Katie Cassidy was one of my favorite cast members on Supernatural. I don’t know if there has been a better Ruby than she was. But now she’s on Melrose Place. I haven’t been able to catch the show other than the first couple of minutes but it seems like she is rocking that show, just like I knew she would.
Here are the highlights of the interview in November 2009 issue of Saturday Night Magazine.
On her character Ella being ‘bi’ and how she plays her: She is “try-sexual,†meaning she will try anything. She is so open and so free, you never what she is going to do. I think it comes from a place where she is desperately seeking love and acceptance from everyone around her. She doesn’t let anyone see the vulnerability that is there. She definitely puts her guard up and protects herself at all times
On if she had any reservations playing that role: It definitely crossed my mind. I have to be ready to make out with women or have a threesome. I need to be ready for anything. It’s all part of the game though. Being an actor, a character might have an element or two that might be uncomfortable for you. But I’m not playing “Katie Cassidy,†I’m playing “Ella Simms†and that is a part of her. You have to be able to take on anything, and I was open to it. It sounds fun!
On if there was any funny on-set stories: It is a hard schedule. It’s a lot of hours. But, at the same time, I wouldn’t change it for a second. It’s exactly what I always wanted to do and I have the best job on the planet. I love it. I would never complain about any of it. As far as on set stories go, not really…I’m waiting for someone to fall in that pool. It’s very relaxed, everyone is sort of there to do their work and be done with it.
On starring in Nightmare On Elm Street (which also stars Kellan Lutz) and if making a horror movie is hard: As an actor, it is our job to know how to get there on our own. The director will relay to you what he wants, and then it is our job to bring it to the table and hopefully far and beyond. For me, its definitely draining emotionally, but it’s like running a marathon, you’ve got to be ready for those two months of your life. At the end of the day I’m so tired. I just go home and sleep, wake up and do the same thing over and over. But ultimately, in the end, it’s well worth it.
On how she spends her free time: I don’t have much, but I go to the gym a lot and exercise. I also spend a lot of time with my two best friends from growing up who are still here. We just hang out at home. We are kind of dorks, but we are fun that way. We hang out, we go to movies, we go shopping.
Anyone that is a fan of Kellan Lutz (points at me) is excited about this movie. I watched this whole trailer trying to find him, there is one quick shot of him. It also stars Katie Cassidy which is also very cool. It’s not set for release until April 30, 2010. We will all have to wait until then, the trailer looks like it might actually do the original justice. But we will have to wait until it’s out for sure to find out.
It looks like the creator of these Melrose Place ads took advice from the people that did the ones for the OMFG Gossip Girl ads. They used sex, sex and more sex to sell it. I know sex sells these days but I wonder if The CW uses too much of it. (Although, they can use those Winchester boys for as many sexy ads as they need to.)
I was going to say that I was writing the show off …but then I saw that Katie Cassidy is in it. I liked her on Supernatural, and was one of the only reasons why I tried watching Harper’s Island. But I’m not sure if I can handle what this new Melrose Place has set up. Constant sex…Do I need more of that on my TV?
I admit that I was one of the first people to jump on the bus to watch Harper’s Island. I tried to watch it for the first couple of episodes, I even watched the first one twice to try and get into it. But there was no hope for me. I really like the actress, Katie Cassidy, she was on Supernatural, so I had to at least give it a try. It then got changed to a different night in the States. Here in Canada it stayed on the same night.
I saw a bit of the Season Finale/Series Finale a couple of days before it was aired in the States. I thought for sure I would be able to watch it, but couldn’t get through it. I was interested to see who was left. I heard great things about the finale if I would have stuck around.
I loved the premise of the show. A organized scripted Survivor. At least you know what you are getting into for this, where when you watch Survivor or The Hills you hope that it isn’t scripted. Maybe they need to fine tune the script a bit. I might have tried to watch season 2 if they tried to make it.
Get ready for your short albeit busy visit to Harper’s Island this spring. By summer, your trip will be over. And what will you have learned? Well, you’ll hopefully learn who the killer is! Harper’s Island is a TV event on CBS that will last for 13 episodes (spooky number!) between April and July.
I’ll be watching because it sounds like an interesting concept – and I love this type of stuff! It seems like they’re going to take a really interesting horror movie and stretch it out into more than a miniseries, but less than an actual TV series (which is smart). I wish they had done that with Scream!
The episodes will begin on Thursday, April 9th at 10:00, and end on July 2nd. With every episode comes another death. By the finale, only one person will have survived.Â
The series stars Katie Cassidy (Supernatural) as “Trish Wellington,†Elaine Cassidy (The Others) as “Abby Mills,†and Christopher Gorham (Ugly Betty) as “Henry Dunn.â€
The premise is that a group of people have traveled to the island for a wedding. “Abby Mills, whose mother was killed on the island by a homicidal maniac’s rampage seven years ago, journeys home for the first time since the horrific event for the wedding of her best friend, Henry Dunn. Henry, the boy next door, is marrying the woman of his dreams, Trish Wellington, a beautiful and wealthy heiress. But as the wedding week begins, people start dying. Every episode, someone is killed. Wedding guests and island locals, every person is a suspect. No one is safe. No one can be trusted.”
