General Season 4 Spoilers
28-SEP-11
People have been asking so here it is: Kate IS still kicking ass, and has an interesting storyline in Season 4. Unfortunately due to scheduling this year, she's not in it, as much as previous seasons. Xo
Source : Twitter - Agam Darshi
Source : Twitter - Agam Darshi
26-SEP-11
Q) Can you talk about some of the guest stars that you have, other than what you just said, that you have coming up this season?
Amanda Tapping: Well Ian Tracey is back as Adam Worth, and Jonathon Young is back as Tesla. Peter Wingfield is back as James Watson.
Robin Dunne: We have a very, kind of cool new villain this year, played by Brian Markinson.
Amanda Tapping: Who's just a phenomenal actor, and we had him in one episode, and loved him so much that we kept bringing him back. Carlo Rota does a couple of episodes of the show.
Robin Dunne: Adam Greydon Reid and Caroline Cave are in the show this year.
Amanda Tapping: Oh, your dad, Al Sapienza.
Robin Dunne: Al Sapienza plays Will's dad, in a wonderful performance, you know him from the Sopranos.
Amanda Tapping: Robert Lawrenson is back a fair bit, as Declan, which is great. What you've seen over the past three seasons, as we build the Sanctuary family, we utilize them a lot. And I think that's what I love about the show is if you come on and we really dig you and we have, pretty much dug everyone who's come on the show, and we just keep bringing you back. So, and Polly Neegan is back as Henry's love interest. So it's just a real sense of family here. Gil Bellows, actually came and did our last few episodes with us, and he's phenomenal.
Robin Dunne: The Sanctuary family is growing. Aww, so cute, it's like the Brady Bunch, but way, way bigger.
Amanda Tapping: Way more dysfunctional, but fun.
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Q) So, what kind of a journey would you say that your characters are on this season?
Amanda Tapping: A roller-coaster journey.
Robin Dunne: Yes and it feels like every relationship this season is tested, and thankfully survived, but there's a difference at the end of it, in the way that the characters deal with each other. Magnus has a big episode with Tesla, and it changes the course of their relationship somewhat. Will and Magnus are on this incredible, you know, she's still lying to him and they're at loggerheads a lot, but you can tell at the heart of it all, there's incredible love between the two characters, and incredible respect. But it, I think Robin put it right, this is a bit of a darker season. It's not without its crazy humor, because it wouldn't be Sanctuary without it, but it's a much darker season, and I think the best way to say it is that the relationships are all tested.
Amanda Tapping: I think we say this every press junket that we do, every season, that it's our best season ever, but I really feel that Season 4 has just blown the lid off anything we've done before.
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Q) So what is going to surprise us most this season? What is the thing that the viewers just are going to be thrown for a loop by seeing?
Amanda Tapping: Well, we can't tell you, because then they won't be thrown for a loop. And we like throwing people for loops.
Robin Dunne: Yes, we love it. Well that's our specialty, throwing people you know, loop, into the loops.
Amanda Tapping: Yes, what's the thing they would be most surprised at, probably the friction between Magnus and Will.
Robin Dunne: Yes, the audience is going to be shocked by some of the interactions between Magnus and Will this season. And also I think things like Fugue, are really, really going to be really momentous moments.
Amanda Tapping: Yes, I think even our first couple of episodes, like Tempus that, the fact that it takes place entirely in Victorian era England, in such a bizarre set of circumstances is, it's going to launch the season, I think, quite incredibly.
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Q) Can you tell our fans a little bit about the season premiere, and what they can look forward to this season?
Amanda Tapping: So that's how we launch. We launch the season in such a big way. We were kind of exhausted by the end of the first two, where we were like, oh God, how do we keep this up? But we take you everywhere. We take you to a remote island off the coast of Africa in an episode called Monsoon. Robin directed an episode called Homecoming, in which we meet his dad, there's a series of flashbacks with his father, and it's a really poignant and beautiful episode. We take you to an icebreaker in the middle of the Bering Sea, a musical episode, we take you into a virtual Sanctuary, which is kind a, one of our cool episodes called Chimera. And we take you into a cave system in the Andes with Will and Magnus.
I mean, we're all over the place. We're literally all over the world. And we're dealing, the whole time, the through-line is dealing with the fallout of going rogue, and separating ourselves from the World Government. So it's an intense roller coaster ride, but again, not without its humor. And then the ending, I wish I could say more about our season ender, our two-parter that Damian directed. But it's, I don't even want to give you a word, for fear that it will give too much away. It's incredible, and the way that it ends, I mean, we were shocked when we read the script. All, the crew, the cast, everyone was running around going, "what, what, what? How did you - what?" And so, but of course we did, in typical Sanctuary fashion. And I think it's quite shocking.
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Q) In the press release it mentions that the Sanctuary team has to go rogue, how will that alter the way things are done from now on?
Amanda Tapping: It makes things infinitely more difficult, I think. We have to, Magnus has to find a way to hide her money, to get it out of markets that the government may be able to control. It makes running individual Sanctuaries more difficult. You know, we see that in certain episodes, like the episode that Robin directed, certain smaller Sanctuaries are really struggling without the government's support. We have to merge a few of the Sanctuaries. And so it's a bit of a shuffling of the deck for Magnus and the team to - it's the right decision to get it out of the hands of government control, because the government, we realize in certain countries, is too corrupt. But it also gives us a bit more autonomy and a bit more freedom, in terms of how we do things.
Robin Dunne: We also have to dress like pirates for the whole season.
Amanda Tapping: That was just my choice.
Robin Dunne: Yes, I mean, the eye patches and the wooden legs and stuff, and, Henry has a parrot, it was definitely a choice, you know, I don't know.
Amanda Tapping: I don't know. We'll see how the fans respond.
Robin Dunne: We'll see, again, it's just another of those Sanctuary, thinking outside the box things.
Amanda Tapping: We're rogue. We're dressed as pirates.
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Source : Starry Constellation Magazine - Amanda Tapping and Robin Dunne
Amanda Tapping: Well Ian Tracey is back as Adam Worth, and Jonathon Young is back as Tesla. Peter Wingfield is back as James Watson.
Robin Dunne: We have a very, kind of cool new villain this year, played by Brian Markinson.
Amanda Tapping: Who's just a phenomenal actor, and we had him in one episode, and loved him so much that we kept bringing him back. Carlo Rota does a couple of episodes of the show.
Robin Dunne: Adam Greydon Reid and Caroline Cave are in the show this year.
Amanda Tapping: Oh, your dad, Al Sapienza.
Robin Dunne: Al Sapienza plays Will's dad, in a wonderful performance, you know him from the Sopranos.
Amanda Tapping: Robert Lawrenson is back a fair bit, as Declan, which is great. What you've seen over the past three seasons, as we build the Sanctuary family, we utilize them a lot. And I think that's what I love about the show is if you come on and we really dig you and we have, pretty much dug everyone who's come on the show, and we just keep bringing you back. So, and Polly Neegan is back as Henry's love interest. So it's just a real sense of family here. Gil Bellows, actually came and did our last few episodes with us, and he's phenomenal.
Robin Dunne: The Sanctuary family is growing. Aww, so cute, it's like the Brady Bunch, but way, way bigger.
Amanda Tapping: Way more dysfunctional, but fun.
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Q) So, what kind of a journey would you say that your characters are on this season?
Amanda Tapping: A roller-coaster journey.
Robin Dunne: Yes and it feels like every relationship this season is tested, and thankfully survived, but there's a difference at the end of it, in the way that the characters deal with each other. Magnus has a big episode with Tesla, and it changes the course of their relationship somewhat. Will and Magnus are on this incredible, you know, she's still lying to him and they're at loggerheads a lot, but you can tell at the heart of it all, there's incredible love between the two characters, and incredible respect. But it, I think Robin put it right, this is a bit of a darker season. It's not without its crazy humor, because it wouldn't be Sanctuary without it, but it's a much darker season, and I think the best way to say it is that the relationships are all tested.
Amanda Tapping: I think we say this every press junket that we do, every season, that it's our best season ever, but I really feel that Season 4 has just blown the lid off anything we've done before.
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Q) So what is going to surprise us most this season? What is the thing that the viewers just are going to be thrown for a loop by seeing?
Amanda Tapping: Well, we can't tell you, because then they won't be thrown for a loop. And we like throwing people for loops.
Robin Dunne: Yes, we love it. Well that's our specialty, throwing people you know, loop, into the loops.
Amanda Tapping: Yes, what's the thing they would be most surprised at, probably the friction between Magnus and Will.
Robin Dunne: Yes, the audience is going to be shocked by some of the interactions between Magnus and Will this season. And also I think things like Fugue, are really, really going to be really momentous moments.
Amanda Tapping: Yes, I think even our first couple of episodes, like Tempus that, the fact that it takes place entirely in Victorian era England, in such a bizarre set of circumstances is, it's going to launch the season, I think, quite incredibly.
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Q) Can you tell our fans a little bit about the season premiere, and what they can look forward to this season?
Amanda Tapping: So that's how we launch. We launch the season in such a big way. We were kind of exhausted by the end of the first two, where we were like, oh God, how do we keep this up? But we take you everywhere. We take you to a remote island off the coast of Africa in an episode called Monsoon. Robin directed an episode called Homecoming, in which we meet his dad, there's a series of flashbacks with his father, and it's a really poignant and beautiful episode. We take you to an icebreaker in the middle of the Bering Sea, a musical episode, we take you into a virtual Sanctuary, which is kind a, one of our cool episodes called Chimera. And we take you into a cave system in the Andes with Will and Magnus.
I mean, we're all over the place. We're literally all over the world. And we're dealing, the whole time, the through-line is dealing with the fallout of going rogue, and separating ourselves from the World Government. So it's an intense roller coaster ride, but again, not without its humor. And then the ending, I wish I could say more about our season ender, our two-parter that Damian directed. But it's, I don't even want to give you a word, for fear that it will give too much away. It's incredible, and the way that it ends, I mean, we were shocked when we read the script. All, the crew, the cast, everyone was running around going, "what, what, what? How did you - what?" And so, but of course we did, in typical Sanctuary fashion. And I think it's quite shocking.
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Q) In the press release it mentions that the Sanctuary team has to go rogue, how will that alter the way things are done from now on?
Amanda Tapping: It makes things infinitely more difficult, I think. We have to, Magnus has to find a way to hide her money, to get it out of markets that the government may be able to control. It makes running individual Sanctuaries more difficult. You know, we see that in certain episodes, like the episode that Robin directed, certain smaller Sanctuaries are really struggling without the government's support. We have to merge a few of the Sanctuaries. And so it's a bit of a shuffling of the deck for Magnus and the team to - it's the right decision to get it out of the hands of government control, because the government, we realize in certain countries, is too corrupt. But it also gives us a bit more autonomy and a bit more freedom, in terms of how we do things.
Robin Dunne: We also have to dress like pirates for the whole season.
Amanda Tapping: That was just my choice.
Robin Dunne: Yes, I mean, the eye patches and the wooden legs and stuff, and, Henry has a parrot, it was definitely a choice, you know, I don't know.
Amanda Tapping: I don't know. We'll see how the fans respond.
Robin Dunne: We'll see, again, it's just another of those Sanctuary, thinking outside the box things.
Amanda Tapping: We're rogue. We're dressed as pirates.
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Source : Starry Constellation Magazine - Amanda Tapping and Robin Dunne
15-SEP-11
Bryan: As roles go, are you happy with how Kate Freelander’s character is growing? What do you see in her future at Sanctuary?
Agam Darshi: I am happy with Kate’s story. It’s interesting and honest, and I think there is so much room for growth. She started off sketchy, on guard, and somewhat unlikable. But she’s grown into a real part of the team. She’ll always have her edge, but she cares so deeply for her Sanctuary ‘family’, and they care so much for her. In season 4, I think we’ll see Kate moving further into that direction. I think Kate’s always hid her feminine side and we’ll see her embrace that part of her more and more.
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Bryan: We love offering our fans exclusives, is anything happening with Kate on Sanctuary that the general public hasn’t heard yet? I won’t tell a soul, I promise! Haha!
Agam Darshi: …there is a huge event this season that is going on with Kate, that pushes her to evolve more and more to someone softer. She becomes more of woman this season. ; )
Source : ScienceFiction.com - Interview With Agam Darshi
Agam Darshi: I am happy with Kate’s story. It’s interesting and honest, and I think there is so much room for growth. She started off sketchy, on guard, and somewhat unlikable. But she’s grown into a real part of the team. She’ll always have her edge, but she cares so deeply for her Sanctuary ‘family’, and they care so much for her. In season 4, I think we’ll see Kate moving further into that direction. I think Kate’s always hid her feminine side and we’ll see her embrace that part of her more and more.
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Bryan: We love offering our fans exclusives, is anything happening with Kate on Sanctuary that the general public hasn’t heard yet? I won’t tell a soul, I promise! Haha!
Agam Darshi: …there is a huge event this season that is going on with Kate, that pushes her to evolve more and more to someone softer. She becomes more of woman this season. ; )
Source : ScienceFiction.com - Interview With Agam Darshi
4-SEP-11
Fan Question : Within the world of Sanctuary Nikola Tesla is kind of an evil genius and Magnus kind of let's him go about his merry way, why?
Amanda : That's such a good question. You're actually going to see a lot more of the friendship between Magnus and Tesla this season. I think that they ah to know people for that long I mean is inconceivable because none of us have lived that long but to have one of your best friends in your life for over 150 years and to be able to trust them so implicitly and know ultimately at the heart that they are not going to do anything so stupid that it would hurt you. I mean they may do something do a lot of stupid things that will annoy you. [laughs] I think that there is just such a level of trust but there's been an interesting sort of development and it's really in the playing, it's not anything that has been written any differently for Jonathon and I but there's been an interesting development in how we've been playing some of the scenes and you'll see a lot of that ion Season 4 and you'll sort of go oh. And we've added a couple of, like I've adlibbed a couple of lines and so has Jonathon and it kind of changed the track of the relationship between Magnus and Tesla. It's kinda cool that we get the chance to do that but um you'll see, watch Season 4.
Source : Dragon Con - Friday Sanctuary Panel
Amanda : That's such a good question. You're actually going to see a lot more of the friendship between Magnus and Tesla this season. I think that they ah to know people for that long I mean is inconceivable because none of us have lived that long but to have one of your best friends in your life for over 150 years and to be able to trust them so implicitly and know ultimately at the heart that they are not going to do anything so stupid that it would hurt you. I mean they may do something do a lot of stupid things that will annoy you. [laughs] I think that there is just such a level of trust but there's been an interesting sort of development and it's really in the playing, it's not anything that has been written any differently for Jonathon and I but there's been an interesting development in how we've been playing some of the scenes and you'll see a lot of that ion Season 4 and you'll sort of go oh. And we've added a couple of, like I've adlibbed a couple of lines and so has Jonathon and it kind of changed the track of the relationship between Magnus and Tesla. It's kinda cool that we get the chance to do that but um you'll see, watch Season 4.
Source : Dragon Con - Friday Sanctuary Panel
24-JUL-11
Sanctuary Panel - Moderated by Josh Gates from Destination Truth
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Josh : Speaking of guest actors on the show, are we going to be seeing more of Ian Tracey this season?
AT : Yes, we have a few episodes with Ian. Peter Wingfield comes back, and he is phenominal it is an amazing episode. Ah Druitt in all his previous glory is back. Pascale Hutton as Abby is back. Jonathan of course is back as Tesla. Pauline Egan as Erica. Yeah so we're actually building a really nice family, the Thanksgiving table is getting very crowded and it's really nice.
RD : There's a very cool new villianish kind of guy coming in this year played by a wonderful actor named Brian Markinson.
AT : Just IMDB Brian Markinson and you'll go, wow how did they get him on the show? He's amazing.
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Fan question : Are we going to see Tesla as much as we did in Season 3?
AT : Ah, yes. Yeah, he's in our season finale (figures out how many eps on her fingers)
RD : Yeah, he's big in the season.
AT : He's in like a good five episodes. If we could have him on every day, we would but he's a busy man.
RD : yeah, he's an actor very much in demand so... (jokes) unlike me!
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Fan question : Are we going to have any more emotional scenes like we had when Ashley died?
AT : (answers quickly) Yes. (then stops and doesn't say any more) (Audience laughs)
Josh & RD : next question!!
AT : Yeah... um yeah... I mean... yes
Josh : does that mean someone is going to die?
AT : (expressionless, says nothing) (audience laughs) Josh, I'm not putting that out there. No I mean there are so many things that happen and yes, there are some hugely emotional scenes coming up
Josh & RD interupt
Josh : because someone is going to die?
RD : my client can't answer that question (laughter)
AT : fear not
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Source : San Diego Comic Con 2011 - Sanctuary Panel
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Josh : Speaking of guest actors on the show, are we going to be seeing more of Ian Tracey this season?
AT : Yes, we have a few episodes with Ian. Peter Wingfield comes back, and he is phenominal it is an amazing episode. Ah Druitt in all his previous glory is back. Pascale Hutton as Abby is back. Jonathan of course is back as Tesla. Pauline Egan as Erica. Yeah so we're actually building a really nice family, the Thanksgiving table is getting very crowded and it's really nice.
RD : There's a very cool new villianish kind of guy coming in this year played by a wonderful actor named Brian Markinson.
AT : Just IMDB Brian Markinson and you'll go, wow how did they get him on the show? He's amazing.
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Fan question : Are we going to see Tesla as much as we did in Season 3?
AT : Ah, yes. Yeah, he's in our season finale (figures out how many eps on her fingers)
RD : Yeah, he's big in the season.
AT : He's in like a good five episodes. If we could have him on every day, we would but he's a busy man.
RD : yeah, he's an actor very much in demand so... (jokes) unlike me!
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Fan question : Are we going to have any more emotional scenes like we had when Ashley died?
AT : (answers quickly) Yes. (then stops and doesn't say any more) (Audience laughs)
Josh & RD : next question!!
AT : Yeah... um yeah... I mean... yes
Josh : does that mean someone is going to die?
AT : (expressionless, says nothing) (audience laughs) Josh, I'm not putting that out there. No I mean there are so many things that happen and yes, there are some hugely emotional scenes coming up
Josh & RD interupt
Josh : because someone is going to die?
RD : my client can't answer that question (laughter)
AT : fear not
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Source : San Diego Comic Con 2011 - Sanctuary Panel
23-JUL-11
When asked about scientist Nikola Tesla, played by Jonathon Young, Dunne says, "He immediately fits into our warped, demented sense of humor." Tapping revealed that Tesla will be seen in about five episodes in the fourth season.
Source : Hollywood Reporter - Comic-Con 2011: 'Sanctuary' to Feature Musical Episode in Season 4
Source : Hollywood Reporter - Comic-Con 2011: 'Sanctuary' to Feature Musical Episode in Season 4
28-MAY-11
Tapping is on the telephone to discuss the final two episodes of Season 3, "Into the Blue" and "Out of the Black," which will air on June 10 and June 17, respectively.
"Once again 'Sanctuary' paints itself into what seems to be an impossible corner to get out of," Tapping said, laughing softly. "When we got the pickup for Season 4, we were like, 'Aha, how are we going to get out of this one?' At the end of Season 2, a tidal wave was heading toward Earth, and, at the end of Season 3, we have no idea where we are or what will happen.
"Our story line about Hollow Earth plays very big.
"There's a huge insurgence that happens, which the Sanctuary team has to deal with. The government has become more involved than we've ever wanted them to be, and Magnus finds herself in the most ridiculous and unexpected place.
"So the start of our fourth season has all been about, 'How do we quell this uprising, and how do we get Magnus back?' " Tapping said. "I think the only way you can creatively continue is to scare the crap out of yourself and try to do something that everyone says is impossible. That's how we've always rolled."
Source : Readingeagle.com - Amanda Tapping merges Syfy stardom with charity program
"Once again 'Sanctuary' paints itself into what seems to be an impossible corner to get out of," Tapping said, laughing softly. "When we got the pickup for Season 4, we were like, 'Aha, how are we going to get out of this one?' At the end of Season 2, a tidal wave was heading toward Earth, and, at the end of Season 3, we have no idea where we are or what will happen.
"Our story line about Hollow Earth plays very big.
"There's a huge insurgence that happens, which the Sanctuary team has to deal with. The government has become more involved than we've ever wanted them to be, and Magnus finds herself in the most ridiculous and unexpected place.
"So the start of our fourth season has all been about, 'How do we quell this uprising, and how do we get Magnus back?' " Tapping said. "I think the only way you can creatively continue is to scare the crap out of yourself and try to do something that everyone says is impossible. That's how we've always rolled."
Source : Readingeagle.com - Amanda Tapping merges Syfy stardom with charity program
21-Apr-11
Filming DVD bonus features for sci fi show #Sanctuary today (client) No lack of cool content here! HRS of footage. Editor must hate me
Source : Twitter - Carole Appleby
Source : Twitter - Carole Appleby
12-APR-11
Excerpt from podcast -
Diane: So, seasons get confusing but Season 3.5 is starting April 15th and then Season 4 is in production or is in production now is that correct?
Amanda: We're in production now, we start shooting on Monday
Diane: OK great
Amanda: We're just finishing our last day of prep
Diane: OK and so the half season premiere on April 15th, it ended on a cliffhanger last time, what can you share about what's coming up.
Amanda: [jokes] Well I think it's safe to say that this isn't a major spoiler when I say this, that we live
Diane: [laughs] OK well seeing as Season 4 is in production, probably not
Amanda: We actually follow the Hollow Earth story line not through every episode but we actually end up coming to a massive catyclisim at the end of the season about Hollow Earth.
Diane: OK
Amanda: and in the season between we actually have some really lovely sort of singular episodes I'm quite proud of. There's one I directed which is called One Night, which is a lovely Will story , there's also another lovely Will story called Metamorphosis where he undergoes, well let's say a metamorphosis. [jokes] So the title actually works! There's a cool Tesla episode coming up. We also do an episode that takes us back, it's called Normandy, and it takes us back to World War II
Diane: Oh wow
Amanda: and it's unlike anything we've ever done before. Martin directed it and it's shot very differently, it's very stylised, the look is very different we sort of toned down the pallette so it's like watching an old war movie, it's really cool.
Diane: oh cool
Amanda: and then our last two episodes, Out Of The Blue is a really interesting episode psychologically for us. It's Will and Magnus in kind of altered states and how they try to get out of it but it's a very cool look, it's a totally different side of Will and Magnus. And what I loved about it was that it felt like playing a totally different character. It's the kind of thing that I love about doing sci-fi, you can travel forward and back in time and you can do alternate reality stories and they make total sense.
Diane: It's not just the big special episode it's...
Amanda: exactly. Yeah! It makes sense. But again it all ties into this Hollow Earth story line and then our cliffhanger is huge! But it's sort of the worst case scenario, it's like "what happens if... Oh no! It's happening!" and I'll just dot dot dot on the end because you'll have to see it [laughs]
Source : TV, eh? podcast episode 38
Diane: So, seasons get confusing but Season 3.5 is starting April 15th and then Season 4 is in production or is in production now is that correct?
Amanda: We're in production now, we start shooting on Monday
Diane: OK great
Amanda: We're just finishing our last day of prep
Diane: OK and so the half season premiere on April 15th, it ended on a cliffhanger last time, what can you share about what's coming up.
Amanda: [jokes] Well I think it's safe to say that this isn't a major spoiler when I say this, that we live
Diane: [laughs] OK well seeing as Season 4 is in production, probably not
Amanda: We actually follow the Hollow Earth story line not through every episode but we actually end up coming to a massive catyclisim at the end of the season about Hollow Earth.
Diane: OK
Amanda: and in the season between we actually have some really lovely sort of singular episodes I'm quite proud of. There's one I directed which is called One Night, which is a lovely Will story , there's also another lovely Will story called Metamorphosis where he undergoes, well let's say a metamorphosis. [jokes] So the title actually works! There's a cool Tesla episode coming up. We also do an episode that takes us back, it's called Normandy, and it takes us back to World War II
Diane: Oh wow
Amanda: and it's unlike anything we've ever done before. Martin directed it and it's shot very differently, it's very stylised, the look is very different we sort of toned down the pallette so it's like watching an old war movie, it's really cool.
Diane: oh cool
Amanda: and then our last two episodes, Out Of The Blue is a really interesting episode psychologically for us. It's Will and Magnus in kind of altered states and how they try to get out of it but it's a very cool look, it's a totally different side of Will and Magnus. And what I loved about it was that it felt like playing a totally different character. It's the kind of thing that I love about doing sci-fi, you can travel forward and back in time and you can do alternate reality stories and they make total sense.
Diane: It's not just the big special episode it's...
Amanda: exactly. Yeah! It makes sense. But again it all ties into this Hollow Earth story line and then our cliffhanger is huge! But it's sort of the worst case scenario, it's like "what happens if... Oh no! It's happening!" and I'll just dot dot dot on the end because you'll have to see it [laughs]
Source : TV, eh? podcast episode 38
12-APR-11
Excerpts from an Interview with Amanda and Robin :
So with Will slowly almost dying towards the end of last year and Magnus actually facing mortality this year, I was wondering since they both have gone through that process, will that be something that we see play out for the rest of the year as well?
Amanda Tapping: Kind of. I mean, I think the cool thing about these characters is that they move on quickly, if you know what I mean.
Amanda Tapping: They’re not ones to sort of...
Robin Dunne: Yes. They can’t really - they don’t have time to dwell on the fact that, “Hey. I almost died there.”
Amanda Tapping: I almost died again.
Robin Dunne: Okay. Well, moving on. Got to - you know, got to keep (going on, it's like a signal).
Amanda Tapping: Yes. I think maybe the ramifications for Magnus are a bit different because she was faced quite imminently with mortality. And I think you'll see in Season 4 especially a decision being made that might surprise people.
But - and then for Will, I think it’s like everything that happens to Will it seems to me just gets worse and worse and worse, and he’s still hanging in.
Robin Dunne: Yes.
Amanda Tapping: So I think there must be a part of this character that just kind of goes, “Oh. Yes. Another day at the office, and today I was killed. Okay.”
Robin Dunne: I mean it’s not a caviler attitude by any stretch.
Amanda Tapping: No.
Robin Dunne: He certainly lives his life in - battling in - with the fear of working in the Sanctuary. But also, like Amanda says, you know we have to move on because there’s always stuff for us to do here, and you know trying to barely hang on with our fingernails.
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I was wondering if in this upcoming season Helen will have a chance for some romance? Past? Present?
Amanda Tapping: Yes. Well at the end of season - the second half of Season 3 - it’s sort of weird, because we’re about to start Season 4, so that’s where our heads are at. In the second half of Season 3, not so much. So when we were going through - you see a little bit of it in Normandy, but no. Not a lot of love for Helen.
So when we were talking about Season 4 and playing out ideas, one of the things that I insisted on was that Magnus at least gets some love interest in Season 4. And, we’re working on that. I think it’s going to be really interesting.
And how will she be celebrating her 164th birthday?
Amanda Tapping: Well, God. I can’t even say, can I?
Robin Dunne: No.
Amanda Tapping: No. I can’t tell you. It’s - again, it deals with the beginning - the end of Season 3 and the beginning of Season 4. Something unbelievable happens and I’m not sure that Helen actually really celebrates her 164th birthday.
Robin Dunne: One hint, just one little bone I can throw you is that Bigfoot will be jumping out of a cake.
Amanda Tapping: That was just on set Robin. That wasn’t going to be in the show.
Robin Dunne: Wasn’t that part of the show?
Amanda Tapping: No we didn’t film that.
Robin Dunne: Oh, God. So fun.
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What would you two like to see happen for your character, like character development-wise. Not necessarily you know, story.
Amanda Tapping: I was just going to say I hope Magnus gets a really cool love interest this year.
I know what’s beautiful is sometimes we’re allowed to sit in with the writers, and I’ve been here for the last months sort of sitting while they’ve been developing the series. The stuff they come up with is beyond what we could even imagine happening. So they come up with stuff that’s always so much better and so much cooler than what we think of.
The only thing I asked for was that I hope Helen gets like a really interesting love interest. Not that I want it to be about Helen having a love interest; I just want to show that there’s a very evolved, loving - you know sexual, interesting woman in there besides just this sort of analytic scientist that we’ve sort of been seeing for the last (few seasons).
Robin Dunne: And we’ve all kind of gotten a little bit of romance.
Amanda Tapping: Except for Magnus.
Robin Dunne: And Magnus is a little left out I think.
Amanda Tapping: Yes.
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Are you planning - is the plan for Season 4 to continue the same sort of longer-term arcs, or would it go back to more originally - more what you were doing in the 13 episode seasons?
Amanda Tapping: It’s hard to say at this point. And definitely, we’re still dealing with a major story line, the Hollow Earth issue. That sounds terrible. But, the Hollow Earth story line is still being dealt with in Season 4.
And, I think there are always - the arcs are now more prevalent because we have more draw on from our past. We now have 46 episodes of stories, and it’s impossible not to find them interweaving. So, there will be arcs in our 13 episode Season 4, but it’s more tied into what we’ve done in previous episodes that keep sort of coming back and hunts us, or relates back to - you know what I mean?
Robin Dunne: Yes. There certainly - I think there certainly will be arcs. Not the Arc though.
Amanda Tapping: No.
Robin Dunne: Right? I mean, not as of yet. I don’t - was Magnus - Magnus wasn’t on the Arc.
Amanda Tapping: She was not. Cheeky monkey.
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You've had a break. What are some of the things that you do to get back into your characters?
Amanda Tapping: It’s a really good question Michael, because for me it’s really hard, because I don’t - I find her very confusing and besides just going and getting my hair cut and dyed dark brown and getting rid of my blonde roots and learning how to walk in Stilettos again. There’s sort of a physical transformation for Magnus.
I kind of have to wrap my head around a different head space with her. And for me I always get very nervous at the beginning of the season as to whether or not I’ll find her again. And the writing is there, and so you know as long as I know all of the scripts I’m pretty safe. But it is a bit of a panic at the beginning of every season.
Robin Dunne: For me it’s the exact opposite. I have to learn how to not walk in Stilettos and wear regular - which is awkward. And sit ups I guess. I try to do at least 4 sit ups a day, and I haven’t seen any results yet, but I’m sticking to it. But yes. I think also there is - you know, this is Friday. We’re starting Season 4 on Monday, and every season, I have the same feeling of like, “Okay. Here we go. Back into the jungle for you know, more insanity.”
Amanda Tapping: Yes.
Robin Dunne: So, there’s a little bit of talking yourself off the ledge at this point.
Amanda Tapping: Yes. A bit of a panic.
Robin Dunne: And then once you're into it and you've got a few days under your belt, it’ll be back on the...
Amanda Tapping: Yes. I’ve been taking kick boxing this hiatus. And I think - and I loved it for a lot of different reasons. But, I think now it’s sort of become more technical for me, so I think - and that’s been in preparation for some of the fight sequences coming up, and I’ve talked to our stunt coordinator. So stuff like that when your real life actually ends up leading into your work life in a positive way, that’s been really fun. So, I’ve sort of been ramping up my kick boxing workout.
S-s-S-s-S
Source : Are You Screening - Sanctuary Interview with Amanda Tapping and Robin Dunne
So with Will slowly almost dying towards the end of last year and Magnus actually facing mortality this year, I was wondering since they both have gone through that process, will that be something that we see play out for the rest of the year as well?
Amanda Tapping: Kind of. I mean, I think the cool thing about these characters is that they move on quickly, if you know what I mean.
Amanda Tapping: They’re not ones to sort of...
Robin Dunne: Yes. They can’t really - they don’t have time to dwell on the fact that, “Hey. I almost died there.”
Amanda Tapping: I almost died again.
Robin Dunne: Okay. Well, moving on. Got to - you know, got to keep (going on, it's like a signal).
Amanda Tapping: Yes. I think maybe the ramifications for Magnus are a bit different because she was faced quite imminently with mortality. And I think you'll see in Season 4 especially a decision being made that might surprise people.
But - and then for Will, I think it’s like everything that happens to Will it seems to me just gets worse and worse and worse, and he’s still hanging in.
Robin Dunne: Yes.
Amanda Tapping: So I think there must be a part of this character that just kind of goes, “Oh. Yes. Another day at the office, and today I was killed. Okay.”
Robin Dunne: I mean it’s not a caviler attitude by any stretch.
Amanda Tapping: No.
Robin Dunne: He certainly lives his life in - battling in - with the fear of working in the Sanctuary. But also, like Amanda says, you know we have to move on because there’s always stuff for us to do here, and you know trying to barely hang on with our fingernails.
S-s-S-s-S
I was wondering if in this upcoming season Helen will have a chance for some romance? Past? Present?
Amanda Tapping: Yes. Well at the end of season - the second half of Season 3 - it’s sort of weird, because we’re about to start Season 4, so that’s where our heads are at. In the second half of Season 3, not so much. So when we were going through - you see a little bit of it in Normandy, but no. Not a lot of love for Helen.
So when we were talking about Season 4 and playing out ideas, one of the things that I insisted on was that Magnus at least gets some love interest in Season 4. And, we’re working on that. I think it’s going to be really interesting.
And how will she be celebrating her 164th birthday?
Amanda Tapping: Well, God. I can’t even say, can I?
Robin Dunne: No.
Amanda Tapping: No. I can’t tell you. It’s - again, it deals with the beginning - the end of Season 3 and the beginning of Season 4. Something unbelievable happens and I’m not sure that Helen actually really celebrates her 164th birthday.
Robin Dunne: One hint, just one little bone I can throw you is that Bigfoot will be jumping out of a cake.
Amanda Tapping: That was just on set Robin. That wasn’t going to be in the show.
Robin Dunne: Wasn’t that part of the show?
Amanda Tapping: No we didn’t film that.
Robin Dunne: Oh, God. So fun.
S-s-S-s-S
What would you two like to see happen for your character, like character development-wise. Not necessarily you know, story.
Amanda Tapping: I was just going to say I hope Magnus gets a really cool love interest this year.
I know what’s beautiful is sometimes we’re allowed to sit in with the writers, and I’ve been here for the last months sort of sitting while they’ve been developing the series. The stuff they come up with is beyond what we could even imagine happening. So they come up with stuff that’s always so much better and so much cooler than what we think of.
The only thing I asked for was that I hope Helen gets like a really interesting love interest. Not that I want it to be about Helen having a love interest; I just want to show that there’s a very evolved, loving - you know sexual, interesting woman in there besides just this sort of analytic scientist that we’ve sort of been seeing for the last (few seasons).
Robin Dunne: And we’ve all kind of gotten a little bit of romance.
Amanda Tapping: Except for Magnus.
Robin Dunne: And Magnus is a little left out I think.
Amanda Tapping: Yes.
S-s-S-s-S
Are you planning - is the plan for Season 4 to continue the same sort of longer-term arcs, or would it go back to more originally - more what you were doing in the 13 episode seasons?
Amanda Tapping: It’s hard to say at this point. And definitely, we’re still dealing with a major story line, the Hollow Earth issue. That sounds terrible. But, the Hollow Earth story line is still being dealt with in Season 4.
And, I think there are always - the arcs are now more prevalent because we have more draw on from our past. We now have 46 episodes of stories, and it’s impossible not to find them interweaving. So, there will be arcs in our 13 episode Season 4, but it’s more tied into what we’ve done in previous episodes that keep sort of coming back and hunts us, or relates back to - you know what I mean?
Robin Dunne: Yes. There certainly - I think there certainly will be arcs. Not the Arc though.
Amanda Tapping: No.
Robin Dunne: Right? I mean, not as of yet. I don’t - was Magnus - Magnus wasn’t on the Arc.
Amanda Tapping: She was not. Cheeky monkey.
S-s-S-s-S
You've had a break. What are some of the things that you do to get back into your characters?
Amanda Tapping: It’s a really good question Michael, because for me it’s really hard, because I don’t - I find her very confusing and besides just going and getting my hair cut and dyed dark brown and getting rid of my blonde roots and learning how to walk in Stilettos again. There’s sort of a physical transformation for Magnus.
I kind of have to wrap my head around a different head space with her. And for me I always get very nervous at the beginning of the season as to whether or not I’ll find her again. And the writing is there, and so you know as long as I know all of the scripts I’m pretty safe. But it is a bit of a panic at the beginning of every season.
Robin Dunne: For me it’s the exact opposite. I have to learn how to not walk in Stilettos and wear regular - which is awkward. And sit ups I guess. I try to do at least 4 sit ups a day, and I haven’t seen any results yet, but I’m sticking to it. But yes. I think also there is - you know, this is Friday. We’re starting Season 4 on Monday, and every season, I have the same feeling of like, “Okay. Here we go. Back into the jungle for you know, more insanity.”
Amanda Tapping: Yes.
Robin Dunne: So, there’s a little bit of talking yourself off the ledge at this point.
Amanda Tapping: Yes. A bit of a panic.
Robin Dunne: And then once you're into it and you've got a few days under your belt, it’ll be back on the...
Amanda Tapping: Yes. I’ve been taking kick boxing this hiatus. And I think - and I loved it for a lot of different reasons. But, I think now it’s sort of become more technical for me, so I think - and that’s been in preparation for some of the fight sequences coming up, and I’ve talked to our stunt coordinator. So stuff like that when your real life actually ends up leading into your work life in a positive way, that’s been really fun. So, I’ve sort of been ramping up my kick boxing workout.
S-s-S-s-S
Source : Are You Screening - Sanctuary Interview with Amanda Tapping and Robin Dunne
11-APR-11
Just got a call about booking flights - I think I can officially say that Watson is going to appear in the new season of Sanctuary. Hoorah!!
No script yet, but I have heard rumors. Really cool concept. Lots of fun to be had. Better start growing facial hair!
Source : Twitter - Peter Wingfield
No script yet, but I have heard rumors. Really cool concept. Lots of fun to be had. Better start growing facial hair!
Source : Twitter - Peter Wingfield
6-APR-11
In first full production meeting for #Sanctuary season 4! Holy extras and action scenes!
Question asked in #Sanctuary production meeting by key makeup artist: "how much time has passed...should any wounds be dried up and crusty?"
answer to crusty wound question was: "wound not big enough on that character to really get crusty"@NimrodGod And the answer was? #IWontTell
Overheard in the writers' room: "An episode of #Sanctuary is like a good spring jacket. Lots of layers." Cool stories coming out of there!
Source : Twitter - SanctuarySeries
Question asked in #Sanctuary production meeting by key makeup artist: "how much time has passed...should any wounds be dried up and crusty?"
answer to crusty wound question was: "wound not big enough on that character to really get crusty"@NimrodGod And the answer was? #IWontTell
Overheard in the writers' room: "An episode of #Sanctuary is like a good spring jacket. Lots of layers." Cool stories coming out of there!
Source : Twitter - SanctuarySeries
6-APR-11
Hoping for confirmed word on Sanct very soon. Whispers are exciting, though!
Source : Twitter - Peter Wingfield
Source : Twitter - Peter Wingfield
29-Mar-11
Wheels are turning on pre-prod of S4...Writers in the house! Sets getting dusted off! Lights being hung up! Meetings being met! #Sanctuary
Source : Twitter - SanctuarySeries
Source : Twitter - SanctuarySeries
10-MAR-11
OK don't tell anyone. I mean ANYONE! But there is just a possibility that Watson may be in an Ep or two of Sanctuary season 4.
Remember, you DIDN'T hear it here.
I'll tell you when you can tell anyone....promise.
Until then.....schtumm.
Source : Twitter - Peter Wingfield
Remember, you DIDN'T hear it here.
I'll tell you when you can tell anyone....promise.
Until then.....schtumm.
Source : Twitter - Peter Wingfield