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His impressive resume doesn't stop there. “I didn't think there was any chance of actually having the success that I've had; which I'm very, very grateful for. I love my job more than anything in the world,” he says on Zoom with a smile.
Harmon currently stars as Vigo in the ever-so unique GenZeroes, a project that integrates a scripted television series, utility, and digital membership into NFTs. Additionally, this fall he will take on the role in the highly anticipated Netflix/CBC Gem series Fakes which will be released September 2nd.
SWAGGER talks to Richard Harmon about the collision of entertainment in GenZeroes and what to expect from his upcoming Netflix series Fake.
Richard: You nailed it right there that it is completely unique and has been a ton of fun for me. My character Vigo is right up there with a bunch of the characters I play. He's an absolute psychopath who is a war monger and he's out of his mind. For me, playing characters like Vigo are the most fun.
Richard: It definitely intrigued me. I think one of the main reasons I wanted to be a part of GenZeroes was because of the people involved. I've known Matt Venables and Jeremy Smith who wrote it for years, and I love bringing their words to the screen in any format that we've ever done. We worked on Van Helsing and Continuum together and I've always said I'll work with them until the day that I die. I've also known Alex Paunovic who is one of the other leads in GenZeroes for years, as well as Bethany Brown who I worked with on The 100. There are so many people that I know on the show and I thought, what an incredible experience to be able to do something so new and unique but also be able to do it with friends. I mean, how often do you get to do that?
Richard: I think it's absolutely inevitable and I'm glad to be on the ground floor, so to speak. Entertainment is very adaptable and changes constantly. It always has and always will. Everyone needs entertainment and it's one of the things that makes life worth living, apart from many other things of course.
But I think it’s safe to say that the collision of Web3, NFTs and entertainment is inevitable and that it will continue to collide in the future.
Richard: Wow, that's a good question. I'll speak to each one of those individually. The Killing was an incredible experience for me and I'd never done something of that level before, that's for sure. It opened more doors for me and I had the opportunity to work with amazing actors such as Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman.
Even the great young actors they had on that show really helped me understand what it took to be better and sent me on a path to work harder than I used to.
This then opened the door to me booking Continuum which gave me the opportunity as an actor to really test myself and take risks. It completely changed me in the sense that I think I became a much better actor after and told an incredible story. Now The 100 was the biggest life changing experience I've ever had in my life. Honestly, my life doesn't even resemble itself from before The 100. It honestly changed my life forever and I couldn't be more grateful and what an incredible character to play. He [John Murphy, The 100] might be my favorite character of all time.
Richard: Being a part of Trick ‘r Treat was more monumental for me than probably a lot of people realize. I was gonna quit acting when I was 15 and then I was like, well let’s do one last audition, and then I booked a different job and I was like, okay, let’s do one more, then I booked that job and things just started working out. But I was still dead set thinking I'm not gonna make a career out of this. I don't think that I have what it takes really.
Eventually I booked Trick ‘r Treat and that was the first movie that I really felt like part of the family on that set and Mike Doherty did such a great job with that movie. It is completely immersive.
I think we used like 12,000 bags of dead leaves and 15,000 pumpkins or something in that movie. By the end of filming I thought, there's absolutely no way I could quit this as it means the world to me. So Trick ‘r Treat was a seminal moment for me in my life. It's been a little while since I've done a horror film and I'd love to do another one.
Richard: Absolutely, there's a big project coming out soon that I'm very proud and excited to be a part of. It's a TV show for Netflix and CBC Gem called Fakes and it comes out September 2nd. The show is about two young high school girls that get into making fake identification to make money before college, and they accidentally end up creating one of the top five largest fake identification syndicates in all of North America. The show is partly based on a true story and my character is a drug dealer that gets roped into helping expand the business and gets them involved in stuff that is a little bit over their head. It's a dark comedy that’s a ton of fun, has talented young actors and I’m very excited for people to see it.
Richard: I would love to break an 80 in golf. I'm a big golfer, but I'm evidently not a very good one. For acting, it remains the same that it's always been. I would like to work constantly until the day I die as that would make me wildly happy and content.
Watch Richard Harmon in GenZeroes and join the community or catch him in the upcoming Netflix and CBC Gem show Fakes on September 2nd!
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
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