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 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.

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

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

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 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.

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