Skyler Samuels is not your ordinary Los Angeles high school student. She also occasionally unleashes claws... on the set of her new hit series The Nine Lives of Chloe King. Between travel, Pilates, and photography, Skyler has scored a role that could potentially skyrocket her to fame.

We had the opportunity to participate in a conference call with Skyler as we not only are introduced to the talented actress herself but the show and the role of Chloe King. Check out what she had to say!

How did you become involved in the project?

I had an audition for this show back in the fall of 2010, and I went in and I just fell in love. I loved the pilot before, and I was just, I was just in love with the script. Chloe and I have so much in common. I could hear my own voice in the things she said and did.

And a super-embarrassing story-when I walked in on the audition, I introduced myself as Chloe. I was totally embarrassed because I accidently said Chloe instead of my own name, but sure enough, they agreed, because here I am playing Chloe King, and I'm having the time of my life.

Can you tell us what we can expect this season?

Well, this first season of The Nine Lives of Chloe King is filled with adventures, thrills, romance, comedy and drama, and a lot of heartfelt relationships. There is nothing predictable about this first season. It's filled with a lot of unexpected twists and turns, and it will leave you on the edge of your seat.

I'm curious if you read the books to sort of prepare for your role.

I have read the books. I read them before we started the pilot to get a little bit of a background about the show. But in all honesty, we've taken a lot of creative liberties with the books and our adaptations of the TV show. We kind of have a lot of the same basic ideas as the books-some of the mythology, a lot of the main characters are still the same. But we've taken a lot of liberties in making it more exciting, and more action-oriented, and really spicing it up. So I think that the fans of the book will really appreciate what we've done with the show.

Has it been a challenge for you playing sort of an element of the supernatural?

Playing a supernatural is more realistic than I thought it would be. It's a lot of fun, absolutely, because having super hearing and super vision and super speed and all of the super things you can have is certainly not normal, and it's a lot of fun. But on this show, it always comes back to something very realistic that I can relate to from my own life. So it's been not as difficult as I thought it would be to play the supernatural. It's been quite fun and easy.

You were on The Gates, and I love that show. I was wondering is there any kind of conscious attempt on your part to play in supernatural-type TV shows, or did it just work out that way?

I had a great time working on The Gates, and that was my first kind of real experience doing supernatural television-working with the special effects and the storylines and everything that goes into making a supernatural show. It was kind of complete coincidence that I ended up on The Nine Lives of Chloe King.

I guess I must be subconsciously drawn to the supernatural realm, but I've had a lot of fun, and one character-each character is not like the rest. They're all different and they all have different powers and abilities. I've had a really fun time following the supernatural, and I'm certainly enjoying the experience.

Your character is described as having cat-like superpowers, and they would like to know if you, in real life, had those powers, which ones would you choose?

You can tell the cats at the office I'm jealous of the claws. I wish I had claws, just because how cool would that be? But among my cat-like powers, I also would probably like to have super speed, just so I can get more done in a day. It seems like a much more practical superpower to me.

Would you share with us your guilty pleasure TV show?

Oh, my goodness. My guilty pleasure TV show would have to be Glee. I'm weirdly addicted to the show, and I couldn't explain it to you if I tried. I've never been a big musical buff, or anything, but I find myself week after week, no matter what, tuning into Glee. So that's definitely my TV go-see pleasure.

Did you ever watch any supernatural/paranormal shows growing up?

Oh, there were supernatural movies, like the Hocus Pocus and Luck of Witches and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. So I had a little bit of supernatural influence when I was growing up and watching TV. But I never thought anything different of it, compared to the rest of the shows I might watch. The supernatural never struck me as something that I really wanted to do; I just kind of fell into it by accident.

Can you describe Chloe?

Well, Chloe is definitely more of a superhero than a supernatural creature. On her 16th birthday when she discovered that she's got these heightened abilities-the super speed, super hearing, and these claws, and she's got, you know, the ability to read peoples' feelings. This incredible combination kind of leads Chloe to want to help people who are in trouble.

So even though Chloe finds herself running from bad guys and the ones who are trying to kill her because I'm this special girl who can die nine times and people are trying to see if it's true, and they're trying to get rid of me and the rest of our feline race, the Mai. Chloe still finds herself trying to help people and save peoples' lives using her heightened abilities. So she's constantly torn between the chase and having to save the day.

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