Devon Sawa: From 'Slackers' to Stunts on "Nikita"

My name is Devon Sawa and uh I'm on the show Nikita.

And he is amaze balls.

She said it. She said it. Wait, do I look manly?

You look good.

Is this better? Is that's okay? Perfect. Make it so. I like to look manly.

Now, obviously we have to talk about your career when you were a little bit younger. You were of course 90's heart throb. I mean, past and present.

Right, right.

But uh what was it like? Did you embrace being a heart throb back then or were you kind of like, "Uh."

I I don't think I wanted to do it as much. I mean, I was a teenager, so I like I wanted to be as far away from that as possible, but it was it I did it and it happened and I'm here where I am today because of it. I had a great childhood. You know, people want me to complain and say it was bad, but it was it was amazing.

I don't want you to complain.

Well, you know, people want to hear that typical, you know, young child actor story, but like I got to travel around the world and you know, I did school with Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Christina Ricci and and uh meet all sorts of cool people and so, you know. My favorite movie of all time is Slackers.

Right.

Cool Ethan Lazer. I love it. Doesn't get better than that. Yeah. Jason is like between him and and Seth Green um phenomenal to go to set. They're just phenomenally funny dudes like it's just a blast to go to set.

So we're gonna we're gonna go on to Twitter because um you're quite entertaining on Twitter.

Oh, I don't have a can an account.

Yes, you do.

Yes, I do. Stop it.

So your official quote on Twitter is Uh-oh.

Oh no. Uh-oh.

F Y I by following this person you've agreed to receive a load of tweets. Some will make absolute no sense and even make you shake your head and warning.

I thought I felt I had to warn people. I felt

I think that's good. Putting that out there.

On on a on a slow day, you know, 10 to 15 tweets.

Well, let's talk about some of these tweets. So one of them I saw, picture us your reality game show idea for crackhead Jenga.

I just thought a couple of crackheads playing the game of Jenga would be a quite an interesting game.

Yes. It probably would would end pretty soon, right? Pretty shortly. All right, every time you watch the Big Bang Theory, you think of egg salad sandwiches.

I don't know why. I It's true. It's true. I was in bed one night and I had a craving for an egg salad sandwich while watching the show and I thought, this is a curse before. This is I I constantly have the craving for egg salad sandwiches while watching the Big Bang Theory.

Very interesting. Now I'm going to forever have a craving for egg salad sandwiches. The words amaze balls and ridonkulous.

Horrible words. They're horrible

Amaze balls, I mean like gotta go. Uh the one of the tweets was um, is there a porn star named Prince Harry?

I didn't. And there's not. I didn't write that. Did I? By the way. Did I write that?

So, do you know your porn star name? It's a little genius.

My porn star name? Well, isn't it like your first street and

It's your first pet, which is

What was the name of your first pet? Right. Seamus.

Seamus. Seamus was your pet's name?

First pet? My parents were Yeah, it was a dog. My parents were 70s kids. Seamus. Was that a dog?

So Seamus and then the street you grew up on.

Ranley. Seamus Ranley. That's a good one.

I might beat you though. Mine's Nina Dynamite.

That's great. You grew up on dynamite?

I did.

Wow. That's a good name. That is a good name. That's almost worth a career. It's a good

Switch. Just written in the stars, you know. Congratulations on becoming a series regular on Nikita.

Yes. It's fantastic. Thank you. Thank you. I'm I'm very excited about that. Your character owns a big hit. You know,

Yeah. People people like him. I I like it. People especially like him when his shirt's off, I've noticed.

Right. Um, I actually uh asked the writer, I'm going to be back to do another episode and I asked the writer um so I could adjust my diet now whether the next episode would be shirtless or not. You'll find Owen taking his shirt off in like the library for no reason.

All right, now do you do your own stunts?

Yes.

You do. Absolutely. Have there been any dangerous situations?

Yeah, there's been some there's been some big ones. I mean, Maggie gets all the really crazy stunts. She's that girl is uh out of control with with the stunts. The very first episode I did, they dressed a stunt man and then I just ended up doing my own stunts for that episode and after that they no longer dressed a stunt man and I've been banged up, bruised, cut.

They knew you could handle it.

I'm handling it. I'm handling it. I try to handle it as well as Maggie.