Once “Orphan Black” ends next season star Tatiana Maslany doesn’t have any plans. In fact, Maslany said she just has a question mark.
“I’m sort of open to whatever’s going to come up,” Maslany said during a Q&A with press Friday at Comic-Con International. “I don’t have any set plans. My world is sort of open wide. … Which is nice right now.”
The actress who plays Sarah Manning and a whole slew of clones on the BBC America television show did say she’d like to do theater again, and that producing, directing or writing could be in her future.
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“Just not sure,” she said. “Big question mark.”
Whatever she does though, she wants it to be more challenging than playing a quantity of characters.
“I’m interested in something that’s different, that I’ve never played before whether that’s a different language or just getting to collaborate with a different director,” Maslany said. “I kind of find something scary in whatever I choose to do.”
Maslany credited improvisational training to help her play multiple characters on the series that she plays, even sometimes having to be in scenes with herself. To help with scenes where there’s more than one Leda clone present, Kathryn Alexandre works as Maslany’s stunt double. She’s been in every single episode of “Orphan Black.”
“What improv really taught me was believing in a situation, even though not all of the parts are necessarily there,” Maslandy said. “Katherine and I work on clone scenes together where sometimes she is in the scene with me and I get to work opposite of her and sometimes she’s removed and I have to talk to a tennis ball. So, It’s about letting my imagination fill in the blanks.”
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Alexandre said that she hopes to be able to work with Maslany again in the future after “Orphan Black” ends, or really anyone in the cast, whom she called “wonderful and welcoming.”
“This has been the best job that I could have ever imagined,” she said. “Any time I could work with these people (again), sign me up,”
Heading into the fifth and final season, Maslany said that it’s possible some of the clones could die.
“I do feel like there will be some sort of feeling of conclusion, whether that is death or a resolution of some kind peace,” Maslany said. “They’ll either get what they want or won’t, but they’ll get what they need.”
Kristian Bruun, who plays Donnie Hendrix on the series, just hopes his character and his wife, Alison, one of the clones, can get a sense of normalcy back by the end of the series.
“It’d be great to see their family life back on track,” Bruun said. “They want safety and back to a normal life.”
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Maslany isn’t quiet as sure that the clones will end on a happy note.
“I don’t totally see that these characters are destined for a quiet peacefulness,” she said. “I think that their spirits are restless and there energies aren’t tamable and so I don’t know where they’re going to end up.”
Co-Creator, writer and executive producer Graeme Manson promised an end to “Orphan Black” that gives a lot of answers though.
Manson along with executive producer John Fawcett, who also took part in the series creation and writing, said that it was “100 percent” their decision to send “Orphan Black” with the fifth season and the network listened and agreed with them once they explaining their reasoning.
The duo did agree that they’d like to see a movie or spinoff of the series come to fruition in the future. While those possibilities have been in talks for some time, nothing is currently planned after the series ends.
“It’s very bittersweet,” Fawcett said. “I can’t imagine an ending any other way.”
