Being Human on Syfy with Meaghan Rath and Sam Huntington
Vampires, werewolves, ghosts and humans take center stage on Syfy in the premiere of Being Human on Monday, January 17 at 9pm. Starring Sam Witwer, Meaghan Rath, and Sam Huntington as a vampire, ghost and werewolf all living together to deal with leading the supernatural life post human, Being Human puts a new spin on the popularity of vampires and werewolves.
Ahead of Being Human on SyFy, TheDeadbolt went supernatural with stars Sam Huntington and Meaghan Rath along with Being Human executive producers Jeremy Carver and Anna Fricke to learn more about the relatable qualities of the characters and how conflict is different with vampires and werewolves as compared to humans.THE DEADBOLT: Sam and Meaghan, can you talk about how you identify with the supernatural aspect of your characters in human ways?
MEAGHAN RATH: That’s an interesting question. Well, I think that the whole being invisible aspect of Sally really helped with this feeling, the emotions, of what she’s going through.
What I like about her so much is who she was in her life. She was someone so passionate and involved and someone who really wanted to make a difference. She’s still that same person in her death but everything is stripped away from her.
She has this longing to be involved and help people but now people can’t even see her and she can’t even touch anyone. So I think the whole supernatural aspect of that really helps to get into her mindset.
SAM HUNTINGTON: Yes, I think what Meaghan said is exactly right. It’s like the supernatural element of each of the characters is kind of what forms who they are as, for what it’s worth, people. For Josh, he is defined kind of by who he has become and it affects every part of his life. He’s ostracized everyone who is special to him and now he’s become this introvert and he’s careful and he’s hypersensitive to his surroundings.
So it affects how you play it. You kind of put yourself in the shoes of the character and what they’ve gone through. I think that’s kind of what’s cool about the show is that it’s what makes it more human. You really try to literally put yourself in these people’s shoes and it makes it actually easy.
THE DEADBOLT: Jeremy and Anna, from a writing standpoint, can you talk about how the conflict is different for vampires and werewolves than it is for humans?
But there, from the vampire point of view, a human is less than a vampire, right? So Aiden is flipping that around and saying, "Well, I think being human is more than being a vampire." So thus comes his conflict; this guy who is trying to constantly fight what is, essentially, instinct. He’s got to fight that every moment of every day. We play with that very much in addiction metaphor, which we carried throughout the season.
For a werewolf, I think you’re seeing a character of Josh who relates to being a werewolf maybe how other werewolves we may or may not meet might relate to it. And it’s very much tied into who Josh was when he was a normal human being, which is rather insecure, rather uncomfortable with himself and his place in the world. To add to the fact that on the 30th day of every month, he suddenly becomes something otherworldly is a tremendous, tremendous burden for him to bear.
Now, if we were to just talk about strictly humans, I think why the show is so relatable, and these characters in particular, is that I think there are fairly few humans, particularly in their early to mid-20’s, who don’t have some aspect of themselves that they don’t consider to be monstrous in some way.
They are constantly struggling to overcome this, choosing rather to share or to hide this monstrosity with friends, lovers, etc. So in that regard, I don’t think that struggles betweena vampire with a conscience, a werewolf and your typical 20-something human being are really as far apart as we might think.
ANNA FRICKE: I would also say that it sort of goes back to the voiceover in the first episode, the consequences for these monsters is much worse. They want the same things but when they get out of control the consequences are worse.
So when a vampire goes on a date and becomes really passionate with a woman and loses control, she could die. When a werewolf sort of gives into his lustier side or his angry side ...
CARVER: ... people could die.
FRICKE: People could die. So it’s just sort of ...
CARVER: That’s two dead women for those keeping score at home.
FRICKE: There are highs. I think that their highs are higher and their lows are lower, and that’s sort of the difference between the monsters and the humans.
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