Kyle XY returns to primetime January 14th on ABC Family (tomorrow). The opening release answers all of the questions left by the cliffhanger-ending of the previous episode. April Matson plays Lori Trager on the show and enthusiastically spoke to us about the upcoming episodes.

About her character and the progression in the coming shows. "The thing I love about Lori is that she sort of has a way of being bigger than everything else and being right and moving on and bucking up. That was definitely a lot of episodes of being really angry and going through everything.

"But definitely in the second part of the season, what you"re about to see starting on January 14th, she sort of makes peace with everything, and she does sort of...I don"t know. She does definitely work it out and gets back to her self sort of … moving on, songwriting again, more drama with Declan and she lets go of all that anger, so definitely I think we"ll get back to the Lori that we all love," she says.

About Declan and Lori's future relationship—or not. "There’s definitely a new guy in the picture that is a possibility. His name is Mark, and he’s played by Josh Zuckerman, who is such a breath of fresh air. He is so fun to work with and so good on the show. I think everyone is going to love his character. We have a really great chemistry together, so you can look forward to that. Just everything about it is very funny, the way that we meet and sort of how we become close. There’s definitely that potentially happening, and hopefully when we go up to shoot season three, I believe he’s still going to be around, so he might be sort of a future cast member.

"There is definitely some back and forth with Declan as well that becomes a possibility. Declan and Lori sort of talk about it and are sort of exploring that road again. I don’t want to give away what ends up happening, but at the end of … Lori … does what she does best for herself. I have to say that is one of the things that I love about her the most, she loves Declan, but she loves herself more, and she sort of just does what she needs to do. She really makes the choice that’s best for herself, and I love that…

"The young girls that are watching the show get that, because in my life at 26, and being in the dating world and having to make decisions about guys, and some guys that might have some kind of hold over you. I just love that she’s not desperate and she knows that she doesn’t need someone else to make her happy... and Declan steps up. He’s definitely charming and America is falling in love with him. Any time Lori doesn’t sort of go back to him, I think is always going to be disappointing, because he really is so, so charming in the last half of the season," reveals April.

About her favorite episode to film. "To film would probably be the last episode, the season finale, because even though it was such a pain, it was a prom episode, and so there was, like...I had to camera test eight prom dresses and there was all this back and forth about what Lori should wear to the prom. I don’t know why, for some reason it was more of a project for me than anyone else. But even some of the other girls, they had dresses made and some of them were … I mean it was like such a disaster.

"It was pouring rain and we had to keep going in and out of this gym of this high school, so there was mud everywhere. We were all dressed up, so from my trailer to the thing, they had to practically wrap me up in saran wrap just to keep me dry. So it was difficult to shoot, and we all sort of hated it, but it was so fun because it was our last episode to shoot.

"It was like eight or nine months of shooting, and then all the guys are in their tuxes and the girls are all dressed up. There were tons of extras, and it was really complicated shots. But we were just sort of all dressed up and, in between shots, celebrating such a great season, so that was probably, definitely my favorite, even though I hated it while we were doing it.

"It was some of my best memories when we were shooting that because we just had so much fun celebrating the whole season and all the work that we had done and how far we’d come, and taking pictures to remember the season. It felt like prom. It was weird. It felt like we were graduating or something," she recalls.

About similarities between herself and Lori. "I had a Declan. I think almost every girl has had a Declan, like... that guy that just gets under their skin, and it’s back and forth, and they make good friends, but they want to be more. And it’s confusing. I definitely had a Declan, and so in a weird way, this helps me resolve a lot of what that was all about to be an adult sort of going through it again through her.

"I learn from her too in the weirdest way, through the writing, but also just through what I find [because] she’s really become this other person that I love. I know that sounds weird, but I discover so many things while shooting... that she’s like a girl that I would want to be friends with. I always tell people that Lori Trager is so much cooler than I am. It does come through the writing, but she just comes through in a weird way and teaches me lessons. I do like that part of it because I feel like I’m not necessarily going backwards to this immature place, but I’m learning from this young woman, this character that I play. She’s mature and she has a mind of her own and I’m really getting a lot out of it," April explains.

About the plot progression of the series and the sci-fi mix. "It does sort of a flip-flop. It’s like right when you get back, there’s all this cool stuff that happens because you find out [the secret]. Then all of a sudden, it’s like it [sci-fi aspect] goes away. I’m not sure why they did that or if they wanted to take a break from it, but all of a sudden it just kind of takes a break from it.

"It focuses again on the family and the relationships, and Kyle’s relationship with Amanda and what it is for him to be who he is and live in the world as a teenager... I love that dynamic of the show. At first I feel like it’s a lot of sci-fi stuff, and then all of a sudden it’s completely the other way and you just see him living in the world and dealing with life, which I like both parts of the show. But I hope it continues to go back and forth that way," she says.

About the new Lori Trager song on Kyle XY. "I do sing again in the show. They recorded it actually just a couple of weeks ago. On the season finale, there is a new Lori Trager song. It was written, and then I sort of worked with another songwriter, Brandon James, who is amazing, talented...and you will see him out very soon.

"But we sort of collaborated to rewrite a little bit just to make it a little more personal to Lori’s experience. There were a lot of people involved in writing this song, and it turned out to be something that I was really proud of. Actually, Brandon James was playing at The Mint in L.A. two nights ago, and he called me up on stage during his show and made me sing the song with him, and I was so mad at him, but I was so in love with him at the same time because he was like...you need to get over it. You can sing.

"I’m still struggling with live performance singing, and it’s something I want to do so bad, and so he did that. Then he busted out, Will You Remember Me, the first song, and I sang that. I...like...played a gig. It was so funny. I was calling my parents. Yes. I did a gig last night. They were like, what? Who are you? What do you think you’re doing?

"I’m definitely going to pursue it more, and that was really exciting, and it felt like a big breakthrough for me...that I sang live for a bunch of people at this show. I started taking voice lessons since I’ve been back in L.A. and have been working with Brandon James writing a couple new songs for fun, but we want to write and record together an EP or something, like five or six songs.

"I’ve written a couple outside of the show, so it’s definitely something I’m pursuing. I never thought I was going to be able to do it. It’s really, really exciting to just...I guess...get over a fear...something that you tell yourself you can’t do, and you limit yourself for so long. Then you realize, wait a second. I really can do anything I want to do. Why do I limit myself and tell myself I can’t do that? People do it all the time. Why can’t I do it? And so I just sort of just did it, and I don’t know... Hopefully I’ll stick with it and continue to grow. It’ll be just another art form, another way to be creative and say something to the world," says April.

Don't forget to tune in to the all-new Kyle XY Monday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC Family. 

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Jessi   |2008-01-16 19:08:31 I really like how her character has a real strength to her. Great show. [smiley=happy] Reply 0   0

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