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Sarah Wayne Callies on Prison Break

by Nikki on May 8th, 2007

Sarah Wayne Callies sat down with Female First for an interview about Prison Break, Season Two and Season Three.

Your character has a lot more involvement in Series Two, how did you find that?

They took really great care of me in the second year and I really appreciate that. To me its not the number of lines you get. Its more about the scope they give your character. I got to get out a lot more in the second season rather than being stuck in the infirmary the whole time, which was kind of cool. I also got to work with a lot more of the actors and I got to discover a lot more range of Sarah’s emotional life. From grieving over her father, to trusting Lance to going through recovery to finding Michael, to losing Michael to finding Michael to losing Michael. All of that meant there was a lot of scope and that was really fun for me.

So a lot more of the second series is filmed on location now they have broken out of the prison. What was that like?

I enjoyed getting out of the prison. In fact I didn’t see the inside of the prison the whole time I don’t think. It was great that we got to explore and look around Texas and get to know another part of the country but at the same time there was something lovely about working at the prison every day. Partly because even if you didn’t have scenes with certain actors you would still see each other coming a going.

It was sort of an office that we would all check into so now there will be people that I won’t have seen for months and that’s too bad because I enjoy everyone I work with. I get on really well with everyone I work with. They are all really lovely.

When will Series Three filming commence

The rest of the cast will go back in June and I will go back post -baby.

And how will the story continue?

I don’t know a thing and I don’t know that anyone really does. There’s a lot of discussion going on right now about the direction thing will go in but I don’t know that there is anything concrete. By the end of the last episode of the second season Sarah has got a lot of things to atone for and I’d like to see her look squarely in the mirror and try and decide if she likes who she has become. I think the time has come for her to take a deep breath and evaluate and figure these things out.

Dr Sarah is quite and intense character. Do you ever find it hard to leave that behind after a long day filming?

She and I have been together for a long time now. It’s been a couple of years and I think I’m used to putting it on and taking it off fairly fluidly but at the same time there is a sense that you want to leave it all on the field at the end of the day. I’m usually tired at the end of the day and sometimes a bit disorientated but I think that’s just a sign that I turned up at work. Also I don’t work everyday so whereas Sarah will probably consume a day where I’m working the next day I may be off and then that’s all me.

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