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Emily Rose & Lucas Bryant Talk Mara & More For Haven Season 5

By Jamie Ruby

HavenHaven returns to Syfy for season five tomorrow night. In preparation, two of the stars of the series, Emily Rose, who plays Audrey Parker and her incarnations, including the newest, Mara, and Lucas Bryant, who plays Nathan Wuornos, recently talked to the press about the new season.

Bryant talked to SciFi Vision about the transition of filming scenes with Mara and Nathan compared to Audrey and Nathan. "First of all Emily Rose, who is sitting next to me is edible this season as always, but exceptionally so in the role of Mara. It's a total treat to watch her and get to play with her.

"...But I mean, for Nathan, this is a nightmare, you know. I can't really tell you all the things that Mara is capable of, but she is a force."

Rose added, "She is easily. She was a lot of fun to play. You know, Audrey always had been in a very kind of, well, up to the recent season in this kind of melancholy, dire life-sucks-for-her state, which it did, does all the time. So she plays someone that was and is on top of things, so to speak, and has sheer joy and delight in how she relates to everyone around her. [It] was a real, real pleasure and really fun to see.

"You know, it's always fun when you take these normal relationships and then you mix them up. It just creates a really, really fun environment on set. So it was a blast."

The two also talked to the site about the possibility of the series revisiting the Colorado Kid. Rose was vague on the matter, "We do not abandon it. Let me put it that way. It is definitely a piece of the discussion."

Syfy Conference Call
Haven
Emily Rose and Lucas Bryant

August 28, 2014
3:00 pm ET

SCIFI VISION: Can you just start by talking about kind of the transition of filming this new relationship - well, not relationship exactly, between Mara and Nathan compared to Audrey and Nathan?

Lucas Bryant and Emily RoseEMILY ROSE: Oh, I think Lucas should answer that.

LUCAS BRYANT: Yes, let me just jump in here. First of all Emily Rose, who is sitting next to me...

EMILY ROSE: Don't embarrass me, Lucas.

LUCAS BRYANT: ...is edible this season as always, but exceptionally so in the role of Mara. It's a total treat to watch her and get to play with her, except for the fact that she kicked my ass all over the town. So that's a new development.

EMILY ROSE: That's a new development. I didn't ever do that as Audrey? I think I did that as Audrey, too.

LUCAS BRYANT: In less physical ways...

EMILY ROSE: All right, I kicked your butt mentally.

LUCAS BRYANT: That's right.

EMILY ROSE: Right, right.

LUCAS BRYANT: My mental bottom.

EMILY ROSE: Your mental bottom.

LUCAS BRYANT: But I mean, for Nathan, this is a nightmare, you know. I can't really tell you all the things that Mara is capable of, but she is a force.

EMILY ROSE: She is easily. She was a lot of fun to play. You know, Audrey always had been in a very kind of, well, up to the recent season in this kind of melancholy, dire life-sucks-for-her state, which it did, does all the time. So she plays someone that was and is on top of things, so to speak, and has sheer joy and delight in how she relates to everyone around her. Was a real, real pleasure and really fun to see.

You know, it's always fun when you take these normal relationships and then you mix them up. It just creates a really, really fun environment on set. So it was a blast.

SCIFI VISION: Okay, I'm loving it so far, really enjoyed the premiere as always. Thanks a lot.

EMILY ROSE: Oh, great.

LUCAS BRYANT: Oh, thank you.

QUESTION: Emily, you are just so bad this season. Are you kind of hoping that you get to extend this as long as possible even though we know Audrey will eventually come back?

And Lucas, are you getting tired of being the love sucker?

LUCAS BRYANT: So, the what?

EMILY ROSE: The what?

LUCAS BRYANT: The what? Explain that.

QUESTION: She is still playing you.

EMILY ROSE: What's the definition of love sucker? Is this a noun, what is this, an adjective?

LUCAS BRYANT: Like a sucker?

QUESTION: It's kind of playing you she did in the Audrey thing like I don't want to give up any spoilers in the first episode. But she kind of used that against you to take advantage of you and kind of torture you...

LUCAS BRYANT: Right.

QUESTION: So you're kind of, you know, getting taking in by her charms and she's just using that against you.

LUCAS BRYANT: Got it, got it. Okay.

EMILY ROSE: You're going to think on that while I answer...

Mara is a lot of fun and definitely, you know, something I never expected would be the case with Haven, but it has definitely turned out to be true. It's just the ability to play so many different characters.

And so her personality is a blast even though there are definitely moments in this season that she made me really uncomfortable and I didn't like playing her at some point. For the most part I do really enjoy being that evil and bad - so I don't know what that says about me.

But yes, no, it really was fun, and I do hope to get to play her for a long time, and we don't know if Audrey comes back, do we? We don't know how and when and if she does come back...

LUCAS BRYANT: We don't, no we don't.

EMILY ROSE: ...so we don't know.

LUCAS BRYANT: And am I getting sick of being the...

EMILY ROSE: Love sucker.

LUCAS BRYANT: ...as you eloquently coined that term, you know, "love sucker"? No, I think I, in fact...

EMILY ROSE: You enjoy.

LUCAS BRYANT: ...love being the love sucker.

QUESTION: Or how about a sucker for love? How about that? Is that...

LUCAS BRYANT: I will be a love sucker until - as long as I please.

Yes, anyone - Mara, specifically - but anytime that Audrey is used as bait for hope for Nathan, he is a sucker, true. It has been sometimes frustrating. It's an undying kind of bang-your-head-against-the-wall devotion to her, but I think that's also one of his most...

EMILY ROSE: Noble attributes?

LUCAS BRYANT: ...noble traits, yes. And hopefully we'll get to see that suckerness pay off with some light at the end of this dark tunnel.

QUESTION: All right, well, thanks. So at least he hasn't been tethered.

EMILY ROSE: At least not yet.

LUCAS BRYANT: Well...

EMILY ROSE: Right.

LUCAS BRYANT: ...that's true, yes.

EMILY ROSE: You have to chase her.

QUESTION: Coming into this season, of course everything is kind of on Nathan Wuornos, because he's got this new dynamic with a new and improved or less improved Audrey, and then everything going on in the rest of the town. So tell me, coming into this season, kind of what were you hoping to see this season do, and what did you kind of take away from the way last season ended on such a big cliffhanger?

LUCAS BRYANT: I don't think I had any idea how the season was going to go.

EMILY ROSE: I was just going to say I had no hope for this season.

LUCAS BRYANT: Yes.

EMILY ROSE: With hope sagging and no clue...

LUCAS BRYANT: Right, right.

EMILY ROSE: ...because we ended in that cave and...

LUCAS BRYANT: Yes, not in a no-hope sense like it's hopeless, but just no ideas of where we were going or what we were going to do. I don't know - I think that in some ways it kind of developed as it went too...

EMILY ROSE: Yes, I was just going there.

LUCAS BRYANT: ...I mean there's a larger idea for this double season that we're shooting right now, of course. But I think some specifics were changed along the way because of what was happening in the shooting and what people were reacting to on the screen.

So personally I guess what I knew coming into this season was that we'd be shooting double episodes, blocks. and so that was exciting in that it promised a sort of - instead of having to deal with the Troubles so quickly and succinctly every week....

EMILY ROSE: Yes.

LUCAS BRYANT: ...since we had more time to explore really the effect that those Troubles have on our characters and see...

QUESTION: Is it going to be a 13-episode arc or a 26-episode arc?

EMILY ROSE: Ah, it's a 13-and-13-episode arc.

LUCAS BRYANT: Right, yes.

So that gave us more I don't know like a longer-format story telling so that was...

EMILY ROSE: Yes, it was nice to take a breather and not necessarily have to have everything wrapped up so quickly, you know. But it did get very confusing in the preparation of it because you have two episodes in your head that you're currently shooting while you're prepping for the next two coming up. So in that way too, while confusing, it was nice because you did know big chunks of the season, you know.

At any given point you knew what was happening in four episodes so you could really kind of longer gauge what, you know - make a longer arc or kind of know more fully where you were and where you were going, which we haven't had that advantage as much in past seasons.

But in terms of what I was hoping for I really had no clue. I knew from the last sentence last year. They were trying to really, you know, give me - they gave me that one last sentence that I said in the cave as Mara last year that I didn't know that it was going to be a big-name character of this year. And I'm glad though it was. That was a really pleasant surprise and really, really enjoyable and a cool challenge.

It's interesting to come back every year with some of the, you know - Lucas being one of them - but some of the people coming back and playing the same people was kind of like they know these characters backwards and forwards and up and down and having to come back and not play Audrey Parker to play a totally different entity, a different person, a different, you know, personality, with getting to know someone new all over again and have those early conversations with the show runners and the writers about what we all felt like she would do and act and all of those things.

So giving birth to a new character is always a new adventure and very exciting. And it was a real gift and I really appreciate them giving her to me in that way.

QUESTION: Is it going to be a 2-episode arc for the month so that we kind of set up for every two episodes? Is that kind of the plan for this season?

EMILY ROSE: Pretty much.

LUCAS BRYANT: Yes, it kind of worked out that way. I mean sometimes there are multiple Troubles or situations that are spun out over those two weeks. I mean double - two episode timeslot but it seems like in order to shoot 26 episodes to this season that was the smartest way to get it done, and I think a happy accident, or not necessarily an accident, but a nice product of having to do it that way has been what we've gotten to do story telling light, you know.

There's a lot more character interaction and time to really see how these things affect these characters and the part that I enjoy, and I'm sure I can speak for Emily too in these instances, is getting the time to not just have to run from one fire to another, but to get the rest of it and see and learn more about where we came from, where we're going and why.

EMILY ROSE: Yes, I think the cool thing that it offers also, is it's really a big reason for viewers to come back each week and watch what's going to be happening. You know, it links two episodes together, where you're used to this kind of well - you know, there was the underlying mythology but now you add that the trouble is the cliffhanger as well to the mix. It really ups the stakes of being, like I want to make sure that I come and watch it live so the ratings are awesome every Thursday night.

LUCAS BRYANT: No, it has been a series of cliffhangers, isn't it?

EMILY ROSE: Yes.

LUCAS BRYANT: Every single episode, and I guess not just the double-episode take, but even the season in general more than the others. Is it possible that it's even more than the others? It has been one continuous story.

Emily RoseEMILY ROSE: Cliffhanger, yes, yes.

QUESTION: Do you feel that there's an overall theme to this season, and if so what would that be?

LUCAS BRYANT: Mm-Hmm.

EMILY ROSE: There is definitely. I know that the writers, you know, obviously have a sort of a grouping of what these first A and B seasons are.

...I mean there [are definitely] different blocks and theming [to] them. You know, the first ones are definite fight for personally, you know, from where I'm sitting, a fight to try to get Audrey Parker back. Whether or not that's like the theme for every single person I don't think so.

LUCAS BRYANT: It's my theme.

EMILY ROSE: Because he's a love sucker. And we're just now embarking on our filming of the second half of the season and that definitely already feels different which is exciting. We kind of alter - I don't know about you but I was a huge Lost fan and I remember when they discovered...this neighborhood that was on the island and that there was this whole other group of people that existed and it just sure as shifted your whole entire perspective of what was going on.

And I really feel like, you know, it's exciting when shows can do that, and I feel like there's kind of that feeling; it's not like that at all in terms of the neighborhood thing, but there's a feeling to that in the second half - the back half of the season, and I think that will take on its own voice and its own tone. It's only in looking back at the first half of the season right now that I can kind of get a vibe for what that is, but it doesn't really feel themey per se, personally.

LUCAS BRYANT: Right, right. But yes, for Nathan it's always about the same thing. It's always about getting him some more Audrey talk, but like Emily said, yes, there there has recently been a huge shift in our world, and that's an exciting journey we're about to go on.

EMILY ROSE: Yes, and I think, I mean not to speak too much about Audrey specifically, but I mean we haven't seen Audrey for how long now, like since the end of Season 3, Audrey proper. I mean last Season 4 she was Lexi-Audrey hybrid sort of, so I think, you know, that whole hunt for Audrey 1.0, so to speak, for me personally, was like I really was missing that original Audrey for some reason, I don't know why, but I was definitely. So I definitely think that's a strong pull for viewers of wanting to see that, maybe.

QUESTION: You said that you're part-way filming the second half of the episodes. Do they tell you what's going to happen at the end, or you just find out a couple of scripts earlier?

EMILY ROSE: We don't know at the end. Currently Lucas knows a bit more than I do because he is getting to begin with his directorial debut this second half of the season. And I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas morning. I don't know why, but I keep asking him. I'm like, "So what are you doing in director land today? How was prep? What's it like? What's going on? Have you heard anything? Do you have your script yet?" Very exciting.

So in terms of what we're going to get at the end of the show, the writers are always very reluctant to give us any of that information, but Lucas currently, if you want to get any spoilers, you need to get it out of him, because he knows the most the further south right now.

LUCAS BRYANT: But it's only like another inch of information. I don't have any key to that kingdom. I don't have a clue where we're going to end.

EMILY ROSE: I mean they always say that they know the final frame of the season...

LUCAS BRYANT: Yes.

EMILY ROSE: I sort of feel like, you know, we may shoot what that is and we may shoot - I don't know if there's something, because there is always hope that we're going to come back for another season....

LUCAS BRYANT: Right.

EMILY ROSE: It's not done and done at all. So they know the end of it but they haven't told us ever what that is.

QUESTION: Have they said whether they think fans will like it or not?

EMILY ROSE: Oh man, they're always sure that the fans will like it, and I think, yes, I mean, to give them credit, I think they've been pretty right. Something has been kind of crazy this year, which has been a very interesting phenomenon, is that we have had lots, I would say, of people and meeting fans and visitors.

And something that has really been a cool observation I think has been the range of age groups of fans. We have fans that are like 7, 8, 9, and then I think I met one of our oldest fans the other day who was like 83, I think. No?

LUCAS BRYANT: Yes, no, yes, yes.

EMILY ROSE: Seventy-three or no, you're shaking your head like it's amazing.

LUCAS BRYANT: I'm shaking my head. I can't believe...

EMILY ROSE: Yes, I know. So the fact that we have - and then we have mothers and daughters and we have husbands and wives, and we have the teenager crowd and we have the adults-like crowd and things and they're from - we just have a list here of people - Australia, Germany, UK, Sweden, Monaco, France, Ohio, Florida, Illinois, Arkansas. I mean like all over, they come from all over. And so I think the coolest thing that I've realized in, you know, fought all these years for little details here and there, but the network and the writers and everybody has like a really amazing pulse on a story that seems to appeal to a wide group of people.

LUCAS BRYANT: Yes.

EMILY ROSE: And I think, you know, when you say, "Is it something that the fans will like?" I sure hope so, but I feel like our fans are pretty awesome and somehow we really get each other, I guess.

LUCAS BRYANT: Yes. And that list of people those aren't just the places that we have fans. Those are the people that drove here or took a plane or a boat, you know...traveled across the world to come and see this part of Nova Scotia where we shoot which is quite an honor.

QUESTION: So we finally got some steamy Audrey-Nathan loving last season. Are we going to get more of that or maybe some Nathan-Mara action?

EMILY ROSE: Oh, dear.

LUCAS BRYANT: Oh. Did we have steamy last season? I don't what movies you're watching.

EMILY ROSE: You made some pancakes the last season apparently.

LUCAS BRYANT: Yes, right, right, right.

EMILY ROSE: Will there be any pancakes this season?

LUCAS BRYANT: There is some more steam this season, yes. Specifically, I'm not going to tell you who it's between, but I will tell you there is steam.

EMILY ROSE: Yes, there is steam.

LUCAS BRYANT: There is heat. There is a residual steam that comes from that heat exchange...

EMILY ROSE: There are several steams. There's a lot of steam and a lot of combination of steams...

LUCAS BRYANT: ...between a number of different characters, if you will.

EMILY ROSE: ...and, you know, as all relationships are growing and ever so interesting, there are different forms that steam takes, right?

LUCAS BRYANT: Right. Does that answer your question?

EMILY ROSE: Yes, did that answer your question? You're making us very uncomfortable. I'm not sure they...

LUCAS BRYANT: Well, would Audrey forgive me even if he made pancakes with Mara.

EMILY ROSE: Well, Nathan tends to make pancakes with Mara apparently...

LUCAS BRYANT: Wooh no, there is - that never happened.

EMILY ROSE: That did happen.

LUCAS BRYANT: The pancakes!

EMILY ROSE: Well, yes, no, waffles. What did they have in the 50s? Whatever they have.

LUCAS BRYANT: Pies. I'm just going to shut up.

EMILY ROSE: Yes, you should. Just got you right now.

LUCAS BRYANT: If Nathan were to make pancakes with Mara there would be a really good reason for it.

EMILY ROSE: A really good reason, that's what they all say.

EMILY ROSE: And the conflicts of the - no, just kidding. It's not but, yes. I don't know though if Mara is getting - well, I'm going to leave it at that.

QUESTION: What was it like for you guys as from the production side where we know creatively you get to know the artists and everything a little better. But what was it like? You shot 13, did you get a break and start on the other 13? Or how does it all work for both of you?

EMILY ROSE: Oh, you mean this year, to shoot 13 and then just shoot the next 13? Is that what you're saying?

QUESTION: Yes, exactly.

EMILY ROSE: We didn't really get a break in between them. We literally are shooting the 26 straight through. So we're about to go on our second hiatus which is just like a weeklong but we're shooting them straight through, just, you know, it's easier to get the machine up here up and going and to keep it going for everybody.

But I'll tell what was weird was coming up on the 13 and being like, oh my gosh, this is - you know, in adding a double order we took a day away from each episode that we're filming. We used to film in 7, and now we're filming 6 so 12 days for the two episodes which in TV talk that's insane.

But it really made the first 13 go by super quick. And I remember at the end, like we just finished I think the first 13, and to be like, oh my goodness we would have been done by now. We would have been home, you know, and it feels like we're not - it doesn't feel like it should be done yet.

But it's exciting to do this next season. You feel like something that I always feel every year, but at the end of the 13 I might, "Oh no, I really am like in the heat of what we're doing" and then you have to go home. And this year I feel like it's like, "Oh, yes, okay, let hit our stride, and then let's even hit our stride even more." So I'm excited about that.

QUESTION: Any thoughts, Lucas, at all on that?

LUCAS BRYANT: Yes. Well, just like Emily said, it's interesting that I don't know if it's a chicken or the egg thing, if the way we've been shooting this season has allowed for us to have more energy, or if we have more energy because we're pacing ourselves for the marathon. But, like Emily said, we would normally be done right about now...and, yes, I still feel like there's a lot of gas in the tank left and thankfully it's so, because we still have a long haul.

EMILY ROSE: And you have to direct on top of that.

LUCAS BRYANT: And I get to direct on top of that.

QUESTION: Emily, you are absolutely dastardly as Mara. How much fun has it been playing this character?

EMILY ROSE: Thank you. Real- a lot of fun, a lot of fun. I mean she has got a lot of attitude and, you know, it's funny I watched the first couple of episodes too just to kind of see how this new character rolled out because I'm a very visual person, I don't necessarily like to just let the world go. I stopped to kind of watch it to gauge where I'm at and where I feel like I should be at. And, you know, while Mara is pretty cool in the first episode I feel like episode 5, 6, 7 she really, really hits true Mara form which is really exciting.

But no, I think at the end of playing a Mara day I'm very exhausted, because as much energy as it takes to just normally like solve the Troubles and, you know, keep the world from blowing up all the time, it takes even more energy to just be sort of mocking everyone and in everyone's face and keeping a lid on her own stuff that she's dealing with.

And what was fun about Mara is sometimes, as an actor, when you're working on an episode, you'll do something that you think is really awesome and big and the directors will come up to you and be like, "Okay, that was a good exercise. Now, let's dig it down a couple of notches." And you're like, "What, that was great! That was big; that was dramatic; that was awesome."

And with Mara I never got smaller with her. Rarely did I get that. I got bigger. Keep going, keep going. And I was like, fine - you know, permission to do that. And that was a blast. And then to have it work is always nice, not to like, go back and go, "Wow, I should never have done that. Oh, not at that angle."

QUESTION: In this first episode you really pushed it to the limit. I was almost borderline, 'Do I hate Mara or do I like her?'

EMILY ROSE: Yes, and that's honestly the question that was every day on set, was I'd have crew come up to me, because I have a great hair and make-up team that are a big part of making that end wardrobe and make that character, you know, be different, and to be a different person. And everybody kept coming up to me and saying, "Love to hate her. I can't say I like her, but I don't - what is she saying?"

But I guarantee you, if you think that she has pushed the limit in the first episode, there are some things that Mara says that I was like, I really feel uncomfortable saying it right now. So it's exciting that the writers get to go there as well in the show and in turn get to go to those depths with me.

QUESTION: Emily, it has been great seeing you on Graceland; it added a new dimension. I was happy to see on each episode.

EMILY ROSE: Oh, thank you. That was a fun little job before this one.

QUESTION: Watching the premiere and liking it as much as I did, it made me wonder, in an ideal world where your audience continues to grow and...assuming that the writers can continue doing what they do, delivering great scripts, would you guys want to continue like say, Supernatural on the CW starting its 10th season and a lot of shows wrap up at 7 seasons. Are these characters the kind and did it have the kind of chemistry you might want to go 10 seasons?

EMILY ROSE: I'm going to give that one to Lucas because he always answers that one.

Lucas BryantLUCAS BRYANT: Ah, when we were first up here and I was introduced to the bronco, got in it and I remember saying, "You know, after season 8 I'm buying this thing." And everybody sort of laughed and shook their heads like that was a completely ridiculous thought.

And now here we are by the end of this we'll have, you know, the equivalent of 6 seasons worth of material out there. And, yes, I mean statistically we are - it's outrageous. We're very lucky and blessed to have been supported this long. And, yes, I would be honored to be able to go for double digits.

QUESTION: Good

EMILY ROSE: Yes, it's interesting, you know. I think to be honest and frank with everyone, it's really the fans that determine that for us 100%. We're a cable show and we have all of our, you know, contracts or what not have expiration dates on them.

So, you know, as much as we love the characters and, to be honest on one facet of your question, the way you phrased it, you said, "Do the characters have the chemistry to continue on?" I actually think that is something that our show does have, really great chemistry, like the friendships and the ability to work together in long, crazy conditions all the time for this long.

I have no doubt that if it relied on chemistry and relationship like, you know, Adam Copeland has been a great addition to our cast and all the guest stars, I mean Richard and John and everybody, it's just like we really know how to operate as a family up here, and if it was based on chemistry and how that, you know, everybody getting along, it wouldn't be an issue.

But because it's based on numbers and ratings and all of that stuff, you know, it will be interesting to see how the fans turn out for these next couple of seasons, and then to see how the networks respond to those numbers and things.

And obviously if we don't continue on on Syfy for whichever reason or what not, I mean I don't put it past anybody. You know, we live in a day and age where shows get canceled and picked up again all the time. So we all are kind of holding our breath to see, you know, is this the end? You know, or is it the beginning to just a different chapter of it.

But honestly, like every show, it just depends on the audience and on their dedication to showing up for it regularly. And we have great fans. No doubt that would happen but, you know, in days of DVR and everything it's hard for those numbers to translate.

SCIFI VISION: Hi again guys. And I know you're talking about fans of all ages. I just want to say my 88-year old grandmother loves the show and watches it with me.

LUCAS BRYANT: Hey, all right!

SCIFI VISION: And I hope you go on for seasons after this. And I know obviously, at least - I'm not sure how far - but at least the first part of the season is going to be focused on Mara, but are we going to be going back to the Colorado Kid anytime soon? I assume at some point they're probably going to delve back into that.

EMILY ROSE: We do not abandon it. Let me put it that way. It is definitely a piece of the discussion and, yes, but we don't - I don't know, what do you think, Lucas?

LUCAS BRYANT: I think that was a good answer.

EMILY ROSE: Yes, we don't abandon it.

LUCAS BRYANT: Yes.

EMILY ROSE: It's always a fiber to the magical rug that is Haven.

LUCAS BRYANT: Very nice.

EMILY ROSE: Thank you.

SCIFI VISION: All right, well, thank you so much.

QUESTION: Last season Eric had a guest star that was kind of dedicated to do Duke, and then we had William who was kind of dedicated to Audrey and Lexi, so the question is, Who is Laura Mennell going to belong to this year? Or is she going to belong to any one person?

LUCAS BRYANT: Oh.

EMILY ROSE: You'll have to answer this?

QUESTION: Will she be making pancakes? Let me ask a pointed question.

LUCAS BRYANT: Oh.

QUESTION: Is she part of the heat?

LUCAS BRYANT: She is.

EMILY ROSE: Are we allowed to say that? I think...

LUCAS BRYANT: I don't know if we are...

EMILY ROSE: That's just it.

LUCAS BRYANT: Yes. She's not beholden to anyone but she affects all of us in massive ways.

EMILY ROSE: We're just trying to see what we're allowed to say because it's full of characters.

I think I mean I think that, we're allowed to say that, right?

LUCAS BRYANT: Yes, sure.

EMILY ROSE: Yes, okay.

LUCAS BRYANT: Go ahead.

EMILY ROSE: Charlotte and Monsieur Dwight have a little work project relationship.

QUESTION: Nice.

LUCAS BRYANT: Yes.

EMILY ROSE: Yes.

QUESTION: Good for Dwight.

EMILY ROSE: And I don't know if that's like pancake and...

LUCAS BRYANT: Well, we'll see if it's...good for Dwight.

LUCAS BRYANT: Right. There's more to this character than...

EMILY ROSE: Meets the eye.

LUCAS BRYANT: That's right.

EMILY ROSE: Yes.

QUESTION: So at this point Nathan doesn't get a dedicated guest star?

LUCAS BRYANT: Nathan just has his wall that he bangs his head against - dedicated wall.

EMILY ROSE: Is that...

...will be the name for Mara and Audrey Parker is a wall.

LUCAS BRYANT: The wall.

EMILY ROSE: The wall, his dedicated wall. That's funny. Sorry, go ahead.

QUESTION: With this double-length season and all the rumors that's fueled about it might possibly be the last, are you finding that you really appreciate the time you get to spend together off set more?

LUCAS BRYANT: Hmmm.

EMILY ROSE: Lucas just like runs away every day. He's like, "Get me out of here please," you know.

LUCAS BRYANT: Really?

I run away and then I sit on your porch and wait for you to come home so I get to hang out with you guys.

Yes, it's a - I don't know, I don't know if we have the benefit of perspective when we're in doing this thing. It's just sort of overwhelmingly doing this thing all the time. But I'm not saying that I don't enjoy being with you people all the time. It has been like a real sort of family year this year.

EMILY ROSE: Yes, I think Lucas is blacking out every day I come to set in my bi-polarness and he's like, "So how are you?" And I'm like, "We have got to stop complaining about little things because we may not have this anymore and there's going to be a time when you are like, where is Emily and why can I not be acting with her?"

LUCAS BRYANT: That's true.

EMILY ROSE: "Where is my coffee?" And he's like, "Whatever, I don't know what you're talking about. We'll be acting together until we're 80."

LUCAS BRYANT: Right.

EMILY ROSE: "Because I'm only - you're in my contract."

LUCAS BRYANT: Yes, that is true.

Emily has been reminding me every day to be thankful for her.

EMILY ROSE: No, but every day I've been coming to set nostalgic.

LUCAS BRYANT: We're doing her close-up and she's like, "Just take this in, you know, because someday you're going to be looking across the room and this face may not be there..."

EMILY ROSE: You're a horrible person.

LUCAS BRYANT: "...and you're going to think back to all of it..."

EMILY ROSE: Yes, all that you had. No, I'm totally sentimental every day. I mean there's - like Lucas said, we're trying to make a good show and care about it a lot and so we get in the ring and in this like, fight for our characters and everything and get in it.

But I'm constantly looking around the room at our crew and getting sad about the fact that, you know, every year you kind of like, 'Well, maybe we'll be back on the set but you're kind of like, "Oh, wow, they ordered 26 episodes. This really might be the end of the line."

You don't know, and so these are friends up here, our family; we've been up here for five years. I mean that's a big section of our lives...

LUCAS BRYANT: Yes.

EMILY ROSE: ...You know, there have been weddings, there have been babies, there have been all kinds of stuff so it's a tight family.

LUCAS BRYANT: Yes.

EMILY ROSE: And that's sweet. It's a sweet question for you to ask.

QUESTION: Thanks. Well, and hopefully Thursday night, when there are more people at home watching TV, hopefully you'll get some new fans and give you a good boost and hopefully we can keep you coming back with some higher ratings. So we'll do our part to try to put the word out there.

LUCAS BRYANT: Thank you.

EMILY ROSE: You are red!

QUESTION: We've seen a few different time periods represented in Haven's history. So is there any period in the history that you would like to visit or revisit?

EMILY ROSE: Yes, I've always wanted to do 1800. I've always wanted to do like a Western or really like petticoats and horses and that. That has been my dream before anything. I'm been trying to weave it in this one.

LUCAS BRYANT: Emily just wants horses.

EMILY ROSE: I don't want horses.

LUCAS BRYANT: Yes, I think I don't have a specific time that I'd like to visit but any of those - I think any time that we've done, you know, we did the 1955 episode and then that episode with last year with Haven in an alternate reality. And I think any time that we travel outside of this normal - well, not that it's normal in any sense - but what we've come to know as Haven those episodes have been my favorites to perform and to watch. So I'm up for any time travel really.

EMILY ROSE: I'm just up for the 1800s.

LUCAS BRYANT: Emily is only up for horses.

QUESTION: Lucas, can you tell us about your directing and how it came to be, and anything else you want to tell us about it?

EMILY ROSE: He's going to be awesome.

LUCAS BRYANT: Emily said she feels like it's going to Christmas morning.

Emily RoseEMILY ROSE: Yes, I do. The last day of school...

LUCAS BRYANT: ...for some reason and...

EMILY ROSE: ...Christmas morning mixed together.

LUCAS BRYANT: Right. She doesn't even have a clue what I have in store for her. I am going to get back...

EMILY ROSE: He's going to correct everything.

LUCAS BRYANT: ...I am going to take these years of biting my tongue it's all going to come out.

EMILY ROSE: Yes.

LUCAS BRYANT: No, it is going to be like Christmas morning actually. I do have lots of, yes, plans for every day presents really.

No, how it came about was - it has just been something that I have wanted to do for a long time and talked to these people here about maybe making that possibility a reality. And thankfully it just finally kind of worked out this season.

So I've been shadowing directors as much I could over the past number of years here and seeing that side of production. And, yes, everyone has made it work out for me and it's coming soon. We're going to get right into it when we come back from hiatus.

So I don't have a script yet. I don't know exactly what the episode I'm doing is going to be like but I have some ideas and so far hugely exciting, totally inspiring, yes, I'm jaed.

QUESTION: Lucas, did you go through like the whole process and you're prepped as far as shooting and then post production and pre-production, all that kind of stuff?

LUCAS BRYANT: Right, every bit of it. Now there'll be some limitations I guess when we're doing it because - well, I guess this isn't a spoiler, but Nathan is in the season. I am still alive in some way anyway. Yes, so I'll have to be working with...

EMILY ROSE: Your acting schedule.

LUCAS BRYANT: ...my acting schedule exactly during prep so. But a lot of that has been scheduled around the days that I have to shoot and so everyone's going to make those allowances for me thankfully.

And then post will be tricky too because again we'll be into the next episode but every minute that I'm not getting my ass beat on strains I will be - or I mean saving the world and simultaneously getting my bottom handed to me, I will - yes, I'll be working on the post side of things.

QUESTION: Cool, that sounds great. Emily, it's going to be interesting taking orders from this guy?

EMILY ROSE: Ah, I mean I do it every day anyway.

LUCAS BRYANT: Wow.

EMILY ROSE: It's not going to be any different.

LUCAS BRYANT: When did you ever take up one order?

EMILY ROSE: Okay, well, let me give an example. I have one right now.

LUCAS BRYANT: Okay, hang up the phone.

EMILY ROSE: Actually this isn't going to be the first time that I've worked with an actor-director because Lucas had a lot to live up to as in I've worked with Jason [Priestly]...

LUCAS BRYANT: Oh, yes, right.

EMILY ROSE: ...as he was acting across from me and directing in episodes. So I know what it's like to have the director gone for a little bit at the monitors and then jump in on the mark.

But honestly no, it was funny because we shot an episode recently - or I think a couple of months back, and the director just said to us, "Do whatever you want; do whatever you want for this take."

And so Lucas and I looked at each other and I said, "Okay, let's have a little practice here. If you were directing me in this moment what would you say I need to do? You know, give me some direction," because good actors I feel like for the most part, and I try to be one, and he has always been this way for me, but mainly try to stay of each other's hair and you're kind of like, "I mean whatever you need to do, whatever you feel, whatever your instinct. You know, you just kind of don't direct the other person until that trust has really been established." So I said, "Well, what do you think?" And so he gave me a bit of direction and I say, "Oh, okay. All right, I like that. Well, we'll see how that goes." And we did it and it was great.

I thought so and we're both like, I think it was kind of a fun moment because we both kind of stepped away and we were like, "Oh, that was interesting. That was cool." And I was like, "I didn't think about it from that way." And he was like, "Yes, that worked out really well." And then I was like, "Okay, this might have worked out pretty good."

Yes, as much as I want to slam him, he's going to do great and I'm super-jealous of it, and he's got I think the thing that I'm the most jealous of is in terms of a directorial debut our crew here is incredible and to be able to learn from this (DP Eric Halo) that we work with, and to be in the grateful hands and loving arms of a great crew that loves us, and everybody wants Lucas's episode to be so fantastic, that I think it's just going to be a lot of fun. It's going to be a lot of fun.

I think the only time it will get tense ever potentially is if we really are under the guy in any way but that's when Lucas's shining and winning personality will come out his way and save us all.

LUCAS BRYANT: Wow, I could not have said any of that even close to better.

EMILY ROSE: That's right, you couldn't have.

LUCAS BRYANT: Incredible.

EMILY ROSE: It was, it was. And that's why we make such a damn good team.

LUCAS BRYANT: Damn good team.

QUESTION: One of my favorite aspects about Haven are the Troubles and the way that there are so many creative different Troubles that the writers come up with. Can you tease us for this season any new Troubles that you particularly liked?

LUCAS BRYANT: Oh, they're running out of ideas. This new season we have weird bottom-of-the-barrel Troubles like that guy whose eyes cross when he gets upset and I'm about that. No, that's not true. Yes, somehow, somehow they keep coming up with totally off-the-wall great stuff.

EMILY ROSE: Actually this season I think has a few of my favorite ones I think we've ever had. I think one of them affects our dear friend, Eric Balfour who plays Duke Crocker...

LUCAS BRYANT: Yes.

EMILY ROSE: ...and that was really, really - it's earlier on and it's funny, in my opinion. And then another one affects everyone in the town and I can't really be specific about that but it's pretty, pretty funny.

So it's as dramatic and freaky as a season is. What I do like about the Troubles is they don't always take themselves too seriously and provide a lot of levity for the show...

LUCAS BRYANT: Yes.

EMILY ROSE: ...and so, yes, there's a couple of those that I really like. I can't obviously state what those are, right.

LUCAS BRYANT: I think we can say that one that's probably - well, it's one of my favorite...

EMILY ROSE: We can say that one?

LUCAS BRYANT: ...to play definitely from this year, but I won't tell you specifically what happens, but there is a sort of a kind of Freaky Friday style Trouble.

EMILY ROSE: Oh.

LUCAS BRYANT: And if you know anything about Freaky Friday that's a reference...

EMILY ROSE: Google it.

LUCAS BRYANT: ...to a movie where some people got trapped in each other's bodies.

EMILY ROSE: That's really, really well-done and really funny.

QUESTION: Emily, you mentioned the 26-episode order you took as perhaps a harbinger of doom, but an alternate theory that inspired previous...

EMILY ROSE: I worded it exactly like that.

LUCAS BRYANT: 'Hai, the harbinger of doom,' she said it.

QUESTION: Well, an alternate theory that inspired my previous question about how long the show might run is that I remember last season was your first season as a fall show, not being a summer show. And then all of a sudden now they're ordering 26 episodes which is the standard order that normal fall-type shows get.

So it's almost like - I was thinking - this could be the second half, you know, like a new incarnation of the show as a bona-fide fall contender, because the quality is certainly up.

But my question particularly is, if either of you without spoiling anything could talk about your favorite moment shooting so far this season, whether it be the circumstance of a scene, or on-set mishap, or prank or something, but can you just throw out what your favorite most memorable moment in so far as shooting this season?

LUCAS BRYANT: That's a good question.

EMILY ROSE: Are you still thinking on it?

LUCAS BRYANT: Yes. You got it?

EMILY ROSE: I think so.

LUCAS BRYANT: All right, go for it.

EMILY ROSE: I have a couple as always -I always have two - one I just shot the other day that will come at the very end of the season. And it was just a cool moment I think just in my career in general just to be able to do. So that will play out at the end of the first season.

And then the other one isn't necessarily a specific moment, but it's kind of like what the 26 episodes and shooting a double block has kind of allowed for us - it has been a love-hate relationship for me - is that in creating these double blocks we're in this location all day, you know, to make it easier on production in terms of not having moves or anything.

So inevitably what happens is we end up block-shooting a lot of the day which means, you know, we're in one direction filming all the scenes for the day and then we turn around and do them all again on the other side. And a lot of what they did to alleviate the pressure on production initially was to do a lot of the two-person scenes. So with Mara being a character obviously new to the forefront I had a lot of scenes with just Nathan or just Duke or just Dwight or what not, this is just kind of like one-on-one scenes.

And having, you know, been in a show that operates exterior mainly and is dealing with the end of the world to have it all pared down and to be able to do some scene work like back in theater school was a huge challenge but really rewarding at the end of the day and allowed for, you know, the water to my actor's soul to actually do scene work which was really a pleasant surprise and I really enjoyed being able to do with Mara.

LUCAS BRYANT: Yes, I would say personally like I mentioned that Trouble before a Freaky Friday one. All aspects of that were a joy to shoot and you'll understand why when you see it.

But then also I guess what I've really enjoyed this season is working with Emily Rose honestly, getting to see her play this totally outrageous character and getting to watch that character develop over the season and then having to react to that character who is giving me something that is totally, you know, as far I can imagine from what I'm used to getting from someone that looks exactly like Emily Rose has been a real pleasure.

And I've really gotten to watch literally on her face, her, you know, discoverer, I think just like she said, the lengths that she can go to in this character and the freedom and abandon with which she has attacked it has been really easy to react to and be with. And so that has been a real pleasure.

QUESTION: Emily, do you want direct? Do you have any aspirations to direct as well?

EMILY ROSE: Very much so. I never - I was different from Lucas in that when Lucas I think the minute he started Haven he had it in his mind that he would want to direct it. I think it has been an aspiration for him for a long time. For me I started Haven with no desire to direct at all I think maybe just because I didn't quite fully understand all that it was.

And then as the show has progressed I found out very quickly I really want to direct, because I'm bossy in nature - not that directors are bossy - but I have a very specific take on when I read a script how I feel like it should be executed or what I feel like it should look like, and I just soon discovered that that's a director's brain.

I've always really enjoyed photography and always, you know, story-telling through acting and stuff, and so I definitely, definitely want to direct and was really, you know, doing my best this hard when you're in all the time as Lucas knows, to his shadow and be a part of, you know, prep and all of that stuff.

But I try to do as much as I could. I have a few things working against me in that I'm not Canadian so I can't just direct if I want to necessarily, because we have to have Canadian directors. And then also it's not working me but it does make it a bit harder for me is just having my son this last year. I can't - every spare minute that I'm not working whereas I would like to maybe go and be a part of a meeting or go shadow something I have to be at home with my baby.

So I don't know when I'll get to do that in the future and I'm working on it. I wish it could be with Haven, but I don't know if that will realistically happen, but I think the thing that Haven has given me is the opportunity to work and be around and stand next to some really great, great directors that they have here in Canada and to learn a lot from them and to be around the camera crews and just soak it all in.

So I'm really hoping that whenever that opportunity presents itself it will be with a family as lovely as this one and I hope that's sooner rather than later.

QUESTION: Do you have a message for the fans who have just really stuck with you guys and really pushed to keep Haven on the air?

EMILY ROSE: Totally. Yes, no, here's the deal. When I go back and I re-watch all of the episodes I start to buy into it around Season 2 where I'm like really hooked into it. So for everybody that's stuck in through like Season 1 and like really you know what I mean?

LUCAS BRYANT: Through that who knew what we were doing...

EMILY ROSE: We were just a baby back then. I love it. I hope that it's paying off and that the stories are exciting and enjoyable.

And we're just really thankful and humbled by, you know, your dedication to our show and the fact that we know we wouldn't be coming back if you guys weren't watching and tweeting and, you know, getting online and making like, you know, what was it on GetGlue making our show one of the top 10 watched shows and, you know, just talking - like get all on Netflix and everything.

All of that stuff is a result of our fans and so we're really, really thankful for it not only just here in North America, but Canada and the states watching, but our global audiences. It's so impressive.

I mean I was staying in a bed and breakfast and there was an Italian family there and they were like, "Oh my god," you know, "you're on Haven. We love that show." And I was like, "In Italy, really?" Like it just boggled my mind. It's so impressive.

So thank you so much. And then also know that I mean we, personally, I think as the characters are always fighting for the little things that made Haven original in the very beginning and trying to keep it true to some of its original forms. So we not only do that for ourselves but we're always like, "We think the fans will really like it." You guys are always in our minds in that way.

Lucas BryantLUCAS BRYANT: Yes.

EMILY ROSE: Again I've steamrolled Lucas.

LUCAS BRYANT: You nailed it. No, I mean it's absolutely true like we said earlier. Especially that year I think more than any year we've been up here there have been people showing up in town from all over the world because they were inspired to come here not just necessarily to try and track us down but because they wanted to see, you know, we're introduced to Nova Scotia through seeing it on their TVs and it's not a place that is normally shown on television.

And, you know, like there was a family here this year who had been saving to travel from France who decided two years ago, you know, that they were going to make the trip and they started saving so that they can do it. And they came and they spent a week here.

And that sort of dedication, like Emily said, it is totally humbling and we are honored that people love the show as much as we do. And really I know that, we all know we it is reason number 1 that we're still here and still able to do this every day is the fans.

So thank you for all of that.

EMILY ROSE: And tell your friends and tell them that they can catch up and binge-watch and watch it on Netflix to get caught up for the next two seasons which are going to be really incredible. Because the more the merrier and possibly the longer.

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