“It’s going to be a bit messy,” Hook says of the sapphic supernatural love story.
Warning: This article contains spoilers from the first episode ofFirst Kill.
Juliette and Calliope just met, and already their relationship is extremely complicated.
Imani Lewis and Sarah Catherine Hook on ‘First Kill’.NETFLIX
Their families and species are destined to go to war.
Love stories just aren’t as simple as they used to be.
(That means she was born a vamp, not turned.)
Sarah Catherine Hook on ‘First Kill’.Netflix
So what happens when Calliope and Juliette start falling for each other?
A lot of drama, that’s what.
EW spoke with Hook about her experience making the series.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Let’s start with how you got involved with this project.
And then this one appears and he was saying how cool it was.
He was like, “It’s like aTwilightmeetsKilling Eve.”
And then a month and a half later, the part was mine.
And then I would assume a chemistry read had to have been part of it, right?
And then Imani came in, and it was just game over.
This is all over Zoom, by the way.
It was like, “That’s Calliope.”
It was magical, truly.
Yeah, if it’s possible for you to have that moment via Zoom…
I mean, right?
You know it’s real.
Because it’s not easy to have chemistry reads over Zoom, I will tell you that much.
Did you go back and read the short story to prepare for this?
Schwab] also wrote the pilot.
So she remained very true to her short story, which is cool.
And also too though, with short stories there’s going to be a little bit more subtext.
You get to know what they’re thinking even more so than what we have in the pilot.
So it was more helpful than anything.
I have to say, the end of the pilot really shocked me.
I thought it was a dream!
Yeah, the ending of the pilot is killer.
This is only the first episode here and you’re already killing each other!?"
They get the love story going right off the bat, and it’s going to get really complicated.
It’s going to be a bit messy.
I remember seeing the social media reaction when the trailer for this show dropped.
This is a character a lot of people love.
What did you want to bring to her?
Yeah, I didn’t realize how many people knew the story.
I understood that people knew V.E.
It is very exciting.
And they’ve already started shipping Calliope and Juliette, which is so cute.
For Juliette, it said in the breakdown that she’s shy and sensitive and all these things.
What I didn’t want was for her to be a stereotypical shy person.
She’s having this battle constantly throughout the whole season.
And it’s such an interesting idea that a lot of people who become vampires choose it.
But as a legacy, she was born it.
So she doesn’t have the choice.
She’s never had the choice.
And that’s her burden throughout the show and throughout just her whole life.
What are you actually chugging?
It was beet juice actually, which, I really like beet juice.
So I was not opposed to it.
Everyone was warning me.
I think it was beet and carrot actually.
And I was like, “This is so healthy.
This is going to make me feel amazing.”
I felt like I really actually did need that during the filming process.
It was probably 3 in the morning, I’m depleted and tired.
I’m like, “Give me a pick-me-up.
Give me this beet juice.”
You have fight scenes and obviously you have to bite people.
Technically, what was the hardest part of playing a vampire?
I personally loved having the teeth in.
I wanted them all the time.
[Laughs] I was so obsessed with them.
And same with the biting.
[Laughs] But yeah, trying to embody a vampire was interesting.
