Sam Witwer, Sam Huntington, and Meaghan Rath Talk Being Human Season 2
Steve Barton
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Season 2 of Syfy’s “Being Human” premieres on Monday, January 16th, and as a follow-up to the two-part interview we posted earlier this week with showrunners Anna Fricke and Jeremy Carver (Part 1 here and Part 2 here), the network brought out the big guns – stars Sam Witwer, Sam Huntington, and Meaghan Rath – for a teleconference touching upon what fans have to look forward to from the trio.
There was quite a bit of banter among the participants and a spoiler or two we were asked not to reveal (mostly regarding Huntington’s Josh and his girl friend Nora, played by Kristen Hager) so we separated the wheat from the chaff and bring you the following highlights:
Q: What about the storyline? Does Season Two feel different due to the stories you’re getting to tell?
Sam Witwer: It’s extremely different…very, very different. If Season One was about putting these people who are at risk into a safe environment, well Season Two is all about what is that risk about? With these people and their adversities – you know, the specific risks that they have in terms of being vampire, werewolf, and ghost – what do those conditions mean? And basically what it means is these people are in trouble, and we’re going to see a lot of that trouble this year. We’re going to see why they need so badly to have a sanctuary because things get a little bit darker this year.
Q: Is there a specific scene or moment or something that is going to happen this season that you’re kind of really excited to see the fans’ reaction to?
Meaghan Rath: Yeah, I’m sorry, but we couldn’t even start [to talk] about it right now because we would be fired. [laughter] But there are huge moments for each of us this season that happen sort of midway through for for all of us. There’s definitely a lot to look forward to, some really shocking things happening.
Sam Huntington: Shocking is the right word. Definitely.
Sam Witwer: Yeah, the real challenge I think this year was, we’ve lived with these characters for a season now, and so it’s like okay, what can we show? What new sides of this character can we show? We do get to know these different sides of these characters in big ways.
And the other big challenge this year is that we shot everything a little bit faster. We had less time to do stuff in for various reasons, and so there were several things that I had to do that I was like, ‘How am I going to do this?’ and I had one take to get it right. So that was a little bit frightening, but I think it all turned out all right; I’ve seen the stuff. And it’s okay; well, I think it works.
Q: So I’m wondering – you all get along so great; are we going to be seeing a lot of tension between the roommates this year?
Sam Witwer: We will be seeing tension between the three in ways that we didn’t see in the first season. Things get pretty serious, and I’ll say this: The scenes feel really good when you do them. There’s some scenes that we have where we’re kind of at each other’s throats… I hope that doesn’t give too much away. And it feels really good in one sense to do because you know that you’re really cooking, like when it’s really working, you feel great about that. On the other hand I don’t like having to shout or be mean to Sammy or Meaghan, you know what I mean? That’s the tough part.
Meaghan Rath: Yeah, this season you will see a lot of tension between the three roommates because we all are on our own journey and trying to get ourselves out of these really desperate situations. So for the reason that we’re doing completely different things when we do come together, there’s a question of can we still relate to each other and how non-judgmental are we actually going to be towards each other? And that generates a lot of tension between us.
Sam Huntington: And you know the temptation this season is just a beast. You know what I mean? Just a beast.
Q: Are there any interesting or favorite guest stars this coming season that you’d like to mention?
Sam Witwer: Mark Pellegrino.
Meaghan Rath: Yeah.
Sam Huntington: There you go.
Meaghan Rath: There are a lot of guest stars we can’t talk about.
Q: Sam Witwer, why do you think that Aidan is, it seems to me, so much better than other vampires as far as trying to keep his dark side in check?
Sam Witwer: Why is he trying to keep his dark side in check? Well, it’s interesting, not knowing what other vampire shows are doing these days or vampire movies, I haven’t really watched them so I don’t know how new the idea of a vampire trying to become a good guys is… But our take on it with the whole drug addiction analogy is I think really fresh and cool, and that analogy, that metaphor is alive and well this season in a big, big way. And why is it cool? What’s better about it? Yeah, I don’t know. I like the fact that this is generally – that all things considered, if you take away the addiction – this is a principled guy. I like that about the character, but I don’t know. I really don’t know. I couldn’t tell you.
Q: The others all seem to either embrace it, really get into it, or just go with it, whatever, and he seems to want to fight against it.
Sam Witwer: He wants to fight against it, but this year you do see him embrace it a little bit. Kind of against his will. The thing that we have to remember is in the first season if he’s trying to kick the habit in a drug addiction sense, well, the first thing he’s got to do is stay away from his old drug buddies. And this season he can’t so we start seeing older… we’re going to see an older version of Aidan this year, and when I say “older”, we’re going to see a worse version of him. We’re going to see some of his old character traits that he had over the past 200 years start to resurface. We’re going to learn first-hand why everyone seems to be afraid of this guy. You know, even in the first season Bishop gave him a wide berth and Marcus was wary of him and everyone spoke so highly of him as this maniac, really dangerous guy. And this year we kind of start learning why.
Sam Huntington: You see the old Aidan.
Q: Being that your characters are all going to be playing a lot apart from one another, how much will the hospital come into play? That’s where three of the four characters work, but is it going to be kind of like that “home away from home” as it was in the first season?
Sam Huntington: Things that happen in the hospital are pivotal and kind of springboards for a lot of stuff that happens in the season, but actually, you kind of definitely touch on something that’s true in that we don’t… it’s not like our home away from home this season like it was last year. And I think a lot of that actually also is because each of us are having our individual paths so there’s less of us actually meeting up at the hospital, you know?
Q: Can you talk a little bit about the addition of Dichen [Lachman from “Dollhouse “, who plays the vampire daughter of Mother, the vampire queen] on the show as well as the Mother character?
Sam Witwer: I’m trying to think of how much can I say without ruining too much. We go into some vampire authority matters, and there are vampires that are much, much older than Aidan or even Bishop. And Dichen kind of represents – because I was talking earlier about how we learn about older Aidan, we learn about how he was rather than how he is – and Dichen represents a lot of that in this season for Aidan. She represents a lot of what he wanted, a lot of who he wanted to be, and she’s thrown back into the mix, and the problem is that Aidan is now a different guy so we learn how… how do I put it? It’s like imagine that you had a really close relationship with someone back in high school, and then you link up with them later. It’s not exactly the same as it was because you’ve both changed, that type of thing.
Q: What about Sally? What kind of a journey is she on?
Meaghan Rath: For Sally, when we first see her in Season Two, she’s basically dealing with the consequences of missing her door at the end of Season One and what that means for her. She’s acquired these new powers of being able to very briefly touch things, which was a result of missing the door they think, and she meets some new supernatural beings that kind of introduce her to different powers, one being possession, which takes her down a very dark path because it is very addictive. And really her trajectory of the season is trying to fight or give in to this temptation, to this new sort of vice that she’s discovered and what that brings to her and how that breaks her down.
In “Being Human” leading normal lives is a lot harder than it looks for three roommates – vampire Aidan (Sam Witwer), ghost Sally (Meaghan Rath), and werewolf Josh (Sam Huntington) – who share their secrets and a Boston brownstone.
The Season 2 action picks up nearly a month after last season’s explosive finale as the three continue to struggle with their supernatural double lives and discover that temptation truly is a beast! Sally learns how to take over the body of others and slowly becomes addicted, Josh is still learning how to control his rage and still has Nora to account for, and Aidan doesn’t quite know how to deal with becoming the new leader of Boston.
Executive Producers are Michael Prupas, Adam Kane, Jeremy Carver and Anna Fricke (both of whom are also writers/showrunners), Rob Pursey, and Toby Whithouse. Irene Litinsky is Producer.
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