Robins almost could have played an entirely different character in The Wheel of Time. In a Dec. 17 interview with Yahoo, the actress revealed she auditioned for both the roles of Nynaeve and Egwene. "I thought, 'Well, I want to get more skin in the game,' and so I auditioned for both. It happened very, very quickly... I heard quite soon after that they were interested and that they wanted to see me again," Robins said, adding she had eventually realised she was meant to play Nynaeve. "I jumped on a call with [Rafe Judkins], our showrunner, on Skype, back in the day when that was a thing, and we spoke for an hour about the world and Nynaeve and the show."
Robins said what she loves the most about her character is how "human" and "flawed" she is. "I actually haven't had the opportunity to get to know a character so intimately and spend so much time in their mind," she explained.