Danielle Savre Discusses Her New Role on Found and Surprising Similarities to Her Station 19 Character [Interview]

When asked what made her excited to be a part of the NBC drama Found, Danielle Savre’s answer was simple: “The writing.”

Savre, who is known for her role as Maya Bishop on Station 19, joins the cast of Found this season as Heather Tollin, an ambitious attorney who becomes involved in the lives of the team at M&A.

Savre answered a few questions for Tell-Tale TV about her role on Found, the surprising connections between Heather Tollin and Maya Bishop, and her experience joining the cast.

“The show is so well done, and it’s a testament to Nkechi [Okoro Carroll] and just her endless creativity,” Savre began. “It’s pretty amazing how she can just continue to write and create more storylines that are interesting. At some point you’re like, ‘How does she keep coming up with new ones and better ones?’ But I would say that was the number one thing that really drew me to it.”

Savre said she then binge-watched the entire series so far and quickly became “a huge fan, showing up nervous the first day of work being like, ‘Oh my God, now I love the show, and I love all these actors and characters. Act cool, calm, and collected.'”

“Then to be welcomed with such open arms by Shanola [Hampton] and the entire cast and crew was a reason why I now never want to leave the show. Who knows if I will be around, because that’s the mystery with this character, but it made it so that I really, really want to work with everybody on the show.”

Savre also spoke to the similarities and differences between her Station 19 character and her character on Found. 

“The shows are vastly different in a lot of ways, obviously. [Station 19] was much more action-packed, firefighting. You know, still saving lives in every episode, but different contexts around that. I think there’s actually some more similarities than differences in the characters themselves because Maya was a character that was so ambitious and driven by past trauma. And I think we’re going to discover with Heather that’s very similar because a lot of times ambition does stem from something that happened that is forcing you to overcome it,” Savre explained.

“I think that’s also what then connects her with Gabi, which is interesting and a fun dynamic to play because they both are ambitious women that have traumatic pasts.”

Savre said that at first, she thought Heather was a “completely different character” from that of Maya Bishop, but as he learned more about Heather, she noticed more parallels to her previous role than she expected.

“I’m playing an attorney who gets to wear all the nice, amazing clothes and drive a fantastic car.’ And so different on the surface than Maya Bishop. But really, when it gets down to it, she’s also just a flawed character, as Maya was. We really get to go on a journey and possibly see her try to heal like Gabi… or, does she choose to not heal and deny her trauma, which manifests into negative outcomes?”

Savre also said she loves Heather’s “flawed nature” on Found and gave a few hints about what to expect from her this season.

“I love that even though she presents as this strong, intelligent, driven woman, that there’s much more to her than meets the eye,” she said.

“Not everything is how it seems to be in her life. I think that’s what’s so interesting is she’s very set on what her beliefs are, and I think those beliefs are going to drastically change, which is going to put her whole life in question. It’s like how the M&A team felt when Gabi admitted that she was keeping Sir in her basement. It shakes your entire world to its core, and I think for Heather, that’s going to be… It’s exciting to play, scary to play, I should say.”

Viewers can expect to see Savre’s character interacting with most of the cast members on Found. “I get to work with a lot of the cast on this show, and all of my scenes with everyone were great, including the few scenes I have with Sir,” she hinted.

“I won’t say who I interact with the most, but I will say that working with Shanola has been an absolute gift because she is the most energetic, warm leader that I’ve ever met. [She] welcomed me with open arms on my first day.”

“My first episode was with Brett [Dalton], who also welcomed me with open arms,” Savre continued.

“We were both so nervous because we were doing a scene that is not very common for Found. We’re both in very little clothes, very hungry, because we’re on screen showing a lot, and trying to have the scene where we have all this chemistry when we’ve never met each other except for that morning.”

“That was so much fun to play with Brett and to do the scenes with him there on out that we got to have, which were very dramatic and fun. And then to get to do the very tense and exciting and very butting head scenes with Shanola that really show how similar these women are in so many ways.”

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Found airs Thursdays at 10/9c on NBC.

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