Thanks to Richard for the heads up.
TVLINE | Sam is so different than Owen. How did you feel when you learned about this drastic change?
To be honest with you, when they first told me about it, I kind of pouted for a couple days. [Laughs] I didn’t know if I wanted to become a bad guy — not that Sam is a bad guy. He’s bad-ish, because you don’t know where it’s going to go. But after a couple days I just went with it, and now I couldn’t love him more. I love playing Sam.
TVLINE | Did you approach it as if he were a completely new character? Or are there still shades of Owen in there somewhere?
There are definitely shades of Owen in there. Owen was a little bit of Sam. I wanted him to be a little different than Percy and Amanda; I wanted to be a different flavor than those two. My whole goal was to make him a likeable bad guy. In Sam’s head, he’s the good guy. He thinks he’s good and so that’s how I’ve been doing it.
TVLINE | I’d say that the relationship between Owen/Sam and Nikita underwent the most significant dynamic change because of this revelation.
In tonight’s episode, Nikita’s mind is blown. This is just another crappy thing happening to her in her crazy world. Maggie [Q] and I did get together a little bit to discuss both of our thoughts on the relationship between Sam and Nikita, and also when she’ll sense a little bit of Owen in him.
Source: Full Interview @ TV Line
To be honest with you, when they first told me about it, I kind of pouted for a couple days. [Laughs] I didn’t know if I wanted to become a bad guy — not that Sam is a bad guy. He’s bad-ish, because you don’t know where it’s going to go. But after a couple days I just went with it, and now I couldn’t love him more. I love playing Sam.
TVLINE | Did you approach it as if he were a completely new character? Or are there still shades of Owen in there somewhere?
There are definitely shades of Owen in there. Owen was a little bit of Sam. I wanted him to be a little different than Percy and Amanda; I wanted to be a different flavor than those two. My whole goal was to make him a likeable bad guy. In Sam’s head, he’s the good guy. He thinks he’s good and so that’s how I’ve been doing it.
TVLINE | I’d say that the relationship between Owen/Sam and Nikita underwent the most significant dynamic change because of this revelation.
In tonight’s episode, Nikita’s mind is blown. This is just another crappy thing happening to her in her crazy world. Maggie [Q] and I did get together a little bit to discuss both of our thoughts on the relationship between Sam and Nikita, and also when she’ll sense a little bit of Owen in him.
Source: Full Interview @ TV Line
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