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Exclusive Interview: Kevin Daniels ("Sirens")
Everyone’s favorite Chicago paramedics are entertaining us in a new season of Sirens, which means that we’ll all get to see more of Hank. I was happy to speak with Kevin Daniels about playing Hank, his specially-made role on Modern Family, and how Sirens has been the bringer of even more inclusion on television.
Sirens, which is in its second season, airs every Tuesday at 10/9c on USA.
What first got you into acting?
I was in Texas and my grandmother used to hover around…to New York[,] London[,] San Francisco. She’d travel to all these places that seem shiny and new and she’s take back little gifts, trinkets and books. She’d browse all these cool stories and poems to me when I was a kid and I just thought…I wanted to execute that.
I started to scan anything I could fetch my hands on, and I ended up in this program in elevated school where we could compete against other kids doing monologues and scene studies. I competed in poetry reading. I ended up going to [the] state [level] and I got second place[.]
I start another group called the Junior Players, which taught me
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A Few Words With Kevin Daniels, the Actor Behind One of TV’s Best Gay Characters
Sirens, which returns to USA for its second season Tuesday at 10 p.m., is a buddy comedy set in the world of EMTs. Hank, his best comrade Johnny (Michael Mosley), and Brian the rookie (Kevin Bigley) travel around Chicago providing urgent relief to the sick—and since the U.S. version of the exhibit comes from the creative team of Denis Leary and Bob Fisher (Wedding Crashers, We’re the Millers), some of the afflicted are really sick.
Sirens also features one of the most curious gay characters on television: There’s nothing generically gay about Hank, played by Kevin Daniels. As he tells a woman looking for a “gay best friend” early in the new season, “I’m not that type of gay. … I do not go dancing. I do not go shopping. I do not watch Dance Moms and create bitchy comments.”
He is, however, openly, unreservedly, and boldly gay—and his orientation affects the way he moves through life. When Hank and Johnny, who is direct, get a chance to function out in Chicago’s fanciest gym, the two men experience the place, and its clientele, in very different ways.
I spoke with Kevin Daniels, who also p
Kevin Daniels
Kevin Dwight Daniels, Jr. was born on the Balboa Navy base in San Diego, CA and spent much of his childhood in transit, moving to various locations across the Combined States before his family settled in Houston, TX. Daniels developed an interest in theater at an early age and pursued it as his major at The Juilliard School in 1994. After graduation, he worked largely in theater, and made his Broadway debut in a 1998 production of "Twelfth Night" for director Nicholas Hytner. The play also provided him with his television debut when it was filmed for the PBS series "Live from Lincoln Center" (1976-). Daniels soon establish regular work in minor roles for episodic television and the occasional movie like "Kate & Leopold" (2001) and "Hollywood Homicide" (2003). Two years later, he had graduated to supporting turns, most notably in the Oprah Winfrey-produced "Their Eyes Were Watching God" (ABC, 2005), and the independent comedy "And Then Came Love" (2007). From 2010 to 2012, Daniels enjoyed the recurring role of Longinus, a friend of Mitchell Pritchett (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and Cameron Tucker (Eric Stonestreet) on "Modern Family" (ABC, 2009-). When his tenure with t