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"I’ve wanted to build a rapport with him since he got here, but until now, all we’ve had in common was our bank."
Because I knew you were T H E O N E P E R S O N that would sit with me and let me cry… I didn’t want to cry anymore so I had to push you away… the most.
@sophiabush: Basically the best.
"Caroline. You and Stefan... do you have feelings for him or something?" "...Yeah, I think maybe I did."
orphan black season 2 meme | ten scenes ↳ I assume he’s here to help us with 324B21. [4/10]
Maslany has to shoot some of her most challenging scenes opposite a tennis ball or a mark on a wall. “I can’t look down by an inch or else the eyeline’s off, and I’m looking at my nose, or I’ve put a glass of water through my face. It’s specific, technical things that I’m keeping track of. And that I have to be present the same way that I would be if there was an actor next to me. Except now I have to imagine the actor next to me.”
☆☆ Germany - 2014 World Cup Champions ☆☆
#in the hands of almost any other actor #this would collapse the entire artifice of the show & the contrivance of one actress playing about a dozen clones #the integrity of each performance would break down#you’d be left with the sense that the clones are interchangeable women with only superficial differences in appearance & mannerism #but somehow she’s able to layer these performances one over another like skins #there’s a tangible difference between tatiana maslany as alison hendri x#and tatiana maslany as sarah manning as alison hendrix #each of the clones is so whole and unique and distinct that the performances are collectively an argument: #these human beings aren’t interchangeable #they share DNA but environment and nurture and epigenetics have made them completely singular individuals #[they aren’t even all women] #you can’t generalise them; there’s no single trait they all share #except that they’re human beings not biological objects to be exploited#her work is such a tour de force sometimes it just leaves you breathless