Brothers & Sisters

Luke Grimes has joined the cast of Brothers & Sisters.

The actor, who appeared in the movie Assassination of a High School President, will come aboard the ABC drama as Ryan Lafferty, William Walker's illegitimate son. He recently spoke to Zap2It about the role:

Your first scene might be with Emily VanCamp. Did you have the chance to read with her during auditions?
Yeah, I read with Emily and with Dave Annable. The two auditions scenes were with them, so they actually read with us in the screen test, which was really nice of them. They were great.

We heard about that scene with Dave Annable, there's a bit of arguing going on between you two, no? Seems like a contentious relationship is brewing.
Yeah, I hear that my character is... you're kind of not going to know what's going on, because he's going to be a little different around everybody.

Brothers & Sisters has a passionate fan base. Have you gone online and seen any of the stuff that's already been written about you or the character?
My publicist sent me something, yeah. [Laughs] I guess I've hurt a lot of people's feelings because they weren't responding too nicely [to the news of my casting]. They all wanted certain people to get [the part]. I had no idea. I'd never watched the show before, just because I don't have cable, but yeah, I guess people are really expecting a lot out of this character and they all have their ideas. I just hope I can live up to them.