Dante's Cove: April 2007 Archives

It's been more than I week since I had a chat with Charlie David, the star of "Dante's Cove" but am only just getting around top sharing our conversation with you! Sorry Charlie! The busy actor/producer is, as I've mentioned before, preparing to shoot his indie film "Mulligan" in Victoria at the end of August through early September. Charlie is not only producing and starring, but he wrote the script! But before that, he will be plenty busy shooting a new season of "Dante's Cove" through June then will be traveling to Spain and Africa for new episodes of a travel show, "Bump!" that he hosts for Canadian television.
"Right now, we're in the gathering finances stage which is a big undertaking," said Charlie, who was in Texas last week for an event with "Mulligan" investors. "Things are going well."
Besides Charlie, who plays a guy who has an affair with his best friend's dad, the cast will also include his "Dante's" co-star Thea Gill who is best known for playing Lindsay on "Queer as Folk" for five seasons.
So who is going to play the hot dad?
Says Charlie: "We are looking for someone to play opposite (Thea) and we have some ideas in mind but we're just waiting for all the financing to log, our dates to log, and then we'll be good to go."
This is why I am so impressed with Charlie. He's a 26 year old guy who is openly gay and he is making things happen for himself. He considers out actors/producers Chad Allen and Robert Gant to be his role models and I think he is certainly following in their path.

OK, but we really want to know about the upcoming season of "Dante's Cove" and who Charlie, as Toby, is going to be involved with.
"The scripts were just published and we had a cast read-through and they are really fun," Charlie said. "There are definitely some wonderful cliffhangers."
Like what?
Charlie wouldn't say. He just laughed and assured me that he would be in all the episodes.
"People who have been faithful fans are going to have some big surprises this season with characters who are back for the season and also some surprises about who might not be there and [laughs] who might be leaving have way."
But what about him and Kevin (Gregory Michael)? Will true love prevail?
"Well, I can say that it's gonna be a rocky road. I think we had a little hint of that at the end of the second season with Adam [Jon Fleming]. There is some romantic interest between his character and mine."
Will there be lots of steamy love scenes?
"There definitely is," Charlie says. "I think the writers have done a great job this season of giving lots of equal attention to all the different characters. The girls have just as much weight this season as the guys and people who are fans of the steamy love scenes won't be disappointed."