Author: Emma Loggins
Date: 2009-07-03

Interview:
We had the pleasure of speaking with Jaime Paglia and Colin Ferguson. We spoke with them about their upcoming season of the Sci Fi Networks Eureka. Here's what they had to say.

Looking back on these next new episodes, maybe you could tell us a little bit about Carter's story arc going forward. I know in very general terms, and maybe some of the acting challenges you found in these next episodes coming up for you.

Colin Ferguson: Well, this is actually interesting, and Jaime can jump in on this, too. I mean, these were initially conceived as more of one season than two seasons, and then there was some sort of - towards the end of the season some sort of retrofitting, wouldn't you agree, Jaime? With the arc?

Jaime Paglia: Yes, there is definitely a little bit of that going on. We had some curve balls thrown at us. I think midway through that were some - were production related and psych-related. And others were, you know, just the sort of things that happen with people's personal lives that affects how you break stories. But I think it definitely; it had an impact on what we ended up doing with these back ten episodes.

Colin Ferguson: Yeah, and from an acting perspective what's really nice about these back ones is I get to have emotional lines, more specifically with Jordan as we decide, you know, whether she is or isn't going to go off to college. So that was a really fun episode to play. It was nice to go to those places.

And it's also to dealing with Sallie more on a friendship capacity than a lover capacity because obviously she's pregnant through these last episodes. I enjoyed that, being able to sort of dig deeper on the friendship angle of the - our relationship.

Jaime Paglia: Yeah, we let us - we wanted to bring in a new love interest for Carter and to change the dynamic we sort of traditionally have had and with Nathan Stark's presence the two alpha males, you know, battling over the alpha female.

And with Stark's passing we wanted to bring in a new character, which we did with bringing in actress Jamie Ray Newman playing Tess Fontana who has a history with Allison. They're old friends, but that also gets a little tense when she and Carter start to develop a connection - a romantic connection which was really fun, I think, to play and actually give Carter a real honest love interest for this back half of the shoot.

Colin Ferguson: Yeah, it was nice. It was a nice change of pace to be able to be overt both receiving and giving of love with a character than the relationship we play with Sallie which is sort of unrequited or, you know, confused most of the time. It was nice. It was a nice change.

And Jamie Ray was fantastic to work with.