Continuum Actor Victor Webster Talks Time Travel And Riding The Edge Of The Real
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In Continuum, a Global Corporate Congress essentially runs all of North America. For me, this is terrifying and pretty realistic. What do you think of that landscape for the show?
It’s very scary, and I think the possibility exists. And I think you see this world-wide — the rising up in Syria and Crimea, the “Occupy” movement, people saying enough’s enough [like the terrorist organization Liber8 on the show]. A lot of that is reflected in our show. We’ll shoot an episode and then two or three months later something will come on CNN that reflects what we’ve just shot. So I think the show is on the pulse of the world and where it’s going, and if it does head in that direction, we’ve got some thinking to do.
A lot of the characters are morally ambiguous as well, even Kiera at times. Carlos seems to be the moral center of the show, except perhaps for last season when he was swayed to Liber8’s cause. What do you think about Carlos’s moral character and why he did that?
Carlos is seeing a lot of things change, not necessarily for the better, especially with Piron, a private entity, getting involved in policing. One thing we did that was interesting was to let the audience decide on the website where Carlos would go at the end of season 2: was he going to stay with the police force, or was he going to go with Liber8? The overwhelming feedback was for Carlos to go to Liber8. So the audience and fans got to be involved and essentially picked that ending.
When Carlos went to talk to Julian, I don’t think it was necessarily to join Liber8, but I think he was open to listening because he was experiencing doubt and confusion himself. Also, what better way is there to understand what you’re fighting than to hear it from the horse’s mouth?
I didn’t know that was a fan-influenced decision! But the fact that fans did overwhelming vote for Carlos to go to Liber8 affirms that they’re on board with the moral ambiguity.
Yeah, I think they love that. When you shove an opinion down people’s throats, it’s not taken well. But when you give them the opportunity to decide for themselves, that draws fans in.
But in the current timeline, Carlos didn’t go to Liber8.
Right, because when Alec goes back in time a week, that hadn’t happened. But you can still see those thoughts ticking away in Carlos’s head. You can see his reactions to what Inspector Dillon is doing and how he’s running the precinct. So the choices that made Carlos talk to Julian are the same choices he’s making now, but the opportunity to talk to Julian isn’t presented to him, so he’s finding another outlet for it.
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