Episode 148: Jonathan Lloyd Walker

You don’t come across actor-showrunners too often – especially when the projects they’re acting in are not ones they’re showrunning. But Jonathan Lloyd Walker is doing just that. Jonathan’s acting credits include RED, where he played the special agent in charge of protecting the Vice-President from assassins – as well as The Thing, Smallville, The X-Files, The West Wing, Stargate, Degrassi: The Next Generation, The Outer Limits, The Killing, and most recently TNT’S Snowpiercer, where he played a Tailie named Big John. But over the last decade especially, Jon has also been flexing his producer muscle on some of our industry’s most critically acclaimed series: Continuum, Private Eyes, The Murders, Wu Assassins, and finally, Van Helsing, which filmed parts of its fifth and final season in Slovakia immediately before the pandemic shut everything down. In this fascinating episode of the YVR Screen Scene Podcast, Jonathan talks acting and showrunning, and previews Van Helsing’s highly anticipated final season. Episode sponsor: UBCP/ACTRA