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Starry Costellation Magazine has another interview with a member of Hellcats Cast. This time is Ryan Kennedy. He talks about his Hellcats character Jake Harrow, the show and more!

Q. What are some of the recent projects that you’ve been working on?
A. Actually right before “Hellcats,” literally two days before, I finished up a guest star role on the new show “Facing Kate” which is a new USA network series that will start airing in January. Before that I was doing season 1.5 of “Caprica,” the “Battlestar Galactica” prequel.

Q. What can you tell us about the premise for your new show “Hellcats” and about your character Jake?
A. “Hellcats” basically kind of takes you into the world of competitive cheerleading and it revolves around the character of Marti Perkins who is played by Aly Michalka. She loses her scholarship to law school and needs to find a way to pay for school now and realizes that she can get a scholarship through cheerleading. She kinds of signs on to that and realizes that the competitive cheerleading world goes far beyond just pom-poms. The story mostly revolves around the football and cheerleading world at this university in downtown Memphis.

Q. What made you want to be a part of this project?
A. The people that were creating and producing it. I had just finished working on “Caprica” and Kevin Murphy, “Hellcats” executive producer and head writer, was show running “Caprica.” When “Hellcats” was coming into production he had sent me a message saying he was doing a new show and would love it if I would be a part of it. I absolutely jumped at the chance to work with Kevin again. He’s a phenomenal writer and a fantastic producer and human being! Again I loved “Caprica” so I was excited about working with him again and also working with Tom Welling whose company developed the show. I worked with Tom a couple of times on “Smallville” and we had gotten along together well and worked together well and I really enjoyed all aspects of working with him. They are two people I wanted to work with and they just happen to be the producers of the show so it was a no-brainer.

Q. Where do you draw from for your portrayal of Jake?
A. Mostly from the writing and also just going through the script, studying this character, and creating. Many things fall into place for myself as I read. When Kevin was pitching the character to me there was a little bit of reference to Robert Downey Jr., old school Robert Downey Jr., and there has been a little bit of influence from that. Some of the other subtle influences for Jake have come from some people that I knew that are from the South that I worked with. I was in the Northern Mississippi and Memphis areas for a couple of months a couple of years ago. Any time I’ve been to the South I’ve met the most interesting characters and there is always a lot of character studying going on. Little things here and there, mannerisms and dialect that I’ve drawn from from interesting different characters that I’ve met in the South, specifically in the Memphis and Tupelo areas, that have sort of been brought into some of the more subtle areas of Jake.

Read the full interview at Starry Costellation Magazine