"I'm not a religious person, so I'm not a hardcore fate fan, but I guess it's got me thinking about that. I was very careful, though, not to link Jaye's stories always to that"
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The hedging is the point. “Not a hardcore fate fan” is gently comic phrasing that keeps the subject from getting grandiose; it’s the language of someone wary of sounding mystical, especially in an industry that can turn “I felt it in my bones” into a marketing hook. When she says she was “very careful” not to link Jaye’s stories “always” to fate, she’s acknowledging the audience’s temptation to read narrative events as destiny because that’s how TV trains us to watch: foreshadowing as proof, symbolism as a roadmap.
The subtext is professional responsibility. Dhavernas is protecting the character’s agency - and her own interpretive freedom - against a too-neat metaphysical reading. She’s also nodding to the show’s tonal tightrope: if you overplay fate, you cheapen the human messiness that makes Jaye’s world feel real. The result is an actor’s practical skepticism: open to wonder, allergic to easy answers, attentive to how meaning gets manufactured onscreen.
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| Topic | Free Will & Fate |
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Dhavernas, Caroline. (2026, February 16). I'm not a religious person, so I'm not a hardcore fate fan, but I guess it's got me thinking about that. I was very careful, though, not to link Jaye's stories always to that. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-not-a-religious-person-so-im-not-a-hardcore-142320/
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Dhavernas, Caroline. "I'm not a religious person, so I'm not a hardcore fate fan, but I guess it's got me thinking about that. I was very careful, though, not to link Jaye's stories always to that." FixQuotes. February 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-not-a-religious-person-so-im-not-a-hardcore-142320/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I'm not a religious person, so I'm not a hardcore fate fan, but I guess it's got me thinking about that. I was very careful, though, not to link Jaye's stories always to that." FixQuotes, 16 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-not-a-religious-person-so-im-not-a-hardcore-142320/. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.







