Dracula isn't just another vampire show. It's something entirely different that I personally feel I've never seen on American TV before.

I've been offered quite a few network shows, over the past couple of years, and always turned them down because I never wanted the commitment. The way that it works in America, you do a pilot and then you wait, and I just thought that wasn't really what I was interested in doing, in that moment.

I'm perfectly honest, I've never seen Twilight, I've never seen The Vampire Diaries, and I've never seen True Blood, or anything like that.

On network, you have limitations for how raunchy it can get and how violent it can get.

We read the [Dracula] scripts, but Jess [De Gouw] and I are completely taken out of the hunts and anything with Van Helsing. We're just living our lives, as our characters.

As the show [Dracula] goes on,Jonathan Harker gets darker and darker, and further into that side of it all. All of the worlds end up colliding and meshing together.

Everyone wants to see someone shoot someone in the head.

I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as it is, and that's made for American TV.

Vampires have been romanticized, and this is bringing it right back to being vampiric. I think there's something sexy and raw about that.

I went to a French school, so we didn't study Bram Stoker there. I just thought it was a genius thing.