I am able to share this with you as an excerpt from MarieClaire.com. I don’t have a complete video, but I do have a quick one along with a few photos and part of her comments. Do visit the MarieClaire.com website to see everything! Photos courtesy of MarieClaire.com
MarieClaire.com features an exclusive new interview and photo shoot with Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany. Now that the cult-favorite series has come to a close, the show’s Emmy-winning star is shedding her myriad characters, leaving just one: herself.
In the interview, conducted a few days before tonight’s episode aired, the 31-year-old Canadian beauty opens up to MarieClaire.com about the finale, the ways in which science-fiction is a lot like our current reality, and what’s next for her.
You can read highlights from the interview below (spoiler alert), or the full piece at http://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/a28676/tatiana-maslany-orphan-black-series-finale-interview/.
On filming the last episode:
“Filming the backyard scene with all the clones was insane. We shot that over two days and it took a lot of rehearsal beforehand just to get the simple thing of handing off a glass of wine or a bottle of beer or whatever. It was so fun because it didn’t have any real pyrotechnics in it; it was just them relating to each other and all their insecurities and the things that they can’t totally accept in themselves, these parts of themselves that kind of unite them.
“They brought in a new clone in the finale, a Colombian, Camila Torres. It was so intense because they were writing the last episode as we were shooting the ninth, so it was so fast. And they were like, ‘Oh, p.s., I think she’s Colombian, and she speaks only in Colombian dialect. I was like, ‘Uh-huh.’ They were like, ‘That’s on Thursday.’ It was Tuesday; I was like, ‘Cool.’ They’re like, ‘also, learn this piece of music for Alison to play in that last moment.’ I was like, ‘great.’
“The last thing we filmed was Coady dying with Helena stabbing her through the throat. I think the very last shot was actually an insert shot of me grabbing the weapon, so it’s just my hand. But the cool thing about shooting that scene last was that Kevin [Hanchard, who plays Art] was there. Kevin was there on day one. He shot the very first scene on the series, so it was nice to come full circle.”
On the show’s title:
“We finally learn the explanation for the title in the finale—it’s the name of Helena’s journal. It was just kind of weirdly arbitrary in her head. It felt super weird to say that line [that reveals it], because I was just like, ‘How do I take the curse off of saying this out loud?’ I still don’t know why she named it that! I have no idea. Somewhere in her brain it makes sense.”
On P.T. Westmoreland:
“Given the political climate right now, it’s really interesting to have the person at the top be this desperately insecure, powerful, yet completely inept being – this guy, this patriarch who is completely self-motivated and doesn’t have any interest in whose lives he’s destroying. It’s all about him and all about sustaining life, this legacy of his life that he wants to create. It’s such an empty thing. One of my favorite moments of the finale is when he’s telling Sarah who she is and how he’ll always be in her and she just bashes his head in and that’s it. And it’s just like, ‘Shut up. Just stop fucking talking. I don’t want to hear that anymore.’”
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On feminism:
“Playing so many strong and smart women who take down a mediocre man – it was the best. It was getting to put all the rage and fear and disappointment and need for action into our work. We were telling that story from day one about autonomy, and about community as opposed to individual, and about our differences actually uniting us and making us stronger. So to get to actually talk about this mediocre man at the top, take off his head, it was really cathartic. I remember the Women’s March was happening when we had press so I couldn’t go, which was totally devastating. But we were reading this script that was saying the things we all wanted to say and we were having these discussions on set constantly. And it was all feeding back into the work. I’m so grateful I was on a show where I got to do that, because I don’t know how I’d get through it otherwise.”
On what’s next:
“Stronger [about the Boston Marathon bombing] will be out in September. It’s an amazing story of survival and love. I don’t know how people go through something like that and come out the other side of it, but they did. It’s with Jake Gyllenhaal, who’s unbelievable, and David Gordon Green directed it. It was really wild to do.
“I’m also doing a movie that my boyfriend is directing. He just got funding for this very small-budget indie movie and we’re in the throes of figuring that out right now.
“But I haven’t done too much in the last few months other than creating stuff for myself and with a few friends. Really taking time to grieve the show and let it go and not rush into the next thing. I visited my little brother and my middle brother we just went on hikes and had coffee. Then I visited my boyfriend in the U.K. and we went away for a bit. And also I just slept. I rediscovered sleep.”
I love Orphan Black so I am very sorry to see this end. While I know it’s a real challenge to play all these characters, it reflects the talent and range that Maslany has!
There is much more to this piece than I have shown. Please head over to MarieClaire.com to see the entire piece!
Stevie Wilson,
LA-Story.com
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