Here is a really nice article for you to get to know Benjamin Stone (Alek from “The Nine Lives of Chloe King”) much better.

Benjamin Stone plays Alek Petrov in ABC Family’s new series “The Nine Lives of Chloe King“. In this Q & A conference call with the star, he talks about how he got the role, the stunts he performs for the show and what he’s enjoying most about working on the show.

Since Alek is a descendant of the Mai also, what makes Chloe different from him in regards to their abilities?

B. Stone Chloe is the ”Uniter,” so she not only has the basic power of every Mai, the claws, super hearing, agility, and night vision, but she also is an empath, which means she experiences directly what a person is feeling on an emotional level. And also she has nine lives, which is pretty awesome, whereas I have one life, like a schmuck.

From Alek’s perspective, can you kind of describe the relationship he has with Chloe?

B. Stone Yes. His relationship first started as being kind of a mentor. He is also excited that he has found and reunites with his people, but also the fact that he has found another female Mai. Through protecting her and mentoring her he has come to really find something different in her compared to other people because she won’t accept fully being a Mai and because she’s the Uniter as well she is constantly going back to her human friends and everything, which he finds kind of strange. Because of that, it kind of gives him more respect for her, and he ends up caring about her more, and eventually falling in love with her.

Anyway, what’s it like to work with your co-star? It seems like she’s a lot of fun to be with.

B. Stone Yes. Skyler only just turned seventeen, so she’s still really young, but she is way beyond her years in terms of experience. She’s really, really good and she’s always positive, even if she is on set for sixteen hours a day. She obviously works most out of all of us because she is the main character and she is pretty much in every scene. She is great fun and she’s got great parents. We always have a lot of fun and she is very serious when she is on set in terms of getting everything done and working really hard. She has a photographic memory as well. She remembers her lines. She always has a really long section and within a second she knows them. Yes, she’s great. She’s really good fun.

It seems like there are more romantic vibes now between Alek and Chloe? Any comments on that?
B. Stone (…) But definitely in terms of Chloe, from the get-go he’s slowly developing feelings for her and then exponentially developing feelings for her within every episode.

Is Chloe going to start noticing Alek more or is there is anything in that way in their future?

B. Stone I can say that it definitely gets more complicated for her and it’s not quite as simple as “Oh, Brian’s really sweet and Alek’s a jerk.” It definitely gets more complicated and she starts to see different sides of Alek. She also changes as a person because she is embracing being Mai and also growing up. She has never even really dealt with boys before, so she has a lot of decisions to make and they’re not quite as easy as you think.

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