If Tatiana Maslany had to say goodbye to the extended Clone Club of characters she plays on Watch This Ain't Ghostbusters XXX ParodyOrphan Black, at least she got to give each of the DNA-sharing sisters a proper send-off.
As the series – for which she’s won a shelf full of acting trophies for her jaw-dropping range – draws its fifth and final season to a close on Aug. 12, Maslany tells Mashablethat after completing her final scene with each of the central characters she portrays, the production crew enabled her to say goodbye to every clone after the cameras stopped rolling – and her emotional reaction to those farewells was surprising, even to her.
As production neared the end, did you get to call a wrap on each one of your characters individually?
Yeah, we did. It was sad. It was weirdly sad saying goodbye to each individual. I think there was a week there where every night was somebody different. Different crew members were sad to say goodbye to this clone, or sad to say goodbye to this one. So it was a real intense process.
Did you get to keep at least some little talisman for each one of them?
Yeah, I did. I’ve got Cosima’s glasses. I have some outfit from Sarah. There’s little things that I kept.
As this journey got underway, there were so many different facets of humanity that you were learning how to access to play each of these characters. What was that like?
I feel like that’s always been the thing that I’ve been interested in, which is characters, whether they’re like me or not. I think that’s the natural state of an actor, is to try to walk in people’s shoes, and understand their lives, and empathize.
I think that’s what’s so great about the art form, is that at the best of times, it can be about empathy, and about connection, and understanding, and telling stories that don’t necessarily get the light that other stories get. So yeah, it’s a total joy for me. I always want to do that.
How did it change you?
I think it’s just opened up my palette in terms of the kind of characters I can believe I can play... Just sort of showed me that it’s limitless. We all have the capacity to be so many different things. I’m just lucky I get to do that.
How much were you told about the final season's plot? How much did you learn along the way, and, once it was all said and done, how did you react to the story?
The ending is complicated, and I think always difficult for a series to end. But I think we went out in a really Orphan Blackway, which is about the human beings at the center of this sort of big conspiracy, this larger mystery.
I didn’t know too much going in. I knew little bits here and there. The joy of our show is that a lot of it is written as it’s kind of happening, because that’s just how the writers’ room works, and it’s very organic, and fantastic.
How do you hope to keep challenging yourself after something this demanding and insane?
I think work-wise, it’s never going to be this kind of work. For me, I’ve been shooting films between seasons of Orphan Black, and each of them has posed a different challenge to me, whether it’s an emotional depth, or exploration that I’ve never done before, a character who’s very far from me, or a relationship that’s deep and complicated.
It’s all a challenge. I never take a job that I feel like, “Oh yeah, that’s easy.” I don’t think that exists for me! I’ve been working since I was nine, and I’ve made myself interested, regardless of what the subject matter or the material was, because I’m a working actor, and that’s what you do. I’ve been very lucky.
Orphan Black's series finale airs August 12 at 10 p.m. on BBC America.
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