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" I've worked on shows where the lead actor doesn't know their lines, doesn't care, and it affects everybody - the crew, the director, the other actors. It's definitely a responsibility. "
Tatiana Maslany
Know
Director
Care
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" I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet. "
Tatiana Maslany
Imagination
Me
Reading
" I was on the improv team in high school, and after I graduated, I joined an improv company that had been established 10 years prior to me getting there. They did longform improv, and I fell in love with it. It's acting, character creation, collaborative, artistic expression and comedy - and it's scary. It was a big rush. "
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Team
" That's my favorite kind of television, where it's not wrapped up in a pretty little bow. It's like life. You deal with one thing in your life, 500 others rear their head. "
Tatiana Maslany
Television
Up
You
" My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night. "
Tatiana Maslany
Way
Night
Friends
" I transitioned into theater and acting when I was about 9, community theater and musicals, being, like, chorus-kid-number-78 or whatever. But I just loved it. As a kid you just crave attention, and early on I just felt it was so cool and fun to play around and have people clap for me. But eventually I grew up and fell deeper into it. "
Tatiana Maslany
Loved
Cool
Fun
" Music is like a lifeblood - it changes the way I move; it changes the way I feel about myself. The way I walk into the room is different depending on the song I was just listening to. "
Tatiana Maslany
Walk
Listening
Music
" The way people love sci-fi is how I love cartoons. "
Tatiana Maslany
Love
I Love
Cartoons
" My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school. "
Tatiana Maslany
English
Before
Taught
" I was honestly a cartoon kid. I loved cartoons. That was more my dream than anything else. But now, it's the films of people like John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands. Those are the kinds of characters I want to play, and that's the kind of filmmaking I'm fascinated by. "
Tatiana Maslany
Play
People
Loved
" I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary. "
Tatiana Maslany
Knowledge
Wisdom
School
" You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from. "
Tatiana Maslany
Artist
Work
You
" I'd say I am more of a comfort person. I have Adidas sneakers that are my favorite thing on the planet. Adidas high tops with black jeans and a fur hat that I love wearing. I love vintage shopping. "
Tatiana Maslany
I Am
Love
Say
" I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was. "
Tatiana Maslany
Dancing
Started
Out
" I haven't really done a lot of comedy. It's something that terrifies me. "
Tatiana Maslany
Lot
Really
Comedy
" My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully. "
Tatiana Maslany
Mom
World
Film
" I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction. "
Tatiana Maslany
Stage
Reason
Actor
" How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are. "
Tatiana Maslany
Live
World
Go
" I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen. "
Tatiana Maslany
Love
Watching
People
" Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be like, 'Where did you say you were from again...?' And then I panic, and my accent dissolves, and I pretend like I wasn't doing it in the first place. "
Tatiana Maslany
You
Doing
Place
" Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting. "
Tatiana Maslany
Makeup
You
Hair
" I loved filming in Morocco; it was amazing. I'd never been anywhere like that. The culture was phenomenal. I was so blown away by the spirit of that country. "
Tatiana Maslany
Country
Amazing
Spirit
" It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff. "
Tatiana Maslany
Been
Dream
Movies
" Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying. "
Tatiana Maslany
Intimacy
Hard
Sex
" I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my brother and I do 'Jesus Christ Super Star' in the living room. My first step was community theater, and then I started to do films. "
Tatiana Maslany
Parents
Brother
Age
" I fell in love with 'Star Trek' after J. J. Abrams's movie. I'm so into that. "
Tatiana Maslany
Star Trek
Love
Star
" We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches. "
Tatiana Maslany
Play
Half
Long
" Some of my favorite shows are ones where the characters are vile and human and flawed. That's what makes me want to keep watching a show, not writers telling me how to feel about characters. "
Tatiana Maslany
Show
Feel
Human
" Something like 'Rust and Bone' would be a dream. Very pared down. 'Orphan Black' is such a challenge. I just need something that isn't as full-on intense as that. "
Tatiana Maslany
Need
Dream
Down
" Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me. "
Tatiana Maslany
Want
Admit
Me
" I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV. "
Tatiana Maslany
Think
Challenge
I Can