BBC America's Orphan Black, the new addition to the Supernatural Saturday programming block, is set to premiere on March 30.
Tatiana Maslany (Cas & Dylan, Picture Day) stars as Sarah, an outsider and orphan whose life changes dramatically after witnessing the suicide of a woman who looks just like her. Sarah assumes her identity, her boyfriend (Dylan Bruce) and her bank account. But instead of solving her problems, the street smart chameleon is thrust headlong into a kaleidoscopic mystery. She makes the dizzying discovery that she and the dead woman are clones and they are not the only ones.
This series also stars Jordan Gavaris (Degrassi), Dylan Bruce (As The World Turns) and Maria Doyle Kennedy (Downton Abbey). The drama was co-created by Graeme Manson (Flashpoint) and John Fawcett (Spartacus) with Manson also serving as writer and Fawcett as director.
Manson, Maslany, Gavaris and Bruce were all in attendance at today's TCA (Television Critics Association) tour to talk about the sci-fi thriller.
"Orphan Black was born ten years ago when my creative partner John Fawcettt said to me, 'wouldn’t it be cool if you were standing in a train station and you looked across the tracks and saw yourself and as your eyes met – your other self threw themself onto the tracks."
The two writers played with the idea over the next decade, for a time imagining it as a feature, but eventually felt that the story that they wanted to tell would need to play out over an extended period of time.
"It’s a series long question of who am I?" Manson says. "And not just our main character, but her team. There are unlimited clones, and its a story that’s a mystery and a conspiracy. We are huge fans of The X-Files where each time you get an answer and a door closes, one more opens. So we explore: who’s the original, and who am I? Who created us?"
Manson pitches this as a grounded, gritty science fiction series set in our time so that the audience is able to imagine that the circumstances are possible even now, today.
"Dead Ringers inspired us as well, we like creepy," he says. "The show is scary and the show is a lot of fun. The clones just inspored us because it suggests identity crisis, on identity crisis, on identity crisis and all those questions of nature versus nurture, and that’s what was inspiring to us."
It was Maslany's task to tap into all of those separate identities, something she calls, "a physical and emotional endurance game to go through the series."
Adding: "It’s a dream and it’s the greatest challenge I’ve ever faced as an actor. I never could have imagined that this could be something that I would get to sink my teeth into. All of the women (the various clones) are complex and challenging. They are not like the other women you see on screen, there's not one in the bunch who is stereotypical, and I really responded to that and exploring how someone's world view effects your physicality and the way you move. The idea is: Who am I? Ahat makes me me?"
"Half the time you don’t remember who you’re talking to," Gavaris says. "She goes into make-up and comes out as a completely different person an hour later, and you have to remember which one you're talking to."
"She has different walk for each one, it's great," Bruce adds.
Orphan Black premieres Saturday, March 30, 9:00pm ET/PT, as part of BBC America’s Supernatural Saturday.
Source : ign[dot]com
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