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Sharon: We have two young men with us this evening and they’re coming from Toronto where “Beautiful People” is taped. We have Jackson Rathbone, and you play Nickolas.

Jackson: Hello. Yes I do.

Sharon: And we have Ricky, is your last name pronounced Maybe?

Ricky: It is Maybe.

Sharon: You play Gideon. We just showed the clip where you two young men are fighting over Sophie in the nightclub. Maybe you could just explain to our viewers a little bit about your characters and what you think might be the possibilities of where this is going to go with the two of you over Sophie. Who wants to be first?

Jackson: We’re rock, paper scissoring this right now to be honest. I think it’s me, this is Jackson. I think the show can best be summoned up as a show about a family, a mother and her two daughters moving to New York and their spirit is there and just kind of brings them together because they’re each faced with a different challenge. Sophie going to this new private school with a bunch of spoiled brats, to be honest and she makes good friends. She meets Gideon, Ricky Mabe and Kathleen Munroe who plays Anabelle and she becomes friends with them and at the same time she also starts to have affection for Nickolas Fiske, who I play, who’s a part of the Beautiful People crowd at the Brighton school. So I think the show really is just about forming relationships and the relationships of their family because this side clops with Daphne Zuniga who plays the mother, Lynn Kerr and Torrey DeVitto who plays Karen, who is Sophie’s sister. It’s just a wonderful side clops, but it always comes back to the Kerr family and it’s pretty much a beautiful show in that aspect, plus starting over after stuff happens.

Sharon: Ricky I’ve kind of gotten the impression that you’re in love with Sophie already.

Ricky: On and off the camera. No, I’m just kidding.

Sharon: I would think that would be very easy to do she’s a very pretty young lady.

Ricky: She’s a terrific actress to work with, she’s absolutely wonderful. My character from the first minute I meet her in the first episode falls head over heels in love with her and it’s love at first sight, one way of course. But who knows maybe she will come around in another season, if we keep going.

Sharon: I want to talk to you fellows a little about your personal life. Jackson I know you were born in Singapore?

Jackson: Yes I was born to a family of travelers. I was born in Singapore, moved to Maydan, then Indonesia, then Cicada, then London, Connecticut, California, Norway, Eastern Texas, Midland Texas, went to a few years of boarding school in Michigan and then I moved out to Los Angeles and now I’m in Toronto.

Sharon: Can you give us a little background of what you’ve done in your career?

Jackson: Well I started out in theater in sixth grade; I joined an acting troupe in Midland, Texas. I joined the Pickwit Players at the community theater there. I just did a lot of work with them and decided I really liked the theater and so I went to two years of boarding school at Airlock & Arts Academy where I studied theater. It was just an amazing experience; I felt like I grew so much. I was ready to go to college and continue studying theater but chances happened and on a flux I guess I moved out to L.A. and I just kind of stayed there and I got work with Disney 411 which is on the Disney Channel. I played an interviewer who interviewed Raven, Hillary Duff, and other Disney celebrities. I’ve also done small films and two small independent features and then another feature coming up in November called the “Black Dogs” is my next project. So you know just kind of starting out, this is the first widely national thing I’ve done I think.

Sharon: You know what I see in your future someday is you playing a younger Hugh Grant in a movie. Has anybody ever told you look like him?

Jackson: Quite a bit actually. Yea that would be great, where do I sign for that.

Sharon: What about you Ricky can you tell us a little bit about yourself?

Ricky: Yea, I was born and raised all my life in Montreal, Canada, which is the French part of Canada, and then I moved to L.A. about two years ago. I got this role in “Beautiful People” when I was living in Los Angeles and it was kind of nice to go back to Canada, and work back close to home. I stared acting when I was I guess twelve years old. I did a movie with Burt Reynolds and Louise Fletcher down in California. Then I did about fifteen movies since then, all made for TV mostly. Played the sons to a lot of people like Michael Madsen, Bette Midler, Nathan Lane, a bunch of people and then I’ve done a Disney series and I did a series for England and all those Nickelodeon kid shows as well like “Goosebumps” and “Are You Afraid of the Dark” and all those kind of kids shows.