Demore Barnes

Demore: (on moving to the States for better acting opportunities) It was hard getting started because I was greatly established in Canada and that was a little bit of a shock and coming here and everyone's like, 'Who's Demore?'. And they're like, 'No, well, we're not sure because we have our choices, blah, blah, blah, but we'll see about that.' I think some of those people now know who I am.

Demore: (on his career when finishing work on The Unit) I've run a good distance in television and I'm certainly going to be looking to parlay and springboard from The Unit to the big screen. I hope I have a career that is raw, and impacting and all-encompassing in the many areas and facets of the industry. I want to do it all, I want to be one of the forces to be reckoned with, one of these days.

Demore: (on his most memorable moment from filming The Unit) The first thing that comes to mind is actually a memory from last season. It's memorable, but it's not necessarily pleasant. It was at the beginning of last season and I was filming an action scene with Max Martini and Dennis Haysbert. There was a lot of gunfire and Dennis and I had retreated to an arched doorway and he was probably about six feet behind me, two or three feet higher than myself. We were firing away and I actually found myself blacking out and I didn't know what was going on. I realized that a shell casing had ricocheted off of the arched doorway from Dennis's gun and hit me in the back of the head. It sent me reeling back into Dennis, I was just in the scene and in the moment of trying to retreat from the gunfire. Needless to say I was fine and it ended up not being a big deal. I got patched up and actually had to do two more takes of the same thing.

Demore: (on training for his role in The Unit) It's more a matter of maintenance because the show is so rigorous and intense that I think we often find ourselves trying to stay healthy and injury free. The military training that we received is actually by way of Eric Haney who is one of the founding members of Delta Force. The extent of our training was, and continues to be, trying to ensure we come off as authentic as possible by way of our strategy and our perspective as a team and how we approach situations and just holding certain weapons. That's fantastic and really fun, we all love working with Eric.

Demore: (message to fan saddened by the death of his character, Hector, in The Unit) I'd say to those who are very torn and saddened by the loss of Hector, and I guess in some ways the loss of Demore, or my portrayal of Hector, to not worry. Keep your ear to the ground, because I'm just getting started.

Demore: (on his last day on the set of The Unit) The last day was, it was surreal. It was the kind of thing that didn't seem real, I think for the entire day. I don't think it felt real to anyone. A couple of people in the cast and crew expressed that throughout the day. It's the sort of thing that ever could seem real, because it's not normal. It's kind of one of the more abnormal or unusual aspects of what we do.

Demore: (on his favorite episode of The Unit) Yeah, I think my favorite episode was probably my last episode. It was a wonderful experience to engage and explore in the payoff of the relationships that have been built thus far and the characters that have been built thus far. Obviously, we as actors knew that something very significant and extreme was coming to a head. It was great to have that last episode with all of the boys, just in the dire circumstances that we all found ourselves in Lebanon. It was very touching. It was very poetic, very honoring and respectful of the reality of war, and those who have lost loved ones in war.

Demore: (on his first reaction when he found out his character was being killed on The Unit) My first response was one of confusion. I think that's understandable since I don't think any of us saw it coming.