Interviewer: So, Sleepy Hollow.
Congratulations, first of all.
Orlando: Thank you.
Thank you.
Katia: Thank you.
Interviewer: Exciting pilot.
I can't wait to see where everything goes.
Let's talk about your character first, Katia, because Katrina is kind of
seen in flashbacks or dreams, you know, but she's also a witch, which makes
me think maybe she'll find a way to get into the present.
Can you talk about that at all, how we'll see her character?
Katia: She's definitely trying, obviously, to get out of the place she's
stuck in.
It's sort of an in-between world.
She's not in the present and she's not in the past.
She's a witch and she's fighting for the greater good, so all of a sudden Ichabod is waking
up in 2010 and her priorities are to help him at first and sort of guide
him and show him what to do.
She has a very limited time where she can reach
out to him, because whenever she does it's dangerous for both of them.
Orlando: The forces of evil are trying to stop them.
Katia: Yeah.
When she taps into his dreams it's easy for whoever's trapped
her to access both of them.
So it's not about, 'I haven't seen you in 250
years.
I love you and let's be together.'
She's trying to save the world, sort of.
So she's doing that bit first, but she's definitely trying to be
saved from that place.
Orlando: And he's very much trying to save her.
That's a huge part of his journey.
What he actually cares about is trying to save her.
Katia: For him, he saw me yesterday, because he's been asleep for 250
years.
Orlando: 230.
Katia: 230, to be exact.
Orlando: It is that specific.
Katia: But for me, I've been apart from him for a very long time, so a lot
of things have happened.
Throughout the season, you'll understand why I'm
trapped and who trapped me there and why.
It's a very good reason why.
Very exciting reason why.
Orlando: It is.
I think [that part's] one of my favorites.
Katia: Yeah.
Interviewer: So far from what I've seen in the pilot, Captain Irving's just
doing his job.
He's there, but how aware is he of what's going on?
Orlando: Well I'm not from there, so I don't know any of these people or
what's going on.
I had a Sheriff get killed so there's nobody in charge and
a reverend get killed, which would be a pretty worldwide news story if that
happened, particularly if their head was chopped off with a blade heated
about 500 degrees so there really wasn't any blood.
Those facts just come up as weird.
So I just get sent, basically, to go and find out, one, what
happened and try and bring some real answers to what the folklore is about
what happened in Sleepy Hollow.
In that time more people die, and Abbie is trying to explain to me that there is a guy
who is really a suspect that she thinks might have some information as
to what's going on, who, by the way, says he's 230 years old.
So it all sounds crazy to me, because I basically play the audience.
Unfortunately what spirals out of that is a
lot of stuff because of what's happening and what that causes, not only in
the community but how it ultimately starts to affect the rest of the world,
and I'm sitting at ground zero trying to deal with all manner of what's
happening.
So it expands and sort of ramps up pretty quickly.
I'll put it to you this way.
The CDC is in very quickly and we're trying to deal with a
massive problem, and it sort of just keeps getting bigger.
And so you are sort of in the first glimpse of it.
But that's the beginning of the storm.
The storm just sort of keeps continuing to grow.
And then we just got a glimpse into episode 6 and it's like, Jesus
Christ, are you serious?
It's insane.
So the mythology's crazy, the creatures are amazing.
It's like you're in this blockbuster and it doesn't
level down.
The story just keeps ramping, and you keep discovering more things
about the founding fathers and what the Revolutionary War was really
a part of.
But at the same time there's a really sort of light, fun-hearted
discovery of what's great about this world.
You know, the modern conveniences that Ichabod has never seen
before.
So it's silly, it's funny, it's sort of a show that doesn't have a
genre.
It's just a big, fantastic idea, and that's what makes it the most
fun to do because we're in these movie sets every day and we're like, "I've
seen big movie sets before.
These are blockbuster sets."
You look around going...
Katia: 'Look at that moon up there.'
Orlando: Like, seriously.
It's crazy.
The sets are fantastically amazing.
It's really amazing.
Interviewer: That's great.
Will we see Irving come face to face with the
headless horseman any time soon?
Orlando: Wow.
That's a great question.
That is a great question.
Interviewer: OK.
That's my answer right there.
Orlando: That's a good question.
Interviewer: OK.