Shantel VanSanten FBI Most Wanted Criminals

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00:00We are at the 63rd Montecarlo Television Festival,

00:03whose Meta-series is partnered and on the mic with us today

00:06Chantel Vonsington, currently in FBI Most Wanted Criminals.

00:09Hi Chantel.

00:10Hi.

00:11So you have joined the cast of FBI Most Wanted Criminals.

00:15You had so many spin-offs that were kind of lost.

00:18So can you talk a little bit about your character please?

00:20I play Nina Chase and I originated on the FBI series

00:26where I was only supposed to be there temporarily

00:29and now they have found me a very comfortable,

00:33sometimes cold, sometimes strenuous job on FBI Most Wanted.

00:39And Nina is a very headstrong, empowered, capable woman

00:46who is a special agent in the FBI.

00:50How is it to be playing a figure of authority?

00:52Because usually in your previous roles you've been more on the

00:56Oh, please help me outside.

00:57And this time you're the one who's helping.

00:59Yeah, it feels like empowering.

01:03I've always understood female capability and my own capabilities,

01:08but have kind of waited for a role that I could step into

01:12and use those capabilities and trust my own self.

01:16And it's been nice to have that met with writing

01:20that makes me feel even more empowered.

01:24For our generation, your most well-known character is probably Queen

01:29from, you know, One Tree Hill.

01:31Yeah, is it still, you know, when fans come up to you,

01:35they're talking about Queen or maybe now another character?

01:38Oh yeah, people still come up to me, I would say probably half the time.

01:43It's, you know, it's One Tree Hill and I mean, I will forever be grateful.

01:47It was my very first job in television

01:49and I have to think that it was part of the story

01:52and paved part of the way to be where I am now.

01:56You've been in a few memorable shows this past year for Mankind,

02:00The Boys, of course, The Flash.

02:03Do you think you'll stop dying suddenly one day?

02:07I would love to stop dying suddenly someday.

02:09You know, my mom says it to me all the time when she asks me,

02:12are you going to die in this one?

02:13And I'm like, I don't know. I don't know. I don't get to choose.

02:18Yeah, I'm tired of learning how to die over and over.

02:21I would like to stick around.

02:22So I'm hoping I get to keep my job on on FBI Most Wanted

02:26and I won't be shot.

02:27So I just make sure to keep wearing my bulletproof vest

02:29and hiding behind things and doing well and that way I can stick around.

02:34I have to say in for Mankind,

02:36I thought it was one of your best characters

02:37and I mean the death was so emotional.

02:41I feel the same.

02:45I feel really grateful for that job,

02:47for the journey that I got to go on from where Karen started

02:50to where she ended the emotional ride

02:52and the challenges that Ron and Matt and Ben

02:54are showrunners wrote for me like were life-changing for not only me,

02:59but for what I understood I could do as an artist.

03:03And now so you're in a procedural,

03:05you know, this format is kind of well, it's still a network,

03:08of course, but it's rarer I guess.

03:10Yeah. So how is it you know to work and you know,

03:13you have the case of the week and yeah,

03:15it's you know, it's so interesting with procedural television.

03:18I'd never done it before. I never want I want to always keep it interesting.

03:23I want to find new ways to allow the character to grow because of the case,

03:28you know, what what new element did she learn physically

03:31or you know, what emotional stance has changed

03:35because of what she's gone through,

03:38you know in life everything changes us day-to-day our interactions

03:42what we go through our experiences.

03:45And so I never want to feel that Nina's not growing

03:48or that she's stuck and it's just a job

03:50and it's just a case like I that's not who I believe that the character is

03:55nor who I want to play for now.

03:58The talks are is it a stable job right now or yeah,

04:02I hope so. Yeah, I'll be I'll be there next season for you know,

04:06as long as they'll have me I'm so grateful to be a part of the wolf world

04:10and yeah, we'll see what the future brings

04:13and there are so many reboots revivals.

04:16We're talking about right now. Would you be you know,

04:20would you agree to reprise maybe the role of Queen

04:22if there's a one two hill reboot one day?

04:24Yes, of course. Of course. I mean I think it would be I think it would be cool

04:29because the iconic characters like the six that existed

04:33and created the show from Hillary

04:36and Chad's character leaving it would be fun to have all of them

04:39plus, you know, Clay and Quinn

04:42and and kind of all be there

04:44because it was funny when we were filming Joy would say who Bethany she would always say.

04:51Well, we were in high school at the same time.

04:54We just never saw you and I'm like,

04:56yeah, I was only two years older than you even though in real life.

04:58I'm younger than you. You know what I mean?

05:00It's like so I feel I missed the opportunity

05:03and so it would be nice to like all be together.

05:06Obviously. I think I would love to see a bunch of really empowered.

05:09Wonderful female writers who it would have to be done.

05:12Right, you know, like if you're going to bring something back you got to do it, right?

05:17Which character has stayed the longest with you not just in terms

05:20because Queen for several years,

05:22but yes from where where did you do you still find inspiration?

05:27I guess from some characters. Where do I still find inspiration?

05:31I mean as my life grows and expands

05:34and I study and learn and exist in the world.

05:39I'd like to think that I have something new to bring,

05:42you know, like I think about the playing Quinn at 23.

05:46I would play her very different now,

05:48you know, I've gone through a lot of people that I've I've loved dying

05:51and I think about the scene of their mother dying

05:53and how different it would be for me now.

05:55I've been through a divorce. You know what I mean?

05:57Like I think that my own life experience would bring something richer to a character now

06:03than maybe it would have in the past

06:05and so I can only hope and continue to keep growing

06:09and finding you know characters that challenge me

06:11and that I can bring some of my own life experience to.

06:14Lovely and just to wrap this up.

06:18What is the latest show you've really enjoyed

06:20and you would recommend to everyone?

06:23Well, if you're ready for something unexpected

06:27and very emotionally intense,

06:30I would say Baby Reindeer. I didn't I'm not a girl who watches the hype.

06:35I've never watched Game of Thrones.

06:37I don't watch a lot of the shows that are like trendy and pop culture

06:41and we were on set

06:43and I didn't want to feel left out

06:44and everybody was watching it

06:46and I sat in one night

06:47and I watched the entire thing which was a mistake

06:51because I felt like I needed therapy after to like really process everything I had experienced,

06:55but it also was so brave and beautiful

06:59and I don't know if you're ready for intense go watch it.

07:05Otherwise, I watch Married at First Sight.

07:11We have this total guilty binge of a show that like 18 episodes

07:17that I'm like deep in these people's relationships

07:19and I'm like, I know none of them really stay married,

07:22but you're just like hoping for one of them.

07:24So I also have that side of me.

07:26Love is blind is good.

07:27Oh, yeah, I know but they don't have as many seasons out

07:30so I can't binge as many love is blind,

07:32but I do watch that show too.

07:34Thank you very much.

07:35And we'll see you again on FBA Most Wanted Criminals.

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