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Wade Tillman, a.k.a.
that guy who wears a shiny mask made of reflectatine.
After one take, we never used that mask again.
The sequin mask, that never died.
We used that throughout.
The green-screen mask got joined by whats called a fractal mask.
Over the course of shooting, it got a lot easier.
It was difficult initially, but always interesting.
They would then take the footage from the GoPro and paint it onto the digital mask.
They were painting it onto the green mask or the fractal mask digitally.
So they could create the reflections in his mask?You get the reflections of Looking Glasss interlocutors.
It was interesting to internalize that with this character whos always trying to perceive whats going on with others.
That was really good for playing the character.
But Id read that Damon Lindelof actuallychanged the backstoryafter you signed on.
What changed?I dont want to go into what he originally had.
If you want to ask him and he chooses to tell you, thatd be fine with me.
I feel like it would be unfair to him for me to expose that.
That said, I love what replaces it.
While not as provocative, its just as intriguing and ultimately better for the overall story.
Not necessarily as trenchant, but certainly more integral to the overall season.
It certainly ties him more closely to the events of the graphic novel.
I was obviously given great raw material in terms of a guy who wears his mask even at home.
He sews it even into the inside of his hat as a civilian.
He has trust issues around women.
All of that is in text, in dialogue and scene description.
Whats extraordinary about what Damon has done has to do with what Ill callhokum.
Hes got just the right amount of the fun nonsense youre asked to leave in the source material.
And, perhaps, away from religious belief.
I dont believe in torturing or dispensing with innocence in pursuit of greater good.
I think thats the soft underbelly of that sort of calculation.
Moreover, Ozymandias predicates what he does on the inevitability of nuclear Holocaust.
But no, I wouldnt drop a squid.
Damon said he would drop a squid?
He wouldve done it?
You grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where the show is set.
So very much of her is exposed in the way that shes playing Angela.
But Wade betrays Angela in this episode, right?
The Seventh Kavalry is going to go kill her.
He believes that its true.
And also [pause] I guess this is a spoiler, so I cant say that.
I was just going to make another point, but that would get me in trouble.
Since Wade is often in a mask, so much of your performance depends on the voice.
How did you approach that?
Because I always felt that the accent would carry a lot of that water.
The smarter he is, the more interesting, and the less he says, the more powerful.
Since thats what Damon wanted in the first place, those conversations were always easy.
