Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Eric Balfour: "Lena Dunham's Girls captures the world I grew up in"

Girls
It’s just smart and funny, and it has done this amazing thing where it has really captured this world of people that I know and had grown up with. It captures New York City in a really neat way that, as hyper-realistic as it is it, feels very true. I think it’s really funny.

Game Of Thrones
I think Game Of Thrones has been genius and I really don’t want it to end. Every episode is huge. It’s totally immense and the actors are all fantastic in it. It has totally drawn me in.
  
Whale Wars
This is actually a reality show from the Animal Planet channel, chronicling the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which defends whales and dolphins from being slaughtered. The show itself is amazing but so is the organisation. I’m a big supporter of it, so I follow the show religiously.  

My Favourite TV Character
It’s probably still Alex P Keaton from Family Ties, played by Michael J Fox. He’s nothing like me and the Keatons were nothing like my family – well,  I guess that’s not true, his parents were old hippies and so were mine – but he’s one of the reasons I wanted to become an actor. I thought he was so enigmatic and funny and such a contradiction because, in one sense, he was this very straight-laced, miniature Republican but he was also this really sweet kid who cared about his family. Fox is a genius comedian and I loved that character.

Eric Balfour stars in Haven, Tuesdays at 9pm on Syfy.
Source: Metro UK

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