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

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.

Everyone wants to see someone shoot someone in the head.

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.

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.

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.