![]() ![]() We knew we were making a spy show, don't get me wrong, but it was always about reality. One of the things Margarita and I and the cast talked about from the beginning was, let's play this real, let's play this emotional. I've done a lot of drama too, from "Barkskins" to "The Chi" and that stuff. And how much of the past was still informing the present and how much of the past was still limiting the present, or how much of the past was enabling the present, just being able to explore all those questions is really intense and exciting. For me - and this actually makes me very emotional in thinking about it now - so much of it, my Russian background and what being trained as a rhythmic gymnast created in me and growing up in communism too, right - I came in, so I came as things broke and what I grew up with and then coming to America, which for me, was the land of the free – and so this idea of imprisonment versus freedom, and these two places that this character lived in, the prison of her past life, of her training of – not just physical training but the mental damage that was done to her, unfortunately – and then having to live this life now of access of opportunity of being in America and finding a new identity and a new freedom for herself. Levieva: Of course, snd it's so incredible that Adam was able to capture it. Did that influence your understanding of the character?
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