Within the newest in our sequence of interviews with the Good Witch solid, we caught up with Sarah Energy. Sarah performs Abigail, who, together with her boyfriend Donovan, are working collectively to crack an outdated household curse that threatens their relationship.
At the side of an unique clip, Sarah previews what’s forward and presents her ideas on Good Witch Season 6, the curse, and the way a lot enjoyable it’s to get away from the studio for location shoots.
However first, please know that we’re cognizant of the instances. We’re hoping to carry just a little pleasure into your life. On latest occasions, Sarah mentioned, “It has been an emotional few days or a number of months, I suppose.
“It is lengthy overdue, these protests, and I am attempting to lend my help in any manner that I can from residence as a result of I am unable to actually go protest with my daughter, however I have been studying loads after which following the information intently.”
All people I’ve talked with loves engaged on Good Witch. What has your expertise been like?
Oh, it has been great. It is actually uncommon to have a present run for six seasons and all of us actually like one another and that is additionally actually uncommon. It is only a great household.
We’ve got a gaggle textual content and everybody’s all the time checking in with one another and I am actually hopeful that we’ll all get to return to work collectively quickly.
Yeah. It is unusual since you movie in a unique nation and attempting to the brand new parameters collectively, it is received to be onerous on you guys.
Yeah. I have been following that within the trades and all of the concepts about the best way to movie on this new world, and it is positively going to vary a number of issues. And it is too unhealthy.
We’ve got a number of enjoyable scenes the place it is all of us collectively and we’ve got all these massive group scenes, I simply do not know if these will probably be potential within the subsequent Good Witch season or on any present that I work on. Like what it may be like.
We’re additionally actually shut with our crew, and I am actually nervous that we’ll be separated from them for probably the most half now if we return. It is completely different. It should be very bizarre. And units are very tight-knit and familial, and that simply is likely to be a really completely different expertise now.
Properly, hopefully, there will be some good end result of this and possibly we’ll be taught one thing, possibly that it is not as contagious. I do not know, possibly they’re going to be taught one thing. There are nonetheless so many issues they do not know.
Yeah. We’re hopeful, however there’s a number of methods to enhance the performance of movie units, so possibly. And folks get sick on movie units on a regular basis. Flu run rampant, so it is good to reassess and see how we do issues in another way and transfer ahead in a safer manner
And hold one another wholesome.
Yeah, precisely.
When Abigail first arrived in Middleton, she had a little bit of a chip on her shoulder. And now she’s very near her household, she’s an excellent buddy to Cassie and Grace, and he or she’s even sharing a few of what she’s discovered alongside the way in which with Pleasure.
What are your ideas on Abigail’s journey since she arrived?
Abigail was a little bit of a troublemaker when she got here to city and favored to do issues her personal manner. And I feel over the course of six seasons she has actually discovered loads from Cassie after which began to see issues in another way.
And I feel the software for her was on the finish of season 4 when she was confronted by Phil with the choice of leaving Middleton. I feel that was the second she determined that Middleton was her residence, and he or she was going to stay it on the market and keep together with her new household.
Now, with the arrival of Pleasure, it is like she will get to share all of the issues that Cassie’s taught her and I feel she sees herself in Pleasure, as a result of when Abigail first got here to city, she thought her manner was the appropriate manner discovered some worthwhile classes and it is serving to Pleasure.
They’re so in sync and actually supportive of one another. What was that like on set?
It was actually enjoyable. The magic was toned down within the earlier years as a result of it was solely actually Cassie and I who had it.
However now that there is a new character who has absolutely developed powers of her personal in order that all of us simply wink; we’re all in on it now, and we will deal with issues collectively. It has been a very enjoyable season with all these, the magic of the curse and issues with Pleasure and the way she suits into this and to the curse, as nicely.
Yeah. She’s ended up having fairly a number of good concepts since she’s been there.
Yeah, and we’ll have to observe and see if she might need extra solutions than we thought.
I spoke with Kylee Evans final week, and similar to Stephanie, Abigail had a string of misses within the romance division, however now she’s received one thing fairly nice with Donovan. However in fact, there’s that fixed fear that one thing, an out of doors pressure is attempting to drag them aside.
What do you suppose attracts them to one another, and why do you suppose they’re preventing so onerous to remain collectively?
I feel it is as a result of they began off as foes and simply commonplace reactions to one another once they have been preventing over Blairsville and Middleton. And I feel it is simply the attraction.
The connection ramped up once they have been confronted with the curse as a result of you realize when you have got a typical enemy, nothing bonds you want having a typical enemy.
And it actually made them should determine if that is what they wished. And I feel we’re each very cussed folks.
If they need one thing, they are not going to let something stand of their manner and they are going to battle for it. And that is what we see this season, is them preventing to remain collectively and never letting a 200-year-old curse hold them aside.
Do you suppose they know one another in addition to they suppose they do, to be preventing for one thing so onerous on this manner?
And I ask that due to what occurred with the candle and when Abigail revealed that sometime she would possibly prefer to dwell in Italy in addition to him working for governor. There are some big variations between them, and it looks as if loads to ask so early.
Yeah. I feel that was an fascinating episode for me as a result of I used to be like the place’s this coming from? However I feel it is a part of what I used to be simply speaking about with the curse is that it has accelerated their relationship.
As a result of they have been confronted with a call, like if one thing’s attempting to maintain you aside, you both are going to battle it, otherwise you name it now and break up. They usually went all-in on preventing it.
And I feel whereas they’re doing this, you see the remainder of their relationship catching up with them. And there is all these items that they have not discovered, like so what if we break this curse? What do our lives appear like?
They usually have not really had an opportunity to determine that half out but, so it is fascinating to see what occurs with the curse and the way it evolves and the way their relationship evolves due to it.
And though it is not enjoyable for Abigail, it is enjoyable for viewers when she and Donovan observe down clues within the massive Merriwic-Davenport curse. So, you and Mark should exit and go to completely different places and stuff. What’s that like? Is that enjoyable to go to all of the little spots and stuff and observe down clues?
Yeah, it is actually enjoyable. Mark and I are literally outdated associates.
Oh, actually?
So, I knew him earlier than. And that episode particularly, the place we went to the clock tower and it was simply the 2 of us for the entire episode and we have been in all these wonderful places outdoors of Toronto and Hamilton, in that space in Cambridge.
And in every single place we shot have been wonderful historic websites and it was simply us and our crew that we liked, so it was actually enjoyable. The episode felt like an actual journey and I like working with Mark, so it was a number of enjoyable.
Was that an actual clock tower then?
It was. Truly, we needed to pause every now and then as a result of it could make a loud ding. I even have some movies of that. We’d simply pause and wait. And we needed to have earplugs in as a result of we have been really within the clock tower, so it was extraordinarily loud. And it was lovely.
We may solely have, I feel, 10 folks up there, so we actually pared down crew, and everybody else was downstairs with video displays. However it was simply our digital camera man and our sound guys and me and Mark, and that was about it. It was actually enjoyable.
I liked that. I captured some screenshots to make use of in my assessment as a result of I assumed these scenes have been so enjoyable. And actually, you could possibly inform it was historic, however I did not realize it was going to be a complete clock tower. That is very cool.
There have been some actually cool places to be in.
And in the event you’ve identified Mark for a very long time, what’s it like performing collectively and having this onscreen relationship?
It is a lot enjoyable. I’ve identified him for years. We met years in the past after which he occurs to be one in every of my husband’s associates. They went to theater college collectively, and I nonetheless see him on a regular basis right here, so having him on set is a lot enjoyable.
My husband and child could be in my trailer and Mark would simply come to hang around. It is good. It actually added to the household really feel of our set.
Oh, that is good. So, your husband goes with you once you’re filming generally?
Yeah. My mother got here for a few months as a result of my husband was really away filming in Winnipeg. After which when my husband was completed, he would include our daughter and hang around whereas I used to be capturing.
She was an actual hit on set this 12 months.
Oh, I am positive. Are you able to inform if she already has aspirations to behave?
She liked the hair and make-up trailer, which worries me just a little bit. It was her favourite place. The hair and make-up division was so great. They’d simply let me carry her in and feed her and present her make-up brushes.
And she or he was solely 5 – 6 months outdated on the time, however she liked it in there. It was her glad place. They’d do my make-up on my lap. It was actually cute.
Aw. I am picturing little women stomping round of their mom’s footwear and sporting their jewellery. That may be like a dream.
Yeah, it was so cute.
So, regardless of their finest efforts, issues take a flip for Abigail and Donovan on this coming episode. I am sharing an unique clip of the argument that they’ve about his cellular phone, which on the floor appears small.
However you by no means know, so I am questioning in the event you can tease what’s forward for them on that episode.
Properly, they’re confronted with a brand new dilemma, which is — possibly working so onerous to drag collectively is definitely not what they need to be doing to interrupt the curse.
For those who may give Abigail and Donovan some relationship recommendation, what would it not be?
I suppose to determine, possibly sit down and discuss what life will appear like in the event you do break the curse and what you each need. And if you did not have the curse standing in your manner, what would you guys be doing proper now? That may be my couple’s remedy query.
What are some issues that you just actually take pleasure in about Abigail, and one factor that you do not?
I like Abigail. I am unable to actually consider something I do not like about her. I might’ve mentioned in previous seasons that I assumed she’s just a little bit too boy loopy, however I really feel like she’s with Donovan for the appropriate causes, so it is not that she needs a boyfriend or wants a boyfriend.
It is that she’s type of met her match lastly. However I like her. I like all the things about her. It was a enjoyable character to play, and I feel you must love the characters you. I am unable to actually consider a foul factor to say about her. She’s good.
Because you’re surrounded by flowers and chocolate on a regular basis, what are your favorites? And does Abigail carry them within the retailer?
You realize, I have not seen peonies in her retailer, however I say peonies are my favourite. And I do not actually like chocolate to be trustworthy, and the chocolate within the store will not be actual chocolate. It is all faux, artwork division.
Oh, and it must be. It could soften, would not it?
Yeah, it could be fairly gross after some time, with sizzling lights on it. Yeah, I am not a chocolate particular person. I am a salty particular person.
A salty particular person? So, you’d have the pretzels and nuts and chips that may go along with the chocolate?
Yeah. I might have chips and French fries. I might have a French fry machine in my store if I had a store.
Yum. What’s it prefer to lastly have Sam treating any individual on the town? What are these days like on set everytime you’re all pretending to fret about any individual that you just actually care about?
Yeah. Anytime we had something like that, it is normally a visitor that Sam is treating, not a sequence common. It was fascinating. The present is a very glad and constructive present, and Middleton is a peaceable world, which is why I feel so many individuals are drawn to it proper now.
So, it was a high-quality line of being concerned, however with out making it too intense and too dire. So, it was nice as a result of we had all these scenes collectively, and Scott and Kylee are so nice.
However there’s the overarching theme that all the things goes to be high-quality, and Cassie and Abigail and Pleasure in all probability already know that all the things goes in the direction of that, in order that’s all the time at play, as nicely. However it was good to have some scenes to play with all people collectively.
Is not it humorous that your characters all the time know what’s coming, and but you do not share with one another what’s coming? Like, Cassie is aware of precisely what’s coming for Abigail and Donovan. However as a substitute of giving them a touch, they get to go on all these adventures and attempt to dig by way of it themselves.
[laughs] Yeah. It’s totally irritating as a result of we’ll usually get to the top of an episode and be like, oh wait, so Cassie knew the entire time what we must always have executed?
And Cassie’s the one which all the time is aware of all the things, so we joke about how we’re speculated to be taught the teachings ourselves, however this entire factor may have been prevented as a result of Cassie knew what was occurring.
Yeah, it is type of a working joke. Is she really actually imply and simply would not inform us what is going on to occur? [laughs] However yeah, it’s. It is this witch factor the place we’re all-knowing, however we’ve got to let folks go on their very own journey and be taught issues for themselves.
And that is the primary season that Cassie’s had her personal journeys and has had conditions the place she’s not sure. Did you discover, and the way was that? Since you guys had some recommendation for her. Pleasure knew what was forward for her job search, for instance.
That is the primary time you have had the tables turned. Was that enjoyable?
Yeah. It is good to see Cassie out of her consolation zone. And I feel Grace and Nick are off to highschool, she’s received empty nest syndrome, and he or she’s able to spend money on her personal life, and it has been enjoyable.
Yeah, it has been enjoyable simply to have extra of the magic again, and what meaning for the three of us. And the way we mess with one another in some methods has been actually enjoyable, like we tease one another. It has been actually enjoyable to play these scenes with Kat and Catherine.
Tune into Good Witch Season 6 Episode 6 on Sunday, June 7, and are available again to TV Fanatic for a full assessment after the episode. Within the meantime, you possibly can watch Good Witch online proper right here, too.
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