"The
alien backdrop serving as, you know, the metaphor for being
an outcast and not fitting in, it's kinda good because week
to week you see the characters interact, just as high schoolers
would - you know, like me with Maria, and me dealing with Max's
relationship with Liz and Katherine dealing with me and Max
kinda butting heads once in a while - or Isabel. So you
got all these, you got all the personal interactions, which
I think is very interesting, and then you add to that us on
our own little journey, trying to find out where we come from
along with their help. I think it makes for very exciting
television 'cause you've got those two aspects and they're done
in such a way where they're separate but at the same time they
kinda mesh into each other."
"He's
the one that got the raw end of the deal...coming down, his
family life was kinda terrible and he doesn't deal with it in
a very constructive way. He's the malcontent of the group,
he's the brooding one. He's got authority, he really doesn't
follow so much - he's got his own set of rules and he follows
those."
"He
started off very black and white - 'do this, don't do that',
'say that, but don't say that'. And now with Maria - Majandra's
character - Maria, coming to the forefront, he's kinda fallen
for her, and he deals with it in a...he's very hot and cold
about it, sometimes he's full on into it, and sometimes he realises
what he's doing is what he's been telling Max not to do, and
he pulls back and so he's hitting this grey area which he doesn't
really know how to handle and he handles it to one extreme to
the other, he doesn't really know how to handle it. You
know, he doesn't ride the fence. It makes for very exciting
scenes 'cause you never knew from one scene to the next when
he sees Majandra, sorry, Maria's character, how he's gonna interact
with her. He's either going to be very standoffish and
wanna go, or, you know, he's gonna try and go in for the kill."
"When
we were filming 285
SOUTH,
we just...every time we were filming it...when I got to turn
the key and the trap door pops open, we were fiddling with rocks
and we go into this dome, we just felt like we were filming
THE
GOONIES.
You know, like these kids on a treasure hunt, searching for
all this stuff and it was just...it was really a lot of fun
and I think if it was fun filming, I think it's gonna be even
a lot more fun to watch it. Because the lives we're leading
as aliens and going on our little investigations and our hunts
for all this stuff, kids don't get to live that out obviously
because they're not aliens and they gotta go to school and stuff
like that."
