Interview: April Matson from Kyle XY
The voiceover has been the signature for Kyle XY for the show for the first two seasons. To your knowledge, will the writers/creators continue?
Yes. I think so. That will always be - I think that's just sort of the style of our show. It was originally meant to be from an older person, like Kyle as an old man talking about his experience when this all happened. They wanted a Donald Sutherland type voice, and they couldn't find it. They tried so many people, and they didn't find it.
And so they had to do his for the pilot. They just said, let's use his voice so we can at least show the network a cut of what we have. It just was so good. He was telling it as it's happening and it was his voice that they ended up just using his. It wasn't even intended to be Matt doing it. It was supposed to be like an older Kyle telling you what happened so many years ago. But now he does it, and I think - because it's all about, you know, the show is really about what the world is like through his eyes with his special abilities and his lack of the experience of growing up and how that makes him see the world. I feel like that's a really integral and very special part of the show. I think that will always be there.
In recent reviews for Kyle XY, obviously it's a family show, but they've sited the improvement in season two over the first ... specific time with an 8% increase in adult audience and 2% in women. What aspect of the show and the writing do you think reflects this response?
I don't know. It's so hard because sometimes I get so confused because they'll be going in a direction, and I'll be like nobody is going to want to see that. Then all of a sudden everybody loves it.
I think probably the first half of the season grew, I mean the mystery got really, really exciting. I feel like, in general, the stakes are higher because everything about what's happening with Kyle is more dangerous and with protecting us and there's just more drama. It was just the stakes were so much higher, and I feel like that generates excitement. People want to know what's going to happen and how is Kyle going to get out of it. That would probably be my guess, if I had one.
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