TVLINE | The last time we saw you on a CW show, you were playing a bad boy on 90210. What’s it like to play an alien?
I’ve had a lot of fun with it. It’s a very different character – a very strong character. Roman’s got a lot of layers to him. He’s thrust into a leadership position without wanting it or asking for it, and that’s a really interesting position for anyone to be in. I think it says a lot about that person in how they deal with that. Roman’s got, quite literally, the world resting upon him.
TVLINE | In the pilot, we see Roman wants to integrate the aliens and humans, whereas his family is against it. What is that journey going to look like for him?
In a nutshell, his journey is that his father was a leader of the Atrians and also the leader of the human-Atrian relations committee on the Atrian side. He’s murdered. Now Roman is being looked to fill that position. He’s a young kid, he’s 16 years old; he didn’t want it. It was never in the cards. And now Roman has got this destiny, in a way, with Emery, who was this human girl that saved him when he was 6 years old. They reconnect in high school, and now he’s totally conflicted [about whether to] feed into that love and that destiny he feels with this one person, this soulmate of his, or do the right thing for his people.
I’ve had a lot of fun with it. It’s a very different character – a very strong character. Roman’s got a lot of layers to him. He’s thrust into a leadership position without wanting it or asking for it, and that’s a really interesting position for anyone to be in. I think it says a lot about that person in how they deal with that. Roman’s got, quite literally, the world resting upon him.
TVLINE | In the pilot, we see Roman wants to integrate the aliens and humans, whereas his family is against it. What is that journey going to look like for him?
In a nutshell, his journey is that his father was a leader of the Atrians and also the leader of the human-Atrian relations committee on the Atrian side. He’s murdered. Now Roman is being looked to fill that position. He’s a young kid, he’s 16 years old; he didn’t want it. It was never in the cards. And now Roman has got this destiny, in a way, with Emery, who was this human girl that saved him when he was 6 years old. They reconnect in high school, and now he’s totally conflicted [about whether to] feed into that love and that destiny he feels with this one person, this soulmate of his, or do the right thing for his people.
More @
