Kevin Zegers talks MORTAL INSTRUMENTS’ passionate fan base with Tribute
Kevin Zegers as Alec Lightwood
Kevin Zegers (Alec) spoke to Tribute about The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, while on a press tour for his latest film The Colony, which hits Canadian theaters on April 26 and U.S. theaters on the same day as The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.
Click the photo to watch the video at Tribute. TMI talk begins around the 6:48 mark.
Kevin talked about the passionate following surrounding the series.
“We were just at WonderCon, which is the pre-Comic Con thing, which we’re doing in July, and it’s bananas. There’s more people that have read this book than I’ve ever met in my whole life. But if you think about that it’s so hindering to doing–the reality is we just made a movie. It’s a big movie, they spent a lot of money on it, there’s a built-in fan base.”
Kevin mentioned that he’s not used to working on something so big, but that his lack-of experience, when it comes to that, really helped him focus on portraying Alec the way he interpreted him and not how the fans did.
“But if I start thinking what everyone’s opinion of what my character should be, you’d end up with some weird version of a hundred different things. The reason I like movie was because I loved this character and because that character came to me–because I auditioned for it and it happened very quickly–that was my only focus. I haven’t even really digested the things that are sort of happening right now, which is like, God, this a big ol’ thing. They’re talking about the press tour and it’s like I’m not used to that so for me it was just a movie. And it happened to be a big movie, but I wasn’t so focused on what the fans were expecting.”
Kevin is excited about the hype surrounding the movie and the possibility of filming all six books of the series.
“It’s a weird world of people pre-analyzing something that they haven’t seen yet, but it’s great. It sounds like people are excited. We’re all excited for people to see it and we want to make six of them. The hope is that people go out to see it and I think people will. It’s a good movie.”
Head over to Tribute to watch the full video interview with Kevin, where he also talks about The Colony.
TMI Source 
He’s fantastic! And I’m glad that he based Alec on how he perceived him instead of what the fans say. Fans all have different ideas of what a character is like and it’d be very difficult to narrow those ideas down to have one Alec that everyone agrees on.
I’m also glad that he’s excited and wants to have all six books made into movies. It’s great to see actors become as passionate about the characters as the fans.
omggg!!! i just squeaked and jumped up and down when he mentioned that they wanted to make all six moviess!!!!! please let that be possible!!!:D love kevin as alec can see him doing a great job as portraying him!!:’)