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SciFi Talk: Excerpts from podcasts of Mutant X's main cast, 2002
Karen Cliche: Lexa comes into this with such a wall around her, with all this stuff that she does not want to give in. She is there for a purpose, which you will find out about in the weeks to come. She comes in and there is all this resistance. Everyone is asking, "What's your problem?" She has a real purpose for being there. What they are doing with Jesse (Forbes March) and Lexa is that Jesse is the only one who tries to get her to open up. She kind of trusts him but not right away. They're building a good friendship between them. [Listen to the entire original podcast here]
Forbes March: There's more character development while at the same time, we're picking up the pace of the show a little bit. I imagine the sensation...Imagine being sad, well, imagine being really heavy. The trick is doing the special effect on a green screen. That's kind of tricky because I usually do it sometimes as much as a month after shooting the scene. Nice guys are hard to write for; bad guys and troubled guys have an automatic storyline for them. Boys next door are kind of tricky. It's a challenge for the writers and it's a challenge for me to keep the character interesting. [Listen to the entire original podcast here]
Victoria Pratt: It's nice to use your physicality and the skills that you have learned over the years. I really have a lot of fun with Shalimar. It's a credit to the writers and the producers for the Shalimar character. When I read the pilot script, Shalimar was a real hard ass...a real bitch. I had already done that. Sarge was a bit of a bitch. The producers asked me what I wanted to do. I wanted more feminity and for her to have a soft spot. They made her a more interesting character. She's more dimensional which is why I'm happy to do this with Shalimar. [Listen to the entire original podcast here]
Victor Webster: I never thought I would be an actor. I was fighting. I was fighting first in the streets, getting kicked out of school for fighting for any reason that I could find. Because it was fun for me when I was young. I was training to fight since nine years old. I got into training with someone who changed my life, my direction. In changing my life, I attribute that to Master Kim and Master Choy. They were my masters that I studied with to get my black belt. Getting into this using Hong Kong choreograhy, working with Paul Roposky who is our choreographer, It's amazing.
John Shea: When I read a role, I try to find something that I can bring to the role and something that the role brings to me. Something that I don't know anything about and that the character can teach me. What I felt I could bring to Adam was to be the leader of the team or the director of a team. I had directed a film, and when you're a film director it's like leading a group of people for a cause. You have a goal in mind. You have to be really motivated. What I didn't know about life that Adam is teaching me is about is the world of science. I don't know much about genetics. I don't know much about genetic engineering or this whole world of scientific possibilities. That's what Adam has given to me. [Listen to the original podcast here.]
Lauren Lee Smith: Everyone assumes you're the sweet young innocent girl, then you throw in a little bit of mischief. That's always fun to play. It's playing with feeling and getting all these people's emotions which is why Emma can be scatterbrained at times. She's bombarded with all these feelings. With each episode as an actress you're slowly figuring out your character and who she is. The pilot was a great way to start out for me as Emma was learning as I was. I liked it when she was bad in season one. It was so much fun for me and getting to work with Tom (McCamus). He's just phenomenal.
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