Meet Orphan Black's scariest male clone, "Scarface."
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Orphan Black's third season, which kicks off Saturday, April 18 at 9/8c on BBC America, the "seestrahood" will have to contend with Project Castor, the brother clone project of Project Leda, which produced Sarah, Cosima, Alison, Helena and Rachel (
Tatiana Maslany in each role).
Orphan Black revealed the picture or "Scarface" (
Ari Millen) at the Television Critics Association winter previews on Saturday. His actual name is Rudy, a highly lethal, mohawk-wearing fellow raised as part of Project Castor's self-aware, military-trained clones. Viewers are already familiar with Mark (also Millen), the Prolethean who terrorized Sarah and then later married Gracie (Zoe De Grand'Maison), the daughter of a Prolethean religious leader.
"He likes to get under people's skin. He'll pick at you until you blow up and then he's won," Millen said of Rudy at the winter preview panel.
Creator John Fawcett added, "Rudy is a threat to the girls, a dangerous character who is very smart and ruthless. He's seen some action. He's a trained fighter."
Check out more scoop from the panel and a teaser reel that was shown to critics:
A new Leda clone? The closing image of the teaser is of someone who looks like another Project Leda clone with a puffy brown 'do. Is she a new clone? Sarah on a bad hair day? A wig-wearing Helena? Unfortunately, we won't get answers until April.
Sarah meets Rudy In the reel, Sarah tells Rudy that she met Mark, whom he describes as "the wild one." Rudy seems fascinated with her. "You're a legend, Sarah Manning. You're made of the good stuff, aren't you?" he says, before closing with the warning, "Sarah, count your sisters!" Ooh!
Project Castor's origins Fawcett claims the male clone faction had been planned from the beginning. When they cast Millen as Mark as the Prolethean, they knew they had their Castor clone. Maslany said that having him play the Castor clone was a no-brainer, but that it also lightened her load a little in that "it gave me a chance to have some three-day weekends."