Dracula isn't just another vampire show. It's something entirely different that I personally feel I've never seen on American TV before.

I think it's a blessing that the show [Dracula] is on a network because it forces everyone to use their imaginations and be creative. The power of suggestion comes back. So, in the sex scenes, no one is ever fully naked, but I feel the suggestion is so much sexier.

Dracula isn't just another vampire show. It's something entirely different that I personally feel I've never seen on American TV before.

On network, you have limitations for how raunchy it can get and how violent it can get.

I've been offered quite a few network shows, over the past couple of years, and always turned them down because I never wanted the commitment. The way that it works in America, you do a pilot and then you wait, and I just thought that wasn't really what I was interested in doing, in that moment.

I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as it is, and that's made for American TV.

Everyone wants to see someone shoot someone in the head.