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. INTERVIEWED BY PAUL MONOPOLI
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