HAVEN: Interview with LucasBryant

Haven premiers its fourth season this Friday and we got a chance to chat with Lucas Bryant who plays Nathan. Check out the interview below.

Nathan’s New Outlook
Lucas Bryant: Yeah, that was a really cool turn for me. Nathan has always been maybe a little bit too sure of himself. I mean sure, he’s always got doubts, but he had this kind of blind trust in himself, and Audrey, and that as you saw at the end of Season 3 led to a disastrous outcome.
So now, yeah, getting to explore that you know ruin side of him was a lot of fun, and you know, continuing out through Season 4, he has a new mission, but it is as you say, a lot darker, and that was a lot of fun.

Is Happiness in the Cards for Nathan
Lucas Bryant: There are some happy moments definitely for Nathan, but sadly, they seem to be fleeting. Yeah, well you know that’s just the way it has got to go. When things start looking too good, you have to just smash it all to pieces, right.
So you know, hopefully, there is – well especially in the first half of the season. Nathan’s outlook is pretty bleak, pretty dark. You know you learn in that opening episode what he has decided he needs to do and the deal that’s made about his short future.
So, no, things aren’t looking too good there, but I will tell you that there may be very exciting lights at the end of that dark tunnel.

Favorite Upcoming Moments
Lucas Bryant: Well there are a bunch of great bits coming up that I can’t tell you anything about, but I’m sure fans will probably be pretty into what develops midway through the season. Specifically for me I guess, a couple of episodes ago I got to play a wildly different version of Nathan. Something happens in town that’s – how do I put this? – that shakes up everyone’s reality, so yes; I got to explore a very different side of him, which was a blast. A much less reserved and much more effusive side of Nathan that I certainly didn’t see coming.

Working with guest star Colin Ferguson
Lucas Bryant: Colin is fantastic. I have worked with him this year and not as – well I guess, what can I say. I guess more so in the second half of the season and his character is – of course I can’t – once again, I have given you this vague answer. I can’t really tell you anything, but his character is very – well he brings out a lot of emotions in Nathan. Let’s just say that.
And Colin is such a – you know he is a charming guy and the character that he plays is such a – has real – well I can’t really say that either can I. Man, how do you even answer any of these questions? He is a whole dynamic I guess that he brought to the show and you know he’s a blast to work with because he’s got a real great sense of humor and he is a total pro.

Theme of the Season
Lucas Bryant: Good question. The primary theme of this season. Well I guess in many ways this season the danger has been raised again and I think our heroes of the show for lack of a better word are wrestling with – each of us are wrestling with how little we understand and how maybe ill-equipped we are to deal with them.
I think in the past we had some – things have all been going badly, but there was maybe some faith that we would somehow we would be able to deal with it. Not that we’ve lost all faith now, but I think this season all of us have been shown that this thing is maybe so much huger than anyone could have guessed. And so, I think we are sort of adrift in a lot of dangerous possibilities this season.
So maybe the theme is you know about questioning ourselves, but it doesn’t really sound like that’s a departure from the show does it, because I guess questions have been the central theme since the beginning. But it’s just like a whole new rug has been pulled out from under everyone’s feet.

Duke and Nathan’s Relationship
Lucas Bryant: Yeah, in Season 4, Nathan and Duke have a lot more trust of each and faith in each other, so we see more of their friendship I guess. I mean you know the relationship is always the same, but I think some of that animosity has been left behind in their you know shared goals this season initially of finding Audrey and we did get to work together a lot more this season, so that was a lot of fun. So anytime that those characters are put together and try and achieve something together, I think it’s a great matchup.

Reminder, Haven Season 4 premieres Friday, September 13 at 10:00 pm ET on SyFy and you are not going to want to miss it.