Julie McNiven Talks Supernatural Fandom & New Show “Internity”

It’s great to speak with you too!  I tune in when I can, but I haven’t caught up in a while so I have no idea what the boys are up to.  If I had a really great time on the show, like I did on Supernatural, I have a hard time watching them after my character exits.  It makes me miss working on the show!  I will catch up eventually, though, because I do love the show.

Yes, it’s been a while.  I’ve had great experiences in the con world!  I had no idea the fandom existed when I booked the show. The fans have been the most supportive, incredibly loyal group!  They are really quite amazing.  Everything I’ve done since i entered the Supernatural family has been supported by fans. Professionally and personally.

I think we could use a shake up of the con structure with a special ladies con.  We could make it a more intimate experience with talks on different ways the show has influenced the fans, etc.  I spoke with SNradio and she had her students write a big paper on the show in her psychology class!  There are so many avenues that could be explored!

One thing I wanted to note is that most of my personal favorite characters have been the redheads.  You, Abbadon, Charlie.  And you all met unfortunate ends.  I almost want to write a fanfiction where all  you amazing redheaded women come back and take over the world.  How fun would that be? 

That would be awesome!  There should be a contest as part of the con where fanfics are submitted and the winner is performed by the actors on stage. We could do our best Dean and Sam impersonations when we’re not playing our own characters.  Ummmm….that would be really fun!

Our fandom loves supporting the cast when they do other projects and  both you and another Supernatural alum, Jim Beaver, are part of a new project called Internity.  How did you get involved with that?

I actually became involved because a fan, Tracey Dianne Miller, tweeted that I should be on the show!  I looked it up and saw that Jim was a part of it and just tweeted back that I’d love to….and then like 24 hours later, after reading the script and chatting with Joey Adams, the writer/producer, I was on the show!

Going back to an earlier question, awesome women in the industry, it seems like there’s a lot of of female-driven plot in this project.  The main character is a woman in her 50’s returning to medical school to pursue her dream of becoming a doctor.  What more can you tell me about that plot?

Yes, Marina Sirtis, who you probably remember from Star Trek Next Gen plays our lead.  Her, along with Carla Jimenez, are two powerhouse women who will drive the storylines beautifully.  I’m playing a character named Sara Cohen who is also quite a force….in a different way.  She is probably always the smartest person in every room and has big dreams of entering the Peace Corps and saving the world.  For now, she’s an intern at Portland Memorial, trying to figure out who she is and how she fits in.  She has a big heart and is really eager to be helpful, which often just causes more of a problem.

The show is a dramedy with elements of fantasy mixed in. What? Yes, that’s right.  Dr Nate works out his day to day problems by daydreaming himself onto his favorite TV shows, which happen to also be a lot of our favorite sci-fi shows!  This will give the show the opportunity to have really awesome guest stars that the sci-fi fandom will love!  With the fantasy aspect, we give the show the opportunity to do anything, go anywhere.  But we will also deal with heavy social issues.  The set up pretty much lets us have it all!

SO Much!  Haha!  Music, words, looks, you name it!  A video of an animal touching grass for the first time after being kept in a cage in an animal testing lab…cue sobs!  A video of a little boy getting a hearing implant and hearing his parents for the first time…sobs!  Clearly Facebook exists to make me cry.