Script PHd Comic Con interview
Anna Torv (Olivia Dunham)
Press question: Do we get to see more of your superpowers next season?
Anna Torv: I know for sure that we will.
Press question: Are they going to have a darkness to them?
AT: Oh I hope so! I want Olivia to get darker, I think. I kind of like the dark Olivia the most. I like the episodes where something personal has happened to her, like when she was taken and had her spinal tap and she came out and she was ready to kill someone. Or when she was killing people in her sleep. I like her darker.
Press question: How long have you been living in the United States, and have you been hanging out with any of the other Australian actors here?
AT: I didn’t live in the States at all until I did the show, so I’d been over and visited a little bit, and had met with agents to see if I could get representation, but I never lived here until I moved to New York for the show. I moved over a year ago. I don’t know any of the other actors, I missed out on all of that, because we were based in New York. I heard that they have all these barbecues and things like that.
Press question: So is Australia still home for you?
AT: Yeah. I go back every break I get. I love Australia!
Press question: Do you get used to the hectic, frantic work schedule a show like this requires?
AT: Yes, I think you just do get used to it. And it’s—I love it when I get to do physical stuff, which I don’t get to do a lot of, actually. I think it looks like I get to do more than I actually do. But really, I don’t get to do that much! No, I’d like to do more of that, sure!
Press question: How are the scenes shot with Leonard Nimoy at the end of last season going to play into this season?
AT: No, I do know, but I can’t tell you. But you do get to find out. So you do eventually see the rest of that scene, but in a really cool way, actually.
Press question: Do you have anything that’s happened to you like that in your past like Olivia, from your childhood?
AT: You know, someone just asked me that! No, there’s nothing that I can think of! I’m sure if I really thought about it, but no.
Press question: Can you talk a bit about your hobbies and lifestyles and what you like to do?
AT: When I’m not working! [laughs] Well, I’m from Australia, so I surf, and I grew up near the beach and we always had horses. I love riding horses! I keep trying to get them to do something where Olivia gets to go jumping or something. I don’t know, I hang out. I’m a homebody.
ScriptPhD: Are you excited about where Olivia’s relationship with Peter is going, and can you talk about working with Joshua and your guys’s dynamic?
AT: Well I know! Everyone keeps saying what’s going to happen with Peter and Olivia? And I’m like, “Did you watch the first season? He started picking up my sister!” I’m not sure where I want them to go. I just read an episode that we haven’t started shooting yet, we’re about to start shooting next week, and Olivia starts to see Peter a little bit differently. And I think it’s kind of fun! I can’t say anything more. That’s it!
Press question: Can you talk about being glamorous on the show and yet, still playing a strong woman character?
AT: I don’t know, I think they don’t write her glamorous, but we’ve always been—like when we started with the pilot, we were always adamant that it’s TV, so nothing’s really realistic, but you can do your best. Like she doesn’t wear a lot of lipstick and I don’t know. You do what you can.
Press question: What have you loved about her vulnerability aside from a lot of the action that you’ve gotten to see?
AT: I love the episode where she dreams, which was where she starts having these dreams where she’s killing these people and then she finds out. I love that because I thought it was a really beautifully written episode, and I thought it was one of my favorite bits of Fringe, and I personally loved the shadowy, secretive, dark, what’s going on stuff. It also was where she found out about the early experiments and Walter did that to her. I loved that because through a lot of the first season, I felt like there wasn’t a real personal connection with Olivia and Walter and now, all of a sudden, there’s something there beyond just what we were experimenting on.
Press question: And will that come into play this season?
AT: We haven’t gone back to it as intensely as we did at the end of the last season, but it’s definitely still there and I think it will pop up again.
Press question: Is there an awkwardness to your and Peter’s relationship now when you’re working on cases because you know that?
AT: Sometimes, yeah. Sometimes.
