Melanie Scrofano OF ‘WYNONNA EARP’ ON SYFY

Though “Wynonna Earp” had its springboard in the character being the great-great-grandaughter of Western legend, do you agree that the show has become very much its own thing? Yeah. Really, the Wyatt Earp thing, it was from Beau Smith (the creator of the comic book on which the series is based). He’s a history buff, and his passion for that was the initial spark for the show. Though it’s an iconic story, so few people actually know who Wyatt Earp was. His legacy, along with Doc Holliday’s, comes down to 30 seconds in history (in the legendary gunfight at the O.K. Corral). There’s a lot of room to play there, and to make it what we wanted. Anybody could take that and make it their own thing, because we’re not married to any particular story beyond the fact that (those two men) were a lawman and a gunslinger. Last season, you were pregnant throughout the filming. Is it much easier to accomplish all that Wynonna needs to in the current Season 3? In Season 2, I felt very limited in a lot of ways. What I could wear was limited, and what I could physically do safely was sort of limited. I still did a lot, but I definitely couldn’t get on a motorcycle – and even if I did stunt scenes, it was always missing an extra amount of commitment, because I had to protect someone inside of me. Season 3 feels a lot freer in all those ways. Certainly with the wardrobe, we get to see that Wynonna isn’t pregnant anymore. That’s in terms of what she wears, but also in the way she moves and runs. Everything I got to do, I did 110 percent. And after Season 2, where I had extra weight both physically and metaphorically, I got to shed that in Season 3. Hopefully, people feel that when they watch it.