Dracula TV Series 2013 Premiere: Jonathan Rhys Meyers To Take On More Of Antihero Role In New NBC Show [VIDEO]
The excitement continues to grow for NBC's new series Dracula, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Modernizing Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula looks to make Vampires menacing once again.
The 10-episode series is set in Victorian, England. Dracula (Rhys Meyers) arrives posing as an American inventor and entrepreneur named Alexander Grayson.
The 36-year-old actor told the LA times, that he is confident he will play a convincing antagonist.
"I think I'm seen as more an antihero or villain. People find something a bit threatening in me. I have quite direct eyes so that lends to the scariness I can portray." Rhys Meyers contends he is the just the opposite in real life.
Not only does the Dublin-born Rhys Meyers play Dracula and Grayson, he also takes on the role as Vlad the Impaler in flashback scenes.
"Vlad is who he is. Grayson is the mask, a type of Howard Hughes figure, as the American who represents the new world posing a threat to Victorian society, and Dracula is the monster in him that is like an open nerve."
Despite using many of Stoker's original characters, the series gives one story's most popular arcs a huge twist, Van Helsing (Thomas Kretschmann) is actually a friend of Dracula.
Dracula premiers Friday, Oct. 25, at 10 p.m. ET on NBC. Be sure to keep checking back for more of the latest info on this series.