Aaron Spelling was a huge fan of vampires, and everything in that genre. He just really loved the entire subject of vampires and he was really passionate about it. If you really like the idea of this other world and the intricacies of it, because there were a lot of them, and once you're hooked, it's always something that's a fascination to you.

When I get excited about a character, I'll start doing things as the character and thinking about what the character would do.

Mark Frankel was just a very tender, thoughtful person, and that was really nice. At that point in life, I hadn't met a lot of people my senior who were that tender, and still doing well and making a real go of it. That was a treat, for sure.

When I went in for the [ Embraced] DVD interviews, I thought, "Good lord, it's 17 years later!" I thought that maybe I should do my make-up differently and put extra effort in, or I'd look like a different human being. It's very strange.

When need something really aggressive, outrageous and not done half-way, I feel like I'm your girl.

I guess I just take things as they come now, as far as that goes. I get really excited to do the project, but I don't think too much beyond that.

I grew up Irish Catholic with a bunch of kids at Catholic school.