Haven is back next week on Syfy with all-new episodes of the back half of season five, which will unfortunately be its last. The premiere picks up with the characters where they left off: Dr. Cross (Laura Mennell) combined Mara (Emily Rose) and Audrey (also Rose) back into one body, but by doing so, all the troubles are released from Duke (Eric Balfour). It’s now up to them, as well as Nathan (Lucas Bryant) and Dwight (Adam Copeland) to try to stop the havoc and protect the town.

In preparation for the final episodes, Rose and Copeland recently talked to the media about what’s coming up on Haven.

At the start of the back half of the season, secrets are exposed. The two talked to SciFi Vision about how that will affect the townspeople, as well as the main characters having to deal with them.

According to Copeland, "I think, much to Dwight's chagrin, it definitely makes his job harder.

"...But I do think that this season definitely, just from my character’s standpoint, well, from every characters' standpoint, it really pulls them as much as the threads can be pulled. There’s a lot that happens, there’s a lot that goes on and there’s a lot to bottle up and keep contained and is that possible? It’s just a volatile season, which is great."

Rose added, "It’s a really smart question, because that is something that we wrestled with throughout the season. We’re kind of like okay, the town as a result is dealing with the fact that these troubles have – the end of last season they’ve come out of Duke. And so, now it’s not like family secrets so much anymore, it’s kind of wherever the trouble crap landed, if that makes sense.

"So you got people dodging bird poo, trouble crap falling from the sky...But, essentially, it is a town-wide problem now. I think you had all these secrets for so long and the town felt like they were outcasts and had to keep it quiet. But now...the whole town is dealing with this problem together.

"So we wrestled with that. Obviously, Audrey and Nathan and Dwight and Duke all know what the rest of everybody doesn’t. And so, there are still those secrets and things, but it’s a lot of the town having a mutual freak out, about what does this really mean for us, and what the heck is going on? And that just the way you feel with your leaders and being like, you’re not telling us everything. So, yes, there’s definitely that."

Rose also talked to the site about how Audrey, no longer being immune to the troubles, affected the way she portrayed her. “It’s tricky for me to sometimes parse out, because we’re talking about season 5b, but we filmed 5a and 5b together as 26 episodes. So I just remember, I think somebody even asked about Mara early on. And the tricky part about her is, you know, her acting like she’s Audrey, but then being Mara, but then people think she’s Audrey.

“And then the whole immunity part getting thrown in there, and it was really appropriate, because a big question for Audrey this season was a different version of the original question she was asking, like who am I? Who am I? She didn’t know her identity initially and in terms of her family, but then once she reclaimed her family and who that was, and gained a new identity in being this protector of the town and somebody that was immune, now she’s faced again with a new identity crisis not only with having been these different people but also, I don’t want to say power because it’s not a power, but something that worked to her advantage is no longer a part of her either.

“And so she’s constantly on that identity hunt, and I can totally identify with that. And especially moving on from this character and having inhabited her for a long time, being like, “Oh, okay, what am I now, and what am I doing now, and how am I going to identify myself, and where do I fit?”

“But fortunately that’s just not Audrey’s question. That’s a question that we all ask, and that’s a question that all the characters asked as they bumped up, do I ask that question as he is forced to take different roles and how does that role change his relationship with other people? And Nathan is forced to ask himself that when stuff for Audrey changes and then how does that affect their relationship?

“Because that was directly connected to a lot of the ways that they connected early on, that he could feel her and all of that. So that’s something, we don’t know if that changes or not. Does that change their dynamic? All kinds of stuff that it feeds into Duke and his journey, what does it mean with the troubles being a part of him and then not a part of him? Does that make him evil, does that make him good?

“All the characters are asking those questions. All of them, it’s just in different forms. So it’s great writing in that way, because it’s a core question that we'd all ask, just heightened and dealing with troubles. So yes, it was tricky to play because I constantly was having to gauge myself with the directors and my writers like, okay, where am I? And because your instinct after playing this character for so long is just to act a certain way, but you have to keep the current state in the front of your mind."

The actors also talked to the SciFi Vision about mementos that they took from the set. Rose took quite a lot. "I honestly think I had probably a bunch of stuff, and I still have stuff that’s in Shawn’s airstream trailer up in Canada, that’s supposed to come back. I took a lot, and I actually had to ask for permission for some of it, but I took the clock out of Haven Harold bull pen. I took, there was a huge beautiful painting of Lindenberg's that’s actually up in Shawn’s airstream I’m hoping to get.

"...And there’s a chandelier actually that was in a very unique room that you guys will see at the end of the season that I’m hoping to have installed in my new bathroom. So, I did take a lot. Oh, I took a little shield off the wall in the Haven bull pen that said, ‘our little darling’ which I really liked. Yes, I took a lot.

"...Because I was like, listen, they know where to find it if we somehow get pulled back, but there’s too much that I’m attached to here, and if I can have these little mementos, and everybody was really sweet about it. They understood you spend a lot of time in – that’s your office, that’s your world. Everybody can pack up their office when they leave, and it’s hard not to think you don’t get to pack up. So everybody was really sweet about what we could have or take away.” The actress also later said she took her badge, book, and pen as well as a slate.

Copeland took some souvenirs as well. "I was able to get Dwight's vest. I spent so much time in that thing that I [hated that] and I felt I deserved that just to be able to look at and go, “I hated you, but I had so many great times in you.”

“...I have the badge and the chief Hendrickson sign from the office door. And...oh, quite awesomely, a few other guys from set gave me the slate from the last scene that I was in."

Syfy Conference Call
Haven
Emily Rose and Adam Copeland

September 29, 2015
2:00 p.m. ET

QUESTION: I saw the first two episodes and they are really intense. A lot happens. How are these events going to affect your characters moving forward as well as the relationship with each other?

EMILY ROSE: Wow. I was telling Adam earlier – we were talking about how we’re having to brush off the old memory of where last year was and for us because we filmed it so long ago. But I think I really liked how, I don’t know if chaotic is the right word, but that’s how it felt to me filming it, not necessarily the experience, but the story of it, how we start this world of Haven off in this mass chaos.

And it’s really neat because instead of the chaos pushing people away, it's drawing them together. Maybe with the exception you, Adam, of your character felt the responsibility to hold it all together and you step into this new great role, obviously, with Dwight. But I feel like between Nathan and Audrey it causes them to be super close and, obviously, I think that the town as a whole is trying to band together to get through that chaotic sense of disruption, if that makes any sense.

ADAM COPELAND: Yes, I think the chaos, it lends itself to Dwight just trying to hold everything together and in doing that ruffles feathers, ruffles the feathers of friends, ruffles the feathers of not necessarily enemies but, you know, the Dukes of the world. But at the end of the day, Dwight is always just trying to keep the town together. That’s really all the guy cares about.

So it’s interesting, you know? There can be heads butting because of that. It was interesting to the relationship of partnership and the grand scheme of keeping the town together can also cause butting of heads. So it was a lot of fun for me personally, yes.

EMILY ROSE: You know, it was a fun episode. It was a cool set and a cool experience. You felt huddled into this place and it wasn’t really the Haven street. You were inside the school so it was – it was a neat feeling.

QUESTION: Also, this is it for Haven, which is kind of sad. How do you feel the season finale acts as a series finale? Do you think that longtime fans are going to feel satisfied at the end?

EMILY ROSE: Yes, the cool thing about this season, contrary to what was initially put out there, is that our planners are really planning for it to be the end. We were, from the beginning, speaking with (Matt) and (Gabrielle) about where these characters would land, we were treating the – the end was being treated as a series finale. It’s always been in the plan.

So, it was hard. It was a tough process because I found myself being satisfied in a lot of ways and being sad in a lot of ways and having to examine, well, am I bummed about this aspect because I just don’t want to say goodbye to this person, this character I’ve gotten to live with so long? But I do think, looking back on it and being however many, nine months away from that experience of shooting those final episodes, I really do feel a sense of satisfaction and nostalgia when I think about filming those last couple episodes for sure. I don’t know about you, Adam, but that’s how I feel.

ADAM COPELAND: Yes, I think you never absolutely, 100 percent of the time get everyone to agree. OK, that was – that was perfect. It’s just impossible. There’s too many jaded people in the world. But I can say that it feels like the knots were tied …

EMILY ROSE: Yes, there was good closure.

ADAM COPELAND: It doesn’t feel like there’s loose ends, which I think was important to all of us. From the creative standpoint, from the performing standpoint, the last thing you want is like, “Yes, but what about?” And I don’t think there is that, personally.

EMILY ROSE: Yes. I think – I'll say one more thing, I do think there’s going to be fun speculation at the end. I think every good show has a bit of that intrigue that they still leave you with, because at the core of our show is the mystery. So there’ll always be things that I think will leave the fans being able to talk and be like, “Well, what about this, and what about this?”

But it’s not any massive questions. I feel like it’s just more the kind of questions you want to be thinking about and leaving it up to the audience so that they can carry that journey on however they would like to in their minds.

ADAM COPELAND: Well put.

SCIFI VISION: Jumping off of the first question, I was interested in the fact that, let’s just say more people, obviously, become aware of the troubles this season. Can you talk about moving throughout the season how that’s going to affect the town in general? Is going to make their work harder or easier, or is it going to affect that part?

ADAM COPELAND: I think, much to Dwight's chagrin, it definitely makes his job harder.

EMILY ROSE: Did you just say chagrin?

ADAM COPELAND: I did.

EMILY ROSE: You’re an old man. He said chagrin, everyone. That’s hilarious.

ADAM COPELAND: At some point in this I’m going to get umbrage in, too.

EMILY ROSE: Yes.

ADAM COPELAND: A few whippersnappers.

EMILY ROSE: Oh God, you’re so goofy.

ADAM COPELAND: But I do think that this season definitely, just from my character’s standpoint, well, from every characters' standpoint, it really pulls them as much as the threads can be pulled. There’s a lot that happens, there’s a lot that goes on and there’s a lot to bottle up and keep contained and is that possible? It’s just a volatile season, which is great.

...

EMILY ROSE: It’s a really smart question, because that is something that we wrestled with throughout the season. We’re kind of like OK, the town as a result is dealing with the fact that these troubles have – the end of last season they’ve come out of Duke. And so, now it’s not like family secrets so much anymore, it’s kind of wherever the trouble crap landed, if that makes sense.

So you got people dodging bird poo, trouble crap falling from the sky. That's probably not a good way to say that in an interview. You just said chagrin and I said bird poo trouble crap. I think I’m lower on the intellectual ladder here.

But, essentially, it is a town-wide problem now. I think you had all these secrets for so long and the town felt like they were outcasts and had to keep it quiet. But now it’s like what Adam was saying. The whole town is dealing with this problem together.

So we wrestled with that. Obviously, Audrey and Nathan and Dwight and Duke all know what the rest of everybody doesn’t. And so, there are still those secrets and things, but it’s a lot of the town having a mutual freak out, about what does this really mean for us, and what the heck is going on? And that just the way you feel with your leaders and being like, you’re not telling us everything. So, yes, there’s definitely that.

SCIFI VISION: OK and then as a follow up, is there anything that you two took from the set or were given from the set, like a prop or something to remember the show with?

EMILY ROSE: I honestly think I had probably a bunch of stuff, and I still have stuff that’s in Shawn’s airstream trailer up in Canada, that’s supposed to come back. I took a lot, and I actually had to ask for permission for some of it, but I took the clock out of Haven Harold bull pen. I took, there was a huge beautiful painting of Lindenberg's that’s actually up in Shawn’s airstream I’m hoping to get. So, Shawn, if you read this, please I want my Lindenberg painting.

And there’s a chandelier actually that was in a very unique room that you guys will see at the end of the season that I’m hoping to have installed in my new bathroom. So, I did take a lot. Oh, I took a little shield off the wall in the Haven bull pen that said, ‘our little darling’ which I really liked. Yes, I took a lot…

Yes, I really did. Because I was like, listen, they know where to find it if we somehow get pulled back, but there’s too much that I’m attached to here, and if I can have these little mementos, and everybody was really sweet about it. They understood you spend a lot of time in – that’s your office, that’s your world. Everybody can pack up their office when they leave, and it’s hard not to think you don’t get to pack up. So everybody was really sweet about what we could have or take away.

SCIFI VISION: Great. Adam?

ADAM COPELAND: I was able to get Dwight’s vest. I spent …

EMILY ROSE: That’s awesome.

ADAM COPELAND: …so much time in that thing that I …

EMILY ROSE: You hated it.

ADAM COPELAND: And I did hate it and I felt I deserved that just to be able to look at and go, “I hated you, but I had so many great times in you.”

EMILY ROSE: But I love you.

ADAM COPELAND: So it’s one of those expositions. Another big word, wow, I’m on fire.

EMILY ROSE: Yes. I have my badge, I have my badge and my book and my pen. I have that too.

ADAM COPELAND: I have the badge and the Chief Hendrickson sign from the office door. And what else, what else, I know there is one other thing. Oh, quite awesomely, a few other guys from set gave me the slate from the last scene that I was in.

EMILY ROSE: I know, I got a slate too. Yes, that was the coolest part. The camera guy gave us those, which was great.

ADAM COPELAND: Yes, yes and I won’t name names just so they don’t get in trouble, but they know who they are.

QUESTION: So going into the final season, we see all of Audrey and you’re now having to bridge two characters so far. I don’t want you to have to spoil anything, but was it nice to get back in Audrey’s skin and put Mara down for a little while?

EMILY ROSE: Yes, it was a little strange because Mara is so, you know, such a brat. She’s so fun to play, so I got to be so bratty. And then, with Audrey I felt like I wanted to have some of those moments but she’s just a little different in how she’s a brat. But, don’t laugh at that, you know what that means, Adam.

But there were some different really fun things. I got to play Lucy a bit more this last season, which was really exciting for me. And, then, obviously, Audrey even though it’s chaotic, something I really enjoyed about the top of the season 5b was that she and Nathan were in a really good place. And so it was kind of neat to get to play that relationship out as what is it like for them when they’re banding together and they’re not driven apart?

What is it like when they have to really work as a team, post all this relationship discovery that they’ve had. So it was kind of nice to be like, what would it feel like for them to be this working partner couple in this town where crazy stuff’s happening where they get to just be together and enjoy tackling things together as a team before things got highly dysfunctional? So that was nice.

And then, also I got to do some sign language in the first couple episodes with a really cool, great character. And so, it was really, really fun to be able to do that.

QUESTION: Adam, you actually get to do an honest to God mic drop in the first episode (Off-Mic). I just howled about that. So for Dwight to take the lead and then, again, I don’t want to spoil it for folks who haven’t seen the episodes, but Dwight makes a pretty big decision that affects the whole town and then makes a big decision about the police department and the guard. Can you talk a little bit about that what it was like to have Dwight really assume a leadership role in such a very big way?

ADAM COPELAND: That was huge from a personal standpoint just to be reading the scripts and going, “Whoa, are you sure you want me to do that?” There were moments where I was like, “You guys know that you wrote that for me, right? I just want to make sure that's clear,” and so that was huge. What for me it was I guess a validation or a confirmation, like, “OK I’m working towards a goal here and it must be working.” So that was great from a personal standpoint.

From a creative standpoint those are the things you want. You just you want to dig your teeth into that and it’s like, OK three-page monologue.

EMILY ROSE: Yes.

ADAM COPELAND: And we did a scene that was all action for about eight hours of the day because it was (Shawn Filler). So by the time we got to that monologue, I had done two takes at it. So and I had a – I was the thread throughout the action scene too with all these different players, so I really couldn’t concentrate on it as much as I would have wanted to. So it was a huge challenge and it was great because it was so much fun.

QUESTION: But you killed it.

ADAM COPELAND: Well, it was fun and it was pivotal and those are the challenges that I realized that I want. Whereas in season two and old Dwight first showed up, that would have petrified me. So it was great to grow into that and be in such a pivotal spot to help push the story along. And it was also written in the script that Dwight drops the mic. So it was actually written in that way too.

QUESTION: With the series now done and, as you said, Emily, you’re nine months out, do you have any favorite moments or arcs that you can share with us or is it something that we haven’t seen yet over the course of the series?

EMILY ROSE: Favorite arcs and moments, I really enjoyed playing Lucy this season. And one of my favorite, I would, say creative actor moments was being able to work with Lucas as a director on his episode that he directed, which was episode 517. It was such a –it was just a quibble moment to watch something that your friend has wanted to do for so long and then to watch him succeed epically at it. Was really, really, really fun.

So that whole experience, Audrey was – how do I put this without spoiling anything? It’s kind of a very heightened, surreal episode that isn’t necessarily based so much on reality. So it was really, really cool to watch everything that Lucas had to prep and to be involved in that for him to act in it. And then to be able to take directions from somebody that you have such a great vocabulary with and then be able to work so well with and watch the whole crew come behind him and support him. And then also have some of the most killer shots we had the whole season, done on his episode.

It was just a really, really cool experience all around. So that was really neat. And I think even one of his good friends, (Tim) was working on that episode as well. So it was a really cool, it was just really a neat experience.

And then I think also the end of the series, you just want to do such a good job and you want to do your characters justice and you want to do the story justice, and you want to feel fulfilled and that people will feel fulfilled. And you’re just so freaking nostalgic with everybody that you – but that was a really sweet memory as well.

QUESTION: Adam?

ADAM COPELAND: I’m going to mirror a lot of what Emily just said …

EMILY ROSE: That you really liked playing Lucy?

ADAM COPELAND: I really enjoyed Lucy.

QUESTION: Can we get those outtakes please on the DVDs? I want to see that.

ADAM COPELAND: No one would want to see that.

EMILY ROSE: I wish he would have done that.

QUESTION: Pictures or it never happened, pictures or it never happened.

ADAM COPELAND: Well, this final season was really such a, as I briefly touched on, a jump in responsibility and character wise and there are so many instances where Dwight has to basically address everyone. And those are huge moments for that character, so I really remember those ones …

EMILY ROSE: Yes.

ADAM COPELAND: Kind of the pressure cooker that that was when you have essentially an entire town staring at you and it’s like, “OK, here we go.” That and also you know the episode that Lucas did, (written by Shernold Edwards), it was – what was interesting about it was, like Emily said, everyone just wanted to absolutely hit that over the green monster. We wanted a grand slam. No doubt this thing was going to be awesome and top to bottom everyone put in, if there was extra effort to put in, everyone did.

It was interesting, Lucas and I had dinner the week before and he said, “OK listen, I’m going to need you to block shoot this,” which means basically there’s 8 scenes, 6 or 8 scenes throughout the episode, but they take place in one room. He said, “Can you just flip them all the way through your side, then we’ll turn around and get the other person’s side?” So what it meant was 22 minute takes. And…

EMILY ROSE: That’s right, I forgot about that.

ADAM COPELAND: Yes and I said, “Yes, got it, no problem.” As long as I got the heads up and it’s from Lucas, so you wanted just to be able to crush it for him. So that was pretty amazing and an amazing memory and something that I will always take with me no matter what I do.

And yes, the end, you can’t help but get sentimental with every final scene and realize, “Oh wow, this was the last time that you’ll see these two characters together.” And everything that they’ve inhabited throughout and gone through throughout, this is the culmination of that. And that’s a huge – it’s a huge ride but it’s special and you’d like to think people will be watching and invested in thinking the same thing. So those were all really, really big pivotal things that I remember.

EMILY ROSE: You also recommended the (Josh Gerald) song that Lucas ended up choosing for the end of the episode. And then we all got so stoked about it that we just kept begging for that to get cleared and we were able to contact him and that great song which was your pick for it. And then Lucas so excited to make that happen to the end of the episode.

So it just felt very collaborative and almost like those senior days at school when it’s like the last day of school but you get to go…

ADAM COPELAND: Yes, I forgot about that. There’s this artist named (Josh Gerald) who I was really into because my Father’s Day video had been done with his music as a present. So I really got into him and I listened to this one song, (Ulysses), constantly and …

EMILY ROSE: Oh good.

ADAM COPELAND: I just said, yes this feels like if it’s not the end of the series, it needs to be the end of this episode and Lucas agreed. And then we all started listening to it constantly. Keep an ear out for it in that episode because it’s such a beautiful song.

EMILY ROSE: Yes.

QUESTION: How has it been transitioning from the instant gratification of being in front of a crowd at Wrestle Mania to delayed gratification of finding out how much we like the show six months later? And for the both of you, do you think that, I don’t know, a year, maybe two years after the series ends would we get a TV movie out of this?

EMILY ROSE: Actually, it hasn’t been hard for Adam to transition at all because every day he came to set, he insisted on being cheered into the set the same way. Iit was an exhausting way to start the day. It was exhausting to put up all those bright lights and to get face paint on. It was so crazy. But it really helped ease him into it, for sure.

ADAM COPELAND: I said listen, if you guys want me to do this, I need (inaudible joke)

EMILY ROSE: Exactly, exactly.

ADAM COPELAND: Well played. It was a transition, definitely. WWE and acting, they’re both on the entertainment tree, they’re just different branches. So it was just getting accustomed to those small differences that can be there. Like you said, in the WWE, it is instant gratification, you know right away if something worked. I’m assuming like theater works.

[I] really looked for a lot of confirmation from people after I did something because I wasn’t sure. It was new to me and I wanted to make sure that I was on the right path. So I would talk to Emily or Lucas or the directors and just go, “Was that OK? Did that suck?”

Because I don’t have a barometer yet, I don’t have my gauge set for this. Thankfully, by the end I was starting to realize when I found what was working, I hope.

QUESTION: (Multiple Speakers) for five seasons?

ADAM COPELAND: Yes, that was a little bit of confirmation. It's like, “Oh, they keep bringing me back so I guess it’s working. And when it comes to a TV movie, as Emily had mentioned before, there is enough questions that people could take and run and make their own stories with these characters after the fact that someone could do that one day.

EMILY ROSE: I just want to say though, because Adam wouldn’t ever say this about himself but, as somebody that was on the outside, I also liked it because I view him through the friend lens. But I didn’t ever really know or see anything of what he had come from. I just heard tales of it, I heard tales.

And so it was pretty cool though because he would just be open and honest about just trying to figure out how is this part working, is this working? And I think one of Adam’s best moments of the entire series happened this season and that was when (Lee Rose) was directing episode, I think it was 519?…

ADAM COPELAND: Yes.

EMILY ROSE: And there was a really big emotional moment and I know that Adam was kind of, just like every actor is just a little intimidated of, if that’s going to happen and not really knowing what it will look like and not wanting to force something but also wanting it to be very real and authentic. And he did takes and was like, “OK, that’s great.” And then they both just agreed, they were like, “Let’s just do this one more time. I think we can even go further with it.”

And it was a really, really, really beautiful moment from Adam and it was really great to be there and to witness it and to watch [him] have that personal acting victory that we all have, these milestones in our acting career where we’re like, “I’d hope to achieve this, can I do it?” And to watch him do that and it’s such a great beautiful side of Adam and something that he brings to the role, that it was just so exciting to see that and to see that for him and to see where he – how much he has grown. I mean, he has always been fantastic but when you act beside your friend for so long, you know exactly what they want to work on or where they want to grow, or what they want to achieve.

And so to be there and be able to see that is always really exciting and Adam does some great, great work this season for sure.

QUESTION: I had a character question kind of for each of you. Now, Emily, you touched a little bit on this earlier, but you’ve had to play several different personalities during the course of the show, and unlike some other scifi shows you didn’t really have the help of any special effects make-up. How did you go about creating these distinct yet connected personalities?

EMILY ROSE: Well, it’s always about the team that gets assembled and communication. When you’re in theatre school and you have a character class you – it’s all about responsibility lies on you and it’s a lot about experimenting at home and observing people’s physicality and getting to work on that. And what’s great about the TV and movie industry is that you have these professionals from each of those fields to help collaborate with you.

But it’s hard, too, because I’m used to the theatre side of going home and working things out and trying to work it out for myself and you have to be able to communicate that to everybody. So first of all I never, when I signed up for the show I had absolutely no clue that that was the direction it was going to take and that I would get the opportunity to play all of these people. So it just worked out so great because that’s an actor’s dream, to be able to be shown versatility and be able to play with that on screen.

But really, in the beginning it was (Steven Lynch), my amazing make-up artist and (Jojo), (Joanne Stamp) that did hair. And then we had (Steven) doing wardrobe as well this year and he was – he was so great because he would bring in a bunch of options for us, or for me, wardrobe wise and we would talk about. I’d say like, with Lucy, something I really wanted her to have this leather purse, she needed something for carrying and that really helped me with my physicality.

But then also all the work, we actually had (Dorothy Martin) who was doing my make-up this year, doing a bunch of stuff for Lucy and some other stuff that I needed. And just through the time of getting to sit in the make-up chair, I just remember there was I think a couple more things that we got to do this season and just sitting and being able to watch the character come together. And then watch (Steven Wright) come into the trailer and look at the wardrobe and then to have (Dorothy) there and then to have (Joanne) there and us together, look and come up with something that’s felt good for all of us.

And then to have the producers come in and I remember specifically probably one of the biggest victories this season when it came to characters was we worked on a collaboration of a character. And I walked into Matt, my show runner, and Stephanie and a bunch of other people and just walked in, just was watching and they turned and looked at me and said hi to me as if I was a visitor. And I remember inside going, “Yes.”

So it was really exciting because they looked at me and said hi to me like a visitor and then they looked again and then were like, “Oh my word.” So that’s always really exciting, when you can pull off that kind of transformation and it just comes from having a really good team.

And then just a small – I’ll make this short but just a small little story that happened this year - right before I played a lot of the Lucy stuff, I ended up really hurting my knee. My meniscus and my ACL went out when I was on set. And so I was having to figure out OK, how am I going to cover this up because I still have to walk and I still have to look normal and I have to maybe be wearing a brace.

But it was really cool because we were able to conceal but yet that leg thing really fed into my character and it really worked. And if I wouldn’t have had that injury at that moment I don’t even think I would have thought of half of the stuff that I needed for Lucy in those moments. And so sometimes the biggest mistakes can turn into the greatest gifts if you let them do that and you’re open to it and you don’t get all bummed and fight it.

So just a big collaboration of messy creativity and then just throwing something to the wall and seeing if it sticks.

QUESTION: Adam, we talked a little bit about your personal growth as an actor and also Dwight’s personal growth since he’s been on the show. Now, when you joined the cast did you know then that your character would become such an integral part of the show and its mythology?

ADAM COPELAND: I had absolutely no idea. So the story goes is that (Shawn Filler), some of the producers and writers saw my retirement speech from WWE and said, “Hey, we can get that guy,” because they wanted to tie in from WWE Smackdown leading into Haven on Syfy. So that was the genesis of it but then I think it was just supposed to be a one-off episode, a few scenes and that was that.

Apparently, halfway through the scene a call was made to LA and said, “Can we write a bit more?” And it became a slow growth of four episodes to the next season, seven and so on and so on to the point where with this last season, it really blew my mind, to be honest, to be so heavily involved with, as I said earlier, really pivotal moments for this series and the town and that affected all of the characters. And so that was it was pretty huge, it was a lot of fun.

And after the first season where I just went, “OK, this isn’t a thing for me, I don’t know what I’m doing,” and I really enjoyed it. And from that point on, like I try to do with anything that I enjoy, I locked my teeth in and just went after it. So it was a lot of fun to do this and experience it and it really gave me another path and another season in my life that I had no idea was going to open up. So I can say that this show actually changed, it completely changed my life.

QUESTION: Are we going to see this realm on the other side of the void?

EMILY ROSE: The realm on the other side of the void, maybe. It would be interesting if we did, wouldn’t it?

QUESTION: It would, especially if William came back. Is there any chance of that?

EMILY ROSE: Maybe, yes. I don’t know. I feel like the answer to your question is disappearing into the void right now and I don’t know how to retrieve it.

QUESTION: I seem to recall that we were going to be seeing William Shatner as part of the season. Is that correct?

EMILY ROSE: You’re – yes, you’re right.

QUESTION: And what can you tell us about that?

EMILY ROSE: It’s incredible, right? William Shatner on Haven, seriously, we were like, I remember calling my parents and being like, “Oh my word, who would you just freak out to see on our show?” So yes, it’s really cool. He is really a neat guy and it’s such an incredible thing to get to work with him, which I just never in a million years thought I would get to do. So yes, we’re super excited about him being a part of our universe in Haven.

And if you would have told me that when I started this whole thing I would have just been like, you’re kidding me. And it’s just really, really cool. Because obviously scifi fans love him and he’s a great actor and he is a presence. He is just a presence and so you can’t get around that presence. And so when you need a presence like that who better to call than the Shatner? Let’s be honest.

ADAM COPELAND: Without giving anything away from the show, it was just the fact that yes, you’re standing there across and sharing scenes with William Shatner. And I affectionately refer to him as the Shat.

EMILY ROSE: I was going to call him the Shat, but I didn’t know if I was allowed to.

ADAM COPELAND: To which he referred to me as Babe. But I’m pretty sure he called everybody Babe. So I don’t think that’s rare or anything but it was really amazing. And I was super impressed with – you know, this one day, my first scene with him he had been in all day, I only had one scene during the day. You’re in every scene the entire day and it’s a lot.

And it was I think 7 or 8 p.m. by the time I roll in and he was just on it and not dropping anything and rearranging things and it still just got to where it needed to get to. So I walked away from that going, “My God, that guy is an absolute pro.”

EMILY ROSE: Well, and all of his down time in between the scenes is memorizing the next two days’ worth of material. It’s really quite a lesson in ego and professionalism to watch these veteran actors do their thing. It’s encouraging. You feel like you need to take the time to do that, it’s encouraging to see them do that.

ADAM COPELAND: Yes.

EMILY ROSE: And you keep at it, and you do whatever it takes to be prepared for the next day. You don’t ever slack off.

QUESTION: Emily, last year Lucas mentioned that [he] wanted to take the Bronco. Did he get to keep it?

EMILY ROSE: No, he didn’t get to keep it. It was actually quite sad. I think it was probably the last episode, we were out in the parking lot, it was freaking cold, the coldest, I mean so freaking cold. And I said to Keith Flynn, I was like, “Keith, can we turn the heater on in here?” Because usually the Bronco is our safe haven. It’s where we sit with our cups of coffee and turn on that Bronco and just let the heat from the engine just warm the inside of it.

And I think it was its last day, it was its wrap out day actually. And I went to go turn it on and Flynn walks up he goes, “No, she gave up on us.” And I was like, what? He’s like, “She’s done.”

And I said, “What are you talking about, she’s done?” And he’s like, “She won’t turn over, she gave up, she’s all done. This is her last day she’s all done.” And I was like, “Are you kidding me, Keith?” And he’s like, “No, I can bring in a plug-in heater, we can put it right there on the seat next to you.”

And I was like oh, it’s so sad, but it’s so romantic and poetic and that’s what happened. On the last day the Bronco wrapped itself out. So no, I think we had a party and they must have pushed it into the studio because we took a lot of pictures by it. But as much as Lucas would have loved to have that Bronco, we also knew that it was a royal piece of amazing looks and that’s all it was. So it was no, he didn’t get it but she knew when to take her bow and she did.

ADAM COPELAND: And she did it.

EMILY ROSE: And what, Adam?

ADAM COPELAND: She did have a drink named after her.

EMILY ROSE: Did she?

ADAM COPELAND: The blue bronco on Haven.

EMILY ROSE: That’s right. Oh that’s right, that’s right. She did. That’s right she did.

ADAM COPELAND: Yes.

EMILY ROSE: The blue bronco.

QUESTION: Did you have a favorite episode or a favorite moment during the series?

EMILY ROSE: During the series, wowser. Oh man. I think I like all of the time travel episodes. I like when I get to see, I mean, Haven is such a timeless place anyway but I think I really, really, really dug when we got to see it transform into different eras of time.

Like the 50s episode will always stand out in my mind and the one we did this season will stand out as well. But it’s too hard for me to pick a moment because to me Haven is one huge moment in my life that’s really, really cool. So it’s hard to say goodbye to that friend, in a way. It was a lot – it was a big growing experience for me and a big adventure and a big huge family.

The people, unfortunately some of the best moments of times in your life aren’t necessarily filmed, they're what's not filmed. And the family that we had there and how hard the Nova Scotia people crews worked for us and what quality they put out and their consistent love and family that they created for us is really one thing that I will always have with me from now on and will never forget. So it’s pretty special, has a pretty special place in my heart. And I’m sorry, I am pregnant so I’m a bit emotional about things.

ADAM COPELAND: I echo the same sentiments. I found myself this summer for the first time I was like, wow, we’re not in Nova Scotia. I really miss Nova Scotia and I miss the people and the gang and the family. And I miss getting together and having wine and just (inaudible). Wow, I really sound old giving this interview.

EMILY ROSE: You’re really old.

ADAM COPELAND: And playing board games and wrapping, doing wrap presents for the crew and just, I don’t know. It really just became more than just a show and that was such a great experience to be involved in because as I said earlier, I had no idea that was going to happen and this show truly did change my life. I think about what happened to me personally from the time I started on this show, I’ve had a baby who the entire cast and crew knows and loves.

There’s babies that I know and love that I got to crawl all over me and to be uncle Adam for. And those are things that no one sees that just they remain with you. From the work standpoint huge things obviously, it’s all a new experience. But I think that’s what I took from it is just that it’s trendy in industry but that it can be more than that and it was.

EMILY ROSE: Yes, it was a big year of closure this year. This summer was really, I don’t know, was really sweet to be back home but it was also really hard to be away from our Haven family. We were hoping to dedicate this last season to our dear friend (Nicky Butler) who we lost this year. Nicky was the owner of the restaurant in town, in Chester, that we met with, we had dinner at her place every single Sunday night, family dinners there as a cast and crew

And like Adam said, when I had my, when I had (Myles) as a newborn at six weeks going back to work, I was walking him down to dinner there, strapped to me and stuff and we just have such a family there. So the fact that for us the closure has been really good and really necessary but it’s been hard to be away from family during some of those big moments, but it’s also felt like the year for that. It’s just happening and life grows and changes and closes and moves on and we’re just really thankful and blessed to have been a part of it.

SCIFI VISION: Audrey is a lot different now that she’s not immune to the troubles like she was. Has that affected the way you play her, and how is that going to affect the character as well this season?

EMILY ROSE: Yes, I just remember with her it was – it’s tricky for me to sometimes parse out, because we’re talking about season 5b, but we filmed 5a and 5b together as 26 episodes. So I just remember, I think somebody even asked about Mara early on. And the tricky part about her is, you know, her acting like she’s Audrey, but then being Mara, but then people think she’s Audrey.

And then the whole immunity part getting thrown in there, and it was really appropriate, because a big question for Audrey this season was a different version of the original question she was asking, like who am I? Who am I? She didn’t know her identity initially and in terms of her family, but then once she reclaimed her family and who that was, and gained a new identity in being this protector of the town and somebody that was immune, now she’s faced again with a new identity crisis not only with having been these different people but also, I don’t want to say power because it’s not a power, but something that worked to her advantage is no longer a part of her either.

SCIFI VISION: Right.

EMILY ROSE: And so she’s constantly on that identity hunt, and I can totally identify with that. And especially moving on from this character and having inhabited her for a long time, being like, “Oh, okay, what am I now, and what am I doing now, and how am I going to identify myself, and where do I fit?”

But fortunately that’s just not Audrey’s question. That’s a question that we all ask, and that’s a question that all the characters asked as they bumped up, do I ask that question as he is forced to take different roles and how does that role change his relationship with other people? And Nathan is forced to ask himself that when stuff for Audrey changes and then how does that affect their relationship?

Because that was directly connected to a lot of the ways that they connected early on, that he could feel her and all of that. So that’s something, we don’t know if that changes or not. Does that change their dynamic? All kinds of stuff that it feeds into Duke and his journey, what does it mean with the troubles being a part of him and then not a part of him? Does that make him evil, does that make him good?

All the characters are asking those questions. All of them, it’s just in different forms. So it’s great writing in that way, because it’s a core question that we'd all ask, just heightened and dealing with troubles. So yes, it was tricky to play because I constantly was having to gauge myself with the directors and my writers like, OK, where am I? And because your instinct after playing this character for so long is just to act a certain way, but you have to keep the current state in the front of your mind.