BEING HUMAN -- Season:2 -- Pictured: (l-r) Sam Huntington as Josh, Sam Witwer as Aiden, Meaghan Rath as Sally -- Photo by: Jeff Riedel/Syfy
Life has changed for Sam Witwer, Meaghan Rath and Sam Huntington since their SyFy series Being Human (Mondays, 9:00 p.m. ET) became a hit.
Now sci-fi fans are all over their work, showing up for conventions and personal appearances to celebrate the show. Viewers gush about how much the series means to them and the actors are loving the attention.
“It’s so gratifying to go to these things. The sci-fi fans are the most loyal, humble, sweet people I’ve ever met,” Rath, who stars as the ghostly Sally, begins. “It’s just so nice to meet these people that feel like you’ve spoken some sort of truth to their life. It touches me.”
“It’s nice that they like to express that they enjoy the show,” Witwer adds about his role as Aidan the 200-year-old vampire. “Sometimes they let us skip security and that’s nice,” he says laughing.
Still, Huntington, who portrays the sexy werewolf Josh, admits that it wasn’t too long ago that people remembered his face more than his work…until Being Human caught on with audiences.
“That happened more than anything,” the actor points out. “They’d be like, ‘OK, I know you, but what do I know you from?’ and then they make me list my resume. Now it’s really refreshing and nice to have the recognition for a specific show…especially one that I’m so, so proud of.”
The second season is just a few weeks underway and there have already been dramatic changes, with plenty more to come the actors promise.
The spoiler is that the three characters do diverge a bit and go on their own journeys,” Witwer explains. “Then they get crashed together. There is also an episode that is almost exclusively us entirely.”
“We can’t say anything,” Rath adds. “But, we all come together because something urgent has happened,” she teases.
“We have moments where we all have scenes together and it’s nice to have an episode where you’re like, ‘Oh, we’re in every scene,’ ” Witwer acknowledges.
At its core, it is the relationships between the trio that keep viewers coming back for more – and that’s also what the stars originally connected to on Being Human.
“We all have relationships on the show that have relatable aspects,” Huntington relates.
“At its best it is a show about relationships first and the supernatural aspects a distant second,” Witwer finishes the thought, adding, “At least that’s how we look at the series.”