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KETT'S HAPPY FOR THIS BAD REP: Vancouver actor gets juicy bad-guy role in Stephen King series

 by Glen Schaefer, staff reporter

 

 

Vancouver actor Kett Turton was at a party with the writer of his current project, and the writer made a prediction.

" He talked to me about the character a little bit, " Turton says. " The one thing he did say to me was that I'm going to be the most hated man in America. "

Coming from Stephen King, America's reigning horror-meister, that's an endorsement, not a curse. Turton plays a nasty ghost stalking the doctors and patients in the 15-episode TV series Kingdom Hospital, written by Kind and currently in production on a Richmond soundstage. Work on the series started in August and continues until April, and it'll air sometime next years on ABC.

"I'm sort of the main baddie, if you like. It is fun, " says Turton. The King imagination is running wild on the show. " It's probably one of the bigger things that I've worked on - there's a lot of special effects, crazy sets and stuff going on. A chaotic experience, like a wave that you get swallowed up by. "

Also in the cast are Americans Bruce Davison (X-Men), Andrew McCarthy and Diane Ladd. Turton says King hasn't been on the set much.

"That's probably a good thing because people would be very nervous, " he says. "He's really cool, very nonchalant. I met him at a party in Vancouver at the producer's house. "

The 21-year-old Turton has seen a fair but of on-screen death since leaving North Vancouver's Carson Graham secondary for an acting career. He played a suicidal teen in director Scott Smith's low-budget debut Rollercoaster and took a comic turn in the short-lived WB series Dead Last, as a Scoobie Doo-ish rock singer who saw ghosts with his bandmates. He's also on the big screen this month in the Canadian indie feature Falling Angels, reteaming with Vancouver director Smith for a coming-of-age story set in the late 1960s.

Turton started doing community theatre while in elementary school. " My mother signed me up for karate, figure skating, acting - everything. Acting was that I liked. "

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