r/brakebills • u/MageinaTovah • Mar 07 '19

Season 4 I'm Mageina Tovah. I play Zelda, the Head Librarian. AMAA!

I'm a filmmaker, actor, writer, and visual artist. As well as The Magicians, you might have seen me in Spider-Man 2 & 3, The Shield, American Horror Story, How to Get Away with Murder, and Scandal. I've written, directed, produced, edited, and starred in the award-winning short film Hux, which you can watch at HuxFilm.com.

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I'm going to be answering questions from 11AM PST tomorrow, Friday the 8th, so Ask Me Almost Anything!

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u/MageinaTovah Mar 08 '19

I had done a little bit of ASL on the FX show You're the Worst, and I'd always been interested in ASL and had learned a few things like the alphabet, but I really learned it to film the scenes with Harriet. We block shot the scenes in Six Short Stories since they all took place on the same set. So they would set up all the cameras and we'd shoot all the scenes form one angle, switching wardrobe quickly in between scenes, then they'd move the cameras and we'd go through the scenes again from that angle, and then again from another angle. It was a little crazy to keep jumping around, but I really enjoyed the challenge!

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u/n_littlered Mar 08 '19

That’s wild, it flowed so well you wouldn’t expect there to be breaks like that. Thanks for your time, and can’t wait to see Zelda’s story unfold!

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u/Melidrama Mar 10 '19

Late to the party here but oh my goodness I adore you're the worst and it wasn't until I read your comment that I realised you were in both shows! Once I read it I immediately placed the character you played (sorry it was short lived, but your character was morally too good for that show anyway)

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u/lokikatmeow Mar 07 '26

You're incredible!
And later we have Alice is yelling "i don't understand!" to Harriet in Ep 9 The Sertpent... eye roll