Vampires have been a staple of supernatural storytelling for generations, but Eternally Yours is putting its own spin on the genre by following its immortal characters across multiple time periods. The new series blends vampire lore with the messy realities of relationships, regret, and the search for a sense of belonging, giving its cast plenty of room to explore both the supernatural and the deeply human sides of their characters.
At the heart of the show's coven are Liz and Charles, who have been together for centuries and aren't exactly the happiest of couples—but hey, 500 years will do that. Eternally Yours is just episodes into its run, but it's already become one of the funniest shows on television, and we're still only just beginning to scratch the surface of these characters.
At New York Comic Con, FanSided sat down with Eternally Yours stars Allegra Edwards and Ed Weeks to discuss what makes the series such a fun world to inhabit, from the opportunity to explore different historical eras through elaborate period costumes to some of the more unexpected rules of being a vampire. The pair also opened up about their respective characters, Liz and Charles, and how exploring centuries of regret and a darker side of one's personality can make for some compelling character work.
Congrats so much on the new series. You both have this really unique opportunity in that we get to drop in in so many different periods. How fun is it to get to visit these characters and kind of drop in at various time periods?
Allegra Edwards: It's the best part of the job.
Ed Weeks: You have a lot of fun skirts and petticoats.
Edwards: I know, I do.
Weeks: She's always like sending me pictures of her costume fitting and just saying, I cried.
Edwards: I did, I wept, I swooned. Yeah, I'm always taking videos of just the things on chairs or on hangers, so I'm like, “Look what I get to wear today!”
Weeks: And if I may say, you suit every time period; there's something about you that just feels like an old master painted you.
Edwards: You are otherworldly, for sure. But yeah, it's wonderful, and I think what we really look forward to in the new scripts is seeing where we're gonna head to next. We've been doing a lot of like other centuries, and I'm actually kind of itching for like the 1950,1970s. I want to see what we were doing during disco. Emma did the 1980s, which is really fun, and so did Jesse; Jesse got an amazing 1980s [moment].
Weeks: Jesse is the most 1980s character. He really peaked in the 1980s and that's when he met Phyllis.
Every vampire story has different rules and lore. What’s been the funniest rule that you get to play with?
Weeks: I was reminded of one last night; we did this fun Victorian haunted trolley tour through New York and apparently vampires, and I thought it was just a joke from Sesame Street, where vampires do have a compulsion to count. So we have an episode where somebody drops a few things, some coins, and Emma, played by Helen J. Shen, has to obsessively count. It's almost scary the intensity with which she plays it.
Edwards: We thought that it was just a weird thing on our show, but then when we went on this Victorian trolley tour, they said, “No, this is actually part of vampire lore.”
The other thing that I love that I think is kind of like a cheeky hack is we wear sunscreen. We have a special sunscreen that was invented in the 60s.
Weeks: Yes, which enables us to go outside. But we also live in Seattle because of the cloud cover. We got the idea from watching Twilight.
When you first read the script, how did you approach the characters and their relationships?
Edwards: I thought Liz was really interested in having the idea of the family that she never really got to have. I think Liz in the heat of the moment signed up for being a vampire without understanding everything that it would cost her.
And so what's juicy for me as Allegra to explore is how someone has maybe centuries of regret over a decision that was made hastily and is trying to piece together a version of a human life even though she's kind of a monster now. That felt very human and also something I could really relate to when you have an idea of something and it doesn't go quite like how you pictured it.
Weeks: Yeah, for me, Charles was a great opportunity to throw in, I suppose, a darker side of who I am, which I've been trying to be better about since I got married, but like a certain inflexibility, a pomposity.
There may or may not be a male relative that I draw on, but he'll remain nameless, but that's one of the great things about acting: getting to explore the darker sides of your ego and your id, I suppose. So, yeah, it's kind of been quite therapeutic. Then I love to shake him off at the end of the day and be joyful and fun and silly and relaxed because I'm very buttoned up as Charles all day. But then by night, I dance.
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