Ari got the tap and he was pretty excited. Then episode 8, 9 hits, and we go, “Who's the male clone going to be?” After a lot of debate, we figured that looping back, we could make it work and make it make logical sense. By episode 4 or 5, John (Fawcett) was pretty adamant that we shouldn't kill Ari, we should keep him around and do more with the character. Going into season 2, we were keeping it in our pocket and asking, “Who's it going to be? Who's it going to be? Are we going to cast someone new?” And then Ari knocked it out of the park in the first episode in the diner scene. It had been a long-time idea, part of the weave of the mystery of introducing Castor. Graeme Manson: We knew where we were going at the end of season 1. In the early going, Millen isn't asked to be a chameleon on Maslany's level, but his clones still have specific identifying marks: Mustache Clone, Scarface Clone, Soldier Clone, etc.Įarlier this week, I got on the phone with the show's co-creator, Graeme Manson, to ask him how much he thinks is too much when it comes to the conspiracy and the number of clones Maslany can play, and how the writers make sure it all makes sense both to them and to their audience.Īt what point did you decide you were going to introduce boy clones? Did you know when you cast Ari that he would be playing the clones, or was there something you saw in his performance that let you know he was up for this? The third season, which premieres Saturday night at 9, adds still more layers to the conspiracies, including an expansion on the season 2 finale plot twist that introduced a parallel project, Castor, that produced a series of male clones, all played by Ari Millen. But the mythology got so dense, and forced so many abrupt changes in loyalty among both the clones and their various enemies and allies, that at a certain point I resolved to just pay attention to the character work, the comedy, and the episode-by-episode thriller material and not focus much brainpower on trying to keep track of who's in charge and what their agenda is. The BBC America sci-fi drama still had Tatiana Maslany's remarkable performance(s) as a series of clones on the run from their makers, and it had turned each clone into a fully-realized character, many of whom could potentially carry their own show without the others. In its second season, “Orphan Black” came perilously close to collapsing under the weight of its many interlocking conspiracies.
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