

Gavaris: Yeah, that's what we were saying. I assume he would be very involved as well.

Play IGN: Felix, his sister's kid is missing. In the nature/nurture thing with the clones, we're often more interested in their differences than their similarities, but I think rash behavior is a trait for all the clones. Suffice to say she'll go to any lengths at this point to get back what's hers? Manson: Yep, yep. As you guys were talking about, Sarah's been a very tough character, a survivor. Then we rolled into Comic-Con, and that, for all of us, was the moment when we were like, "Okay, it's really connected." Gavaris: In Season 2, you’re hitting the ground running, not pausing at all. Manson: Then it finishes airing, and we're like, "Whoo! Wow, what a crazy time that was." Gavaris: "What a great ride!" Manson: "What a great ride!" And then. It starts airing, and it doesn't get huge numbers, but we get good press, and we start to get the swell of the Internet love. The whole supporting cast just lifted the thing even further. Then getting through the crazy, super challenging season, realizing that the super difficult premise, this high-wire act actually worked, we knew Tatiana could pull it off. So the rewarding part for us was rolling cameras on day one. IGN: Wow! Manson: Yeah, and it almost came together, and it almost fell apart at the end over a period of a couple years before BBCA came on-board. What was it like with all that time, all that buildup, to see what the reaction was? Graeme Manson: It's crazy. IGN: For you Graeme, you were working on it from the very beginning. Tatiana Maslany and Jordan Gavaris in Orphan Black. I thought it was going to be a great thing that probably no one would see, and it would end up on a DVD shelf somewhere that someone would discover a decade later and think it was really cool. I didn't think people were going to see it.

I would audition as many times as I needed to. I had to do the project, and I thought it was incredible. It was the meat, and then there was this electricity around it that just gripped you like nobody's business. You read a lot of pilots as an actor, because of pilot season - and occasionally you get cable pilots in the summer. But what attracted me to the project were the wicked characters - colorful, vibrant, multifaceted characters - and the incredible story. Network, sometimes, there's a little bit more flexibility. You can market it all you want - especially on cable. We knew that BBC America was going to take care of us and that they had plans for the show, but unless you have a good product, it doesn't make much of a difference. IGN TV: What was it like to see not just the reaction to the show, but how it grew and grew, beyond the initial airing of Season 1, and became this tidal wave of acclaim? Jordan Gavaris: 'Very unexpected' I think is a really good way to describe it.
