Remember Teletoon’s beloved TWILIGHT-esque TV movie, MY BABYSITTER’S A VAMPIRE? It told the story of Ethan Morgan (Matthew Knight), a geeky freshman who almost dies of embarrassment when his parents make him and his little sister have a babysitter look after them. Ethan quickly learns that his babysitter, Sarah (Vanessa Morgan) is actually half vampire, and now he and his geeky friend Benny (Atticus Dean Mitchell) have been dragged into a world of supernatural battles.
The Mag got the chance to sit down with the cast of MY BABYSITTER’S A VAMPIRE, Vanessa, Atticus, and Matthew. Here’s what they had to say about the series, their clothes, monsters, and more…
How excited were you guys when you learned you get to reprise your characters from MY BABYSITTER’S A VAMPIRE?
Matthew: Pretty excited, I mean the movie was a lot of fun so coming back to the series was pretty exciting to come back to kill more things, so yeah!
Vanessa: And there was so much more adventures in the series, too that I know that I’m really excited about.
How do your characters start to develop a bit more within the series?
Matthew: Throughout the series, Ethan gets a little more, well less nerdy, or a little nerdier, depending on the situation. He gets stronger and he gets more into liking Vanessa’s character
Vanessa: Yeah, I think all of our connections just get stronger, I think you can see that in the series and then also I know my character, Sara, gets more self-realization with the character and a lot of development and you see her really mature. But I guess all of us kind of mature…
Atticus: Maybe not me so much…Sara almost becomes like a big sister to us, which is weird because you [Ethan] have a crush on her, but whatever.
Is there ever a budding romance between the two of you, or is it strictly a one-sided crush?
Matthew: One sided.
Vanessa: One sided, for sure.
Matthew: She’ll come around, she will [sarcastically].
How are you guys at all like your characters?
Vanessa: I think I’m pretty similar to my character. Of all the characters I’ve played I think I’m most like this character. She’s really just a normal teenage girl, she just has this dilemma of being a vampire. But I guess that can kind of relate to any problem that any teenage girl, like me, has in life, and she’s dealing with that complex so yeah. And our personality is pretty similar too.
Matthew: I’d say I’m a lot less nerdy than Ethan, but I have that sort of gangly, “try to figure this out” kind of thing.
Atticus: Benny is almost the polar opposite of me completely. All of his likes are none of my likes. He likes STAR WARS, I couldn’t care less. He’s a big wimp, I am so brave all of the time, every day! I’m kidding, but he’s just…
Matthew: He’s weird.
Atticus: He IS weird! I’m the most normal person you’ll ever meet in your life, really.
So how do you get into that “weird” mentality?
Atticus: I think it’s the clothes that they make me wear. I’ll be honest with you, the shirts, they’re all so striped and awful and the pants are too short for my legs and my feet are huge, so most of the time I’m like “Wow, I feel like a dork”.
Do the rest of you guys like your wardrobes?
Matthew: Yeah, I like it. It’s definitely Ethan, so it works to help me think like him.
Vanessa: It sucks for them because on the last day we got to take the wardrobe home, and I’m like taking everything and Atticus doesn’t take anything!
Atticus: I took one grey undershirt that I had to wear for something that really had nothing to do with my character, but the rest I would burn.
What have been your favourite moments/episodes to film so far?
Atticus: For me, the go-kart where I had to play “Evil Benny” because basically I just got to drive a go-kart around for like, 3 hours. It was a lot of fun and I almost crashed like three times, which is great… And I wanted to make it like Mario Kart and throw bananas behind me, but they wouldn’t let me.
Matthew: My favourite one was probably the zombie one, with the fire extinguishers. We only had a few fire extinguishers so we had to make them last, and it’s hard to use them sparingly when they’re so much fun.
What other crazy stuff has happened on set?
Matthew: We play a lot of the games that are in Ethan’s room.
Atticus: There’s this one game called ‘Apples to Apples’ that we would play. We had it for about a week and we would play it like, every lunch.
The movie within the show, ‘Dusk’, it pokes a lot of fun at the TWILIGHT series, what do you guys personally think of TWILIGHT?
Atticus: It’s a guilty pleasure of mine! I mean, they’re terrible, but once you show me a picture of Robert Pattinson, he stole my heart. I just have the biggest crush on Robert. That’s all I have to say.
Vanessa: I personally like TWILIGHT, I just really like it.
Matthew: I don’t, so I was really happy when they were making fun of it!
Vanessa: I like how we make fun of their sparkling vampires.
If you had any supernatural powers in real life, what would they be?
Atticus: I can think of so many of those on my own time, but once someone asks me as a question, I completely forget.
Vanessa: Invisibility!
Matthew: There are so many things! I want the super power of having all of the superpowers.
Vanessa, you’re working on an album right now, is there anything else you can tell me about that?
Vanessa: Yeah, my first single will be out soon [you can hear it on her website, vanessamorgan.ca]… I would say it’s like pop/R&B. I’m really excited! We’re working on the radio release and I’m shooting a music video in LA in a couple weeks.
What about you guys, Matthew and Atticus, are there any other projects you’re working on besides the series?
Atticus: There’s this magical thing in the world that I’m just finishing now called school. But other than graduating, I’ve got nothing going on. I’m really boring.
Matthew: I’m not really sure what I’m going to do [after the series], I’m thinking of doing volunteer work on some organic farms, it’s called ‘wwoofing’ [WWOOF, World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms]. My brother’s doing that right now so I might join him where he’s working.
Thank you, Atticus, Matthew and Vanessa! Don’t miss the premier of MY BABYSITTER’S A VAMPIRE tonight at 8pm on Teletoon!
Photo’s courtesy of TELETOON.