Oliver Jackson-Cohen Quotes

• I've been offered quite a few network shows, over the past couple of years, and always turned them down because I never wanted the commitment. The way that it works in America, you do a pilot and then you wait, and I just thought that wasn't really what I was interested in doing, in that moment.

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen

  Couple, Commitment, Past

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• There are so many sitcoms. So, when you get to be a part of something that feels exciting to you, you just want to be a part of it.

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  Want, Exciting, Feels

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• I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as it is, and that's made for American TV.

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  Drama, Elements, London

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• You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.

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  Phones, Actors, Sometimes

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• As the show [Dracula] goes on,Jonathan Harker gets darker and darker, and further into that side of it all. All of the worlds end up colliding and meshing together.

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  Together, Goes On, World

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• When I read the script, I said to one of the producers, "I know you probably want Jonathan Harker really fluffy, but I'm not gonna do that. It needs to be a mask. There needs to be a duel between Harker and Dracula."

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  Needs, Want, Fluffy

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• Everyone wants to see someone shoot someone in the head.

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  Want

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• I'm perfectly honest, I've never seen Twilight, I've never seen The Vampire Diaries, and I've never seen True Blood, or anything like that.

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  Twilight, Blood, Vampire

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• It was just hilarious how my first reaction was, "Oh, no, it's another vampire show. I'm not interested." And then, I read the script and thought it was brilliant.

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  Vampire, Scripts, Firsts

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• I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you go, "Oh, I just have to do that!" It fell into place very quickly.

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  Thinking, Ideas, Actors

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• Vampires have been romanticized, and this is bringing it right back to being vampiric. I think there's something sexy and raw about that.

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  Sexy, Thinking, Vampire

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• We read the [Dracula] scripts, but Jess [De Gouw] and I are completely taken out of the hunts and anything with Van Helsing. We're just living our lives, as our characters.

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  Taken, Character, Scripts

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• I rarely watch TV, and in the past two years, I've done three TV shows. It's quite interesting.

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  Past, Years, Tv Shows

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• On network, you have limitations for how raunchy it can get and how violent it can get.

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  Violent, Limitation

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• I went to a French school, so we didn't study Bram Stoker there. I just thought it was a genius thing.

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  School, Genius, Study

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• Dracula isn't just another vampire show. It's something entirely different that I personally feel I've never seen on American TV before.

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  Vampire, Different, Tvs

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• I think it's a blessing that the show [Dracula] is on a network because it forces everyone to use their imaginations and be creative. The power of suggestion comes back. So, in the sex scenes, no one is ever fully naked, but I feel the suggestion is so much sexier.

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  Sex, Blessing, Thinking

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• Nowadays, everything is so gratuitous. The violence is suggested, and it's much more impactful than showing everything.

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen

  Violence

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