When asked about how she handles intense scenes in The Wheel of Time, Robins told Collider in a Nov. 26 interview she likes to imagine that she's actually experiencing the things Nynaeve is going through.
"The best way for me was to really believe the circumstances," Robins said about filming the battle scene in the show's fourth episode. "Sometimes, if I'm not necessarily feeling it on that day, I have to go to a place where I put people from my real life in these circumstances, which is awful, but definitely informs and helps me get to certain emotional levels. Seeing my amazing co-stars on the floor writhing in pain and dying certainly helped. And obviously, there's the moment with Lan in Nynaeve's hands and there's blood pooling around him, and I think all of it, all of the beats leading up to that specific moment just helped."