Jacob Batalon (“Reginald The Vampire”) Didn’t Know How He Was Going To Present The Two Spider-Mans In “No Way Home”

Don’t be Tom Holland’s friend in the chair anymore. Now, Jacob Batalon is the hero, only instead of spider powers he has bat powers. ‘Reginald the Vampire’ is not only her first leading role but also her first series. The 26-year-old is aware of how the Marvel fan phenomenon prompted him to take this leap since, according to him, in the end “The audience is what puts actors in very privileged positions. So I’m very grateful. I wouldn’t be here without them”. Like I’m an avenger Batalon received us at Comic Con in Lisbon where he presented to these fans his SYFY project, which will premiere in Spain on Thursday 12 January. at 10pm with a double bet.

After starring in a Marvel Cinematic Universe trilogy and even appearing in “Avengers: Infinity War,” a laid-back vampire comedy in the vein of “What We Do in the Shadows” might not be much of a challenge. However, if anything characterizes these vampire stories (except ‘Twilight’) it is this the huge amount of “disgusting blood”. For Batalon, that is “The most inconvenient thing ever. It slips into your underwear and you have to wait until the end of the day to take it off. You have to clean yourself with shaving cream, apparently it’s a secret.” The other stereotype that the series plays with and which can be clearly seen in the poster is the sharp teeth which were also very real. “You almost have a stammer and can’t speak fast enough. You can’t articulate your sentence”.

Everything superficial about vampires is in the series, even their haughty temper and overly beautiful bodies. For this reason, a neophyte hero like Reginald manages to break with these stereotypes so present in fiction and in reality. “Our main message is that you don’t have to follow the stereotypical Hollywood version of what a hero is”. Because of his character and his experience with greater Hollywood fame, Batalon feels very identified with his character complexes. “I myself grew up at a time when the body is very important”. The Johnny B. Truant novel upon which the series is based already hints at this critical review by being titled “Fat Vampire”. The series is also not afraid to use the word fat from the first minute of the pilot and its protagonist defends this decision of the script: “it’s a socially accepted word to use and we shouldn’t give it that weird power to embarrass people”.

A very important secondary

Although he did not become a protagonist with Marvel, in ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ he had the privilege that many would dream of and which he confesses he will always remember: introducing Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield in the UCM. “It’s one of those moments that change your life”. That was the moment all the fans have been waiting for and it was kept so secret. However, the surprising thing is that during the filming of the film he didn’t seem to be fully prepared. “We didn’t have an ending to the movie, so we didn’t know how it was going to end. It wasn’t until after the Christmas break that Jon (Watts) and the writers had this idea of ​​them showing up at my grandmother’s apartment.” Regardless of the fan service that introducing the Spider-Man you grew up with might bring, For Batalon, the best of that moment was the same thing that characterizes its new SYFY series, available later on Universal+: fun.. “Everyone expected it to be a super stellar heroic moment. But doing it in my grandmother’s apartment was so much more fun”.

‘Reginald the Vampire’ premieres its first two episodes Thursday, January 12 at 10pm on SYFY.