December Magazine

LIVE
DECEMBER 2017 ISSUE

This is most likely our last Live Magazine for a while.
As we head into Christmas and the new year, we’re looking at big changes for our beloved magazine.
More on that in a moment, but first a few things we’d like to share.
When we started, this was little more then a catalogue with a few cosplay and game stories. Not many
people understood what we were doing creating a magazine. After all, many big name magazines had
the market to theselves. Still we had a vision. Our first issue got around 2,500 readers. Not many but a
start. We grew our content, our contributors and also the reader numbers.
Our previous issue got over 30,000 readers. Not bad for a small publishing team with next to no
marketing budget. Those reader number many not seem huge but when you stack them up agains other
big name magazines and their digital issues, we’re way ahead. While some publishers combine web
with digital magazine readers we’ve found some stats that give true reader numbers of just magazines:
However we found a good article from “Statista - The Statistics Portal” that you can visit here:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/324561/digital-magazines-ranked-by-circulation-uk/
A screen shot on the opposite pages shows the digital readership from some big name titles. We looked
back at the last 12 months of our readership from our two main newsstands - Issuu and Yumpu and, on
average, we’re getting 30,000 plus readers per magazine/catalogue.
So why are we mentioning all this? Bragging - no, not at all. We’re wanting to thank our readers for their
support as we transition into the next season. Changes here at Gametraders may see this as our last
issue, but we’re in talks to keep Live going. More on that soon. For now I’d like to say a big thank you to
some special people who made Live possible...
“On average Live Magazine & sister titles Retro Live
and Cosplay Live each would average around 30,000
reads per issue.”

THE LIVE TEAM:
Paul Monopoli our Retro Editor whoes passsion is inspiring.
Scott Sowter, Comics and movies Editor who was alway there to create his magic.
Anny and Tiffany our Cosplay Contributors and editors who sought out the most amazing cosplayers to
be featured in each issue.
Nick and the team from Sticky Trigger.
The team from VG Chartz who supported us with news and reviews.
The wargaming team - Ben and his group.
A big thank you to Loretta from Sony for always supporting us plus our brilliant art director/designer -
Giselle.
Have a great Christmas - hope to see you in February next year.
Rob Jenkins
Publisher.
Screenshot from: The Statistics Portal” :
https://www.statista.com/statistics/324561/digital-magazines-ranked-by-circulation-uk/

YOUR INTERVIEW SAY
INTERVIEW W
Paul: Joining me now at Hybrid
World Adelaide, its Bajo and Rad!
Bajo and Rad: Hello!
Paul: Rad, whose name when you
type it into Facebook turns out pink!
Rad: Yeah, I’ve seen that now. If
you click it rockets fly across the
screen.
Bajo: Fantastic!
P: Little thumbs up rockets!
R: What happens when you type
Bajo into Facebook?
B: Hmm It deletes it! No one wants
to see what I have to say on Facebook
*laughs*
P: So, from Good Game Spawn
Point. Good Game, unfortunately no
longer with us at this time.
B: Alas, it’s dead.
P: It is, but I was talking to Janet (the
producer) and she is hopeful of a
resurgence. You never know.
B: You never know. I would feel like if
it’s gonna come back it’ll come back
in a different form. What we wanted
to do this year is really change up
the show and make it more panel
based, more lively, more shooting
on the day, going to air that night,
and that was kinda our plan for this
year, and that would have been really
exciting, so I think we were due
for a change. Hopefully if it ever
comes back that’s what it’ll be like.
P: Hopefully, and you’ll be joining
Bajo (Rad)?
R: Well, I was supposed to be on
Good Game this year if we did that
panel show
B: Yeah, if we did that panel show
R: We were going to have a rotating
host panel, of the 6 of us? The 5 of
us?
B: Something like that. We were
going to have all sorts of people in,
like special guests. Think The Project
with the flashiness and much
more awkward *laughs* That’s kinda
what we were going for.
R: Yes, and talking about games! But
unfortunately that didn’t go ahead,
but thankfully I got the opportunity
to do Spawn Point, which I wouldn’t
have gotten to do had Good Game
gone ahead this year, and I love doing
Spawn Point, so yeah.
P: Fantastic. It’s a very hyperactive
show.
B: It is, yes!
R: I think that’s mostly actually just
due to our natural energies when
we bounce off each other, like not
really a case of us meaning to do
that. It just happens.
B: I always wonder when I get home,
I’m like, why am I so tired? Oh that’s
right, I was jumping around like a silly
person all day!
R: Because I moved a lot, yes.
P: Even when you’re sitting there
it’s all facial expressions. It’s not a
criticism, just an observation. Compared
to The Zone, where it was
more subdued
B: It was chill
P: It as very chill
B: It was cool
P: Bajo, (before the interview) you
said you’d seen The Zone?
B: Yeah, I grew up watching that. I
remember taping it and watching it
over and over and over again just
to get glimpses of games and that
sort of thing. It’s actually lovely now
when kids come up to me and they
say they watch Spawn Point. They
download it and fill up the DVR with
Spawn Point and Good Game and
they watch them over and over
again. At first I was like, ‘I don’t understand
why you would watch it
more than once’, then I think, ‘oh,
I used to do that when I was a kid
with The Zone’.

ITH...

“We’ve been very lucky at the ABC
because when Janet created Good Game I don’t feel like the ABC
actually understood games or knew what games were, really, and I
feel like there are parts of the ABC that now do, but over the course
of the part decade I’ve felt like we’ve been in this beautiful,
protective bubble...”
- Bajo

P: Yeah! Rad, you’re probably a little
bit too young for The Zone.
R: I don’t know what it is. When you
say The Zone I literally just think of
Brittney Spears
P: It was a Channel 9 video game
show in the late 90s.
R: OK.
B: Were you alive in the late 90s
Rad?
R: I was, I was born in the early 90s.
P: Were you being cool?
R: Was I being cool?
P: In the 90s?
R: I was a child in the 90s, and I
don’t think children can necessarily
have a concept of cool, they’re just
being that young I was just mostly
trying not to dribble on myself.
B: I definitely wasn’t cool.
P: That’s what I like to hear, cos I
wasn’t either.
B: There ya go.
P: Talking to Bev and Muttley from
The Zone, they said they came in
with a bunch of ideas for the show
and executives kinda took over and
made it their own because they felt
THEY knew the demographic, they
felt they knew the target audience,
and as a result they didn’t end up
with the type of show they wanted.
How much input do the two of you
have into Spawn Point?
R: In the creation... well, obviously
you (Bajo) would have had some
input into Spawn Point, but for the
creation of Good Game neither of
us were there. That was mainly the
brain child of Janet, who’s our amazing
ex-executive producer, she no
longer works on the show. But for
the day to day of Spawn Point we
actually have quite a lot of input,
so we do write our own reviews
and play the games and come up
with segment ideas and things like
that. For example, learn-scursions,
which we’ve done a couple of this
year was something that I came up
in tandem with Elliot, who’s now our
series producer, and also we did a
profile on a game called Paperbark,
which happened because Book
Week was coming up and I knew
about this game that was based on
children’s books, and I was like ‘I really
want to do this!’ So we do get to
bring stories to the table, and things
like that which is really great.
B: We’ve been very lucky at the
ABC because when Janet created
Good Game I don’t feel like the ABC
actually understood games or knew
what games were, really, and I feel
like there are parts of the ABC that
now do, but over the course of the
part decade I’ve felt like we’ve been
in this beautiful, protective bubble
where we’ve had creative control...
complete creative control over the
shows we’re made. Obviously we
have EPs (executive producers)
and series producers, and all things
going up the chain watching the
show and making sure everybody’s
happy with the content we’re making,
but luckily we being the experts
and we being the ones who are
explaining it to the people above
us which gave us such freedom to
make what I think... I’m so proud of
the shows we’ve made. Our mantra’s
always been a celebration of
gaming and I felt like we stuck to
that core in all the work we did.
R: I do think that it is like, in a lot of
ways down to Janet championing
the show for us and the ideas behind
it so strongly for what her vision
for the show was, and having
her there to be like, ‘no, no, no, but
this is what games are and this is
what we need the show to be...
B: And it worked. The impact, when
Good Game ended this year, the
flood of messages and emails... I
had no idea...
P: Oh, it was intense!
R: Yeah
B: I know. The impact we had on
people’s lives is very humbling, especially
when you would hear stories
about how... because, something
I always is games are about
community for me and about me...
it’s how I met my friends and a lot of
people met their people with Good
Game and still continue to do that
with Spawn Point which is a beautiful,
beautiful thing to see.
P: Absolutely. Now at the moment
I’m at university studying media
with a focus on video game journalism
so I really have an appreciation
for what you guys are doing.
You’re bringing it to the mainstream.
Is there still a perception out there
where video games are for kids,
or is that, do you think, lifting and
we’re seeing more acceptance of
adult gamers in the community?
R: I think it’s a bit of a weird split
actually. I think there is definitely...

I would say that adults that didn’t
grow up playing games themselves
see games a being for kids, and
that’s why you get issues with parents
accidentally buying R rated
games for their kids, because they
don’t understand that not all games
are for children. But I also think, now
we have a lot of adults who grew
up playing games themselves, but
that has almost, in a way, created
the opposite problem, where
sometimes they think games are
for them rather than games being
for everyone, so they only kinda see
the games that are geared towards
them and see themselves as the
core group of gamers rather then
seeing that stretch beyond their
circles. So yeah, I don’t know if it’s
particularly one way or the other.
B: I think, in a way, when I was a kid
that so few people played games. It
was all the boys, there was like, one
girl in my school that played some
games sometimes. It was all just all
the boys, so it was very, very different
back then. But we’re all in our
mid 30s now, that generation, and
you look at anyone who’s under the
age of 14 now, they’ve all played
games. Every kid plays games. It’s
just like a standard thing now as
opposed to being an exception. So,
the good thing is that while there’s
this split that you talked about Rad,
this split of people who think games
are just for kids and people who obviously
realise what games are, this
incredible art form for everyone, as
the kids now get older that split will
be gone in like, 10 years, 15 years.
Everyone’s gonna play games. It’s
just going to be a normal thing.
R: That’s the really exciting thing,
with that generation growing up
I think a lot of the divisiveness in
games, I don’t know if that’s a word...
P: It is now!
R: It is now! You know what I mean!
I think it’s going to disappear because
you have all these brilliant
kids who are just like, ‘well, this is
just a thing I like.’
B: They live and breathe it.
R: Yeah.
B: More than me. When I see kids
using. Touch screen for first person
games...
R: *laughs*
P: I cringe when I see that!
B: I don’t understand how they can
do it! I CAN’T DO IT!
R: It’s this interesting thing where
they talk about native platforms,
and so for us our native platforms,
a lot of people would be a controller,
because that’s what they started
with, or for me it’s keyboard and
mouse cos that’s what I played with.
But for most kids it’s touch screens,
and they can do things, disgusting
things like play a first person shooter
on a touch screen...
B: *laughs* I don’t understand that...
R: And we look at that and we’re
like, ‘STOP, STOP IT!’
B: YOU GET A MOUSE! *laughs*
R: Yeah, but for them it’s the most
comfortable, which is hurtful to me.
*laughs*
P: What are your personal backgrounds
with gaming? What did you
grow up with?
B: My first console was a little handheld
Ms Pacman. That was first
game I ever played from memory.
Maybe some Game and Watches,
but I grew up with an Atari 2600.
That was my first proper console.
Then Master System, Megadrive,
SNES, PS1, and then I went to PC
and when I could finally afford a PC
my first one was a Pentium 133.
P: Wow!
R: I’m trying to remember...
B: Yeah, I do. I remember them all
very fondly, because they were
such landmarks. Each new thing
you bought was such a generation
change, whereas that’s slowly slipping
away now and we’re getting
consoles 2.5 and 1.5. So I guess I
started with a lot of console gaming,
and when I discovered PC gaming
and the modding you could do
with it and I started making levels
and just getting into the nitty gritty
of the craziness of the PC land-

scape, it just added to the gaming
I grew up with.
R: I started with DOS games, so my
Dad would just install games for us
to play. Toddler games, basically, like
Mixed up Mother Goose and things
like that, and I moved on to things
like Commander Keen which I don’t
think I ever finished cos it was really
difficult, and Space Quest 3, and
Battle Chess.
B: Battle Chess was awsome!
P: That was brilliant.
R: That game was great.
B: I played it at my friend’s house,
yeah...
R: Did you ever win?
B: No
R: Yeah, I was really bad at chess,
but it was really fun, and then kinda
moved on to PC games, so...
P: Did you ever play Star Wars Battle
Chess?
R: NO!
B: YES!
P: That is a thing, yes!
R: That was a thing?
B & P: Yes
R: I had normal, crummy Battle
Chess *laughs*. Scrub Battle
Chess. So I played PC games for
most of my life. Actually, because
my parents would staunch not buy
us consoles I never grew up with
Nintendo stuff, I never grew up with
all the kinda things that you (Bajo)
did.
B: I was a Sega guy. I did Nintendo
on the weekends.
R: So I actually learned how to run
emulators at a young age so I could
play Pokemon like everyone else
on the PC... which was illegal sorry.
I didn’t know it at the time cos I
was like eight years old. So I grew
up with PCs and kinda only got into
console gaming very, very late in
life.
B: Now I just go where the games
are. I don’t know about you Rad,
but I don’t really care too much on
platform. I have a bit of a bad back
though, so if I can play it on my PC
I will, cos I find that more comfortable
than on a couch, but it’s really
where the games are.
R: Yeah. I think I like having it on PC
just so my games are all collated.
B: It’s nice having it all collected
there, isn’t it? Yeah, nice having the
list. And for some reason I can never
find where my games are in the
console menus anymore.
R: Yeah.
B: Every time I boot my my PS4, my
XBOX One, they’ve done some update.
They’ve changed everything!
I can’t find where my games are.
I can’t reload them or download
them!
R: The hard drives are too small!
B: The hard drives are too small!
R: You put four games on there then
the whole thing’s filled up!
B: No sound and 30 frames per second
and I’m like, ‘WHAT IS THIS?’
*laughs*
P: Well thanks for your time. That’s
all the time we’ve got. It’s been a
pleasure speaking with you Bajo
and Rad.
B: Thanks for having us.
R: Thank’s very much.

INTERVIEWED BY PAUL MONOPOLI

YOUR INTERVIEW SAY
INTERVIEW W
Paul: Thanks to First Contact Conventions
I am sitting here with Ryan
Kelley. Pleasure to meet you.
Ryan: The pleasure’s all mine
P: You got started at a young age.
Commercials at the age of 2?
R: Yeah, so I have 14 brothers and
sisters, so it started as a way to give
my parents a head start on helping
us pay for college, and it bit my parents
in the butt because I didn’t go
to college. *laughs*
P: And you did your first movie in the
first grade.
R: I did. Roommates I think.
P: What was that experience like?
R: So it’s sort of that thing when
you’re bought up into acting and
you’ve been doing it your whole life
you don’t really know any different
so it wasn’t... it was fun, it was magical
and I had a blast doing it, but as
a kid it was just something I did, just
on a bigger level than doing commercials
or smaller television.
P: You did a lot of guest spots in a
lot of different shows, big shows!
R: Yeah.
P: Smallville, Boston Legal, Cold
Case, and one of my favourites,
Early Edition. Do any of those stand
out for you?
R: Every show you do, every guest
spot I’ve done is interesting. It’s interesting
because you see a whole
different show. Every show is like a
different machine. Smallville stands
out to be the most because I was
16 and that was the first time in my
life I realised I looked around at other
young actors who were younger
than me at the time and they were
doing it for a living. Up to that point
it had just been my parents... not
pushing me, but helping me along
and telling me ‘you have to be here,
you made a commitment’, and that
was the first time where I really realised
I could do this for the rest of
my life. I like this! This is fun! I want
to do this! That was the first time it
became a reality.
P: And it took you on to some lead
roles, and some varying different
roles. We have Prayers for Bobby,
which is a heavy movie.
R: Yes
P: That is a very heavy movie. What
was the experience like filming
that?
R: So Prayers for Bobby is one of
those films that comes around once
in a blue moon that truly changes
lives. I mean, all television does in a
sense. Teen Wolf, it makes people
escape from their reality. It’s why I
love being an actor. It’s what brings
me the most joy, movies and television,
but there are certain films that
have a higher power or a higher
purpose, and I was lucky enough to
be a part of Prayers for Bobby. Man,
I hope to God I experience something
else like that, but if I don’t then
that means I was just blessed to
have that. It was not a lot of fun to
film, because it was extremely dark
and depressing. It was a true story,
as you know, so I was in a head
space that was not a lot of fun. I’m
extremely proud of my work, but it
wasn’t, for instance, like showing up
for Ben 10 where I’m running around
as a super hero. It was definitely
dark and it was rough, but once
it’s said and done and I didn’t have
to film it anymore I had moms and
dads and daughters and sons coming
up to me and saying it changed
their lives.
P: I was going to ask, what was the
feedback from the LGBTQI community.
R: Incredible. It was at times overwhelming,
because you’d have parents
coming up to you bawling, telling
you that because of your film I
look at my son differently. That’s a
lot of power, and being able to be
even a part of that... I didn’t write the
script, I was just the actor, so being
a part of that was such a blessing...
such a blessing.
P: And as you mentioned before
you go to playing Ben 10, a superhero.
A cartoon superhero. What
was that like?
R: Man, that was just fun. That was

ITH...

just going to set every day and just
playing make believe. I’m dressing
up in costumes, playing with cars
that are big and muscly and obnoxious
and crazy colours. We’re fighting
aliens rom outer space, it was
just a lot of fun. For a kid it was literally
like going to the playground.
P: Had you seen the show beforehand?
R: I had. My younger siblings were
actually pretty big fans of it, so I’d
known of the show. I hadn’t watched
every episode of it. Once I got cast I
did my research with due diligence
and actually became a fan of it.
P: And before the interview we
were talking about what you like to
do with your spare time. You’re a
PC gamer?
R: I love games. I can dabble in consoles
but PC is my thing. DOTA 2
and a game called Playerunknown’s
Battlegrounds are what I’ve been
obsessed with.
P: And you’re not a fan of using a
controller?
R: My thumbs aren’t as good!
*laughs* My hand eye coordination
with a mouse and keyboard... it’s
just because I was lucky enough to
have a computer when I was younger
so I played a lot of games on my
computer. It feels like a second
hand to me, whereas my thumbs
are just not as good and I’m just not
as good.
P: Did you have much time to play
gams growing up? I mean, with
school and acting?
R: Oh yeah. Games have always...
some of my favourite moments
growing up were playing Playstation
with my brother. It was always
my older brother and he was always
good at console games, like Mario
Kart on Nintendo 64. We had a
Playstation, we had an Atari, we had
all of those things that my brother
was really good at, so I looked up
to him and any chance I could try
to beat him, that was super special
for me. My brother probably hated it
*laughs* and I was never as good
as he was, it was probably annoying
to him but I looked up to him and I
wanted to beat him.
P: Of your busy career do you have
any specific highlights?
R: Every job you do has its own special
memory or connection, or like
I said, Prayers has a much deeper,
powerful meaning, but Teen Wolf
for the last 4 or whatever years it’s
been... the fandom is unlike anything
I’ve ever experienced, and a lot of
shows don’t have the fandom that
Teen Wolf has. I hope, again just like
Prayers for Bobby, to experience
another fandom like Teen Wolf, but
if I don’t... Man, I’m just lucky enough
to be a part of this ride.
P: And we have a lot of other Teen
Wolf actors coming to Australia this
year. Tyler (Hoechlin) from Teen
Wolf and Supergirl as well now, as
well as a bunch of others who are
coming to conventions. It seems
like it’s ‘the show’ at the moment.
R: Especially now it just ended. Ian
Bohen and Linden Ashby were here
a couple of months before. Holland
(Roden) is coming out. So right now
I hope we have some good publicity
because the show just ended and
we can hopefully end it on a high
note, so I think that’s why a lot are
coming out right now.
P: Any chance of coming back for
any specials do you think?
R: Scheduling wise, if it’s not interfering
with our work, are you kidding?
We love to travel. It’s half the
reason a lot of us became actors.
It’s a little bit more of a leisure life
but there’s times where it’s stressful
and there’s times when it’s a lot
of work, but you know: Work hard,
play hard. We’re big children. I feel
like all actors just never really grow
up.
P: Teen Wolf is over, as you mentioned.
What’s next for you? You’ve
been working non stop since you
were a kid...
R: Yeah, so I did a horror film called
Realms in Bangkok not that long
ago right when we finished filming
(Teen Wolf) and that was awesome
because it was 6 weeks in Thailand.
Then I got back and I’ve done a little
bit of travelling. I was in Belgium doing
some press for Teen Wolf, and
as you know someone ended up
booking a job (Gideon Emery) and
backed out. I came in last minute,
I wasn’t planning on being here but
I got lucky that I had the time off. I
was in Belgium and they said ‘Hey,
do you think you can make it to Australia?’
I was like ‘when?’ ‘In 2 days!’
I was ‘alright, let’s do it!’
P: Geez!
R: I like travelling and I like getting
to see the world and also Australia
is awesome because there’s no

language barrier and I’m very sarcastic
and witty. I like to enjoy like
and I feel like Australians have a lot
of my qualities of what I love in life.
You guys just enjoy life and like I said,
there’s no language barrier so coming
over here just feels comfortable.
It’s awesome.
P: And it’s great having you here.
Thank you very much for your time
Ryan Kelley.
R: Thank you so much. The pleasure’s
all mine.
INTERVIEWED BY PAUL MONOPOLI

YOUR INTERVIEW SAY
INTERVIEW W
Paul: Thanks to First Contact Conventions
I’m sitting here with Khylin
Rhambo from Teen Wolf and
Ender’s Game. How are you doing?
Khylin: Hey, what’s up man? How
are you doing?
P: Good. How, you were initially
a model. That’s how your career
started.
K: Yeah, that’s how I started. Not like
a model, model, but more like a toy
box model. Like for Target, posters
and stuff like that as a kid.
P: What was that like?
K: It was actually super easy. It was
so easy to me, it was boring. I was
really young and it wasn’t something
that I loved doing, it was just something
that was happening, and people
were saying “we want you to be
on this toy box”, and I was like “cool,
yeah, take a picture.” And that’s all
it was for me, just taking pictures,
and I didn’t really understand it as
a job or a career, it was just something
I was doing as a hobby. I really
started to get into enjoying creatively
when I started to act.
P: So modelling was never the end
goal?
K: No, see, being in LA I fell into it.
It’s funny because my little sister
was born and I was normally the
only child. Once I started getting
these siblings I started to get really
jealous, and everyone was like,
“oh, she’s so cute. She should be a
model. Like a little baby model.” And
they were taking pictures (of her)
and she got so much attention from
people, being a little baby model
that I was like, “fine! I want to do
modelling.” *laughs*. I ended up doing
it and people started giving me
these jobs. I got an agent and it just
started happening, and I wasn’t opposed
to it, it was just something I
fell upon.Then I tried an acting class
and that’s when I started meeting
friends that I really liked and I wanted
to do that a lot more.
P: And you’ve been in some pretty
high profile stuff, and your career
is very recent. We’re talking as far
as acting, your credits begin in this
decade. There’s some high profile
stuff. You’ve been in First Family.
K: First Family, yeah. That really
sharpened my chops as a comedic
person, because I didn’t necessarily
consider myself a funny guy,
especially as a performer. Being on
a sitcom helped me a lot. Playing
the character, Mason, he had some
comedic parts. It just helped me
sharpen my chops as a performer.
I was on that show for 2 years
I think...
P: Now, was that based on the Obama’s?
Because you could be forgiven
for thinking it was.
K: Yeah, you could think so. I guess,
of course it was inspired by it, but
I think it would have been a wacky
family in the white house thing.
P: You were working on that and
Teen Wolf at the same time. How
do you manage that kind of workload?
K: It wasn’t hard at all actually. While
one wasn’t filming I was filming the
other. First Family was actually ending
while I started Teen Wolf. It wasn’t
bad at all. I thoroughly enjoyed just
having a job and being able to do
that. I enjoyed Teen Wolf, definitely
a lot more *laughs*. It was more my
scene, but I love both. I was blessed
to be able to do both jobs.
P: Would you go back into comedy
if the chance came up?
K: Yeah. I’d definitely do it if I felt I
could be that character and make
that character really likeable. I
definitely would do it. I just never
dreamed of being a comedic actor
but if I had a comedic role I would
definitely love to play it.
P: And you did it well, I have to say.
K: Thankyou
P: Ender’s Game. This was an interesting
project because the author
claimed that it’s unfilmable. How did
it work out for you?
K: Well, that was crazy. I didn’t know
what I was getting into. I was young
and I hadn’t booked a role in like... 3

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years. The only role I’d booked was
as a guest star on a sitcom. I auditioned
for that and 3 months later
I get the call and they said that I’d
booked it, and it was a big movie,
and I was going to be one of the
main characters. I was completely
stunned! It didn’t really hit me until
way later, until I flew out. It was a
big deal but I was very new. I didn’t
even really know what I was doing,
so I was very scared.
P: Good way to cut your teeth
though.
K: Yeah! Definitely! *laughs*
P: Who are some of the more memorable
people you’ve worked with?
K: Well Sir Ben Kingley was interesting.
He was a real actor, you know?
Him and Harrison Ford were insane
to be around. Viola Davis was also
in Ender’s Game. I saw her briefly, I
didn’t get to really work with her, but
I would honestly say I loved working
with O’Brien. I actually look up to
him and Posey as actors, so being
on the show for so long and being
in the vicinity of other people I admire...
it was so helpful.
P: What’s next for you? Teen Wolf
has ended, so what have we got
coming up?
K: I wish acting was a thing where I
could write the list of my next job. I’d
like to be an Avenger or something.
P: Which one?
K: I dunno. Maybe... Hawkeye is
cool. I like Hawkeye, but I don’t know
what my next role is but I know it’s
gonna be cool.
P: It always is.
K: *laughs* Oh it has to be.
P: In your down time, I was talking to
the organiser of the event and he
said you’re a bit of a gamer.
K: Oh, I’m a gamer man! It’s bad because
I think I could pursue it as a
career if I wanted to.
P: Especially with your profile right
now.
K: Yeah, I’d definitely have to put in
a lot of work but that’s how much I
love video games. Because I have a
very active imagination and in most
of my young years it really hurt me,
and once I realised I could harness
it in ways video games was a big...
you know like babies have to gnaw
their teeth on something? That was
my thing. I have so much going on
in my head that when I played video
games it would just focus me and I
could just go in that world. But yeah,
I’m gamer man. I love video games.
The Last of Us is a game I remember
playing and it wasn’t a game. It
was literally me playing a movie out
in my head, and I wrote stories, spin
off versions of it. It’s such a creative
outlet for me. It’s more that just
sitting there and mindlessly playing
something, because my mind if just
going all over the place when I’m
playing it.
P: Have you thought about getting
into writing? Maybe scripts for video
games or movies?
K: Well... I never thought of writing
for a video game. That’s really cool,
because I have amazing ideas for
them. Just thing that are gamer
heaven, because as a gamer I know
what will make a great video game.
Anyway, to answer your question,
I’ve been writing since I learned
how to spell. That was just the first
thing I was doing and it was just a
part of my life, and just journaling. I
remember finding stuff from when I
was 8, just journaling about my day,
so I love to write, and I have plenty
of ideas and stories I want to do.
P: What would you write about?
What is the big idea? The one you
think ‘this is the ultimate! This is the
idea that’s going to work!” It could
be a video game or movie.
K: I gotcha. I have THE big idea, but
it’s too long to tell, so I’m going to
give you the most recent one. It is
VERY interesting. Alright, so imagine
a world where there’s this
new technology that you can record
an experience, and then sell that
experience. There’s a chip in your
cerebral cortex that mimics every
electrical signal and every sense
that you feel, you can now send
that to someone. Someone can experience
being a rock star, you can
experience being the best kung fu
fighter ever and feel everything that
they’re feeling. I think just with that
concept there would be so many
routes you could take to make a
story out of that.
P: Absolutely.
K: Yeah, just somehow selling an
experience. You know, like the
movie “Nerve”, where you have to
do something crazier and crazier,

there could be people selling stuntman
things. I dunno, that’s just a
new idea that I’m working on.
P: That’s great! Anyway, that’s all
the time we’ve got. Thankyou very
much for your time. It’s been a
pleasure speaking with you.
K: Yeah, nice talking to you.
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Paul: Thanks to our good friends at
First Contact Conventions, I’m sitting
here with Dylan Sprayberry
Dylan: Hello
P: Pleasure to be sitting here with
you. How are you?
D: Good. How are you?
P: Good. How is Australia treating
you?
D: Oh, it’s great. I love it. I’ve some...
Tim Tams, ting tang, what are they
called?
P: Tim Tams
D: Tim Tams? Yeah, I’ve had those,
so I’ve been treated well.
P: Awesome. Now beginning as an
actor, you got an early start on Mad
TV.
D: I did, yeah *laughs*
P: How was that?
D: That was really fun. I did not think
that was what you were going to
start with. *laughs* That was really
fun. Funnily enough, the girl I
was working with was my next door
neighbour and she played my sister
in it, and the other kid I was working
with is Zachary Gordon, who was
the star of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, the
first 3 movies... or 2 or 3... so that’s
just a really weird fun fact. But yeah,
that was fun. I did that, like I jumped
around a lot on like little guest star
funny thing. I was on the Tracey Ullman
sketch show, which was really
fun. I played her son in a couple
of different things. I did one of the
first episodes of iCarly, and I did a
Spooky Buddies film, which is a spin
off of Air Bud, so I did a bunch of little
random things when I was a kid.
P: Cool. And you played young
Clarke Kent.
D: Yes I did.
P: Which got you a Saturn Award
nomination.
D: It did, a Saturn Award, yeah!
Which was epic.
P: And Tyler Hoechlin (Derek Hale
on Teen Wolf) is playing Superman
and he hasn’t had a Saturn Award
nomination.
(I got this fact wrong. Tyler Hoechlin
has been nominated for his role as
Superman in the TV series, Supergirl.)
D: *laughs* So I think I beat him.
P: I think you did. You also received
one for Teen Wolf. What’s your personal
feeling on getting these nominations
and awards? Do they mean
much to you?
D: You know, it’s interesting. Sometimes
like... Well, cos I look at them
and I see all the other great nominees
there are and they, in my
opinion, I’m just me. You know what
I mean? And when I look at them
I think how... not necessarily how
they think of me, cos I don’t know
how they think of me, but how I
think of other actors. I look up to
other actors, so when I see all these
other nominees, like, they all definitely
deserve this and I’m like ‘eh’,
you know, if I got it that’d be cool
but I think they deserve it because I
don’t think of myself that way if that
makes sense.
P: So it’s not kind of a validation of
your art form or anything?
D: Mmm, mm. No, actually like... purposefully
and all that kinda stuff I
don’t let that be a validation to my
art because I don’t think there’d be
a point in me doing it if... that makes
it more of a competition. More of a
checkpoint thing, and I’d rather just
do what I wanna do and not really
care... not, not care. You know, not
let it affect... If I let the fact that I
did or didn’t get an award affect my
next job or how I think about myself
I don’t think that’s healthy, but
everyone’s different. I don’t think
that’s good for me. You know what
I mean?
P: Yeah.
D: Some people value that and
that’s good for them. It’s just not the
way my brain really connects thing
I guess.

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P: That’s fair. Now you came to Teen
Wolf in later seasons. What’s it like
joining a cast that’s already established?
D: It;’s a bit nerve wracking at first
honestly. Especially after season 3,
which was, I think, a really big landmark
for the show because it kinda
really took it to a serious place, and
there were a lot of really epic performances
in that season. And also,
I think that being the first 20 episode
season, it’s kinda like, alright,
Teen Wolf became a really established
show at that point, and that’s
when Khylin and I and a couple of
other characters came on. So it’s
a bit nerve wracking, especially
being like, I was 15 when I started
on the show and I hadn’t worked in
a couple of years cos I did Man of
Steel, but that hadn’t come out until
quite... not too far before Teen Wolf,
and that’s kinda what helped get
me some traction, but I had 2 years
there where I wasn’t really working.
So going from not working to coming
on an already established TV
show is definitely nerve wracking,
but getting there and kinda getting
into it... like, I think my first day was
a night shoot, which means I got
there at 6pm and then worked until
6am.
P: Geeze.
D: Yeah, so kinda like immediately
I got into... in the shit pretty much,
like that’s what we would call it.
Like, I get there, it’s 6pm, 12 hour
night shoot and stunts and jumping
off things. I got hung off a roof, so I
immediately got into it and it was almost
like I didn’t even have a chance
to realise how crazy it was. I just got
pushed into it, almost, which was, I
think, good. I immediately switched
into work mode, and everyone was
so cool and so kind and I got to work
with O’Brien and Posey for the first
part of when I started, and that was
a big thing too, cos I really learned
a lot, like how to act on set, from
them. They set the tone for me,
which I think was quite necessary.
P: Kind of acting mentors?
D: Yeah, like acting mentors and this
is their set, they kinda set the tone
of how... it’s actually interesting, its
like if they don’t act this way, like
any of the OG characters... I don’t
know. It’s like, they built this bible,
the blueprint of how this set works.
They’ve been there since day so,
so they know. It’s kinda like, you get
on board with how they act, and
that’s kinda like how a regular job
is too. You go in, you kinda feel out
what it’s like. You feel out what the
boundaries are, you feel out how
people talk to each other and you
adapt to it. Luckily I got to adapt to
something that was pretty cool.
P: So aside from Teen Wolf, what
are some of the most memorable
roles you’ve done?
D: I mean, Teen Wolf is definitely
number 1 because it spanned a big
chunk of my teenage years. I went
from 14, 15 years old to now I’m 19.
I’ll be 20 next year and becoming a
young adult.
P: It’s basically growing up on set.
D: Exactly. So growing up and being
on set is that same thing technically,
because I wasn’t going to school,
I graduated early and I was working
on set every day, pretty much,
and that was kinda my life for the
past 3 years. I guess Man of Steel
is quite memorable for me because
Zach Snyder was an amazing director
and Henry Cavill is an amazing
lead and was such a sweet guy.
Obviously I didn’t work with him cos
we played the same character, but
I met him and he was so kind to me.
Diane Lane took myself and the
younger version of me, we all went
out and bowled and I think played
laser tag for a day, just to kinda get
to know each other. And I hung out
with Kevin Costner and he gave me
amazing acting tips, so that was really
a big stepping stone for me to...
just being able to travel somewhere
and work like a real actor. The sets
that they had, and seeing all this
crazy stuff, it was kinda fantastical.
So those are probably the biggest
things. There’s also this movie I did
when I was younger called Bedrooms,
and it’s on IMDB. I don’t even
know if there’s even a way to watch
it, but it’s an independent film, and
me and my sister play twins in it, because
at the time we were a similar
height and had the same coloured
hair and all that stuff. So it was a
movie about four different relationship
scenarios and they all take
place in a bedroom. So my sister
and I had this one where we had a
single mom, we were twins and our
dad had left. Me and my sister had
been fighting a bunch cos our mom
was fighting, our mom was agitated,
so it was kinda trickling down
on us. And then we ended up taking
our room and building a giant wall in
between us to split us in half. So we
had privacy cos we had to share a
room, and pretty much by the end
of it we became close. The characters
in the story, the brother and
sister became very close because
we were building this wall together,
and so in trying to separate each
other they became closer and do-

ing something together, and then at
the end of the thing we are both on
either sides of our bed and there’s
a line in between, so it’s like a divide
sign, which was really interesting.
So it’s like a very... interesting kinda
film and I think one of the most artistic
things I had done when I was
a kid, and I understood it all. I really
gravitated towards it and understood
it for some reason, and that
was a thing that has always stuck
with me because it was so artistic
and so let field and not the average
thing and I pulled a lot from
that. I pulled a lot from the lady who
played our mother, her name’s Sarah
Clarke. She played the mom in
Twilight and she’s done a bunch of
other stuff. But she was great and
we just learned so much at such a
young age, and that’s another thing.
We got to play such specific, interesting
characters at a young age,
which is quite a treat. You usually
get one dimensional characters
when you’re a kid. It’s hard to find
really good characters. Anyway, I
could keep going on about that.
P: That’s fine. That’s the problem
with independent films. They come
out and you can see them for a little
while and then they just disappear.
D: Exactly, but they’re so worth it
to find. If you can find the film festivals
or figure out a way to watch
them they’re so interesting. It’s hard
because the mass majority of people...
not people that are invested in
all movies, people who just want to
see something that’s going to wow
them or have them escape, it’s like
space stuff, it like the big stuff right
now, super hero films which is all
great, but independent films just
don’t get the light of day because
they get so serious and close to
real life that it’s like... people are trying
to watch movies cos they wanna
escape from what’s going on in
their life and see something fantasy
and wonderful, or just something
to get them out of their space. So
that’s why the mass majority of
films are what they are. That’s why
those genres are kinda popular,
whereas independent films can get
into touchy subjects, they get into
things you don’t want to watch after
a bad day at work and that kind
stuff. So that’s why they don’t really
get the time of day, but you can
still find them, and it’s about finding
them, so I understand that as well.
That’s just the way that it is.
P: Which kinda leads me to my last
question. Would you return to the
DC universe? A lot of actors who
were in DC, Adam West, he came
back, guest starring in different
things like Lois and Clarke. Brandon
Routh is currently in a DC universe
TV show. Would you come back?
D: Yeah, definitely. I always really
liked Teen Titans, so I would love
to do something for Teen Titans so
hopefully one day they do something
with that. I don’t know if they
plan on it, but that would be a cool
thing to do. I guess the answer’s
yes, and I also thought, the series
Batman Beyond, with the red and
black suit. What’s the character’s
name?
P: Not sure off the top of my head.
D: I can’t remember either, but I
would love to do a live action version
of that cos that cartoon was so
cool to me when I was a kid, cos I always
liked seeing when people took
super heroes and they changed.
They took a turn from the classic.
P: So an evolution?
D: Yeah, an evolution. All sorts of
stuff like that is interesting, like I
watched Ben 10 when I was a kid.
In Ben 10 you could go on and you
could create your own alien and
that was your super power. That
was so cool to me.
P: Did you watch Ryan (Kelley) in
the Ben 10 movie?
D: I just found out like, yesterday
he was in Ben 10! *laughs* I didn’t
even know. Now I gotta go back and
watch it because I really am interested
to see. Because I remember
watching it when I was little but I
had no idea. And also Ryan’s way
more buff then he probably was on
Ben 10.
Ryan (in the background): I was
skinny as F#$* *laughs*
P: Well, thank you very much for
your time Dylan, it’s been a pleasure.
D: Thank you so much, I really appreciate
it.

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Ingle Farm.................................. (08) 8265 7283
Marion....................................... (08) 8296 1144
Mt Barker................................... (08) 8391 6300
Salisbury.................................... (08) 8281 0966
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ACT
Hyperdome................................ (02) 6293 3751
New South Wales
Gametraders LIVE Penrith.........(02) 4731 3894
Blacktown................................. (02) 9676 1411
Macarthur Square (Campbelltown) (02) 4620 0750
Parramatta................................ (02) 9633 2833
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Chermside................................. (07) 3861 5000
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