There is An exclusive interview with JJ at Film.com, written by Lisa Keddie. Read the interview on the website.

From Jane Austin to Japanese manga, JJ Feild has been busy. He chats exclusively to us about his new character, Luke, in the vampire flick, and about his own real-life demons.
More commonly known for playing fun-loving Henry Tilney in TV's Northanger Abbey, and soon to be seen in Neil Marshall's Centurion, the Colorado-born, but Brit-bred actor chats to us about his character, Luke, in the new Japanese manga vampire offering from the producer of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero.

Not having seen the film yet, what’s the story about?

JJF: It's from the award-winning manga book Blood: The Last Vampire and it is set against the 60s/70s war in Vietnam and stuff, and the hunt for the last vampires… Tracking down the last vampires to knock em' off. It’s a great big fun romp - and super fast and full of action!

Are you a fan of Japanese manga?

JJF: It’s my first time, but I kind of got into the Japanese animated stuff that hit the British scene fifteen years ago. Now there is a link between film-making between the East and the West, and we are actually making live films of it.

Is there anything in the same vein that you have seen recently, or heard about future projects that you’re quite keen to see?

JJF: I don’t know, it s made by 3 Dot Productions who did like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and every couple of years one of those turns up. This is our go, and we will see what happens.

Do you believe in demons and supernatural stuff?

JJF: Isn’t that what parking attendants are?! City of Westminster parking attendants are the modern-day bloodsuckers and demons!

How did you react when Chris Nahon first contacted you, and said you had the part of Luke?
JJF: It was crazy! It happened all so suddenly. Actually, originally, it came from Bill Kong. I was attached [to the projects] before Chris was attached… Bill Kong and Chris Chow called up when I was in LA and said we thought about you when we were writing the part. I thought what on earth have they seen in me that made them think I am some crazy vampire slayer?!

Hmmm, especially after Northanger Abbey…

JJF: Exactly! They thought 'Jane Austin to vampire slayer'!

Do you think it was your sword-fighting skills, perhaps?
JJF: Obviously!
Was there any sword fighting in this?

JJF: No. I have gun, a special gun. The sword fighting was left to the girls. In Asia they love girls in school uniforms and swords [sic]. Frighteningly fantastic swordsmanship from the girls!

What’s [your character] Luke's story?

JJF: He is part of a secret organisation that is trying to hunt down the last of the vampires and is using a vampire to track other vampires - who is the main girl. So, she is out trying to track down the last of the vampires. If she succeeds, then she will be the last ever vampire left. She’s our tracker.

So, you’re all working on the same side…

JJF: That’s what you think! That’s the whole point; are vampires good or bad?

How energetic was the role? Did you face any physical or mental challenges?

JJF: I was constantly being beaten up by girls! It was a huge challenge!

Mentally or physically?!

JJF: Physically!! They all went and trained for nine months to be master samurai sword fighters. I just turned up and got given lots of guns, but they [the girls] were really hardcore - and way fitter and way harder than I was!

So, how do you find a film with strong leading women in it?

JJF: Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! It's so much more fun to have a strong leading woman, than a strong leading man.

Especially one that kicks a**e!

JJF: Absolutely! More fun and it’s changing a bit more now. We get more hardcore women. I have just finished a film called Centurion, and that's the same - we have a strong leading woman.

Can you tell us what it was like working with Chris Nahon?

JJF: I didn’t know him before and we were all in an alien environment, filming in South America and China, so we were all taken out of our comfort zone and doing something totally new... So, we all just pulled together and that was great.

Are you surprised at how the film has turned out, the visual effects?

JJF: It looks amazing. It is going to be a real hit with people who know the comic and the original. It is very stylised in that way.

If you weren’t acting, what would you be doing instead?

JJF: Absolutely nothing. I would be a disaster!

What would be your ideal day off?
JJF: On the golf course - terrible answer, but it's true!

How’s your handicap?
JJF: It's a not very confident 10 [laughs].

What are you working on next? Any plans for more TV or theatre?

JJF: At the moment it is all about Blood and Telstar, which is my other movie that is coming out next week [now out in cinemas since this interview] and which has been a huge labour of love for a lot of us. We are going to do our very best and make Britain watch Telstar.

… and, of course, Blood: The Last Vampire, JJ! The vampire manga epic is out 26th June in UK cinemas.