Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.
Tatiana MaslanyI'm running on adrenalin when we're shooting. It's non-stop. As soon as I have time to sit down, then I fall asleep.
Tatiana MaslanyYou're revealing something about yourself in a more exaggerated, more fleshed-out way, and it awakens something in you that maybe you didn't know you had.
Tatiana MaslanyI'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.
Tatiana MaslanyThose darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
Tatiana MaslanyI think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because it's there and gone. There's an amazing interaction with the audience that happens because they are very much another scene partner. How they respond determines the kinds of stories we tell.
Tatiana Maslany