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[00:01:01] Hey there it's Michelle Norris.
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[00:01:55] My name is Anna Silk.
[00:01:57] For six seasons I played Bo on the hit TV series Lost Girl.
[00:02:01] And my name is Rachel Skarsten.
[00:02:03] For three seasons I played Tamsin.
[00:02:06] Welcome to the Lost Girl Rewatch Podcast.
[00:02:09] A show where we will look at all the episodes, share some behind the scenes stories.
[00:02:13] And chat with some very special guests.
[00:02:16] On the show our relationship was sometimes rocky.
[00:02:20] But in life our friendship is rock solid.
[00:02:24] We are so glad you are here to join us this trip down memory lane.
[00:02:28] We love that the family is back together again.
[00:02:36] Hi everybody.
[00:02:37] Welcome back to the Lost Girl Rewatch Podcast episode 10.
[00:02:42] We will be discussing season two episodes 19 and 20.
[00:02:48] I know it's always hard to figure out.
[00:02:50] And we're very excited.
[00:02:52] Rachel and I are very excited today about our guest.
[00:02:55] Because we have the incredible Mr. Aaron Ashmore joining us.
[00:03:00] Welcome Aaron.
[00:03:01] Hello.
[00:03:01] Hello.
[00:03:02] Thank you guys for having me on.
[00:03:03] I was actually really excited when you put the invitation out.
[00:03:07] Because I've been watching a lot of podcast stuff.
[00:03:12] And there's a lot of people who are starting to do these rewatches and whatever.
[00:03:16] And I think it's a really fun way to catch up with you guys is kind of nice.
[00:03:21] But also just kind of revisit some old work and some old projects.
[00:03:24] And yeah, so I think it's a lot of fun.
[00:03:27] So I'm happy to be here.
[00:03:27] Absolutely.
[00:03:28] Oh good.
[00:03:29] Well, it's been crazy to rewatch every episode for me.
[00:03:34] I'm sure.
[00:03:34] Because it's long ago enough that I don't remember stuff.
[00:03:41] And it's just really cool.
[00:03:42] There's so much I'm proud of.
[00:03:43] There's so much I'm hanging my head about.
[00:03:46] But that's the way it goes when you look at it.
[00:03:48] Exactly.
[00:03:50] But you came in in season two as a love interest for Kenzie.
[00:03:57] Which I think was so important for her character.
[00:04:01] We had to see a different side of her.
[00:04:03] And one thing I loved that they did with Nate and Kenzie was they already had history.
[00:04:09] They knew each other as kids, which I thought was really clever.
[00:04:12] They didn't just fall in love at a bar or something.
[00:04:15] Yeah.
[00:04:16] Nothing wrong with that though.
[00:04:17] Nothing wrong with falling in love at a bar.
[00:04:19] I'm all for it.
[00:04:21] No, I agree with you because there's automatic history.
[00:04:25] And it just makes sense for these two people to fall for each other quickly as you do on TV
[00:04:33] when there's a little something more going on.
[00:04:36] And I also appreciated the dynamic where it seemed like he was probably a little bit older
[00:04:41] and she probably had a little bit of a crush on him, older, younger things.
[00:04:45] So again, I think when he sees her, it's sort of like,
[00:04:48] oh yeah, you were this little girl that was an extra neighbor or whatever.
[00:04:52] Now you're this beautiful woman and I think that's an interesting
[00:04:57] little dynamic to play with. And yeah, just made it fun.
[00:05:00] Yeah.
[00:05:01] Okay. Before we start to get in the episode, I want to ask,
[00:05:03] do you remember your audition for Lost Girl?
[00:05:07] Me?
[00:05:08] No.
[00:05:11] I was thinking about this today and I actually got offered it because
[00:05:17] I had worked with Vanessa and Jay Firestone on another show called 13,
[00:05:24] which was like the spy show. Stewart Townsend played the lead.
[00:05:27] And I went on for an episode and then it turned into a few more.
[00:05:31] And at one point, Jay came up to me and said,
[00:05:33] oh hey, I've got this other show, Lost Girl, and one of our leads might need a,
[00:05:40] we're thinking about a love interest for next season.
[00:05:41] And when somebody says that to you, especially on set, you're kind of like,
[00:05:45] oh, you know, like nice, whatever.
[00:05:46] Well, yeah.
[00:05:47] You have the expectation that I've been doing this long enough to not
[00:05:50] have any expectation that that's actually going to happen.
[00:05:53] But six months or so later, I got a call and it was, hey, do you want to come on in for,
[00:05:59] I don't know, like four or five episodes and play love interest for Kenzie and Ksenia?
[00:06:04] And at that point, I'd seen the show. Like I always check out all the shows
[00:06:07] that are shooting in Toronto. So you kind of have an idea what the vibe is,
[00:06:10] what the tone is. So I was like, absolutely. Like I love genre stuff. I loved like sci-fi
[00:06:15] fantasy stuff. So it was just one of those happy things that just kind of lined up.
[00:06:22] So you didn't chemistry read or anything like that?
[00:06:25] You just, oh, look at this guy. I know.
[00:06:30] It's very true. Cause I remember hearing you were cast and everyone did like a little swoon.
[00:06:36] Karen Ashmore said, oh, there's a little swooning on set.
[00:06:39] Oh, that's really nice.
[00:06:41] So in this episode, episode 19, which was titled truth and consequences written by
[00:06:47] Grant Rosenberg and directed by Lee Rose. They actually both worked on 13 too.
[00:06:55] So it's like, I guess it was just the very, yeah, Grant was producing
[00:06:59] and writing on 13 and Lee directed anyways, yada yada.
[00:07:03] So that's why it happened.
[00:07:04] Both wonderful people and great. They did a lot of stuff on the show.
[00:07:08] I cut you off, but I was like, yes. Although it was a, it was a,
[00:07:12] you can cut us off at any time. I have a question because, and I think we could all
[00:07:17] answer this really, but I want to know how you feel about as an actor stepping into an
[00:07:25] existing cast this way, because there is, there are challenges doing that. I feel like
[00:07:30] it's more nerve wracking personally than being there every day. So were there any particular
[00:07:36] challenges to this character or to lost girl? I've done that a lot come into shows where it's,
[00:07:43] you know, established and you're kind of coming in as like a reoccurring thing.
[00:07:46] So I felt confident in that. I do remember there was a few things. I mean, just the world,
[00:07:51] right? Like the language, the, the, the Faye, like all this sort of stuff.
[00:07:55] There's a little bit of like catching up, like everybody knows all what it is
[00:07:58] and understands each other's roles and who they are. But I was a little bit like, okay,
[00:08:03] what, you know, what exactly are some of the dialogue and some of the things, again,
[00:08:07] I didn't have to say that stuff, but even reading the script to fully understand all
[00:08:11] the dynamics, it took a little bit of catching up. I also remember that I had to play the
[00:08:20] guitar, I think in like, and sing like a little song. And I, yes, like in one of the
[00:08:24] first episodes and I was kind of like, Ooh, you know, that's not my fourth, you know,
[00:08:29] like I have a home that I would strum and whatever and enjoy it, but not something
[00:08:34] that I really wanted that I would be putting out there into the world. So that I was a little
[00:08:38] bit like, Oh my God, I got to sing this song and I got to do this and try and make it
[00:08:42] smooth and all this. So there was a few little things, but again, great. Everybody
[00:08:48] was super nice and friendly to me. Like the, you know what I mean? Like it was a very warm
[00:08:53] set and a warm cast. So that is the first thing. Like if, if when people are inviting
[00:08:59] right off the bat, then it's easy to jump into something. Most of the time that's the case.
[00:09:03] Occasionally I've, you know, you go onto something and you're like, Oh, there's some,
[00:09:07] you know, some people around here. Yeah. Like obviously some drama that's going on
[00:09:12] that you just are walking into. And I didn't really, I didn't feel any of that when I went
[00:09:16] into Lost Girl. There may have been some, I don't know, but not that I could tell.
[00:09:20] We hid it from everybody. No, I'm just kidding. There was, it was a very happy, happy cast.
[00:09:26] Yeah. And do you have any particular memories of filming?
[00:09:30] Scene stuff or anything that comes to mind? I do remember you singing and Kenzie kind of
[00:09:35] swooning over you in this episode. I mean, this is Nate's the breakup episode, really.
[00:09:40] Which is so sad because it starts with him giving her his key to his apartment.
[00:09:47] And it's really, what's great is that because it's played by you and because
[00:09:53] the way they wrote Nate, he is, he's so exactly what we think of as exactly what you would want
[00:10:02] in a boyfriend and in a relationship. Like someone so deeply committed to you,
[00:10:06] so deeply in love with you that it makes it a hard choice for Kenzie to choose between
[00:10:11] staying in this crazy Faye world or leaving, you know, taking that opportunity.
[00:10:16] Amazing job of playing that, that pole, you know? And again, she, she chooses her,
[00:10:23] her friends, her, her best friend, her, you know, that and, and, but yeah, it didn't seem
[00:10:28] like an easy decision. You know, like it seemed like she, you know, like she really needed
[00:10:33] a boyfriend. Like that was something that she really could have used and was really good for
[00:10:37] her. So again, I'm watching it back. That poll to me worked, worked really well. And I
[00:10:44] think that Nate just completely being in the dark about, you know, why, you know, like he's
[00:10:50] just so like sideswiped by this because he really thought this was going well. And,
[00:10:55] you know, this was working out so great and for her to just kind of end it. And she does,
[00:11:00] I call it like the old Yeller or like the thing where you basically, you know,
[00:11:06] you know, they do it to animals and things where you like yell at them to chase them away,
[00:11:10] but really it's for their own good sort of thing. And like, so she's saying all this stuff that's
[00:11:15] very hurtful. She does the whole I don't love you. Yeah. When really she does, you know,
[00:11:21] I don't know. It worked really, really well. I thought that stuff. And I think that's a really
[00:11:26] interesting character moment for, for her to, to, you know, yeah, to pick,
[00:11:33] pick her friendship and probably Nate's safety too, right? Above, above everything else.
[00:11:39] It was actually an act of love, even though it's otherwise, but I loved how it also,
[00:11:46] like played into the storyline between Bo and Kenzie who are like sisters, right? So there's
[00:11:52] almost like Bo kind of almost breaks up with her in the episode to say like, go get out of
[00:11:56] here. You know, it's okay. Yeah. And then at the end, Bo and Kenzie sort of recommit to
[00:12:01] each other. It's a lovely moment at the end for sure. It is. It is.
[00:12:07] Um, so what, okay. Let me see here. What else did I write down?
[00:12:16] He just, you know, he used that pain and he went on and he wrote some amazing music and he's,
[00:12:20] you know, he's still touring, you know, he's just, he does covers of love hurts
[00:12:25] exactly over and over. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's, he's huge in Denmark or something,
[00:12:31] like, he's really big. He's like the David Hasselhoff of Germany. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
[00:12:37] Yeah. They love him. He's, he's drew his hair out and yeah, it's great. Yeah. The one thing
[00:12:42] that I was watching the show, I was like, everybody's so hot. Like it is one of that,
[00:12:49] like I kind of forgot, you know, like just like the Catholic, everybody looks so hot,
[00:12:54] so good. Your costumes are incredible, Anna. Like some of them. Yeah. Honestly, looking
[00:12:59] back, I'm like, God, why didn't I stare at myself in the mirror more?
[00:13:05] Well, just like it's one of like, I knew that. But while looking back and I'm just like,
[00:13:11] oh my gosh, you know, like, wow, it's crazy. But you know, one of the things
[00:13:15] David Green was our cinematographer and he wanted us to look really like comic book heroes.
[00:13:21] Yeah. You know, that like, it could be like you're turning a page in a comic book. So
[00:13:25] everything's like the colors are really rich and saturated. It has a dark quality to it.
[00:13:30] Yeah, for sure. The silhouettes are comic book, like it, which I thought was just so
[00:13:35] much fun to really lean into that. Cause we were lit really well as we were.
[00:13:40] Yeah. It looks so good. Yeah. And again, like even me, I'm looking, I'm like, I look like,
[00:13:46] I don't know, 12 years ago or something like that. And I was like, oh my God,
[00:13:50] that's so many wrinkles. You know what I mean? Like it's interesting. I don't go back
[00:13:53] and look at old stuff all that much. You know, like sometimes you'll just see a clip,
[00:13:57] but to actually sit down to watch something that's like, you know,
[00:14:01] over a decade old or whatever. I think like I'm also trying to, when, when season two,
[00:14:05] do you remember when you shot season two? Season two would have been,
[00:14:09] I have to time it around. 2010, right? 11. I was gonna say.
[00:14:16] Yeah. Like 13 years ago. Yeah. I just don't sit down. So it is interesting to see
[00:14:22] like even, you know, how you're, how you change. I mean, it's, you know, physically, but also
[00:14:26] like even acting and stuff, like watching some of the choices that you'd made and things that
[00:14:30] you're like, okay, yeah, I remember when I used to do that or I probably wouldn't have
[00:14:33] done that now. And not in a beating yourself up, but just in a, just a curious, yeah.
[00:14:39] See how you've changed and evolved and that it's actually, it's probably a good thing as
[00:14:45] an actor to kind of go back and sort of watch those things. What was the thing in this
[00:14:48] episode that you were like, Oh, I wouldn't act that way anymore.
[00:14:52] It's not like a choice. It's, it's like a confidence thing. I think I'm just so much
[00:14:56] more confident in, in myself and my abilities and stuff that I can just see myself maybe,
[00:15:04] you know, holding back a little bit or it just, just, just little things that nobody else
[00:15:08] would notice. In terms of confidence,
[00:15:10] I have to say you're probably the only actor that I've ever witnessed ever that literally
[00:15:16] does the thing where you're exactly one way they call action and you're exactly the same
[00:15:21] way, you know, that kind of like, which reads as uber confident. So I don't know,
[00:15:28] like it's just this effortless, you know, there was no like, like prepping.
[00:15:34] No, no, yeah, I don't. I just, yeah.
[00:15:36] I do, which is totally fine too, but you were just seamless. No, I know. I know.
[00:15:42] I love actually on this show was the first time that I ever experienced someone really
[00:15:47] doing it. And I'm going to just call them out so hard, but I think I've done it before
[00:15:52] Chris Holden Reed because we did this scene together.
[00:15:55] The growling.
[00:15:57] Always.
[00:15:57] He growled and nobody told me that he was going to do that. And so we block the scene.
[00:16:03] We rehearsed the scene. No growl, like nothing. We go, they light it, we come back
[00:16:08] and then they're, you know, slate or doing the slate, which for people who don't know,
[00:16:14] it's that little kind of like clipboard that they do with the numbers to mark the scene.
[00:16:19] And he goes like this. And I was so taken aback.
[00:16:26] It took me a minute.
[00:16:28] Terrifying.
[00:16:29] Yeah, I got used to it.
[00:16:31] He did it all the time. And you know, who knew he was doing it is Dan, the sound guy,
[00:16:35] because he would have to take off his headphones and then put them back on because it would be too
[00:16:40] loud. But what was so funny about Chris, we adore Chris, by the way, we talk to Chris all the time.
[00:16:46] I think he's a great guy too.
[00:16:48] Excuse me. He would be growling and growling and growling. And then they'd call action.
[00:16:52] You'd be like, Oh, we need to get out of here.
[00:16:56] Like, why are you growling? But you know what? We all do things. We all have habits. We all
[00:17:00] have tricks, skills. I feel like what I learned doing that show because it was the most significant
[00:17:08] job I had gotten where I was going to be leading this show and I learned so much
[00:17:14] about performance that I only learned in bits and pieces up until then is that
[00:17:20] people can have a certain amount of talent, but then they develop a certain amount of skill.
[00:17:25] And I feel like skill is different than tricks. I mean, you know, you pull out all the stops
[00:17:30] when you need to do something, but there is a skill involved. It's not just a talent
[00:17:34] because there's people who can have oodles of talent, but they can't hit a mark and like,
[00:17:38] it's just not useful. So I just feel like I learned so much from watching everybody.
[00:17:43] And after you knew, you know, like whatever, how many hours do you think you worked on that
[00:17:48] show? Like acting, like, you know, you work insane, you know, so you create all the stuff
[00:17:53] and there's like a, yeah, like a confidence and an ease that just kind of comes when
[00:17:58] you've done something for a very, very long time. And that's not something that you can
[00:18:03] like practice at home or that you're born with. It's just like anything. You just,
[00:18:07] you kind of just get it. And again, yeah, I see people, actors that I work with all the
[00:18:13] time that are super talented, like, but maybe sort of newer in their, in their career,
[00:18:19] like in their career, they haven't been doing it for a long time. So there's just
[00:18:22] certain different things that they excel at, but that sometimes that just relaxed confidence
[00:18:28] is not always there, even though they're very talented. And that's an interesting thing to
[00:18:32] yeah, it just, it's interesting. How many years have you been acting now?
[00:18:37] Like how old were you? I think I was started, my brother and I started doing commercials when
[00:18:41] we were about eight and I'm 44 now. So I don't know, 18, 28, 38.
[00:18:48] I know I need to get my calculator. That's incredible.
[00:18:55] Yeah. You know, like all throughout high school and junior high, it was very,
[00:19:00] you know, just here and there was like, we were, Rachel and I were talking about it just before
[00:19:04] that it was sort of like this extracurricular where you got to make money. It was kind of,
[00:19:08] you know, which was awesome. When you're a child, you don't see it for the business that
[00:19:16] it is, or, or you don't understand the concept of having a job. You it's just fun.
[00:19:22] There's no difference, or at least there wasn't for me of playing pretend with my friends or
[00:19:26] playing pretend with actors. It was just funny. I don't think it was until my early 20s that I
[00:19:31] really recognized, oh, this is like, this is a career. This is a job and appreciate it.
[00:19:37] Even when I finished high school, I was not even thinking about being an actor. My brother
[00:19:42] was going to go do that. He's like, he was super con I'm going to go be an actor. And
[00:19:45] I was like, I don't know what I'm going to do. I applied for film programs because
[00:19:48] I was like, I think I like this business, but I didn't know. And then I got accepted to,
[00:19:53] I think, Sheridan film program here in Toronto. And, but I booked a couple jobs at the end of
[00:19:59] the summer and a feature that would take me into the new into the school year. And one
[00:20:04] of my friends was like, why don't you just defer go next year? Like make the money like
[00:20:08] now and then just go next year. And then the college said, yeah, you can do that.
[00:20:12] And then all of a sudden I was like, oh, why maybe I should just really apply
[00:20:16] myself at acting and see what happens. And there's a lot of slow years, not great years,
[00:20:20] but it started once I started being like, oh, let me try this as a career thing started to
[00:20:25] slowly start to happen. So, I don't know, kind of fell just fell into it really.
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[00:21:56] I mean, I have the opposite. I did some commercials as a kid, like local commercials,
[00:22:01] but there was no film business where I was living.
[00:22:05] East Coast, yeah, New Brunswick. And so I started much later. I started even trying
[00:22:12] to be an actor. I didn't even move to Toronto until I was 25.
[00:22:16] So I was like a geriatric. People are like, well, I walk into auditions with people that
[00:22:23] have been doing it since they were your guys' age and they all know each other. And I'm just
[00:22:26] going, why am I here? What is happening? A little Anna, just like 25 year old me. I
[00:22:33] mean, still, still a grown up, but I felt like a late bloomer. That's for sure. But,
[00:22:39] but I kept doing it. So have you done any other genre stuff?
[00:22:47] Well, Sir 13, I know that. Yeah. We're a show called Warehouse 13.
[00:22:52] I went and did Michelle Lovretta's next show called Killjoys for five seasons.
[00:22:57] That's right. Which was awesome. And so the show 13 that I was talking about,
[00:23:03] I think got me onto Lost Girl. And then I think in a big way doing Lost Girl got me
[00:23:08] Killjoys because when I tested for Killjoys, one of the guys that was up from the States was
[00:23:18] like, oh, he's like, Oh, I hear you're like a shoe in for the part. Like they've got your
[00:23:21] picture up on the wall or in the Bible for the show. And I was like, I thought he was
[00:23:25] fucking with me. Excuse me. And about a year, like, and then I ended up booking the show
[00:23:33] and I was like, but you know, went through the testing process, mixing matching with all
[00:23:36] this stuff. And the guy threw me off with that. Like I thought he was, he was an Australian guy.
[00:23:40] Didn't know him. He wasn't like a local guy. So it's not like he was a guy that I sort of knew,
[00:23:44] just some dude I did not know. And I was like, why would he say that to me? Like,
[00:23:47] that's such a weird thing to say. And like, anyways, it kind of threw me off in a weird
[00:23:52] way. And then about a year later, I finally got up the, I asked Michelle, I said, Hey,
[00:23:56] like when you were coming up with the character of the show, like, did you have like a picture
[00:24:01] or something of me? And she's like, yeah, you were kind of like a little bit of like a
[00:24:04] prototype for what the character could be or what I was thinking. And I was like, Jesus,
[00:24:09] why didn't you tell me that ahead of time? I would have been so much less nervous for,
[00:24:13] for, you know, this testing thing. Cause I really,
[00:24:14] It would have been more nervous for the test.
[00:24:17] Oh yeah. No, you're right. It's probably a lot of pressure to put on somebody
[00:24:20] to do that. But anyways, so you know what I mean? Like all these things sort of line up
[00:24:24] in really interesting ways. So I, I really think that working on Lost Girl set me up in a great
[00:24:30] position for a show that went on for like five, you know, I got to do like a leading
[00:24:33] role for five seasons. So it's incredible how all these little things are tied together when you
[00:24:39] sort of follow them back and how, and I say this to actors all the time, like who are asking me
[00:24:46] stuff. I'm like, make sure you do the best, your best job every time and leave a good
[00:24:51] impression, not just like your work, but like your professionalism yourself, because
[00:24:56] one thing leads to another. It just does. Like I'm sure you guys, you know, have stories
[00:25:02] like that too, right? Where you'd work with somebody and then that leads to other opportunities
[00:25:06] or they put in a good word for you with somebody else who, you know, they reach out and say like,
[00:25:11] Oh, I know you've worked so and so are they good? Are they easy to work with? And if the
[00:25:15] answer is no, well guess what? You're not getting that job. So it all sort of,
[00:25:20] it all kind of ties together. Lost Girl actually did that for me too. I got my job
[00:25:25] after I did a show Rain for the CW and I got that job because the head, the then head of CW,
[00:25:33] him and his wife, their favorite show was Lost Girl. You never know. You never know.
[00:25:41] I think that's true for anything in life though. It is. Yeah. Yeah. You put your best self
[00:25:47] out there and that's what you want to do. But in this business, like it really, I mean,
[00:25:54] I know all sorts of people who've nice people, good actors who have screwed themselves out
[00:25:59] of jobs and opportunities because they can be kind of difficult or whatever, you know,
[00:26:03] whatever in the indifference. I mean, we all hear those stories of difficult. Yes. I was a
[00:26:08] tyrant. I was a tyrant. You guys are doing a separate podcast like a support group. Yeah.
[00:26:15] So, but I mean, there are people that we all know that are, you know, not the easiest people
[00:26:24] to be around and they still work. But it's, I think that's the exception. I really do think
[00:26:28] what you're saying is true, Aaron, about, you know, you're going to get back what you give.
[00:26:34] You really are. And so to put out your best work, to make a community on set because it
[00:26:42] does become your second family during that time is really important and really valuable
[00:26:46] and just makes the experience richer as well. And like there's, it's not hard to be kind,
[00:26:50] right? Or professional. Like you just show up when you're supposed to show up. You,
[00:26:55] you know, are just nice to people in a general sort of way. Like, you know,
[00:26:58] don't have a fucking tantrum on set. You're good to go. You'll probably do
[00:27:03] good in this business. You'll probably do good. Have you had any particular fan
[00:27:08] encounters related to last girl over the years?
[00:27:11] Yeah. Well, I've seen you guys at some of the conventions over the years and I've done
[00:27:16] not so much anymore because I haven't really been doing any sci-fi shows in the past like
[00:27:20] five years, but for a while there I was doing them like constantly. And I love doing the
[00:27:24] conventions because A, you get to travel somewhere, you know, like fun. I've been
[00:27:29] to Australia and France and England and Germany, all these amazing places. And you
[00:27:34] get to catch up with people that you haven't worked with a lot of the time. So that's
[00:27:38] always great. And I always bring lost girl pictures because at the first couple I went
[00:27:44] to, people were asking and I was like, Oh, that's not really something that I thought
[00:27:47] because I wasn't, I didn't have a huge part on it that people would be asking for. But
[00:27:52] I, after the first few people had been asking, I always would, would get lost girl prints
[00:27:59] and bring them. Cause there's for sure always at least a couple of people that would be
[00:28:02] like, Oh, we love lost girl. We loved you on the show and all that stuff. So,
[00:28:08] but I wouldn't say there's any like really specific fan stuff, but there was definitely
[00:28:14] like all over the world, everywhere I went, there was definitely lost girl fans everywhere.
[00:28:19] Even for like a smaller supporting role in the show. So they are far and wide and
[00:28:24] like passionate, right? Like really passionate. They took such ownership of this show. And I
[00:28:30] feel like I haven't done a con in a while because the show has been off the air for a
[00:28:34] really long time. But the last few that I did, I was meeting brand new fans, like kids,
[00:28:40] kids that were 18 and they've just kind of discovered this show.
[00:28:47] I know I've reached the point. I realized the other day, I called someone who was like 30.
[00:28:54] I called them sweetie. I was like, it's okay, sweetie. And I was like, Oh no,
[00:28:57] I'm the agent. I'm going to call people sweetie. Oh God, what has happened?
[00:29:01] Were they like, all right.
[00:29:02] They were like, wow, old lady. Okay. Ma'am.
[00:29:07] That's the worst ma'am. Well, Aaron lost girl fans are going to love having heard from you,
[00:29:15] you added so much charm and warmth and extra hotness to season two with your portrayal
[00:29:22] of Nate. And you know, this podcast is a love letter to the fans because they've been so
[00:29:28] supportive to us over the years. And so we really appreciate you joining us.
[00:29:34] Maybe we'll see you at a con.
[00:29:39] We can pose for some photo ops together.
[00:29:42] Some awkward photos with the peeps. Well, so nice. Thanks you guys for having me on.
[00:29:47] And it was fun to sort of relive that time period and sort of dive back into the show.
[00:29:53] So thank you guys for allowing that opportunity to happen too.
[00:29:57] Absolutely. And everybody stick around because Rachel and I will be discussing episode 20.
[00:30:04] We're back. Just the two of us.
[00:30:06] I know. And wasn't it so great to talk to Aaron?
[00:30:09] He's just such a darling. You know, it's funny because
[00:30:12] I didn't work with any of these actors on Lost Girl, obviously.
[00:30:16] As we have all these guests, I'm like, oh yeah, we did that movie together.
[00:30:21] It's the small world.
[00:30:22] Yeah, this kind of small, it's not even that small, but just a small world that
[00:30:29] the Canadian acting scene is. But that's also cool because you see
[00:30:33] the people who are on Lost Girl who go on to do these other amazing things. And maybe when
[00:30:37] they were on Lost Girl, we're just starting out or, you know, it's really cool. And I
[00:30:43] think it's a testament to the show to kind of look back and be like, wow, we had those people
[00:30:49] on the show. That's amazing.
[00:30:50] I know. We were lucky. I know. I know. So we talked to Aaron mostly about, well,
[00:30:56] his arc on the show, of course, and about episode 19. But I wanted to make sure we
[00:31:00] touched on episode 20 because that is leading into the final two episodes of the season.
[00:31:06] So of course things are really heating up at this point in episode 20. The Garuda is
[00:31:11] getting closer. Kiara is back. Kiara dies.
[00:31:16] I'm actually shocked that no one's mentioned the Garuda.
[00:31:20] Because I feel like all you guys talked about when I joined the show was the Garuda.
[00:31:23] I think because it was really more towards the end of the season. And so, and then we
[00:31:28] were saying it every 30 seconds. It has to be a drinking game. It has to be a Lost
[00:31:32] Girl drinking game where we say Garuda and you have to drink every time and then everyone
[00:31:35] will be drunk.
[00:31:35] If you were listening to this episode, you'd be drunk already.
[00:31:39] Garuda, Garuda, Garuda. But yes, Garuda is here. There's going to be a big battle.
[00:31:48] Bo and Lauren have a lot of repair work to do in their relationship. So you see that
[00:31:52] starting to happen, which is huge. And, oh, Nadia tries to stab Lauren.
[00:31:59] Right.
[00:32:00] Lauren, both.
[00:32:01] Notch killed Nadia. So there's all of these things happening at this point in the story.
[00:32:07] And I have to give a shout out to Athena who played Nadia who was pretty remarkable
[00:32:10] because that is a really tough role to play. So I feel like we got some big things happening
[00:32:17] at this point and we will talk more about it next week when we have the season finale
[00:32:23] of the Rewatch podcast where we can talk about the last couple episodes.
[00:32:27] Do you remember anything specific from episode 20?
[00:32:31] Yeah.
[00:32:31] Were you just so exhausted at that point?
[00:32:33] I didn't know if it was day or night at that point, but the hardest memory,
[00:32:39] and you see it in episode 20 and then you'll see it in 21, 22 according to my memory,
[00:32:45] we shot in an old meat packing plant.
[00:32:49] I actually remember you telling me.
[00:32:51] So for like three days, we were in this meat packing plant that had a very particular smell
[00:32:57] and feel. And I remember across the street was a real abattoir. So where they were like
[00:33:05] making leather or whatever. Is that no tannery? Not an abattoir. It wasn't an
[00:33:09] abattoir where they draw blood from it. You know what? Tannery. So there was a lot of smells
[00:33:15] in the air. And I just remember at one point I'm laying on the floor in the old meat packing
[00:33:19] plant and they had to put a fan on my face for an effect. And there was all this kind of
[00:33:24] very questionable dust blowing into my face. And I thought, this is magic.
[00:33:31] Were you vegan at this point or is that what you were thinking?
[00:33:34] I was vegan at this point. And with good reason because good God,
[00:33:38] that was not a fun experience. But that's what I remember in the
[00:33:41] vegetarian because of you. I know.
[00:33:44] And that story. And that story. And then I wasn't there for that, but I felt like
[00:33:49] but it's such a visceral story for everyone else. I go, do you remember?
[00:33:52] You know what's crazy? Not to bring this in because actually one of the things I loved about
[00:33:57] you when it came to being a vegetarian is you weren't like, you know, kind of, you know,
[00:34:04] some people can be like, well, we eat meat like you're such a dick or something. Like
[00:34:07] you weren't like that at all. But I actually, oh my gosh, I completely forgot what I was going
[00:34:13] to say. Oh, I know that same meat packing plant that you had that story and years later, I
[00:34:23] did a peaceful protest outside. You did. I remember because in Toronto,
[00:34:29] there's pig the pig slaughterhouses. There's one right downtown Toronto.
[00:34:34] And I had Max, my little Jack Russell, he wore a little sandwich board that said,
[00:34:39] I'm friend, not food. Yeah.
[00:34:42] Yeah. And that story though, from this episode, impacted so much of my life going forward. So
[00:34:48] even though I wasn't, I didn't even know I was going to be on Lost Girl. That experience
[00:34:53] in that set changed a big part of the course of my life.
[00:34:58] Yeah. Very interesting. Well, more to come.
[00:35:04] More to come. I will see you very soon.
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