Sarah Wayne Callies - Sara Tancredi

::SWC on BBC Radio 1
Jo: Welcome to the show!
Sarah: Hello, thank you for having me!

Jo: Ah, thank you very much for coming on the show. So, erm, Prison Break is just hugely successful here, the Brits absolutely love it. Can you, you know, tell us now, that it's never ever going to end?
Sarah: (laughs) You know, honestly, I feel like we're laying track in front of a moving train.

Jo: really?
Sarah: I don't know how long they can keep this going. But, everytime I think: Well, that's it. We've ran out of story, they come up with something else, erm, and even tho sometimes it's quite fantastic the fans seem to go along with it. So I have no idea how long this will last.

Jo: Is there sometimes you see the story line and you're just like: ''Noooo, that's just ridiculous. Don't go there.''? Do you have any saying what happens?
Sarah: Pretty minimal. But they will sometimes, you know, let us know what's coming, and sometimes when you hear it in pitch form, without reading it, you think, well, that will put the final nail in the coffin. No one will ever buy it. But then you come up with the script, and they've , they've done a lovely job of it. You think, wow, they're blowing it off! So, I don't know, I don't know how many more times we can pull out of our… whatever.

Jo: It must be enormously fun to be doing that?
Sarah: It's a blast, and it's a total roll of the dice. I mean, people could just as easily have hated it as loved it, and I think sometimes Television has to do with, you know, being around at the certain kind of moment in history, and people right now are pretty willing to believe that their governments are up to no good, and that there's a conspiracy behind every door. So I think we sort of dove tailed with that.

Jo: Yeah. It's the last episode that airs tonight on Channel 5 here in UK. Can you give us any clues to what happens tonight at all, or is there some kind of clause written in your contract that says that your head will explode?
Sarah: (laughs) No, no clause actually. They seem to trust us implicitly which may or may not go well for the longer we last...But I think…

Jo: The final episode, tho, it's gonna be dynamite surely.
Sarah: The cast will get smaller. As it always does. And it's always heart breaking when it does, because we're far flung in the middle of Texas, and when they write somebody off, it means that's one less person to go have a Martini with after dinner. (laughs) Not that, you know, in my current condition i'm participating in Martini.

Jo: We should say that Sarah is heavily pregnant at the moment, as we're speaking. (Sarah laughs) It was very well concealed in the series. So, I mean, will Sara, will Sara get down?
Sarah: Erm, well, if she goes down, she's going down fighting. I'll tell you that much.

Jo: She's got balls, hasn't she? As the series gone on.
Sarah: Yeah. I think, I think what we've seen is the part of her that must have existed during her addiction. This sort of uglier, scrappier slightly gutsier part of it. Which I'm enormously grateful to the writers for. We've got some female writers, as well as the men, who really look out for her and are dead set against Sara becoming a victim.

Jo: Will Michael and Lincoln get away with it? Will they get away with it?
Sarah: One of them will.

Jo: Whoooooo! I actually don't want to press you because it would be awful to really find out.
Sarah: Ohhh, I won't tell you who.

Jo: God! I mean, we did keep loosing major characters all the way along which is, I mean, that's what makes it so special, really, coz you're just like, I can't believe they could have done this!
Sarah: Yeah.

Jo: And then, they, they, the story just kinda continues.
Sarah: It does seem to be a show where they don't mind figuratively killing their babies. And I think thats what… I think it's part of what keeps people watching, because you don't watch it and think, oh, they'll never kill him, they'll never kill her, because sometimes, they just do, and, you know, or lop off a hand or something terrible happens...

Jo: You are like the only major female star amongst a lot of hot guys really. That's what I'm trying to say here. And you get to canoodle with Wentworth Miller, who we had on the show in the past. Who i think was, or is, the most lusted male i've ever interviewed. Just, you know, people listening in the moment absolutely adore him.
Sarah. It is bizarre. And it's a universal appeal. That's somethings, that sort of, blows my mind. I mean, I've met 60 year old women who are, tell Wentworth HI for me! O-O-OK! God! I've met 60 year old men who say the same thing!

Jo: Man crushes exist on Wentworth absolutely! Is he really nasty underneath it all?!
Sarah: (laughs)

Jo: Tell me he is!
Sarah: I should! I should start the rumor that, you know, he is absolutely, horribly disfigured and that it's all plastic make up. I did for a while try to start a rumor that he had brown eyes and that it was just contacts, but none of it stuck. Man, he's just beautiful, and there is nothing you can do about it.

Jo: So, you do consider yourself to be one of the luckiest girls in America? You're aware of that?!
Sarah: Well, yes and no. I mean, I have to stand next to his face and try desperately to not sit there and think, can I have a little more mascara, please. He really… I tease him that, erm, he brings the beauty and I bring the brains to this operation. Because, it certainly can't go the other way around.

Jo: You should sign up for yourself. Do you think Sara and Michael will end up together?
Sarah: I don't know. I mean, it would be almost a funny scene, wouldn't it?! As all of the sudden they were sort of sitting at the Starbucks and having a conversation, how was your childhood? You know, I mean, they don't seem to be able to just sort of sit down and say, by the way, i think you're lovely, do you wanna go have dinner? It just doesn't happen that way.

Jo: She puts herself on the life, her life on the line for him this as well. Do you sometimes wish that she would just say no and kind of, looked for somebody with better prospects, and just kind of turned away from him, which I think it's absolutely impossible for her?
Sarah: She did it at one point. I thin the episode was 'Rendezvous'. She said, you know, I've done this before, i'm not gonna do it again. And she ended up getting tortured in the bathtub. So, it didn't go particularly well.

Jo: You had to throw yourself through the window, right?
Sarah: Yeah! Thank god for stunt doublers! I mean, really! I did, at the end of the first series I did tell the writers I think that he would have to be the last man on Earth, for her to turn back to him. And they made him the last man on Earth. So, there we go.

Jo: Do you think Sara is pretty safe, because she really is the only major female star in Prison Break? So you kind of have your place secure.
Sarah: No.

Jo: No?
Sarah: No, I don't. I don't. I mean, I think they are so many women in Hollywood who would give anything to be a part of the show. And I think they could find someone to replace me so easily. I don't bring the pretty. I mean, usually on the show, if you are the woman, you know, that, at least, well I'm the sex symbol on the show. I'm not! It's Wentworth. So, I'm expendable, just like everyone else.

(Now is the part where Jo says the British way of Tancredi, and Sarah says it's not really important how it is pronounced. I can't write that, because, obviously, i can't write the way they said Tancredi. Sorry.)

Jo: How many series, how many seasons have been commissioned? Are you filming the third one in the moment? And are you signed up for the third series?
Sarah: We're not filming right now. We're currently on hiatus. But I believe FOX has ordered another season. I don't think they've ordered the cast yet. So, for all I know it could be season 3 starring Felicity Hoffman, Bill Macey and Sam Jackson. I don't know. But I imagine at least Wentworth will be coming back, because I think he's the one person they can't do the show without.

Jo: I'm looking for the clues in everything you're saying at the moment. So I've found my leaders somewhere, thank you for that. So, if you were locked up, who would you want to look at all the time?
Sarah: My husband!

Jo: He's here, isn't he, in the other room?
Sarah: Yeah, but he is hot!

Jo: I know he's hot. I know, I've seen him! You've had a lot of times to think about your life. Who would you write a letter to to say that you were sorry? Do you have any apologies to make?
Sarah: To say that I'm sorry? Well, probably whoever i've wronged to get thrown in the jail. I imagine there is a lot of apology to go on there.

Jo: Who would you most like to visit you and what would they smuggle in?
Sarah: they would smuggle in chocolate! All they could carry! And who would I most like to visit… My husband! I mean, you know…

Jo: He's hot!
Sarah: Yeah!

Jo: And when you left your cell, what would you like to do first? What would be the first place that you'd go?
Sarah: I would like to go to the beach. I would have missed the ocean a whole lot.

Jo: Okay. When people will watch the season finale tonight, how are they gonna feel at the end of it?
Sarah: Frightened for a lot of us. Things go from bad to good to worst. And it ends on the worst. I think for most of us it ends it ends on the worst. There are some happy endings, there are some just desserts, and there are some absolute question marks.

Jo: Of course, it's Prison Break! Ok, thank you so much for coming today, and best of luck!
Sarah: Thank you!