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

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.

I rarely watch TV, and in the past two years, I've done three TV shows. It's quite interesting.

When I read the script, I said to one of the producers, "I know you probably want Jonathan Harker really fluffy, but I'm not gonna do that. It needs to be a mask. There needs to be a duel between Harker and Dracula."

I went to a French school, so we didn't study Bram Stoker there. I just thought it was a genius thing.

I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you go, "Oh, I just have to do that!" It fell into place very quickly.