KETT TURTON J-14 Interview about Dead Last

 

 

J-14: Kett, you have a unique name. Any story behind it?

 

Kett: "It's a nickname. It's actually short for my real name, which is Birkett. It was my grandmother's maiden name. I happened to like Kett better."

 

J-14: So how do you think you and your character Vaughn are alike?

 

Kett: "Well, we're both very passionate about our chosen art form, I guess you could say. I think he's a lot more headstrong than I am, and he's a lot more quick to act. He doesn't think as much. He's really me but he's just not as analytical. The main thing with Vaughn is that he really hates the fact that there are these ghosts who suddenly show up because he sees it as basically a distraction to his music and what not, he plays the guitar."

 

J-14: Have you been playing the guitar yourself? 

 

Kett: "Um, not really well. I took lessons when I was in L.A. doing the show. Now I play guitar on my own time. I have a guitar and I just sort of fool with it. I'm sort of, more or less, starting a band with a friend of mine, so that should help me. In the show, we did play something, but I think they're going to play a track over it."

 

J-14: Throughout the 13 episodes you filmed, what would you say was the most memorable blooper? 

 

Kett: "Well, there's this one episode that contains one of the only scenes where we're on-stage playing music, and as the song comes to a peak, we start destroying our instruments and going kind of crazy. After doing that for a few takes, you start to get really crazy and I think we broke some lights and stuff that we weren't supposed to break, but we did anyway. The really big thing that happened, though, is that Ty threw one of his drumsticks and it nailed me right below the eye and I didn't realize how bad it was, but I was bleeding down my chest. I got four stitches and now, I have a lovely tough guy scar under my eye."

 

J-14: Wow! Did Tyler say he'd be your slave or anything to make up for it? 

 

Kett: (Laughs.) "No. He felt really bad and stuff, but I didn't care because it was so much fun to do the scene and I was really glad to be able to let loose to the point where we got to do that sort of thing and it didn't hurt."

 

J-14: Speaking of your co-stars, I understand you got to know them pretty well. An insights? 

 

Kett: "Tyler is by far, the coolest guy I've ever met. He's very free. He just has this sort of playground vibe about him. Sara is awesome. I really have a lot of respect for her. She's a lot more talented than she realizes and she is absolutely insane. (Laughs) She's just all over the place. I've had many a night with Sara where we've just ended up staying up really late just walking around and talking about stuff that you hardly ever talk about with anybody."

 

J-14: Vaughn sounds like a really fun role, if you could play any other character, who would you want to play and why? 

 

Kett: "I'd love to play Satan or someone who's possessed by something. I don't know. That has an attraction to me somehow."