Kyle XY follows a mysterious boy who looks like a teenager, but otherwise appears to be a newborn. The Trager family takes him in as one of their own. The series is produced by Touchstone and executive producers J. Mackye Gruber, Eric Bress, and David Himelfarb.



We had the honor of interviewing April Matson who plays Lori Trager on the series, and here's what she had to say.


Let's talk science fiction. I wanted to know your feelings about it and if you had a favorite from your childhood, or if it was Star Trek or if it was a certain series on television, or if you were a Battle Star fan. What is it about science fiction that you like? What is it about the show and the genre that you enjoy your work acting, if you can share that?

I actually - well, I mean most of my part on the show, I'm not that involved with the whole science fiction part of it, and I didn't necessarily grow up being a fan of any specific type of thing, but I always loved shows like X-Files. I think what I like about our show is it's not science fiction like there's not these random monsters and aliens running around. That's something I've never been drawn to, necessarily, but I like that there's a mystery of a possibility of things that are - I guess that are sort of possible. Like I mean even the way all the mysteries about Kyle, in a weird way you almost could believe that it could be true. So it just kind of - does that make sense? Like rather than there just being a blatant monster that everybody knows doesn't really exist or like an ET or whatever. It's kind of like, it's about this human brain and there's sort of like a possibility to it in a way that makes sense scientifically that you can buy it. I think that's kind of an interesting part of the show.

As far as other science fiction, I would say X-Files, which is kind of what I like about the science fiction part of our show is there's that kind of element to it. ... really see the freaky stuff, but it's explained in a way that you kind of could believe it.

Can you comment on the character of Lori and kind of where they took her the first half of the second season. It seemed like there's kind of a pretty big change, and she kind of became mean with, I guess, going after Jessie for revenge, and just some of the things that she was doing. I just kind of wonder if you could talk about that and maybe if we're going to get back to the Lori that we all love.

That's so interesting because I never really thought about it that way of ... Lori got mean. I mean she definitely got angry. I agree with you. The thing I love about Lori is that she sort of has a way of being bigger than everything else and being right and moving on and bucking up. That was definitely a lot of episodes of being really angry and going through everything.

But definitely in the second part of the season, what you're about to see starting on January 14th, she sort of makes peace with everything, and she does sort of - I don't know. She does definitely work it out and gets back to her sort of ... moving on, songwriting again, more drama with Declan and just she lets go of all that anger, so definitely I think we'll get back to the Lori that we all love.

It's so funny. I didn't realize how much that came off as - how different that was for the character. But I don't think she was mean, though, but I guess very, very angry and bitter about everything going on, so it will change.