Dr. Sydney Burke is a deeply complex character, one whose motives and feelings are often not quite clear, either to the audience or to her young mentees. A brilliant geneticist who agrees to help the main trio while maintaining a certain distance from them, she is torn between her desire to help others and the weight of her past mistakes, which manifests in the character of Isabel Finch (Kyra Zagorsky).
Italia Ricci was no stranger to the superhero genre when she got the part on “The Imperfects.” After all, she previously played the villain Silver Banshee in the first season of “Supergirl.” As she revealed in an interview with CBR, however, the two experiences were very different. Given that Ricci had never played a superpowered sci-fi/fantasy character before “Supergirl,” and that her character was directly involved in the action, she had to learn the ropes of the genre as she went along; portraying Silver Banshee ultimately made her feel like “a kid again, playing the most magnificent game of pretend.”
When it came to “The Imperfects,” however, hers was a different mission altogether. Because Dr. Burke is the more normal, non-super character in the team, Ricci rooted her performance in something closer to reality. “I chose to keep Burke grounded and flat, so there was somebody’s more reasonable point of view coming through,” she revealed to CBR — a task she ultimately found less scary than her “Supergirl” one.
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