Jacob Batalon gave us the lowdown on playing a different kind of vampire in SYFY's new series ReginaldTheVampire
films, tells MTV News about his favorite blood suckers. “We’ve never really had any point of reference in pop culture or media because there’s truly nothing like. All my experiences growing up — being told I wasn’t good enough or that I wasn’t attractive enough and [that] being overweight and fat made me undesirable — I would say really informed a lot of my performance [as Reginald].”
In reality, Reginald is a Slushy Shack cashier who’s bullied by his fatphobic boss, Todd , and is secretly in love with a coworker, Sarah , whom he believes is out of his league. This is what he’s always done, and it’s what he’s always gotten — until he has a breakdown behind the fast-food joint’s dumpster and begs “God or baby Jesus” for a lucky break.
Alive or dead, Reginald draws folks in without even realizing it. As the storyline progresses, the people in his orbit gravitate toward his self-deprecating humor and charisma. He’s such a “sweet soul,” Batalon adds, “you would hate to see him go through anything bad.” “Anything you might find to be predictable and it ends up being something completely different, I find to be the best sort of material,” he explains.books by Johnny B. Truant, fits the bill because it defies tropes about what vampires should or shouldn’t look like.
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