HAVEN - STARRY CONSTELLATION MAGAZINE: Eric Balfour Interview
by: Jamie Steinberg
... Q) You're playing this ambiguous character in Haven. And you don't exactly know what's going on with him from week to week. But how do you get in the mindset to play this part?
Eric Balfour: "Yes, what it usually entails is a lot of phone calls and emails back and forth from the writers. Because this show is so intricate in its dynamics, you're always having to ask questions and to get questions answered. There's two different schools of thought. Some people like to keep the actors guessing, because they want their responses to be honest. For me, as an actor, I (always) like to know what's coming ahead, because I feel like it is my job to paint a palette, and to know that if I'm going from A to B, there's certain hills and valleys that I'll want to hit along the way. So I like to know the answers. So a lot of the time it's me reading the next week's script and then sending like two-page emails to the writers with a thousand questions and they just go, "Oh, man. Balfour is emailing us again. What are we going to do?" But they're always really cool about it. And they always take the time to answer our questions and talk us through things. And they're - I've got to hand it to them. They're amazing in that way, that really appreciate and respect how much we have breathed life into these characters. And so they really do value our opinions about what our characters do. And it's really neat. It's cool..."
Haven season two premieres on Syfy Friday, July 15, 2011 at 10/9C.
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