Nowadays, everything is so gratuitous. The violence is suggested, and it's much more impactful than showing everything.

Everyone wants to see someone shoot someone in the head.

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

We read the [Dracula] scripts, but Jess [De Gouw] and I are completely taken out of the hunts and anything with Van Helsing. We're just living our lives, as our characters.

You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.

It was just hilarious how my first reaction was, "Oh, no, it's another vampire show. I'm not interested." And then, I read the script and thought it was brilliant.

Vampires have been romanticized, and this is bringing it right back to being vampiric. I think there's something sexy and raw about that.