FOUND Post-Mortem: Danielle Savre Breaks Down the Heather Twist

[Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Thursday, April 3 episode of FOUND.]

Heather (Danielle Savre) raised eyebrows when she agreed to defend Sir (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) on FOUND, but on the Thursday, April 3 episode, “Missing While Manipulated,” the true connection between the duo was revealed: She’s actually his sister.

A horrified Margaret (Kelli Williams) realized the truth and quickly informed Gabi (Shanola Hampton). “One way or another we are taking Heather down, and when we do, it needs to be for good,” Gabi vowed.

For Savre, who joined the series in season 2, she didn’t know about Heather’s connection to Sir when she landed the role. “When I first heard it, it was shocking,” Savre explains to Give Me My Remote in the video below. The person who told her the secret? Gosselaar. “He just told me the first day I was on set. So I finished my scene with Brett [Dalton, who plays Trent], I don’t really know where this character is going, but I know she has more than meets the eye going on with her. And I get a knock on my trailer door, and I open it and Mark-Paul just goes, ‘Hi, sister!’”

The actress laughs as she recalls her “What?!” reaction, but admits, “That was my way of finding out.”

Despite the early reveal, she didn’t want to put too much stock into what was planned. “I know stories can change so quickly,” Savre says. “I was like, ‘Until I read the script that says that, I am not going to actually play that.’ Which is what [creator] NK[echi Okoro Carroll] wanted. She really didn’t want me to know all those things until they started to really unfold because she wanted to make sure there was nothing there that was giving away.”

“But it was great just discovering it and finding out,” she continues. “It was also nerve-wracking, because when you don’t know everything about a character, it’s really hard to build that character…she’s ambitious and mysterious, that’s basically all I knew. And I was like, ‘Okay, I really have feelings for this guy, Trent…and I have this respect for Gabi, but I don’t know where it all stems from, but there’s a mystery there as to where it will actually end up leading.’ And so it was fun to play at first, because I didn’t know, just like the fans didn’t, and it was very exciting to know, and find out in the way I found out.”

When it was time for the twist to be revealed, Carroll connected with Savre to fill her in. “It was obviously so amazing to get that call from NK where she’s like, ‘Okay, let’s talk. I’m gonna tell you everything that your character has done up until this point’—even though I wasn’t there—’and everything your character is going to do from this point,’” she recalls. “And it was really, really, really fun to just find out that so much had gone into the development and the thought of this character, and I was now getting to play her.”

“So it just raised the stakes,” she continues. “It made me more nervous, because I’m like, ‘Okay, now don’t screw it up.’ I remember sending an email to NK just being like, ‘Are you liking what I’m doing? Because I think it’s right, but I really have no idea.’”

The twist also allowed for new layers to be explored in Savre’s working relationship with Gosselaar in upcoming episodes. “Working with Mark-Paul was just a dream,” she gushes. “He is so great at playing Sir, almost to the point that makes it, like, creepy—how are you so good at this role? Nicest guy, smart, witty, cracking jokes; I’m a gullible person, so off-camera, he’d be cracking jokes [where] I’m like, ‘Oh gosh, am I supposed to believe this or not believe this?’”

“But he’s just such an amazing actor to work with, and we got to have such intense scenes that, really, every take was something different,” she continues. “We got to discover; we listened and we engaged. And like I said, it was just so intense that after the cut, it was like, ‘Okay, take a second to get out of that.’ But it was really fun to play and I’m excited to see the episodes with everyone as they air.”

FOUND, Thursdays, 10/9c, NBC

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