Maisie Richardson-Sellers reveals why “Talamasca ”is nothing like her Arrowverse or “The Originals ”roles

Maisie Richardson-Sellers is in new territory with Talamasca: The Secret Order.

Not solely is AMC's Anne Rice TV sequence a very new story not primarily based on any of the writer's books, however Richardson-Sellers can also be attending to do one thing she's by no means achieved earlier than in her profession, regardless of making her title in a number of different supernatural TV universes together with the Arrowverse and The Vampire Diaries spinoff The Originals.

"What I like about it’s I'm enjoying a human, which is enjoyable," Richardson-Sellers tells Leisure Weekly. "It's my first time being in that universe however not being the supernatural creature. I've been superheroes, I've been witches, vampires, caught in witches' our bodies, however I haven't been a human round them, and it does provide you with a heightened consciousness of your mortality."

Talamasca is AMC's third TV present primarily based on Rice's beloved The Vampire Chronicles ebook sequence, following Interview With the Vampire and Mayfair Witches. The brand new spinoff (airing Sundays on AMC and AMC+) explores the titular shadowy group, featured in each current exhibits and lots of of Rice's books, that tracks and controls vampires, witches, and different supernatural creatures world wide. Richardson-Sellers stars as formidable and morally ambiguous Talamasca agent Olive, a grasp of disguise and handler to new recruit Man (Nicholas Denton).

"Regardless that Olive's weapon is her mind, she's so sensible and he or she's laser-focused on her mission, she's mortal, not like the those that she's up towards," the actor says. "It provides a brand new type of hazard and actually raises the stakes for me as a performer and in addition inside the world."

Whereas the sequence follows vampires, witches, telepaths, and different supernatural beings, Richardson-Sellers loves how the world continues to be "grounded in actuality."

"It feels to me like that is utterly plausible, this might occur," she explains. "These individuals might be residing amongst us, the Talamasca might be working. It's very related in a creepy manner. It's up to date, it's gritty, it's earthbound. It has that actual traditional spy-thriller suspense and mystique and thriller and excessive stakes, and but there's a supernatural factor to it, so it permits us to actually go into the feelings and the vulnerabilities and the actual nuance of human interplay while having the love that we do of vampires and otherworldly creatures and witches."

Whereas Richardson-Sellers had nearly no details about the position when she auditioned, she's thrilled with who Olive has turned out to be throughout the six-episode first season.

"It was a kind of clandestine auditions the place you don't actually get a lot context, which I type of love since you get to fill within the gaps for your self," the actor says. "I knew that she was this Talamasca agent, very deft with info, and really a lot expert within the previous custom of spycraft, be that disguises and going undercover and all that clandestine work. After which the remainder, I used to be like, 'Okay, let's play.'"

All through the primary three episodes, not a lot has been revealed about Olive. However Richardson-Sellers teases that rather more will likely be revealed within the again half of the season.

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"I like how she is a thriller," the actor says. "She's so multilayered and multifaceted, so you’re always adjusting and studying all through the entire season new sides of her character and her motives. She's a lone wolf. She actually exists inside the grey. I feel for her, there's no such factor pretty much as good and evil. It's all about her personal private ethical compass, and he or she believes that’s sharper and extra correct than any type of world or establishment's ethical compass."

Whereas she will be able to't reveal a lot concerning the last three episodes, she says there’s going to be an enormous motion scene that gave her chills throughout filming.

"There's this enormous struggle scene later within the season down by the docks, and there's about 50 witches and different people who find themselves having this massive struggle," she says. "It was simply so cool. I get to look at it from a bridge above, so I used to be trying down and I used to be like, 'Take a look at how a lot enjoyable we’ve got.' That was a extremely particular, stunning second that was very kind of humbling if you have a look at the size of issues."

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As for the place the primary season is heading within the finale, Richardson-Sellers warns that nobody is protected… not even Olive.

"Everyone seems to be in danger on this season," she teases. "There's actually intelligent twists. You're always left enjoying catch up and making an attempt to determine who is nice, who's unhealthy, what does good even imply inside this world, how will we outline it, who can we belief? It's an actual crescendo. It ramps up and it’ll go away you, I hope and imagine, actually gunning for a season 2. Every little thing is an ideal setup for the subsequent chapter. And I feel season 2, it's solely going to get greater and higher."

Discover out what occurs subsequent when Talamasca: The Secret Order airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on AMC and AMC+.

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