EUREKA - THE MORTON REPORT: Whiz Kid: Interview with Eureka's Trevor Jackson
By Steve Eramo
October 25, 2011
When you live in a small town full of geniuses it is often tough to stand out from everyone else, but Kevin Blake has managed to do that. The son of Dr. Allison Blake, currently the head of medicine at Eureka’s local think tank Global Dynamics, he was diagnosed with autism at a young age. A highly intelligent child with an IQ of 182, Kevin was infused with energy from GD’s mysterious Artifact in the show’s first season and his mind has since continued to develop in extraordinary ways.
At the start of Eureka’s fourth season, Kevin tinkers with a device that transports his mother along with Sheriff Jack Carter, Deputy Jo Lupo, Dr. Douglas Fargo and Dr. Henry Deacon back in time to 1947 and the government’s establishing of Eureka as a military research facility. Allison and the others manage to return to the present day but to an altered timeline where certain people as well as their circumstances have changed, including Kevin, who is no longer autistic. The teenager is just as bright but far more outgoing with lots of friends and a healthy interest in adventure and, of course, girls. It is the perfect mix for actor Trevor Jackson to play as Kevin.
Eureka's Trevor Jackson and Colin Ferguson
“Although my character is extremely smart, I think at the moment he just wants to be like any other kid and hang out with his friends, except his friends happen to be these Uber-smart kids,” says Jackson. “Kevin also loves his mom and Sheriff Carter, who has been kind of like a father figure in his life because he doesn’t have a real dad. In some ways he and Jack are actually closer than Kevin and his mom because she doesn’t get what he’s going through as a teenage boy, do you know what I mean? I think he and Carter really bonded in the episode ‘Momstrosity.’ Since then Kevin has been going through that normal change of going from a boy to a young man, and he has Jack to sort of help him along the way...”
Eureka returns on Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 8/7C with their special Christmas themed episode and season five premieres in 2012 on Syfy.
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