Is Anna Getting Busy on V?

by Taryn Ryder and Jennifer Godwin

The Visitors are leaving for a while. (You know what they say about guests and fish stinking after three days.) Tonight is the last new episode of V’s premiere pod of episodes, and it’s a doozy. There are major reveals about the future (think circle-of-life type stuff), someone gets tortured to death, we learn more about the so-called “fifth column,” we learn that the Vs are out to get us using a method that would make Bill Maher nod and go “Toldya!,” and, oh yeah, Lisa (Laura Vandervoort) brings Tyler (Logan Huffman) home to meet her “mother.” Eek!

What’s to come after all of tonight’s alien madness is said and done? We caught up with superfoxy alien babe Morena Baccarin for an exclusive chat, and she hinted that things (maybe even big romantic things) are heating up for Anna. Here’s what we learned:

OK, what is up with your and Scott Wolf’s characters?
The relationship is definitely going to keep going in whatever strange direction it’s going now. You don’t really know if they’re going to fight each other, love each other, or if she’s going to eat him. You don’t know what’s going to happen! It gets really interesting in the episode that comes out on Tuesday. Something happens to his character that makes him very dependent on us. He has to sort of battle with his will to see what he’s going to do. It’s a very interesting dynamic.

Did you watch the original V to research your role at all, or did you steer clear from it?
I didn’t watch the original…I had seen it when I was really little, so I remember it and I remember the creepy factor, but I haven’t watched it since. I think I won’t, because I want to create this character on my own.

Now that we’re hooked, you’re taking a break from filming…
Yes! It’s torturous isn’t it? It’s torturous for me too. I really want to know what happens. We start back up in January, so just right after the holidays.

Does it make you nervous that you have several months of hiatus? Or do you think the suspense will help the show in the end?
I think it will help it. When people see the next episode, they’re definitely coming back for more!

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Her cryptic ‘V’ character is alien to animated Baccarin

By Donna Freydkin

And don’t tell her bosses at ABC, but she has gotten a little sick of it.

“I want to bleach my hair blond. I’d love to, but they would kill me right now if I did that,” she says.

No kidding. The series V, starring Baccarin as Anna, the poker-faced president of the extraterrestrial Visitors, has proven to be a hit for ABC. The fourth episode airs tonight (8 ET/PT), and the series returns in March.

Baccarin, 30, is animated and peppy in person. On screen, she’s as cool as, well, a lizard.

So she’s particularly excited that this week, “you get to see what makes Anna tick a little bit. It’s fun to be mysterious. I know that what Anna is doing and what her agenda is are really important, but you can’t let on. I have to make her likable and intriguing to people who feel like they shouldn’t like her.”

The Los Angeles-based actress, who was born in Brazil but grew up in New York, auditioned for the part and landed the job in one day.

“I read this role and gravitated toward it, which I don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing,” she says with a laugh.

Her shorn hair, which she had cut earlier, worked in her favor. “There was a tiny bit of debate in the beginning. There was a second there where we discussed if she should have long hair. But having her be different would be better. I voiced my opinion that she should be crisp and clean and precise. The costume designer totally agreed.”

Given that Baccarin played a courtesan in Joss Whedon’s sci-fi series Firefly and its big-screen adaptation, Serenity, has she been crowned the queen of the geeks?

Sort of.

“It’s been really weird to walk down the street. At the post office the other day, a woman said I looked exactly like the alien on V. It’s so weird to have people recognize you. They look at you like you’re an alien.”

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