- Markham Anderson: In playing the character of Blade, uh, I draw on some past experiences, my dad uh, was a Houston police officer, for 35 years. So I grew up with this tougher, tough attitude that my dad gave me my my grandfather was a prison warden, so uh, I grew up in that kind of heavy atmosphere, ya know of law and order, and uh, I was a United States Marine and also a Navy Seal instructor so i have a lot of kind of brawling kind of side to me and I really get into this character of Blade cause he's a hard- nosed cop, he's uh in a unit called 'Hardcore' which is like the elite of the elite as far as law enforcement goes.