Aaron Ashmore, Hannah John-Kamen & Luke Macfarlane – Killjoys

By starrymag | June 19, 2015

Q) All of you have really great chemistry together. Did it happened right away, can you talk about the first time you guys kind of met and work together as a group?

Luke: Sure.  I mean, it’s always – and so much of it is credit due to the casting process, we had a really great casting director that took the time to really kind of do mix and matches.  So as we’re sort of slowly assembling this group, we kind of auditioned with like various people and that’s always terribly nerve racking as an actor but I think ultimately it’s really a useful sort of thing to do.  Because yes we got along from the beginning almost immediately, very similar sense of humor.

Aaron: Yes, and I think that as far as chemistry and stuff like that you either have it or you don’t.  That is something that obviously due to casting process and when they’re doing a show like this that obviously revolves around the characters having sort of dynamic chemistry, it’s really important.  But sometimes you just really lockout and I think the three of us have become really good friends and we got along so, so well, and it’s kind of rare.  So I think it’s special and I think that we all appreciate it and it’s kind of lucky too that you get three people that just get along so well.

Hannah: And I think it’s a great – but it’s important to like have the chemistry on the screen and off.  And I think that we all have the same sense of humor which really helps.

Luke: Weird, weird.  I think we’re all weird.

Hannah: And we sing a lot too.

Luke: Yes, we do, we make up songs on the set all the time.

Q) Obviously we’ve only seen the first three but it seems like this group they don’t tend to always follow that rules that are set forth, is that going to become a problem or do the company just kind of doesn’t care as long as they get what they’re after?

Luke: It’s a good question.  I think what is interesting with Killjoys is like there’s been a lot of comparisons to Firefly, that show.  And what I think makes Killjoys really different as an entity and as a show is that we do have to abide by those rules. So the tension exist within that sort of how far can you bend the rules.  And I think that makes for an interesting thing, it’s not like we’re just rogue cowboys, we really – we really do have to operate with inside the system so that it becomes a sort of like doubly complicated way of sort of bending the things as far as we can but yes of course it becomes complicated because we don’t always abide by the rules.

Hannah: I mean, like the whole saying, is take no bribes, take no sides, to one is all, but it’s really hard when you’re put in a situation like Dutch in the first episode with John and D’avin and taking on that warrant and basically kind of saving people’s asses and kind of having that kind of morals – having those morals as well.  They kind of gives that kind of dilemma and that conflict with the characters which I think is more interesting.

Aaron: Yes, and I think it shows their sort of intelligence and their creativity and their knowledge of this world and how we sort of – to circumvent some of these things and make it work and I think that that’s kind of interesting as well to see us doing those things.

Q) I was wondering just for those of us who are going into it blindly, could you describe your characters?

Hannah: So Dutch, Dutch is a level-five Killjoy, which means she’s a top Killjoy, which means that she can kill for warrant.  She lives on (Deluci) with John, and she’s known John the character for seven years. And Dutch has a really, really complicated past that is catching up with her in the current moment of when you start watching Killjoys.  Dutch is also really, really badass, she’s very loyal, and (she feels over other) characters within the show, she’s very respected, and yes that kind of comes with her loyalty as well.

Luke: And she’s the leader, I think that’s important too.

Aaron: Most definitely our fearless leaders.  I play – this is Aaron, I play John Jaqobis who’s a level-three Killjoy which basically means he’s not as sort of skilled and dangerous as Dutch in sort of the tactical and combat aspects of things.  But I think John is a more of a – would lean towards more of a pacifist in this group where he is a little bit more willing to talk things through instead of, shooting and asking questions later. There’s also I think a really strong loyalty that lies in John and he’s completely dedicated to Dutch, they’re partners.  But as we sort of said that Dutch is definitely the leader.  And also that loyalty sort of we get to see (Rick’s) brother as well and they’ve been D’avin and John has been sort of estranged for eight or nine years. And in the first episode we see them comeback together but loyalty is still really there with his brother, he wants to work things out, he wants to figure things out. And I think John sort of role in this team that we’re forming as the sort of hold it all together, I think he’s sort of the glue that’s trying to hold this team together.  And yes that’s maybe more information than you needed but hopefully I get you started.

Luke: He’s Kofi Annan. That might be a terrible analogy, I actually have no idea. I play John’s older brother and I don’t join as a Killjoy, I sort of bump into John in the kind of weird sort of way and then I end up kind of sticking along with them for a ride.   So as the show progresses I get very intrigued with the Killjoy myself. My character is a former military man who tends to be a bit of a rogue kind of guy, probably less the military under sort of bad circumstances.  And yes he’s immediately taken with Dutch and kind of the power that she possesses and her fight skills, yes.  And I like D’avin a lot, he’s not very similar to me and that he is like kind of a bit of a super cocky bro, I wish I had more that in me but I’m not really like that.

Q) At the digital press tour last year we talked a little bit about how the ship is pretty much another character on this series, how does each of you kind of interact with that ship?

Aaron: Well, I would say that John is sort of – does most of the work with Lucy although we all interact with her, in all the episodes we all sort of talked to her and stuff.  But I think John is Lucy’s favorite and I think that’s sort of addressed at times, even thought John denies that.  But he definitely works with her the most and fixes her and he’s definitely more of a tech guy. So it’s really interesting to have a character that we work with so closely in such a big part of the show but we don’t’ really get to see her or her voice until the final product.  So it’s really cool to see that character come alive when actors is finally sort of voicing it.  And I think that you’re really going to enjoy it because it just is that really cool AI and she has a real sense of humor too, a real personality…

Hannah: Yes, she’s got a real personality.

Luke: I think it’s really telling the way we all decide to interact with Lucy too.  I don’t even bother to learn Lucy’s name until the seventh episode, I just call her ship, which I think is sort of funny.   But like  kind of speak to I think our character’s ability to emphasize and John being sort of really good at that and being able to understand people I think a little bit better than me.

Hannah: I think Lucy kind of sets the team well as well, she’s so professional.  And that there’s situations in the show where even though Lucy is a machine she’s a ship, she really helps us gets out of our own help our characters get out of a situation as much as she can.  And yes, I mean, there’s a sense of humor as well and it’s really cool because it’s just supposing seeing that with her voice but with what she says is very, very humorous.  So it’s a really cool character, really cool

Q) D’avin and Dutch kind of come into this, I’m not going spoil it for the folks who haven’t seen it, but they come into this and we sort of balanced their past with their present.  And John seems to be pretty happy go lucky for lack of a better term, he doesn’t have something kind of hanging on for him.  Will we see a balance of that through the course of the first season where D’avin and Dutch have to address the parts of their past that are still lingering for them?

Hannah: That a great question – I mean, Dutch and D’avin, I mean, the relationship between Dutch and D’avin is very interesting because it’s starts off – I mean, I’m very, very, weary of this intruder coming into my situation with me and John.  But then we seek out that we both have similarity and I think that gets – yet that gets me to a point where we have to address that.  And I mean – you don’t have to wait too much but there is an unravel with that.

Luke: Yes, I know I think like any two people who have to sort of reconcile their pasts, they sort of clumsily reached for each other in a way to sort of I think because they identified a sort of thing in their past that they need to reconcile.  And even though ultimately we might not be the best sort of (tell aid) to kind of get to whatever it is that sort of troubles our brains, we sort of reach out through each other in a way.  And we do seek a certain level of conclusion or reconciliation, I think more on my part as far as this thing that happened to me in my past and how I try to take care of it.   And much of that is due to…

Hannah: We’re not very good at talking about our feelings…we kind of like he said like clumsy reach and kind of solve it in our own way.

Q) I know Firefly already has been mentioned and you’re an original show but I believe these comparisons are really intended to be a complimentary and I wanted to know what you guys thought about the inevitable comparison that will come up along the way?

Aaron: I think it’s fine because until people really get the personality of our show, it’s like that’s the easiest way to sort of understand something or put it out there as to sort of compare it with something.  So I think that that’s totally fine.  I think that people who are fans of Firefly, I think there are definitely some similarities just in the genre of the show, so I think that that’s great. But I also think that Michelle Lovretta our creator and the whole creative team have also created their own unique world. And as much as there maybe some similarities in a broad sense I think the specifics of the show and characters and details are definitely going to become something all to themselves.  So I think the comparison are like totally cool, I think it’s flattering too because as genre fan myself like Firefly is obviously one of the biggest shows, one of the most beloved shows so any comparison to that are cool.

Luke: Yes, I definitely think about that.  I mean, that’s the way we understand things is by comparing them to each other, I mean it really is.  I mean, my hope is that, yes, eventually it steps into its own unique thing and then one day they’ll compare us to something that we haven’t yet seen around the set. But I would also say and I think I said this before but like Firefly was essentially a rouge group of individuals.  The Killjoys operate within a system and I think to that is very, very deeply sort of what makes this different.  We can’t do whatever we want whenever we want, we have to operate with inside the system called the (R.A.C.).  And I think that’s really fundamental difference that makes the world actually fundamentally different.

Q) Dutch has a mysteries background, will that be a large part of the story as it unfolds throughout the season?

Hannah: Yes, I mean, you see hints of it at the beginning of the season, of kind of how tough all of these catching up with her.  As the show goes on it kind of seems more like a massive change.  And yes absolutely you’re going to expect a lot of unraveling of Dutch, and her character, and her past, and why she – why she is where she is now.  There’s going to be a lot of question after so there’s going to be more questions even as the show goes on.

Q) Also you guys look like a completely original show, was there any inspiration for this setup or was this completely original?

Aaron: Well that’s something like probably Michelle Loveretta our creator would have more information about.  So that’s kind of – I think it’s kind of hard for us to answer this.  As far as working or like as far as I know, I think it was totally sort of an original creation..  But I’m sure that she being a fan of the genre it was influenced by all sort of things over the years.  But it’s maybe hard for us to talk about exactly what those things were for her.

Luke: But as far as is it coming from a comic books, absolutely not.

Q) What’s the good thing about going back to back schedule with Dark Matter, we going to have two ship based space shows all together in one night which I’m quite excited about?  And what would you think about the possibilities of crossovers in the future?

Aaron: Crossovers would be cool but I don’t know if they could handle us because we’re pretty dangerous so if we had to go head to head.

Hannah: Yes, we’re pretty badass.

Aaron: Yes.  Of course anything like that would be really exciting actually, the crossing into another show even if it’s sort of like a minor sort of thing.

Luke: Yes, I would also though think it’s like – it would be that funny thing of all of our characters kind of have big sense of humor and personality.  And from my understanding of Dark Matter they are a little bit more sort of cold killer like, kind of – I don’t know if they’re funny so I think they might look at us like we’re a bunch of clowns. But then we beat them up.

Aaron: Dangerous killer clowns, that’s what we are.

Hannah: We’re clowns but then we’d beat them up definitely.

Luke: But then we beat them up and we steal their ship.

Q) It seem like a lot of fun to do the fight scenes you guys had, you have all these cool gadgets that either any of you have any favorite gadget that you work with or that you like to have in real life or in a fight?

Hannah: My guns, I felt like my guns was part of my limbs.  I thought wig but my gun wasn’t there.  I don’t know why, I just had this bond with my gun, I fell in love with my laser gun.

Aaron: I think we all had unhealthy attachments to our weapons by the time we’re done.

Hannah: And beautiful custom like leather leg harnesses were something I’ll wear as well, yes.

Q) What is with the green juice that you guys drink, what is it?

Aaron: Algae beer which sort of took a backseat after the first episode because I think they’re like – and it’s so gross. What it though?   It’s like coconut water mixed with something else, it was kind of lumpy.

Hannah: I think it’s like a really healthy like L.A. smoothie or something but to be host I’m like mad on it.  And then we have like algae buns as well that like you guys hey, I never got to eat it, it was made up like beans, isn’t it?

Aaron: Yes, some sort of bean curd. But I think that he spinach started to get stuck in our teach from the algae beer and like you just couldn’t have that in scenes so they’re like yes, we’re going to lose that because you guys are all smiling in those green junks.

Hannah: So it was pumpkin beers.  So yes we kind of changed it to pumpkin instead of algae.

Luke: Yes.  Yes.  I’m glad you asked about that.  I actually asked the writers a similar question, where did the algae beer go, it’s stuck in his teeth.

Q) Are you guys going tweet it from here, everyone would love to speak with you?

Aaron: I’m going to try and do that for sure – well,  I’m not going to try, I am going to do that, yes.

Hannah: I’m going to do that.

Aaron: Yes, but your time zone, you’re going to be Hannah is going to be like in the middle of the night when we’re airing.

Hannah: I’m dedicated. It’s going to be 3:00 in the morning for me.  I going to have a wedding to go to the next day but I should be up in the morning.

Luke: That’s making me feel very bad because I haven’t – I don’t have a Twitter.

Q) I was wondering about the stunts and the fighting are great and you guys do a lot of gadgets and all that stuff, did you have any special training going in or how did that work?

Hannah: Yes, like we all had stunt training, military training, and physical training as well.  And the stunt coordinator was called (Alam), and (Alex) and (Allison) and kind of see what we can. So during the week before and off the scenes and kind of plan out with that stunt double, the fight sequence, and it was so much fun, it was so much fun.

Luke: It really was. No, it was kind of this when I first gone to the business there is a sort of mythological idea that you have like an action show, that you’re a trainer.  And I remember hearing the, I mean like cool.  And this is actually the first time that I was – ever got a trainer.  We worked out and they took pictures of our shortlist which they sent to the producers.  It was like – I mean, it’s always like this badass thing that I like wanted to have and they did it, and it was great. It was really great, it was a great excuse to sort of workout.

Aaron: And the physical stuff that we got to do at the beginning, the military stuff, the working out, the fight training is really kind of neat because the three of us didn’t know each other so we’re sort of thrown into all these really intense training together.  And I think that it’s kind of fun when you start on it and it’s a good way to sort of bond with your fellow actors through all this training and physical stuff.  And we really get to know each other.  And everybody was sort of slightly out of their elements because none of us are martial artist or anything like that.  So you’re all thrown into this new experience in doing it together and yes it was actually a lot of fun.

Hannah: We bonded pretty violent.

Q) Do you guys get to do a lot of your stunts?

Hannah: Yes, I think we all did them, didn’t we?

Aaron: Yes.

Luke: Yes.

Aaron: For sure.  And obviously there’s stunt doubles for stuff that they don’t want you to get hurt and all that but they actually let us do a lot of it ourselves.

Luke: Yes, they did.  We had amazing stunt doubles.  And speaking of London, Ontario.  My mother came to set one day when my stun double was acting.  And then the stunt double do the scene, and the actors do the scene.  And obviously the camera operators are a little more inclined to show your faces.  My mother says in front of the stunt double, I think you did a much better job than he did.  And I said mom, “that’s absolutely incorrect, he’s amazing.” But  moms will be moms.

Q) I know sometimes actors work a background for themselves, can you tell us something about your character that maybe only you know about your character?

Luke: Well, not to get too dark but I think that I think that John and D’avin’s father, I think he used to beat up D’avin.

Aaron: Yes.  I mean, that’s interesting too because like we’d never discussed anything like that and there’s nothing in the show like that.  But I had thought of similar things like John and D’avin’s background.  We don’t really get into the details of it in the show but it was very, very difficult so I sort of thought of things like that too about scenarios, about – and I sort of pictured that too that D’avin was the older brother and so he probably took a brunt of a lot of that growing up.  And probably was protecting John, so for me there’s slightly guilt dripping in some of those potential things about it’s kind of dark, it’s kind of dark. But I thought a lot of those things too but we didn’t really discuss that stuff and it’s not on the – it’s not on the page.

Luke: Yes, in season one.

Aaron: But hey, the show is still fun, it’s not all dark.

Q) So is there a really funny scene that stands out in your mind that we would be looking for?

Luke: Oh, I know something to look that I think is very funny.  In a much later episode John comes in contact with a super computer and he gets really excited about that super computer. So I’m just going say that much, I laughed really hard when I saw that.

Aaron: Good, I’m so glad.  So John’s nerdiness that you find – that’s good I like that. I think this is a lot of – I think the sense of humor, the show is not necessarily like always ha, ha funny like knee slapper, I think it’s sort of subtle and it’s really in the sort of way that these characters sort of tease each other or interact with each other.  So I think it’s just so peppered throughout the show this sort of current of humor on the way that they sort of gab at each other.   So I think to me that’s really where the humor lies, it’s not like, oh my God there’s this one hilarious like comic scene.  It’s really the tone of the way these people rib each other and tease each other that to me is where the sense of humor really lies.

Q) I was wondering if each of you could share something about each of your co-stars that surprised you the most perhaps their personality or their process anything that comes to mind.

Aaron: Oh, telling tales on each other, oh my goodness.  I was surprised at both of – and I was very pleasantly surprised at how sort of funny and not just funny but weird both Luke and Hannah’s sense of humor. Because I think that’s one of the really unique things about the three of us together is that we’re just so weird.  And our sense of humor is just kin of rip off each other and so I was really pleasantly surprised to see how strange their sense of humor were and then how as a whole bonded together.

Hannah: Like I think it’s the sense of humor.  Because on set like one of us is like saying something with and then without even any questions the other one would join in and then it wouldn’t start for like an hour.

Aaron: In harmony nonetheless.

Hannah: In harmony.  That was like surprise to me is kind of like similar to Aaron this kind of crazy sense of humor, no questions asked just really join in.

Aaron: Yes.  And that’s not always the case right the way that you – the things that you think are funnier, the things that really sort of tickle you have other people that you’re working with and it’s flows, that was sort of really surprising and lucky I think.

Q) And yes action oriented show sometimes the actors will use mood suitor conjure up certain mental queues to kind of inspire them to kind of pump them up for the intense action scenes.  Do either of you have device that you utilize?

Luke: Cool.  I didn’t use any of that, not for myself.

Aaron: I find like emotional scenes sometimes that works better like to set the mood if it’s sad or anger or something.  But the action stuff is sort of like you’re just thrown in and you got to run or you got to kick butt it’s like – it’s sometimes that’s not the hardest thing to sort of motivate yourselves into.  But sometimes for emotional scenes that works a little bit better to just kind of put you in a place emotionally. Yes, definitely.  In fact thinking about thinking about the first fight scene that we filmed which is John and I in the cage fight right at the beginning, it was so amazing to have that whole crowd of people around us yelling just that was sort of enough to get us into the mood.  Like it was really cool to have 100 or whatever extras all screaming, they don’t know what the show is, they don’t know what they’re screaming for.  But still…

Luke: Yes, definitely.  In fact thinking about thinking about the first fight scene that we filmed which is John and I in the cage fight right at the beginning, it was so amazing to have that whole crowd of people around us yelling just that was sort of enough to get us into the mood.  Like it was really cool to have 100 or whatever extras all screaming, they don’t know what the show is, they don’t know what they’re screaming for.  But still…

Aaron: It was interesting too I remember we did a first take right after lunch and everybody was still kind of coming back from lunch, they just had something to eat, everybody was kind of quite.  And then Chris Grismer our director was like, OK, guys we’re back from lunch, I need you to like screen and yell.  And then when we did another take it sort of changed everything because when you have like a 100 people sort of like screaming and like beating on the cage like that sort of energy really amp everything up for us.  And yes, that was really cool actually.

Hannah: Yes.  I think for me I just literally went in there and just basically kick some butt in the scenes.

Aaron: Hannah needs no inspiration.

Hannah: So all of these guys knows like, right, you’re all done.

Q) Once you realized that you had gotten the job that you’re going to play a bounty hunter, did you do any like research and perhaps find that you had a favorite real life fictional bounty hunter that you might have drawn inspiration from?

Aaron: My dad is a big “Dog The Bounty Hunter” fan so I just – and I already watched a ton of Dog.  But that’s not – that’s not really what we’re going for here so I kind of did the opposite that I strip away anything that I’d seen from Dog and decided to just go off the script.

Luke: He came with a mullet the first day.

Aaron: I should, the mullet, I got rid of that pretty quick.

Hannah: I don’t know, I think for me I just basically did like character research and building on more of this character building with Michelle and Chris Grismer where we had meeting.  And the skills come with the training and within the character.  But for me it was kind of who is Dutch first before what does that do.

Luke: Yes.  I remember feeling very entered to this, I had I think both Hannah and Aaron had experience in Sci-Fi world, I was like intimated, I’ve never done in Sci-Fi world, so I actually watched a lot of Sci-Fi programming thinking that like oh, I’m going to be interacting with these people and fans that know kind of the Sci-Fi world much more deeply than I do and I don’t want to look like irreverent to their genre.

Q) I was just wondering, if we were in space right now, what would be your kind of space dream job, like could you be a pilot, or a bounty hunter, or an explorer or what would you like to do if we live in space?

Hannah: Maybe like for me – for me I just love to be like a – maybe like a ship like engineer so I actually get to go out in space with my space suite.

Aaron: Yes, do the space walk.

Hannah: Yes.  Actually something to do with being completely in space, in space.

Luke: I would like to be like the curator of like a space museum.  And like I would like to talk to people about like the history of space.  And I have this like really cool like museum, and like “Many years ago we have the challenger.” And that was a terrible thing, they have like a tutorial, teach the people the history of space.

Q) So if you could travel anywhere – if you could travel anywhere in outer space where would you want to go?

Aaron: To a planet where there’s alien life maybe. Wherever is that, I don’t know the name of it unfortunately, I can’t be that specific. I would be wasting my skills as an actor if I could tell you where that is.

Luke: Yes, it’s hard, there’s not a lot of place that you could go.  That phone is really loud.

Q) You talked about some the comedic moments and I know Aaron you said they’re more subtle.  But you guys have some great lines, do you guys have any favorite lines that you said in the show?

Hannah: Mine is the crashy two hander.

Luke: Oh the old crashy two hander.

Hannah: It’s the crashy two hander line I think for me because I think it’s just cool.

Aaron: I like my – in the first scene of the first episode there’s a great line where one of the characters asked me if it’s uncomfortable walking around because I have such big balls and I’m like yes there’s some chasing.  I think that kind of funny and like that’s sort of a tone of the show, the subtlety of the humor sometimes, I just think that’s kind of quite humor.

Luke: Yes, that was very funny yes. Oh gosh, I don’t know, I mean there’s this, I’m not sure if this was in the episode that you saw but we need some nuns and they have done what I thought was very funny..

Aaron: I know a line Luke of yours that I really like and it sort of speaks to the character, the difference in the characters and stuff like that.  John is trying to do something in a scientific sort of way and he gets himself in trouble and Luke’s character, I can’t remember the exact lines but he’s like,  see what id I tell you like science is dumb these sort of characters.

Luke: I remember being very concerned about that line because I’m going alienate our audience.  Like I think these people that watch the show are going to like science and they’re going to hate me.

Aaron: No, no because it’s like very funny.  But you don’t come across as dumb, it’s a really funny sort of character I think…

Hannah: It’s funny.

Q) We know that obviously Dutch has a lot of secrets and Luke also kind of about what’s happened in his past in the war and everything, so Aaron my question is does John have any kind of secrets that we’re going to be finding out about?

Aaron: In this first season not really.  And I think that that’s kind of that sort of needs to be that way because the whole thing is that Dutch and D’avin have these two secrets that are sort of holding the team apart because they’re not really wanting to share those and trying to deal with all these things by themselves.  And it causes a lot of strain on the team and I think John’s position in this first season is to like his main purpose in the show and his goal is to keep the team together because they’re sort of just ripping each other apart. So I think if you then throw John into the mix where he got things, I think it would be a bit convoluted and a bit sort of like you needed somebody who was just, you know not being torn apart by all these stuff to kind of keep it together.  So I hope that in if we get other season that we’ll get to start to see a little bit of John’s past and the things that he had to go through, the difficulties and stuff. So I really hope that we will get to do that but I think in this season it would have been a bit much to sort of have all three of them really trying to explore these dark secret and stuff.

Q) What has been your favorite part about working on Killjoys so far?

Hannah: To me honestly I think there’s a shoot – the amount of fun I had off screen and off.  I mean the set have been amazing, I think the fighting as well for to me which has been so cool.  But I think with like Aaron and Luke they’re just so amazing to work with.  They just made the whole time and experience just ejected with fun.

Luke: Yes, it’s really true.  You often hear actors talking about, “Oh, we all like so much.”  But really legitimately it was like a real – a really great group, like I love showing up to work, it was wonderful. And just to use your imagination in a really profound way.  It’s not often that you get to in kind of scripts where you’re required to imagine so much and that it makes you feel like a kid again when you’re looking out the window of your spaceship and you seen a green screen having to imagine what’s on that often your job is sort of entering into a living room with cup of tea.  So you can use your imagination that massive way is super fun.

Aaron: Yes, I agree, I think first and foremost not just like as the actors but the whole creative team and the whole crew, I think everybody really, really enjoyed themselves.  And again that’s not we’re working in such a fun business and that, but the experiences are not always amazing, amazing.  And I think like on a personal level the fun of working with everybody was way, way up there. I think another thing for me was getting to start on a show, I’ve done lots of shows where I kind of come into them while they’re already been successful and then become a lead on the show or reoccurring.  But to come in to a show from the very start and feel like you’re really, really part of something. And like Luke was saying, it’s just not really part of something where it set in New York or wherever where we know everything but we’re really getting to explore and create the world and this characters that nobody seen before.  Coming from Michelle’s imagination and the writers and then we really get to inhabit these places that don’t exist, and these societies, these cultural levels and stuff that are not real in real life.  So who gets to do that, some people get to fantasize and get to think about those things but we actually get to sort of act them out and create them.  And that’s been the really, really exciting thing that very few people get to do, so it’s a lot of fun.

Luke: I remember the first time we all were on the cockpit together and we’ve been watching the ships get build because we’re filming on our station and we see them and like, “Cool, that’s our spaceship.” And then all the sudden we were on the spaceship and they build this beautiful thing but nobody knew how to drive it and we got to make up how to drive the ship.  And we got to imagine what button to your press to try to make it go up and make it go round and that’s like thrilling.

Q) What challenges did you face when filming the first season?

Luke: I was just going to say it’s a small cast and we all worked a lot,  it was really long hours. Sometimes when cast of shows are bigger and there’s more sort of screen time to go around but this is very equality spread among three people so we had really long days

Hannah: To me I think like the challenges at the begging, I remember when we had this gun and it was so heavy.  And I think it actual kind of like getting to use to it, the equipment and the armor, and making it look like I’ve been carrying this gun for years.  I mean I think for me it was – it was really embodying a killer, as a bounty hunter, and getting used to the kind of physical way of that.

Aaron: I think for me and even up until very recently I felt this way throughout the whole season, so you’re really excited to do this, this is an amazing opportunity.  But you’re really like, I hope that we do all of this justice, I hope that all this hard work that we do and we put in that it pays off, that people really enjoy it.  Because like again, we’re not just doing a cop show where we’re emulating something that’s already out there and people will buy into it.  We’re creating a whole new world and so you’re just like the tone of things you really want to get right and you really wanted to create something that people are going to – characters and a world that’s believable and people are going to buy into. And that just comes with the genre, I think that that’s there’s a lot of actual work that you have to do and pressure that’s sort of put on you because it’s like people have to buy into this.  It’s not easy as thing to buy into and the Sci-Fi audience is very discerning, they’re very intelligent, and you want them to like it, you want them to really buy into this world that you’re inhabiting and creating. So there’s some pressure in that and that doesn’t just fall on us obviously as the actors, that’s sort of as  production what we all have to accomplish together.  But after seeing the show I feel very confident and very proud of the work that everybody did and I’m really hoping that everybody is going to enjoy it.

Luke: That’s really good point, yes.   And specially being aware of I think there is more reverence sort of the intelligence of the audience in this genre than any other genre I think I’ve worked in and wanting to do them, to do them right.

Q) So Killjoys is created by the creator of Lost Girl Michelle Lavretta and it’s produced by the producers of Orphan Black, (Temple Street), and I’m a huge fan of those shows and really looking forward to Killjoys.  So what do you think fans of those shows would like about Killjoys?

Aaron: Well, obviously they’re coming from the same sensibility, the same minds, so I think obviously our show is going to be very different because the content and the world and stuff that we’re in but it’s still coming fro the people who have the same sensibility who make those other shows that obviously tons and tons of people enjoyed.  So it’s kind of hard to say exactly what it is but I think that the sensibility are going to be the same.  So hopefully that the things that you enjoy about those other shows, they’ll be assembled in our show as well.

Luke: Speaking a little bit about Lost Girl, I think there’s something about not to be sort of lied about it but there’s a sort of sense of female empowerment that I think is definitely something that’s really strong (in viewers), strong female characters that aren’t just strong for the sake that they beat people up but they also they’re very comfortable with their sexuality.  Michelle writes a lot about sexuality in a really I think unique way that sort of very different than most TV sort of characters have sex and not feel ashamed about it.  So, yes.

Hannah: Yes.  And wow there’s not really kind of a big thing about sex, sexuality.  I think the thing is any women can do any man (inaudible), any man can see the bus. It’s kind of – there’s this massive freedom there.

Q) I know Aaron is probably used to it  by now but are you guys ready for the vintage genre fans you’re about to have?

Hannah: Bring it on.

Luke: I would love it. I have a lot of flight attendant sort of fans right now, I like to sort of broaden my fan base. I often get like – they’re like, “Oh the first class wine is a little bit better than the coach wine.  Let me see if I can scrounge a glass for you.

Q) We talked previously about Dutch’s past and what’s going on with her.  But what can you tell us a little bit about D’avin’s search for the military doctor and whether his search will come to a resolution this season?

Luke: He’s definitely looking for this person all the way through the show and, gosh, I don’t know how much I should tease but yes he finds her, he finds her.  And that she is a her.  And eyes I think it’s really interesting because there’s sort of a lot of comparisons that I think that a lot of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are encountering like sort of how to reconcile with their sort of violent past and I think it’s a great story line.  But he does, he does get I think more completion and closure than Dutch does

 

 

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