I wanted her to kick some ass.” The show managed to catch Wynonna’s gestation up with Scrofano’s with a bit of magic, but that was also a conscious choice to wink that the “magical pregnancy” trope and also take the choice away from Wynonna. “I just can’t have her holding an increasingly large series of laundry baskets. “You have to put your money where your mouth is, you just have to be prepared to honor that commitment if you’re a feminist,” Andras said.

We were just coming at it fresh … We could just be a family and just focus.”Īndras was passionate while discussing the choice to write in Scrofano’s pregnancy. However, according to Scrofano, the secrecy required to keep the pregnancy under wraps allowed the actors to return to the same “bubble” of filming the first season. “It was really hard emotionally,” Scrofano noted of the filming this season. No one had it harder than Scrofano, who not only filmed until four days before she gave birth but who also was co-writing a Wynonna Earp comic with Smith in her scant time off. “Selfishly, it was the best experience I’ve had in my life,” Rozon added, explaining how working with Scrofano and relating to her simply as a human being who was truly experiencing pregnancy made it “really easy to be dramatic and effective this year.” New cast addition this season, Tamara Duarte (Rosita) was personally moved by watching Scrofano, watching her working while pregnant and not slowing down, and to know this was something she herself could do. “I was inspired and in awe of her daily,” Rozon said. Tim Rozon, who plays the suave and immortal Doc Holliday–who may or may not be the father of the Earplet–was similarly affected by Scrofano.

Beau Smith said it simply: “Emily is smart and Emily is also super brave.” It’s not just that she brought the pregnancy into the story, but also allowed Wynonna to keep kicking ass and to represent that not only as a woman but “also as a mother she can be strong.” The character of Wynonna was inspired by Smith’s own mother, and Smith sees her strength and fire in Scrofano’s performance. Praise for Scrofano as a performer and Andras’ boldness in unflinchingly building the pregnancy into the story was a constant theme among the performers. Fans were recently shocked when in episode six of the currently airing second season, it was revealed that Wynonna was pregnant, a move that integrated Scrofano’s own real-life pregnancy.

One thing was clear: the cast are the only people that love the show, Emily Andras, and Melanie Scrofano (Wynonna) more than the fans.

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