Jaimie Alexander, who plays Jessi XX on ABC Family's Kyle XY recently sat down to answer questions from a group of online media outlets and fan sites, including MediaBlvd Magazine.  Now that both her secret as well as Kyle's are out, Jaimie tells us that Jessi is going to be getting into trouble the second half of this season, while trying to do the right thing.

Jaimie> Actually, yes.  Jessi is, if I can remember correctly, in every episode in season 2.5.  She plays a big role and definitely stirs up things a lot more than she did last season.  Still while trying to be a good person, but things don’t always go her way.

 

Jaimie> My favorite storyline is Jessi’s quest to find her mother, her parents, who those people were in the picture.  Just her quest to find where she belongs, which is very broad, I guess.  My favorite episode so far is 13.

 

Jaimie> The connection between Kyle and Jessi is a lot different than a normal human being to a normal human being.  They are pretty much made of the same mold.  They’re the only two that understand each other completely and, even still, they have difficulties. 

 

They’re pretty much each others guardians.  I think Kyle would be okay if Jessi wasn’t around.  In a sense, he could manage.  But I don’t think Jessi would be okay without Kyle because she doesn’t have anybody else.  To be honest in the episodes that are coming up, their connection is questioned and it is explored heavily throughout the next nine episodes.

Jaimie> Just like with any relationship, you have to go through certain highs and lows to see how strong the relationship is and where it’s going to take you.  And Jessi and Kyle—I’m trying to think how to word this.  Jessi and Kyle kind of duke it out throughout the next few episodes, though not intentially. 

 

Jessi will try and do something that she thinks is beneficial or good for somebody else but, in reality, is a bad thing.  Eventually, a heavy strain gets put on their relationship because of the things that Jessi is doing where it makes Kyle kind of shy away from her a little bit because he has so many other things going on.  So their relationship becomes very strained, like very heavily strained, throughout the next few episodes.

 

Jaimie> There are so many things.  I like the fact that she represents—this is going to sound really odd to all you guys.  But she represents a normal person in the sense that she has two sides that kind of battle against each other.  And that’s fun because I’m telling you, one moment, I’ll be good and sweet and kind and doing the right thing, and then the next few minutes, I’ll be doing something that’s horrendous.  And I love that. 

 

I could never get bored.  I honestly feel that I have some of the best material on the show and I’m so blessed to play this character because it’s exciting each day.  We’ll get the new scripts and I’ll be like, “Whoa, what am I doing in this one?”  And it’s always a surprise.  I guess my favorite part of her is her dual personalities in a sense.

Jaimie> Yes, actually I got most of my start in SciFi/horror films.  And I’ve always liked it because it’s kind of like reality, but with a little spice.  There’s always things that you’re like, “Man, sometimes that could happen, but I’m not sure,” and it makes you think.  I love the genre.  I’m a huge fan of SciFi.

 

Jaimie> I think, at this point, anything could happen.  But, right now, I’ve got to tell you, Jessi’s so desperate to find somebody that loves her – a piece of her past so to speak – that I think it makes her more willing to trust people that maybe she shouldn’t trust.  But, as of right now, she has her guard up.  If it’s one thing she’s learned, she can’t trust everybody.

 

Jaimie> Here’s the thing.  They never really explained it.  The things about our show – and it becomes a little bit more this way in a good way – is that they don’t like to spoon feed the audience that much, which is very good.  Because I think, with SciFi, if you do that, it’s just a piece of crap. 

 

But with her jumping off, it’s assumed – and you can, of course, make up your own story with this – it’s assumed that Madacorp got her.  Tom Foss was there to pull Kyle back off the cliff, and you’ve got to know Madacorp was around somewhere watching this happen, watching this go down.  Pretty much, she did what they wanted her to do, so they obviously were looking out for this. 

 

Obviously, she can survive a lot of things.  If you saw episode nine, how I got out of the facility and yet I had no burn marks, it’s kind of weird.  I think what happened is that Jessi is much physically stronger than Kyle and I think, when she jumped off, Madacorp was there to drag her out real fast. 

 

Jaimie> Sure.  After all this goes down and the Tragers kind of know about what Kyle is and where he came from, she starts to realize she’s capable of lot of things physically and mentally that maybe she knew about last season, but didn’t really explore because she was afraid or she wasn’t sure about.  Now she’s very sure about it and she, while exploring these things, gets – I don’t know if it’s power hungry.  That maybe too much to say.  She realizes some of her abilities can help people, although what she thinks is helping somebody is not actually helping someone.  Say she helps one person, she might hurt four other people doing it.  But just thinks she’s doing a good thing.  And she finds out she has these abilities that nobody else has and, even if Kyle has them, he’s not going to use them.  So she’s like “why should they go to waste?”  It’s kind of this showdown for the rest of the season. 

 

Jaimie> I can’t answer that completely, because that would give away a lot of what ends up happening throughout the season.  I guess with Brian Taylor coming into the picture last night, there is a little bit of this, “Hey, I’m your father.  What can everybody else do about it?  If we match blood tests and everything, you’re going to have to be with me.” 

 

Jessi’s so desperate to have a family that she does end up sort of going with the wrong people.  She just wants the label “family.”  She’s just wants somebody to love her, so it doesn’t matter if they’re good or bad.  She wouldn’t know. 

 

In a way, she does have a family.  She ends up having a family, but it’s not what you think and it’s not who you think either.  That’s the best I can do on this one because—you know.

 

Jaimie> They’ve kind of toyed with the notion of that and nothing has really come full force.  As of right now, I can say like there are some moments she has with certain people that it could take off in a certain direction, but it doesn’t necessarily go there this season. 

 

Trust me, I’m like, “I need a make-out scene.  Let’s do this.”  But nobody listens to me.  I’m just teasing.  It’s kind of weird to make a joke and not hear any of you laugh because you’re all in the silent thing.

 

Jaimie> That’s open for so much.  I really, really want her to be just evil.  I don’t know if you guys watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but between Angel and Buffy.  Angel in a sense is a little like my character.  He had dueling sides.  It’s something that he couldn’t help.  He would try and be good.  I just for some reason loved it when he was really bad. 

 

I was like, “You know, I really wish Jessi would just…” Like I did in the beginning where I kill a hunter without really knowing and all this stuff?  There were scenes that we had filmed throughout last season that had to be cut because they were too brutal for ABC Family.  I just wish that my character could go back to being that kind of evil bad ass type of character, but it wouldn’t necessarily fit into the storyline that is taking place right now.

 

Jaimie> She ends up having some glimmers of happiness, but again, that’s her internal battle to find like what would make her happy.  When she figures out what that is, she goes to find it.  Now whether or not she finds it, that’s up to you guys to see. 

 

But yes, there are a few moments throughout the season where you get these real happy moments that you’re like, “Wow, this girl is finally getting something that shows her what good and happiness is.”  But again, as quickly as it comes, it’s taken away.  But through Kyle’s help, she’ll find kind of where she fits, I guess would be the proper thing to say.

 

Jaimie> That is something that they explore a lot more.  When we would get the scripts, we were like, “Wow, I didn’t know they were going to go this route.”  So it was actually kind of a pleasant surprise. 

 

You’ll get to see that she gets to experience a lot of what like high school is like.  For the viewers, its going to be like watching these kids go through high school.  They have the same issues as most of the kids that are in high school right now.  And that’s what I think I like the most about it and they don’t sugarcoat anything. 

 

But Jessi is an outcast and she will go through certain things like normal kids go through everyday in high school, but you’ll get to see how she deals with it.  There’s a lot of shows that are so Afterschool Special and they’ll show, “Oh, this is how you get away from this.”  No, not with her.  You see the worst of it and the best of it.  But yes, she gets to experience high school life and what it’s like to be a high school kid and a normal teenager.  I like that they did that this season.

 

Jaimie> I’ve heard horror stories of people who are joining casts after their first season or second season and how it was really difficult.  But when I got up there, everybody was pretty nice and pretty warm and welcoming.  And I think they knew this girl is going to be here for awhile.  We’ve got to sort of try.  When I realized I was like, “Look, I’m easy.” 

 

We all kind of have the same sense of humor.  There are times that some of us would sort of butt head on set, but that’s normal.  You have that in school, if you’re in class or at work, and it’s really on a small scale, that we’d ever have a disagreement and whatever.  And sometimes it’s just in the heat of the moment in a scene.  If I’m doing something really horrible to somebody that cannon might linger in the air just a tiny bit and then it goes away, but because your emotions get high and things get crazy. 

 

But it’s seriously the best group of people I’ve ever been around and they’re so easy going.  The best thing about them is that they’re very genuine.  They’re not superficial and Hollywood at all.  That’s something I was worried about.  I was like, “Look I don’t want to have to be around a bunch of Hollywood jerks for 10 months.”