This is an excerpt from the interview:
How is your character re-introduced as Anna’s mom?
I think it’s a really powerful thing. It’s a whole Greek tragedy, mother-daughter. I was the queen before her. She imprisoned me. She put me in a dungeon, and everyone thinks that I am dead. And so she has become the new queen. Very early on, she comes to visit to me, so that’s when it is revealed that I am alive. It’s a whole power play – my different ways of ruling versus her ways of ruling. They make me out to be the more benevolent of the two. And perhaps I am, but I’m also the queen. That carries arrogance with it. It’s not just all nice. It also is revealed why I can’t leave the dungeon, which is all kind of exciting, too. There are lots of special effects.
Where is the dungeon?
I’m in the bowels of the ship. But in the hole where I live, they have recreated it like our planet. It’s like this extra -terrestrial terrain. It’s really cool.
Do you undermine Anna?
Yes. It does take a while but once people come to visit me by mistake, once people enter my lair…I can’t say what happens, but it’s huge last episode and hopefully viewers will flock to see the show because it will be amazing.
Is there a potential for you to come back?
I always thought I’d be a one-season person, but there is always that potential. It depends, I guess, on the reaction to me. I’m very pleased with this one season. It definitely did what I wanted to do!
Ratings weren’t so great for V‘s first season.
They are trying to reinvent it in their own way. You can never recapture something. Who knows why something becomes magic in its time? I don’t understand it. To this day, I get on my Facebook page because it gives me contact with the fans. And each day I might have 20, 30, or 40 messages from new people who all remember the old V. I just think, wow. Why? Why did it capture so many young people? I guess that was the genius of [creator] Ken Johnson and maybe it was the time we lived in. I don’t think the show will ever be that, but I still think it’s a very, very good series and I’d love to see it find some sort of an audience.
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