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 SUPER(NATURAL) SEXY
After a summer of reruns, reality-TV train wrecks and seriously subpar programming, we’re stoked to announce that the fall TV season is finally upon us! With its arrival, we welcome back the handsome fellas from our favorite haunted beachfront, Dante’s Cove. Returning stars Charlie David and Gregory Michael, and new cast cutie Jon Fleming help us launch our Fall Entertainment Preview and they assure us that their gothic, guilty-pleasure TV hit will keep the thrills (read: shirtless, sweaty scenes)
a-comin’—with all the camp goodness and sexy soap appeal the sinister series has come to be known for firmly intact.
INSTINCT: Okay, we’ll start with you, Jon. What was it like being the new guy on set for season two?
JON FLEMING: It was great. They welcomed me with open arms and made me feel like I was part of the family. I owe Charlie a big thank-you for giving me a recap of season one and answering all my dumb questions.
Gregory, your character had a rough first season, especially when he had to kiss that really old, dead, demon-like guy. Do things get easier for you in season two?
GREGORY MICHAEL: Oh, yeah, thanks for bringing it up. I’ve tried to block that scene from my memory! Kissing a decaying old man definitely pushed the envelope, but it’s all in a day’s work. Fortunately, there are no dead people looking to hook up in season two.
Do things get easier for our lover-heroes Toby (Charlie) and Kevin (Gregory) this season?
CHARLIE DAVID: I guess it depends on how you look at things. At the end of last season Toby was next to dead at the bottom of the ocean, which I suppose is about as low as one can sink. But when you live in a place like Dante’s Cove, life is hardly a breeze. I spend most of my time battling warlocks and beating lusty boys off my boyfriend.
We’re still going to root for them to be together forever, right?
GREGORY: Of course! We’re the Ross and Rachel of Dante’s Cove!
Charlie’s a pretty scruffy dude, Gregory. Ever want to introduce him to Gillette?
GREGORY: I wish he would use a razor more often, but his scruff is part of what makes him so popular! And for the sake of our viewers, I guess I’ll let him keep it.
CHARLIE: When I did my screen test for Dante’s Cove, I was flown to L.A. from Vancouver and forgot my razor. I had heard all these wonderful stories about America and how these were a people who had everything. Not true. No razors at the hotel, so I went to the screen test with my grubby face, and they dug it. I guess it’s a tribute to Matthew Fox in his Party Of Five days, even though I had a major crush on Scott Wolf at the time. Anyway, I haven’t been allowed near razors for two years now!
Charlie, has being an openly gay star of a gay-themed show made you known to outside producers as “that gay actor”?
CHARLIE: I’m definitely known for being one of very few out gay actors in the industry, and right now it carries a political agenda by just being myself. I look forward to the day when sexuality isn’t of relevance to any profession, but we’re at a place in our journey as a community where it’s important to have visibility. If that means I lose a few “straight” roles, so be it. People fear what they don’t know. Actually, I’m on a personal crusade to inform members at my gym about the gay
lifestyle, so I leave my old copies of Instinct on the treadmill and stair-climbers.
How about you, Greg? Has being involved in Dante’s Cove changed your personal perspective or politics?
GREGORY: I have always been grateful for the support I’ve received from the gay community...that happens when you’re an actor in a role like this. The most important change I’ve seen is that I am less likely to categorize someone as gay or straight. They’re just my friends, no matter who they sleep with.
Okay, we don’t wanna hear how great the six-week shoot was. We want to know how grueling and exhausting and overworked you were. Any good dirt?
GREGORY: So you want to hear about how the cast got my mom to play Truth or Dare when she came to visit the set? Let’s just say that some stories are better left untold…
JON: I really can’t complain about shooting a TV show in Hawaii! I had tough jobs growing up in Wisconsin, like shoveling snow, roofing houses and even working at Chuck E. Cheese. And, for the record, I never dressed up as the mouse! I have no complaints about the show…except the jeans I wore were a little too tight.
The body-obsessed gays gotta know: How many hours a day did you guys work out immediately before shooting Dante’s? During? Was there an Abflex on set?
GREGORY: I needed to lose a few pounds for the show, so I took Jared’s advice and did the Subway diet! Okay, okay…actually, I did a pretty standard lifting/cardio routine before and during shooting. Nothing fancy.
CHARLIE: We stayed at an unbelievable resort with pro surfing instructors, full gym, spa, miles of running trails, tennis, swimming pools and two PGA golf courses. I’m a golf nut, so I was in heaven.
JON: Well, we all got together in the morning, put on our leg warmers and did Sweatin’ To The Oldies by Richard Simmons.
That’s a sight! What did you splurge on after the shoot was over? Pizza? Cookies? Beer? Cookies and beer?
CHARLIE: Honestly? Sushi. I know, boring. Oh, right, then I had ice cream. Okay, that’s a lie. I splurged on whiskey…a lot of it. I’ll take a bottle now if you have it. I also have a very committed relationship with cookies—any kind of cookie. Well, except a dry, crumbly cookie. You can keep those.
JON: I actually had my hotel room stocked with junk food, so when I was picture wrapped, I sprinted into my room and had buffalo-wing-flavored pretzels, Newcastle beer, red wine, Sour Patch Kids and anything else I could get my hands on.
You guys may have to give up the bad food if there’s a season three. Any buzz about that?
CHARLIE: If evil still lurks in Dante’s Cove, I can’t imagine Toby will be sleeping peacefully. He’s probably in warlock-ass-kicking training right now.
JON: If we do another season, we’ll need another aerobics video. Richard Simmons got stuck in my VCR!
To see what these guys are up to next, go to charliedavid.com , gregorymichael.tv and myspace.com/jonfleming3
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