If you saw last night’s excellent episode of Syfy‘s Alphas, you know that it was a special one for Nina, played by Laura Mennell. She took some time out of her schedule to talk with the press recently about the episode, the show, and her work.

First, SciFiMafia.com asked her if last night’s was her favorite episode of the season to work on:

Laura Mennell:      You know, there are so many great episodes. And they honestly just keep getting better and better. We’ve had some really great episodes to set things up. But for Nina yes, I think for me it probably was one of my favorite episodes. Like I said Adam (Levy) wrote such a great script. It’ll be a little bit more different than some of our other episodes which will be kind of neat. And, yes, I had a lot of fun with it.

SciFiMafia.com also asked if her extensive work in sci-fi was a conscious choice or just happenstance:

Laura Mennell:      You know what I have – I love sci-fi a lot. I have a lot of fun in it. You always get to do different things. But I come from a town or a city I guess – Vancouver, BC is where I’m from originally and we shoot a lot of sci-fi series there and a lot of sci-fi movies. Really, I mean Watchmen was shot there. The 4400 was, Eureka, Smallville, you name it. They are all shot there so I was lucky enough to sort of be a part of a lot of those.

And what are the best and worst things about sci-fi work?

Laura Mennell:      I think the best is – I mean, again things always change. You never get to do the same things. I mean, you get to sort of live in these different worlds. Watchmen was an incredible film for me to be a part of. Just this wonderful world being put in everyday and, you know, having crazy things to play with like a radioactive blue boyfriend. That was fun.

But, you know, maybe one of the trickier things sometimes is maybe those green screens. Sometimes they can be a little tricky. I mean you have to really use your imagination on those days as to what you’re seeing. So I would say that’s probably one of the trickier bits.

Thanks so much to Laura Mennell for talking with us, and for the great episode last night.

Alphas, starring David Strathairn, Malik Yoba,  Warren Christie, Azita Ghanizada, Ryan Cartwright, Laura Mennell, and Erin Way, airs Mondays at 10/9c on Syfy.