Oh hey,
I play Lena in
and I'm gonna take you on a behind
the scenes tour of the set.
My name is Lena Grisky.
I'm a Russian princess from 1905 and I go to
the Paris Opera Ballet school.
When my boyfriend Henry
accidentally sent me spiralling through time.
It's magic.
It'll keep you standing at all times.
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Lena: I ended up exactly where I started.
Only in the 21st century.
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This is where we get our hair done.
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This is my room.
This might be a bit messy but I actually just put up
these posters, one of them fell down.
I feel like I belong here.
-I was actually in my final year of college and part
of our program we had to do like an internship.
I was basically the coffee girl at auditions.
I met Jill and Lori, the writers of the show.
At the end of the first week of auditions Jill and Lori
just kind of turned to me and we're like,
"Do you want to audition for the lead?"
And I was like, "Wait, what?"
Obviously like freaked out.
Was super excited and prepared all weekend.
Then Jill called me on FaceTime, she called
and the casting director that I was friends with
and they FaceTimed me and told me that I got the part
and obviously I just cried.
Okay, now I'm going to take you to the courtyard.
And this is really cool because it looks like
we're going outside but it's still part of the set.
If you look up
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So it's all fake. Shh.
It's not actually begun yet.
So it's all a big trick that we're playing on you.
And this is where we always exit the courtyard
but it leads to behind the set which is cool.
My mom is like my best friend.
So it's hard to be away from home.
But I did...I actually moved out of my home-home when
I was 16 to go to college.
But then it's a whole different game when you
travel across the world you know.
And for six months at a time like I don't get a
break to come home.
The cast that I get to work with become my family
and honestly they make it so much easier for me to
be away from home.
You can tell on social media
but it's not for social media.
You know, like we're even much closer
than what we portray online.
And and for that I'm really, really grateful
because I think it would be extremely difficult if
I if I was in a situation where I wasn't close with
my cast mates.
Being so far away from the family for
like half of the year, you know.
Eubha, Castle...
..this
CBC.
Hello CBC.
Hi, CBC Kids News.
Kids News.
Oh, CBC News.
Castle is also a fellow Canadian.
Hi.
Eubha is a wannabe fellow Canadian.
I wish I was Canadian.
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I'm Scottish though, Nova Scotia.
Right?
Okay.
[crosstalk]
Yeah sure.
Yeah, I'm kind of a fellow Canadian.
You're basically Canadian.
Jessica: Yeah.
This is where we like to hang out on this little blue thing.
Jessica: Yeah, mine and Eubha favourite spot.
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Okay, next I'm gonna take you into the cafeteria.
Matt our director had us just write whatever we wanted
as our characters on this board.
So I was in season one with Hiran and Rory
and Hannah and Eubha and Castle and I we just
wrote all over this and it has not been touched
since season one.
My stuff I think is over here.
Pineapples.
Jete.
A pizza.
This is supposed to be Lena and... [chuckles]
Why pineapple?
Oh, Lena is obsessed with pineapple,
as you know if you're a true fan.
We're all ballet doubled.
Like a couple of us are obviously trained in dance,
like I'm trained in dance.
Erm, but we, like we're not
we're not Paris Opera prima ballerinas.
You know, so they film in wide,
they'll film, erm, our doubles,
they'll film, erm, just the likes of our doubles,
especially when the girls are on point.
Like what they don't really like us
to go on point because
we could easily injure ourselves,
and you know we have to play, we have to be safe
and our dancers are absolutely incredible.
As you see on the show, they make us look amazing.
So this is the girls bedroom and a fun fact
about this room is Eubha and I filmed our very first
scene right here in this room and which also
happened to be our audition scene.
And it's the one where Ines is helping Lena get
ready for the block party on the roof.
So that was really, really fun to film.
We were very nervous that day but also super excited.
We spent a lot of time in here.
Eubha and I sleep a lot during sleeping scenes,
honestly when they're changing the shot we'll
fall asleep on those beds - they're really comfy.
I hope you enjoyed the tour.
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