Spider-Man’s Jacob Batalon on Fame, Keeping Marvel Secrets and Playing a Leading Man in Comedy Series ‘Reginald the Vampire’

variety.com:

K.J. Yossman Jacob Batalon is best known as Spidey’s BFF Ned Leeds in the box office-smashing “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” but he’s exploring his undead side in upcoming Syfy comedy drama “Reginald the Vampire.” In the series, based on Johnny B.

Truant’s “Fat Vampire” novels, Batalon plays a recently turned vampire, Reginald, who finds he still has mostly the same problems as his living counterparts: an evil boss, unrequited love and a vampire chieftain out to get him.

Fortunately, it turns out Reginald isn’t entirely without powers of his own.Batalon warns that “Reginald the Vampire” — produced by Thunderbird Entertainment-owned Great Pacific Media and distributed internationally by Cineflix Rights — is not your typical broody vampire drama. “I think our show does a really good job of putting those tropes on its head,” he says. “We absolutely poke fun at the fact that vampire films are drab and sort of dark and brooding and mysterious.

We don’t take ourselves that seriously.” Shooting wrapped in Canada just a few weeks ago and before Batalon even had time to unpack his suitcase, he sat down with Variety to discuss the show.How did you get involved in “Reginald the Vampire”?It was sort of out of the blue. [Showrunner] Harley Peyton and [director] Jeremiah Chechik, and [exec producer] Todd Berger, and Lindsey [Macadam, senior VP for content and business development at Great Pacific Media], they all came to me with this thing.