Of the fun memories made as a first-time showrunner, Anna Fishko counts among them learning the minutiae of what it takes to film a scene that shows the star of her series, Krysten Ritter, emerging from a vat of pink goo. “They would bring me six sample jars of different pinks [and] we would have a whole meeting about which color pink we think it should be,” says Fishko, the creator and executive producer of “Orphan Black: Echoes.” “I learned a lot about how much a giant tank full of goo weighs.
And how long it takes to heat the goo up if you’re going to put a person in it.” (Six hours, for those who are wondering.) Set predominantly in 2052, “Orphan Black: Echoes,” premiering at 10:05 p.
m. Pacific Sunday on AMC and BBC America and streaming on AMC+, stars Krysten Ritter as Lucy, a woman who wakes up one day with no memory of her past. After stumbling upon a tank of a mysterious pink substance, she learns that she was printed out in a high tech lab.
“Lots of magic goes into creating those moments,” Ritter, who also serves as an executive producer on the series, says of her goo scene that’s featured in the show’s promotional materials. “There was a lot of prep [and] a lot of conversations about it. A lot of technical stuff to wade through .
.. they put a 70-pound belt on my waist to hold me down.
But it was fun, and it made for such a great image.” “Echoes” takes place in the world introduced in “ Orphan Black ,” the acclaimed sci-fi series.
