Vampire Academy is founded on a hugely popular series, so there’s
no doubt that being a part of this film is a real big deal. I wanted to
ask, because this is such a big deal, what was the best advice you
received before signing on to this and who was it from?
Dominic Sherwood: “That’s a good one.”
Zoey Deutch: “Ooh, what’s the best advice we received?”
Sherwood: “Yeah, to handle all the pressure.”
Deutch: “Don’t have any expectations because you’ll be disappointed either way.”
Sherwood: “Who told you that?”
Deutch: “Zoey Deutch.”
Sherwood: “Zoey Deutch?”
Deutch: “No [Laughs]. My mother told me that.”
Lucy Fry: “For me, it was if people don’t like the film then
it’s just not for them. In the end, it has to be something that you did
for you. My friend Christina told me that I believe.”
Sherwood: “Yeah, mine is kind of similar. It was said by one
of my best friends. He said individuality is key to art— a lot of people
won’t like something. But hopefully, for every one person who didn’t
like it, there will be two or three people who did like it. And that’s
what is important— finding the light and shade in all of it.
All of the characters you portray have a certain
vulnerability about them. Was it hard to tune into the darker side of
your characters?
Fry: “I think it was really fun to get the chance to
play with a darkness in the characters because that contradiction and
juxtaposition of the light and shade is what makes the character
interesting. I really enjoyed that exploration and the challenge of
facing those darker places to get to the other places.”
Sherwood: “I am very much with Lucy on this. I think it’s very
cathartic to go through and explore feelings and emotions that are
quite dark and kind of reflect your own self. It can feel quite good
afterwards. I enjoyed the challenge.”
Deutch: “Fans who’ve read the series and know Rose Hathaway
will label her, right off the bat, as strong. There are normal things —
insights to her vulnerability that are perhaps the most important in her
character development, like when she’s wrong. She’s the heroine, the
narrator and is supposed to be the decision maker and sometimes the
decisions she makes are wrong. I really appreciate that human side to
her.”
Obviously, when you create a movie that is based on a
novel, filmmakers have to make certain cuts and changes to the source
material to kind of spice things up a bit and make the material work as a
movie. If somewhere to make a movie about your life, what sorts of cuts
do you think people would make?
Deutch: “Well, that would be the most boring film of
all-time for my life. There are not enough interesting things in my life
to make an entire story out of. It would be a boring movie.”
Oh, I highly doubt that.
Deutch: [Laughs]
Sherwood: “They would have to cut a lot of my nights out in central London. I think that would have to go.”
Fry: “Oh, God. Probably all my time walking around trees or something like that. I bet that would be boring [Laughs].
If Dimitri and Christian were to take Rose and Lissa on a double date, what would they do and where would they go?
Sherwood: “Oh, good question. I think Christian would take them to some weird, dark poetry reading.”
Fry: “Lissa would love that.”
Sherwood: “Yes. Lissa would love that. But I think Dimitri
would take them to some big, sprawling and really expensive place to
kind of show Rose how much she means to him. That’s what I think— some
cross between those two. Rose would hate the poetry though“
Deutch: “Imagine all of our characters in a pottery making class [Laughs]. That would a phenomenal scene.”
Fry: “We should do that as a cutaway scene.”
Sherwood: “We should. We’ll have to have a talk with our director, Mark Waters, about it.”
If you could teach a class, what do you think you would teach?
Deutch: “I personally don’t feel confident enough in any realm
of intelligence to teach anyone anything. But hypothetically, if I knew
everything, I would teach how to speak Ukrainian. That seems peculiar
and something that a lot of people don’t know here.”
Sherwood: “Perfect. Good answer.”
Fry: “I would teach a class on spirit. Yeah [Laughs].”
Deutch: “A class on the power that she has in ‘Vampire Academy.’ That’s what she is regarding.”
Sherwood: “I would teach a class on psychology. I love looking
at the human mind and the choices that we make. If you have knowledge
of that, I feel like you could teach anything. So that’s what I would
teach.”
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