Henry Zebrowski & Rya Kihlstedt
[Most of this interview is sarcastic. If it sounds like a joke, it’s probably a joke.]
Let’s get right to it! Are you a good guy or a bad guy?
Henry: What is good and what is bad?
Rya: I’m good! Always and only!
Henry: That means she’s bad.
So it’s always the reverse, is it?
Henry: Always! Because you think you’re a good person right? Yeah, but how many people shout your name in the night in fury? Right? Like, ‘How dare she!’
Rya: Look at her! Probably a lot.
Henry: Yeah yeah.
Rya: Very guilty.
I don’t know how to take that.
Rya: *laughs*
Henry: I’m just saying, you don’t know! So what do I know? It’s about perspective! Get a couple beers in me and I could talk about this for a while.
Are you at all similar to your characters?
Henry: (to Rya) You’re very similar!
Rya: Yeah! Yeah, I’m very similar to Erica!
Henry: Yeah, I’d say you’re a cold bitch! Yeah, absolutely!
Rya: They actually gave me my TIFF pass- Have you looked at yours yet?
Henry: No.
Rya: It’s a picture from the show. And I had a moment where I thought, ‘Well that’s not me…’ That’s not how I see myself. I mean, look, you build from you, so yes, she’s facets of me, for sure.
Henry: My character is super bumbling and awkward, and that’s not me in real life. I’m actually super suave. I’m very suave, I’m very put together.
That’s a rather high opinion of yourself!
Rya: Look at the hat!
Henry: No, I mean, I’m pretty macho, I can bench 390 pounds, I can do a bunch of laps, so yeah, I’m nothing like Quentin at all.
Do either of you have superpowers?
Henry: In real life?
Yes, of course!
*all laugh*
Henry: I can cook!
Rya: I’m a really great driver.
Henry: Everybody thinks they’re a good driver.
Rya: No I’m a good driver!
Henry: [seriously] I don’t have any superpowers, it’s very sad.
Rya: Me neither.
Does Quentin wish he did?
Henry: Every day.
Rya: Doesn’t everybody?
Do they? I don’t know, it comes with a lot of responsibility.
Rya: It is!
Henry: But in a world where other people have superpowers and you don’t have superpowers you’re screwed! You know what I’m saying? Because they’re stronger and faster than you. They can rip your arms off your body! What are you gonna do?
That’s extreme.
Henry: It is extreme. Life is extreme!
Rya: I want the flame-hands.
Henry: I want stretchy arms.
Rya: Do you remember the Hulk with the stretchy arms?
Henry: I think you’re talking about Stretch Armstrong.
Rya: I am!
Henry: She doesn’t know about comic books! She doesn’t know.
She’s trying!
Henry: Yeah, she’s trying.
Rya: I’m a little older.
Henry: The Hulk is like 75 years old!
Rya: No he’s not!
Henry: Yeah!
Rya: Really?
Henry: Yeah!
Rya: Oh.
Ryan Guzman & Kiki Sukezane
What can you guys tell us about your characters?
Ryan: Nothing!
So helpful!
Kiki: Nothing!
Ryan: End of conversation, let’s go!
*all laugh*
Kiki: I play Miko Otomo. She’s a Japanese girl who lives in Japan, so her story starts from Japan. Basically she’s trying to track down her missing father, and she meets a Japanese guy, his name is Ren Shimosawa, and the two of them fly to America to find her father.
Ryan: Mine, his name is Carlos Gutierrez. He’s a Mexican-American army veteran coming from Afghanistan to East L.A., and he’s being perceived in the public as a hero, but he doesn’t believe it himself. He is presented a huge opportunity of greatness and he’s not sure if he can actually embody this greatness.
When does he find out about EVOs? And do their abilities make him feel less like a hero?
Ryan: He knows about the EVOs prior to coming back. What I think resonates with him so much is the fact that he’ll never be what people see him as. He comes from one war into another one back home.
And for Miko, what kind of weapons will we get to see her use?
Kiki: I use a Japanese sword that has the Heroes glyph on it, and I also use a new weapon which is called a naginata. It’s like a long stick with a blade on the top.
How much training did you have to do?
Kiki: Well, I’ve been training in samurai sword fighting since six years ago, so…
So you’re a natural!
Kiki: Yeah. Pretty much, yeah.
So you could give Ryan lessons?
Kiki: *laughs* No!
Ryan: No, I suck with a sword!
Jack Coleman
Noah’s back! How has he changed since the last time we saw him?
Jack: He’s tried to stay off the grid, under the radar, trying to live a normal, civilian life.
How’s that working out for him?
Jack: It’s been working, but it’s about to stop working as we start our story.
That sounds more like it.
Jack: Yeah, it’s like Michael Corleone. Just when you think he’s out he gets pulled back in.
We do already know that Claire doesn’t make it…
Jack: But she casts a very large shadow over the show, and particularly over my character. I will always be tied to her, I will always be about making sense of her life and her death, and honoring her legacy. That’s who Noah is, that’s always who he will be.
Does losing her give him more focus, or is the grief too much and he’s lost his moral compass along with her?
Jack: I think it gives him his moral compass to a large extent. I think he’s not playing both sides of the fence, he’s very much on one side now… But he still has some bad habits from the old days. But it’s an incredible journey to go back into this, and make sense of it through the character of Claire because that’s always going to be his story.
Do you think it’s harder for EVOs to live in the world now, where they’re in the open, or before when they had to be hidden?
Jack: It’s harder now because they’re out of the woodwork. Back in the day we didn’t have a name like ‘EVO,’ and we do have that now, and that’s because they’re out and everybody knows about them. And there’s laws against them, and they have to be registered, and there’s reproductive laws. It’s a tough world for them, so it’s a lot harder now that they’re no longer undercover.
Lucias Hoyos
What can you tell us about your character?
Lucias: My character’s name is Jose. He’s a little boy, he has troubles in his family, and he only has his uncle to look up to.
And who’s his uncle?
Lucias: His uncle is Carlos. He’s played by Ryan Guzman.
What is their relationship like? Good, strained…?
Lucias: It’s good… They’re connected but sometimes they don’t… How do I say this?
Well Carlos has been away for a while, so does that impact Jose?
Lucias: It does. He’s not really with [Jose] all that much, but when he is he’s really excited to see him.
Does Jose have superpowers?
Lucias: Well I guess you’ll just have to find out!
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