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"The Tomorrow People - The CW&amp;#039;s new action-packed sci-fi series based on the UK classic - is Mark Pellegrino&amp;#039;s latest entry into the world of cult television, with Lost, Supernatural, Dexter and Being Human all among the 48-year-old actor&amp;#039;s previous credits. His latest role sees Pellegrino cast as Jedikiah Price, a scientist with a vendetta against our Homo Superior heroes. Digital Spy spoke to the fan favourite about The Tomorrow People, his past work, his fans and whether he would&amp;#039;ve liked to have played Breaking Bad&amp;#039;s Walter White...  What can we expect from The Tomorrow People and your character Jedikiah? &amp;quot;I think the show has a great combination of elements. On the one hand, it&amp;#039;s a sci-fi thriller and on the other hand it&amp;#039;s a story about relationships, loyalty and family, so I think you&amp;#039;re going to be satisfied on a lot of different levels. &amp;quot;My character Jedikiah is an evolutionary biologist who is the head of a secret organisation called Ultra, and their purpose is to either neutralise or wipe out the Tomorrow People by either taking their powers or - if they happen to be anti-social - eliminating them.&amp;quot; So he&amp;#039;s the big villain then? &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s a possible villain, we don&amp;#039;t know. He does some harsh things but we don&amp;#039;t know where those harsh things stand in the context of the whole.&amp;quot; Were you familiar with the original Tomorrow People series from the UK on which your show is based? &amp;quot;I wasn&amp;#039;t familiar with it, but I knew [exec producers] Greg Berlanti and Julie Plec were addicted to the show as kids and both talked about it when they were at university together. I watched little snippets on YouTube and looked at my character Jedikiah a little bit and it&amp;#039;s very interesting.&amp;quot; In the original, Jedikiah is an alien robot - your character seems quite different! &amp;quot;Yeah, they&amp;#039;re definitely very different!&amp;quot;  You were also on another show based on a UK series, Being Human - did you take the same approach there and avoid watching too much of the original? &amp;quot;I watched a little bit of [the original] Being Human but I did figure it&amp;#039;d be different, even though our Being Human followed, fairly closely, the first four episodes or so [of the UK series]. It was pretty close before it broke off into its own thing. &amp;quot;It was just such a completely different style - you know, the British version was very naturalistic and real and I think the American version was a little bit larger, in a way. A different style.&amp;quot; Jedikiah is facing off against the Tomorrow People, but what is your relationship like with the actors playing the show&amp;#039;s heroes? &amp;quot;You know, they&amp;#039;re all really good kids. Funny that I call them kids now - I&amp;#039;m an old man! Yeah, they&amp;#039;re all really great, really down to earth, and we&amp;#039;re all family people, so it&amp;#039;s nice to be around young kids who are in that same vein - either married or very close to their sister or brother... everybody&amp;#039;s very domestic and kind of home bodies. It&amp;#039;s really nice.&amp;quot; We&amp;#039;ve previously seen you on shows like Supernatural and Being Human - again playing the big sci-fi / fantasy villain. Are you surprised to find yourself playing that kind of role? &amp;quot;Yeah, surprised and fortunate, because it&amp;#039;s nice to play the guy who moves the action along and brings the heroic characteristics out of all the other characters in the story. I like that, even though I don&amp;#039;t consider myself a villain in anything I play.&amp;quot; Are you a big fan of sci-fi and fantasy or is it just a coincidence that you ended up playing in those genres? &amp;quot;I do like sci-fi and I do like horror - those are my favourite genres. Good horror though, not like slasher horror... psychological horror like The Shining - really good stuff!&amp;quot;  After starring in all these shows, you must be a bit of a Comic-Con veteran. Do you enjoy interacting with and meeting the fans? &amp;quot;I really do, it&amp;#039;s really fun. I&amp;#039;ve been to Comic-Con twice and hopefully there&amp;#039;ll be more in store. That&amp;#039;s quite a scene - there&amp;#039;s some really passionate fans who know quite a bit more about the show than you. &amp;quot;So it&amp;#039;s always an education for me and I&amp;#039;m hoping some of those fans [from other shows] cross over to The Tomorrow People and then they can tell me more about The Tomorrow People than I know!&amp;quot; Having been on so many great shows like Lost, Supernatural and Dexter, is there any series left that you would like to guest on? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m sure there&amp;#039;s always stuff about to be created - I think all the great roles out there on TV now are taken. My wife was watching Breaking Bad recently and said, &amp;#039;Oh my God, you&amp;#039;d be great in that part!&amp;#039; Of course, you can never match the man himself, but something like that - gritty, realistic stuff - can be very compelling.&amp;quot; Would you have liked to have played Walter White? &amp;quot;I haven&amp;#039;t seen the show so I&amp;#039;m assuming from my wife&amp;#039;s great taste that it&amp;#039;s deep and subtle and fun and all kinds of things rolled up into one. The great thing I like about the sci-fi genre is there&amp;#039;s a lot of different latitude for a lot of different kinds of behavior. You can be a very larger-than-life villain, or a very naturalistic villain, and all of it seems to fit.&amp;quot; You spoke a little bit about Being Human - is there any chance we might see you again on that show? &amp;quot;Yes, there is actually - I just got done the week before last, shooting an episode there in Montreal, then I&amp;#039;m scheduled for one more, probably in the late fall.&amp;quot;  Back to The Tomorrow People - give viewers one big reason why they should tune in... &amp;quot;Because it&amp;#039;s amazing! Is that good enough? I feel like they need something more intelligent. They&amp;#039;re a very discerning audience! &amp;quot;I just think it has all of the qualities of a really good drama and a really good sci-fi, which I think are synonymous. You can deal with issues in sci-fi that are very uncomfortable in normal drama and this show deals with some of those issues, like teen angst and belonging and perhaps bigotry and a little racism. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s exciting and the fights are amazing - they&amp;#039;re like the classic Jackie Chan films with The Bourne Identity thrown in there too. It&amp;#039;s really good. I think it&amp;#039;s everything across the board that people will be interested in seeing.&amp;quot; The Tomorrow People premieres on The CW on Wednesday, October 9 at 9/8c. The series will air on E4 in the UK at a later date. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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