What's your theory on Lilah's past? How did she get to be who she is today?
Well, that's a very interesting question. I think for me I figured that she must have been either orphaned [or] not really had much family contact, so therefore she has no real ties or ability to have major ties.
That's what makes it easy for her to be in this world where it's about power and about just getting ahead, because it seems that she must have been a child of survival, having to survive and therefore that his her main goal. That's my take on it, that makes her more... a bit like a robot.
Do you find you need to have that in the background of your mind to play Lilah?
I like to think of a lot of different kind of character choices and reasonings and motivations. I then set up a whole background, just so I have a feel of who she is with each moment in different scenes that they give you. Then you have an idea of how to attack them because you're coming from a specific place.
I find the more specific you are, the more real the character feels, and the more layers you can give them... Because she's supposed to be an evil character, to play her as ambiguous is possible, because I think true evil is harder to detect - like if they're truly evil you're not sure, 'cos they're so good at it. Are they bad? Are they good? What's going on? So I always try to give her that edge.
