And the second major series will take part in the same universe as well?
Yes, that is planned. The only way at the point that the second series is not in the same universe is if one of the actors plays a vital role in the second series as a different character, but I don’t see that happening.
Do you think you would recast them as someone else?
Not really, not at this point. Here’s an example, you know that Lookbook just came out, you wrote about it. I’ll give you a story and this is exclusive to you.
“Originally, I was going to have Jane Bennet in ‘Lookbook’ as a character.”
Because it made sense, even though it’s a darker story, her character appearing in Lookbook would have made a lot of sense. It wouldn’t be like, “What the hell is she doing here?” She would be in that world. And I couldn’t use Jane, or Laura in this case, after Wes was cast. Because the most important thing was to find the right guy for that role, than to cameo Jane.
So she wouldn’t have been a main character?
She would have had a one-scene part. It was actually an important scene for the lead, because she actually interacts with the lead, and so it would have had a purpose, and if you didn’t watch Lizzie Bennet Diaries you would have been like, “Oh yeah, that’s just another character, another fashion blogger that just talks to her.” But the Lizzie Bennet fans would have loved it of course. I really wish it would have happened, but Wes is great in that part.
You’ll have to cast him as a nice guy in something else so he isn’t typecast.
“I was imagining a couple weeks ago about doing an action series with Christopher Sean and Wes Aderhold as partners, running through the streets and solving crimes and shooting guns.”
But if I work with Wes again on a different project, assuming that Lookbook doesn’t continue which I don’t know, it’s too early to tell, I would really really try to use him as a good character, a good guy. Mainly because I know how much of a nice guy he is. And the casting of that was amusing, in that we actually had trouble finding the right person for that role, so we actually did a second callback, or a second round of casting. And Wes got submitted.
Jenni Powell of course was casting Lookbook as well, and I was kind of like, “I see Wes here. We should totally call him in, he’s totally right for this role.” And Jenni was like, “Yeah, why not?” And I was like, “Well if I put him in the role, if he wins it I can’t use the Jane Bennet cameo that I wanted to do.” And then she’s like, “Well you gotta pick,” and I was like, “The role’s more important than the cameo, and Wes has to still win the role first, so let’s bring him in.”
And he and that girl Kimberley are so good together, you can kind of tell already. I love all their scenes together in the show and they interact several times, and it’s so evil and fun.
It’s a fun show. Do you think there will be a lot of crossover from the Lizzie Bennet fans, or is it just too different?
One of the things we don’t do for Lizzie Bennet is we don’t promote each other’s works, because that’s just a black hole of promotion. If you’re a fan of the person, then you can follow them on Twitter and Facebook and you can go that way. As far as Lizzie Bennet fans going over, I’m not going to force it down their throats.
It’s a very different show, even though it’s technically for “young women,” it’s for very different young women as you can tell. So I’m not going to push it down their throats at all. I’m just like, if you guys want to watch the show, watch the show. If you don’t want to watch the show that’s cool, wait for Sanditon and the next book; they are going to be more back in the tone of LBD while this one is going to be darker, and very CW, and all that.
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