This week, we had the opportunity to participate in a phone conference with Anna Silk, Zoie Palmer and Kris Holden-Ried. Unfortunately, the entire transcript is extremely long and so we are only able to share a few highlights with you.
Gary Morgenstein: Welcome everyone to the "Lost Girl" conference call. We're delighted to have the stars, Anna Silk, Kris Holden-Ried, and Zoie Palmer, who form a very interesting romantic triangle in this series, which has been a huge hit in Canada and premiers on SyFy Monday, January 16th at 10:00 right after the second season premier of "Being Human."
Zoie Palmer: Hello. Thank you.
Anna Silk: Thank you, yes.
Kris Holden-Ried: Let's rock and roll.
(Renee Martin): Hello everyone. Thanks for talking with us today. As a Canadian, I have watched every single episode and every Monday morning I get the (Team Docubus) emails. So I have to ask Kris a question, I probably would be banned from (Tim Horton's) at this point if I didn't. So my question is to Kris. What - Dyson is a very restrained character. There's always something about him that is just simmering underneath it all. And so, do you find this a challenge as an actor, because it has to come through with your body language rather than the lines that you're given to say, and also, I have to ask it, how much did you love getting the chance to pretend to be Kenzi? We loved it.
Anna Silk: That's a big spoiler alert, just so you know.
(Renee Martin): I couldn't help it. I'm sorry. I had to do it.
Anna Silk: Of course. No, of course.
Kris Holden-Ried: Yeah, that was great. I mean we're talking about something in season two here. And yeah, season two is being a bit of a tough, tough pull for Dyson, and to get to play a different character for one episode was fantastic and especially Kenzi, who Ksenia Solo played so well, and who I'm lucky to have such a great relationship with, and she helped me out tremendously. We really teamed up to help each other out. And it was a great experience.
As far as your first question about the restraint, I think it's become something that's really inherent in Dyson, and part of it came out of a necessity of the way we shot first season, which was completely out of chronological sequence, so a lot of times we didn't know what we were going to have to do in the (preselect), we choose episode nine, and then episode three, and so sometimes we didn't know what we were going to have to react to. So you sometimes have to play this ambiguous sort of line.
Zoie Palmer: Yeah.
Kris Holden-Ried: But also in my style of acting, I tend to internalize things more than externalize them, and that's just - and I think people pick up on stuff that - I mean we're such sensitive creatures that even if you internalize things, people pick up on them. And what I like about after my - the way I like to act is that I find if people are using their own imagination to put onto your character what it's feeling then often more authentic than me trying to demonstrate something, you know.
(Renee Martin): Thank you very much.
Anna Silk: Yeah, and there's been such an outpouring of support for the show. I mean people that follow us on Twitter and various things, they really are big fans of the show and really care about each character and each relationship.
And whenever I tweet, there's one girl in particular who always writes back within, usually a minute. Now if she doesn't I start to get worried about her. I think she's in France, and I was like, where is she? She hasn't written back. I start to get worried, because the response is so quick. It's really great.
Zoie Palmer: Anna (unintelligible) talking to fans is pretty much what she's doing.
Kris Holden-Ried: But what I also found, which is real interesting is not just of the characters but the fans through these media outlets really get in touch with the person who's playing the role...
Zoie Palmer: Yeah.
Kris Holden-Ried: ...and can build quite the - I'm amazed at the power of a relationship that you can - 255 characters or however many Twitter allows you to write. I think it's something like that, because you know, about six months I've actually just like Anna said, I've gotten to know these people. I know exactly who's talking about it. And yeah, I told her I was worried about her too.
Zoie Palmer: (Smelly Cat), if you're out there, we love you.
Anna Silk: Yes, (Smelly Cat), we love you.
Reg Seeton: Can you each talk about the appeal of Bo and what you guys love about the triangle relationship as the season evolves?
Anna Silk: Did you say the appeal of Bo? The appeal of Bo, I mean since I play Bo, I don't know. I think that the appeal of Bo for me when I read the initial pilot was just how - I think she's - even though she's a succubus and she's not human and she's going to be thrown into this crazy world, she's really relatable. She's a very relatable character. She's intensely vulnerable and also has to sort of grow and find her way, and there's a lot of growth for her in the series.
And I think that that's sort of what, you know, having just talked to fans and just even myself, that's what I related to in her and that's what I found appealing was that she's strong and sexy and all of those things, but she's scared a lot of the times and vulnerable and has to figure out things as she goes.
And then the love triangle that unfolds that the (INs) gets introduced to in season one is pretty, pretty interesting. Anyone care to comment?
Zoie Palmer: You led us right up to the love triangle and dropped us off. The love triangle is, yeah, I mean it's just that, isn't it? I think that everyone who meets Bo, including Dyson and Lauren are sort of taken with her, for reasons that I don't know that - well, I mean I think Lauren is taken with her for reasons that I don't know that she can explain entirely. And she's obviously beautiful. You're beautiful, Anna.
Anna Silk: Thank you.
Zoie Palmer: But there's something about her, I think that brings - draws people into her, and I think that that's what sort of Lauren finds right away. And I think almost - I think it's a surprise that she feels that way, that that happens. I think she works for the Light Fae and she does her job and she's a scientist and then along comes this sort of creature, this person, this woman who does something to her, and I don't know that's she kind of sure what that something is, certainly from Lauren's side, anyway. Kris?
Kris Holden-Ried: I think with Dyson it's pretty simple, you know, he introduces - got these - got this incredible cleavage - and no. Sorry.
Zoie Palmer: And end right in the cleavage.
Kris Holden-Ried: I think for Dyson, with the mythology behind Dyson's character has a lot to do with he's a protector. The wolf was - its entire job in existence was protecting its liege or its king, whoever it was assigned, and in Bo he sees an innocent but beautiful and vulnerable woman that he finds one, beautiful and fascinating, but also those instincts out in him.
And there's also some historical stuff behind Trick and Bo and Dyson that the audience will find out about that also sort of plays into this as well, but I think it's really kind of a deep sort of seated instinct in Dyson's want to protect Bo, and in doing so, he gets feelings for her.
