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

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.

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

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.

I'm perfectly honest, I've never seen Twilight, I've never seen The Vampire Diaries, and I've never seen True Blood, or anything like that.

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 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.