IAR: In the research that you did for the role, did you find that dilemma to be common for many soldiers? Not necessarily the AWOL aspect, but the idea of choosing between home and family, and their own unit?

Gabel: Yeah! It was tough because I think a lot of the guys in the National Guard when they were called up were able to make the choice, and a lot of the guys weren’t able to make the choice whether or not they were going to go. So it’s really difficult because you’re so close to...

AX: There are a lot of different sides to Danny’s character. When we meet him, he’s doing a wheeler-dealer thing …

Gabel: Yeah, the big thing was that Sefton was incredibly resourceful and knew how to be strategic with people. I think he would see himself as someone who didn’t manipulate people, but he allowed himself to be strategic with people. What’s fun about that scene where you see him acquire Gore-Tex for the unit, perhaps in a way that’s not completely honest, was my goo...

Shockya: Was there anything that surprised you about doing this movie? Did you learn something about the military that you didn’t know before?

Shetty: As I say, I’ve been learning a lot more about that…area. I just the camaraderie is a huge through-line throughout the movie. It’s something that—as I say, I’ve worked with the USO and I’ve gone to the Walter Reeves Hospital in DC and to meet wounded warriors who have c...

These days Gabel is one busy guy who will play Vertigo on The CW's Arrow Oliver's "deadliest adversary to date," mined from the original Green Arrow comic. And if that's not enough Gabel for you, he also plays the conflicted hero of the military thriller Allegiance

"I was totally invested in Allegiance. I love when a movie creates an inherently dramatic situation and just lets it go. Sometimes plots try too hard. Allegiance just goes where the story takes it. If these sorts of movies can get seen in streaming/download platforms, that’s a great thing for the art of storytelling. "

CHRISTINA (COLLIDER): What was the boot camp experience like for you?

GABEL: I’ve always had the fantasy of doing a boot camp for a military film, at some point. I’ve always wanted to know what the experience is like, to feel that mounting pressure of going off to war and needing to be so present and physically aware of your body because you ultimately need to fight for your life and for your country. I really wanted to know what that was l...

MovieWeb: Was there anything in particular that surprised you about what they have to go through on a daily basis?

Seth Gabel: You have a general sense of things when you watch other war films, the discipline, the structure, and the code of conduct. What was really amazing to experience first-hand, is being in a system where everyone understands the discipline and the conduct, and also how you work around that. You bond with people, and you choose to break rules, from time to time. Or perha...

Rama's Screen: With military themed films like this, the actors usually go through combat or weapons training to prepare them for their roles but this is more of a military drama/thriller type much in the veins of A Few Good Men, so what kind of preparations did you do for your role?

Seth Gabel: We had a boot camp and a lot of rehearsals and what was great about that is we were able to really bond with the cast, we were able to really know authentically act and behave like a soldier and und...

Charlie Jane Anders chatted up Seth Gabel for io9 about the wide range of characters he's playing these days and picked up some sci-fi insider info: Fringe’s Seth Gabel explains what Lincoln Lee is probably doing right now

In a two part interview with Laura Prudom, Seth Gabel talks playing Arrow's new supervillian (Part 1), Allegiance and the end of Fringe (Part 2):


Prudom (HuffPost TV): I loved that there was no attempt to demonize any of the characters. Everyone is morally justified in the decisions they make, and it's very much about the shades of gray, rather than everything being simplistic black and white, right and wrong.

Gabel: Yeah, it’s up to our audience members to decide morally what you think is ri...