Sebastian Roche On ‘A Walk Among The Tombstones,’ Liam Neeson

Sebastian Roché may be known for playing the most powerful vampire on The Vampire Diaries and The Originals, but Roché plays a mere mortal in his newest film, A Walk Among the Tombstones. In our first ever ‘on the go’ interview – Roché called uInterview from his car, and then again from his front porch – Roché dished on what it was like to work with Liam Neeson on their new film noir.

In A Walk Among the Tombstones, Roché stars alongside longtime action-vet Neeson and Downton Abbey heartthrob, Dan Stevens, but he wants fans to know that Neeson’s presence does not make this another Taken. “Everyone thinks that a Liam Neeson movie about someone who got kidnapped is Taken, but this is a totally different kind of movie,” Roché told uInterview in an exclusive video interview.

Roché currently stars as Mikael on The Originals, and, while his character in A Walk Among the Tombstones is a drug dealer, he is far from the super villain Roché plays on TV. “I’m supposedly a bad guy – in the film – I play this Russian drug dealer whose daughter gets kidnapped. So you have this supposed bad guy who finds himself in a very tragic and human situation, where he has to ask [for] help,” Roché revealed.

Roché also spoke to uInterview about making the move from sci-fi to action and what it was like going head-to-head with Liam Neeson onscreen.