I've been offered quite a few network shows, over the past couple of years, and always turned them down because I never wanted the commitment. The way that it works in America, you do a pilot and then you wait, and I just thought that wasn't really what I was interested in doing, in that moment. And then, I was filming another show (Mr Selfridge (2013)) in the U.K. that went out on PBS in America, and they called me and said, "They're making Dracula (1992)." My immediate reaction was, "No!" And then, they said, "Jonathan Rhys Meyers has been cast as Dracula," and I thought, "Oh, fuck, that's genius! That's genius casting!" So I said, "Okay." They said, "NBC is making it. They're only doing 10 episodes for the first season." I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you go, "Oh, I just have to do that!" It fell into place very quickly.
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