Victor Webster, Rachael Crawford (1/12 Out of Time/Continuum)
Spoiler TV 1/14/12: Victor Webster | Pictures at Zimbio & YVR Shoots 1 & 2 | Continuum
Out of Time - Rachel Nichols and Victor Webster cast? show to be retitled?
Posted by Tariq Gamei at Saturday, January 14, 2012
Jon Cassar's twitter indicates he is currently filming the Out of Time pilot with Rachel Nichols (Criminal Minds, Alias) and Victor Webster (Melrose Place, Mutant X, Harper's Island) and the show may be retitled. the 10-episode first season is set to air on Showcase in spring 2012.
Synopsis: Kyra is alone, in a strange land, in pursuit of nine of the most ruthless criminals from the year 2077 after they managed to escape execution through a rift in time. Armed with advanced technology, her most powerful weapon - a multi-tasking wearable second skin that doubles as a communication device - is malfunctioning. As Kyra calls for backup on her suit’s command frequency, Alex Sadler - a current-day tech genius - hears her call. Kyra wants to get home but first she must use the resources available to track and capture these terrorists before they alter history, changing the course of the future forever.
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Excerpt from Hollywood Reporter 1/26/12: Victor Webster
The "Criminal Mind' star plays a futuristic cop trapped in present-day Vancouver, and chasing ruthless criminals with a sidekick detective played by Victor Webster.
The female police procedural, now shooting in Vancouver, also stars Victor Webster as Cameron’s detective partner, and Stephen Lobo, Roger Cross, Lexa Doig, Omari Newton and Terry Chen (Combat Hospital). The series will air in Canada on Showcase and be shopped worldwide by GK-TV. Continuum, based on the Out of Time pilot directed by Cassar, was created by Simon Barry, who shares executive producer credits with Jeff King, Tom Rowe and Patrick Williams.
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Excerpt from Shaw Media 1/27/12: Victor Webster
RACHEL NICHOLS AND VICTOR WEBSTER STAR IN CONTINUUM, SHAW MEDIA’S NEW ORIGINAL DRAMA SERIES
Friday January 27, 2012
VANCOUVER, BC January 26th 2012 - Reunion Pictures today announced that production is underway on Continuum, an original one hour drama-action series about a policewoman from 2077 who travels back in time and teams with a present day cop to track down escaped convicts from her future. Continuum is slated to premiere in Canada on Shaw Media’s specialty channel, Showcase in spring 2012.
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Starring Rachel Nichols (Criminal Minds, Alias) Victor Webster (Castle, Melrose Place) Erik Knudson(Jericho, Scream 4) the cast also includes Stephen Lobo (Smallville, Little Mosque On The Prairie), Roger Cross (The Gates, Fringe), Lexa Doig (V, Stargate SG-I), Omari Newton (Blue Mountain State, Sophie), Luvia Petersen (The L Word) and Terry Chen (Combat Hospital). Continuum is created by Executive Producer Simon Barry (The Art of War)while Jeff King (White Collar, The Black Donnellys) is Executive Producer/Show Runner. Reunion Pictures partner Tom Rowe is Executive Producer. Directors for the series include Emmy® Award winner and DGA nominee Jon Cassar(24, The Kennedys, Terra Nova) and Patrick Williams(Shattered) who also serves as Executive Producer. The creative team includes the Emmy® nominated Director of Photography Joel Ransom ( Band of Brothers, Camelot, The X Files) and Production Designer Chris August (Battle In Seattle, War). Filmed on location in Vancouver, BC, Continuum is developed and produced by Reunion Pictures.
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Excerpt from Canada.com 5/22/12: Victor Webster
Time travel puts new spin on cop procedural in Canadian-made Continuum
By Alex Strachan, May 22, 2012
The new Canadian sci-fi series bows Sunday on Showcase. Rachel Nichols (Alias, Criminal Minds, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) plays Kiera Cameron, the late 21st century detective stranded in present day. Calgary native Victor Webster, familiar to viewers of Mutant X as the electricity-generating Brennan Mulwray, plays Cameron's taciturn, present-day partner, Carlos Fonnegra. Veteran 24 co-executive producer and Emmy-winning director Jon Cassar directed Continuum's two-hour premiere, and established the series' visual template. In all, 10 episodes are planned for the first season. More seasons are on the drawing board, depending on audience reaction.
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Calgary Herald 5/25/12: Victor Webster
Career prospects good for Calgary-born actor Victor Webster
By Eric Volmers, Calgary Herald May 25, 2012
Calgary-born Victor Webster, a one-time Playgirl model and among 2002’s most eligible bachelors according to People magazine, does not come out and suggest his looks have hampered his career. But the 39-year-old acknowledges that doors have finally begun to open as he ages, allowing him to take on more varied roles. These include a serial killer in an episode of Criminal Minds and, in the new Canadian series Continuum that he’s currently promoting, a tough, by-the-books cop. “A lot of that stuff, when I was younger, was never available to me,” says Webster, sipping a beer at the Hotel Arts in Calgary. “I think now as I’m starting to mature and get some mileage on my face and get a little bit older, that stuff is working out for me. Earlier on, nobody would have taken me seriously in those roles.”
In Continuum, Webster plays Carlos Fonnegra, a strait-laced cop forced to deal with both a band of terrorists and a sexy, rule-breaking anti-terrorist operative (Rachel Nichols) who arrive from the year 2077 to continue their battle on the streets of present-day Vancouver. Granted, for a sci-fi series, Fonnegra is probably not the most colourful of roles. His character bio even starts by calling him “good looking,” in case you missed that in the photo. But Webster says the character acts as an anchor of sorts for a series prone to flights of sci-fi ‘what-ifs.’ “I like the way they’ve written Carlos,” he says. “They’ve written him as a real down-to-earth guy. . . . He’s a cop, this is his job and he’s passionate about it. But he’s not this over-achieving supercop.”
Webster also sees the bigger picture when it comes to Continuum, a intricately plotted show that should resonate with TV audiences with its themes of corporate omnipresence and terrorism. “The writers are so intelligent in setting up these philosophical and theoretical questions that people would normally ask about time travel,” he says.
Which is not to say that it’s all pointy-headed speculative fiction. Continuum is also chock full of action, which was also appealing to an actor whose hobbies include race car driving and hand-to-hand combat. Born in Calgary, Webster left for California with his mother and stepfather when he was in his early teens. His father, who still lives in town, is a retired police officer. But Webster admits his early dealings with law enforcement had more to do with his juvenile delinquency than anything else. He eventually channelled his youthful aggression into martial arts training. After stints as a stockbroker and owning his own import/export business he tried his hand at acting. Until now, he’s probably best known for his roles as superhero Brennan Mulwray in the Toronto-shot series Mutant X, as a hunky cupid named Coop in the show Charmed or as smooth-talking Nicholas Alamain in the soap Days of Our Lives. But in 2010, he landed the role of a mentally unbalanced con man turned serial killer in an episode of Criminal Minds, proving his versatility. It’s something he hopes to continue exploring in between shooting Continuum. “I can work on this show and for six months I’ll be a cop,” he says. “Then I can go do a movie and play a serial killer and then I can play some dumb New York sausage maker. I’m constantly being given different things. It makes it very interesting.”
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Excerpt from Huffington Post 5/25/12: Victor Webster
'Continuum': Everything You Need To Know About The Sci-Fi Cop Show
Posted: 05/25/2012 2:38 pm
8. Carlos knows something is a bit off about Keira, but he doesn't know what. (After all, it wouldn't exactly occur to most people that someone has time-traveled from the future.) "We're still tippy-toeing around a few issues," says Webster. "Carlos is perplexed at times and he's not afraid to show it."
9. Aside from the skin-tight suit, don't expect to see Nichols prancing around in sexy little numbers. "Victor gets to do all the fun eye candy stuff [like a shower scene] and I get to kill people!" says Nichols.
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11. You can expect to see a lot of intense action sequences on the show. "Our fight scenes are dirty and gritty and real," says Webster. Nichols agrees. "Kimani Ray Smith is our stunt coordinator, and he's fantastic. He can speak stunt-speak to humans and we understand," she says.
12. Cross and Webster disagree about whose character would win in a fight, if such a scene ever came to fruition. "I'm a super soldier. I could pick him up by the neck and snap it!" says Cross. Webster begs to differ. "I would out-smart him!" he says, laughing.
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Excerpt from Toronto.com 5/27/12: Victor Webster
Five Worth Watching for May 27
By Debra Yeo May 27, 2012
• Back From the Future: Showcase unveils a new original series, Continuum. The premise has a cop from the year 2077, Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nichols), getting trapped in 2012, along with eight terrorists bent on taking down the corporations that will eventually rule the world. It's got stuff that geeks might like (liquid brain chip technology) and relationship drama in the form of friction between Kiera and her new partner Carlos (Victor Webster) (Showcase at 9).
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Excerpt from The Province 5/27/12: Victor Webster
Continuum keeps our city at the centre of the action: Time-travelling cop show uses Vancouver as a stand-in for Vancouver
By Glen Schaefer, May 27, 2012
Victor Webster, from Calgary via California, plays the present-day detective who ends up paired with Nichols' cop. The fictional Kiera Cameron has some digital modifications that give her heightened physical and observational skills, and Webster's character is also witness to her confusion in today's world. "They don't have leather or meat in the future," he says. "A lot of the questions that the audience would have, I ask." Webster says some comedy comes out of the fact that his character doesn't know his partner is from the future.
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Excerpt from TV by the Numbers 5/28/12: Victor Webster
Sci-Fi Drama 'Continuum' Crushes the Competition (in Canada) in Its Premiere
Written By Robert Seidman May 28th, 2012
The massive premiere was the highest ranked show of the night across all of Canadian commercial television for Adults 25-54, Men 25-54, and Adults 18-49. With this record, Continuum claims the top spot as the #1 scripted specialty drama episode for this broadcast year across multiple demos.
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Desperate to get back to her husband and son, Kiera impersonates a local law enforcement officer to expedite her investigation, forming an uneasy alliance with her new partner, detective Carlos Fonnegra (Victor Webster; Castle, Melrose Place).
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Excerpt from The Morton Report 5/29/12: Victor Webster
Lost in Time: Interview with Continuum's Rachel Nichols
By Steve Eramo May 29, 2012 11:50 AM
“With Carlos, he’s this good person and salt of the earth. He’s a beer drinking, football watching, man’s man and really good cop whose moral compass is intact,” continues the actress. “Kiera befriends him through sort of shadowy channels in the first two episodes because they’re both investigating the same crime so to speak. Unfortunately, she can’t share with him. Kiera can’t say, ‘Hey, I’m from the future. Can you help me track down these criminals?’
“So they have a very interesting relationship in that she’d love to be able to tell Carlos the truth about everything. Meanwhile, he’s always sort of joking/half telling the truth and saying, ‘Ha, you never let me in on what you’re doing.’ Partners are supposed to be totally honest with each other, and Kiera would love to be honest with him, but she can’t. They’re very good friends, but unless we jump the shark down the road, I don’t see a romantic future for Kiera and Carlos. He becomes her first real friend, though, that she more or less spends every waking minute with.
“As their relationship gets stronger, it’s also more heartbreaking for her, so there will come a breaking point. I don’t know when, where or how, but he’s eventually going to find out. If Kiera ever gets to go home, I hope Carlos discovers the real story.”
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Metro News 6/22/12: Victor Webster
Adding Canadiana to a scary sci-fi world
By Steve Eramo June 22, 2012
From his electrically-charged performance as the heroic mutant Brennan Mulwray in the sci-fi TV series Mutant X to the sword-wielding warrior Mathayus in the feature-length tale The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption, Victor Webster has always been a natural when it comes to playing the good guy who sticks up for what he believes in. Currently, the Calgary-born actor can be seen playing Vancouver police detective Carlos Fonnegra in the hit Canadian-made sci-fi/police drama Continuum. His character partners up with a colleague from the future, 2077, City Protective Services (CPS) Officer Kiera Cameron, who, together with a group of death row terrorists, travels back in time to the present day. “Carlos is rather intense and by the book, but I also wanted him to be someone who you could go out and have a beer with,” explains the actor. With Carlos it’s a matter of knowing when to get down to business and allowing your emotions to get away from you a little bit.
In Continuum’s first season opener, A Stitch in Time, Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nichols) is witnessing the execution of a terrorist cell, including its leader Edouard Kagame (Tony Amendola). But something happens seconds before the terrorists are supposed to be put to death, and they are transported back to Vancouver 2012. She joins forces with Carlos - who is unaware of her true identity - to find the terrorists before their actions alter the future. “From the very beginning Carlos is quite skeptical of Kiera,” says Webster. “He can tell that something’s wrong and what she says is not all true.
“As the season goes on, she proves invaluable as far as having Carlos’ back,” continues the actor. “Kiera is there for him on more than one occasion and vice-versa. He comes to her rescue as well throughout the season.
“Because of this, I think Carlos has had to learn that even though he might not have all the answers, he still must continue to do his job, which is odd for him because he’s used to having all his ducks in a row.
Although he holds a black belt in Tao Kwon Do, Webster felt his character should defend himself in other ways when not armed with a gun. “Having grown up in Colombia, Carlos wouldn’t have been a martial artist,” he notes. “He would have been a boxer. Boxing is huge in the Latin culture, and being part Latin myself I understand that.
“I wanted my character to know how to box, and growing up in Canada, he would have played hockey as well. So a lot of the physical things that you see Carlos do are hockey related - throwing people around, shoulder-checking them, pulling a guy’s jersey over his head and punching him, and, of course, boxing.
Digging into his characters and truly enjoying his work is what Webster is all about. Becker, NCIS, CSI: Miami, The Exes, Bones and Charmed are just a few of the actor’s many other gigs he has loved. “I always try to find as much enjoyment in every job as I possibly can… Fortunately, I’ve always had things really good as an actor, and I don’t know if it’s just because I try to find the positive in everything or if I’ve just been exceptionally lucky, but I’ve had nothing but great experiences so far in this business.”
Playing a bit of a bad boy
Victor Webster may best be known by sci-fi fans for his role of Brennan Mulwray on Mutant X.
• “I enjoyed playing Brennan because he had a good sense of humour,” says Webster. “He’s a guy who came from the wrong side of the tracks, so he had that kind of rougher edge to him and wasn’t as polished as Forbes March’s character of Jesse Kilmartin, who came from a rich family and was a computer nerd.
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Press Plus 1 7/30/12: Victor Webster
An Interview with VICTOR WEBSTER of Continuum
Written by: Katie_N Monday, 30 July 2012
Victor Webster, who plays Detective Carlos Fonnegra on Showcase’s summer hit Continuum, has a lot to say about the success of the show. “What I think people like about the show so much is that it’s a serialized drama, but it’s also episodic. So every episode we solve a crime, we figure something out, we wrap it up, but there’s a continuing storyline that goes episode to episode. It really keeps people intrigued and interested in the characters and the storyline,” Webster explained the format of the show before delving into some specifics. “As well as mixing the sci-fi genre and the procedural drama, there’s a lot of action in the show, there’s interesting characters. There are good guys that aren’t really, really, bad. People can relate to them. Some people think they’re terrorists, some people think they’re freedom fighters. You’ve got cops that are doing the right things, who do the wrong things for the right reasons. None of the characters are squeaky clean.”
He also attributes the success of Continuum to the show’s creator, Simon Barry. “Simon is one of the nicest guy’s you’ll ever meet as just a person and I think that comes through as him being the creator of the show, it being his baby. He’s got such a great way of writing dialogue and writing characters that makes it easy for us actors to portray the scenes. You know it’s kind of all there, you don’t really have to do that much. And he loves keeping us on our toes so every time we pick up a script and we read it and one of the characters is doing something that we would have never expected you can’t help but to laugh and shake your head and be like ‘Oh, Simon, he’s a freaking genius’, you know.”
The talent of the people involved in writing and producing the show played a major role in attracting Webster to the project. “I read the initial script and I really, really liked it. I thought it was very well done, very smart and interesting. Then I could see so many possibilities for where it could go and I actually sat down and talked to Simon Barry and Jeff King, all the people involved in the writing and production of the show, and they told me that they already had ten episodes already mapped out, done, written, ready to go. They told me where the story was going and I was in, because it was so well thought out and well organized and written intelligently and interestingly.”
Specifically, he cites how well the various twists and turns of the series are executed. Every time you think you know what is going on, another “curve ball” is thrown, “they do it again to you, and again to you, but they don’t do it in a way that’s annoying. They do it in a way that really keeps you interested.”
Carlos has turned out to be one of Webster’s favourite roles. “I think Continuum probably ranks as one of my favourite jobs because all the people working on it are so talented. Rachel is a great actress and I love working with her. The rest of the cast is really good too; any opportunity to interact with them is always a treat. I’m constantly surprised by where the show is going. I love shooting up in Vancouver. You know there’s no downside to this show at all; it’s long hours, but I enjoy going to work. That’s not even a negative, I can’t even think of something I don’t like. I feel very fortunate to be in that position.”
He also talked about some of the other work he has enjoyed: “The Scorpion King movie because there was so much action and I got to travel and play a barbarian. I loved Charmed because I love that sci fi genre and I loved the relationship, working with those girls was great.” Some of Webster’s other acting credits are reoccurring roles on Castle, Melrose Place, Harper’s Island, and Mutant X.
As a character, Carlos stands out in his series as one of very few completely regular people. “Carlos is a big guy, but he’s one of the weakest characters on the show because everybody has these enhancements. Even the Liber8 girls have all these enhancements that make them stronger and faster so Carlos is the most normal, regular, guy on the show.”
“He fits in because he is us watching the show. He’s the guy that, when somebody says something that is out of character or odd, stops and looks as we would as the audience. ‘Wait a minute, that doesn’t make sense’. So, we kind of see Kiera and everybody else through Carlos’ eyes almost being our eyes as a normal 2012 person watching the show. So Carlos, he kind of grounds the show in reality because all of the ‘Wait a minute’ Carlos scenes are similar to the ones the audience sees,” Webster describes his character as a sort of bridge between the reality of the show and our own world.
In terms of his character’s relationship with his partner, the time traveling cop Kiera, he explains that although Carlos has his suspicions, his hands are tied. He has been told that “‘This is the deal, this is who she is, this is the rank that she has, you are to work directly with her,’ so now all of the suspicions that he has are still there, but he’s been mandated to work with her and he’s not allowed to ask a lot of questions. He’s basically been told ‘this is the way it is, deal with it’. That doesn’t stop him from having these suspicions and keeping his eyes open. He just can’t really act on them, for now, so I think basically what Carlos is doing is just kind of limitedly cataloguing all of the weirdness that’s going on and building a case until he can finally figure out what’s happening in a discreet manner.”
Being that there are only two episodes left in the season, it is very tempting to read into that ‘for now’. Of the many programs filmed in Vancouver, Continuum is one of very few set there as well. Also, besides being shot and set in Canada, many of the creative minds behind the project are Canadian. When speaking of the people Simon Barry has chosen to work with on this project and how effective they have been, Webster commented that “I don’t know if that has something to do with it being all Canadian people. You know, I think that there’s a little bit of a different breed of people in Canada. Canadian people are just generally really cool.”
As far as the main conflict on the show, the violence perpetrated by the terrorist group Liber8 in the name of a better future, Webster commented that “That’s the one thing that’s hard about our show because they are terrorists, but they seem to be at least in their own minds doing the wrong thing for the right reason. They’re trying to do whatever they have to do now to change the future for society as a whole. That’s a really good goal to set for yourself, to change the future so that it’s a better place, but you’ve got to be held responsible for your actions. So no matter how good their intentions are, they are not doing it properly.”
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TV Equals 7/30/12: Victor Webster
Exclusive Interview: Continuum’s Victor Webster Talks Season Finale, Season 2 & On-Screen Chemistry
By Americ Ngwije | July 30, 2012
‘Continuum’ has been a hit up north. Must have been exciting getting all this positive feedback
Victor Webster: Yeah, you read the script and at that point it’s just paper and characters and ideas. To see it all come together and come to fruition the way that it has, basically from thin air, it has become a really great show.
How would you describe the series to someone who’s never heard of it?
Victor Webster: I would say that it is a character based procedural drama with elements of sci-fi.
And what attracted you to the project?
Victor Webster: I’m a big sci-fi nerd and I love procedural dramas. I love watching things unfold. I like to solve the case with the characters of the show.
So, when I read something that had all the elements of that and as smart as it was, based on things going on in our world right now, the occupy movement and the overall kind of faithless attitude with where our government and our world is going, nobody is really excited by the possibilities of where we’re going in the future.
And then taking that and building upon it, it seemed like a possibility, like something that could happen, yet it was still based in fiction. So, all of those elements together really drew me to it.
Carlos and Kiera have this really great chemistry. It seems organic. How did you and Rachel Nichols work at achieving that onscreen?
Victor Webster: I think part of it is that we get along really well off screen. She’s a really fun, smart person and so, me, as Victor, finds it really easy to get along with her, and so I think that translates. Plus, our characters are really well written and the things that need to be there are there, and so that kind of inherent mistrust of Kiera, that questioning of her really needing me because she’s not really familiar with the environment that she’s in, all those things are written in. That takes a lot of the difficulty of having to tell the story, because it’s already there, and we can just concentrate on being us.
There’s a lot of action in the series. Did you do your own stunts and fights?
Victor Webster: We both do, actually. Rachel and I, we both have stunt doubles on set all the time, but I think that they get pretty bored because they don’t really do much.
Did you have to prepare for that level of physicality?
Victor Webster: Well, I come from a background of martial arts, since I was probably nine years old. I started training and I haven’t stopped. I still train two to three days a week now. For me it’s fun. If I don’t get to do that I get antsy. There’s no way that I could sit on set and watch my stunt double have all the fun. There’s just no way. So, Kimani [Ray Smith] is our stunt coordinator/fight choreographer and he’s fantastic. He puts together these really great fights that are really easy to follow for us, but interesting enough and complex enough to keep the audience hooked. He’s all about us doing everything ourselves. He wants the audience to see our faces in the action.
What message do you have for the fans as they head into the final episode?
Victor Webster: Just buckle up your seat belts. It’s a ride. The whole series has been great, but they were very smart about the way that they wanted to end the show. I think that they did a really good job, at least this season.
Is there any talk of a second season?
Victor Webster: There’s a lot of talk. There’s talk from me, saying that I want to do it. There’s talk from Rachel, saying she wants to do it. I think it’s just a matter of hopefully getting things done. I haven’t heard definitively either way. I know we’re all hoping and talking about it, and so, until we get the word it’s a question mark. But I have faith.
This series is begging to be brought into markets like the U.S. and beyond. Is there a chance or hope for it coming to the U.S. soon?
Victor Webster: Yeah. I’m a very positive person and the feedback that I’ve been getting from everybody that’s watching the show and the people involved in the show, I personally can’t see how it wouldn’t end up there, but I might be biased.
I was recently at Comic-Con and I thought that would be a great place to introduce the series to the US market.
Victor Webster: Yeah, and well, it just started, and so chances are that we could be there next year.
If you could guest star on any other TV show, your pick of the litter, which one would it be?
Victor Webster: Game of Thrones.’
Which house would you be in?
Victor Webster: I would probably be a Sellsword, a mercenary to the highest bidder because I don’t really agree with the politics of any of them.
You just want to get into some fights?
Victor Webster: I just want to brawl. That would be a good definition of my character, for sure.
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Screenspy 7/31/12: Victor Webster
Continuum's Victor Webster On the Show's Unique Dynamic & Curveball Season Finale
For someone who stumbled into acting by chance, Victor Webster has carved quite a career over the last ten years, appearing in such hit shows as Mutant X, Castle, CSI, Bones, Drop Dead Diva, Melrose Place and Lincoln Heights among others. Right now, Victor is starring in Showcase’s Continuum, as Carlos Fonnegra, a smart and tough Police Detective partnered with a woman desperate to keep her true identity, and secret agenda, hidden. “I was a stock broker for about two years,” he admits. “Actually, I kind of bounced around in a few different professions, not really sure what I wanted to do with my life. I did a lot of traveling. I modeled for a little bit. I remember coming back from an eight month trip to Italy, and I started taking some acting classes to help me out with commercials, and I was thinking ‘Wow, I forgot how much I loved this.’ I had taken theater classes in school and I’d been in a couple of plays, but I just hadn’t done it in a long time. So I found myself doing that again and it was really exciting and fun. I remember thinking that this was a job where I could get to play someone different all the time, and have an interesting career and travel, so I started pursuing it and it just slowly started unfolding and happening for me.”
Continuum has been described as a scifi show for scifi purists, with a dystopian future, time travel (and all its associated paradoxes) and future-tech featuring prominently in the show each week. It’s a world Victor admits he is attracted to. “I love the scifi genre,” he says. “I love living in this world of fantasy and having the ability to create absolutely anything you want from nothing. In the world of scifi anything is possible, and that’s always appealed to me. It appeals to the kid inside of me with the big imagination.”
Partnered with the intriguing but secretive Kiera (Rachel Nichols) Carlos is currently unaware that she has come from the future in order to put a stop to the dangerous and wily terrorist group Liber8, who themselves have traveled back in time to alter key events and secure their future success. I ask Victor just how close Carlos will come this season to figuring out the truth about his partner. “Well, this is the thing,” he explains. “He knows there’s something fishy going on. There’s no way he would assume she’s from the future, or that she’s traveled back in time. It’s just not a possibility as far as Carlos is concerned, but he knows something is going on and he keeps his eyes open. He’s been told that he has to work with Kiera. There’s no ifs, ands or buts. He actually likes this person, and she’s had his back, and vice versa, on more than one occasion. So he does trust her as a person.”
“As far as is he going to discover what’s going on? Maybe in … season five?” he laughs. “I don’t know what the writers have planned, but I think the show is that much more interesting when we don’t know. When he does find out, I think the writers will find a very cool way to make that happen. I have complete faith in Simon [Barry] and the rest of the writing staff. Whatever they do, it’s going to be awesome.”
There is no doubt that Carlos and Kiera have a unique relationship, and many fans of the show are speculating as to whether their professional dynamic will lead to something more. Victor weighs in on that possibility with his own take on the characters. “It’s like a tightrope. How do you walk that?” he says with a shrug. “There’s a husband and a son that she’s so desperately trying to get back to, but she’s stuck here with no hope of getting home. Do you want to have her keep her integrity as a mother and a wife? But then you may want to see two people that are there for each other in a desperate situation. I don’t know if Carlos and Kiera will ever happen … or maybe I do and I won’t tell you,” he adds with a roguish chuckle. “But let me just put it this way, the writers are really good at keeping people on their toes. That’s the thing about the writing on this show. It’s so smart. It keeps you involved because it gives you a little taste and leaves you wanting more. They don’t overdo anything.”
So much happens in that final episode that is so pivotal for the outcome of the characters of the show. Is this the first time that Kiera has come back? With the season finale airing this Sunday on Showcase, I ask Victor what fans can hope to expect. “Curve balls!” he replies definitively. “There will be a lot of curve balls thrown at you. Some things are going to come from out of left field. Some things are going to happen now that will pay off in the future - literally and figuratively. So much happens in that final episode that is so pivotal for the outcome of the characters of the show … Oh I can’t really give anything away. Curve balls! Curve balls is a very good way to describe the season finale.”
“If you believe in the ripple effect of time travel, then everything that happens in our show conceivably has to have some effect on future events. The question is, has this all happened before? Is this the first time that Kiera has come back? It’s like being in a fun house of mirrors. Everywhere you look there’s something strange, and you don’t know what’s real or not. The producers and writers are great about leaving our heads spinning!”
So where does Victor see Carlos in season two? “Well I love action,” he admits. “So I would love to get into it with Liber8. I’d love to see Carlos track them down and get into a hand to hand fight with Roger Cross’ character, Travis. Maybe chasing him from rooftop to rooftop. That would be great. Generally, I’d like for him to go a little deeper into the wormhole, start to figure things out. Why does she keep talking to herself all the time? Who is she on the phone with? Eventually, I think Carlos is going to do a little more investigating.”
For such an action-rich show, both Victor and Rachel are keen to do as much of their own stunt work as possible. “The stunt people are always there,” he tells me. “But Rachel is very athletic and really quick to pick things up. She doesn’t come from a Martial Arts background but she’s done a lot of action-orientated acting with Alias and Criminal Minds and GI Joe so she’s used to it. For me, I come from a background of Martial Arts. I’ve been training since I was nine years old. The stunt people are always there - but they’re usually bored!” he laughs. “We do everything. Our fight and stunt co-ordinator is more than happy, and actually encourages us, to do everything, unless it’s extremely dangerous and we may not walk away from it. There was a scene where we fought together in a kitchen and I actually get tackled through a wall and they didn’t want us to do it because it was really dangerous. But we proposed the idea to the producers and they eventually said yes. When you get to see the actor’s face in any kind of an action movie it’s such a payoff for the audience. So any time that we can, we do our own stunt scenes.”
“Have you ever injured yourself?” I ask.
“Of course! All the time! I’ve been in movies and television shows where I was cut in the face where a stunt sword had broken. I’ve almost poked my eye out. I’ve broken my elbow. I’ve sprained both ankles. I’ve torn my rotator cuff. In all of the television shows and movies that I’ve done, I’ve done my own stunts. You always end up getting hurt. And I like to push the limits. I like to take it a little further than I’m supposed to, which is probably an issue I need to deal with,” he confesses with a laugh.
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Vancity Filming 8/25/12: Victor Webster
Great news for Continuum fans
Posted August 25, 2012 by Vancity Filming
Today at FanExpoCanada, Simon Davis Barry revealed that Continuum had been renewed for a second season. There was a huge crowd in Hall B of the South Building of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, to watch the announcement being made. Victor Webster posted a picture from his Twitter account of the crowd to show just how many people were there to hear the exciting news.
Excerpt from Broadway World 2/25/13: Victor Webster
CONTINUUM Season One Coming to Blu-ray/DVD 3/26
Continuum Season One starring Rachel Nichols (G. I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra), Victor Webster ("Castle") and Erik Knudsen ("Jericho") is an action-packed adventure from Syfy that will keep thrill seekers on the edge of their seat. From creator Simon Barry (The Art of War), fans can watch every thrilling episode back-to-back and uninterrupted of "Continuum" Season One, available on Blu-ray and DVD from Universal Studios Home Entertainment on March 26, 2013.
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BONUS FEATURES (BLU-RAY and DVD): Meet the Makers, Protectors and Terrorists The cast and crew of "Continuum" discusses creating the show, the characters, and the casting process.
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TV Overmind 2/20/13: Victor Webster
39th Saturn Award Nominations Announced
Written By Shilo Adams+ on February 20th, 2013 at 4:50 pm
Founded by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, the Saturn Awards will be presented in June.
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Best Television Presentation
Breaking Bad
Continuum
Falling Skies
Game of Thrones
Ken Follett's World Without End
Mockingbird Lane
Spartacus: War of the Damned
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ATV Today 3/27/13: Victor Webster
SyFy Picks Up Continuum Second Season
by Doug Lambert Reported on Mar 27 2013
Press Release: Syfy has announced its popular time traveling police drama Continuum will return for a second season. The 13 all-new episode season will premiere in its new time period beginning Friday, June 7 at 10PM (ET/PT).
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Continuum co-stars Victor Webster (Castle, Melrose Place) as detective Carlos Fonnegra and Erik Knudsen (Jericho, Scream 4), who plays teen tech genius Alec Sadler.
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Excerpt from Vancouver Sun 6/9/13: Victor Webster
'Continuum' continues winning streak at the Leos
By Mark Leiren-Young, Special to The Sun
The future continues to look bright for the time-travel TV series Continuum as the show followed up news of their third season renewal with a quartet of wins at the Leo Awards Gala Saturday night - including best dramatic series - bringing their total Leo haul to seven.
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The Morton Report 7/25/13: Victor Webster
Taking a Beating: Interview with Continuum's Victor Webster
July 25, 2013
The show stars Rachel Nichols as tough cop Kiera Cameron who has come back from the future with members of a terrorist group to stop them making mischief in the present. Helping Cameron is earnest Vancouver cop Carlos Fonnegra, played by Victor Webster. Thanks to Continuum's action-packed scripts, Fonnegra sees a lot of action. The well-built Webster has no problem with the physical demands of the show, however, as he revealed when TMR chatted with him recently. "That's one of the things I love about the show is how much action we have," Webster said. "A stunt day for me is not a work day; a stunt day for me is a day to come and play. I do all of my own stuff unless they are absolutely adamant against me not doing something. But so far that hasn't happened."
Webster is no stranger to physical activity being a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Yet, fighting in a TV show is a completely different ball game from fighting in sport, he explained. "I started training when I was around nine years old and I still train and still compete now," Webster said. "But doing stunts is more than just fighting. Doing something over and over and over again and throwing yourself, being flipped onto a table and being thrown through a wall, is a workout. At the end of shooting for three or four hours you are tired, you're sore, you're bruised up, you're bleeding. It's not easy but it's incredibly enjoyable. And the way we write action, it's not typical action. It's very dirty. Stuff is getting broken, people are getting smashed with things."
In the episode "Split Second" Webster had one of the most challenging fight scenes he has ever had to do in the series when he was trapped in the back of a police van with Travis Verta (Roger C. Cross), a physically enhanced member of the terrorist group Liber8. It was all in a day's work for Webster, though. "That was brutal," Webster said. "Carlos is flying all over the place. You've got Travis's super-soldier, who's twice or three times as strong as Carlos, just literally picking him and slamming him into walls and throwing him around. When we were doing that stuff I was just launching myself into walls and just jumping in the air and smashing my head, face and body against the side of the van. I loved it."
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Excerpt from TV Wise 8/1/13: Victor Webster
Syfy Picks Up US Rights To ‘Continuum’ Season 3
By Patrick Munn - August 1st, 2013 @ 07:16 pm UTC
Syfy has picked up the US broadcast rights to the third season of Canadian series Continuum, which was recently ordered by Showcase. The 13 episode third season of Continuum will premiere on Syfy in 2014.
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Excerpt from The Loop 11/22/13: Victor Webster, Rachael Crawford (Samantha Bennett, "Possibilities")
Cameras roll on Season 3 of ‘Continuum’
“I knew this season would be crazy,” her co-star, Victor Webster, tweeted. “But starting my first day of Season 3 by working at the insane asylum just solidifies it. #Continuum”
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New to Season 3 is Toronto native Rachael Crawford (Alphas, The Firm), who guests in a multi-episode arc as an as-yet-undisclosed character.
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Excerpt from Wall Street Journal 2/6/14: Victor Webster
Intrigue, betrayal and shocking new alliances abound in season 3 of Showcase's hit series Continuum
February 6, 2014, 1:16 p.m. ET
TORONTO, Feb. 6, 2014 /CNW/ - Showcase's Canadian original action-drama Continuum returns this March as announced today by series stars Rachel Nichols and Victor Webster in a video released to fans via @showcasedotca. The critically acclaimed drama, nominated for three 2014 Canadian Screen Awards, stars Nichols (Criminal Minds, Alias) as Kiera Cameron, a policewoman from 2077 who finds herself trapped in present-day Vancouver. Featuring 13 hour-long episodes, the third season of Continuum premieres on Sunday, March 16 at 9 p.m. ET/PT exclusively on Showcase.
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