Eliza Taylor Chats ‘The 100’ At Supanova Ahead Of Season Six Premiere

With The 100 set to return to our screens this month, Aussie actor-turn-post-apocalyptic hero Eliza Taylor’s appearance at Supanova couldn’t have come at a better time.

After a heartbreaking series five finale last year, fans had plenty of questions during her Gold Coast panel.

FAVOURITE MOMENT WHILE FILMING THE 100

“There’s been so many. Out of all six seasons, there have just been so many wonderful and crazy things that have happened, but one of the really cool things that I’ve got to do is a lot of wire work, like jumping off the waterfall, and big fight scenes, and that’s something I never thought I was capable of. Doing big, epic fight scenes has been pretty amazing – I can do more than I thought I could.”

FAVOURITE LINE FROM THE 100

“One thing that rings true with Clarke is, ‘I bare it so they don’t have to.’ It’s a nice sentiment, but it’s a lot and it’s heavy.”

IF SHE COULD BRING ANYONE FROM THE 100 BACK FROM THE DEAD

“We have so many deaths on our hands. I’d love to bring Lexa back, obviously. I got to see [Alycia Debnam-Carey] the other day; we got to catch up and it was lovely. I’d also love Jasper to come back.”

WHAT DREW HER TO ACTING

“I didn’t really choose it, it was weird. I was a really, really shy kid, and my mum put me in drama classes to kind of hopefully open me up and make me less of a weirdo, which it didn’t, but that’s cool. I just loved it, and my teacher saw something in me and she sent me to the audition for Pirate Islands and then I got the role. I remember my mum saying to me, ‘Were you nervous?’ And I said, ‘No, this is what I’m going to do for the rest of my life.’”

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

“I still get the [show] name wrong, but it’s written as the one zero zero, and I get in trouble from Jason, because I’m like, ‘Yeah, I’m in a show called ‘The One Hundred’,’ and he’s like, ‘No, it’s ‘The Hundred’,’ and I’m like, ‘Well, why didn’t you write it that way?!’”

IF SHE COULD PLAY ANY OTHER CHARACTER ON THE 100

“I’d play Murphy – I love him. And it’d be cool to play a dude, but I also love his character; he’s so cool, complex and dark.”

WHAT DOES SHE MISS ABOUT AUSTRALIA

“So much stuff. My mum. Vegemite not so much anymore because you can buy it in certain stores now and I get given it by certain fans, and I get a lot of Tim Tams too. You know Mi Goreng noodle? Oh my god, that’s my childhood. And Milo.”

IF SHE COULD BE IN ANY MOVIE EVER

“Almost Famous. It’s brilliant; good music, fun times.”

THINGS IN COMMON WITH CLARKE

“I think I am a little less angry, stressed. One thing we do have in common is we’re very empathic and care a lot about people’s well-being… she’s actually taught me to be braver, which is pretty cool.”

SEASON FIVE’S SHOCK ENDING

“The last episode of season five was nuts, I just had no idea. They didn’t tell us that that was going to happen. Chelsey Reist (Harper) and Christopher Larkin (Monty) knew that they were dying and were okay with leaving the show, but no one told us that, and so we got the script and it was like, ‘WHAT! They can’t be gone.’ But, they dead.”

The 100 season six premieres May 1 via Foxtel

Lead image: Patrick Cotter and Eliza Taylor at Supanova Melbourne. Pic by Ewan Ly