On ABC Family’s Greek, Scott Michael Foster plays Cappie, president of Kappa Tau Gamma which is the black sheep of the fictional Cyprus-Rhodes University fraternity system.  Cappie had a previous relationship with Casey (Spencer Grammer), president of Zeta Beta Zeta sorority and the two struggled with their relationship throughout the first season.  In the second half of the season, Casey broke up with her current boyfriend Evan, while Cappie fell into a relationship with Rebecca Logan, the senator’s daughter.  

 

With the show's second season well underway, Scott recently spoke with MediaBlvd about how his character has evolved, and what we might expect from the show in coming episodes.

 

Question> One of Cappie’s greatest assets is the mystique he has, since viewers don’t know very much; very little detail about him. How much do you know about his background and what it’s like playing a character, who is so mysterious in some ways?

Scott> You know, I don’t know much about the character other than what, you know, everyone has seen or will see soon.  They kind of keep up to date and we know a little bit about what the character will do in the future.  They give us a little bit of a background on the character; pretty much what you see, and what you will see in the next season is about what I know.  So, you know, it’s always really exciting for me to see the new scripts and see what they have next for the character.  I just take it as it comes to me.

Question> Who do you think Cappie’s destined to end up with in the long run, will it be Casey, Rebecca?

Scott> You know, I’m not sure.  It’s one of those things where the character Cappie and the character Casey, you know, I think the show is sort of creative where you know the audience will always want them to be together and it’s sort of a will they or won’t they, when is it going to happen if it’s going to happen?  I think those characters are definitely destined to be together. I think eventually they will end up together, but you know, like I said, I don’t know anything for sure.  It’s sort of probably what I want the characters to do.

Question> What is Cappie’s major?

Scott> You know, as they’ve said in the previous episodes Cappie’s had quite a bit of majors and he switches all the time.  You know, I guess he’s the kind of person that wants to know everything about everything.  So, you know, he takes on all subjects.

Question> Will Rusty’s dating skills ever catch up to Cappie’s?

Scott> I think that’s the goal.  I think that’s Cappie’s goal, is to get Rusty to open up and to sort of, you know.  Rusty is a little brother not just in the fraternity aspect, but in the emotional aspect for those two.  I think, you know, you want to see them become, you know, the kind of suave guy the Cappie is.  So, who knows?  That’s Cappie’s goal.

Question> So, Rusty is kind of like his padawan, I guess, huh?

Scott> Yeah, exactly.

Question> How long do you see the show lasting? Or how would it evolve, because you can’t stay in college forever.

Scott> Well, you know, Cappie’s whole philosophy is that he can stay in college forever, you know.  He wants to at least.  This is the best time of his life as he sees it, so I don’t know how long the show will go.  I hope it goes as long as the people keep wanting to see it.  We’ve got a really awesome cool fan audience, you know, so, I think it can go as long as people want it too.

Question> How are you and Cappie similar?

Scott> I admire the aspect of, you know, living for today.  I think that’s great that that’s what the character is all about.  So, you know, I definitely identify with the “life’s too short to worry about small stuff.”

Question> Do you personally think that Casey and Cappie should be together, or are they possibly not right for each other after all?

Scott> I think they’re absolutely right together.  I think, you know, it’s true love.  I mean, they both know it, and it’s sort of about figuring out their own lives first to get to that place where they can be together.  But you know, like I said before, it’s just a matter of when I think for those guys, when it’s going to happen not if it’s going to happen.

Question> What’s it been like for you adjusting to the success of the show and the popularity of Cappie in particular?

Scott> I mean, it’s awesome.  It’s not only to be on a show that is getting great reviews and constantly getting great numbers, that’s all an actor can ask for in a show, you know, to have the show be successful.  So that’s always, you know, good to hear. 

The character itself, I don’t know.  I never really planned on it being like, you know, a big thing.  It’s an ensemble cast.  I think everyone has, each character has a lot of different fans and I don’t know if I can say that one is more popular than the other.  I hear all the time about how people love, you know, the Rebecca character and they wish that Cappie and Rebecca would be together.  And people love the Dale character, you know?  So, I don’t know.  I think it’s an ensemble cast.

Question> You have a lot of great dialogue. Do you contribute to that or is it just reading what’s on the page?

Scott> For the most part we stick to the scripts.  I mean, if we ever have any fun with the scenes, sometimes they keep it.  Sometimes they don’t, but that’s, you know, I can understand with editing and trying to keep the show and the time life that they want to keep it at, but, I mean, yes, sometimes we get to have fun with the lines and it’s all very natural.

Question> When Cappie’s college days are over, where do you see him ending up?

Scott> I don’t know.  I can definitely see Cappie owning; I don’t know, owning something on the beach, having some sort of little business on the beach, maybe selling, you know, tacos and beer at a resort in Cozumel and just living out his days on the beach.  I can totally see that.

Question>  That doesn’t sound too bad.

Scott> Yeah.  Not bad at all.

Question> If you didn’t play him, what other character on the show would you like to play?

Scott> What other character?  I can’t really see myself playing any other character on the show.  I don’t know; when I tested for the show, I tested for the role of Calvin, so in the beginning I sort of saw myself as that character, but as I started playing Cappie more and more, I just realized that was the role for me.  So, I don’t really see myself playing another role.

Question> Can you talk about “Ashley’s Ashes”?

Scott> “Ashley’s Ashes” was a film that a friend of mine starred in and asked me to do, and I, you know, I played a role that had a couple of scenes in the film.  I don’t really know much about it except that it’s a great script. I know they’re in post-production now, but I don’t know anything about when it’s going to come out or anything like that.

Question> Can you give us a quick synopsis?

Scott> It’s about a guy who inherits an urn anonymously from someone with someone’s ashes inside and he doesn’t know who because it’s anonymous.  And then the whole movie is him in the city of Los Angeles trying to find out who left him this urn.

Question> You mentioned that you think Cappie and Casey are meant to be together but in the flashback episode, it didn’t really work out when they were together.  So, I just wanted to know what your take was on that episode?

Scott> Well, you know, that episode was supposed to be freshman year and I think, you know, a lot of people change and they grow up and I feel like Cappie realized that he had been messed up, you know, he made a mistake.  And though I feel like that we didn’t see a whole year pass by, so, I feel like in that time, he made the realization – and this is just me, this isn’t anything that’s happened in the writer’s room or anything like; this is just what I’ve sort of made for the character – but I feel like maybe in that year  in between, he’s realized that he’s made a mistake and he’s trying to get her back, realizing that he messed up with the person that he should be with.

Question> How is his relationship with Rebecca going to evolve?

Scott> I guess we can talk about them breaking up since that was already on TV, right?  So, they break up and decide to have some time away from each other and I don’t know where it’s going to go from here because, you know, I only know, again, what they write.  So, at this point I really don’t know what’s going to happen between them.  Yeah, they’re just not together anymore.

Question> Did you already film the finale, or not yet? Do you know what that’s going to be?

Scott> Yeah, we did.  All I can really say is that there is a really nice cliffhanger that I didn’t even see coming as an actor.  So, yeah, it’s going to be great to see.  I hope that the audience likes it.

Question> Are we going to see more from Cappie and Evan’s friendship?

Scott> I don’t really know what’s coming up in the future.  I know that when we shot the flashback episode, we got to work together as friends instead of enemies and we really liked that because it was different for us, you know.  I definitely hope that something comes up in the future where they get to be friends again.  But like I said, I don’t really know.

Question> One of the best revelations about Cappie this season was his deep insane knowledge of Olympics trivia.Have you had any favorite Cappie revelations and things that have popped up in the script where you were like, “Hey, that’s pretty good!”

Scott> Yeah, there’s tons of stuff.   I mean, like every time you turn around, he knows something about something else, like in the episode with the whole Joshua Whopper program.  You find out that, you know, a lot of people think, and especially Rusty, that Cappie is, you know, smarter than he leads on, you know.  And so, there are definitely a lot of things in this series that come up for this character.  He’s not just a drunken party frat boy.  He, you know, because he has had a lot of majors and knows a lot of things, and he’s not a moron.  So, when they actually pull up all these things about how he’s, you know, an Olympic trivia person, or the fact that he can go and take a phallus class and ace it, you know, when that stuff happens it’s pretty cool.

Question> Are we going to see some  sort of this power struggle kind of for leadership of ZBZ next year?

Scott> You know, I’m not sure.  I don’t know what they have planned for that. The only thing I can say is what we’re starting to see and in the most recent episode we’ve seen, Cappie starts to become jealous of Max, not only for his relationship with Rusty, but his relationship with Casey, too. So, you’re going to see that dichotomy, but I don’t know anything about the fraternity itself.  I think Cappie is the president and he will be as long as he’s staying at the college.

Question> What would you like to see happen with Cappie next season?

Scott> What would I like to have happen?  You know, I don’t know.  I think for me personally as an actor I would want to have some sort of like race with the Bronco that he has, but that’s just me.  So, I don’t know what needs to happen with Cappie, but I just want to drive the Bronco that he has.  It’s awesome.