Is there certain music you listen to when writing for this show?
Every week, I post one of my writing playlists. I have a playlist for each character. I have a Max & Liz playlist. I have a Michael & Alex playlist, and a couple of other ones. But I actually am working with Spotify to make it so that those are available to people. If people follow me on Twitter (@cadlymack) they can literally listen to the music that I connect to these characters.
There have been certain covers created specifically for the show. Will we get a release of that music?
I don’t know. We had a 90’s cover band in the Wild Pony, and our music supervisor Chris Mollere got a great band to do it, but it would be cool. Also, later on this season, we have a pretty epic karaoke moment that I am trying to get put on iTunes. So, we’ll see if it works out.
There has been blowback from the “Michael & Maria” contingent of the original Roswell fandom, wanting them to be together though it’s understandable why they are not. But will we at least see them interacting?
There’s no saying that Michael and Maria won’t be together. Michael is bisexual. I would like to make sure that everybody knows Michael is bisexual, because I don’t want people to be baited if things might not be smooth sailing for him and Alex and he experiments with women. Alex is gay, Michael’s bisexual, and yeah. Michael and Maria interact in Episode 4 and a little more going forward.
Listen. Michael and Maria were my favorite part of the original show, and I felt that to try to replicate that the same way that they did it, I didn’t think I was going to be able to do that. So to me, the best way to honor that feeling was to do something different. The original show is on Hulu. I highly recommend it. It’s very good. We’re going to do something different.
On the subject of the original show, how did it make you feel to have Shiri Appleby directing an episode?
Awesome. She’s so cool. I was very nervous at first, because she’s Shiri Appleby, but it was really great to have her. When I was a journalist, I’ve interviewed her! I used to go to Vancouver to the Life Unexpected set and interviewed her. So, it was a very interesting thing for me to, like, be the boss, and be the person that hires her, but she was so great. She wore her old Roswell t-shirts; like, the costume t-shirt to set every day. She brought her family.
She directs Episode 9. It was very important to me that she directed that specific episode for a very specific reason that I won’t share, but she didn’t want to direct the episode because it was over Halloween, and she’s a mom, and she wanted to be with her kids for Halloween. But when I explained why it was important to me that she directed that episode, she was like “okay.” So she brought her kids to Santa Fe and we had a really great time. She told us a lot of gossip from the original show that I’ll never tell. It’ll go to the grave.
Episode 3 ends with a blackout and a blackout from high school is also referenced in the episode. So, I’m curious: Did Max have anything to do with the blackout in high school when he wrote the poem?
Yes. When Liz touched his lips, the whole school blacked out.
In the pilot, we were talking about Max’s powers and how the lights flicker, and Julie [Plec] said to Nathan, “it’s like you got a boner in math class.” Because it’s visible, and the lights are flickering, and your personal feelings are on display for the world, and yeah. So that’s what she was calling him out on. He’s like “you touched my lips” and she’s like “you created a blackout.” Oh.
A new episode of Roswell New Mexico titled “Smells Like Teen Spirit” airs TONIGHT (February 26) on The CW. Take a look at a trailer below!
