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Haven is the hot supernatural drama TV series airing
on Syfy. The show is loosely based off of Stepehn King's The
Colorado Kid, and where there is a King there is royalty.
And this show is royally addicting!
Emily Rose plays confident FBI agent Audrey Parker who has
a lost past, but an openness towards the idea of paranormal
activity. When she arrives in Haven, Maine, for a routine
case, the paranormal phenomena that she encounters draws her
into the mystique of this New England town.
PCM got a chance to participate in a conference call with
the FBI agent herself.. again! She was so nice, we wanted
to speak to her twice.
Question: Do you think that the newbie storyline was
brought in too close, you know, with Chris and Evi?
Emily Rose: You mean bringing in new people?
Comment: Yes.
Emily Rose: No, not really because I feel like we
don’t have the luxury of having 24 episodes. We have 12 to
13 episodes to really kind of get across all the different
arcs and things that we want to do in the second season. I
think it's really exciting to me personally to have everybody
so effected by new people coming in because it really goes
to show how much they really value the relationships that
have been set up between the characters and it's exciting
because with change comes new possibilities and I think it
shows the different colors of each relationship.
It makes you want to fight for Audrey and Nathan or Audrey
and Duke so much more and fight for these things and want
to stick around to see if they actually flesh themselves out
and I think that if we kind of served up immediately the dessert
of what people wanted to see in the first couple, two or three
episodes, I think that it's kind of like where do you go from
there? So no, I think the timing of it's pretty right on.
Question: And do you enjoy watching yourself on television
or are you one of those people that cannot tune in to see
the show each week?
Emily Rose: I definitely do like watching the show
because we never really get to see how it comes together until
it airs so to me it's neat to see an episode in its cohesiveness
to see if we tracked everything correctly and for me just
learning more everyday about my craft, wanting to know if
I pitched things in the right place.
But that was a really interesting thing about Episode 6
that chronologically what's coming up, it was really all about
different emotional levels and kind of all existing in what
was a very similar timeframe and so trying to make those things
different and trying to track the story well and so I remember
when I saw an early cut of six, I was really, really excited
because everything tracked pretty well and it's such an interesting,
fast paced, awesome story.
Now it's not ever comfortable for me to sit with my husband
and watch me have scenes with other guys. That’s not comfortable.
I don’t enjoy that but no, I do. I don’t cringe so much. I
don’t enjoy but I don’t cringe. I like to sit there and watch
what I need to do better and what landed well and all of that
stuff.
Question: So let me ask you, what do you enjoy most
about working on Haven?
Emily Rose: I think for me this year I enjoy the depth
of where we go with the relationships of the characters. I
don’t get my, what's the word, creative energy or batteries
are recharging from the sort of trouble of the week thing.
That to me is kind of what keeps people - well, it's kind
of like the laundry line on which everything else hangs.
For me, what's enjoyable is the mythology and the characters
and the deeper mystery behind this town and so when we get
to do really like - when we get to scenes to me that have
a subtext and we're not having to explain things exactly on
the nose or that involve relationships and history and what's
not being said, that to me is my favorite part of working
on Haven.
Thank goodness I get along with my cast mates and enjoy
the people and think that the place is beautiful. So I enjoy
all those things but to me the real reward is working really
hard on a scene with the director in the limited time that
we have and then watching it really effect people and then
watching the fan videos later.
Question: So how do you think your character has evolved
this season from the last and where do you think that it's
going?
Emily Rose: I think I've said this before so I'm sorry
if I'm repeating myself but I think last season was really
about why should I stay in Haven and what's my connection
to the place and why have I been brought here and this season's
been more about who am I. Sometimes I get side barred because
we have to focus in on the trouble of the week and it's always
a challenge to try to portray the duality of that but you
know anytime that I can find Audrey being effected by the
trouble in a personal way then that’s sort of my way in.
And what I think this year is different for her is there's
a bit more of a comfort. Last year she was circling all of
her other characters to kind of get an idea of who they are
and this year she's at home with them and is circling them
and is thrown off by them when there might be a situation
that occurs that she's not really familiar that they would
handle it in a certain way or you know what she knows about
Nathan and he reacts in a way she's not expecting, things
like that.
That to me is the different side of it and just what's exciting
about being able to stick with the series and I'm so excited
that our ratings are holding strong every week and that we
have an audience that’s returning and coming back because
they're getting to know the characters just as well and maybe
will have the same reactions as Audrey does when those different
situations come about.
Question: Well first off, what was it like for you
to make out with Jason Priestly?
Emily Rose: It was weird. I was like is this my life
right now? What's happening? Especially because I'd worked
with Luke Perry before for a long episode on Johnson Cincinnati
so it was just bizarre that I was like what's happening with
90210 intersecting my life.
But really it was great. It's always really great to work
with really seasoned professional, creative, talented people
because you learn a lot from working with them and there's
always the mystery surrounding his name and who he is and
then we meet him in person and realize that he's super down
to earth and really loves his family and is just really talented
and super hardworking and is not a diva at all. It's just
great because you learn a lot from working alongside of someone
like that that’s very eager to work and make a good story,
and so obviously it's always a little weird but then you get
over it and you move on.
Question: Well, for the upcoming episode, since actors
have to do so many takes on a scene, was it easier to relate
to Audrey repeating the same day over and over?
Emily Rose: No and that’s a great question. It was
just really a challenge for me. I remember going through the
script and writing the timeline out of what was occurring.
Through the day I would because based on a production schedule
I would have to do the day repeating in the same location
just at different levels. So what was nice about that is our
ADs and our producer set up the best they could to start at
the earlier stage and then to slowly kind of fall apart, but
what's tricky is how do you make some of these tragic events
throughout the day seem different and how do you let them
effect you even more each time and how do you step the urgency
up each time.
It was a great and wonderful on camera acting exercise for
me and one I was really, really excited about. It was really
challenging. I knew that when I was walking into that episode
I just knew that it was going to be one of the biggest emotionally
challenging episodes I've done because from a technical standpoint,
not only do you have to make it seem real in the wide shot
but the tight shot and the close-up and then also on the reverse
for the other actors.
So you're doing a scene that’s really, really emotional
probably 12 to 15 times and then on top of that, you need
to have the technical DP or focus puller or grip or director
talk to you through the scene in a technical way just to pull
it off but yet you still have to be freaking out and even
though your brain knows that it's not really happening, at
the end of that week my body was so tense and so drained because
my body thought that I had been through those traumas multiples
of times. And so it was a real challenge but a real reward
and I really hope people are effected by it as much as I was
when I played it.
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