It’s been two years since CBS pulled the plug on his short-lived cult hit
Moonlight, but former vampire detective
Alex O’Loughlin will get hearts racing again on the network’s new medical drama,
Three Rivers, this fall.
TVGuideMagazine.com caught up with the Aussie actor on the set of
Three Rivers in Los Angeles where he spilled secrets about how he spent his summer, his hidden talents and his new show, which premieres October 4.
Will Three Rivers be a hit with Moonlight fans?Yeah, I hope so. This one is a very important show. I really hope that my fans come with me on this because Andy means as much to me as Mick St. John does. And if everybody comes with me and has a look and gives this a chance, they’ll see why.
What will appeal to them about this show?Vampires are sexy. From my earliest memory of vampires, they’re sexy, seductive, sensual creatures. We don’t really have that in this show but we have a lot of blood!
And you wear tight scrubs too.[Laughs] We have tight scrubs. We have wet skin when we scrub in. We make eyes at each other over the operation table. There’s going to be lots of love affairs and stuff like that would happen in a real hospital. It’s going to be really exciting.
You’ve said that you’re a big fan of the vampire genre. Have you been following Twilight and True Blood?I haven’t been following
Twilight. I watch
True Blood when I can, but I’ve been very busy. So I’d like to get a box set and watch it that way. I actually went to network for that show.
You did? For what part?Yeah, at the same time I got
Moonlight. I tried out to play Bill, the main vampire, and also Sam the dog.
Do you think things would have gone differently for Moonlight if the show had aired now?Maybe. But maybe it wouldn’t have got picked up at all because there’s too much vampires. What can you do?
Moonlight will always be the best.
Think you’ll ever do a reunion movie?People have talked about that. I don’t know how realistic it is though. It would take a lot to pull that off, to get everyone back together but it would be cool. My concern would be that we did it justice, because that would then be the last memory of Mick St. John. Even though it’s very, very sad where we left it, we still loved the show and I would hate to think that movie in its finality would kind of taint that image because those characters mean so much.