Lena: How does it feel being referred to as The B-Team by Lanie (Tamala Jones)? I think Ryan and Esposito are underrated.Seamus Dever: It’s one of those things that from the very beginning Jon and I got together and we made this silent agreement where we realized that the best way to get people to endear Ryan and Esposito is to stick together and really make something of that partnership. That was something that Jon and I were into. We take cues from the writers, as far as the situations that they had us in, but it was really that there is Castle and Beckett (Stana Katic), they are all supposed to be partners in reality but it’s more like Castle and Beckett – The A-Team – and Ryan and Esposito – The B-Team. Jon and I set out to make this identity that we weren’t just the two other cops on a show because a lot of times it felt like that in the beginning. We wanted it to be that we were smart, we get along really well, we bicker like a married couple, and that kind of thing. We wanted to make them an identity and I think through time, enough scenes together, and enough fleshing out the characters it became that we had an identity. I think people really started liking that. Does it bother me that they are referred to as The B-Team? No, not really. That’s something that I’ve been aware of for years. It’s one of those things but fortunately now they let Ryan and Esposito do some interrogating. They let us go out on the field. It’s becoming like half-and-half lately, which is cool because I like doing things. I don’t like just being the guy that comes in with a piece of information at the precinct. It’s nice to go out and interrogate people, question people, and go out into the field. I’m happy about that. I finally got to go to the morgue.Lena: What would you say are their biggest selling points – something that Castle and Beckett don’t have?Seamus Dever: Now that the two of them are together, there is more of a buddy cop thing. If you want the buddy cop vibe, you go with Ryan and Esposito. When you want to test Esposito out and have a hot chick walk by, and see how he responds, you go with Ryan and Esposito because Ryan is going to make fun of him. You can’t do that with Beckett and Castle anymore because that land is taken [laughing]. Our selling points are that we are smart and funny. We are two very different people, so I think it’s not like we have the same brain. You know a lot of that, with the chemistry of Castle and Beckett, is that they are thinking the exact same thing and complete each other’s sentences. They say the exact same things at the same time and so on. With Esposito and Ryan, we are both very different so there is a lot more contrast. We contract and compliment, there is not the same kind of crossover. I don’t know if that makes any sense but I’m going with it. [Laughing.]Lena: It must be great working with your wife.Seamus Dever: She’s a lot of fun. She’s a really good actor. I’m blessed that they gave her the opportunity to be Jenny.Lena: Are we going to be seeing more of her?Seamus Dever: I hope so. It’s one of those things that she finds out about a month before she comes on. I’m told that Jenny will be coming back.Lena: In the spirit of Castle questions, who is on your Last Supper List?Seamus Dever: It would have to be people that are good conversationalists. Mark Twain would be good. Was he on Castle’s? I have no idea. It would be someone like Richard Burton. He would be cool. T.S. Eliot, he might be really quiet. He would probably be a really crappy guest – he would probably do a lot of observing. Neil Armstrong would be neat. He would probably have some good space stories. I can’t think of anybody else right now.Lena: How about your three favorite con movies?Seamus Dever: The Usual Suspects counts as a con movie. Quick Change with Bill Murray, that’s one of my favorite movies. I don’t want to say The Sting. It was good but everybody says The Sting. Let It Ride was awesome.
