Post by kay80 on Mar 23, 2006 6:07:47 GMT -5
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) After playing a gay teen on The WB's "Dawson's Creek," Kerr Smith is happy to be playing an adult -- and having a different sort of on-screen romance.
In The WB's Sunday-night hit "Charmed," Smith plays FBI Agent Kyle Brody, who's very interested in the supernatural shenanigans of the good-witch Halliwell sisters of San Francisco: Piper (Holly Marie Combs), Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) and Paige (Rose McGowan).
Says Smith, "The one thing Brad [series executive producer Brad Kern] told me when we spoke over the weekend before we started work is, 'He's got to be charming, and he's got to be mysterious. You've got to keep the audience up in the air: Is this guy good, is he bad, is he a demon, is he really an FBI agent? Just keep it up in the air.'
"You still don't know, so I'm going to run with that as long as I can."
Brody apparently has no problem with keeping a close eye on the sisters, or at least on one of them.
"The whole point of me being on the show," Smith says, "is to get to know the girls, to use them to get to the big demon that's coming this season, which apparently I'm aware of throughout my investigator travels. So I'm here to help them and bust them at the same time, and in doing that, I get a little too close to Paige.
"Now I've got the internal conflict of love vs. the job."
According to Smith, McGowan seems to have no objection to this.
"I met Rose for the first time in early September," Smith says. "I said, 'So, Rose, do you know anything about our storyline, what's going on? You probably know more than I do.' She said, 'I don't know anything, but I'll probably be making out with you sometime this season.'"
When both singer Nick Lachey ("Newlyweds") and Smith were announced as "Charmed" guest stars this season (Lachey's character, Leslie St. Clair, romanced Phoebe), some Internet wags jokingly suggested that these two handsome guys would wind up together.
Kerr laughs at the thought. "Oh, yeah, of course. I can't even read that stuff. They just beat you down. We will shed the gay thing yet, you and I. We will do it together. It's slowly diminishing. I knew it was going to stick with me for a little bit, but after a couple of jobs, people forget about it. I think it's fun.
"I just have to make out with a lot of women, starting with Rose. My wife is fine with that. She'd rather have me kiss girls than guys, that's for sure."
The role of Brody also allows Smith to shed the teen persona in favor of more grownup gear.
"I have several guns," he says. "Brad wanted me to be like Indiana Jones. I am one big, bad boy. I've got a holster, boots. I've got my Homeland Security badge, leather jacket, nice suits. Never worn a suit before.
"It sure can change your image, especially when you can tie a mean Windsor knot - double. How many people can go with a double? It's tough for me, being 32 years old and people seeing me as 20 or 18. I haven't even played my age yet. I think the highest I've played before this is 26."
Although Brody may be close to Smith's age, he still looks young.
"The running joke that we're playing is," Smith says, "because I look so young, I'm up against these other detectives that look like they're 35, and I'm the one that's got authority. We play off that. 'Who the hell are you? You look like you're 12, and you're bossing me around.' It's fun."
Smith gets to put on even cooler suits in the Sunday, Nov. 14, episode of "Charmed," where Brody and Paige are drawn into an unfinished 1930s gangster-noir novel. But if he had his way, Smith would go for even more outrageous costumes in his career.
"I'd kill to be on 'Star Trek,'" he says. "Being a Klingon would be fun."
In The WB's Sunday-night hit "Charmed," Smith plays FBI Agent Kyle Brody, who's very interested in the supernatural shenanigans of the good-witch Halliwell sisters of San Francisco: Piper (Holly Marie Combs), Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) and Paige (Rose McGowan).
Says Smith, "The one thing Brad [series executive producer Brad Kern] told me when we spoke over the weekend before we started work is, 'He's got to be charming, and he's got to be mysterious. You've got to keep the audience up in the air: Is this guy good, is he bad, is he a demon, is he really an FBI agent? Just keep it up in the air.'
"You still don't know, so I'm going to run with that as long as I can."
Brody apparently has no problem with keeping a close eye on the sisters, or at least on one of them.
"The whole point of me being on the show," Smith says, "is to get to know the girls, to use them to get to the big demon that's coming this season, which apparently I'm aware of throughout my investigator travels. So I'm here to help them and bust them at the same time, and in doing that, I get a little too close to Paige.
"Now I've got the internal conflict of love vs. the job."
According to Smith, McGowan seems to have no objection to this.
"I met Rose for the first time in early September," Smith says. "I said, 'So, Rose, do you know anything about our storyline, what's going on? You probably know more than I do.' She said, 'I don't know anything, but I'll probably be making out with you sometime this season.'"
When both singer Nick Lachey ("Newlyweds") and Smith were announced as "Charmed" guest stars this season (Lachey's character, Leslie St. Clair, romanced Phoebe), some Internet wags jokingly suggested that these two handsome guys would wind up together.
Kerr laughs at the thought. "Oh, yeah, of course. I can't even read that stuff. They just beat you down. We will shed the gay thing yet, you and I. We will do it together. It's slowly diminishing. I knew it was going to stick with me for a little bit, but after a couple of jobs, people forget about it. I think it's fun.
"I just have to make out with a lot of women, starting with Rose. My wife is fine with that. She'd rather have me kiss girls than guys, that's for sure."
The role of Brody also allows Smith to shed the teen persona in favor of more grownup gear.
"I have several guns," he says. "Brad wanted me to be like Indiana Jones. I am one big, bad boy. I've got a holster, boots. I've got my Homeland Security badge, leather jacket, nice suits. Never worn a suit before.
"It sure can change your image, especially when you can tie a mean Windsor knot - double. How many people can go with a double? It's tough for me, being 32 years old and people seeing me as 20 or 18. I haven't even played my age yet. I think the highest I've played before this is 26."
Although Brody may be close to Smith's age, he still looks young.
"The running joke that we're playing is," Smith says, "because I look so young, I'm up against these other detectives that look like they're 35, and I'm the one that's got authority. We play off that. 'Who the hell are you? You look like you're 12, and you're bossing me around.' It's fun."
Smith gets to put on even cooler suits in the Sunday, Nov. 14, episode of "Charmed," where Brody and Paige are drawn into an unfinished 1930s gangster-noir novel. But if he had his way, Smith would go for even more outrageous costumes in his career.
"I'd kill to be on 'Star Trek,'" he says. "Being a Klingon would be fun."
