a long process but it wasn’t very stressful.  Very often the audition is kind of stressful but this one really wasn’t.  The people were really cool and I always had fun in the auditions.  It’s a very fun character to play, I think she’s great, I love it, I love doing it.  So, I liked the script, I liked the character and I was hopeful and I got the part and I was like, “Yeah!”  

Q.  How is the dynamic of the cast, is there a lot of chemistry?

A.  Yeah, we really lucked out, we just get along so well, it’s kind of crazy.  It’s like we’ve all known each other for years, we just clicked immediately.  On television shows you very often get a new director every week with every episode.  Last week we had a new director and he was like, “It seems like you guys have been working together for a year.”  We all kind of looked at each other like, “Oh, no!”  We just let go, we all like each other so much and we feel the chemistry between us and it seems like others can see it as well.  So, it really makes a huge difference! 

Q.  Do you have a most memorable moment from filming “Love, Inc.”?

A.  I can’t really say, right now I don’t, up unto this point, knock on wood, nothing particularly comical or in a bad way has happened.  Our four shows have really gone smoothly, so that’s awesome, we’re just knocking them out.  We’ve been getting released real early from tape night and we have time to go out and have a drink afterwards.  It’s awesome.

Q.  Since “Love, Inc.” involves a dating service, how effective do you think dating sites and companies really are?

A.  I don’t know how effective they are, I’ve never actually used one myself.  But, I really think it’s a really good time for this show and subject matter.  It seems to me, that in the last four years or so, that online dating and dating services have really lost their stigma.  They are really very acceptable forms of meeting people, it really seems like it’s a respectable industry and it’s really taken off.  People don’t seem to be embarrassed to say they went online to find dates, it seems to be really taking hold across the country.  I think there might be a really large market for this subject matter on the show and I think it’s great timing.  

Q.  Your role as Candace on “The L Word” has had quite the following.  Was this something least expected?

A.  It was, it was very unexpected.  When my agent called me up and told me I had an audition for “The L Word” I never thought I had a chance in hell of booking that part.  I just thought they wouldn’t have anything to do with me, but I was like hey, I’ll go on it anyways, it was just an audition.  Next thing I know I’m in Vancouver, so I was totally shocked when I got the part.  I was really actually happy to do it because it was so different from anything else that I had ever done.  It was so like a complete one hundred and eighty degree turn from any part I had ever played.  I was really excited to do something so far off from what I normally do.  It was awesome, after it aired people were recognizing me and coming up to me, I was like, “Woah, this is intense!”  It was awesome and people still come up to me now and the show aired over a year and a half ago.  So, it’s really awesome, it was great for me. 

Q.  What do you enjoy doing in your spare time?

A.  Just going to the movies, shopping a lot, hanging out with friends, stuff like that.  Lots of reading, I watch a lot of old movies on TV too.  That’s about it, I don’t have conventional hobbies.

Q.  Your bio mentions knitting as a new hobby of yours.  What is it about this activity that has made it your latest obsession?

A.  I took it up last winter!  It suddenly became this new hot thing in Hollywood and everybody was so into it.  Even Jennifer Beals, when I was on “The L Word,” she’s totally into it too.  It’s like all of Hollywood and all of these women are sitting around on sets knitting, and I’m like, “Are you kidding me?  What is up with this?”  More out of curiosity I was like, “I have got to see what’s going on.”  One of my best friends from high school, she took it up last year, and she was knitting all of these scarves left and right.  So, I’m like, “Alright, clearly I’m missing out on something.”  So, I bought some needles and some yarn and who knew?  I actually liked it!   

Q.  What would you like to say to your fans and supporters?

A.  Thank you so much and I love them, I am so grateful for them, I would be no where without them.  So, thank you so much for being a fan, it’s awesome.  I still can’t believe I have them sometimes, I’m always in awe that people pay attention to the work that I do.  It’s always so humbling and amazing so thank you.