Tatiana Maslany

1 sketch, 6 claims, and 6 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany (guest)

Here for vibes, performance and small moments rather than plot. Loves A Woman Under the Influence (about 40 viewings), There Will Be Blood (about 50) and The Nightmare Before Christmas. Reveres actors who can do very little and be compelling; hates bad writing most of all to act.

Stances

  • Subtitled performances show what acting really is
  • The hardest thing to act is bad writing
  • Tang Wei plays honest, not mysterious, which is why it works
  • Sand-beaching is partly guilt and partly power

Humor: Self-deprecating and quick, willing to joke about her height, the She-Hulk face-on-a-stick, and her Olympic aspirations.

In their words

  • “What's the hardest thing to do is to act bad writing.” (1:16:13)
  • “Like, I'm here for vibes.” (0:16:36)
  • “I felt more like a big baby than ever before.” (0:30:58)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Their claims

Showing 1–6 of 6 claims.

  1. verdict (personal favorite): Tatiana Maslany → A Woman Under the Influence. Tatiana throws on A Woman Under the Influence often and has seen it about 40 times.
    “I would I would throw on a woman under the influence often.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:17:28 · Tatiana Maslany (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (childhood favorite): Tatiana Maslany → The Nightmare Before Christmas. She knows it backwards and forwards and can quote it; a seminal childhood film.
    “Like, I can quote it.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:18:19 · Tatiana Maslany (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. verdict (personal favorite): Tatiana Maslany → There Will Be Blood. She has seen it about 50 times and puts it on to watch one scene then gets sucked in.
    “But even like there will be blood is one that I've seen probably like 50 times.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:18:28 · Tatiana Maslany (0.90 sure it was them)
  4. people (subtitle performance): Tang Wei → Decision to Leave. The film makes you judge a performance in a language you do not understand, which reveals what acting is.
    “I think in a certain way, it's like, well, that really shows you what acting is.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:21:03 · Tatiana Maslany (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (technical shoot anecdote): Tatiana Maslany → She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. She describes shooting with a face on a stick, platforms and a dead-face mask as an eyeline double.
    “And I had like a big face on top of my head on a stick.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:30:24 · Tatiana Maslany (0.90 sure it was them)
  6. theme (against genre): Tang Wei → Decision to Leave. Her performance plays against the femme fatale type by being honest and disarming rather than mysterious.
    “Totally. Like, I don't... What's weird is that she's not acting like a femme fatale.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:18:21 · Tatiana Maslany (0.50 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–6 of 6 fun items.

  1. fun, about Tatiana Maslany: Tatiana keeps her Emmy in a storage locker rather than on a shelf.
    “No, it's like in my storage locker.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:10:36 · Tatiana Maslany (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Tatiana Maslany: She calls herself a vibes-and-performance viewer who finds plot daunting, compared to her husband Brendan Hines.
    “Like, I'm here for vibes.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:16:36 · Tatiana Maslany (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Decision to Leave: Subtitle translator trivia: the Google-translated line bring me the heart of that detective became bring me the head, since English lacks a word for metaphorical heart.
    “So it had to be like something more intense, like his head to be like impactful enough.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 0:22:42 · Tatiana Maslany (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Tatiana Maslany: Her Eastern Promises role: a Russian diary voice named Tatiana; her first movie credits.
    “I'm a Russian... And my name is Santiana.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:22:27 · Tatiana Maslany (0.70 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Decision to Leave: Tatiana's read of the ending: Seo-rae's sand burial is an act of empathy and power at once; leaving the detective with her unresolved case.
    “I think the part of her that loves him is just like, I'm dooming him by staying alive.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:41:12 · Tatiana Maslany (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Decision to Leave: See the cell-phone-photo scenes: the typing dots are shot from the phone's POV and take up more of the frame than his face.
    “There's like a point of view from the phone of the dots on his face and you realize like how much, like that it takes up more of the frame than his face does.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany · 1:52:00 · Tatiana Maslany (0.50 sure it was them)