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Comics Continuum 9/10/01: Victor Webster
Mutant X's Victor Webster
Victor Webster, who stars as Brennan Mulwray in the upcoming Mutant X television series, told The Continuum he does his own wire work and fight scenes for the show.
"I think the fans really appreciate when they see the actor's face spinning and it's not some guy covering his face," Webster said. "It's a very physically intense role, and I really enjoy it."
Webster, a huge action movie fan, said he has been training since he was 9 years old and sported an undefeated record as a kick-boxer. Mutant X allows him to takes advantage of those physical skills.
"We trained for three weeks of intensive wire work training, and stunt fight choreography and gymnastics - for three weeks before and we continually train now that we're shooting," Webster said.
Of course, one thing Webster isn't doing that his character does: shooting electricity with his mutant powers.
Webster, who played Nicholas Alamain on the NBC soap Days of Our Lives, called Brennan the "rock 'n roll bad boy" of Mutant X.
"Brennan is a smart-ass," Webster said. "He's very well bred and intelligent in a street sense. He's not a scholar, like an intellectual, university scholar, but he's extremely smart in the ways of the world. He's been a criminal and lived on his street smarts since he was out of high school.
"He hid his mutant abilities from everybody even until right before joining Mutant X, when he was exposed by a Judas, somebody that he worked with that exposed him because of the competition factor."
And although Mutant X has a lot of action, Webster said there's more to the show than that.
"The cool thing about the writing and the scripts that we're doing is that from the beginning they had a chance to feel us out and put our characters on paper before we were even cast," he said. "And the very interesting thing was that when they cast us, how similar our personalities to our characters are. Now that they've seen us in action and seen us speak the words that they've written, we've really kind of melded and kind of gelled together with the characters, and we're really making them our own.
"That's what makes it so much fun. You get a sense of comedy. You get some one-liners, some smart-ass cracks here and there. You get some very intelligent dialogue. It's a mixture. You're not going to sit there and watch all technical jargon. And while there's a lot of action, you're going to get a little comedy thrown in and you're going to get some character-driven drama as well as you're going to get some relationships between characters. It brings a lot to the entire show."
Webster has been a reader of comics and counts Green Lantern, Batman, Justice League of America, Spider-Man and Groo, The Wanderer among his favorites. He said he feels that Mutant X captures comic-book sensibilities without becoming campy.
"I don't want sound cocky in the fact that I am so happy to be part of this show, but there's no hoping or guessing for me: I know people are going to enjoy the show," Webster said. "I've been in the crowd. I've been watching action movies you've never heard of, comic books, everything since I was a kid. For me, this is a dream come true. And if I wasn't part of this show, I'd still be watching every single week."
In other Mutant X news:
The series premiere is titled "The Shock Of The New." Here's how the episode is described:
"On a mission to protect the unwitting subjects of a covert human genetics program gone awry, Adam (John Shea) and his Mutant X team set out to find these new mutants before the organizaton that created them can hunt them down and exploit their special powers."
Tribune has released an image of Victoria Pratt as Shalimar Fox from the first episode.
Look for more on Mutant X very soon here in The Continuum.
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