COLLIDER: ALPHAS Guest Star Summer Glau and Showrunner Bruce Miller Talk Ramping Up the Action, Challenges of the Finale and Glau Becoming a Regular in Season 3
by Christina Radish
October 22nd, 2012
On the Season 2 finale of the Syfy drama series Alphas, Dr. Rosen (David Strathairn) and his team of alphas will have their final confrontation with season-long antagonist Stanton Parish (John Pyper-Ferguson). This unlikely group of ordinary people with superhuman physical and mental abilities are willing to risk their lives to help save the world, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be able to get there in time. The show also stars Malik Yoba, Warren Christie, Azita Ghanizada, Ryan Cartwright, Laura Mennell and Erin Way.
During this recent interview to promote the last episode of the season, executive producer/writer/showrunner Bruce Miller and guest star Summer Glau, who plays tech-savvy alpha Skylar Adams, talked about ramping up the action this season, what role Stanton Parish plays in the show’s mythology, the biggest challenges of the finale, and the possibility of making Skylar a regular character in Season 3. Glau also talked about Help for the Holidays, her Christmas movie for the Hallmark Channel, how much she’d love to do a guest role on Game of Thrones, the possibility of an animated Firefly series, and voicing Supergirl for Superman: Apocalypse...
... Question: Summer, you’ve played so many great characters on so many great shows. What was it specifically about Skylar that was so fascinating and that attracted to you to the role?
SUMMER GLAU: "The first thing that attracted me to Skylar was the fact that she was a mother. That was really exciting for me. I hadn’t played a mother before. One of the most challenging things about Skylar is that she is a mother, but it doesn’t come naturally to her. In my mind, the backstory that I’ve created is that she’s been on her own for a long time and is used to just fending for herself. And then, when it comes to her child, she’s very conflicted because she has all of these new feelings that she’s probably never experienced before, in regard to loving something so much more than she loves herself, and caring for something and protecting someone else, and making unselfish decisions. For me, as an actor, that was just a very, very fertile storyline, creatively."
BRUCE MILLER: "In regard to Summer, I inherited the character from last year, and the reason we wanted to bring her back was just because there’s that conflict between someone who’s very self-sufficient, but not selfish. She has to battle those two parts of her personality, in being a mother, which is really, really interesting. It’s so hard to be a parent and be a person, in the world, who can take care of themselves, but also have to take care of somebody else..."
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