The last couple of episode that you see, I think my work schedule was definitely upped. Has it been just a crazy-intense schedule for you making this show, given that it’s usually one group of actors working one day and some working another, but in a case like that episode, you needed to be there for almost all of it? Cerra: Pretty much. IGN: In last week’s episode, you were simultaneously appearing in three different scenes. (L-R): Paige Turco as Abby, Erica Cerra as Alie, and Isaiah Washington as Jaha in The 100 She has her fears but she feels like it belongs to her. “Is it an upgrade? Is it something to conquer me?” She just needs to get ahold of it because she feels it belongs to her. She knows that her creator went off to create this second AI so it must be an upgrade. She wants to make sure she can get ahold of it. She just knows she wants to get her hands on it so that it doesn’t affect her goal and doesn’t destroy her but as far as the second AI, Alie just doesn’t understand it. She has ideas of what it is and what it can do and concerns about it. As far as the second AI is concerned, she doesn’t understand it. So to her, she just wants to make sure that the human race goes on. Alie was given a program to save humanity and if that means saving two people, one man and one woman, that’s saving humanity. Is it hard for Alie to fathom the other AI’s approach, since she feels right to control people? Cerra: I don’t think it’s about controlling people. IGN: Alie much more overtakes someone’s mind than the second AI, which we’re told works in unison with whatever the person already is. So she definitely respects her and would want her on her side. I never really refer to her with any emotion but she would want her as an ally. She’s very clever, so I think she respects her and she admires her. Does she see Raven as a worthy adversary, someone to keep an eye on whether she’s under her thrall or not? Cerra: Yeah, because Raven is really smart, technically, and even sort of in life. IGN: She’s observed how strong Raven is, who has escaped her grasp. She doesn’t understand what the expression means but she’s simulating the idea, if that makes sense. She sees Jaha with concern so she simulates concern. She’s mimicking what she sees on other people’s faces. You know how if someone goes to England and they hear someone speak in a British accent and it rubs off on them? In my mind, that’s what’s happening. She’s downloaded how many humans’ minds and she’s been around humans for this length of time now so I feel like maybe she’s simulating emotions. So it was something that I played with and no one stopped me. But then at the same time, to have a character that is so continuously one note can get boring. I think the idea got a little knocked down because they wanted such a strong difference between the Becca character and the Alie character. So I wanted her to start to be able to simulate that. With humans, if someone dies, someone is sad. Is it interesting for you to modulate how much is the right amount to show and to have those little nuances with a character like this? Cerra: From the beginning, I always kind of wanted her emotions to build - to not really feel things but understand with cause and effect. There are moments that she is expressing that something needs to be done right away. IGN: She’s an AI and she’s not expressing emotions as we would, but at the same time, we see that she has this concern about this other AI.

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