Monday, August 8, 2011

Source: Metro [follow link for complete interview]

Alphas Monday

ALPHAS - METRO: Azita Ghanizada: Not your normal super hero

by NED EHRBAR
August 07, 2011

Afghan-American actress Azita Ghanizada has been a TV lover all her life — and in fact says it’s how she learned English. So the success of her new Syfy series, “Alphas,” has been especially rewarding for her. In the series, Ghanizada plays Rachel, a member of a team individuals with special abilities. (Rachel can heighten individual senses at the expense of others.) Metro caught up with Ghanizada to talk about working with her heroes, the new series’ impassioned fans and staying away from fan fiction...

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... Metro: In tonight’s episode, you also get to work with guest-star Lindsay Wagner.

Azita Ghanizada: "I got to talk at length with her about what it was like to be a female TV star in the 70s on “The Bionic Woman” and breaking that ground, and she was just so cool. And then when we’re shooting, I went to do my super-hearing, and she just smirked a little bit. She’s like, “I used to be you.” I was like, “Oh my God, right!” — I mean, way cooler. She was a badass. Rachel’s growing into that. But what an iconic moment for me for someone who really shifted television for women in the 70s, and she sort of pointed at me and was like, “Rachel is sort of who I was.” So that was a really big treat..."

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