Actress Kristin Kreuk talks new show, 'Smallville' convention and more!
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W and Mario Lopez joining me now on Zoom from the new series Murder in a Small Town. Actress Kristin Krook, Welcome to the show.
How are you? Thank you? I am well. I am in LA for the first time and I believe a decade. So that's a trip, is that right? So wait a minute?
Where Where's Where's home these days?
Home these days is Vancouver. I was in Toronto for like ten years. Yeah, and I just moved back a couple of years ago, right after the pandemic. And it's lovely being back on the West coast. But yeah, I just I've never really lived in LA but I've you know, obviously, I've come here a lot, but it's just it's been a long time since I've had reason to come down here. Wow.
So you fell in love with the city. It's a great city. I spent a lot of time there too, in Vancouver. Yes, yeah, when you were you were shooting the show there.
I'm assuming we shot Murder in a small Town in like right outside of Vancouver, there's a there's an area called the Sunshine Coast. I don't know if you've heard of it, but it's this gorgeous spot that's like on the highway up to Whistler, there's you take a little fare and you go onto this peninsula and it's gorgeous beaches and mountains and all of these like beautiful trees and eagles and whales, and you know, it's kind of like a majestic, gorgeous landscape.
Yeah, majestic is a good word to describe it. Well, congrats on the show. What is a Murder in a Small Town about?
Yeah, Murder in Small Town's a detective show. It's a murder mystery, and every episode ish there's a new kind of murder in this town. And it's not like a dark and twisty show. It's more of a like challenging and interesting murder mystery. But it feels like a home that you're coming to, like a community that you want to be a part of. And at the heart of the show is a love story between Carl Alberg and the character I play, Cassandra Lee, who's a librarian in the community.
Oh, you're a librarian, so you're not one of the detectives.
No, no detectives for me. No, I don't have to do any of the exposition. It's amazing.
So there's a murder a week. That's a lot for a small town.
Yeah, exactly, it is little town. Yes, it's a violent town, but it's not it's funny, you know, like when you watch a lot of shows that are that are murder mystery shows, there is like a conceit that these things happen and it's not like a big deal. It's not like, what is happening in this town. It's sort of in my mind it lives as a fantasy element something that is there, but isn't you know, like what is this onslaught of murder? It's just not really what it is.
No, I'm a big fan of murder mysteries. And there's a crime doc on every night at Cosa Lopez. So yes, oh yeah, somebody's got to be getting whacked to go to bed over here. And this is based on a series of novels, right, Yes, were these books on your radar at all before?
No? No, listen. These books came out in the eighties and they they took place in this community on the Sunshine Coast, written by a woman named L. R. Wright, and they were optioned I believe almost like thirty years ago originally, and indeed Donald Sutherland was attached to play was attached to be a part of the original movie that they Hadna yeah, a fellow Canadian. Yes, And so this is the TV show that took this long to end up in this incarnation. So they're rereleasing the books. I did part of an audio book, so there's a whole bunch of stuff for people to read.
Oh that's cool.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's exciting.
Yeah. And also coming up at October, you're attending a convention dedicated exclusively to Smallville. I got to those are fun. I'm sure you're gonna have like a good time.
Yeah.
Did you shoot that in Vancouver as well? Was that in Canada?
We did? We shot in Vancouver. I got to live at my parents and my dad used to drive me to work.
Oh wow, so you're you're you're born and raiser.
Born and raised in Vancouver, left to Toronto, came back to Vancouver.
Yeah wow, that's wild right there, that you've managed to stay in your hometown during that.
I know, I'm so lucky. It doesn't happen very often, but I'm so so lucky. Yes, we have October, we have a full convention. First time we're doing just a smallville convention. It's in New Jersey. It'll be it'll be Mayhem. I'm Michael Rosenbaum, who played Lex Luthor is a trip. So they're always a good time for people.
Yeah, yeah, no, I'm sure it's going to be a good time. Do you still keep in touch pretty often with the other castmates or is it sort of like when you went to school people you see them when you can see him and catch up. No.
I mean because of these this convention circuit that a lot of us are a part of, we see each other fairly often. But I've become quite close with Erica Durance, who played Lois Lane on the show. We both live in the same city, so we didn't really get to work together on the series, but we get to see each other now, and she's become a real like bosom friend, you know. I love her to pieces. And it's because of that time that we spent on the show, but also this time that we spend in the convention circuit that that we've been able to become so close. But yes, I know them better now that I knew them back in two thousand and five or whatever.
It was yeah, oh wow, time was b quick.
Right, there doesn't it me?
It surely does. Well, that's great. Everything seems to be going great professionally. What about social life? You haven't fun anyone special?
Yeah, social life's fine. You know, I'm not super social. I am a reader and spend a lot of my time reading books. I also, I mean, I don't know if discounts as a social life. But I got my bachelor's degree recently, so oh good for you. But yeah, so I went back to school and I did that. I did it virtually and it was incredible. But yes, my social life involves a lot of being in my head and going hiking.
I respect that, and that's admirable that you went back to get your very cool, very impressive. Well listen, congrats again on the show, and be sure to check out Murder in a Small Town. It is premiering September twenty fourth on Fox. Kristin, thanks for hanging out.
Thanks so much, Mario, have a good day, Okay, you too, take care. Hey bye. Wow with Mario Lopez