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Peter Capaldi and Cush Jumbo Break Down The New Dynamic Between Hegarty & Lenker in Criminal Record Season 2

Criminal RecordIn season two of Criminal Record, rival police officers Detective Chief Inspector Daniel Hegarty (Peter Capaldi) and Detective Sergeant June Lenker (Cush Jumbo) join forces after a young man is killed at a political rally. But what starts as a tentative alliance as they hunt for the murderer soon shifts to an undercover operation to stop a bomb plot in London.

This season the relationship is less antagonistic between Hegarty and Lenker. According to Capaldi, who recently spoke with SciFi Vision, that shift is partially due to Hegarty needing her help on a current case. “[L]ast season delved into the past,” he explained. “…This season is a happening case. It's an actually live case that they have to deal with, which is getting more dangerous day by day, and he actually needs June to help him.”

“[H]e does have a respect for her as a cop and knows how good she is,” he added, saying that, regardless, he isn’t interested in becoming her friend.

According to Jumbo, for Lenker, it’s because of her reaction to a murder she witnessed. “She feels so incredibly guilty about it and so disappointed in herself having allowed it to happen that I think she'll do anything to try to kind of seek justice for him, even if it means annoyingly having to work with Hegarty again,” Jumbo told the site.

As such, Hegarty is able to use things to his advantage and manipulate her. “I just try and give her a version of the truth, which works in my favor,” said Capaldi. “…He's somebody who is following his own agenda, but he's really good at what he does.

“[He] has to figure out what sacrifices have to be made, who has to be thrown under the bus in order to achieve the result he wants,” he continued, adding that he’s happy to throw Lenker under the bus if that’s what it takes.

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FROM Star Julia Doyle on Playing Both Sides of Her Character, That Transformation Scene & More

Julia DoyleYesterday, MGM+ released the premiere of the eagerly-anticipated fourth season of FROM. In the episode, a teenage girl, Sophia (Julia Doyle), and her father, the pastor (Rhys Bevan-John), arrive into town. At the end of the episode, however, it is revealed to viewers that Sophia isn’t his daughter at all, in fact, she isn’t even human. She is actually a newly transformed Man in Yellow (Douglas E. Hughes), who hitched a ride with the pastor into the town pretending to be lost, causing him to have a seizure and crash his car into the sheriff’s station.

Doyle, in a recent interview with SciFi Vision, spoke about emulating Hughes in her performance. "I wanted to make sure that I stayed true to the performance that he kind of laid out in a way, or the blueprint,” explained the actress, adding that she did however also go beyond what the actor portrayed, using it only as a backboard.

In the episode, the actress is fantastic with her quick flip between sweet and evil, and she enjoyed doing both. “I will say that I love playing both sides, because it  keeps things interesting,” said Doyle. “Also, I do love playing with my eyes and the subtleties of that, but also I love playing creepy, and I've been waiting to get a juicy [role] like this where I'm able to be a creep, and that's very fun for me.”

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FROM's Harold Perrineau on the Fallout of Boyd’s Choices in Season 4

Harold PerrineauFROM follows a group of residents trapped in a town they can never leave, trying to unravel the mystery of the town as they fight to survive nightmarish creatures that come out at night and other threats from the surrounding forest.

Sunday, the highly-anticipated fourth season comes to MGM+. In the new season, the group learns that knowledge comes at a cost, and as some new people arrive in town, things quickly go from bad to worse.

At the end of last season, Harold Perrineau, who stars as Sheriff Boyd Stevens, tortured Elgin (Nathan D. Simmons) in order to find out where he was holding his pregnant daughter-in-law, Fatima (Pegah Ghafoori) captive. Will those actions still affect him this season as he continues to try to hold the town together? According to Perrineau, who recently spoke with SciFi Vision, he did what he had to. “There’s no way that he wanted to do that,” the actor told the site. “…but it is the burden of the self-appointed leader to try to figure it out. So, that’s going to sit with him when they get out or if they don’t, like it’s going to last forever. But I think he believes he’s doing everything that he has to do in order to achieve his mission, which is to get everyone home again.”

People could react differently if the truth comes out. “It feels like a little microcosm of what's going on in our society right now," said Perrineau. “You can find out some of the worst things about anybody, and there’re going to be so many different sides that people are going to take. And I think that's exactly what could and will happen with Boyd, which is the reason that we keep watching it.”

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Daredevil: Born Again Star Ayelet Zurer on Vanessa Fisk's Loyalty & Tragic Fate

Ayelet ZurerThis season on Daredevil: Born Again, the battle of wills between Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) and Kingpin (Vincent D’Onofrio) has only escalated. Caught in the middle of that power struggle is Vanessa (Aylet Zurer), whose place in Fisk’s world has become more precarious as the stakes continue to rise.

In last week’s episode Bullseye (Wilson Bethel) made his move on Fisk during the charity boxing match, but it was his wife who paid the ultimate price when she was struck in the head by a shard of glass. Although at first surviving, in the most recent episode, she later dies at the hospital.

According to Zurer, who recently spoke to SciFi Vision about her final episodes, she and Fisk had been moving towards this kind of outcome for awhile. “I think the whole season, what's going on is that maybe Vanessa is beginning to think that there is no end to the game,” she explained. “Nothing will be enough, and I think what hurts most is that maybe she's not enough and she will not be able to take him off the game and go to some island.”

Her character however, moved towards the inevitable rather than away from it. “Once the feeling of dread coming in with the sort of intense knowing that she's being hunted and knowing who is hunting her, she, I believe, is taking one step towards making it happen rather than waiting for the trap.”

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Manifest Reunion: Melissa Roxburgh & Josh Dallas Break Down Their Dark Dynamic on The Hunting Party

***The following contains spoilers for 208***

Melissa Roxburgh & Josh DallasThe Hunting Party follows a team of investigators led by former FBI profiler Rebecca “Bex” Henderson (Melissa Roxburgh) as they hunt down and capture the worst of the worst serial killers who have escaped from the top-secret government prison known as “The Pit.”

Tonight, on an all-new episode, Josh Dallas reunites with his Manifest costar, playing the role of Elliot Carr, a high-end shoemaker and serial killer known as the Connecticut Cobbler, who made shoes from his victims’ skins. Bex and the team race against the clock to find and catch Carr before more people find themselves flayed.

Recently, Roxburgh and Dallas spoke with SciFi Vision about reuniting for the episode, playing the dynamic between their characters that is very different than that of Manifest, what it was like for Dallas to play the darker parts of the character, and more.

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Spotlight: Alex Zahara Talks School Spirits, Ghosts, & His Career

Alex ZaharaSci-fi fans should recognize Alex Zahara from his versatility across more than 150 television and film projects over the years, ranging from Jeremiah to Stargate SG-1 to Supernatural to Fringe and everything in between. More recently, he appeared in the film Final Destination: Bloodlines and plays the role of Principal Hartman in the supernatural series School Spirits.

Recently Zahara was kind enough to appear on SciFi Vision’s livestream spotlight series to speak not only about his role on School Spirits and the end of the season, but also about his prolific acting career and what’s next for him.

While crafting Hartman, the actor pulled from both the script as well as real-life school principals he had, as opposed to other principals on the screen. “I'm basing him on the script, what I believe his needs and wants and goals are, plus a little amalgamation of real people that I know,” the actor told SciFi Vision, likening it to a cocktail. “As actors, we're sponges. We absorb everything from everywhere.”

Zahara connected early on to the material and thought the concept was appealing because of his own beliefs in the supernatural. “I believe in ghosts; I believe in spirits, and that's why it's been a pleasure working on this, because I do think there's stuff out there,” explained the actor. In fact, he even offered up a real experience he had as a child, a visitation he believed was from his great aunt, and he knows he’s not the only one. “I'm not alone. There are a lot of people who have had ghostly, or I would say energetic encounters, and that's for real…There's no denying that there's something beyond our mortal coil, for sure.”

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Mena Suvari & India Eisley on Vampires of the Velvet Lounge’s Dark Comedy Chaos

Vampires of the Velvet LoungeSet in the American South, the film Vampires of the Velvet Lounge follows Countess Elizabeth Báthory (Mena Suvari) and her coven of vampires, including Joan (India Eisley) who operate of a hidden absinthe bar where they lure in unsuspecting lonely victims they meet through dating apps and drain them to maintain their youth. When they target the wrong matches and cross paths with an undercover vampire hunter and a group of unsuspecting male targets who disrupt the plan, the coven’s routine begins to unravel, leading to a chaotic night of escalating violence, fangs, and green-winged fairies inside the bar.

Suvari and Eisley spoke with SciFi Vision about what drew them to Vampires of the Velvet Lounge and why the script felt different from typical horror material, working with blood effects, and more. Vampires of the Velvet Lounge is now in theaters.

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DRAGN Stars James Paxton & Alex Lane on Their Characters and the Film’s Global Story

DRAGNIn DRAGN, Tom Wilson (James Paxton) takes his family to Serbia to fill in for his boss at what he expects to be a routine team-building retreat in the remote forest, but after meeting with the head of the company, Petros (Alex Lane), things quickly go from bad to much worse when he and a group of colleagues from different branches of the company end up being hunted by a rogue AI-driven drone.

Recently, stars Paxton and Lane, who also produced the film and wrote the script, spoke with SciFi Vision to break down the movie, including their characters, stunts, practical effects, AI themes, and more.

DRAGN is now in theaters and available on demand.

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Do Not Enter Stars Jake Manley, Adeline Rudolph & Francesca Reale Discuss Filming, Stunts & Cast Chemistry

Do Not EnterBased on David Morrell’s 2005 novel Creepers, the supernatural horror-thriller Do Not Enter follows a group of thrill-seeking urban explorers who love taking things to the extreme and recording it for social media for the world to see. After a disagreement between members that ends one of them leaving the group, the four friends who stayed, including Rick (Jake Manley), his girlfriend Diane (Adeline Rudolph), Cora (Francesca Reale), and Vernon (Shane Paul McGhie), decide they need to do something big. With its past of supposed ghosts and a rumored $300 millions stashed in the abandoned building, New Jersey’s Paragon Hotel is the perfect place for their next livestreaming stunt in order to increase their fanbase. Ignoring the warnings, the Creepers, with the addition of reporter Frank Balenger (Laurence O’Fuarain), who they think can help grow their online fame, break into the hotel and have to contend with not only deadly rivals, but supernatural creatures that stalk them from the shadows.

Stars Manley, Rudolph, and Francesca recently spoke with SciFi Vision about working on the film, including filming locations, rehearsing together, stunt work, and more.

The film opens today in theaters and is also now available on digital and on demand.

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Dichen Lachman on Playing Cora and Building Character Through Voice in Vampires of the Velvet Lounge

Dichen LachmanDeep in the American South, an absinth bar doubles as a deadly hunting ground for Countess Elizabeth Báthory (Mena Suvari) and her glamorous coven of vampires, who use dating apps to lure in and feed on unsuspecting singles to keep their youth intact. Everything runs smoothly until Elizabeth swipes right on the worst possible matches: a calculating undercover vampire hunter, Cora (Dichen Lachman), and a group of emotionally stunted men. From there, it all unravels into a fever dream of blood, seduction, and chaos, with fangs, glitter, and green fairy energy colliding in a savage grindhouse nightmare.

Lachman recently spoke with SciFi Vision about her experience filming the movie, including her excitement to be back in vampire world again, working with blood effects, building the character through voice, and more, as well as about the challenge of playing multiple versions of the same character across projects like Severance and Dollhouse, and how she relies on physical cues like body tension and movement to separate each version in her performance.

Vampires of the Velvet Lounge opens exclusively in theaters on Friday, March 20th.

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