Actuellement au générique de FBI Most Wanted Criminals, Shantel VanSanten au micro de BetaSeries pour parler de sa carrière durant le festival de télévision de Monte Carlo.
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00:00We are at the 63rd Montecarlo Television Festival,
00:03whose Meta-series is partnered and on the mic with us today
00:06Chantel Vonsington, currently in FBI Most Wanted Criminals.
00:09Hi Chantel.
00:10Hi.
00:11So you have joined the cast of FBI Most Wanted Criminals.
00:15You had so many spin-offs that were kind of lost.
00:18So can you talk a little bit about your character please?
00:20I play Nina Chase and I originated on the FBI series
00:26where I was only supposed to be there temporarily
00:29and now they have found me a very comfortable,
00:33sometimes cold, sometimes strenuous job on FBI Most Wanted.
00:39And Nina is a very headstrong, empowered, capable woman
00:46who is a special agent in the FBI.
00:50How is it to be playing a figure of authority?
00:52Because usually in your previous roles you've been more on the
00:56Oh, please help me outside.
00:57And this time you're the one who's helping.
00:59Yeah, it feels like empowering.
01:03I've always understood female capability and my own capabilities,
01:08but have kind of waited for a role that I could step into
01:12and use those capabilities and trust my own self.
01:16And it's been nice to have that met with writing
01:20that makes me feel even more empowered.
01:24For our generation, your most well-known character is probably Queen
01:29from, you know, One Tree Hill.
01:31Yeah, is it still, you know, when fans come up to you,
01:35they're talking about Queen or maybe now another character?
01:38Oh yeah, people still come up to me, I would say probably half the time.
01:43It's, you know, it's One Tree Hill and I mean, I will forever be grateful.
01:47It was my very first job in television
01:49and I have to think that it was part of the story
01:52and paved part of the way to be where I am now.
01:56You've been in a few memorable shows this past year for Mankind,
02:00The Boys, of course, The Flash.
02:03Do you think you'll stop dying suddenly one day?
02:07I would love to stop dying suddenly someday.
02:09You know, my mom says it to me all the time when she asks me,
02:12are you going to die in this one?
02:13And I'm like, I don't know. I don't know. I don't get to choose.
02:18Yeah, I'm tired of learning how to die over and over.
02:21I would like to stick around.
02:22So I'm hoping I get to keep my job on on FBI Most Wanted
02:26and I won't be shot.
02:27So I just make sure to keep wearing my bulletproof vest
02:29and hiding behind things and doing well and that way I can stick around.
02:34I have to say in for Mankind,
02:36I thought it was one of your best characters
02:37and I mean the death was so emotional.
02:41I feel the same.
02:45I feel really grateful for that job,
02:47for the journey that I got to go on from where Karen started
02:50to where she ended the emotional ride
02:52and the challenges that Ron and Matt and Ben
02:54are showrunners wrote for me like were life-changing for not only me,
02:59but for what I understood I could do as an artist.
03:03And now so you're in a procedural,
03:05you know, this format is kind of well, it's still a network,
03:08of course, but it's rarer I guess.
03:10Yeah. So how is it you know to work and you know,
03:13you have the case of the week and yeah,
03:15it's you know, it's so interesting with procedural television.
03:18I'd never done it before. I never want I want to always keep it interesting.
03:23I want to find new ways to allow the character to grow because of the case,
03:28you know, what what new element did she learn physically
03:31or you know, what emotional stance has changed
03:35because of what she's gone through,
03:38you know in life everything changes us day-to-day our interactions
03:42what we go through our experiences.
03:45And so I never want to feel that Nina's not growing
03:48or that she's stuck and it's just a job
03:50and it's just a case like I that's not who I believe that the character is
03:55nor who I want to play for now.
03:58The talks are is it a stable job right now or yeah,
04:02I hope so. Yeah, I'll be I'll be there next season for you know,
04:06as long as they'll have me I'm so grateful to be a part of the wolf world
04:10and yeah, we'll see what the future brings
04:13and there are so many reboots revivals.
04:16We're talking about right now. Would you be you know,
04:20would you agree to reprise maybe the role of Queen
04:22if there's a one two hill reboot one day?
04:24Yes, of course. Of course. I mean I think it would be I think it would be cool
04:29because the iconic characters like the six that existed
04:33and created the show from Hillary
04:36and Chad's character leaving it would be fun to have all of them
04:39plus, you know, Clay and Quinn
04:42and and kind of all be there
04:44because it was funny when we were filming Joy would say who Bethany she would always say.
04:51Well, we were in high school at the same time.
04:54We just never saw you and I'm like,
04:56yeah, I was only two years older than you even though in real life.
04:58I'm younger than you. You know what I mean?
05:00It's like so I feel I missed the opportunity
05:03and so it would be nice to like all be together.
05:06Obviously. I think I would love to see a bunch of really empowered.
05:09Wonderful female writers who it would have to be done.
05:12Right, you know, like if you're going to bring something back you got to do it, right?
05:17Which character has stayed the longest with you not just in terms
05:20because Queen for several years,
05:22but yes from where where did you do you still find inspiration?
05:27I guess from some characters. Where do I still find inspiration?
05:31I mean as my life grows and expands
05:34and I study and learn and exist in the world.
05:39I'd like to think that I have something new to bring,
05:42you know, like I think about the playing Quinn at 23.
05:46I would play her very different now,
05:48you know, I've gone through a lot of people that I've I've loved dying
05:51and I think about the scene of their mother dying
05:53and how different it would be for me now.
05:55I've been through a divorce. You know what I mean?
05:57Like I think that my own life experience would bring something richer to a character now
06:03than maybe it would have in the past
06:05and so I can only hope and continue to keep growing
06:09and finding you know characters that challenge me
06:11and that I can bring some of my own life experience to.
06:14Lovely and just to wrap this up.
06:18What is the latest show you've really enjoyed
06:20and you would recommend to everyone?
06:23Well, if you're ready for something unexpected
06:27and very emotionally intense,
06:30I would say Baby Reindeer. I didn't I'm not a girl who watches the hype.
06:35I've never watched Game of Thrones.
06:37I don't watch a lot of the shows that are like trendy and pop culture
06:41and we were on set
06:43and I didn't want to feel left out
06:44and everybody was watching it
06:46and I sat in one night
06:47and I watched the entire thing which was a mistake
06:51because I felt like I needed therapy after to like really process everything I had experienced,
06:55but it also was so brave and beautiful
06:59and I don't know if you're ready for intense go watch it.
07:05Otherwise, I watch Married at First Sight.
07:11We have this total guilty binge of a show that like 18 episodes
07:17that I'm like deep in these people's relationships
07:19and I'm like, I know none of them really stay married,
07:22but you're just like hoping for one of them.
07:24So I also have that side of me.
07:26Love is blind is good.
07:27Oh, yeah, I know but they don't have as many seasons out
07:30so I can't binge as many love is blind,
07:32but I do watch that show too.
07:34Thank you very much.
07:35And we'll see you again on FBA Most Wanted Criminals.