SPOILER ALERT:Read on only if you have already watched the series finale ofOrphan Black.
We got both on the series finale ofOrphan Black.
The clones dispatched with both fake P.T.
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But the show was not done.
for the final time.
and headhere for news on a possibleOrphan Blackmovie.
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: When did you guys come up with your plan for how you wanted to endOrphan Black?
GRAEME MANSON:John and I sort of had a general ending in mind for quite a while.
And we had this idea that it was going to be a two-parter.
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JOHN FAWCETT:That was always kind of the plan.
That was something that I think we always kind of knew that we wanted.
That was really important to us.
Other than that, we had this plan in place for the last three years.
Shes got to be on set.
Shes got to be there for the finale.
So we went, okay, well, lets use her!
I mean, in the end, its an extraordinary bit of emotionalOrphan Blackness.
After I shot it, I was like, Wow, Ive never seen that on TV before.
MANSON:Yeah, twins.
Its not just one birth, its two.
MANSON:And dont forget Kevin Hanchard!
Dont forget Art was there for support.
FAWCETT:It took a lot of work to do that birthing sequence.
Its such an emotional scene and theyve got to be there every single time.
It was very challenging.
There is no question.
MANSON:Yeah, that was the whole thing that we really wanted to do.
This reluctant hero has grown up and shes filled her mothers shoes.
Graeme brought up the whole baby shower party.
John, how tricky was that four-clone scene at night on the patio to shoot?
FAWCETT:It was a long scene.
Because a lot of our scene work is not often very lengthy.
So this is a long sequence, and its divided up here and there.
It took a little while because there was obviously a lot of them in the scene.
The challenging part was just how emotional that scene was.
I think that was the night that we wrapped the character of Cosima.
That was her last scene, and so I remember it for that.
You go to set with your heart on your sleeve a little bit and you just be there.
You just be there and be in it and just try and be present.
Thats what it was for me.
Thats what I remember from it.
Did you play with different ideas in terms of how Rachels story would end?
MANSON:We did.
A lot of people really thought that she was irredeemable.
How could you redeem Rachel?
MANSON:I dont…
FAWCETT:No, you werent on the Rachel dead bandwagon?
[Killing her] was the easy narrative way out.
We wanted her to do the right thing, and we wanted that all through the seasons.
Weve seen her do some things that are kind of good, but then go back to being bad.
MANSON:Youre right though.
I remember now, John.
FAWCETT:You wanted Rachel to drive her wheelchair off the dock and into the lake as I recall.
You guys need to go back and make a supercut of all the Rachel death scenes that youdidntdo.
The very last shot ofOrphan Blackis of the empty house.
Where did that idea come from?
MANSON:We found that late.
It should have that teapot in it, and it was just a nice little send-off.
And it just felt so strange doing that.
I think thats a set that weve had so much in the series.
So what was the last day on set like?
MANSON:The last day on set was the birth.
FAWCETT:It sure was.
The birthing sequence took two days.
MANSON:There mustve been 80 people at the monitors.
FAWCETT:Yeah, for the last two hours.
MANSON:When we called cut there was just silence, nobody quite knew what to say.
I think John said, Lets not say anything, and we all just stood there for a while.
FAWCETT:And then we had bagels.
MANSON:And champagne.
We just all huddled on the set and no one wanted to leave.
Anything you all want to add about this journey coming to an end?
MANSON:We just really want to think Clone Club.
We want to say to our fans that youve been amazing.
You held up our little show.
Im getting emotional just saying thank you, Clone Club.
Thank you for being there for five seasons of this show.
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