Yasmine Al Masri

In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.

I never had planned for my life and my career.

I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

The same aspirations to celebrate and uplift the spirit that drove the Egyptians to build the pyramids are still driving us. The things we're doing differ only in magnitude.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.