but then everyone got kind of scared about, ‘ Well, what kind of show are we doing? Can we afford to have a character who’s that dark?’

“I don’t know if it’s going to pay off in the end, to be honest. I’m thankful that as of now, people still are watching me and going, ‘Oh, poor Dyson.’ I get a little nastier (in the next couple of episodes), so I might burn some bridges with some audience members.”

Well, hybrid wolf creatures do have a nasty side, as HoldenRied remembers all too well from his childhood.

“I have two step- brothers, and they sat me down when I was about eight years old and made me watch An American Werewolf in London,” HoldenRied recalled. “And that tortured and scarred my psyche for a good 10 years.

“Even when I was 18 years old, walking around my farm at night, I would carry an axe with me, because I was afraid a bloody werewolf was going to jump out of the woods. I was a well-armed teen walking around the woods of southern Ontario. So it took a little while to grow into this part.”

What we need is for Dyson to go in the complete opposite direction in season three, kind of a Broadway Dyson, with big eyes and broad gestures.

“That’s right, yeah,” HoldenRied agreed enthusiastically. “And he sings a lot.”