Transcript: The Secret Circle': Gale Harold gets devious on screen and off!

May, 19th 2011
Transcript by: QAForever
Source: blog.zap2it.com
Edited by: Marcy
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Interviewer: So tell me a little bit about your character. It seems like he’s sortof really different from anyone you’ve played before.

Gale: Uhhhh.... People that cast… borderline… fatal spells… they’re different… right? They act normal. (stares at interviewer) … you feel weird right now?

Interviewer: A little uncomfortable!

Gale: So, that’s what I’m saying.

Interviewer: Uhm, you don’t seem like you’re old enough to be playing anybody’s dad. Are you kind of wierded out by being the grown-up on the show?

Gale: I have seven thousand children.

Interviewer: Really?

Gale: Yes.

Interviewer: All over the world, or just here in Vancouver? How busy were you?

Gale: We’re not in Vancouver right now… this is New York City. But yes. To all of those questions.

Interviewer: Um… tell me a little about your character, I know that he has his own sort of history with his own coven. What are we gonna see - are there a lot of secret that are going to come out, what’s his role here?

Gale: What do you mean by secrets?

Interviewer: You’re making this really hard on me.

Gale: Yeah. That’s my job! There’s going to be a lot of secrets… and… there’s gonna be some gang wars.

Interviewer: Ooh. We like that.

Gale: (looking around) Is someone trying to steal my wat-ah?

Interviewer: Um. So I hear that your character, I know he’s a witch -

Gale: Everything you’re saying sounds like a rumour… ‘I hear this… I hear that…’

Interviewer: Well I wasn’t on set, so…

Gale: Alright, go ahead. Alright.

Interviewer: So he’s a witch. Tell me about working with all of the supernatural stuff. Have you ever done that before, like have you ever played a supernatural character?

Gale: Ummmm. Yeah.

Interviewer: Is it fun? I mean, is that something that appeals to you a lot?

Gale: It’s really really painful… But you get over it.

Interviewer: Um. What have you been up to inbetween- I know you guys wrapped Hellcats a while ago, did you just shoot this pilot or have you been working on other stuff in the middle?

Gale: I built my own rocketship.

Interviewer: Really? So did I! We should do that together.

Gale: Really! Where are you going?

Interviewer: Mars, y’know, see what’s next.

Gale: Really? That’s boring.

Interviewer: Where are you off to?

Gale: Jupiter.

Interviewer: Oh. Yeah. Um I’m taking baby steps, what can I say?

Gale: That’s cool. You know, the Russians used to put mannekins in their rockets so the dogs wouldn’t freak out thinking there were no people in there with them.

Interviewer: Is this a conspiracy theory?

Gale: Nope.

Interviewer: All facts?

Gale: Look it up. Soviet space developments.

Interviewer: Um. Hellcats unfortunatley is no longer. Um, you had some crazy stuff going on there with Marti, did you expect it to go in that direction?

Gale: Yeah.

Interviewer: Really?

Gale: Yeah. I mean it’s a very classic Southern thing y’know. They fell in love and they weren’t allowed to…

Interviewer: Is it really?

Gale: Oh yeah. Are you kiddin’?

Interviewer: Um. I got some Twitter questions from your fans… and my favourite one that someone sent me - she wanted to know if you could have dinner with any of the characters you’ve ever played, which one would you have dinner with, and why?

Gale: Valentine Xavier. And because he actually went to hell… and came back.

Interviewer: Wondering what… that’s like?

Gale: Who isn’t, right?

Interviewer: Yep…

Gale: And I don’t mean the hell you’re thinking about.

Interviewer: No?

Gale: Well, maybe. Hades…

Interviewer: What’s it like working with Kevin Williamson, he’s sort of an icon…

Gale: He is an icon. But he’s very, very open and very sharing with what the undercurrents of these characters are gonna be - which is good. Because when you come into something and you really don’t know where it’s gonna go, and you have to play it all straight, right? You wanna have a little bit of… a morsel, here and there. But I think - I mean, obviously the guy can go dark, right? And that’s what is exciting to me.

Interviewer: Do you think you’ll have some input into the character? You want it to go as dark as he can get, huh?

Gale: Um. Yeah. I mean, I would love to actually turn inside out. Right. You know?

Interviewer: That would be new!

Gale: Well. What’s that guy… he lost all of his skin… and you could just see him… his veins and his capilaries and his muscles…

Interviewer: It sounds like a TLC special!

Gale: No. It’s actually a real story.

Interviewer: Really?

Gale: No.

Interviewer: I’m done! I can’t do anymore.

Gale: Me too, you wore me out. Thank you very much.