Now, they make it sound easy explaining things like ehlers danlos syndrome and subdural hematoma.
All of this preparation for play a role certainly wasn’t easy at first.
What do you love the most about playing her?
[One of] my favorite parts to play is her wittiness.
She’s first of her class.
She’s the first to raise her hands.
She knows all the answers.
She’s so booksmart.
She’s so talented as a doctor, and I love playing her.
I love playing that confidence in her and that brain that just never stops and knows it all.
Can you talk about that a little bit?
What are we manipulating?
What words are we putting on top of those manipulations?
It’s like a space for us to better understand what we’re doing.
When we get on set, it’s like, “Boom!
We know the dance.”
Not really, sadly.
[Laughs] It feels like it’s such big medical jargon, you know?
It’s not just sutures and stuff.
I could maybe do sutures.
I could do CPR, probably.
On the bigger scale, no.
It’s too much.
It’s such a big it’s really enhanced my admiration for doctors.
Do you feel like you’ve gotten more familiar with the jargon?
More familiar for sure, because then we could see it.
[Laughs] We have a bit more reference, for sure.
Are there any scenes that make the actress queasy?
A lot of the medical procedures that you do on the show can be a bit graphic.
I’m not going to lie, I’ve had to look away a few times.
Has anything ever made you really queasy on set?
Well, it’s so funny, because I get really queasy when I watch stuff like that.
I mean, in general, I’m not a fan of needles, even fake ones.
They make it look so real on the show.
Our special effects team is incredible.
Spoilers aside, do you hope that they end up together?
Secretly, I do.
She really admired him for that.
The hospital has been her life, so I think she’s a bit clumsy in that area.
Deep down, I know she likes him.
[Laughs]
What’s it been like working so closely with Hamza Haq?
It’s been amazing.
It’s really easy to fall into it with him and to share our passion for it.
It’s a great camaraderie on set with everybody.
It’s been amazing.
How did that impact your experience on a medical drama?
That was a bit of a challenge.
This is the way that we’re going to do it."
We had to eat in our trailers.
We couldn’t really be together, so that took away a bit of that.
We are a few episodes behind Canada.
We had a lot of, “When is it coming?
When is it going to premiere?
When is it starting?”
“Transplant” is already renewed for Season 3.
Do you know anything yet about what the next chapter holds for Mags?
What kind of advice did they give you when you entered show business?
It’s so funny, because I was always someone who really did my own thing.
Maybe it was my way to detach myself from my parents, in that sense.
I’ve always really trusted my instincts about projects that I was doing.
They were very respectful, always respectful to everybody on set and stuff.
That’s something, without them telling me exactly that, I think that’s the advice I got.
Good life advice, too.
I know that you have hopes of producing and writing your own content in the future.
What kind of stories do you want to tell?
Oh, my God.
That’s such a future plan that I Yeah, I would love to get there.
I have no idea what kind.
I don’t really know the direction I would want it to take.
I think it’ll come to me at some point.
I like the raw.
I like the real stuff of life, so I would aim for that.
New episodes of “Transplant” air Sunday nights at 10 p.m. ET/9.00 p.m. CT on NBC.
