Aaron Ashmore talks about new Syfy show The Killjoys

Aaron Ashmore chats about playing an interplanetary bounty hunter on The Killjoys. The show can be seen on Syfy at 9pm from June 19th.

Was the chemistry there from the beginning when the cast first met?

I think that as far as chemistry and stuff like that you either have it or you don’t. That is something that obviously due to casting process and when they’re doing a show like this that obviously revolves around the characters having sort of dynamic chemistry, it’s really important. But sometimes you just really lockout and I think the three of us have become really good friends and we got along so, so well, and it’s kind of rare. So I think it’s special and I think that we all appreciate it and it’s kind of lucky too that you get three people that just get along so well.

How would you describe your character on the show?

I play John Jaqobis who’s a level-three Killjoy which basically means he’s not as sort of skilled and dangerous as Dutch in sort of the tactical and combat aspects of things. But I think John is a more of a pacifist in this group and is a little bit more willing to talk things through instead of shooting and asking questions later.

There’s also I think a really strong loyalty that lies in John and he’s completely dedicated to Dutch, they’re partners.

The ship is pretty much another character on this series, how do you kind of interact with that ship?

Well, I would say that John does most of the work with Lucy although we all interact with her, in all the episodes we all sort of talked to her and stuff. But I think John is Lucy’s favorite and I think that’s sort of addressed at times, even thought John denies that. But he definitely works with her the most and fixes her and he’s definitely more of a tech guy.

So it’s really interesting to have a character that we work with so closely in such a big part of the show but we don’t’ really get to see her or her voice until the final product. So it’s really cool to see that character come alive when an actor is finally sort of voicing it. And I think that you’re really going to enjoy it because it just is that really cool and she has a real sense of humor too, a real personality…

How do you feel about the inevitable comparison that will come up with 'Firefly' during the series?

I think it’s fine because until people really get the personality of our show, it’s like that’s the easiest way to sort of understand something or put it out there as to sort of compare it with something. So I think that that’s totally fine.

I also think that Michelle Lovretta our creator and the whole creative team have also created their own unique world. And as much as there maybe some similarities in a broad sense I think the specifics of the show and characters and details are definitely going to become something all to themselves. So I think the comparison are like totally cool, I think it’s flattering too because as genre fan myself like Firefly is obviously one of the biggest shows, one of the most beloved shows so any comparison to that are cool.

Being scheduled back to back with Dark Matter, we are going to have two ship based space shows together on one night what are the possibilities of crossovers in the future?

Crossovers would be cool but I don’t know if they could handle us because we’re pretty dangerous. Of course anything like that would be really exciting actually, the crossing into another show even if it’s sort of like a minor sort of thing.

What is with the green juice that you guys drink, what is it?

Algae beer which sort of took a backseat after the first episode because I think they’re like it’s so gross.

Did you have to have any special training to do the fight and stunt scenes?

The physical stuff that we got to do at the beginning, the military stuff, the working out, the fight training is really kind of neat because the three of us didn’t know each other so we’re sort of thrown into all these really intense training together. And I think that it’s kind of fun when you start on it and it’s a good way to sort of bond with your fellow actors through all this training and physical stuff.

Is there a really funny scene that stands out in your mind that we should be looking for?

I think the sense of humor of the show is not necessarily like always ha, ha funny like knee slapper, I think it’s sort of subtle and it’s really in the sort of way that these characters sort of tease each other or interact with each other.

I was wondering if you could share something about each of your co-stars that surprised you the most?

I was very pleasantly surprised at how sort of funny and not just funny but weird both Luke and Hannah’s sense of humor were. I think that’s one of the really unique things about the three of us together is that we’re just so weird. And our sense of humor is just kin of rip off each other and so I was really pleasantly surprised to see how strange their sense of humor were and then how as a whole bonded together.

Once you realized that you had gotten the job to play a bounty hunter, did you do any research and perhaps find that you had a favorite real life fictional bounty hunter that you might have drawn inspiration from?

My dad is a big “Dog The Bounty Hunter” fan and I already had watched a ton of Dog. But that’s not really what we’re going for here so I kind of did the opposite that I strip away anything that I’d seen from Dog and decided to just go off the script.

If you could travel anywhere in outer space where would you want to go?

To a planet where there’s alien life maybe.