ABILITY MAGAZINE: STICKS AND STONES - RICK HOWLAND INTERVIEW
Rick Howland picked a fine time to visit the east coast: The Canadian actor arrived shortly before Hurricane Sandy devastated the Atlantic seaboard in late October, and was still drying off when we spoke to him. Howland co-stars as Trick on the SyFy TV network show, Lost Girl, a supernatural crime drama about a Fae—the Middle English word for fairy—who is trying to fit in a world of humans. At 4 foot 7, Howland who has osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bones) has tried, mostly successfully, to fit into the acting world without getting crushed. ABILITY’s Chet Cooper caught up with him recently...
... Cooper: Tell me a about your character on the show.
Rick Howland: "Trick is 2,000-year-old bartender. He runs the Dal Riata, which is a bar but also a way station. All Fae who come into that part of the world have to check in with him, whether they’re Light Fae or Dark Fae—meaning good or bad. It’s a way of keeping track of everybody. Also, Dal is neutral ground, so when they’re in the bar they can’t fight. They have to get along. In season 2, we find out that Trick is Bo’s grandfather.
Trick used to be the Blood King a long time ago, and he still is a Blood Fae, which means that what he writes in his own blood becomes true, so he can manipulate the future. But there’s always a karmic kickback. At the end of season 1one, he uses his blood to change the future and help Bo, and it inadvertently awakens the Garuda, an even more evil presence than any Dark Fae we’ve ever come across, so we end up having a battle at the end of the second season."
Cooper: I saw some images of you on the show, and you don’t look a day over 1,500.
Rick Howland: :(laughs) "Thank you! I’m aging well. I guess it’s the Blood Fae part of it..."
Lost Girl season three premieres in the US on Syfy on Monday, January 14, 2013 at 10/9C.
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