Jasika Nicole plays Astrid in Fringe. She is Walter’s long suffering lab assistant and she finally gets an episode centered around her.
“I cried like five times when I was reading the script,” confesses an emotional Nicole in the following behind the scenes video. “It would be easy for the writers to say, ‘Oh, there’s an Astrid episode; she solves a case.’ But it’s not that simple. It’s a really lovely story about Astrid [and alt-Astrid] meeting each other.”
John Noble (Walter Bishop) calls Nicole’s dual performance “breathtaking” and claims this episode is “possibly the season’s highlight.” His onscreen son, Joshua Jackson (Peter Bishop), shares his sentiment.
“Now that we’ve got an Astrid episode,” said Jackson. “I’d like to see another Astrid episode. And I’d like to see another Broyles episode, and I think we should do a full-on Nina episode. What does she do when she goes home from work?”
Source: Blastr
