Kelly Hu is a very busy woman. Along with her recurring role on Arrow as the villain China White and her ongoing voice work on animated series like Phineas and Ferb and Young Justice – not to mention a mysterious upcoming role on Warehouse 13 – Hu is appearing this Monday on Castle.
Hu plays Scarlet Jones, the bodyguard for the founder of an adult video franchise called “College Girls Gone Crazy,” who fails to stop her employer from being murdered. In the course of investigating the murder, Detective Esposito (Jon Huertas) finds himself paying an awful lot of attention to Scarlet in a way that goes beyond a work interest.
I spoke to Hu this week about appearing on Castle and what it was like working with stars Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic. We also discussed what to expect from her next appearance on Arrow, which she was just about to begin filming when we talked, plus what it's like being one of the rare actors who's played a comic book character in both Marvel and DC-based projects.
IGN TV: You’re playing a bodyguard on Castle. You have a nice part of your career playing some pretty tough characters!
Kelly Hu: I know! I’m always playing somebody’s bodyguard or an assassin. I’m constantly playing the tough chick. If you really knew me, you’d know I’m so not the tough chick. [Laughs] I can do martial arts, but the girls who are the real tough chicks are the stunt girls. They’re the ones really getting bashed around, beat up and whatnot. I can just kick pretty, you know? But I did get have a little date with Jon’s character, Esposito.
Check out a scene from Castle with Kelly Hu:
IGN: So it sounds like he meets you during an investigation, but needless to say there’s some interest there?
Hu: Yeah, yeah, yeah. There’s a spark that flies, and we go on a date and stuff. Things look pretty good. It was fun. It was a fun character. She’s a bodyguard and a hard-ass, but at least I get to flirt and be a little sexier with him.
IGN: I feel like that’s kind of the key to Castle’s success. It’s got the crime element, while people also really spark to the romance at the center of the show and the banter that comes along with that.
Hu: Stana and Nathan are just the best at it. They’re amazing. They have such great chemistry. It was such an amazing set to be on. I say this a lot, like, “Oh yeah, everybody was so nice.” But on this set, seriously, everybody was so nice! Stana and I had done a movie together before, but we never had any scenes together. But we were able to bond and talk. She was just so nice and so open. A lot of times when you’re a guest star on a show, people don’t really want to spend the time talking to you because you’re in and you’re out, and they’re busy doing other stuff. But everybody on this show took the time to have conversations and talk and get to know me. It was really awesome.
Kelly Hu in Castle.
IGN: I’ve never met Stana, but I’ve met Nathan a few times, and he’s definitely got that same funny, charming persona you see in TV.
Hu: Totally. He was really, really nice -- although, I spent most of my time with Stana. For some reason, I had a lot of scenes with her. But I did have one scene with him, and he was great to talk to. Really funny and charming, and yeah, a lot like his character.
IGN: Your character is specifically a bodyguard for a guy who is basically kind of like a Girls Gone Wild producer, right?
Hu: Yes. [Laughs] I wonder if Joe Francis is actually going to see this and think, “Hmm, that’s just like me!” Or if it’s just going to blow right past him. You know, “There’s nothing similar at all!”
IGN: I don’t know if you saw Piranha 3D, where Jerry O’Connell played a version of a Joe Francis-type character.
Hu: Yeah, he’s such a caricature, it’s hard not to make fun of him in shows and movies. Because in person, he is quite a character -- without judgment! [Laughs] Which is kind of hard to do.
IGN: He’s an interesting personality, that’s for sure….
Hu: Exactly! “Interesting” is the perfect word. He has a very interesting personality.
IGN: So your character, does she seem to have any value judgments on the guy she’s protecting?
Hu: I think she just figured it was her job. I’m sure that more often than not, people who get hired to do these bodyguard positions are not friends with these people that they have to guard, when they get hired. They often don’t like them. If these people were so likable, they wouldn’t need bodyguards, right? So I imagine a lot of times, it’s people who are more difficult or are just plain a**holes, and that’s why they need a bodyguard.
Kelly Hu and Jon Huertas in Castle.
IGN: Unfortunately, though, it seems like maybe things didn’t go great for her regarding her job, since he ends up dead. So how is she processing that?
Hu: Yeah. She’s not real happy about having lost the person she’s supposed to guard. But then again, she wasn’t exactly around [at the time]. She couldn’t help it. She was given a different directive.
IGN: Because there is this potential romance that comes up over the course of this, might there be the chance for you to return to do more Castle?
Hu: I would like to think that it would be open to coming back and doing more. I don’t want to give away the end, but yeah, I’m hoping that there’s a chance I could come back.
Continue to Page 2 as Hu talks about her ongoing role on Arrow as China White.
Source : ign[dot]com
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