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Austin Basis chatted with Red and Black about Beauty and the Beast, acting and more.

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Acting is a skill set that takes time, energy and commitment to perfection.

“I had no choice as a kid. It was somewhat of a natural instinct. I never would have thought I would be on shows with special effects and come full circle,” Basis said, of his inspiration to become an actor.

Popsugar chatted with Jay Ryan about how he got this role on Beauty and the Beast, how he deals with hours spent in a makeup chair to get his prosthetics on and more.

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Can you tell me about how you landed the role of Vincent?
It was strange because this was sort of the first year in a while that I decided I wasn’t going to go and do pilots in Los Angeles and just look at Australasia and work there. I was shooting a mini-series with Jane Campion and I just thought, ‘I’m going to focus on that,’ and also for the sort of character that I was shooting they shaved half of my hair off and I had this sort of Mohawk haircut. I thought, ‘There is no way that anyone in the States is going to cast me looking like this.’

So I got a spontaneous call one day from the US asking me to put a tape down for Beauty and the Beast. They’d seen me audition for a film a couple of years ago, so they said let’s see what you’ve for Vincent. So I read the script and had no idea what the take was, sort of being re-worked, because there are so many versions of Beauty and the Beast. I was definitely surprised to see that it was such a contemporary take on it and quite a fresh take too, which is good for a younger audience. So they flew me over and I put down a couple of auditions and they flew me back home and I thought that I had stuffed it up and not got the role. But then as soon as I got off the plane in Melbourne there was a message on my phone, and it basically said, ‘Can you get back on the plane and come back again to do a chemistry read with Kristin Kreuk?’ So it all happened really fast, in the short space of a week.

TV Line has scoop on new blood coming in season 2:

Can you tell us more about what’s coming in the second season of Beauty and the Beast? –Sakran

Presumably in addition to Catherine’s biological father, “We’ve got some new people joining us [for Season 2], which is going to amp things up,” Jay Ryan says. “Fresh blood!” As for the show’s sophomore run as a whole, Vincent’s portrayer has these expectations: “I think we’ve found our footing, as far as what the tone of the show is — and we can only grow bigger and better from there.”
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TV Guide has some scoop on Vincent in season 2:

What’s going to happen to Vincent next season on Beauty and the Beast? — Lara

ADAM: Now that Vincent has been captured, clearly he’s going to need someone to rescue him. But however that turns out, Jay Ryan has some other wishes for Season 2: “I’d like him to find his mother and some of his platoon, if they are still alive, and give him a sense of community he could bring to his relationship with Catherine,” he says. Speaking of family, Ryan says that the introduction of Catherine’s biological father in the finale will create some major obstacles for he and Catherine. How major? “[He] could break them up,” Ryan warns.

Teen Choice Awards will air on Sunday, August 11, 2013 at 8-10:00 p.m. ET, on Fox.

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Beauty and the Beast and Kristin Kreuk have been nominated for a couple Teen Choice Awards for 2013.

Below is a list of what they were nominated for
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Choice TV Show: Fantasy/Sci-Fi
“Beauty and The Beast”

Choice TV Actress: Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Kristin Kreuk, “Beauty and the Beast”

Celebified caught up with Jay Ryan at the CW Upfronts to talk about season 2 of Beauty and the Beast and what Vincent and Catherine’s future holds!