Author: Emma Loggins
Date: 2007-11-28

Interview:
"Coastal Dreams" is a 24 episode series produced by NBC.com, which will feature interactive events (users will receive mobile text messages, phone calls and/or emails from characters) throughout the season.

Set in the idyllic town of Pacific Shores, "Coastal Dreams" follows two twenty-something friends who hoped to escape the doldrums of their everyday lives, but soon realize their lives are at stake. Zoe and Stacey have been friends since high school and travel to Pacific Shores for a relaxing summer of beach-going and boy-watching. Zoe soon discovers a dark family secret and receives a visit from someone in her past that may end the summer on a deadly note. The series stars Danica Stewart (NBC's "Passions"), Tanee McCall ("Hairspray," "Starsky & Hutch"), Elena Campbell-Martinez ("Passions"), Kam Heskin ("Passions," "Catch Me If You Can"), Charlie Koznick (NBC's "Las Vegas"), Ken Luckey ("Las Vegas", NBC's "E-Ring"), and Noah Schuffman.

Can you tell me a little bit about Coastal Dreams and the character that you play?

Coastal Dreams an online soap that NBC is doing that's kind of a first of its kind. It brings a television format to the internet and makes it interactive for the viewers, so they can watch the show and have behind the scenes clips and bios and interactive games, interactive message boards right there with the show rather than having to watch the show and go find the site later on. It's all five things in one.

I play Christian who is April's caretaker which turns into into a relationship and I am the boyfriend slash caretaker in the house. And I'm half good, half bad, trying to figure it out, can't decide. I'm being tugged by evil and by good. And that's part of my dilemma throughout the whole thing is which way do I go.

Now Coastal Dreams really is a ground breaking series with all the interactive events that you mentioned. How much is the cast playing a roll in that? Do you get any kind of input in that or do you do anything directly with that?

We got some input, yeah in the beginning with some different things, like with the interactive stuff, but right now we do not actually. When they set up the Myspace page stuff we got to go though that with them. It's obvious very character based. So the likes and dislikes are based upon what the character's is. But we got to sit down and go through that with them and kind of figure it out, they collaborated with us on the character's stuff. In the sense of is it me, no, but it is because that's my character.