Gregg Sulkin On ‘Affluenza,’ ‘Pretty Little Liars’ [VIDEO EXCLUSIVE]

Yes, basically I play character Dylan Carson, and Dylan is one of those characters that everyone wants to be. The movie is quite similar, well it's a similar set-up to, The Great Gatsby so Dylan is quite similar to Gatsby whereas for the first five or ten minutes of the movie, everyone talks about him, but he still hasn't been introduced. And he's this kind of character that throws lavish parties, he's the talk of the town and comes from a very, very wealthy background. He's madly in love with Kate, his long lost love, but I think as the movie goes on you really see who Dylan actually is and he's not as cool and he's not as popular as people think; he's actually quite dark and isolated, kind of a lone figure, which kind of proves that you can have as much money in the world, but if you don't have friendship, you really have nothing and no community. So, yeah, he definitely goes on a dark turn towards the end of the movie.

No, I think there’s enough brats all over to be honest. I think that we have brats in England and we have brats in America. And Dylan I wouldn’t say is a brat, you know, I think he’s surrounded by a bunch of entitled brats, but at the end of the day, I think he has a big heart.

I’ve got friends in London who I kind of based a bit of the character on. I also watched a lot of Robert Downey Jr. and Leonardo DiCaprio before the movie. Me and Kevin Asch, our director, spoke at length about making him this charming guy, but not too cliché. We wanted him to have some edge, we wanted him to have some secrets and some darkness to him. And by watching those actors, who are obviously amazing, it definitely helped. But obviously my friends in London, who are not really my friends, they helped.

I would say towards the end of the movie. I don’t think any human being likes going to dark places. Obviously, as an actor you have to do that, that’s your job. But, I think at the end of the movie when Dylan realizes he literally has nothing in the world, I had to go there. And for me, actually personally, I’ve been quite fortunate in my life where I’ve had a very stable family background, I’ve known always what I’ve wanted to do, kind of what path I wanted to go down in my life. So for me to think, Oh, I’m not going to have anything' or 'I don’t have anything in my life' is a very strange, abstract thought. And Kevin really, really brought that out of me and complete credit to Kevin ‘cause I remember the night we shot it and I was not in a good state and I kind of owe that all to Kevin. And I think you see that, there’s a scene towards the end of the movie where Dylan talks about the lack of love he’s had and the lack of home he’s kind of lived in and you kind of see it. So, it was tough.

To young people, I think if you have money, be classy with it, be humble, be grateful, be appreciative. If you don’t have money, it’s not the end of the world because a lot of people with money somehow don’t act in the proper way. And I think there’s a saying that wealth brings exclusivity and poverty brings a community, so I guess in life, it depends what you want. In my eyes, I think you can have both, but obviously only if you’re aware of it. So, to me community is a lot more important than exclusivity.

Well, there’s obviously lots of hooks and twists. I mean, no one obviously knows really who A is. I don’t think the writers know who A is. But, I loved working on the show, the fans are absolutely amazing, they’re insane. I think I gained something like 20,000 Twitter followers in about three hours when my episodes air. So, they’re very dedicated. I like the hook, the show can go on for season 29 because they have a writing team that are fantastic and they know what they’re doing and they have a bunch of actors as well who turn up on a daily basis, deliver their lines, are very well prepared and are very good. And having a show where there’s four lead girls isn’t easy always to make a success, so I think they’ve done an amazing job.