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is brilliant. RN: Good. GS: So what attracted you to the role of Keira and Continuum as a show? RN: You know, I actually came about the first script for the pilot in a very unorthodox way. One of my best girlfriends in the entire world called me one day and said ‘my friend is casting this show, and it is a Canadian show, but it is really good, is it OK with you if I send the script to you, or do you want me to send it to your agent first?’. I said ‘No, no, no it’s fine you can send it to me, and I’ll read it and see what I think’. And I was about ten pages in, and I went ‘I have to get this role!’, I have to do whatever it takes to get this job, I have to have this role. The role of Keira Cameron is… you don’t see leading female roles on TV like this very frequently, and it sort of reminded me of Alias, of Sidney Bristow and Jennifer Gardiner, and that strong female lead, who does the fighting, and does the problem solving but also has that emotional core and that emotional centre. And the script just has everything, it had your Sci-fi elements, your futurist elements, your drama, your character development. The idea that there was emotion there, and there were feelings and it wasn’t just being a talking head. There were so many elements to the show, and the role and I just… as I said ten pages in I have to get this job, whatever it takes, I have to play this role. GS: Brilliant. How much input do you actually get into the development of Kiera? Do you get to say ‘Oh I think that she would do this more’ or ‘I think this’? RN: – Absolutely. That is the brilliant part about our show, and about the writers, and the creator Simon Berry. Everything really trickled down, from him, everything, whether it is the writer’s room, or the different actors on the show, everything trickles down from him, and he is such a pillar of co-operation, and teamwork, and everybody is allowed to collaborate, and especially for me with the role of Kiera, I get into I and if something doesn’t ring true in the script, or I think ‘Oh can we change this a little bit ever so slightly’ or ‘I don’t really think she would do this’, absolutely. And we all get to do that with our characters whether it is Lexa Doig and working on Sonya Valentine, or Erik Knudsen working on Alec Sadler, it is a very sort of collaborative environment which is commutative for putting out the best product. If you have a group of people who like each other, which we all do, and work well together then that is the best thing. GS: You mentioned the character Alec at the end of season 1. Your dynamic looks like it is going to possibly change a little bit. Can you tell us what is going to happen, and a bit about the ‘Destiny’ theme we having been hearing about coming up in this season? RN: Absolutely, absolutely. At the end of season 1 Alec gets that message from his future self, and at the beginning of season 2 he is very concerned with who he becomes. And he is very concerned…I’m not

sure if Alec has said anything about future Keira, I don’t know if future Alec did or did not, I’m not privy to that sort of information, which is good as I shouldn’t be. GS: (Laughs) RN: But he is very concerned about who he becomes and Keira is obviously a big part of that and Liber8 and the members of Liber8 that are here. The theme of season 2 is very much destiny orientated and responsibility orientated because more so than in season one, especially for Keira comes
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