During a 2019 interview with Stephen Root on the National Public Radio program "Fresh Air", Root recalled his role on this show - and especially his work with fellow actor Nelsan Ellis - fondly: "(I played a) gay vampire. I'm very proud to say that. That was a role that came by. And I was like, this is exactly what I tell young actors to do. If you're a little afraid of the role, you should jump on it. So I jumped on it and really had a good time doing it. It was out of my comfort zone, you know, kissing and the whole nine yards. And I learned a lot doing that role to really relax, just like any other role. It was great." The interviewer, Dave Davies, asked, "The guy you were kissing there was an actor named Nelsan Ellis, right?" and Root resumed, "Nelsan Ellis, yes, brilliant actor. And he went on to do many more years of that show and a lot more intimate scenes on that show. But I think ours was the first that was - you really saw an intimate kissing scene. And I think he was certainly more nervous than I was because what I learned from this is it's very, very technical - intimate scenes are - especially kissing because you'll approach from the left. And you say, and Nelsan, I'm going to kiss here, then I'm going to come out. And I'm going to come out, and we're going to go to the right. And then we'll do a full open mouth, and then we'll come out again. So it was all very technical, which, I think, calmed him down as well as myself."
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