00:00I give consent for the women corporation to sever my memories between my work life and my personal life.
00:17I am aware that this alteration is comprehensive and irreversible.
00:30The idea of human potential and human sort of frailty sort of comes together in Heli and Helena, you know, but there's a duality that you have to play beyond just the physicality.
00:44It's the emotionality. It's the intellect.
00:46Could you talk about looking at her in that way, even now in retrospect at this point?
00:52Hmm. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, the whole show really dives into duality in this very literal way.
01:02But there are also all of these internal layers that are such a wonderful challenge to uncover as an actor, some of them that that I discover while we're filming, some that I discover when I'm talking to journalists like you who have wonderful insights and reflect something that I hadn't considered.
01:27I think that it is a conversation, an ongoing conversation when you're when you're making a television series, because you have the ability to to reflect and then come back in the next season.
01:43And like we as humans change as actors and the characters evolve, too.
01:51But yeah, these these two individuals who are that share the same body, they they have a shared subconscious.
02:00They, you know, with when one of them gets a bruise, the other one sees it later, but they don't share a waking awareness.
02:10And that's where the real fun is as an actor to to to keep track of the literal facts that each of them know.
02:20And then, oh, what emotionality is is bleeding through.
02:26Like if one of them is having this like physiological feeling of falling in love is the other one feeling that, too.
02:32And so it was a real and then and then there's the Russian doll aspect of it, which is, you know, Helena had the the job of an actor this season, which was to assume the role of someone else who she kind of knows, but isn't her.
02:50And so it was it was it was another fun challenge for me as as Brit in the background, deciding how good of an actor Helena was at any given point and then working in in lockstep with Ben and Uta and the other directors to kind of create the right balance of of of how much was was glimmering through of Heli and how much was.
03:15Okay, so we're not in trouble. I don't think so. Milchick said we're famous. All of us equally or one of us is like the star?
03:23Not if you feel that you can't go on. So what the hell did you guys see up there?
03:30It's not our world up there.
03:31And you're not still with much confusion.
03:35My Audi's wife died a few years ago, except the woman is Miss Casey.
03:40Well, the aspect I like how you said literal, because the aspect of the real is what is real and the idea.
03:48It's interesting looking at the literal playing the literal look.
03:53Love is hard to play. Love is ethereal.
03:56But it's also a lot of things we see in the show are metaphors, but you can't play metaphor.
04:00Could you talk about finding that because there's those grounded moments, you know, even I think in Woe's Hallow, there's a scene where, you know, where we look at we looking at Helena or Heli, you know, could you talk about finding the grounded element, even in this world that almost exists for them, but doesn't exist for others.
04:22Hmm. Yeah, the elements of that episode were effective.
04:29It was literally cold out.
04:31The water that Helena is being drowned in, it was cold water that I was in.
04:41So that has a physiological effect.
04:43Um, and then the real aspect of like the, the relationships that, um, that Heli has earned with all of the MDR, um, Helena's getting to feel what it's like to, to be Heli by the way that Mark looks at her, by the way that, um, Irving is suspicious of her, by the way that, um, Dylan is, um, well, I think Dylan is not necessarily,
05:13necessarily suspicious of her, but there's a friendship there, there's a friendliness that I don't think Helena has experienced before.
05:21Don't work. We'll be remembered as one of the greatest moments of this planet.
05:28You don't value them.
05:30You fear them.
05:32We fear no one.
05:36I'm tightening the leash.
05:37If we let this happen to Miss Casey, who's going to step up when it happens to us?
05:44You found her instinctively though, when you came back for season two, was it something that you dropped into or did you need to find her again? And then I'll let you go.
05:51With, with Heli R.
05:53Yeah.
05:54Yeah. Um, instinctually.
05:56And she's also just so, so driven, right? So holding the tension of coming back in episode five, I had to hold on to, okay, she's just been on stage shouting to a group of people, then she's tackled, then she's underwater, and she's like reorienting to what's going on.
06:20And then all of a sudden she's smack dab back in, in MDR again. So trying to hold that like action, but also the, the just total chaos of that. And keeping in mind that Heli is just always on a mission.
06:35And, you know, you'll notice in episode five, she's just immediately like walking down the Hollywood hallway with that, um, that same drive that, that, that sends her through the whole of season one.
06:50Now.
06:56Goodbye, Marcus.
06:58Wait!
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