If Orphan Black co-creators John Fawcett and Graeme Manson seem familiar, either separately or as a pair, it might be because of their past in violent, Canadian, female-driven genre fare. They were introduced by current Orphan Black starff writer Karen Walton way back in 1994, whilst she and Manson were at the Canadian Film Centre. It's there that Walton was developing a screenplay which would eventually become Ginger Snaps. Ginger Snaps a werewolf movie where The Curse is used as a metaphor for puberty for the adolescent girls who get bitten by a lycanthrope, begin finding hair in weird places and feeling randy wound up being directed by John Fawcett, and begat to sequels of varying quality. The first of which featured Tatiana Maslanay in a small role. Since the films hold such an importance in getting Fawcett, Manson, Walton and Maslanay together there's a fun little shout out that appears throughout Orphan Black: the fancy suburb Alison lives in is Bailey Downs, the same fictional cul-de-sac that the Fitzgerald sisters tored up in Ginger Snaps. The Orphan Black scenes were even filmed in the same real-life municipality as Ginger Snaps.
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