INTERVIEW: Anna Silk, Ksenia Solo find chemistry on the set of ‘Lost Girl’

A little sci-fi. A little romantic drama. Shades of steampunk. A touch of fantasy. Lost Girl, the successful TV series from Canada that begins its third season on Syfy on Jan. 14 at 10 p.m., has a little bit of everything for its viewers.

For stars Anna Silk and Ksenia Solo, the journey to the third season has been a fruitful one. They’ve seen their characters evolve over many episodes, narrowly escaping death at every turn.

Silk plays Bo, a succubus who refuses to choose sides among the Fae, a network of mythological creatures with supernatural powers. Instead, Bo opens up a detective agency to help solve mysteries and also learn a little more about her hidden past. Along the way, she needs to have sex in order to feed her inner-energy. The one problem: She kills anyone she’s intimate with, except for Dyson (Kris Holden-Reid), a Light Fae who works as a police detective in the human world.

Any good Sherlock Holmes needs a Dr. Watson. For Bo, that person is Kenzi (Solo), a thief who retires from her life on the streets to join this wayward Fae. Unlike most other characters on the show, Kenzi is a human.

The relationship between Bo and Kenzi is integral to Lost Girl’s success. Luckily, Solo and Silk are friends both on and off-screen. “Ksenia and I hit it off really early on in our friendship,” Silk said recently during a phone interview with journalists. “I think it translated pretty well on the screen, but … it certainly is really comfortable now. If I look ahead on the call sheet for the day, and I’m like, ‘Oh, Bo and Kenzi scene, great.’ I know that it’s going to be fun.”

Silk added that the detective duo is able to discover a lot of “fun things together,” calling their working relationship very familiar and very nice.

Solo said she believes it’s the show’s sense of discovery that has led to the chemistry between the two characters. “I think when Anna and I first started doing this show … everything was so fresh and new and exciting,” Solo said. “And Lost Girl was such a kind of a crazy concept that we were all so excited about discovering these characters. And, you know, Anna always says it really well, it’s like a family.”

There’s a real sense of giving time, hours, blood, sweat and tears, Solo added. “After all this time, we kind of know who comes in when and who does what,” Solo said. “It’s a really beautiful comfort that way.”

What keeps the Syfy show fresh is the fact that the characters are continually challenged. “It gives us the chance to constantly grow and still discover new things and new ways to have fun and challenge each other in moments that we can,” Solo said. “So we’re just so lucky that we have that great chemistry. We’ve had it from the very beginning. And it’s always a lot of fun, and Anna makes me laugh nonstop. So that definitely makes the days go by faster.”

Dealing with such an interesting fantasy world, which largely remains hidden from humans, can be a transportive experience. Have the actresses ever thought about which supernatural powers they’d like to have?

“I’d love to be able to control people for a little while,” Silk said. “But I think also it would be cool to be Dyson, to be able to transform into something totally different. I think that would be really cool, too.”

Like any good sidekick, Solo had a perfect response. “I second that notion,” she said.

By John Soltes / Publisher / John@HollywoodSoapbox.com

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