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By
Suzanne
 
Interview with EP J.B. Sugar and Stars
Laura Vandervoort, Greyston Holt, and Greg Bryk of "Bitten"
on Syfy 2/8/16
NBC UNIVERSAL Moderator: Samantha Agnoff February
08, 2016 1:00 p.m. ET
Operator: This is conference
# 13180. Good afternoon. My name is
Andrew and I’ll be your conference operator today.
At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the
Bitten Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute
to prevent any background noise. After the speaker’s
remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question during this time,
simply press star and then the number one on your telephone
keypad. If you would like to withdraw your question, press
the pound key. Thank you. Samantha Agnoff from Syfy,
you may begin your conference.
Samantha Agnoff:
Great. Hi, everyone. Thank you for joining us today for the
conference call for Bitten which returns to Syfy for Season
3 on Monday, February 15th at 11:00 p.m. following Lost
Girl.
Today, we’re joined by executive producer,
J.B. Sugar and stars Laura Vandervoort, Greyston Holt, and
Greg Bryk.
Now, let’s move on to the questions.
Operator: At this time, I would like to remind everyone,
in order to ask a question, press star and then the number
one on your telephone keypad. We’ll pause for just a moment
to compile the Q&A roster.
Your first question comes
from the line of (Heather McClatchie) with TV Goodness. Your
line is open.
Heather McClatchie: Hi, everybody.
Thanks for talking to us.
Male: Good morning,
Heather.
Heather McClatchie: Hi.
Laura Vandervoort:
Good morning.
Male: Good morning, Heather. Hi.
Heather McClatchie: I watched the first two episodes
and I really liked them and I don’t want to put spoilers out
there, so I’ll try to be very cagy in how I ask my question.
Male: Yes.
Heather McClatchie: So we see
someone from Season 2, it is the person that Elena is having
the conversation with, but then they’re not really mentioned
again in the first two episodes. Will we be revisiting that
aspect from Season 2 and Season 3 or Season 3 going to be
really more closely about the wolf pack?
Laura
Vandervoort: The witches or ...
Heather McClatchie: Yes, yes.
Laura Vandervoort: Well, you
know, we...
Heather McClatchie: Well, I can go
ahead and say it. I mean, the screeners were available. So,
Elena is talking to Paige.
Male: Yes.
Heather McClatchie: But then we don’t really reference
back to Paige in those first two episodes again. So, will
Paige come back into the picture throughout Season 3 or is
that all we’ll see?
Laura Vandervoort: I don’t want
to give anything away which is...
Heather McClatchie: OK.
Laura Vandervoort: -- the answer
most of the questions. But we do, in the finale of Season 2,
Elena has a premonition and we pick up the third season a
couple of months in and she’s still dealing with that
premonition, and what it means for the pack, and whether or
not it will come true, if she will destroy everything that
she knows. And she’s trying to, you know, get a grasp of
that and understand that.
Whether or not we see the
witches again, I’m going to leave it to the audience to
watch and find out. But we do focus on the pack much more
this season and their dynamic and the relationships between
them.
Heather McClatchie: OK.
J.B. Sugar:
Yes, and I’ll just add to that. It’s J.B. here, and to
reiterate, yeah, more sentiment about Season 3 is much more
rooted in werewolf, international politics, and internal
politics within the pack as well. But we also still honor
the seeds we’ve incorporated into Season 2 with the witches
as you saw in the first episode and the premonition coming
back.
And there’s also fallout from Season 2
vis-a-vis Logan’s offspring and Rachel. And so that
storyline stays alive throughout the season. And the
implications and influence of the witch participation in our
world still resonates throughout Season 3. So there will be
some opportunities for some witchy hits amongst the wolf.
Heather McClatchie: OK, and as a follow up onto
that, we do have some time jumping around where we’re
referencing things as being previous. Can you say -- will
the majority of the season be essentially a flashback that
we’ll catch up in the timeline with or will we sort of in
the middle of the season kind of catch up to what’s “real
time” and then get back on track with things happening right
now?
J.B. Sugar: I mean, in the first episode, there
is a bit of timeline jumping with the premonition and kind
of dealing with the three months gap from where we pick up
from where Season 2 left off. But other than that, the
season does follow a pretty linear timeline with the
peppering of that premonition still coming back and haunting
Elena’s character throughout the season.
Heather McClatchie: OK. Great. Thank you very much.
Samantha Agnoff: Thank you.
Operator: Your next
question comes from the line of Jamie Ruby with
scivision.com. Your line is open.
Jamie Ruby: Hi.
Thanks for talking to us guys.
Male: Hi.
Laura Vandervoort: Hi.
Jamie Ruby: I really enjoyed the first
two episodes. And I was going to ask about the prophesy. I
won’t ruin anything but I just want to say I love Eduardo’s
comment about the Russians eating anything. That’s really
creepy.
OK. So what I was going to ask is,
obviously, the pack dynamics are a lot different this season
because Jeremy is sort of becoming almost a dictator. And
now, Elena is keeping things from him. Clay may have to --
he’s probably going to have to choose what side he’s on.
Can you kind of talk about that, and also, do you think
that Elena would ever completely go against him, against his
wishes? Or, I don’t know, maybe that’s something that
they’re going to deal with.
Laura Vandervoort: Yes.
Well, I mean Greyston, you can also -- this is, you know,
about the two relationships.
Greyston Holt: Yes.
Laura Vandervoort: I mean, for Elena, it’s -- she’s
holding secret from, basically, her father figure in Jeremy.
And he is Alpha and she doesn’t agree with his dictatorship
at this point. And withholding a secret from him also puts
Clay and Elena in an awkward position because Clay is very
loyal to Jeremy.
And, you know, like in most
relationships, if I have an issue with someone’s sibling,
it’s going to cause tension and it definitely does and it
definitely causes some friction between the two of them
throughout the season. And she does have to make a choice.
Greyston Holt: Yes, yes, and I’ll also add to that
as well. Yes. You know, Clay’s position is definitely one of
being stuck in the middle. In any normal relationship, you
know, your loyalty lies with the one you love and that’s it.
But this is just a special situation and the fact, you know,
Jeremy is the one all of us answer to and the one who
basically created Clay and turned him into the man that he
is, the sort of person that can actually function in society
and then -- so that’s...
Greg Bryk: I molded you out
of clay.
Laura Vandervoort: Well done.
Greyston Holt: So, you know, Jeremy is taking his hard line
approach this season and Clay sort of comes into term with
his violent past. And now, he’s sort of forced to do some
things he doesn’t want to do anymore. And then, on the other
side of that is Elena who’s trying to, you know, take the
path of more tolerance, I guess, and it makes for some
interesting conflict this season. That’s for sure.
Laura Vandervoort: Yes.
Jamie Ruby: Yes. All right,
and then there’s a follow-up. Greg, can you kind of expand
on that and talk about his motivation? And do you think he’s
going too far? I mean, how far is too far, I guess?
Greg Bryk: You know, it’s interesting because this season, I
think Jeremy confronts fear in a very meaningful way, his
lost pack members and the way I ruled. The way I trusted
myself to rule seems to have failed, at least to me. And
it’s very interesting that (what we view), I’m afraid, we
sort of -- we resort back to what we know as children. And
there’s to me a large (Malcomy) influence in that brute
strength that we’re -- I’m going to eliminate any threats
because I don’t trust myself to keep the pack safe from
those threats.
So I think that, you know, it’s --
(resonating) globally right now. When you get afraid of
threats around you, you tend to lash out and you tend to
want to be aggressive and you want to wipe out that rather
than trust yourself to be able to coexist with it.
So it’s a crisis of faith for Jeremy this year. He betrayed
everything that he worked hard to become in the process of
becoming something else.
Jamie Ruby: OK. Great.
Thank you so much, all of you.
Laura Vandervoort:
Thank you.
Greg Bryk: Thank you.
Operator:
And again, if you would like to ask a question, press star
and then the number one on your telephone keypad. Your next
question comes from the line of Suzanne Lanoue with the TV
MegaSite. Your line is open.
Suzanne Lanoue: Good
morning. I have a question I’d like to ask all of the
actors. And since, you’re going into the third season now
and you’ve had quite a bit of time with these characters, is
there anything still about these characters that either
challenges or surprises you that you’d like to talk about?
Laura Vandervoort: I think, you know, for myself
anyways, every season I’m surprised and challenged. And I
think that’s due to our awesome and talented writers, every
time we get a script to start a new season off, I’m
surprised at what they decided to bring in to the story. And
we’ve definitely, you know, within the first season, kept it
true as we could to the book, but we’ve had to take some
sort of liberty creatively with the plot and go a little off
book, especially the third season, almost completely off
book.
And I think that’s a necessity because it
allows for our characters to expand past what’s already been
written and to explore new avenues. And it also surprises
the fans of the book. They now don’t know what is coming,
especially this season, Elena -- I mean, I feel like I have
grown personally being a part of the show and playing Elena.
I’m discovering, I’m more capable of things than I had
thought I was, and I’m overcoming fears, and I’ve opened up
more as an actor. And that’s because of Elena, and the
writing and her surprises this season especially throw her
world upside down and make her question who she is.
I just love that there’s always something new and fresh for
us to work off of every season.
Greyston Holt: Yes.
I was actually going to say pretty much the same thing as
Laura. You know, we -- I feel like all of us, at this point,
know our characters so well and we know the core of our
characters, what makes them (tick). But it’s up to the
writers to throw a curveball at us and to put these
characters we know so well and situations we don’t know so
well and sort of see how we handle them.
And I think
that’s what’s so brilliant about our writing team is that
they do that. They really do put us in either awkward
situations or scary situations or physically demanding
situations that really test our sort of knowledge of our
characters, and how we would naturally react to those
situations. So yes, again, it’s the writers that really keep
it interesting and fresh and challenging.
Greg Bryk:
I had a bit of a nervous breakdown this year with the
character, and I’d say this with all sincerity because when
I pursued the role of Jeremy, the qualities he had, the
qualities of the character exhibited were qualities that I
wanted for myself as a man, as a leader, as a father, as my
member of a community.
And then this season, Jeremy
is really forced to ask questions about why he does what he
does and whether that’s really what he wants. And it really
-- it unsettled me in a really scary way and I went through
a few months this year where I really was very rich for the
work but it was really -- it was a bit of a dangerous time
for me, personally, because I can’t really separate myself
from characters that well.
And I started to question
everything with my life. You go through your life with
assumptions about yourself. You know, you’re a father at 22;
you’re married for 20, all those things. You take this
position in your family, in your community, and then when
the character starts questioning that and you give voice and
flesh to those thoughts, it created some really interesting
turbulence in my life.
Laura Vandervoort: That also,
if I may add, is what makes, Greg, you a brilliant actor and
why we’re so lucky to work opposite of you.
Greg has
been our leader all three seasons and has been so supportive
of all of us when we’ve been unsure about scenes or
performances or even personal life. He’s our go-to man and
he’s just phenomenal in every sense and we’re so lucky to
have him. And, you know, we all love each other as much as
our characters do on the show and the respect there is just
the highest I’ve ever had for anybody that I’ve worked with
this entire cast.
And the fact that we put our
personal lives into the show at times can be tasking on all
of us. But we’re just blessed to have (Greg), and to have
Greyston, and Steve, and J.B., everyone who just put
everything into the show, their heart, sweat, blood, and
tears, literally, heart, blood, sweat, and tears. We’ve all
shed some blood for the show, so it’s been a blessing.
Greg Bryk: We are blessed with love on that show, and
without that desire to connect with each other on such a
profound and human -- in such a profound and human way, we
wouldn’t do the things we do. And again, (they) talk about
magic. When you get people to walk into your life, it just
sparkles like that. It’s very special.
J.B. Sugar:
And again, I wanted to add to that. I mean we’ve -- I think
we all agree and felt that chemistry, the dynamic on the
floor and off the floor. I mean, the pack mentality that
informs our narrative also informs our experience of making
it together.
And Season 3 found us as we were
crafting the direction of the story, wanting to gravitate to
a more character driven one because all of our casts are so
comfortable in their characters, and brought so much to
those characters that we really wanted to honor that. And
Season 3 really gave us and them a great opportunity to
explore deeper into character and motivations and to shake
up, you know, the dynamics we’ve built over the past two
seasons. And even know Season 3 is almost entirely off book,
it’s still grounded in those great characters and back story
informing every move that they make, you know, every single
one of our players just elevated the material and couldn’t
be proud of Season 3 and all of them.
Suzanne
Lanoue: Wow. Thank you, guys.
Male: Thank you.
Laura Vandervoort: Thank you.
Operator: Your next question
comes from the line of (Agatha Kasprzak, with “Oh so gray”),
your line is open.
Agatha Kasprzak: Hi. It’s so
nice to meet you guys.
J.B. Sugar: Hi.
Greg
Bryk: Hey.
Male: Hello.
Agatha Kasprzak:
When you found out Season 3 was picked up by Syfy, did that
affect the writing or any of the production? Did that have
any effect on the story knowing that it would be exposed to
a U.S. audience or do you find that Space Channel and Syfy
Channel share the same production values?
J.B. Sugar: It’s J.B. I can speak to that. I mean, we -- Syfy is
an acquisition for the show and an important one, and a
great partner in that, although it rarely has Syfy influence
to the creative direction and we’ve kind of always made the
show we want to make and do our best to make it as good as
we can.
Obviously, Space and Syfy share similar
sensibilities audience-wise and being a cable broadcaster as
our Canadian broadcasters as well. We’re pretty much in line
with all the parameters there.
So the answer is no,
it didn’t really affect it but we’re certainly very grateful
that Syfy continued to be a supporter and broadcaster for
us.
Agatha Kasprzak: OK, great. That’s great.
Thank you.
Operator: Your next question comes from
the line of (Stacy Miller) with (Talk Nerdy With Us), your
line is open.
Stacy Miller: Hi, good morning
everyone or good afternoon everyone.
Male: Good
morning, (Stacy).
Greyston Holt: Good morning.
Stacy Miller: This question is for Greyston.
Greyston Holt: Hey.
Stacy Miller: Hi. How do you
think the advance of the Season 2 finale will affect Clay
and make him a different character than he was previously?
Greyston Holt: In the sense of the premonition?
Stacy Miller: Yes.
Greyston Holt: Well, I
don’t really know anything of the premonition. You know what
I mean? Like we sort of -- that unravels throughout Season
3. But I think that’s something that Elena sort of keeps a
bit of a secret to herself. A terrifying secret of that, but
that’s not something that really -- it affects us all in
Season 3 but we don't have the knowledge of it at the end of
Season 2. I think, only Elena has that knowledge. Am I
correct there?
JB Sugar: There's one conversation
that Elena and Clay have in the great room about it but
it's, you know, you’re right and that Clay doesn't know the
extent in which the promotion is really haunting Elena in
the background. And the various forces and new characters
that come into play in Season 3 kind of exacerbate and
extenuate the impeding fearing concerns around the
premonition but -- that she doesn't necessarily share with
Clay or otherwise.
Laura Vandervoort: Yes, I think
Elena feels it's safest to keep it to herself while she
sorts out what it truly means and she does sort of have a
bit of a therapy session with a different character in the
show. Off the top and throughout, you see snippets of it but
she's choosing to keep it close to her heart because she
doesn't want to break anyone else's heart.
Stacy Miller: OK. OK, that sounds interesting. It sounds like
that we’re in for a full ride of a season coming up. Thank
you, guys.
Male: Thanks.
Male: Absolutely.
Thank you for watching.
Operator: Your next question
comes from the line of (Heather McClatchie) with TV
Goodness, your line is open.
Male: Hello again
Heather.
Heather McClatchie: Hi. So with Elena's
newfound friends, let's call them, can we trust them?
Because we sort of get an immediate, you know, the identity
of that person by name is new to Clay. Clay -- sorry, it's
new to Jeremy. Jeremy has never heard of him, but obviously
he's on the radar of other packs and so he's considered a
foe and he's certainly presenting a different idea of things
to Elena that makes him seem much more warm and approachable
and like we can trust him. So can we trust him or is Elena
going to have to kill him?
Laura Vandervoort: I
think you're going to have to watch.
Heather McClatchie: OK.
Male: Yes.
Laura
Vandervoort: It is the character that is, you know, unknown
to our pack, obviously to myself and to Jeremy especially.
And that's because he had done such a good job of hiding and
think out of the way of the other packs but it does -- his
presence along with his other counterparts does cause a lot
of stress for the entire pack. And ...
Male: Boy,
does it ever.
Laura Vandervoort: And it's her
choosing between, you know, her duty with her own pack and
her possible future choices with -- God, it's so hard to
talk about the ...
Male: I know.
Heather McClatchie: I know.
Male: I know, it’s nice and --
let's like leave her out of the ...
Heather McClatchie: I'm quite tongue tied because I was trying to
figure out how to ask it.
Male: Well -- and I think
that the ambiguity around that character is genuine and
authenticity is very much the point of view of Elena and the
journey she goes on through the whole season. So that very
question is kind of a big rooting thread throughout the
season and a huge part of Elena's arc of the season so ...
Heather McClatchie: OK.
Laura Vandervoort:
And I think it can best be summarized that everybody, all of
the cast members have to choose between duty and family.
It's what the sort of the theme is and what family, that is,
you know, up to the audience to decide.
Heather McClatchie:
Got it.
Male: And it's sort of like,
you know, who do we love and how can we love them best? And
now it is an easy question.
Heather McClatchie:
There you go. And it's -- a follow onto that and I'm sorry
that this is the final season for you guys because I have
really enjoyed the journey. Can you talk a little bit about
what you want fans to know sort of going into this season?
Did you get to tell a final story or is there a possibility
that we could see all again after this three are finished?
JB Sugar: Well, I'll just take the lead and then the
actors can check -- can extrapolate. Yes, well the season
was designed -- as all of our seasons have kind of, even
though there's obviously continuity with the characters. The
-- each season really does have its own theme and we worked
hard to construct seasons that feel wholesome and with
beginnings, middles, and ends.
And Season 3 ends in
a very satisfying way and in a way that I think fans would
feel fine with if it is indeed the final season but it's
also constructed in a way that leaves huge potential for
more stories. And obviously, we've got many more books from
which to mine character and narratives from. So -- you know,
we've been focused on building and creating a great Season 3
and, you know, stranger things have happened in the world,
and that's really up to the fans and, you know, we're just
really proud of what we made and hope everybody feels as
strongly about the season as they have the previous ones.
Heather McClatchie: Thank you.
Greg Bryk:
Yes, and I think one of the nice things we did this season
too is, you know, there were mixed feelings about… just from
talking to fans about the witches in Season 2 and I think
that this season, we sort of really sort of came back to the
essence of what makes Bitten work so well and it's the pack
dynamic. It's just the werewolf world.
So we really
sort of brought it back to I think what is best about our
show and I think it will be a very sort of rewarding send
off if it is that for the fans.
Laura Vandervoort:
Great. Thank you very much.
Operator: Your next
question comes from the line of (Jamie Steinberg) with
(Starry) Magazine). Your line is open.
Jamie Steinberg: Hi everyone. Thanks so much for taking some time
to talk with us this afternoon.
Laura Vandervoort:
Hi.
Greg Bryk: Hi.
Jamie Steinberg: I was
wondering if you guys could talk about what you hope fans
take away from this season?
Greg Bryk: You know,
it's the reason we're really blessed that the fans that have
joined us in on this journey have been almost as invested in
the relationships in the world as we have and we're really
invested in this world and I think, this year, (JB) and
(Daegan) and (Will) and the rest of the writers, they have
-- they have made those relationships so intense and really
pulled at the fabric of what it means to be a pack, what it
means to be a family. Well, what love means; what
relationships mean.
[...] it's not easy to be a
pack. It's not easy to love someone. It's not easy to do the
right thing again and again and again but you try and that's
what this season is. I think it's this incredibly heroic
journey of all the characters to try to love the other
people best.
And I think as humans, that's all we
can ask of ourselves. It's that you just try to love those
around you in the best way you can and we're flawed and
we're frail, but there's so much hope, right?
Laura
Vandervoort: For sure and I think a lot of the fans who have
joined us in Season One because they were fans of the books
or I've heard a lot of fans who watched the show and then
went back to the books. I think, they're really getting what
they want out of these characters especially this third
season. They're seeing characters who have been through a
lot come back together or torn apart and you see the
dynamics that has developed in the relationships throughout
the three seasons.
And this third season really, I
think, will fulfill a lot of the fans' wishes and hopes for
the characters and where they could go with their lives and
brings a lot of things full circle especially for (Elena’s)
personal life.
Jamie Steinberg: Oh, very
intriguing. Thank you guys so much.
Greg Bryk:
You're welcome.
Operator: Your next question comes
from the line of (Jamie Ruby) with SciFivision.com. Your
line is open.
Jamie Ruby: Hi again. So what I want
to ask is -- in the -- I don’t know if it's the first or the
second one, I'm not sure which. Elena talks about kind of
wanting to -- implies it would be nice to go off with Clay
and be separate from the pack and they kind of talk about
how (Sacha) and (them) -- they're like that. And I think she
kind of wants that.
So my question is, I don’t know
what exactly ever happened, but do you think that Clay would
be willing to do that for her or do you think that he
couldn’t distance himself from the pack?
Greg Bryk:
I think he definitely would be willing to do that for her.
This -- I think -- there's been a lot that's been resolved
in (Clay's) sort of personal life, things that were maybe
holding him back from letting their relationship move
forward. And I feel like those are -- those things
personally are in the past for Clay.
That being
said, there's hurdles, I mean, like the Season starts with a
bang where (Jeremy's) basically on a blood hunt. You join
the pack or you die and (Clay's) not OK with that approach
even though he has to be OK with it and I think at this
point, Clay would love nothing more than have a house with
the woman he loves and sort of put the violence behind them
both and try to live some sort of a normal life and -- but
they live very dangerous confusing crazy world and it's
tough to get to that in the world we live in.
Laura
Vandervoort: But I do -- I do think, I just want to add that
the love that Elena and Clay have is so strong and so real
and that they're able to work through everything whether
they're torn apart in the process, they will always come
back together and I think they have that idyllic dream of
the white picket fence and all of that and it is discussed
this season, but whether or not they can get to that point
with this premonition looming over them is a question.
Jamie Ruby: Great.
Greg Bryk: Yes, it's like
-- I could -- in the same sense, I could -- it's like my
girlfriend and I, we're both actors and we're traveling
always, but we dream of that beautiful little house
somewhere, right, that we can share, but like right now,
that's just impossible. There's too much -- our lives are
too busy to make that happen and it's sort of the same for
Elena and Clay like they just -- yes, they want this thing,
but there's shit that they have to deal with that's why they
get to that point.
So it can be hard to even picture
that dream or that house on the hill because you know almost
how unattainable it is, but you have to dream.
Greyston Holt: But it is Clay who actually takes steps to
realize that dream in this Season.
Greg Bryk: Yes,
yes.
Greg Bryk: And it informs (Clay's)
personal (arc) in this season because he is put in an
awkward position of having to balance his loyalty to Jeremy
and the pack and his love to Elena and so, he is kind of
projecting an ideal world where he can have it all and that
is truly what he wants. He wants to honor his love for Elena
and also, do right by the Alpha that raised him and took
care of him all his life. So it's a really interesting
dynamic that involves the whole Season Three (arc). Not just
from (Clay's) perspective, but from the Elena -- Clay
relationship, the Clay -- Jeremy relationship and the Jeremy
- Elena relationship that's -- they're very complex and a
dynamic one that makes for great stakes and great stories
this season.
Jamie Ruby: Great. And then, (Greg)
just because somebody keeps begging me on Twitter to ask
you, are we ever going to ever get to see Jeremy shirtless?
Laura Vandervoort: Yes.
(Multiple Speakers)
Greg Bryk: Well, I'll make sure I just post some
gratuitous stuff on Twitter.
Laura Vandervoort: That
means you need to follow -- I don’t know if it was Instagram
or Twitter, (Greg), but when you post your workout photos
(inaudible), I appreciate those.
(Multiple Speakers)
Greg Bryk: I'm blushing a little bit. But I think I
have a beard covering that up right now.
Jamie Ruby: OK. Thanks.
Operator: Your next question
comes from the line of Suzanne Lanoue with The TV MegaSite.
Your line is open.
Greg Bryk: Hi Suzanne.
Suzanne Lanoue: Hi. I just have a quick question for
Laura. I was really happy to hear that you're going to be
on "Supergirl", and I was wondering if you'd filmed those
episodes you had, and if so, what it was like to work with
the other actresses who have played Supergirl (like you
have)?
Laura Vandervoort: Yes, I've shot an episode. My
reoccurring character has a couple more episodes to go, but
I play Indigo. She's the new baddie. She's a villain and
she's sort of described as the living strong-willed, super
computer and she was sentenced to Fort Roz because she
turned against the people of Krypton and now, I'm
Supergirl's most powerful adversary.
That’s sort of
the summary of what I can say. But it's been great and I
love that they have the nod back to the original characters,
Dean Cain, Helen Slater and myself. I haven't worked with
Helen yet, but Melissa's been wonderful and it’s definitely
a different look for me and a different form of acting
because it's a more physical -- everything that she does and
who she is, is sort of -- I'm building the character as I
go, but it's definitely based on her body language for sure
based on what I look like.
I've had to change how I
go about figuring out a character. If that makes any sense.
I just -- she definitely looks different.
Suzanne Lanoue: Cool. Thanks. I look forward to it.
Laura
Vandervoort: Me too. Thank you.
Operator: Your next
question comes from the line of (Stacy Miller) with Talk
Nerdy With Us. Your line is open.
Stacy Miller:
Hi.
Stacy Miller: This is a question actually for
both Laura and also for Greg. And I know that Elena will
question (Jeremy's) running as the Alpha, his decisions in
Season Three, so Greg, do you think that if Jeremy ever
stepped down as alpha that he will feel that Elena is
capable of taking over in his absence?
Greg Bryk: I
think yes. I think that Elena has a strength that would
serve both our pack and sort of the culture of werewolves
more generally well and I think sometimes, when you keep
repeating the same patterns over and over again, you need to
make a drastic change and sometimes that strong female
energy is absent in decision making and sometimes, I think
it would be important to have that voice there, so yes, I
would be very comfortable leaving the pack in
Laura/(Elena’s) very capable hands.
Stacy Miller:
Thanks.
Operator: Your next question comes from the
line of (Heather McClatchie) with TV Goodness. Your line is
open.
Heather McClatchie: Hello again. So looking
back on the three seasons that you all have shot, can each
of you tell me what was your favorite episode or favorite
scene to film. And for (JB), what was your favorite episode
to have come together.
JB Sugar: OK. Yes, I’ll let
the actors answer that.
Laura Vandervoort: That's
such a difficult question to answer. I don’t know if it is
for you guys and Greyston, but...
Greg Bryk: Yes.
Laura Vandervoort: There's a lot of scenes and
moments that I really enjoyed in this third season which we
obviously can't talk about just yet, but I think any scene
throughout the first to third season where it was the pack
having heart to heart or together or just calm in a room and
having that dialogue that families have. Those were always
scenes that I really enjoyed.
I mean, our show is
action packed. It's sexy. It's bloody, gritty. All of that.
And those are things that I really love about the show as
well and we all enjoy doing our stunts and being physical.
But when it comes down to it sitting down at a table with
Clay or Jeremy or (Nick), those are the moments I really
treasure and remember because we're connecting with one
another. We're looking in one another's eyes and the feeling
things that you don’t necessarily get to do when you're
doing an action sequence or with a larger scene. Those are
important to me.
(Multiple Speakers)
Greg
Bryk: Are you going go, Grey?
Greyston Holt: No, no.
Go, go.
Greg Bryk: Well, I was just going to say,
plus there's so many really incredible moments with
everybody, with Greyston and with Laura and with Steve and
with Michael and as an actor and as a human being, those are
-- like that’s my reason for doing what I do, but if I was
going to pick one moment, it might be Episode 13 of Season
one when we are all sort of together before that final
onslaught of the -- we just sort of -- everyone looks at
each other and it's the "We're strongest together" moment.
And it really is true. It's been such an incredible
journey with people and I think we are strongest together
and I think when the -- as Laura said, when the family is
together, when the pack is together, that's when we all
shine the brightest together and that moment was just one of
the rare special moments when we were just all together
facing chaos and death and uncertainty and we just let
ourselves be what we were going to be together.
Greyston Holt: Perfect. I have two that particularly stand
out and it's just based on the rawness of the emotion in
those scenes. One was in the finale of Season Two where
Laura was dying in my arms basically and like she was so
available and so raw and I just -- there's something so --
you know, when you're on the last episode of a season and
you're not sure if it can pick up, but there's a lot of raw
emotions naturally because you know this could be the last
time I get to do this, right. And it was just -- there was
something so beautiful about just how -- just how available
and accessible we both were in that moment.
And it
was something that always sort of stuck with me and then
this season, there's a beautiful part where Steve and I --
Steve who plays Nick who was sort of questioning Greg and
his motives and we're in the great room and just Greg's
performance was just so -- it was just like -- Steve and I
always talked about it afterwards. It was just like just
watching this human in front of us just going through
fucking hell. And all you can do at that point as an actor,
a fellow actor in that scene is just fucking take it in and
so it was just like, I get chills when I think about both
those scenes.
Male: I loved that scene.
Greyston Holt: It was incredible and it's just so nice -- we
don’t get those kind of things necessarily all the time on
projects you work on. Scenes like that where just everything
is stripped away and you're just watching another human, so
those particularly are strong for me.
Laura
Vandervoort: Yes and Greyston, I agree with you on that one.
I obviously wasn’t in the other scene, which I heard was
incredible because Greg is incredible, but the scene where
I'm dying in your arms, I recall when we were rehearsing
that, you and I both had trouble keeping emotions back and I
think it was -- was it (JB)?
Operator: This is conference
# 13180. Good afternoon. My name is
Andrew and I’ll be your conference operator today.
At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the
Bitten Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute
to prevent any background noise. After the speaker’s
remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question during this time,
simply press star and then the number one on your telephone
keypad. If you would like to withdraw your question, press
the pound key. Thank you. Samantha Agnoff from Syfy,
you may begin your conference.
Samantha Agnoff:
Great. Hi, everyone. Thank you for joining us today for the
conference call for Bitten which returns to Syfy for Season
3 on Monday, February 15th at 11:00 p.m. following Lost
Girl.
Today, we’re joined by executive producer,
J.B. Sugar and stars Laura Vandervoort, Greyston Holt, and
Greg Bryk.
Now, let’s move on to the questions.
Operator: At this time, I would like to remind everyone,
in order to ask a question, press star and then the number
one on your telephone keypad. We’ll pause for just a moment
to compile the Q&A roster.
Your first question comes
from the line of (Heather McClatchie) with TV Goodness. Your
line is open.
Heather McClatchie: Hi, everybody.
Thanks for talking to us.
Male: Good morning,
Heather.
Heather McClatchie: Hi.
Laura Vandervoort:
Good morning.
Male: Good morning, Heather. Hi.
Heather McClatchie: I watched the first two episodes
and I really liked them and I don’t want to put spoilers out
there, so I’ll try to be very cagy in how I ask my question.
Male: Yes.
Heather McClatchie: So we see
someone from Season 2, it is the person that Elena is having
the conversation with, but then they’re not really mentioned
again in the first two episodes. Will we be revisiting that
aspect from Season 2 and Season 3 or Season 3 going to be
really more closely about the wolf pack?
Laura
Vandervoort: The witches or ...
Heather McClatchie: Yes, yes.
Laura Vandervoort: Well, you
know, we...
Heather McClatchie: Well, I can go
ahead and say it. I mean, the screeners were available. So,
Elena is talking to Paige.
Male: Yes.
Heather McClatchie: But then we don’t really reference
back to Paige in those first two episodes again. So, will
Paige come back into the picture throughout Season 3 or is
that all we’ll see?
Laura Vandervoort: I don’t want
to give anything away which is...
Heather McClatchie: OK.
Laura Vandervoort: -- the answer
most of the questions. But we do, in the finale of Season 2,
Elena has a premonition and we pick up the third season a
couple of months in and she’s still dealing with that
premonition, and what it means for the pack, and whether or
not it will come true, if she will destroy everything that
she knows. And she’s trying to, you know, get a grasp of
that and understand that.
Whether or not we see the
witches again, I’m going to leave it to the audience to
watch and find out. But we do focus on the pack much more
this season and their dynamic and the relationships between
them.
Heather McClatchie: OK.
J.B. Sugar:
Yes, and I’ll just add to that. It’s J.B. here, and to
reiterate, yeah, more sentiment about Season 3 is much more
rooted in werewolf, international politics, and internal
politics within the pack as well. But we also still honor
the seeds we’ve incorporated into Season 2 with the witches
as you saw in the first episode and the premonition coming
back.
And there’s also fallout from Season 2
vis-a-vis Logan’s offspring and Rachel. And so that
storyline stays alive throughout the season. And the
implications and influence of the witch participation in our
world still resonates throughout Season 3. So there will be
some opportunities for some witchy hits amongst the wolf.
Heather McClatchie: OK, and as a follow up onto
that, we do have some time jumping around where we’re
referencing things as being previous. Can you say -- will
the majority of the season be essentially a flashback that
we’ll catch up in the timeline with or will we sort of in
the middle of the season kind of catch up to what’s “real
time” and then get back on track with things happening right
now?
J.B. Sugar: I mean, in the first episode, there
is a bit of timeline jumping with the premonition and kind
of dealing with the three months gap from where we pick up
from where Season 2 left off. But other than that, the
season does follow a pretty linear timeline with the
peppering of that premonition still coming back and haunting
Elena’s character throughout the season.
Heather McClatchie: OK. Great. Thank you very much.
Samantha Agnoff: Thank you.
Operator: Your next
question comes from the line of Jamie Ruby with
scivision.com. Your line is open.
Jamie Ruby: Hi.
Thanks for talking to us guys.
Male: Hi.
Laura Vandervoort: Hi.
Jamie Ruby: I really enjoyed the first
two episodes. And I was going to ask about the prophesy. I
won’t ruin anything but I just want to say I love Eduardo’s
comment about the Russians eating anything. That’s really
creepy.
OK. So what I was going to ask is,
obviously, the pack dynamics are a lot different this season
because Jeremy is sort of becoming almost a dictator. And
now, Elena is keeping things from him. Clay may have to --
he’s probably going to have to choose what side he’s on.
Can you kind of talk about that, and also, do you think
that Elena would ever completely go against him, against his
wishes? Or, I don’t know, maybe that’s something that
they’re going to deal with.
Laura Vandervoort: Yes.
Well, I mean Greyston, you can also -- this is, you know,
about the two relationships.
Greyston Holt: Yes.
Laura Vandervoort: I mean, for Elena, it’s -- she’s
holding secret from, basically, her father figure in Jeremy.
And he is Alpha and she doesn’t agree with his dictatorship
at this point. And withholding a secret from him also puts
Clay and Elena in an awkward position because Clay is very
loyal to Jeremy.
And, you know, like in most
relationships, if I have an issue with someone’s sibling,
it’s going to cause tension and it definitely does and it
definitely causes some friction between the two of them
throughout the season. And she does have to make a choice.
Greyston Holt: Yes, yes, and I’ll also add to that
as well. Yes. You know, Clay’s position is definitely one of
being stuck in the middle. In any normal relationship, you
know, your loyalty lies with the one you love and that’s it.
But this is just a special situation and the fact, you know,
Jeremy is the one all of us answer to and the one who
basically created Clay and turned him into the man that he
is, the sort of person that can actually function in society
and then -- so that’s...
Greg Bryk: I molded you out
of clay.
Laura Vandervoort: Well done.
Greyston Holt: So, you know, Jeremy is taking his hard line
approach this season and Clay sort of comes into term with
his violent past. And now, he’s sort of forced to do some
things he doesn’t want to do anymore. And then, on the other
side of that is Elena who’s trying to, you know, take the
path of more tolerance, I guess, and it makes for some
interesting conflict this season. That’s for sure.
Laura Vandervoort: Yes.
Jamie Ruby: Yes. All right,
and then there’s a follow-up. Greg, can you kind of expand
on that and talk about his motivation? And do you think he’s
going too far? I mean, how far is too far, I guess?
Greg Bryk: You know, it’s interesting because this season, I
think Jeremy confronts fear in a very meaningful way, his
lost pack members and the way I ruled. The way I trusted
myself to rule seems to have failed, at least to me. And
it’s very interesting that (what we view), I’m afraid, we
sort of -- we resort back to what we know as children. And
there’s to me a large (Malcomy) influence in that brute
strength that we’re -- I’m going to eliminate any threats
because I don’t trust myself to keep the pack safe from
those threats.
So I think that, you know, it’s --
(resonating) globally right now. When you get afraid of
threats around you, you tend to lash out and you tend to
want to be aggressive and you want to wipe out that rather
than trust yourself to be able to coexist with it.
So it’s a crisis of faith for Jeremy this year. He betrayed
everything that he worked hard to become in the process of
becoming something else.
Jamie Ruby: OK. Great.
Thank you so much, all of you.
Laura Vandervoort:
Thank you.
Greg Bryk: Thank you.
Operator:
And again, if you would like to ask a question, press star
and then the number one on your telephone keypad. Your next
question comes from the line of Suzanne Lanoue with the TV
MegaSite. Your line is open.
Suzanne Lanoue: Good
morning. I have a question I’d like to ask all of the
actors. And since, you’re going into the third season now
and you’ve had quite a bit of time with these characters, is
there anything still about these characters that either
challenges or surprises you that you’d like to talk about?
Laura Vandervoort: I think, you know, for myself
anyways, every season I’m surprised and challenged. And I
think that’s due to our awesome and talented writers, every
time we get a script to start a new season off, I’m
surprised at what they decided to bring in to the story. And
we’ve definitely, you know, within the first season, kept it
true as we could to the book, but we’ve had to take some
sort of liberty creatively with the plot and go a little off
book, especially the third season, almost completely off
book.
And I think that’s a necessity because it
allows for our characters to expand past what’s already been
written and to explore new avenues. And it also surprises
the fans of the book. They now don’t know what is coming,
especially this season, Elena -- I mean, I feel like I have
grown personally being a part of the show and playing Elena.
I’m discovering, I’m more capable of things than I had
thought I was, and I’m overcoming fears, and I’ve opened up
more as an actor. And that’s because of Elena, and the
writing and her surprises this season especially throw her
world upside down and make her question who she is.
I just love that there’s always something new and fresh for
us to work off of every season.
Greyston Holt: Yes.
I was actually going to say pretty much the same thing as
Laura. You know, we -- I feel like all of us, at this point,
know our characters so well and we know the core of our
characters, what makes them (tick). But it’s up to the
writers to throw a curveball at us and to put these
characters we know so well and situations we don’t know so
well and sort of see how we handle them.
And I think
that’s what’s so brilliant about our writing team is that
they do that. They really do put us in either awkward
situations or scary situations or physically demanding
situations that really test our sort of knowledge of our
characters, and how we would naturally react to those
situations. So yes, again, it’s the writers that really keep
it interesting and fresh and challenging.
Greg Bryk:
I had a bit of a nervous breakdown this year with the
character, and I’d say this with all sincerity because when
I pursued the role of Jeremy, the qualities he had, the
qualities of the character exhibited were qualities that I
wanted for myself as a man, as a leader, as a father, as my
member of a community.
And then this season, Jeremy
is really forced to ask questions about why he does what he
does and whether that’s really what he wants. And it really
-- it unsettled me in a really scary way and I went through
a few months this year where I really was very rich for the
work but it was really -- it was a bit of a dangerous time
for me, personally, because I can’t really separate myself
from characters that well.
And I started to question
everything with my life. You go through your life with
assumptions about yourself. You know, you’re a father at 22;
you’re married for 20, all those things. You take this
position in your family, in your community, and then when
the character starts questioning that and you give voice and
flesh to those thoughts, it created some really interesting
turbulence in my life.
Laura Vandervoort: That also,
if I may add, is what makes, Greg, you a brilliant actor and
why we’re so lucky to work opposite of you.
Greg has
been our leader all three seasons and has been so supportive
of all of us when we’ve been unsure about scenes or
performances or even personal life. He’s our go-to man and
he’s just phenomenal in every sense and we’re so lucky to
have him. And, you know, we all love each other as much as
our characters do on the show and the respect there is just
the highest I’ve ever had for anybody that I’ve worked with
this entire cast.
And the fact that we put our
personal lives into the show at times can be tasking on all
of us. But we’re just blessed to have (Greg), and to have
Greyston, and Steve, and J.B., everyone who just put
everything into the show, their heart, sweat, blood, and
tears, literally, heart, blood, sweat, and tears. We’ve all
shed some blood for the show, so it’s been a blessing.
Greg Bryk: We are blessed with love on that show, and
without that desire to connect with each other on such a
profound and human -- in such a profound and human way, we
wouldn’t do the things we do. And again, (they) talk about
magic. When you get people to walk into your life, it just
sparkles like that. It’s very special.
J.B. Sugar:
And again, I wanted to add to that. I mean we’ve -- I think
we all agree and felt that chemistry, the dynamic on the
floor and off the floor. I mean, the pack mentality that
informs our narrative also informs our experience of making
it together.
And Season 3 found us as we were
crafting the direction of the story, wanting to gravitate to
a more character driven one because all of our casts are so
comfortable in their characters, and brought so much to
those characters that we really wanted to honor that. And
Season 3 really gave us and them a great opportunity to
explore deeper into character and motivations and to shake
up, you know, the dynamics we’ve built over the past two
seasons. And even know Season 3 is almost entirely off book,
it’s still grounded in those great characters and back story
informing every move that they make, you know, every single
one of our players just elevated the material and couldn’t
be proud of Season 3 and all of them.
Suzanne
Lanoue: Wow. Thank you guys.
Male: Thank you.
Laura Vandervoort: Thank you.
Operator: Your next question
comes from the line of (Agatha Kasprzak, with “Oh so gray”),
your line is open.
Agatha Kasprzak: Hi. It’s so
nice to meet you guys.
J.B. Sugar: Hi.
Greg
Bryk: Hey.
Male: Hello.
Agatha Kasprzak:
When you found out Season 3 was picked up by Syfy, did that
affect the writing or any of the production? Did that have
any effect on the story knowing that it would be exposed to
a U.S. audience or do you find that Space Channel and Syfy
Channel share the same production values?
J.B. Sugar: It’s J.B. I can speak to that. I mean, we -- Syfy is
an acquisition for the show and an important one, and a
great partner in that, although it rarely has Syfy influence
to the creative direction and we’ve kind of always made the
show we want to make and do our best to make it as good as
we can.
Obviously, Space and Syfy share similar
sensibilities audience-wise and being a cable broadcaster as
our Canadian broadcasters as well. We’re pretty much in line
with all the parameters there.
So the answer is no,
it didn’t really affect it but we’re certainly very grateful
that Syfy continued to be a supporter and broadcaster for
us.
Agatha Kasprzak: OK, great. That’s great.
Thank you.
Operator: Your next question comes from
the line of (Stacy Miller) with (Talk Nerdy With Us), your
line is open.
Stacy Miller: Hi, good morning
everyone or good afternoon everyone.
Male: Good
morning, (Stacy).
Greyston Holt: Good morning.
Stacy Miller: This question is for Greyston.
Greyston Holt: Hey.
Stacy Miller: Hi. How do you
think the advance of the Season 2 finale will affect Clay
and make him a different character than he was previously?
Greyston Holt: In the sense of the premonition?
Stacy Miller: Yes.
Greyston Holt: Well, I
don’t really know anything of the premonition. You know what
I mean? Like we sort of -- that unravels throughout Season
3. But I think that’s something that Elena sort of keeps a
bit of a secret to herself. A terrifying secret of that, but
that’s not something that really -- it affects us all in
Season 3 but we don't have the knowledge of it at the end of
Season 2. I think, only Elena has that knowledge. Am I
correct there?
JB Sugar: There's one conversation
that Elena and Clay have in the great room about it but
it's, you know, you’re right and that Clay doesn't know the
extent in which the promotion is really haunting Elena in
the background. And the various forces and new characters
that come into play in Season 3 kind of exacerbate and
extenuate the impeding fearing concerns around the
premonition but -- that she doesn't necessarily share with
Clay or otherwise.
Laura Vandervoort: Yes, I think
Elena feels it's safest to keep it to herself while she
sorts out what it truly means and she does sort of have a
bit of a therapy session with a different character in the
show. Off the top and throughout, you see snippets of it but
she's choosing to keep it close to her heart because she
doesn't want to break anyone else's heart.
Stacy Miller: OK. OK, that sounds interesting. It sounds like
that we’re in for a full ride of a season coming up. Thank
you, guys.
Male: Thanks.
Male: Absolutely.
Thank you for watching.
Operator: Your next question
comes from the line of (Heather McClatchie) with TV
Goodness, your line is open.
Male: Hello again
Heather.
Heather McClatchie: Hi. So with Elena's
newfound friends, let's call them, can we trust them?
Because we sort of get an immediate, you know, the identity
of that person by name is new to Clay. Clay -- sorry, it's
new to Jeremy. Jeremy has never heard of him, but obviously
he's on the radar of other packs and so he's considered a
foe and he's certainly presenting a different idea of things
to Elena that makes him seem much more warm and approachable
and like we can trust him. So can we trust him or is Elena
going to have to kill him?
Laura Vandervoort: I
think you're going to have to watch.
Heather McClatchie: OK.
Male: Yes.
Laura
Vandervoort: It is the character that is, you know, unknown
to our pack, obviously to myself and to Jeremy especially.
And that's because he had done such a good job of hiding and
think out of the way of the other packs but it does -- his
presence along with his other counterparts does cause a lot
of stress for the entire pack. And ...
Male: Boy,
does it ever.
Laura Vandervoort: And it's her
choosing between, you know, her duty with her own pack and
her possible future choices with -- God, it's so hard to
talk about the ...
Male: I know.
Heather McClatchie: I know.
Male: I know, it’s nice and --
let's like leave her out of the ...
Heather McClatchie: I'm quite tongue tied because I was trying to
figure out how to ask it.
Male: Well -- and I think
that the ambiguity around that character is genuine and
authenticity is very much the point of view of Elena and the
journey she goes on through the whole season. So that very
question is kind of a big rooting thread throughout the
season and a huge part of Elena's arc of the season so ...
Heather McClatchie: OK.
Laura Vandervoort:
And I think it can best be summarized that everybody, all of
the cast members have to choose between duty and family.
It's what the sort of the theme is and what family, that is,
you know, up to the audience to decide.
Heather McClatchie:
Got it.
Male: And it's sort of like,
you know, who do we love and how can we love them best? And
now it is an easy question.
Heather McClatchie:
There you go. And it's -- a follow onto that and I'm sorry
that this is the final season for you guys because I have
really enjoyed the journey. Can you talk a little bit about
what you want fans to know sort of going into this season?
Did you get to tell a final story or is there a possibility
that we could see all again after this three are finished?
JB Sugar: Well, I'll just take the lead and then the
actors can check -- can extrapolate. Yes, well the season
was designed -- as all of our seasons have kind of, even
though there's obviously continuity with the characters. The
-- each season really does have its own theme and we worked
hard to construct seasons that feel wholesome and with
beginnings, middles, and ends.
And Season 3 ends in
a very satisfying way and in a way that I think fans would
feel fine with if it is indeed the final season but it's
also constructed in a way that leaves huge potential for
more stories. And obviously, we've got many more books from
which to mine character and narratives from. So -- you know,
we've been focused on building and creating a great Season 3
and, you know, stranger things have happened in the world,
and that's really up to the fans and, you know, we're just
really proud of what we made and hope everybody feels as
strongly about the season as they have the previous ones.
Heather McClatchie: Thank you.
Greg Bryk:
Yes, and I think one of the nice things we did this season
too is, you know, there were mixed feelings about… just from
talking to fans about the witches in Season 2 and I think
that this season, we sort of really sort of came back to the
essence of what makes Bitten work so well and it's the pack
dynamic. It's just the werewolf world.
So we really
sort of brought it back to I think what is best about our
show and I think it will be a very sort of rewarding send
off if it is that for the fans.
Laura Vandervoort:
Great. Thank you very much.
Operator: Your next
question comes from the line of (Jamie Steinberg) with
(Starry) Magazine). Your line is open.
Jamie Steinberg: Hi everyone. Thanks so much for taking some time
to talk with us this afternoon.
Laura Vandervoort:
Hi.
Greg Bryk: Hi.
Jamie Steinberg: I was
wondering if you guys could talk about what you hope fans
take away from this season?
Greg Bryk: You know,
it's the reason we're really blessed that the fans that have
joined us in on this journey have been almost as invested in
the relationships in the world as we have and we're really
invested in this world and I think, this year, (JB) and
(Daegan) and (Will) and the rest of the writers, they have
-- they have made those relationships so intense and really
pulled at the fabric of what it means to be a pack, what it
means to be a family. Well, what love means; what
relationships mean.
[...] it's not easy to be a
pack. It's not easy to love someone. It's not easy to do the
right thing again and again and again but you try and that's
what this season is. I think it's this incredibly heroic
journey of all the characters to try to love the other
people best.
And I think as humans, that's all we
can ask of ourselves. It's that you just try to love those
around you in the best way you can and we're flawed and
we're frail, but there's so much hope, right?
Laura
Vandervoort: For sure and I think a lot of the fans who have
joined us in Season One because they were fans of the books
or I've heard a lot of fans who watched the show and then
went back to the books. I think, they're really getting what
they want out of these characters especially this third
season. They're seeing characters who have been through a
lot come back together or torn apart and you see the
dynamics that has developed in the relationships throughout
the three seasons.
And this third season really, I
think, will fulfill a lot of the fans' wishes and hopes for
the characters and where they could go with their lives and
brings a lot of things full circle especially for (Elena’s)
personal life.
Jamie Steinberg: Oh, very
intriguing. Thank you guys so much.
Greg Bryk:
You're welcome.
Operator: Your next question comes
from the line of (Jamie Ruby) with SciFivision.com. Your
line is open.
Jamie Ruby: Hi again. So what I want
to ask is -- in the -- I don’t know if it's the first or the
second one, I'm not sure which. Elena talks about kind of
wanting to -- implies it would be nice to go off with Clay
and be separate from the pack and they kind of talk about
how (Sacha) and (them) -- they're like that. And I think she
kind of wants that.
So my question is, I don’t know
what exactly ever happened, but do you think that Clay would
be willing to do that for her or do you think that he
couldn’t distance himself from the pack?
Greg Bryk:
I think he definitely would be willing to do that for her.
This -- I think -- there's been a lot that's been resolved
in (Clay's) sort of personal life, things that were maybe
holding him back from letting their relationship move
forward. And I feel like those are -- those things
personally are in the past for Clay.
That being
said, there's hurdles, I mean, like the Season starts with a
bang where (Jeremy's) basically on a blood hunt. You join
the pack or you die and (Clay's) not OK with that approach
even though he has to be OK with it and I think at this
point, Clay would love nothing more than have a house with
the woman he loves and sort of put the violence behind them
both and try to live some sort of a normal life and -- but
they live very dangerous confusing crazy world and it's
tough to get to that in the world we live in.
Laura
Vandervoort: But I do -- I do think, I just want to add that
the love that Elena and Clay have is so strong and so real
and that they're able to work through everything whether
they're torn apart in the process, they will always come
back together and I think they have that idyllic dream of
the white picket fence and all of that and it is discussed
this season, but whether or not they can get to that point
with this premonition looming over them is a question.
Jamie Ruby: Great.
Greg Bryk: Yes, it's like
-- I could -- in the same sense, I could -- it's like my
girlfriend and I, we're both actors and we're traveling
always, but we dream of that beautiful little house
somewhere, right, that we can share, but like right now,
that's just impossible. There's too much -- our lives are
too busy to make that happen and it's sort of the same for
Elena and Clay like they just -- yes, they want this thing,
but there's shit that they have to deal with that's why they
get to that point.
So it can be hard to even picture
that dream or that house on the hill because you know almost
how unattainable it is, but you have to dream.
Greyston Holt: But it is Clay who actually takes steps to
realize that dream in this Season.
Greg Bryk: Yes,
yes.
Greg Bryk: And it informs (Clay's)
personal (arc) in this season because he is put in an
awkward position of having to balance his loyalty to Jeremy
and the pack and his love to Elena and so, he is kind of
projecting an ideal world where he can have it all and that
is truly what he wants. He wants to honor his love for Elena
and also, do right by the Alpha that raised him and took
care of him all his life. So it's a really interesting
dynamic that involves the whole Season Three (arc). Not just
from (Clay's) perspective, but from the Elena -- Clay
relationship, the Clay -- Jeremy relationship and the Jeremy
- Elena relationship that's -- they're very complex and a
dynamic one that makes for great stakes and great stories
this season.
Jamie Ruby: Great. And then, (Greg)
just because somebody keeps begging me on Twitter to ask
you, are we ever going to ever get to see Jeremy shirtless?
Laura Vandervoort: Yes.
(Multiple Speakers)
Greg Bryk: Well, I'll make sure I just post some
gratuitous stuff on Twitter.
Laura Vandervoort: That
means you need to follow -- I don’t know if it was Instagram
or Twitter, (Greg), but when you post your workout photos
(inaudible), I appreciate those.
(Multiple Speakers)
Greg Bryk: I'm blushing a little bit. But I think I
have a beard covering that up right now.
Jamie Ruby: OK. Thanks.
Operator: Your next question
comes from the line of Suzanne Lanoue with The TV MegaSite.
Your line is open.
Greg Bryk: Hi Suzanne.
Suzanne Lanoue: Hi. I just have a quick question for
Laura. I was really happy to hear that you're going to be
on "Supergirl", and I was wondering if you'd filmed those
episodes you had, and if so, what it was like to work with
the other actresses who have played Supergirl (like you
have)?
Laura Vandervoort: Yes, I've shot an episode. My
reoccurring character has a couple more episodes to go, but
I play Indigo. She's the new baddie. She's a villain and
she's sort of described as the living strong-willed, super
computer and she was sentenced to Fort Roz because she
turned against the people of Krypton and now, I'm
Supergirl's most powerful adversary.
That’s sort of
the summary of what I can say. But it's been great and I
love that they have the nod back to the original characters,
Dean Cain, Helen Slater and myself. I haven't worked with
Helen yet, but Melissa's been wonderful and it’s definitely
a different look for me and a different form of acting
because it's a more physical -- everything that she does and
who she is, is sort of -- I'm building the character as I
go, but it's definitely based on her body language for sure
based on what I look like.
I've had to change how I
go about figuring out a character. If that makes any sense.
I just -- she definitely looks different.
Suzanne Lanoue: Cool. Thanks. I look forward to it.
Laura
Vandervoort: Me too. Thank you.
Operator: Your next
question comes from the line of (Stacy Miller) with Talk
Nerdy With Us. Your line is open.
Stacy Miller:
Hi.
Stacy Miller: This is a question actually for
both Laura and also for Greg. And I know that Elena will
question (Jeremy's) running as the Alpha, his decisions in
Season Three, so Greg, do you think that if Jeremy ever
stepped down as alpha that he will feel that Elena is
capable of taking over in his absence?
Greg Bryk: I
think yes. I think that Elena has a strength that would
serve both our pack and sort of the culture of werewolves
more generally well and I think sometimes, when you keep
repeating the same patterns over and over again, you need to
make a drastic change and sometimes that strong female
energy is absent in decision making and sometimes, I think
it would be important to have that voice there, so yes, I
would be very comfortable leaving the pack in
Laura/(Elena’s) very capable hands.
Stacy Miller:
Thanks.
Operator: Your next question comes from the
line of (Heather McClatchie) with TV Goodness. Your line is
open.
Heather McClatchie: Hello again. So looking
back on the three seasons that you all have shot, can each
of you tell me what was your favorite episode or favorite
scene to film. And for (JB), what was your favorite episode
to have come together.
JB Sugar: Yes.
Laura Vandervoort: Yes, it was -- I was trying to keep
it together until they rolled the cameras, but yes, it's
when you just thoroughly enjoy playing these characters and
the people and the fact that we've all become so close that
we feel comfortable enough to honestly open up emotionally
what we're...
(Multiple Speakers)
So yes,
the trust there to be that vulnerable in a room full of crew
that we also adore and love is rare and I think we're
grateful for that and Greyston, like looking up at Greyston
in that scene was very difficult for me because he was so,
so amazing.
Operator: This is conference
# 13180. Good afternoon. My name is
Andrew and I’ll be your conference operator today.
At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the
Bitten Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute
to prevent any background noise. After the speaker’s
remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question during this time,
simply press star and then the number one on your telephone
keypad. If you would like to withdraw your question, press
the pound key. Thank you. Samantha Agnoff from Syfy,
you may begin your conference.
Samantha Agnoff:
Great. Hi, everyone. Thank you for joining us today for the
conference call for Bitten which returns to Syfy for Season
3 on Monday, February 15th at 11:00 p.m. following Lost
Girl.
Today, we’re joined by executive producer,
J.B. Sugar and stars Laura Vandervoort, Greyston Holt, and
Greg Bryk.
Now, let’s move on to the questions.
Operator: At this time, I would like to remind everyone,
in order to ask a question, press star and then the number
one on your telephone keypad. We’ll pause for just a moment
to compile the Q&A roster.
Your first question comes
from the line of (Heather McClatchie) with TV Goodness. Your
line is open.
Heather McClatchie: Hi, everybody.
Thanks for talking to us.
Male: Good morning,
Heather.
Heather McClatchie: Hi.
Laura Vandervoort:
Good morning.
Male: Good morning, Heather. Hi.
Heather McClatchie: I watched the first two episodes
and I really liked them and I don’t want to put spoilers out
there, so I’ll try to be very cagy in how I ask my question.
Male: Yes.
Heather McClatchie: So we see
someone from Season 2, it is the person that Elena is having
the conversation with, but then they’re not really mentioned
again in the first two episodes. Will we be revisiting that
aspect from Season 2 and Season 3 or Season 3 going to be
really more closely about the wolf pack?
Laura
Vandervoort: The witches or ...
Heather McClatchie: Yes, yes.
Laura Vandervoort: Well, you
know, we...
Heather McClatchie: Well, I can go
ahead and say it. I mean, the screeners were available. So,
Elena is talking to Paige.
Male: Yes.
Heather McClatchie: But then we don’t really reference
back to Paige in those first two episodes again. So, will
Paige come back into the picture throughout Season 3 or is
that all we’ll see?
Laura Vandervoort: I don’t want
to give anything away which is...
Heather McClatchie: OK.
Laura Vandervoort: -- the answer
most of the questions. But we do, in the finale of Season 2,
Elena has a premonition and we pick up the third season a
couple of months in and she’s still dealing with that
premonition, and what it means for the pack, and whether or
not it will come true, if she will destroy everything that
she knows. And she’s trying to, you know, get a grasp of
that and understand that.
Whether or not we see the
witches again, I’m going to leave it to the audience to
watch and find out. But we do focus on the pack much more
this season and their dynamic and the relationships between
them.
Heather McClatchie: OK.
J.B. Sugar:
Yes, and I’ll just add to that. It’s J.B. here, and to
reiterate, yeah, more sentiment about Season 3 is much more
rooted in werewolf, international politics, and internal
politics within the pack as well. But we also still honor
the seeds we’ve incorporated into Season 2 with the witches
as you saw in the first episode and the premonition coming
back.
And there’s also fallout from Season 2
vis-a-vis Logan’s offspring and Rachel. And so that
storyline stays alive throughout the season. And the
implications and influence of the witch participation in our
world still resonates throughout Season 3. So there will be
some opportunities for some witchy hits amongst the wolf.
Heather McClatchie: OK, and as a follow up onto
that, we do have some time jumping around where we’re
referencing things as being previous. Can you say -- will
the majority of the season be essentially a flashback that
we’ll catch up in the timeline with or will we sort of in
the middle of the season kind of catch up to what’s “real
time” and then get back on track with things happening right
now?
J.B. Sugar: I mean, in the first episode, there
is a bit of timeline jumping with the premonition and kind
of dealing with the three months gap from where we pick up
from where Season 2 left off. But other than that, the
season does follow a pretty linear timeline with the
peppering of that premonition still coming back and haunting
Elena’s character throughout the season.
Heather McClatchie: OK. Great. Thank you very much.
Samantha Agnoff: Thank you.
Operator: Your next
question comes from the line of Jamie Ruby with
scivision.com. Your line is open.
Jamie Ruby: Hi.
Thanks for talking to us guys.
Male: Hi.
Laura Vandervoort: Hi.
Jamie Ruby: I really enjoyed the first
two episodes. And I was going to ask about the prophesy. I
won’t ruin anything but I just want to say I love Eduardo’s
comment about the Russians eating anything. That’s really
creepy.
OK. So what I was going to ask is,
obviously, the pack dynamics are a lot different this season
because Jeremy is sort of becoming almost a dictator. And
now, Elena is keeping things from him. Clay may have to --
he’s probably going to have to choose what side he’s on.
Can you kind of talk about that, and also, do you think
that Elena would ever completely go against him, against his
wishes? Or, I don’t know, maybe that’s something that
they’re going to deal with.
Laura Vandervoort: Yes.
Well, I mean Greyston, you can also -- this is, you know,
about the two relationships.
Greyston Holt: Yes.
Laura Vandervoort: I mean, for Elena, it’s -- she’s
holding secret from, basically, her father figure in Jeremy.
And he is Alpha and she doesn’t agree with his dictatorship
at this point. And withholding a secret from him also puts
Clay and Elena in an awkward position because Clay is very
loyal to Jeremy.
And, you know, like in most
relationships, if I have an issue with someone’s sibling,
it’s going to cause tension and it definitely does and it
definitely causes some friction between the two of them
throughout the season. And she does have to make a choice.
Greyston Holt: Yes, yes, and I’ll also add to that
as well. Yes. You know, Clay’s position is definitely one of
being stuck in the middle. In any normal relationship, you
know, your loyalty lies with the one you love and that’s it.
But this is just a special situation and the fact, you know,
Jeremy is the one all of us answer to and the one who
basically created Clay and turned him into the man that he
is, the sort of person that can actually function in society
and then -- so that’s...
Greg Bryk: I molded you out
of clay.
Laura Vandervoort: Well done.
Greyston Holt: So, you know, Jeremy is taking his hard line
approach this season and Clay sort of comes into term with
his violent past. And now, he’s sort of forced to do some
things he doesn’t want to do anymore. And then, on the other
side of that is Elena who’s trying to, you know, take the
path of more tolerance, I guess, and it makes for some
interesting conflict this season. That’s for sure.
Laura Vandervoort: Yes.
Jamie Ruby: Yes. All right,
and then there’s a follow-up. Greg, can you kind of expand
on that and talk about his motivation? And do you think he’s
going too far? I mean, how far is too far, I guess?
Greg Bryk: You know, it’s interesting because this season, I
think Jeremy confronts fear in a very meaningful way, his
lost pack members and the way I ruled. The way I trusted
myself to rule seems to have failed, at least to me. And
it’s very interesting that (what we view), I’m afraid, we
sort of -- we resort back to what we know as children. And
there’s to me a large (Malcomy) influence in that brute
strength that we’re -- I’m going to eliminate any threats
because I don’t trust myself to keep the pack safe from
those threats.
So I think that, you know, it’s --
(resonating) globally right now. When you get afraid of
threats around you, you tend to lash out and you tend to
want to be aggressive and you want to wipe out that rather
than trust yourself to be able to coexist with it.
So it’s a crisis of faith for Jeremy this year. He betrayed
everything that he worked hard to become in the process of
becoming something else.
Jamie Ruby: OK. Great.
Thank you so much, all of you.
Laura Vandervoort:
Thank you.
Greg Bryk: Thank you.
Operator:
And again, if you would like to ask a question, press star
and then the number one on your telephone keypad. Your next
question comes from the line of Suzanne Lanoue with the TV
MegaSite. Your line is open.
Suzanne Lanoue: Good
morning. I have a question I’d like to ask all of the
actors. And since, you’re going into the third season now
and you’ve had quite a bit of time with these characters, is
there anything still about these characters that either
challenges or surprises you that you’d like to talk about?
Laura Vandervoort: I think, you know, for myself
anyways, every season I’m surprised and challenged. And I
think that’s due to our awesome and talented writers, every
time we get a script to start a new season off, I’m
surprised at what they decided to bring in to the story. And
we’ve definitely, you know, within the first season, kept it
true as we could to the book, but we’ve had to take some
sort of liberty creatively with the plot and go a little off
book, especially the third season, almost completely off
book.
And I think that’s a necessity because it
allows for our characters to expand past what’s already been
written and to explore new avenues. And it also surprises
the fans of the book. They now don’t know what is coming,
especially this season, Elena -- I mean, I feel like I have
grown personally being a part of the show and playing Elena.
I’m discovering, I’m more capable of things than I had
thought I was, and I’m overcoming fears, and I’ve opened up
more as an actor. And that’s because of Elena, and the
writing and her surprises this season especially throw her
world upside down and make her question who she is.
I just love that there’s always something new and fresh for
us to work off of every season.
Greyston Holt: Yes.
I was actually going to say pretty much the same thing as
Laura. You know, we -- I feel like all of us, at this point,
know our characters so well and we know the core of our
characters, what makes them (tick). But it’s up to the
writers to throw a curveball at us and to put these
characters we know so well and situations we don’t know so
well and sort of see how we handle them.
And I think
that’s what’s so brilliant about our writing team is that
they do that. They really do put us in either awkward
situations or scary situations or physically demanding
situations that really test our sort of knowledge of our
characters, and how we would naturally react to those
situations. So yes, again, it’s the writers that really keep
it interesting and fresh and challenging.
Greg Bryk:
I had a bit of a nervous breakdown this year with the
character, and I’d say this with all sincerity because when
I pursued the role of Jeremy, the qualities he had, the
qualities of the character exhibited were qualities that I
wanted for myself as a man, as a leader, as a father, as my
member of a community.
And then this season, Jeremy
is really forced to ask questions about why he does what he
does and whether that’s really what he wants. And it really
-- it unsettled me in a really scary way and I went through
a few months this year where I really was very rich for the
work but it was really -- it was a bit of a dangerous time
for me, personally, because I can’t really separate myself
from characters that well.
And I started to question
everything with my life. You go through your life with
assumptions about yourself. You know, you’re a father at 22;
you’re married for 20, all those things. You take this
position in your family, in your community, and then when
the character starts questioning that and you give voice and
flesh to those thoughts, it created some really interesting
turbulence in my life.
Laura Vandervoort: That also,
if I may add, is what makes, Greg, you a brilliant actor and
why we’re so lucky to work opposite of you.
Greg has
been our leader all three seasons and has been so supportive
of all of us when we’ve been unsure about scenes or
performances or even personal life. He’s our go-to man and
he’s just phenomenal in every sense and we’re so lucky to
have him. And, you know, we all love each other as much as
our characters do on the show and the respect there is just
the highest I’ve ever had for anybody that I’ve worked with
this entire cast.
And the fact that we put our
personal lives into the show at times can be tasking on all
of us. But we’re just blessed to have (Greg), and to have
Greyston, and Steve, and J.B., everyone who just put
everything into the show, their heart, sweat, blood, and
tears, literally, heart, blood, sweat, and tears. We’ve all
shed some blood for the show, so it’s been a blessing.
Greg Bryk: We are blessed with love on that show, and
without that desire to connect with each other on such a
profound and human -- in such a profound and human way, we
wouldn’t do the things we do. And again, (they) talk about
magic. When you get people to walk into your life, it just
sparkles like that. It’s very special.
J.B. Sugar:
And again, I wanted to add to that. I mean we’ve -- I think
we all agree and felt that chemistry, the dynamic on the
floor and off the floor. I mean, the pack mentality that
informs our narrative also informs our experience of making
it together.
And Season 3 found us as we were
crafting the direction of the story, wanting to gravitate to
a more character driven one because all of our casts are so
comfortable in their characters, and brought so much to
those characters that we really wanted to honor that. And
Season 3 really gave us and them a great opportunity to
explore deeper into character and motivations and to shake
up, you know, the dynamics we’ve built over the past two
seasons. And even know Season 3 is almost entirely off book,
it’s still grounded in those great characters and back story
informing every move that they make, you know, every single
one of our players just elevated the material and couldn’t
be proud of Season 3 and all of them.
Suzanne
Lanoue: Wow. Thank you guys.
Male: Thank you.
Laura Vandervoort: Thank you.
Operator: Your next question
comes from the line of (Agatha Kasprzak, with “Oh so gray”),
your line is open.
Agatha Kasprzak: Hi. It’s so
nice to meet you guys.
J.B. Sugar: Hi.
Greg
Bryk: Hey.
Male: Hello.
Agatha Kasprzak:
When you found out Season 3 was picked up by Syfy, did that
affect the writing or any of the production? Did that have
any effect on the story knowing that it would be exposed to
a U.S. audience or do you find that Space Channel and Syfy
Channel share the same production values?
J.B. Sugar: It’s J.B. I can speak to that. I mean, we -- Syfy is
an acquisition for the show and an important one, and a
great partner in that, although it rarely has Syfy influence
to the creative direction and we’ve kind of always made the
show we want to make and do our best to make it as good as
we can.
Obviously, Space and Syfy share similar
sensibilities audience-wise and being a cable broadcaster as
our Canadian broadcasters as well. We’re pretty much in line
with all the parameters there.
So the answer is no,
it didn’t really affect it but we’re certainly very grateful
that Syfy continued to be a supporter and broadcaster for
us.
Agatha Kasprzak: OK, great. That’s great.
Thank you.
Operator: Your next question comes from
the line of (Stacy Miller) with (Talk Nerdy With Us), your
line is open.
Stacy Miller: Hi, good morning
everyone or good afternoon everyone.
Male: Good
morning, (Stacy).
Greyston Holt: Good morning.
Stacy Miller: This question is for Greyston.
Greyston Holt: Hey.
Stacy Miller: Hi. How do you
think the advance of the Season 2 finale will affect Clay
and make him a different character than he was previously?
Greyston Holt: In the sense of the premonition?
Stacy Miller: Yes.
Greyston Holt: Well, I
don’t really know anything of the premonition. You know what
I mean? Like we sort of -- that unravels throughout Season
3. But I think that’s something that Elena sort of keeps a
bit of a secret to herself. A terrifying secret of that, but
that’s not something that really -- it affects us all in
Season 3 but we don't have the knowledge of it at the end of
Season 2. I think, only Elena has that knowledge. Am I
correct there?
JB Sugar: There's one conversation
that Elena and Clay have in the great room about it but
it's, you know, you’re right and that Clay doesn't know the
extent in which the promotion is really haunting Elena in
the background. And the various forces and new characters
that come into play in Season 3 kind of exacerbate and
extenuate the impeding fearing concerns around the
premonition but -- that she doesn't necessarily share with
Clay or otherwise.
Laura Vandervoort: Yes, I think
Elena feels it's safest to keep it to herself while she
sorts out what it truly means and she does sort of have a
bit of a therapy session with a different character in the
show. Off the top and throughout, you see snippets of it but
she's choosing to keep it close to her heart because she
doesn't want to break anyone else's heart.
Stacy Miller: OK. OK, that sounds interesting. It sounds like
that we’re in for a full ride of a season coming up. Thank
you, guys.
Male: Thanks.
Male: Absolutely.
Thank you for watching.
Operator: Your next question
comes from the line of (Heather McClatchie) with TV
Goodness, your line is open.
Male: Hello again
Heather.
Heather McClatchie: Hi. So with Elena's
newfound friends, let's call them, can we trust them?
Because we sort of get an immediate, you know, the identity
of that person by name is new to Clay. Clay -- sorry, it's
new to Jeremy. Jeremy has never heard of him, but obviously
he's on the radar of other packs and so he's considered a
foe and he's certainly presenting a different idea of things
to Elena that makes him seem much more warm and approachable
and like we can trust him. So can we trust him or is Elena
going to have to kill him?
Laura Vandervoort: I
think you're going to have to watch.
Heather McClatchie: OK.
Male: Yes.
Laura
Vandervoort: It is the character that is, you know, unknown
to our pack, obviously to myself and to Jeremy especially.
And that's because he had done such a good job of hiding and
think out of the way of the other packs but it does -- his
presence along with his other counterparts does cause a lot
of stress for the entire pack. And ...
Male: Boy,
does it ever.
Laura Vandervoort: And it's her
choosing between, you know, her duty with her own pack and
her possible future choices with -- God, it's so hard to
talk about the ...
Male: I know.
Heather McClatchie: I know.
Male: I know, it’s nice and --
let's like leave her out of the ...
Heather McClatchie: I'm quite tongue tied because I was trying to
figure out how to ask it.
Male: Well -- and I think
that the ambiguity around that character is genuine and
authenticity is very much the point of view of Elena and the
journey she goes on through the whole season. So that very
question is kind of a big rooting thread throughout the
season and a huge part of Elena's arc of the season so ...
Heather McClatchie: OK.
Laura Vandervoort:
And I think it can best be summarized that everybody, all of
the cast members have to choose between duty and family.
It's what the sort of the theme is and what family, that is,
you know, up to the audience to decide.
Heather McClatchie:
Got it.
Male: And it's sort of like,
you know, who do we love and how can we love them best? And
now it is an easy question.
Heather McClatchie:
There you go. And it's -- a follow onto that and I'm sorry
that this is the final season for you guys because I have
really enjoyed the journey. Can you talk a little bit about
what you want fans to know sort of going into this season?
Did you get to tell a final story or is there a possibility
that we could see all again after this three are finished?
JB Sugar: Well, I'll just take the lead and then the
actors can check -- can extrapolate. Yes, well the season
was designed -- as all of our seasons have kind of, even
though there's obviously continuity with the characters. The
-- each season really does have its own theme and we worked
hard to construct seasons that feel wholesome and with
beginnings, middles, and ends.
And Season 3 ends in
a very satisfying way and in a way that I think fans would
feel fine with if it is indeed the final season but it's
also constructed in a way that leaves huge potential for
more stories. And obviously, we've got many more books from
which to mine character and narratives from. So -- you know,
we've been focused on building and creating a great Season 3
and, you know, stranger things have happened in the world,
and that's really up to the fans and, you know, we're just
really proud of what we made and hope everybody feels as
strongly about the season as they have the previous ones.
Heather McClatchie: Thank you.
Greg Bryk:
Yes, and I think one of the nice things we did this season
too is, you know, there were mixed feelings about… just from
talking to fans about the witches in Season 2 and I think
that this season, we sort of really sort of came back to the
essence of what makes Bitten work so well and it's the pack
dynamic. It's just the werewolf world.
So we really
sort of brought it back to I think what is best about our
show and I think it will be a very sort of rewarding send
off if it is that for the fans.
Laura Vandervoort:
Great. Thank you very much.
Operator: Your next
question comes from the line of (Jamie Steinberg) with
(Starry) Magazine). Your line is open.
Jamie Steinberg: Hi everyone. Thanks so much for taking some time
to talk with us this afternoon.
Laura Vandervoort:
Hi.
Greg Bryk: Hi.
Jamie Steinberg: I was
wondering if you guys could talk about what you hope fans
take away from this season?
Greg Bryk: You know,
it's the reason we're really blessed that the fans that have
joined us in on this journey have been almost as invested in
the relationships in the world as we have and we're really
invested in this world and I think, this year, (JB) and
(Daegan) and (Will) and the rest of the writers, they have
-- they have made those relationships so intense and really
pulled at the fabric of what it means to be a pack, what it
means to be a family. Well, what love means; what
relationships mean.
[...] it's not easy to be a
pack. It's not easy to love someone. It's not easy to do the
right thing again and again and again but you try and that's
what this season is. I think it's this incredibly heroic
journey of all the characters to try to love the other
people best.
And I think as humans, that's all we
can ask of ourselves. It's that you just try to love those
around you in the best way you can and we're flawed and
we're frail, but there's so much hope, right?
Laura
Vandervoort: For sure and I think a lot of the fans who have
joined us in Season One because they were fans of the books
or I've heard a lot of fans who watched the show and then
went back to the books. I think, they're really getting what
they want out of these characters especially this third
season. They're seeing characters who have been through a
lot come back together or torn apart and you see the
dynamics that has developed in the relationships throughout
the three seasons.
And this third season really, I
think, will fulfill a lot of the fans' wishes and hopes for
the characters and where they could go with their lives and
brings a lot of things full circle especially for (Elena’s)
personal life.
Jamie Steinberg: Oh, very
intriguing. Thank you guys so much.
Greg Bryk:
You're welcome.
Operator: Your next question comes
from the line of (Jamie Ruby) with SciFivision.com. Your
line is open.
Jamie Ruby: Hi again. So what I want
to ask is -- in the -- I don’t know if it's the first or the
second one, I'm not sure which. Elena talks about kind of
wanting to -- implies it would be nice to go off with Clay
and be separate from the pack and they kind of talk about
how (Sacha) and (them) -- they're like that. And I think she
kind of wants that.
So my question is, I don’t know
what exactly ever happened, but do you think that Clay would
be willing to do that for her or do you think that he
couldn’t distance himself from the pack?
Greg Bryk:
I think he definitely would be willing to do that for her.
This -- I think -- there's been a lot that's been resolved
in (Clay's) sort of personal life, things that were maybe
holding him back from letting their relationship move
forward. And I feel like those are -- those things
personally are in the past for Clay.
That being
said, there's hurdles, I mean, like the Season starts with a
bang where (Jeremy's) basically on a blood hunt. You join
the pack or you die and (Clay's) not OK with that approach
even though he has to be OK with it and I think at this
point, Clay would love nothing more than have a house with
the woman he loves and sort of put the violence behind them
both and try to live some sort of a normal life and -- but
they live very dangerous confusing crazy world and it's
tough to get to that in the world we live in.
Laura
Vandervoort: But I do -- I do think, I just want to add that
the love that Elena and Clay have is so strong and so real
and that they're able to work through everything whether
they're torn apart in the process, they will always come
back together and I think they have that idyllic dream of
the white picket fence and all of that and it is discussed
this season, but whether or not they can get to that point
with this premonition looming over them is a question.
Jamie Ruby: Great.
Greg Bryk: Yes, it's like
-- I could -- in the same sense, I could -- it's like my
girlfriend and I, we're both actors and we're traveling
always, but we dream of that beautiful little house
somewhere, right, that we can share, but like right now,
that's just impossible. There's too much -- our lives are
too busy to make that happen and it's sort of the same for
Elena and Clay like they just -- yes, they want this thing,
but there's shit that they have to deal with that's why they
get to that point.
So it can be hard to even picture
that dream or that house on the hill because you know almost
how unattainable it is, but you have to dream.
Greyston Holt: But it is Clay who actually takes steps to
realize that dream in this Season.
Greg Bryk: Yes,
yes.
Greg Bryk: And it informs (Clay's)
personal (arc) in this season because he is put in an
awkward position of having to balance his loyalty to Jeremy
and the pack and his love to Elena and so, he is kind of
projecting an ideal world where he can have it all and that
is truly what he wants. He wants to honor his love for Elena
and also, do right by the Alpha that raised him and took
care of him all his life. So it's a really interesting
dynamic that involves the whole Season Three (arc). Not just
from (Clay's) perspective, but from the Elena -- Clay
relationship, the Clay -- Jeremy relationship and the Jeremy
- Elena relationship that's -- they're very complex and a
dynamic one that makes for great stakes and great stories
this season.
Jamie Ruby: Great. And then, (Greg)
just because somebody keeps begging me on Twitter to ask
you, are we ever going to ever get to see Jeremy shirtless?
Laura Vandervoort: Yes.
(Multiple Speakers)
Greg Bryk: Well, I'll make sure I just post some
gratuitous stuff on Twitter.
Laura Vandervoort: That
means you need to follow -- I don’t know if it was Instagram
or Twitter, (Greg), but when you post your workout photos
(inaudible), I appreciate those.
(Multiple Speakers)
Greg Bryk: I'm blushing a little bit. But I think I
have a beard covering that up right now.
Jamie Ruby: OK. Thanks.
Operator: Your next question
comes from the line of Suzanne Lanoue with The TV MegaSite.
Your line is open.
Greg Bryk: Hi Suzanne.
Suzanne Lanoue: Hi. I just have a quick question for
Laura. I was really happy to hear that you're going to be
on "Supergirl", and I was wondering if you'd filmed those
episodes you had, and if so, what it was like to work with
the other actresses who have played Supergirl (like you
have)?
Laura Vandervoort: Yes, I've shot an episode. My
reoccurring character has a couple more episodes to go, but
I play Indigo. She's the new baddie. She's a villain and
she's sort of described as the living strong-willed, super
computer and she was sentenced to Fort Roz because she
turned against the people of Krypton and now, I'm
Supergirl's most powerful adversary.
That’s sort of
the summary of what I can say. But it's been great and I
love that they have the nod back to the original characters,
Dean Cain, Helen Slater and myself. I haven't worked with
Helen yet, but Melissa's been wonderful and it’s definitely
a different look for me and a different form of acting
because it's a more physical -- everything that she does and
who she is, is sort of -- I'm building the character as I
go, but it's definitely based on her body language for sure
based on what I look like.
I've had to change how I
go about figuring out a character. If that makes any sense.
I just -- she definitely looks different.
Suzanne Lanoue: Cool. Thanks. I look forward to it.
Laura
Vandervoort: Me too. Thank you.
Operator: Your next
question comes from the line of (Stacy Miller) with Talk
Nerdy With Us. Your line is open.
Stacy Miller:
Hi.
Stacy Miller: This is a question actually for
both Laura and also for Greg. And I know that Elena will
question (Jeremy's) running as the Alpha, his decisions in
Season Three, so Greg, do you think that if Jeremy ever
stepped down as alpha that he will feel that Elena is
capable of taking over in his absence?
Greg Bryk: I
think yes. I think that Elena has a strength that would
serve both our pack and sort of the culture of werewolves
more generally well and I think sometimes, when you keep
repeating the same patterns over and over again, you need to
make a drastic change and sometimes that strong female
energy is absent in decision making and sometimes, I think
it would be important to have that voice there, so yes, I
would be very comfortable leaving the pack in
Laura/(Elena’s) very capable hands.
Stacy Miller:
Thanks.
Operator: Your next question comes from the
line of (Heather McClatchie) with TV Goodness. Your line is
open.
Heather McClatchie: Hello again. So looking
back on the three seasons that you all have shot, can each
of you tell me what was your favorite episode or favorite
scene to film. And for (JB), what was your favorite episode
to have come together.
JB Sugar: And for me, I mean, it's a
difficult task to choose favorite scenes...
Greyston
Holt: Pick the favorite kid.
(Multiple Speakers)
Operator: This is conference
# 13180. Good afternoon. My name is
Andrew and I’ll be your conference operator today.
At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the
Bitten Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute
to prevent any background noise. After the speaker’s
remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question during this time,
simply press star and then the number one on your telephone
keypad. If you would like to withdraw your question, press
the pound key. Thank you. Samantha Agnoff from Syfy,
you may begin your conference.
Samantha Agnoff:
Great. Hi, everyone. Thank you for joining us today for the
conference call for Bitten which returns to Syfy for Season
3 on Monday, February 15th at 11:00 p.m. following Lost
Girl.
Today, we’re joined by executive producer,
J.B. Sugar and stars Laura Vandervoort, Greyston Holt, and
Greg Bryk.
Now, let’s move on to the questions.
Operator: At this time, I would like to remind everyone,
in order to ask a question, press star and then the number
one on your telephone keypad. We’ll pause for just a moment
to compile the Q&A roster.
Your first question comes
from the line of (Heather McClatchie) with TV Goodness. Your
line is open.
Heather McClatchie: Hi, everybody.
Thanks for talking to us.
Male: Good morning,
Heather.
Heather McClatchie: Hi.
Laura Vandervoort:
Good morning.
Male: Good morning, Heather. Hi.
Heather McClatchie: I watched the first two episodes
and I really liked them and I don’t want to put spoilers out
there, so I’ll try to be very cagy in how I ask my question.
Male: Yes.
Heather McClatchie: So we see
someone from Season 2, it is the person that Elena is having
the conversation with, but then they’re not really mentioned
again in the first two episodes. Will we be revisiting that
aspect from Season 2 and Season 3 or Season 3 going to be
really more closely about the wolf pack?
Laura
Vandervoort: The witches or ...
Heather McClatchie: Yes, yes.
Laura Vandervoort: Well, you
know, we...
Heather McClatchie: Well, I can go
ahead and say it. I mean, the screeners were available. So,
Elena is talking to Paige.
Male: Yes.
Heather McClatchie: But then we don’t really reference
back to Paige in those first two episodes again. So, will
Paige come back into the picture throughout Season 3 or is
that all we’ll see?
Laura Vandervoort: I don’t want
to give anything away which is...
Heather McClatchie: OK.
Laura Vandervoort: -- the answer
most of the questions. But we do, in the finale of Season 2,
Elena has a premonition and we pick up the third season a
couple of months in and she’s still dealing with that
premonition, and what it means for the pack, and whether or
not it will come true, if she will destroy everything that
she knows. And she’s trying to, you know, get a grasp of
that and understand that.
Whether or not we see the
witches again, I’m going to leave it to the audience to
watch and find out. But we do focus on the pack much more
this season and their dynamic and the relationships between
them.
Heather McClatchie: OK.
J.B. Sugar:
Yes, and I’ll just add to that. It’s J.B. here, and to
reiterate, yeah, more sentiment about Season 3 is much more
rooted in werewolf, international politics, and internal
politics within the pack as well. But we also still honor
the seeds we’ve incorporated into Season 2 with the witches
as you saw in the first episode and the premonition coming
back.
And there’s also fallout from Season 2
vis-a-vis Logan’s offspring and Rachel. And so that
storyline stays alive throughout the season. And the
implications and influence of the witch participation in our
world still resonates throughout Season 3. So there will be
some opportunities for some witchy hits amongst the wolf.
Heather McClatchie: OK, and as a follow up onto
that, we do have some time jumping around where we’re
referencing things as being previous. Can you say -- will
the majority of the season be essentially a flashback that
we’ll catch up in the timeline with or will we sort of in
the middle of the season kind of catch up to what’s “real
time” and then get back on track with things happening right
now?
J.B. Sugar: I mean, in the first episode, there
is a bit of timeline jumping with the premonition and kind
of dealing with the three months gap from where we pick up
from where Season 2 left off. But other than that, the
season does follow a pretty linear timeline with the
peppering of that premonition still coming back and haunting
Elena’s character throughout the season.
Heather McClatchie: OK. Great. Thank you very much.
Samantha Agnoff: Thank you.
Operator: Your next
question comes from the line of Jamie Ruby with
scivision.com. Your line is open.
Jamie Ruby: Hi.
Thanks for talking to us guys.
Male: Hi.
Laura Vandervoort: Hi.
Jamie Ruby: I really enjoyed the first
two episodes. And I was going to ask about the prophesy. I
won’t ruin anything but I just want to say I love Eduardo’s
comment about the Russians eating anything. That’s really
creepy.
OK. So what I was going to ask is,
obviously, the pack dynamics are a lot different this season
because Jeremy is sort of becoming almost a dictator. And
now, Elena is keeping things from him. Clay may have to --
he’s probably going to have to choose what side he’s on.
Can you kind of talk about that, and also, do you think
that Elena would ever completely go against him, against his
wishes? Or, I don’t know, maybe that’s something that
they’re going to deal with.
Laura Vandervoort: Yes.
Well, I mean Greyston, you can also -- this is, you know,
about the two relationships.
Greyston Holt: Yes.
Laura Vandervoort: I mean, for Elena, it’s -- she’s
holding secret from, basically, her father figure in Jeremy.
And he is Alpha and she doesn’t agree with his dictatorship
at this point. And withholding a secret from him also puts
Clay and Elena in an awkward position because Clay is very
loyal to Jeremy.
And, you know, like in most
relationships, if I have an issue with someone’s sibling,
it’s going to cause tension and it definitely does and it
definitely causes some friction between the two of them
throughout the season. And she does have to make a choice.
Greyston Holt: Yes, yes, and I’ll also add to that
as well. Yes. You know, Clay’s position is definitely one of
being stuck in the middle. In any normal relationship, you
know, your loyalty lies with the one you love and that’s it.
But this is just a special situation and the fact, you know,
Jeremy is the one all of us answer to and the one who
basically created Clay and turned him into the man that he
is, the sort of person that can actually function in society
and then -- so that’s...
Greg Bryk: I molded you out
of clay.
Laura Vandervoort: Well done.
Greyston Holt: So, you know, Jeremy is taking his hard line
approach this season and Clay sort of comes into term with
his violent past. And now, he’s sort of forced to do some
things he doesn’t want to do anymore. And then, on the other
side of that is Elena who’s trying to, you know, take the
path of more tolerance, I guess, and it makes for some
interesting conflict this season. That’s for sure.
Laura Vandervoort: Yes.
Jamie Ruby: Yes. All right,
and then there’s a follow-up. Greg, can you kind of expand
on that and talk about his motivation? And do you think he’s
going too far? I mean, how far is too far, I guess?
Greg Bryk: You know, it’s interesting because this season, I
think Jeremy confronts fear in a very meaningful way, his
lost pack members and the way I ruled. The way I trusted
myself to rule seems to have failed, at least to me. And
it’s very interesting that (what we view), I’m afraid, we
sort of -- we resort back to what we know as children. And
there’s to me a large (Malcomy) influence in that brute
strength that we’re -- I’m going to eliminate any threats
because I don’t trust myself to keep the pack safe from
those threats.
So I think that, you know, it’s --
(resonating) globally right now. When you get afraid of
threats around you, you tend to lash out and you tend to
want to be aggressive and you want to wipe out that rather
than trust yourself to be able to coexist with it.
So it’s a crisis of faith for Jeremy this year. He betrayed
everything that he worked hard to become in the process of
becoming something else.
Jamie Ruby: OK. Great.
Thank you so much, all of you.
Laura Vandervoort:
Thank you.
Greg Bryk: Thank you.
Operator:
And again, if you would like to ask a question, press star
and then the number one on your telephone keypad. Your next
question comes from the line of Suzanne Lanoue with the TV
MegaSite. Your line is open.
Suzanne Lanoue: Good
morning. I have a question I’d like to ask all of the
actors. And since, you’re going into the third season now
and you’ve had quite a bit of time with these characters, is
there anything still about these characters that either
challenges or surprises you that you’d like to talk about?
Laura Vandervoort: I think, you know, for myself
anyways, every season I’m surprised and challenged. And I
think that’s due to our awesome and talented writers, every
time we get a script to start a new season off, I’m
surprised at what they decided to bring in to the story. And
we’ve definitely, you know, within the first season, kept it
true as we could to the book, but we’ve had to take some
sort of liberty creatively with the plot and go a little off
book, especially the third season, almost completely off
book.
And I think that’s a necessity because it
allows for our characters to expand past what’s already been
written and to explore new avenues. And it also surprises
the fans of the book. They now don’t know what is coming,
especially this season, Elena -- I mean, I feel like I have
grown personally being a part of the show and playing Elena.
I’m discovering, I’m more capable of things than I had
thought I was, and I’m overcoming fears, and I’ve opened up
more as an actor. And that’s because of Elena, and the
writing and her surprises this season especially throw her
world upside down and make her question who she is.
I just love that there’s always something new and fresh for
us to work off of every season.
Greyston Holt: Yes.
I was actually going to say pretty much the same thing as
Laura. You know, we -- I feel like all of us, at this point,
know our characters so well and we know the core of our
characters, what makes them (tick). But it’s up to the
writers to throw a curveball at us and to put these
characters we know so well and situations we don’t know so
well and sort of see how we handle them.
And I think
that’s what’s so brilliant about our writing team is that
they do that. They really do put us in either awkward
situations or scary situations or physically demanding
situations that really test our sort of knowledge of our
characters, and how we would naturally react to those
situations. So yes, again, it’s the writers that really keep
it interesting and fresh and challenging.
Greg Bryk:
I had a bit of a nervous breakdown this year with the
character, and I’d say this with all sincerity because when
I pursued the role of Jeremy, the qualities he had, the
qualities of the character exhibited were qualities that I
wanted for myself as a man, as a leader, as a father, as my
member of a community.
And then this season, Jeremy
is really forced to ask questions about why he does what he
does and whether that’s really what he wants. And it really
-- it unsettled me in a really scary way and I went through
a few months this year where I really was very rich for the
work but it was really -- it was a bit of a dangerous time
for me, personally, because I can’t really separate myself
from characters that well.
And I started to question
everything with my life. You go through your life with
assumptions about yourself. You know, you’re a father at 22;
you’re married for 20, all those things. You take this
position in your family, in your community, and then when
the character starts questioning that and you give voice and
flesh to those thoughts, it created some really interesting
turbulence in my life.
Laura Vandervoort: That also,
if I may add, is what makes, Greg, you a brilliant actor and
why we’re so lucky to work opposite of you.
Greg has
been our leader all three seasons and has been so supportive
of all of us when we’ve been unsure about scenes or
performances or even personal life. He’s our go-to man and
he’s just phenomenal in every sense and we’re so lucky to
have him. And, you know, we all love each other as much as
our characters do on the show and the respect there is just
the highest I’ve ever had for anybody that I’ve worked with
this entire cast.
And the fact that we put our
personal lives into the show at times can be tasking on all
of us. But we’re just blessed to have (Greg), and to have
Greyston, and Steve, and J.B., everyone who just put
everything into the show, their heart, sweat, blood, and
tears, literally, heart, blood, sweat, and tears. We’ve all
shed some blood for the show, so it’s been a blessing.
Greg Bryk: We are blessed with love on that show, and
without that desire to connect with each other on such a
profound and human -- in such a profound and human way, we
wouldn’t do the things we do. And again, (they) talk about
magic. When you get people to walk into your life, it just
sparkles like that. It’s very special.
J.B. Sugar:
And again, I wanted to add to that. I mean we’ve -- I think
we all agree and felt that chemistry, the dynamic on the
floor and off the floor. I mean, the pack mentality that
informs our narrative also informs our experience of making
it together.
And Season 3 found us as we were
crafting the direction of the story, wanting to gravitate to
a more character driven one because all of our casts are so
comfortable in their characters, and brought so much to
those characters that we really wanted to honor that. And
Season 3 really gave us and them a great opportunity to
explore deeper into character and motivations and to shake
up, you know, the dynamics we’ve built over the past two
seasons. And even know Season 3 is almost entirely off book,
it’s still grounded in those great characters and back story
informing every move that they make, you know, every single
one of our players just elevated the material and couldn’t
be proud of Season 3 and all of them.
Suzanne
Lanoue: Wow. Thank you guys.
Male: Thank you.
Laura Vandervoort: Thank you.
Operator: Your next question
comes from the line of (Agatha Kasprzak, with “Oh so gray”),
your line is open.
Agatha Kasprzak: Hi. It’s so
nice to meet you guys.
J.B. Sugar: Hi.
Greg
Bryk: Hey.
Male: Hello.
Agatha Kasprzak:
When you found out Season 3 was picked up by Syfy, did that
affect the writing or any of the production? Did that have
any effect on the story knowing that it would be exposed to
a U.S. audience or do you find that Space Channel and Syfy
Channel share the same production values?
J.B. Sugar: It’s J.B. I can speak to that. I mean, we -- Syfy is
an acquisition for the show and an important one, and a
great partner in that, although it rarely has Syfy influence
to the creative direction and we’ve kind of always made the
show we want to make and do our best to make it as good as
we can.
Obviously, Space and Syfy share similar
sensibilities audience-wise and being a cable broadcaster as
our Canadian broadcasters as well. We’re pretty much in line
with all the parameters there.
So the answer is no,
it didn’t really affect it but we’re certainly very grateful
that Syfy continued to be a supporter and broadcaster for
us.
Agatha Kasprzak: OK, great. That’s great.
Thank you.
Operator: Your next question comes from
the line of (Stacy Miller) with (Talk Nerdy With Us), your
line is open.
Stacy Miller: Hi, good morning
everyone or good afternoon everyone.
Male: Good
morning, (Stacy).
Greyston Holt: Good morning.
Stacy Miller: This question is for Greyston.
Greyston Holt: Hey.
Stacy Miller: Hi. How do you
think the advance of the Season 2 finale will affect Clay
and make him a different character than he was previously?
Greyston Holt: In the sense of the premonition?
Stacy Miller: Yes.
Greyston Holt: Well, I
don’t really know anything of the premonition. You know what
I mean? Like we sort of -- that unravels throughout Season
3. But I think that’s something that Elena sort of keeps a
bit of a secret to herself. A terrifying secret of that, but
that’s not something that really -- it affects us all in
Season 3 but we don't have the knowledge of it at the end of
Season 2. I think, only Elena has that knowledge. Am I
correct there?
JB Sugar: There's one conversation
that Elena and Clay have in the great room about it but
it's, you know, you’re right and that Clay doesn't know the
extent in which the promotion is really haunting Elena in
the background. And the various forces and new characters
that come into play in Season 3 kind of exacerbate and
extenuate the impeding fearing concerns around the
premonition but -- that she doesn't necessarily share with
Clay or otherwise.
Laura Vandervoort: Yes, I think
Elena feels it's safest to keep it to herself while she
sorts out what it truly means and she does sort of have a
bit of a therapy session with a different character in the
show. Off the top and throughout, you see snippets of it but
she's choosing to keep it close to her heart because she
doesn't want to break anyone else's heart.
Stacy Miller: OK. OK, that sounds interesting. It sounds like
that we’re in for a full ride of a season coming up. Thank
you, guys.
Male: Thanks.
Male: Absolutely.
Thank you for watching.
Operator: Your next question
comes from the line of (Heather McClatchie) with TV
Goodness, your line is open.
Male: Hello again
Heather.
Heather McClatchie: Hi. So with Elena's
newfound friends, let's call them, can we trust them?
Because we sort of get an immediate, you know, the identity
of that person by name is new to Clay. Clay -- sorry, it's
new to Jeremy. Jeremy has never heard of him, but obviously
he's on the radar of other packs and so he's considered a
foe and he's certainly presenting a different idea of things
to Elena that makes him seem much more warm and approachable
and like we can trust him. So can we trust him or is Elena
going to have to kill him?
Laura Vandervoort: I
think you're going to have to watch.
Heather McClatchie: OK.
Male: Yes.
Laura
Vandervoort: It is the character that is, you know, unknown
to our pack, obviously to myself and to Jeremy especially.
And that's because he had done such a good job of hiding and
think out of the way of the other packs but it does -- his
presence along with his other counterparts does cause a lot
of stress for the entire pack. And ...
Male: Boy,
does it ever.
Laura Vandervoort: And it's her
choosing between, you know, her duty with her own pack and
her possible future choices with -- God, it's so hard to
talk about the ...
Male: I know.
Heather McClatchie: I know.
Male: I know, it’s nice and --
let's like leave her out of the ...
Heather McClatchie: I'm quite tongue tied because I was trying to
figure out how to ask it.
Male: Well -- and I think
that the ambiguity around that character is genuine and
authenticity is very much the point of view of Elena and the
journey she goes on through the whole season. So that very
question is kind of a big rooting thread throughout the
season and a huge part of Elena's arc of the season so ...
Heather McClatchie: OK.
Laura Vandervoort:
And I think it can best be summarized that everybody, all of
the cast members have to choose between duty and family.
It's what the sort of the theme is and what family, that is,
you know, up to the audience to decide.
Heather McClatchie:
Got it.
Male: And it's sort of like,
you know, who do we love and how can we love them best? And
now it is an easy question.
Heather McClatchie:
There you go. And it's -- a follow onto that and I'm sorry
that this is the final season for you guys because I have
really enjoyed the journey. Can you talk a little bit about
what you want fans to know sort of going into this season?
Did you get to tell a final story or is there a possibility
that we could see all again after this three are finished?
JB Sugar: Well, I'll just take the lead and then the
actors can check -- can extrapolate. Yes, well the season
was designed -- as all of our seasons have kind of, even
though there's obviously continuity with the characters. The
-- each season really does have its own theme and we worked
hard to construct seasons that feel wholesome and with
beginnings, middles, and ends.
And Season 3 ends in
a very satisfying way and in a way that I think fans would
feel fine with if it is indeed the final season but it's
also constructed in a way that leaves huge potential for
more stories. And obviously, we've got many more books from
which to mine character and narratives from. So -- you know,
we've been focused on building and creating a great Season 3
and, you know, stranger things have happened in the world,
and that's really up to the fans and, you know, we're just
really proud of what we made and hope everybody feels as
strongly about the season as they have the previous ones.
Heather McClatchie: Thank you.
Greg Bryk:
Yes, and I think one of the nice things we did this season
too is, you know, there were mixed feelings about… just from
talking to fans about the witches in Season 2 and I think
that this season, we sort of really sort of came back to the
essence of what makes Bitten work so well and it's the pack
dynamic. It's just the werewolf world.
So we really
sort of brought it back to I think what is best about our
show and I think it will be a very sort of rewarding send
off if it is that for the fans.
Laura Vandervoort:
Great. Thank you very much.
Operator: Your next
question comes from the line of (Jamie Steinberg) with
(Starry) Magazine). Your line is open.
Jamie Steinberg: Hi everyone. Thanks so much for taking some time
to talk with us this afternoon.
Laura Vandervoort:
Hi.
Greg Bryk: Hi.
Jamie Steinberg: I was
wondering if you guys could talk about what you hope fans
take away from this season?
Greg Bryk: You know,
it's the reason we're really blessed that the fans that have
joined us in on this journey have been almost as invested in
the relationships in the world as we have and we're really
invested in this world and I think, this year, (JB) and
(Daegan) and (Will) and the rest of the writers, they have
-- they have made those relationships so intense and really
pulled at the fabric of what it means to be a pack, what it
means to be a family. Well, what love means; what
relationships mean.
[...] it's not easy to be a
pack. It's not easy to love someone. It's not easy to do the
right thing again and again and again but you try and that's
what this season is. I think it's this incredibly heroic
journey of all the characters to try to love the other
people best.
And I think as humans, that's all we
can ask of ourselves. It's that you just try to love those
around you in the best way you can and we're flawed and
we're frail, but there's so much hope, right?
Laura
Vandervoort: For sure and I think a lot of the fans who have
joined us in Season One because they were fans of the books
or I've heard a lot of fans who watched the show and then
went back to the books. I think, they're really getting what
they want out of these characters especially this third
season. They're seeing characters who have been through a
lot come back together or torn apart and you see the
dynamics that has developed in the relationships throughout
the three seasons.
And this third season really, I
think, will fulfill a lot of the fans' wishes and hopes for
the characters and where they could go with their lives and
brings a lot of things full circle especially for (Elena’s)
personal life.
Jamie Steinberg: Oh, very
intriguing. Thank you guys so much.
Greg Bryk:
You're welcome.
Operator: Your next question comes
from the line of (Jamie Ruby) with SciFivision.com. Your
line is open.
Jamie Ruby: Hi again. So what I want
to ask is -- in the -- I don’t know if it's the first or the
second one, I'm not sure which. Elena talks about kind of
wanting to -- implies it would be nice to go off with Clay
and be separate from the pack and they kind of talk about
how (Sacha) and (them) -- they're like that. And I think she
kind of wants that.
So my question is, I don’t know
what exactly ever happened, but do you think that Clay would
be willing to do that for her or do you think that he
couldn’t distance himself from the pack?
Greg Bryk:
I think he definitely would be willing to do that for her.
This -- I think -- there's been a lot that's been resolved
in (Clay's) sort of personal life, things that were maybe
holding him back from letting their relationship move
forward. And I feel like those are -- those things
personally are in the past for Clay.
That being
said, there's hurdles, I mean, like the Season starts with a
bang where (Jeremy's) basically on a blood hunt. You join
the pack or you die and (Clay's) not OK with that approach
even though he has to be OK with it and I think at this
point, Clay would love nothing more than have a house with
the woman he loves and sort of put the violence behind them
both and try to live some sort of a normal life and -- but
they live very dangerous confusing crazy world and it's
tough to get to that in the world we live in.
Laura
Vandervoort: But I do -- I do think, I just want to add that
the love that Elena and Clay have is so strong and so real
and that they're able to work through everything whether
they're torn apart in the process, they will always come
back together and I think they have that idyllic dream of
the white picket fence and all of that and it is discussed
this season, but whether or not they can get to that point
with this premonition looming over them is a question.
Jamie Ruby: Great.
Greg Bryk: Yes, it's like
-- I could -- in the same sense, I could -- it's like my
girlfriend and I, we're both actors and we're traveling
always, but we dream of that beautiful little house
somewhere, right, that we can share, but like right now,
that's just impossible. There's too much -- our lives are
too busy to make that happen and it's sort of the same for
Elena and Clay like they just -- yes, they want this thing,
but there's shit that they have to deal with that's why they
get to that point.
So it can be hard to even picture
that dream or that house on the hill because you know almost
how unattainable it is, but you have to dream.
Greyston Holt: But it is Clay who actually takes steps to
realize that dream in this Season.
Greg Bryk: Yes,
yes.
Greg Bryk: And it informs (Clay's)
personal (arc) in this season because he is put in an
awkward position of having to balance his loyalty to Jeremy
and the pack and his love to Elena and so, he is kind of
projecting an ideal world where he can have it all and that
is truly what he wants. He wants to honor his love for Elena
and also, do right by the Alpha that raised him and took
care of him all his life. So it's a really interesting
dynamic that involves the whole Season Three (arc). Not just
from (Clay's) perspective, but from the Elena -- Clay
relationship, the Clay -- Jeremy relationship and the Jeremy
- Elena relationship that's -- they're very complex and a
dynamic one that makes for great stakes and great stories
this season.
Jamie Ruby: Great. And then, (Greg)
just because somebody keeps begging me on Twitter to ask
you, are we ever going to ever get to see Jeremy shirtless?
Laura Vandervoort: Yes.
(Multiple Speakers)
Greg Bryk: Well, I'll make sure I just post some
gratuitous stuff on Twitter.
Laura Vandervoort: That
means you need to follow -- I don’t know if it was Instagram
or Twitter, (Greg), but when you post your workout photos
(inaudible), I appreciate those.
(Multiple Speakers)
Greg Bryk: I'm blushing a little bit. But I think I
have a beard covering that up right now.
Jamie Ruby: OK. Thanks.
Operator: Your next question
comes from the line of Suzanne Lanoue with The TV MegaSite.
Your line is open.
Greg Bryk: Hi Suzanne.
Suzanne Lanoue: Hi. I just have a quick question for
Laura. I was really happy to hear that you're going to be
on "Supergirl", and I was wondering if you'd filmed those
episodes you had, and if so, what it was like to work with
the other actresses who have played Supergirl (like you
have)?
Laura Vandervoort: Yes, I've shot an episode. My
reoccurring character has a couple more episodes to go, but
I play Indigo. She's the new baddie. She's a villain and
she's sort of described as the living strong-willed, super
computer and she was sentenced to Fort Roz because she
turned against the people of Krypton and now, I'm
Supergirl's most powerful adversary.
That’s sort of
the summary of what I can say. But it's been great and I
love that they have the nod back to the original characters,
Dean Cain, Helen Slater and myself. I haven't worked with
Helen yet, but Melissa's been wonderful and it’s definitely
a different look for me and a different form of acting
because it's a more physical -- everything that she does and
who she is, is sort of -- I'm building the character as I
go, but it's definitely based on her body language for sure
based on what I look like.
I've had to change how I
go about figuring out a character. If that makes any sense.
I just -- she definitely looks different.
Suzanne Lanoue: Cool. Thanks. I look forward to it.
Laura
Vandervoort: Me too. Thank you.
Operator: Your next
question comes from the line of (Stacy Miller) with Talk
Nerdy With Us. Your line is open.
Stacy Miller:
Hi.
Stacy Miller: This is a question actually for
both Laura and also for Greg. And I know that Elena will
question (Jeremy's) running as the Alpha, his decisions in
Season Three, so Greg, do you think that if Jeremy ever
stepped down as alpha that he will feel that Elena is
capable of taking over in his absence?
Greg Bryk: I
think yes. I think that Elena has a strength that would
serve both our pack and sort of the culture of werewolves
more generally well and I think sometimes, when you keep
repeating the same patterns over and over again, you need to
make a drastic change and sometimes that strong female
energy is absent in decision making and sometimes, I think
it would be important to have that voice there, so yes, I
would be very comfortable leaving the pack in
Laura/(Elena’s) very capable hands.
Stacy Miller:
Thanks.
Operator: Your next question comes from the
line of (Heather McClatchie) with TV Goodness. Your line is
open.
Heather McClatchie: Hello again. So looking
back on the three seasons that you all have shot, can each
of you tell me what was your favorite episode or favorite
scene to film. And for (JB), what was your favorite episode
to have come together.
JB Sugar: It's total (selfish) choice, I mean, I'm
constantly kind of oscillating between the macro of the show
from all levels, whether it be creative, financial et cetera
and then the micro where I'm dealing with individual lines
of individual scenes and of course being on the floor as a
director, intermittently doing all the second unit and then
doing an episode each season.
My most favorite place
to be is on the floor working with this talented group of
actors to bring to life these words that the writers and the
producers worked so hard to craft and navigate the studio
and network mechanisms to get a script to a place where it's
approved and ready to be shot.
And the real magic
does happen on the floor as those maps get realized and
turned into tangible, three-dimensional things. This season,
I got to direct Episode Five, which is a very special
episode. It's a little bit different than the other episodes
this season. It's a little bit more contained and a lot more
character driven and it represents a real culminating
emotional space for our entire cast and more specifically
(Jeremy's) character, as well as (Elena’s) character and
those huge moments for Clay as well and it's a really kind
of culminating episode in terms of the buildup of where our
characters have gone and where they're going and I couldn’t
be more proud of their performances throughout that from
Greyston, Laura and Greg. I mean, just truly top notch.
They always deliver fantastic performances, but the
Episode Five script, which is also written by Daegan
Fryklind, our show runner and head writer and series
creator. It's just a -- it was a special episode for a lot
of reasons, so I'm really looking forward to seeing how the
fans react to it.
(Multiple Speakers)
Greg
Bryk: I'll just add to that quickly. That was -- it truly
was a special episode for all of us to be a part of just
because that was all really in the family, that tight
original family with Daegan writing the episode, you
directing, JB and it's -- it was so fun. Any of the episodes
that JB directs, it's just like you're hanging with friends
doing this project - you know what I mean -- that you love.
It doesn’t -- like it never really feels like work, but in
those moments, it truly doesn’t feel like work. It just
feels like you're hanging with people you love doing what
you love and it's just -- those are the days you've got to
pinch yourself, so...
Heather McClatchie: Well, it
definitely comes through when you watch that you all really
enjoy each other and so, I'm glad that you guys got to do
three seasons and thank you so much for your time. I'm
looking forward to seeing the rest of it.
Greyston
Holt: Thank you.
Greg Bryk: Thanks.
Laura
Vandervoort: Thank you. Thanks for the questions.
Operator: There are no further questions at this time. I
will now turn the call back over to Miss Agnoff.
Samantha Agnoff: Thank you everybody. I think that was a
perfect question to end on. So please everyone, tune in to
Bitten Season Three February 15th, next Monday at 11PM and
thank you guys so much joining us today.
Greg Bryk:
Thank you.
Greyston Holt: Thank you.
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