Ellen Tamaki heeft een interview gehad met Assignment X over haar rol in de nieuwe ‘Charmed’ reboot, ook laat ze weten of ze ooit de orinele serie heeft gezien en zo ja wie haar favoriete personage was.<\/p>\n
The original CHARMED series ran on the WB for eight seasons, 1998-2006. It concerned three sisters who discovered they were witches, each with their own powers. When united, they had the Power of Three.<\/p>\n
Now The CW has its own new version of CHARMED, airing Sunday nights. Here, sisters Mel (Melonie Diaz) and Maggie Vera (Sarah Jeffery) discover both their powers and the fact that they have a half-sister, Macy (Madeleine Mantock), right after the death of their mother.<\/p>\n
Ellen Tamaki plays police detective Niko Hamada, who is in an on\/off romantic relationship with Mel. After a rough patch, things had started to go well \u2013 until Mel had to magically change the timeline to protect Niko. Now Niko doesn\u2019t remember they were ever involved.<\/p>\n
Niko is Tamaki\u2019s first major onscreen role, following a stage career. She has several feature films coming up, including WE ONLY KNOW SO MUCH, SEARCHING FOR SALLY MAE and INEZ & DOUG & KIRA.<\/p>\n
What can you tell us about Niko Hamada?<\/strong>
\n Niko Hamada is the detective in the town. Niko is also Mel\u2019s girlfriend, and I think that, because she\u2019s good at her job and really intelligent, two of the things that I really appreciate about this character and this woman, she probably has a hunch, because this relationship is going really well, the two of them are really close, and Niko is doing a lot of investigating, and I think she\u2019s got a feeling that something magical may be up.<\/p>\nDo you know if Niko may develop her own magical powers later on?<\/strong>
\nI don\u2019t know, but I really want them so badly [laughs].<\/p>\nWhat would you like to be able to do?<\/strong>
\nSo I\u2019ve always loved shape-shifting and transfiguration, because I feel like you kind of get the best of both worlds, like, you can be invisible and be a fly, or you could fly and be a fly. You could do all of those different things any time you want. You could be a whale. You could do any of that. And they [the producers] were saying they want to bring in all different kinds of mythologies. Witches are Shakespearean. The idea of three witches has been around for so long, I think you can tie that in, in so many different, exciting ways. We\u2019re just scratching the surface now.<\/p>\nWere you a fan of the original CHARMED?<\/strong>
\nDefinitely. I wasn\u2019t allowed to watch it [laughs]. I\u2019m the oldest, and I have younger siblings, and I was young enough that my mom didn\u2019t really let me do BUFFY and any of that quite yet. So I\u2019ve actually caught up with it \u2013 my sister and I have binged it since, but yeah. I\u2019ve seen a bit of it.
\n<\/p>\nWho was your favorite character?<\/strong>
\nI may be a little biased, but Piper\u2019s [Holly Marie Combs] boyfriend Leo [Brian Krause]. Because if the middle sister equivalent [of Piper] is Mel, I then get to be the equivalent [of Leo], kind of there to help out.<\/p>\nHave you done any research to play, like into how to be a police detective?<\/strong>
\nAbsolutely. I know there are going to be some things in the future where I\u2019m going to have to learn how to follow a case, or maybe do an interrogation, and things like that. But I\u2019ve done research in terms of what it takes to become a cop, and the kinds of skills that you need to hone. But I\u2019ve never really seen a detective work, so maybe that would be something to do. I\u2019ve never played a cop before. It\u2019s really fun. This is actually my first TV show ever.<\/p>\nYour background is in stage work?<\/strong>
\nStage. I was doing theatre in New York. And then I was lucky enough for this to all work out \u2013 right-place, right-time kind of thing.<\/p>\nHow are you enjoying doing camera work?<\/strong>
\n I love it. It\u2019s really challenging, because it is so different. I feel like, on stage, you have from the top of your head to the bottom of your toes, and you can really embody things in a different way, but on camera, I have to watch things like, \u201cI move my head a lot,\u201d or \u201cI blink a lot,\u201d and there are little tiny things like that that just take habit. But the acting is the same, and the storytelling is the same, and the emotion is the same.<\/p>\nIs the stage background helpful when you have to freeze in a scene because of Mel\u2019s time-freezing power? It seems like Niko might get stuck a lot \u2026<\/strong>
\nRight, I think so. I come from a physical theatre background, so the freezing actually was such an awesome click into it, because when I unfroze, it was like no time had passed for me, so that part of the imaginative side of it is so theatrical to me.<\/p>\nDo you find there\u2019s something different in playing romance versus a good friendship, or are you playing it sort of as the same thing?<\/strong>
\nNo, it\u2019s absolutely romance. I think there\u2019s absolutely a difference, and I think it\u2019s amazing that they\u2019re putting a queer character in the forefront of this story, especially because it\u2019s not in a glaring, obvious way, it\u2019s just part of the threadwork of this story, and it\u2019s normalizing it, and keeping it just part of the everyday.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s not a coming-out story \u2026<\/strong>
\nNo, it\u2019s just part of my character, and I also have a lot of other things to offer.<\/p>\nWhere are you shooting CHARMED?<\/strong>
\nVancouver, B.C., Canada.<\/p>\nAnd where does this CHARMED take place?<\/strong>
\nWe\u2019re in a fictional college town. I believe it\u2019s set in middle America, like Minnesota.<\/p>\nAnd what would you most like people to know about CHARMED?<\/strong>
\nIf there has been anything that has run through [everything] we\u2019ve had together so far, it\u2019s that everyone is so supportive. They\u2019ve found a group of people that have great chemistry, we all adore each other, we\u2019re hanging out outside of rehearsals, outside of shooting. It really feels like an even playing field. Everyone here is here to support each other and support the story. I want people to know that, at the end of the day, it is always better to uplift the women around you.<\/p>\nThis interview was conducted during The CW\u2019s portion of the Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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