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
You’re working with adults and you’re being paid to do a job. And you’re a kid. Then you go back to high school, and everybody’s partying, and they’re doing math. I always felt a little bit outside of it. Outside of both experiences, really. – Tatiana Maslany
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
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
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
I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge – and I guess that’s what makes it funny, that tension. – Tatiana Maslany
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. – Tatiana Maslany
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
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
I grew up in Canada, man – we all had rinks in our backyards because we’d ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink. – Tatiana Maslany
I like challenging parts, something I haven’t done yet, something that scares me. There’s just a feeling I get when I read a script that I love, I feel an attachment to it, a yearning to play that character. – Tatiana Maslany
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
It’s always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies – character-driven stuff. – Tatiana Maslany
I like ‘Futurama.’ That’s kind of the only thing that’s my sci-fi thing, although I was big into zombies for a time. – Tatiana Maslany
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
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
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
I think there’s something really freeing about improv, that it’s a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That’s really exciting and really frustrating, because it’s there and gone. There’s an amazing interaction with the audience that happens because they are very much another scene partner. – Tatiana Maslany
Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be a man I’d love to work with. I’m a big fan of Paul Thomas Anderson’s films – I would be honored to work with him. I think he’s a brilliant director, and he gets such compelling stories out of his actors and out of his crew. – Tatiana Maslany
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
‘Orphan Black’ allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters – to trust characters and hate other characters – but it doesn’t tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That’s the most exciting storytelling, in my book. – Tatiana Maslany
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
I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing. – Tatiana Maslany
Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don’t let somebody else tell you who you are. – Tatiana Maslany
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
I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I’d always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it. – Tatiana Maslany
