IMG_6336MM: That kind of leads into my next question: Out of the cast, who would you say is the biggest prankster on set?

RW: Without doubt, Henry Ian Cusick (Councillor Marcus Kane). Without doubt. I literally cannot work with that guy without laughing my head off. He’s a genius, he’s hilarious, and he’s not what you would think. You would think he’s a respectable, experienced actor- and he is. He’s incredible. He’s got great presence and his performance is incredible and he’s very inspiring, but… he is a child and he is an absolute genius when it comes to comedic timing. When he’s not on camera, he’s messing around. He really does boost everyone’s moral on set. He keeps everyone smiling and laughing; keeps the energy up. You know, you’ll just be sat there ready to do a scene and something will hit you on the side of your head, and it’s him throwing things at your head, or… he’s pulling stupid faces off camera so that the camera can’t see him, but you can see him and you’re looking at the camera, so you’ve got to keep a straight face while he’s pulling faces at you. So, he’s a big prankster. We’ve tried to get him back a few times. Marie was able to wet his groin without him noticing… so we have a lot of fun on the cast.

MM: So you’re all buds?  

RW: Bob Morley is a good friend. Devon Bostick (Jaspar Jordan) I’ve not had the pleasure of working with this season, because they’ve all been at Mount Weather, but we have a lot of fun in our different sets and stuff. I wish I worked a lot more with Marie, and Bob, and Eliza, we have a lot of jokes- Alycia as well, who plays Lexa. We used to joke about girls day, so myself, Eliza, and Alicia would have girls day where we’d just shoot scenes.

MM: I’ve heard about girls day!

RW: The sniper episode where we’re up in the mountains, it was just us three. We had a great laugh, and the only way we could get through the crazy long days, where we’re shooting at four, five, six in the morning, is to make jokes, to prank each other, to have a laugh with each other. I remember the bombing episode, where TonDC gets blown up by a missile from Mount Weather, the whole cast was in a warm up tent, huddled around a heater at four in the morning in freezing cold conditions at the top of the mountains in Vancouver- doing karaoke! You know, singing acappella. There was Sachin Sahel (Jackson), Marie, myself, Eliza, all just singing away, just trying to keep the morale going. That’s the great thing about this cast, is we get on really well. We’re very close. It’s only been two seasons so far, and we’re obviously coming back for a third, but it really is a great, close family. We all eat together, we have Thanksgiving together, and it’s an honor to be a part of it.

MM: That’s amazing. Is there anyone on the show that you haven’t really gotten to work with that you would want to have more scenes with in the future?

The100characterposterRW: Oh, so many! Lincoln is very much a loner, and very rarely speaks to anyone. I mean, I’ve not worked at all with Christopher Larkin (Monty Green), who is an incredible actor. Obviously, Isaiah Washington (Chancellor Thelonious Jaha) is incredible. He’s off to the City of Lights at the moment, so I’m not sure what’s going to happen there by the end of the season or next season. I don’t know, I don’t know… there’s so many great actors in our show. I’d like to see some sort of dynamic with Raven as well, because she’s kind of like this tough girl and I think Lincoln would respect that. We’ve seen more of Lincoln and Clarke in the last couple of episodes, as well, which has been nice. I’ve enjoyed working with Marie, who plays Octavia, and that kind of dynamic and hopefully we can explore that a lot more and go into that deeper as we go on into next season. Then, obviously working with Bob Morley has been fun, too. I think I’m probably closest to him off set, so to work with him has been a lot of fun. He’s another bit of a prankster. He’s got a great sense of humor, so it’s always fun working with those guys. 

MM: That’s wonderful. Yes, I’ve seen him change his twitter picture to those crazy fan-art ones that are hilarious.

RW: He’s loopy. He’s absolutely loopy, like he’s completely opposite to his character, which shows what a great actor he is, you know, Bob Morley is a fantastic actor who, in real life, is Australian, so he’s very relaxed, very funny, very chilled out and the complete opposite to Bellamy, who is this rugged, tough, weight-of-the-world-on-his-shoulders kind of guy. He’s a very talented guy, as is all our cast.

MM: I can’t argue with that, they are all amazing. So now, the Grounders and Sky people are currently working together to get rid of the mountain men. Do you think that they’ll stay at peace after they no longer have a common enemy?

RW: Well, you never know. I mean, obviously they are working together, but they still have these massive differences and on both sides, not all parties are for it. There’s still factions, and hence why Jaha and Murphy (Richard Harmon) have taken a group to the City of Light, they don’t believe in the alliance. Even Kane has been somewhat suspicious, and he was one of the ones to first try and push the coalition, so not everyone is for it and it’s going to be very fragile. Moving forward, I guess we’ll keep our fingers crossed and see what happens, but right now there is a larger enemy and hopefully that kind of alliance can hold strong enough and long enough to defeat that first.

MM: One battle at a time. Now a little fun question… what are some of your favorite shows to watch when you have some downtime?

RW: (laughs) Wow, now you got me. I’ve always been a big fan of shows like… at the moment I’m watching The Walking Dead. I’m a big fan of that. I love my Entourage. I love Grey’s Anatomy. Basically, anything from Shonda Rhimes I think is genius. So, what else do I watch? There’s a lot of stuff I need to catch up on. There’s always that. Like I’m really far behind on a lot of seasons. I’ve not even watched The Sopranos, and that’s been gone for years. I really don’t have time at the moment. I’m so active, I’m doing stuff and I feel guilty staying indoors when it’s so beautiful outside all the time. I very rarely have time to sit down and relax, and actually watch TV.

IMG_6333MM: That’s definitely true. So, did you kind of see these little shipping wars going on on Twitter, in regards to Bellamy and Clarke, and the whole Lexa and Clarke build up?

RW: That’s where the passion of the fans comes in. They can search for whatever they want and they can ship… ship is a new word for me, by the way, as is for a lot of our cast. We didn’t know what that was until a few months down the line. As long as they’re passionate and talking about various dynamics and characters, then we’re happy, you know. Whether it happens or whether it goes one way or the other, or not at all, or a completely different direction, that’s up to the writers, and I think they’re kind of shooting themselves in the foot, because our writers, as I’ve always said, are very good at giving the fans what they need and not what they want. So, we learned with Linctavia, the fans loved them and wanted them together, so the first thing they did was split them up. This season, Lincoln and Octavia have hardly been together. They’ve been trying to chase each other down and trying to find each other, because the fans wanted them together so much. So, those moments when they do get together are more special, and I think same goes for these other ships that the fans are kind of rooting for, like Bellarke. I think they’ve obviously got this great respect and fondness for each other, but because the fans want it so badly, the writers are just going to hold off. It’s the whole Ross and Rachel thing. That went for ten years, so I wouldn’t hold my breath, but that’s all credit to Eliza and Bob for creating such a great chemistry. 

MM: Now for the final question, can you tell the readers why The 100 is different from any other show out there, and why they should watch it? 

RW: I think it speaks for itself, to be honest. I don’t need to convince anyone to get into our show, they just sort of have to put an episode on, and then I dare them to stop. You know, they have a hook at the end of every episode that makes you keep on watching, until you get to four o’clock in the morning and you think, “I really need to go to bed!” Iit’s got a little bit of everything. People try and compare it to Lost, to The Hunger Games, to Lord of the Flies, but I think it’s starting to become it’s own thing where other shows coming out now are going to be compared to it. So I think it really is blossoming into something special. It’s just unexpected, you know. The darkness and spontaneity. You never know what’s going to happen on this show- because the cast doesn’t even know, the fans definitely won’t have a clue. (laughs)

MM: That’s for sure and I think that the shows longevity will be secured, because the fans really do love it, and there’s always twists and turns, and you’re not really sure where it’s gonna go.

RW: Exactly, it can literally go anywhere. I mean, Earth is huge and we’ve only, kind of, explored one small part of it, so this show really can go in any direction or any place. We’ve got so many characters, like Game of Thrones, where they cover so many different areas and worlds. It really just can get bigger and bigger. There’s definitely no limitations on our show, which is always great.

Catch Ricky on The 100, Wednesday’s at 9|8c on The CW.

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