The 100’s Octavia actress reveals baby bombshell in season 7 will transform character beyond recognition
THE 100 actress Marie Avgeropoulous' promises her character Octavia Blake will turn a new leaf in season seven.
Fans have followed the roller-coaster storylines of the controversial character - from the innocent young girl under the floorboards to the ruthless Blodreina, the Red Queen.
But a baby bombshell in the episode, The Garden, will set fan favourite Octavia on a different trajectory in the next season.
In that episode it is revealed Octavia helps raise Hope, Diyoza's daughter, whom she was pregnant with for 235 years.
Helping to raise a child has allowed Octavia to show another side of herself on CW’s post-apocalyptic sci-fi show.
Marie told : “At the end of the day, Octavia’s heart is bigger than I think she even realises herself.”
The actress praised the show's writers for their progressive approach to Hope's modern parenting set-up.
She explained: “Hope calls Octavia Auntie O, but I feel like they were a blended family.
"[It is a] side of Octavia that the audience hasn’t ever seen before.
";This season is a brand new, elevated nurturing side of her, which I think is quite lovely, considering how hard she was in the past.”
Character Octavia Blake is part of the original 100 and has been in the sci-fi drama from the start.
Despite the darkness and hatred within Octavia, fans still get a glimpse of the goodness in her - when the Grounders held the Final Conclave, she volunteered to represent Trikru.
She prevails as the new leader and decided that 100 people from each clan could enter the bunker, saving each clan's best people.
After Wonkru emerged from the bunker after six years, they met Madi, a young Nightblood ready to rule.
Instead of fighting for her post, Octavia gave up her leadership and gave Madi command.
The finale of season six ended on a cliffhanger as to whether Octavia survived after Hope stabbed her in the stomach and appeared to vanish in a cloud of Anomaly smoke.
Executive producer Jason Rothenberg has confirmed that season seven will focus on The Anomaly.
Speaking to TVLine, he explained: "That reveal is obviously mind-blowing. The fact that Hope is now in her early twenties, when three days ago she was a fetus, does begin to imply some things about the Anomaly and about where we’re going.
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Marie is a 33-year-old Canadian-Greek actress and model, born on June 17, 1986, in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
She rose to fame starring in the 2010 movie I Love You, Beth Cooper.
Marie was then cast as Kim Rhodes in the film Hunt to Kill.
Early in her career, she appeared in TV shows such as Supernatural, Fringe, Human Target and Eureka.
In 2013 she got her big break after being cast for a recurring role in The CW's Cult and then sci-fi show The 100, portraying Octavia Blake.
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