Wynonna Earp Stars Scrofano & Krill & Showrunner Andras Talk Season One Finale

Melanie Scrofano, Natalie Krill, and Emily AndrasTonight on Syfy, season one of Wynonna Earp comes to a close. In the episode, Wynonna, played by Melanie Scrofano, battles for Purgatory and tough choices must be made.

Earlier in the week stars Scrofano and Natalie Krill, who plays Wynonna’s sister Willa, as well as showrunner Emily Andras, talked to the media about the season finale and more.

In last week’s episode, Wynonna finally kissed Dolls. Scrofano talked to SciFi Vision about the kiss.

“The whole season, I, Melanie, was going like, ‘when? It's got to come, right? When is it coming? I know it's coming, otherwise, I don’t know how to tell stories.' I was really getting excited for it.

“And I think probably Wynonna would have been the same, like, 'I think, I think he wants to kiss me, but maybe he doesn’t; maybe I'm disgusting. Maybe he wants to kiss me now. No, not now. Cool.' And so I think we were - it was like a parallel journey of going, "Holy crap."

“And then in the moment that it happens, it's just one of those things that didn’t feel forced. It just felt like, 'yes, this makes sense right now.' So it was nice; it didn’t feel popped in by formula. It was just like, 'yes, this would make perfect sense right now given what's going on.' ”

Krill and Andras talked to the site about how Natalie feels in regards to her feelings for Bobo.

“Emily can help me out with this, but I'll say my perspective on it. I think that it starts out as a Stockholm syndrome type of relationship, falling in love with your captor, but then I think as their relationship grows on, it actually reverses dynamic and Bobo is more at the mercy of Willa towards the end of it, I would say. “

Andras added, “I think that's perfect. I think she definitely is the power player by the end.

“It's a good question, and I'm actually a little loath to commit. I think that's one of the things that makes Willa such a delicious character, and Natalie did such an amazing job portraying her. She remains a mystery. There are hints that when she was younger, she wasn’t necessarily the nicest kid. She was kind of a bully to Waverly, but at the same time, we've also seen that she was subject to her own psychological trials vis-à-vis her dad, who was training her to basically be a killer, and he's kind of a mean drunk.

“So it's a question we ask ourselves a lot about villains, like, were they born or were they made? And with Willa I would argue that it's a little bit of both. You know, if I'm Wynonna though, I think the important thing is this is someone that I love, and she was clearly broken along the way, and I did the right thing, which is I maybe put her out of her misery. But I think there's still some story to explore in exactly what happened to Willa and why she went bad, so to speak.”

Syfy Conference Call
Wynona Earp
Showrunner Emily Andras, stars Melanie Scrofano and Natalie Krill

June 20, 2016
3:00 p.m. ET

SCIFI VISION: Melanie, I had talked to Shamier [Anderson] about this, so I want to ask you, can you talk about the Wynonna/Dolls kiss from both a character's perspective and an actor's perspective?

Melanie ScrofanoMELANIE SCROFANO: Yes, I just feel he - the whole season, I, Melanie, was going like 'when? It's got to come, right? When is it coming? I know it's coming, otherwise, I don’t know how to tell stories.' I was really getting excited for it.

And I think probably Wynonna would have been the same, like, 'I think, I think he wants to kiss me, but maybe he doesn’t; maybe I'm disgusting. Maybe he wants to kiss me now. No, not now. Cool.' And so I think we were - it was like a parallel journey of going, "Holy crap."

And then in the moment that it happens, it's just one of those things that didn’t feel forced. It just felt like, yes, this makes sense right now. So it was nice; it didn’t feel popped in by formula. It was just like yes, this would make perfect sense right now given what's going on.

SCIFI VISION: OK. Great. Thanks. And then as a follow-up, this is for Natalie but also Emily, I think you can chime in on this. I was wondering if you could talk a bit about Willa's relationship with Bobo (Michael Eklund). Is it completely like a Stockholm syndrome type thing? Do you think she actually has legitimate feelings or was she this sort of - I don’t want to say evil, but this not-nice person from the very beginning that they just didn’t know?

NATALIE KRILL: Well, Emily can help me out with this, but I'll say my perspective on it. I think that it starts out as a Stockholm syndrome type of relationship, falling in love with your captor, but then I think as their relationship grows on, it actually reverses dynamic and Bobo is more at the mercy of Willa towards the end of it, I would say. What do you think, Emily?

EMILY ANDRAS: Oh, yes, I think that's perfect. I think she definitely is the power player by the end.

NATALIE KRILL: Yes.

EMILY ANDRAS: It's a good question, and I'm actually a little loath to commit. I think that's one of the things that makes Willa such a delicious character, and Natalie did such an amazing job portraying her. She remains a mystery. There are hints that when she was younger, she wasn’t necessarily the nicest kid. She was kind of a bully to Waverly (Dominque Provost-Chalkley), but at the same time, we've also seen that she was subject to her own psychological trials vis-à-vis her dad, who was training her to basically be a killer, and he's kind of a mean drunk.

So it's a question we ask ourselves a lot about villains, like, were they born or were they made? And with Willa I would argue that it's a little bit of both. You know, if I'm Wynonna though, I think the important thing is this is someone that I love, and she was clearly broken along the way, and I did the right thing, which is I maybe put her out of her misery. But I think there's still some story to explore in exactly what happened to Willa and why she went bad, so to speak.

QUESTION: Talk about putting a bow on the season and even leaving something open, which I won't spoil. But what I really liked about it is the struggle going on between Willa and Wynonna and trying to bring her back in the fold a little bit. Talk about that, in filming those scenes and creating those scenes, what it was like.

NATALIE KRILL: Well, I'll just say from Willa's perspective I think she does love Wynonna deeply but what's driving her is she thinks she's doing something that's for the greater good. So she's a martyr. She thinks nothing else matters because she's going to save everyone and this is what she has to do. It doesn’t matter about her relationships and this and that, it's just that she has to do this.

MELANIE SCROFANO: Yes, and the same thing for Wynonna, I think they both really believe that their way is going to be the thing that saves the world, so to speak. And -- but it's also that tricky thing for Wynonna, this her big sister who was her best friend and besides her father, this is who she idolized.

And to be able to see her for what she is now is really difficult and really -- there's that block that happens when you love somebody and you don’t see them honestly, which was really sad. And I hope I answered the question. I have to apologize to everyone. I'm in public and so people are passing by and I'm trying to...

EMILY ANDRAS: When you guys were talking about it you made me realize you girls are so smart. When you were talking about, you made me realize like, oh, my God, Willa and Wynonna want the same thing. They both think they’re saving the world. And now that that's what I intended. I'm going to be like, “Yes, that's what they want. That's totally what I wrote,” but it's not. You guys are way smarter. So see?

QUESTION: Emily [commented before] that Wynonna Earp was like your baby, and everybody else might look at it, and it might be ugly, but you love it, because it is yours. And now that the show is coming to an end, and you guys are finishing off the season, how are you feeling [about] the positive reception your weird, smushed baby has gotten?

EMILY ANDRAS: Right. Well, I'm so glad the end of your question wasn’t, "And you're right, nobody likes your baby. Bye." And that would have been weird for you to call in and to specifically say that. To say I hate your baby and then hang up. That would have been so odd.

But - oh, I honestly, I know people say this all the time but I am completely blown away by the response. And so delighted. I wanted people to like it. You just want people to like it. You just want to make people feel something and then to enjoy it. But I feel like the fact that people have just fallen in love and really understood how talented this cast is and how once in a lifetime this cast is, has made me so happy.

And so the fact that people are sometimes looking it through a lens of it's a really strong feminist show or it has really good representation or we're trying to talk about themes that are interesting even though it’s the demon cowgirl show. I think that little piece of it that people think it's -- for lack of a better term, sometimes “it's smart” is something I wouldn’t have even dared to let myself think. So it's like we put glasses on the smushed baby face to make it look smart and people are like hey, this is good. So I honestly could not be more thrilled. I feel just completely delighted and proud. So proud. I'm so proud of these guys on the line. I just think they're so exceptional and we were so lucky to have them. So there you go.

FEMALE: We were lucky - we were lucky to get these roles. They're amazing roles to be able to play.

Natalie KrillQUESTION: Are you guys excited for Comic-Con? Everybody's excited for you guys to come.

MELANIE SCROFANO: Yes, I'm terrified. I hear that it's really - I'm not great in crowds so I'm like - I hear it's crowded but I'm really excited. Some people on Twitter already posted their cosplay outfits from our show. And that made it more real and got me really excited because I'm like, “People like us, maybe. Maybe they're going to come say hi.” So I'm very excited.

QUESTION: Do you have on the docket any more Comic-Cons that you're going to be attending in other places? Because obviously the fandom is super pumped and want to get a chance to see you live.

EMILY ANDRAS: We're just going to send Melanie, because she loves crowds is what I just...

MELANIE SCROFANO: I'm super good in crowds.

EMILY ANDRAS: If we could find a really crowded Comic-Con that's hot and sweaty, we can send Mel. No, but all joking aside, I certainly can't speak for the rest of the cast but if you invite us and we aren't in production and also there's a root beer and a place to stay, sure. Yes, of course, I think we would consider it. We don’t have any formal plans yet that I know of, but one of the advantages of being so closely affiliated with IDW, with a graphic novel comic book company, is they are all over the con circuit and they know how to do it. So I'm like, “Sign me up!” I could have a year of just doing cons, but that's just me.

MELANIE SCROFANO: You make IDW sound super slutty.

EMILY ANDRAS: They're in with all the cons, if you know what I mean.

FEMALE: Yes, yes.

FEMALE: They really just slip their way in there.

FEMALE: Yes, exactly. Exactly.

QUESTION: Melanie, do you think Wynonna getting to know Nicole Haught (Katherine Barrell) on her own terms will help when she inevitably finds out that she's dating Waverly?

MELANIE SCROFANO: Yes, I feel like for Wynonna - I don’t know. This is my interpretation. What I love about what we do is that it's open to interpretation. I feel like Wynonna just - if you're a good person, she's in. And if you're a shitty person, she's not in. And Officer Haught clearly is not a shitty person. And mostly she just wants - that's her goal in life. One of her goals in life is to make sure that her sister is OK and whoever is going to do that and do right by her, I think Wynonna is cool with. You know what I mean? Like that's the dog in her fight is making sure Waverly is OK.

QUESTION: I thought you guys rocked the dresses that you wore at the party. So I just want to know if there's a story behind the dress that you picked and also at least especially for Melanie. When did Wynonna have time to shop?

MELANIE SCROFANO: OK. Well, I'm going to let that one go to your imagination because I don’t have an answer. You know what, she travelled a lot before she came back to Purgatory, I think she picked up a little - maybe she stole it. Emily, she stole it, right?

EMILY ANDRAS: This is amazing. Yes, this is amazing. Keep going.

MELANIE SCROFANO: Yes.

Emily AndrasEMILY ANDRAS: Only if it’s accurate.

FEMALE: She dated a count.

MELANIE SCROFANO: That's what I'm going with.

FEMALE: Maybe she dated a count for a minute, I don’t know who. Like Count Dracula.

MELANIE SCROFANO: She definitely stole it. Yes. But the story behind it is that Jennifer - I think you pronounce her name Haffenden. Anyway, our costume designer was incredible, and she came to my room with a bunch of beautiful options. And there was this red one that really stood out, but it had a really high neck actually. And it was a bit looser. And I think Emily may have asked for it to be slightly more revealing. So I have you to blame.

EMILY ANDRAS: Plungy.

MELANIE SCROFANO: Yes, it was very plungy.

EMILY ANDRAS: Yes, plungy was the official vote. Yes.

MELANIE SCROFANO: And I think we did five fittings where they just suctioned me into it and basically I had to take it home because I couldn’t get it off. So that's the story behind my dress.

FEMALE: She looked so amazing. It was like not even close. It was not even close.

QUESTION: And Natalie?

NATALIE KRILL: Yes, I - similar - Jennifer came to my trailer and I tried on I think four or five dresses and I was like, "Yes, any of them." They were all stunning dresses, I could have easily been happy with any of them, but the blue one with the gold just seemed really to suit Willa and where she was at in that point in the story and a little bit darker, a little bit sexier. So that's the one that...

EMILY ANDRAS: Yes, there was another one that looked beautiful on you. It was gorgeous. It was like couture, we were like-

NATALIE KRILL: It was beautiful. I wanted it. Nobody gave it to me.

FEMALE: But you looked beautiful in the navy. You looked smoking.

MELANIE SCROFANO: I love the navy. Yes. I loved the navy. And I was wearing sweatpants that day on set, but you can just use your imagination.

QUESTION: For Peacemaker, [was it] giving Wynonna a warning about Willa, or did it fritz on her because Willa was the heir? Or could it be both?

EMILY ANDRAS: I feel like it was confused. I think it was trying to decide who the true heir was. And I think by the end, it did because it, intense and like heart. Not to get into it but I feel like it was very confused between Willa and Wynonna but ultimately in the finale, you understand. I hope Wyatt chose Wynonna which is that Willa went wrong. Willa didn’t have good intentions at her heart so I feel like the gun ultimately [chose] her. That's just my interpretation.

FEMALE: The gun is called Peacemaker so...

FEMALE: Yes, exactly. Willa wasn’t really making peace anymore. She wasn’t really making - she thought she was.

QUESTION: Emily, do you think if we do a spinoff you would [have] like Willa and the Shit disturber?

EMILY ANDRAS: Oh, I'd love that.

QUESTION: Or a flamethrower.

EMILY ANDRAS: Yes, I'll do that and then you can wear the pink dress. See, that's perfect? There you go. Full circle.

FEMALE: That would be really hot actually.

EMILY ANDRAS: That'd be amazing. I definitely thought about other guns, so that would be kind of good.

Natalie Krill and Melanie ScrofanoFEMALE: As long as I still have a job, it's great.

EMILY ANDRAS: I think so. Yes.

QUESTION: I've heard people say that your show sets an example as far as being able to treat your gay women with the respect that is not afforded some other shows, especially since the death toll for fictional queer women is up to 20 so far this year. And I'm sure that's almost double for women in general, especially the infamous week in April where we had 10 in one week. My question is how would you say that your show differentiates from having to resort to that? Because most excuses of other shows are well, that's just where the plot ended up. I guess what I'm asking is what is your response to that and how does that influence your show?

EMILY ANDRAS: Right. Well, first of all, I would never speak to the thought process of another show or another show runner or another writing room. I don’t know what excuse is given there. Yes, I just would never know. And as a show runner, I always am careful to say there are a thousand, thousand things that go into any decision on a show, especially when you're killing off a character. I'm incredibly aware of the Bury Your Gays trope and was quite astonished at what happened in 2016 where we were basically losing lesbians left, right, and center. To be completely honest, it was pretty crazy. I'm hoping it was just a terrible, terrible coincidence and if nothing else, I think that there's one good thing that came out of the destruction so to speak is that the Bury Your Gays trope really became front and center in the media.

It became something that we were talking about as a group and that is a good way to start making change. One thing I'm really proud about and that I really want to emphasize is that our show was written in its entirety and shot before this went down. We've been finished since January 2015 so what may or may not have happened on other shows had no bearing on our show.

That being said, I'm lucky enough that I am a woman writing a genre who was involved with another show called Lost Girl [doing] which did amazing things with LGBT representation. We were really proud that we had a bisexual lead who ultimately ended up with her female love interest and that was really important to us. And the well-versed representation of the LGBT community on screen and also how passionate and dedicated and lovely that community is as fan base and how, dare I say, desperate to see themselves represented on screen in a way that feels fully fleshed out. They want to see themselves as three dimensional characters. They want to see them as different characters. Not every lesbian is the same. It's the same way not every straight guy is the same. Although sometimes it feels like it. Whoa. As far as portrayal on screen.

So I just feel that I am lucky enough or I know what I want and what I really like is to write three-dimensional female characters, that is very much I think what makes Wynonna Earp work. We have a variety of women on the show from villains to straights to lesbians, what have you, to cops to sisters. So I think if you are just writing a variety of women on the screen, no one woman has to represent all women. And part of that is just want to give satisfying storylines that don’t necessarily end in destruction because of who they are or who they love.

So yes, I'm very aware of the trope. I know it's a trope that's very dangerous and needs to be addressed on television so it's something that I'm very conscious of when I'm writing. And I hope more people are aware of it after this year. I really truly think you would have to be crazy not to know that this is something that we maybe should discuss and maybe do better at.

QUESTION: Yes, it's really very reassuring that everyone cares, that in and of itself is reassuring.

EMILY ANDRAS: Yes, I think it's hard. I think about - especially young LGBT viewers I think had a really tough year and I just think about when I was 14 and how hard that could have been. So again, we can't all drive the bus when it comes to storytelling. You can get on the bus and go where we're going or you can get off the bus if you don’t like where it's going. But I think if you're recording a particular community that maybe has been through some trauma as far as representation, you have to be aware of what they've been through and make better choices.

QUESTION: Demon hunting and those sorts of shows have been very common, which is fine. I enjoy it very much. But I was wondering if you could write in any other property of demon-slaying, whether it's the demon itself or whether it's the demon hunter - for example, I would really think (Fayanetta) would be a really cool character to spin off with you guys. So who would you guys pick?

EMILY ANDRAS: I'm just going to back to the well for me personally and just go for Buffy. I would love to see Buffy at the age she would be now, so like 40 years old, late 30s, well past high school. I would love for her to land in Purgatory and have to team up with Wynonna Earp. That, to me, would be the ultimate.

So if you could ask Joss Whedon and he's cool with that. Not sure he is going to be super cool with it but that would be my fan girl dream.

FEMALE: I was not going to say the same thing, just because you said it, I actually was going to say Buffy. But your answer was better because you made her present day and we could do a training scene like she did with Dolls but with Buffy. That would be amazing.

Melanie ScrofanoFEMALE: That would be amazing.

QUESTION: What was the hardest thing for you guys to film?

MELANIE SCROFANO: Oh, I know. I know. Natalie and I did a scene together that I think we shot it over two - at least two days.

NATALIE KRILL: Yes, that's what I was going to say, too.

MELANIE SCROFANO: Yes. Because we needed different times of day and we needed to be reacting to things that weren't there and it was just really physically demanding even though it - it was really cold, which we're used to that but it was cold as well as we had a lot of dialogue and we were reacting to things that were not happening at all. In fact, the complete opposite was happening.

And I think Natalie and I were just sort of going, "Was I OK? Was that good?" It was really difficult as an actor to do it, but sometimes it's really hard as an actor to be able to see what it's all going to look like in the end because the special effects are, you know, they're nowhere to be found obviously.

And you just are scared you're overreacting or under-reacting. And that was something we're constantly battling. But in the end, it ended up being really a fun scene to shoot and I think I wouldn’t have wanted to do it with anybody else. Nat?

NATALIE KRILL: Me neither. Me neither. I think that scene, too, was also -- the special effects elements and the physicality of it but then also it was a really heartbreaking scene. It was this moment where the two sisters are standing off with each other and having it out, and it was also emotionally draining to do that for two days on top of all the cold and the physicality and everything. It was like mind, body, soul, that scene.

MELANIE SCROFANO: Yes, that's a good way of putting it.

EMILY ANDRAS: That's good. You're trying to put it together. You're like, oh God, is it all going to add up but they're both fabulous in that scene. I will tell you girls. I don’t know if you've actually seen the finished scene. You were both wonderful in it.

NATALIE KRILL: Thank you.

MELANIE SCROFANO: Thank you.

EMILY ANDRAS: And as for me, I was lucky, I don’t have to shoot anything. But I was very aware - it's a boring answer but I was very aware of the constraints of the weather and there were several scenes where people were just so cold that it started to become, I thought, dangerous for our actors. A lot of the stuff in 10 when we were shooting with actually both these girls, both Nat and Mel when we were chasing down Lou on the snowmobile and Willa fires Peacemaker. I think that was the coldest day of the year we had filming and it was so cold that the camera shut down. The camera was like, "I'm out." And Melanie and Natalie were like, “Can we be out?” We're like, "No, keep going." When it gets that cold, it honestly almost becomes a safety issue for actors so you have to just be very aware of the weather. So that stuff made me really tense. And even things like people driving home from sets when it's been really snowy makes me -- I can't sleep till I know everyone is home and stuff like that.

QUESTION: One of the things that I've noticed as the season's gone on, is that people who don’t know Wynonna well, especially people in the town, tend to think of Wynonna as the hard-ass and the bad-ass of the sisters and the one who can really make the hard decisions, but when you look at the sisters, Waverly really tends to have a lot of the capability to make some really gutsy decisions, especially like when she was going up against the Stone Witch, she's just a bully and made some really gutsy decisions.

And she tends to less worry about herself and do a lot of things, and Willa has also done a lot of that. And it seems like Wynonna takes things to heart a lot more in ways that it damages her as she's killing all these revenants and stuff; it seems to damage her core a lot. And she seems a lot more emotionally tied to a lot of what she's doing, and I was just wondering if you could talk a little bit about her emotions as she's going through what she's been going through this entire season and in the culmination of the final episode of having to deal with what she deals with Willa. And finally having to realize that you almost can't go home again with Willa.

MELANIE SCROFANO: Absolutely. I think - first of all, Waverly, yes, you look at her and she looks a certain way but it's like Emily says, not every girl is one thing. Waverly looks like she would be sweet and meek and she's fucking not, she's bad ass. And that's one of the things I love about the writing.

Yes, and Wynonna was never supposed to do this. She didn’t want this. So every day, every morning, she wakes up and has to go, “Fuck, like, am I brave enough to do this today?” And the answer has to be yes. But that takes a toll and I think part of Wynonna's strength and part of her weakness is the same thing, which is that she doesn’t over think, she just does things a bit blindly because I think if she thinks too much about it, it'll topple her.

Melanie ScrofanoAnd so she drinks. And she makes jokes. And she doesn’t really think hard about what it is that she has to do. Waverly, on the other hand, has -- and then Willa, when she comes back, they both are primed and ready. They're chomping at the bit. And Wynonna is facing something that she has been working her whole life to not only avoid but to convince herself wasn’t real. So I think this little lifetime she's lived in this season - it's heavy. It weighs heavily upon her for those reasons and just the fact that she is just a human who probably doesn’t get enough sleep and who just wants to be loved. She's just a girl. A woman, a person, a human, who goes up against something she's scared of and tries to win every day. And some days, she wins better. And some days, things knock her on her ass. And the fun in playing is to see her get back up.

QUESTION: One of the things I noticed in the season finale was when she had to shoot Willa, the Peacemaker glowed blue, which I don’t think we've seen glow blue before. Was that specific for an Earp? Or can you talk about why it glowed blue as opposed to orange when she was shooting Willa?

EMILY ANDRAS: Sure. It had nothing to do with her. I love the effects on the gun when Wynonna gets to shoot Willa. I think it's absolutely beautiful. As we've seen in the past, when Wynonna goes to take down a revenant or a demon, it glows orange and we have these satanic runes on the barrel. When Wynonna goes to shoot Willa, it glows a beautiful frosty blue and this gorgeous filigree that travels up the barrel. The gun even makes a different sound. I think this is a mystery we want to explore with Peacemaker going into the next season but I think it has everything to do with the fact that Wynonna is willingly putting down a human and it's kind of mercy killing.

She is really doing something good and something different. And something hard. She is not taking down a demon necessarily. So I think rather than asking a question about why it glows blue, I think it raises more interest in question about how does Peacemaker decide what color to glow. Why does it have these different settings? How aware is it of the intent of the wielder? Does it know what's in Wynonna's heart and what does that mean? Particularly going forward, what does that mean for Wynonna's relationship with the gun, with her job as the heir? You know, we're going to have to get different colored shirts to match the gun, I don’t know.

I just think it speaks to the fact that Peacemaker may have more ability that we've seen thus far and that would be a really interesting thing to explore.

QUESTION: Yes, like how sentient the gun truly is.

EMILY ANDRAS: Thank you. You just said it so much smarter than me. Just pretend I said that.

QUESTION: One of the things that I loved about the last few episodes of the season is that you see Wynonna doing (foreign hero) in this conflict with Willa. Can you talk a little bit about the process of discovering, revealing how heroic Wynonna is at heart through her struggle with Willa?

MELANIE SCROFANO: Yes. It's funny because I love how differently we all interpret it. I never thought of her as doing something heroic. I just thought of her as -- but yes, obviously it is heroic, I never even thought of it. I think for Wynonna it was like and again, total (inaudible) use accordingly. But it was like please be the person you were before. For Wynonna, it was just like prove to me I don’t have to do this. Just prove to me that you're who I left -- I know, right? And so for her, that's her batter. It's not like I've got to do this to be a hero, it's like prove to me -- and then in that moment when she realizes that that's not going to happen, it's like that decision of what has to happen next. And for me, that's what that moment represented and like the heart -- I remember shooting that moment and just being like what else can I do to make you come back to me, and there's nothing. I don’t know, that's what that moment was I think to Wynonna, if that answers your question.

QUESTION: Emily, what was your favorite storyline or scene to write throughout the season?

EMILY ANDRAS: Oh my God. I have so many and I'm honestly that fan girl nerd when I'm writing one scene, I'm like well, this is the best ever. I'm writing like Doc Holiday and I'm like, "Well, this is the best." And then I'll write the scene with Dolls and Wynonna kissing and I'll be like, "Oh, well, this is my favorite." I have so many favorites and I have so many favorites that my writers have written for me. I am always almost more impressed when someone else like delivers something that I'm like oh, I just got chills.
But since we're talking about the finale, it's a quiet moment. I really like the speech that Doc gives to Wynonna telling the story about his dog, Bucky, and the way that speech gets delivered and the way it's portended.

But at the end of the day, honestly, I think about the sisters is really what made my heart sing. I really like the scene between Will, Wynonna, and Waverly in the coffee shop where Waverly tells Wynonna that she loves Nicole so Wynonna gives Peacemaker to Willa. There's something about all that understanding and that moment between the sisters that I think is lovely. And I really like even the scene at the end of episode two where the girls are sitting around the campfire and Doc is replacing their mailbox and it's just a beautiful sister scene and you see them like busting each other's butts but also comforting each other.

Emily AndrasIt just felt so real to me and it's the first time I realized that I had cast a brilliant person. Just to make it about me. No, how amazing Dominique and Melanie were. So really my favorite scenes are the sister scene and there's many of them because I feel like that is the true romance of the series. The true heart of the series so for me, that's what really makes me happy at the end of the day.

QUESTION: Natalie and Melanie, what were your favorite scenes and storylines to do?

MELANIE SCROFANO: Yes, anything with the sisters, anything around the struggle to find my sisters again. To find the Willa that I had once to make amends with them. Dominique is very open and giving actor so whenever we approached those -- and same Natalie obviously, which came later but it's the same idea that was just so honest and like real people -- just broken people coming together. Those were really fun to shoot.

But then also anything with a harness was a favorite.

NATALIE KRILL: I don’t know if I could really pick a favorite because -- this stuff went before Willa knows she's Willa, when she's in the cult and she's Eve, that stuff was so much fun to shoot. And then as she's discovering who she is, that was fun to shoot. And then when she's just a bad ass bitch, that was so much fun to shoot as well. So playing Willa was honestly a rollercoaster ride that was -- it's just the best.

QUESTION: It's like you played three different people.

NATALIE KRILL: Yes, yes. Totally.

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