I'm interested in what the fans think, in what would make them feel connected to the Wayward Pines they had grown to love. I had a lot of fun thinking about the first season.

'Wayward Pines' has largely been, in my experience, a show left to the actors.

Wayward Pines, I tell you, is a strange place, and the entry is always the hardest part. I was just going along for the ride.

You have to let the costume inform you.

I know that one of my difficulties as an actor is to try to do too much, from all those years ago when my acting took place live on a stage. It was just my shiny face there, so you've gotta be super careful how much over-expressing you're doing with your eyes and nose and so on.

I always wanted to play a nun, and to play the Reverend Mother was a thrill of a lifetime for me. But, generations back, my family were not churchgoers, which is an unusual thing in the United States.

Why do we have to pretend we're not in the sales game? I didn't sign on to be a salesman. I signed on to be an actor.

Hire me for the next picture. I don't have to just play down-and-out trailer trash and mean, old, wicked, old nuns. I could play a princess or a queen. That's all I wanted to do. Because campaigning does go on. It's a part of selling the film.

Docudrama is not really my game, but it's interesting to play real people; it's interesting to play 'real.'

I'm not a particularly ambitious actress. I love to go and do my work, head down in the dirt, and be the character.