Were you pleased to get out of your animal skin Quor'toth clothes and into something a bit more normal?
Yeah, yeah, kind of. I wish they had done a little bit more with the costuming of Connor too, in the sense that I felt we could have established right away some more [interesting] clothing for him. I don't think he would necessarily just drop into jeans and tee shirt, but unfortunately you're dealing with a very sensitive public and I think oftentimes it's better to be safe than to maybe make a big decision that's going to go wrong.
Sometimes it pays off, sometimes it doesn't, but I'm just as much to blame as anybody else for that because it was my call and my character. In retrospect though I would have liked to have right off the top changed a couple of things.
I suppose he does have quite conservative fashion taste for somebody who's never seen an advert.
Yeah. The way that it was told to me, and the way that I read into it also, was that that's the first thing he was ever put in. They put him into jeans and tee shirt after he got out of his other clothes, and so he just took whatever was available. In fact, in one episode I thought it would kind of be a cool idea if at the beginning of the episode I dusted a vamp and right before I dusted him I looked at his jacket and ripped his jacket off and dusted him and put it on. So that [would be] how Connor got his clothes.
I always wondered, "What, does he go shopping or something?" so I always thought that would be kind of cool if I would dust a vamp and then go into his closet and look around and then go, "Oh that's nice," and that's how he picked out his stuff. But they never really established that.
