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From Vampire Diaries to Mon- El and Supergirl: in depth with Chris Wood, Feature Movies. Serial killer to serial partier is a disconcerting way to describe someone, yet appropriate for Chris Wood, or, more accurately, his acting career, which began as the former in an episode of Major Crimes and currently represents the latter as Mon- El on Supergirl. In between, the twenty- eight year old native of Dublin, Ohio has taken on the romantic lead in six episodes of the Sex In The City prequel series, The Carrie Diaries; the psychotic Kai Parker in season six of The Vampire Diaries; and experienced the true hero’s journey as police officer Jake Riley in Containment (which in this context feels like it should have the word “diaries” added to it). At the moment, though, it’s his Supergirl role that is garnering the most attention. Surviving member of Krypton’s neighboring planet, Daxam, Mon- El has come to Earth and, despite deeply- held resentment between their races, finds himself, after his powers begin to reveal themselves, being mentored by Supergirl.
She’s attempting to convince him to use those powers for good, while Mon- El isn’t so sure it’s something he wants to do — though it’s hardly a spoiler to say that he’ll get there. Watch A Prairie Home Companion Online A Prairie Home Companion Full Movie Online. In the following exclusive interview, Wood traces his career as an actor, revealing someone who seems anxious to learn everything that he can to enhance him as a person while on the journey. At what point in your life did you decide, “I am going to be an entertainer”?
I was one of those weirdos who, at six- years- old, was telling everybody that I wanted to be an actor. I saw my sister in a play and realized that I wanted to play make believe in front of people; I was always goofing around and putting on shows for my family. I sort of dabbled in some horrible child short films growing up; I would write these horrible scripts and shoot them with my friends and my sister. That was sort of the beginning of the end for me, because I loved it so much it was the only thing I wanted to do. Photo by John Tsiavis. Even at that young an age?
Yeah, I started super early. But I didn't work professionally until my first break from college when I did some community theater for two hundred dollars a week. Then, after college I just did theater, exclusively stage. Watch Happy, Happy Vioz more. It wasn't until 2.
I even started working in film. It was always something I wanted to do from six, but I didn't know how to get there other than working really hard and going to New York and doing theater like I saw on the bios of some of my favorite actors. If you got the interest at six, how did you sustain it until you started doing it in college? One of the nice things about acting is that even if you're doing it at a really crappy theater or you're starring in a horrible film that has no chance of doing anything positive for your career, you get to act. You get to play make believe and use those skills that you're trying to develop and improve on. Hopefully, everyone has the same feeling I do when they perform. I get such a thrill from getting to play make believe.
My favorite place to be is trying to be somebody else. I think that I'm lucky in that, even at levels where I, by and large, wasn't making enough money to sustain my life, I worked as a male nanny, I waited tables and did what I had to, to keep doing theater and acting. I just loved it so much that it was never disheartening. I always knew that if I stayed with it and kept pursuing what I loved so much, I would get to a place where I could do that and just do that. Some actors act to escape life. Were you looking to escape life or were you just looking to have more fun with it? I never feel like I'm looking to get away from my own self.
Not as much as I'm trying to get inside the mind of somebody else. That's one of the things I was into as a kid growing up, I was always asking questions. I was always reading and trying to learn new skills. If I wasn't making a movie, I was trying to master a new musical instrument or trying to teach myself how to shave with a straight razor. I had to find the weirdest things just to increase my understanding of other cultures or other arts or intellectual pursuits. I've just always sort of been mesmerized by our minds and how people think and how people react differently. Looking at old films when I was growing up, I saw the difference between someone who is just sort of walking through it and somebody who would really try to attain a different mental space from their own.
I just thought that that was the coolest thing that you could do; to change the way you would react and change the goals that you would have in your life. The moral compass and the speed in which you speak or walk, or what have you. I've always found that part of the business to be endlessly captivating.
That probably also keeps you in the game. There's a never- ending supply of characters you can try to nail down. Photo by John Tsiavis. And in nailing down characters and playing them, especially when you're given the opportunity to play one on a recurring basis, do you find that those characters somehow illuminate a part of yourself that maybe you were not aware of before hand?
I find that every job I've done, no matter the size or the scale of it, every job teaches me in some way. You can't help but carry some weight of whatever role you've done with you. If it's a romcom, or something like Supergirl, or something that lives in that sort of world, it doesn't require as much of you to change, If that makes sense. I don't find myself walking around being affected by all the characters. Sometimes there are roles in plays or recurring characters that sort of stick with you a bit longer. I do find that it changes my outlook. The research is a big part of that, too.
When I played a character who was an atheist and I got far into reading texts and trying to understand the roots of the disbelief, you can't help but be affected by what you're taking in. Knowledge is why people think the way they do. The deeper you get into the bones of a person, the more your own self is going to be changed. Your view of the world is going to change. It can be scary, but I try not to view it as a scary thing. I feel like it's a good thing, just broadening the spectrum of what you understand.
You said Mon- El, because it's a superhero, maybe doesn't require the same kind of understanding that, say, an atheist would? Right, or a serial killer or a sociopath.
There's a lot of different ways that the role can affect you. One of the reasons that shows like Supergirl and any comic that's been turned into a film or TV show are so successful is the escapism.
People love to dive into a world that's not ours. As an actor, there are moments, obviously, within the show where there is weight and there's fictional circumstances. No matter how absurd or improbable, we try to make them real. That can still affect you. He's also a character that lives in the light, so he's reacting with humor and lightness to cover whatever he's actually feeling. I feel like that helps, also, to not be stuck in any sort of rut.
You graduated from college with a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Theater. Is music theater a big part of your background? When I went to college, the reason I chose to study music theater instead of just acting was because I figured, why not? Why not do all of it?
Acting has always been what I wanted to do. I've never considered myself a singer. My God, never in a million years a dancer, which are obviously two very important components of music theater. But I love music.
I am sort of a nerd for classical and old jazz standards. I love the art of musical theater writing and performing. It's not what I gravitate towards in terms of what I want to do with myself; I gravitate towards straight plays and features. Even at a young age I would think, “Why wouldn't I study everything instead of just one thing?" I went to a school that wasn't a conservatory, because I didn't even want to limit myself in that way.
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