Orla Brady: Taryn is the mage to Akbari, the sorceress, if you like. She sees in Akbari a way to have power, so although he believes that she is loyal to him, she is in fact only loyal to herself.
Naveen Andrews: Really his catalyst is meeting someone like Taryn. On the page, the relationship between Akbari and Taryn is pretty straight forward and almost conventional master and servant. But the way we’ve been working it is we’ve given it a sort of sadomasochistic edge. And he’s hooked into her in a way that he can’t really understand why.
Orla Brady: So she appears to be simply doing his bidding, but in fact there is a motive of her own. Which is that [spoilers]. And in an effort to [spoilers], she would burn the world. So she’s bad [laughs]. There is a heightened reality to playing someone who’s so extremely bad. And in a strange way it’s very freeing. It’s just fun! I don’t know why it’s so much fun, but it’s just fun.
--Sinbad 2012 cast interview, transcribed bymuccamukk
I maaaay have gotten far more interested in the antagonists' plot with the leatherpants sorceress and the in-over-his-head thinks-he's-the-dom
And I may have just cast Orla Brady as that one incarnation of Delenn where she's a Warrior caste starship captain during the First Shadow War. (Who is not at all evil but could use some of that intensity.) Maybe.
*hem*
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