Welcome to Subspecies Week on Kevin Lane's Spill Your Guts!
A new episode every day until Thursday, June 1st exploring Ted Nicolaou's iconic saga with the creator and stars.
Our guest today is the heart and soul of the “Subspecies” series. The Beauty to the beast (though she’s got fangs!). With a villain as savage, endlessly quotable and tortured as Anders Hove’s Radu, it would seem a difficult task to create a heroine just as memorable but the character Michelle is exactly that.
For this episode we are joined by Denice Duff.
Though Denice was brought into the series on the second film “Bloodstone: Subspecies 2” to replace the original actor who portrayed Michelle, she quickly made the role her own and brought new depth and ferocity. It’s hard to imagine anyone but Denice playing Michelle. And that is often a true testament to a great performance.
Denice’s characters battle for her soul against an always pursuing Radu is the backbone of the entire franchise and the onscreen chemistry between Denice and Anders Hove is a big part of why we can’t get enough.
There’s a scene you will hear us discuss with a few of our guests that takes place in “Bloodlust: Subspecies 3” when Radu and Michelle are standing on the wall of the castle just before sunrise. It’s a quiet intimate scene of devastating anguish, regret and loss. It’s heartbreaking and beautiful both in its writing and the performances. And Denice is just astonishing in it.
So, let’s learn how to survive the night with Subspecies star Denice Duff.
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