Thanks to Burink and 6Spike for the heads up.
ETonline: What was the casting process like for you two?
John Fawcett: We knew we had a show that really hinged on the abilities of our lead actor. She is essentially all the female leads, so we knew how important the casting of that role was -- we'd either knock it out of the park or we'd go down with the ship. So we put a lot of pressure on ourselves in casting and spent an awful lot of time seeing everyone. We saw Tatiana early-ish in the process, but we wanted to make sure we kinda saw everything. There were some very talented women who came in, but inevitably, there was always one thing missing: you wouldn't like her Cosima or you didn't buy her British accent. It was really like casting five roles at the same time. It's been unbelievable to see Tatiana received in the way she has been. She's elevated the show beyond where we thought it would be in season one.
Graeme Manson: One of the other things about Tatiana's winning of the role was the incredible sense of play she brought and her ability to shift gears between characters. To have her absolutely own that part and the technical aspects of it, she deserves every lick of recognition she’s getting now. It's great for her and it's obviously really great for the show.
ETonline: Looking back on season one, do you feel like it accomplished everything you set out for it to?
Fawcett: The thing I like about our partnership is we set the bar really high for ourselves. We want the best for the show, and it's always been us pushing to outdo one another and to outdo one episode with the next episode. We've always put that pressure on ourselves; we're kind of perfectionists. I'm really proud of season one. To some degree, I wasn't thinking about how it would be received, I wasn't thinking about how Tatiana would be received. It was about what makes us super excited and then making that as good as it can possibly be. The response to the show has been very overwhelming.
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John Fawcett: We knew we had a show that really hinged on the abilities of our lead actor. She is essentially all the female leads, so we knew how important the casting of that role was -- we'd either knock it out of the park or we'd go down with the ship. So we put a lot of pressure on ourselves in casting and spent an awful lot of time seeing everyone. We saw Tatiana early-ish in the process, but we wanted to make sure we kinda saw everything. There were some very talented women who came in, but inevitably, there was always one thing missing: you wouldn't like her Cosima or you didn't buy her British accent. It was really like casting five roles at the same time. It's been unbelievable to see Tatiana received in the way she has been. She's elevated the show beyond where we thought it would be in season one.
Graeme Manson: One of the other things about Tatiana's winning of the role was the incredible sense of play she brought and her ability to shift gears between characters. To have her absolutely own that part and the technical aspects of it, she deserves every lick of recognition she’s getting now. It's great for her and it's obviously really great for the show.
ETonline: Looking back on season one, do you feel like it accomplished everything you set out for it to?
Fawcett: The thing I like about our partnership is we set the bar really high for ourselves. We want the best for the show, and it's always been us pushing to outdo one another and to outdo one episode with the next episode. We've always put that pressure on ourselves; we're kind of perfectionists. I'm really proud of season one. To some degree, I wasn't thinking about how it would be received, I wasn't thinking about how Tatiana would be received. It was about what makes us super excited and then making that as good as it can possibly be. The response to the show has been very overwhelming.
Read full interview at ETOnline
Fun interview!
ReplyDeleteI have to agree... Alison is my favorite and I think Tatiana just nails that performance! Of course she is great as each of the clones, but it all comes together perfectly in Alison for me!
A also really like how they are slow playing a lot of the story and Mrs S! The pace of a 12 episode show does not need to move at light speed Let the story breath and live, let the performances shine. Too many series try to do too much in a season IMO.
So I know it isn't so connected in here but if I post it on older threads, no one will read it. So I finished right now watching the last episode and I really likes it, but the problem is I watched the last 4 episodes without subtitles so I didn't totally understand it. Thanks for everyone who can help me figure out the following issues:
ReplyDelete1. Olivier, Paul, Leekie, Delphine - they are all in the same side, they are all trying to defend the clones - but from who? why they need protection and who wants to fund it?
2. If they came to protect the clones. why they want to kill Sarah and not Helena?
3. Who's Tomas, and what is his interest to make Helena kill the other clones?
4. I really didn't get the point with Olivier's tail. Why did he have a tail and why was it important for the show?
5. Why did Rachel, at the end of the last episode, made someone to kidnap Kira? to what purpose? maybe to make Sarah sign the deal?
6. What did Cosima and Delphine found out at the end and how? what "they patented us" means?
I think this season was made amazingly, they handled a 10-episodes-season really good. I don't think it was too much for this season, everything on it was eventually necessary. I really really looking forward season 2.
ReplyDeleteI just plain love this show, I can't believe I have a full year of waiting before it comes back. And Allison is also my favorite (how shocking, I know)
ReplyDeleteAgree with you 100%! Allison wise and pacing wise!
ReplyDeleteI love all the clones so far, although I would agree that Allison is the most comical (and I vote more Felix - Allison dynamics for next season PLEASE!). Sarah is actually my favorite, because despite having her own problems and being unpredictable, I think she's the most grounded and doesn't have an obvious extremity in her personality, but I think Helena got an over all bad rap and not even Sarah did well by her. I can't wait to see more what Rachel is like and how she contrasts Helena!!
ReplyDeleteThought it was a fantastic start! It might be my favorite new series of the year!!! (It def helped me get over my Fringe loss!)
Bring on season 2!!!!!!
1. We really do not know if they want to "protect" the clones, as much as they might want to use them to their own advantage. This goes along with your number 6, because the pattand means they are "owned"...and we see from the way Sarah is removed from the Police Station, the kind of power and ability to over ride the legal system Leakie has, as cloning is suppose to be "illegal"...
ReplyDelete2. I think maybe it "was" that they wanted to kill Sarah, believing she is like Helena, but come realize she in not like Helena (not part of the absolutists-religious movement) and maybe can be won over...although being a mother might have been the real thing that changed their minds, as this might relate to an original or most original or most 'natural' clone.
3. According to either Leakie or Paul (can't remember which, but I think it's Leakie) Thomas is an abolitionists, an extreme religious group people who do not believe in science and view clones as an abomination and have raised Helena to seek and destroy all other clones.
4. I will explain in "Bonus"
5. We do not know who kidnapped Kira..it may be the abolitionists since little is known about them from season one. It would make sense to them as lead in for season 2 in order to explore 'that side' of things.
6. See number 1
Bomus: Religious and Science themes -
Religious:
Paul, Thomas, Helena, Rachel, and Sarah are Biblical names.
Duval, the man with the tail, was just Paul's boss, but Duval is VERY close to the word DEVIL -Devil is sometimes portrayed with having "a tail" (it's most likely a pun)
Science:
Cosima (female varient of Cosmo - Cosmo = evolution, nature, science), and Mrs S. -Pun or paragram for "missing link" (<---could be a genetic contributor of clones)
Other names to consider:
Allison may be play on "ally", Felex means "to be lucky", and Leekie (sounds like leaky) might mean he's fluid (water is major part of spawning "life), slippery, full of important information,
1. I'm not sure they are trying to defend clones as much as protect their investment. Plus some of them are 'in the know' and others in the group are more forced into working for the group.
ReplyDelete2. Again, protecting their investment.
3. Good question. So far he seems to be anti-technology/ pro-religion and was using Helena to do his desired dirty work. I think there is much more to him and what he is doing though.
4. The tail was silly! XD
I think he had it just because he could. It was his trophy of being a Neolutionist and of working with The Dyad Institute. Why a tail though and not super strength or something? XD
5. I'm not sure who kidnapped Kira or if she was actually kidnapped honestly. Mrs S may have her someplace. If Leekie was behind the attempt, I think he could have been trying to do a few things. .. keep this special child within his grasp, punish Sarah for not signing,and to make a statement that he can get at anyone.
6.Patents are exclusive rights granted by the government to an inventor for the created invention or process used to create the invention. No one else can make or use the invention or use process, or more importantly, make money from the invention. It protects the inventors intellectual property from others being able to use it without permission.
Oops. You wrote "BoRnus" and not Bonus below #6. :)
ReplyDeleteHa too big of a hurry! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteNo worries! XD
ReplyDeleteI make typos even when I am wide awake and typing slowly without distractions...all rare cases at best! XD
I'm wondering if Sarah and Helena are not the only pair of twins...
ReplyDeleteThe Dyad Institute created them..... A dyad is a pair..... Dyadic study is the study of a relationship between a pair...
It could relate to the base pairs in their DNA of course too.
The various gene tweaking could be done to each pair of twins, one a control element and the other the tweaked genome.
WOWOWOW!!! Thanks for this amazing answer!! I appreciate it so much!
ReplyDeleteI liked the bonus very much. I was aware of the bibical names, and I thought about this: Sarah in the bible was married to Abraham and couldn't be pregnant, so God impregnated her... Interesting :)
Ah! Never caught that!!! Seems like that could be the case!! It would be weird if Beth and Rachel were a pair.- But your idea makes perfect sense of season "2"!!!!
ReplyDeleteYes. Was listening NPR cover the patent law...it's something like you can only patent 'modified' genetic material and you can't claim a patent on something that is considered natural.
Thanks for the great answer! agree with you on 4, thought it was a silly idea, though I loved the part the Helena danced with it XD.
ReplyDeleteand specially thanks for the answer on 6! I didn't know that, I'm not so good with English as you probably already know... So what you're saying is that she meant "they have copyrights on us"? lol
Exactly.
ReplyDeleteI found Alison to be a bit flat in the first 2 episodes, she felt to me very 1 dimensional there.
ReplyDelete(granted, not a lot of screen time, but still) But that got better and better each episode after that!
Btw, did you guys see http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/orphan%20black ? =)
Thanks for the link XD
ReplyDeleteIt was silly, which is why I kind of like it, because it's something I would have never guessed to have seen! LOL! -I also loved when Helena was dancing with it in the club!!!XD
ReplyDeleteI have to say Sarah is the one I like the most. Cosima the second, The German, Allison, and Helena. I'm not really sure about Kira. But for secondary Characters it is. Felix, Paul, Art. then Dr. Leekie and Mrs. S
ReplyDeleteI strongly believe that Dr. Leakey is a reference to Louis Leakey, who made a serious of groundbreaking discoveries in Olduvai Gorge and heavily contributed to the study of evolutionary biology. I also think the tail references the idea of humans being separated from the animals in the creation story, as well as humans evolving from monkeys. There's a lot of play in this show between science and religion and the themes of good and evil, through biblical, mythological and contemporary scientific references.
ReplyDeleteAgreed! And thanks for the additional info on Leekey! But yes, survival of the fittest verses what is really natural and/or moral for humanity is def the deeper part of the show. :)
ReplyDeleteFirst time reading one of their interviews. They sound pretty grounded and the way they treat the show backs that feeling up.
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