Source: The Morton Report [follow link for complete interview]
HAVEN - THE MORTON REPORT: Coming Of Age: Interview With Haven's Lucas Bryant
By Steve Eramo
July 30, 2011
When Nathan Wuornos became a police officer in Haven, he was well aware that some of his investigations would be unusual in nature. Just how unusual, though, depends on whether or not you were born and raised in the small coastal Maine town. Some of its residents are among “The Troubled,” and have supernatural abilities that tend to manifest themselves in extremely strange and dangerous ways. Nathan himself is one of The Troubled and suffers from idiopathic neuropathy, a condition that prevents him from physically feeling anything.
Throughout Haven’s first season, Nathan and his new partner, former FBI Agent Audrey Parker, risked their lives countless times to help these poor unfortunate souls. In the season one finale “Spiral,” Max Hansen, returns to town, having served jail time for the 1983 killing of the Colorado Kid. His subsequent death, by Chief of Police Garland Wuornos, also a Troubled, leads Nathan to discover that Max was, in fact, his biological father. Chief Wuornos sent Hansen to prison for murdering a family and then adopted Nathan and raised him as his own. Although it was a very confusing time for our hero, it was quite an exhilarating one acting-wise for Lucas Bryant, who plays Nathan...
“When I first read the script for the season one finale I was pretty shocked and surprised as well as excited,” says Bryant. “The information about Nathan’s real and adoptive fathers was something that the writers had kept from me, on purpose, I imagine, and also because I didn’t want to know things that I didn’t need to know. I knew they were putting some big stuff in that particular episode, but I had no idea exactly what.
“So that was all wonderful, and it was the type of episode that Emily Rose [Audrey Parker] and I really wanted to make in the first place. It had a lot to do with the characters and their stories as well as the history of the town, and the bigger questions of what’s going on there. Of course we had an investigation of a Trouble, but a lot of this episode dealt with issues that impacted the characters’ overall storylines, so we were both very excited to be doing that..."
