No one there had any idea how to forge anything, so we literally just made shit up. There was a scene where we’re making a key, there’s a montage of us forging a key, so they needed lots and lots of little bits and pieces.
We had great fun at the end, there’s a scene where Kinsey, my sister, carries me through the air with her angel wings that she’s found, which involved me and Emilia (Jones), flying on wires for days at a time which was almost like working at a theme park, it was so much fun. The spider one was probably the most fun I had. Did you have any favorite visual heavy scenes that you filmed?ĬJ: Yeah that was an amazing prop. The sets and visual effects were amazing this season! I loved the Spider scene from episode 3, “Small World”, also the small antique toy house was very cool. Maybe if I was playing a character that was more radically different than I am, I haven’t really had that experience though. So it’s never been hard for me to remember that, that’s work. You’ve got a 10 hour, 12 hour workday and spend about 40 minutes at most actually shooting. The reality of shooting something is so mechanical you shoot in many little pieces, you shoot out of order, a hundred people are standing around you. Maybe it’s where I’m at in my career or the characters that I play. Having played Tyler Locke for three seasons, is it hard for you to separate yourself from a character that you’ve put a lot of time into?ĬJ: No, I’ve never had that. You’ve now filmed three seasons of Locke & Key, with the third being filmed back to back simultaneously with the second. Nice to see you again!! Congratulations on the new season of Locke & Key!! We sat down with Jessup over Zoom to talk about why he’s “straight4pay”, RuPaul’s Drag Race, how his accessibility through social media has influenced his queer experience, and how secluding himself in a cottage for a month in the British countryside is influencing his upcoming projects. Playing Tyler Locke, the eldest of the Locke siblings is Actor, Director, Writer, Avid Reader, Heartthrob, Globetrotter, and recent guest judge on Canada’s Drag Race, Connor Jessup. The show has also garnered a few notable new fans including one Britney Spears, who earlier this week prompted her instagram fans to watch the show in typical Britney fashion “Holy crap you guys, gotta check out Locke & Key…it’s pretty good!!!”
The show’s success has kept the series in the top ten on the platforms ratings list and has already prompted the creators to move forward with season three. The fans are loving the supernatural fantasy drama, Locke & Key, which premiered its second season on Netflix this October. Sweater and Pants: DSQUARED2, Shoes: Prada CONNOR JESSUP STAR OF NETFLIX’S LOCKE & KEY