![]() ![]() If you want to really look at it from a fiscal standpoint, I think it would behove many studios to embrace older women’s stories. I’m 59, and there’s just not a lot of people who are writing stories for women my age, even though there’s a huge market and it’s an untapped market man. ![]() PERKINS: There’s accountability now, as well, and that’s really helpful because we have important stories to tell. It’s something that people care about, partly because they know they’re gonna be asked this question, honestly. Now, it feels like it’s actually picking up. Yes, it’s slow, but it felt really slow for a long time. I was blessed again.ĬAPLAN: It will be very exciting to not get asked that question, but I do think progress is being made. Also, to have a really strong leader, like Octavia, she’s incredibly grounded and, for her, it’s very much about the work. But it was great to see the female perspective on the written page, which we don’t get to see very often. It would be a great feeling, if that was just common place and it didn’t stand out so much. It would be nice if that wasn’t so novel. And I went straight from that into this, with Octavia and Nichelle, and a really strong woman’s presence. I did Sharp Objects with Amy Adams and Patricia Clarkson, and it was created by Marti Noxon and Gilian Flynn. PERKINS: I’ve been really lucky, this past couple of years. What was it like working on such a female-centered project? This show is written and produced by females, and it stars really powerful females. PERKINS: I definitely did that, on this one. There was no learning lines in the make-up chair, on this job. I wanted to do it that way, so this person needs to have that reaction, even though the person I am now acting opposite is a stand-in and not what will be on the screen.” It just takes a lot of preparation, beforehand. You have to think about it like, “Okay, I remember that I did that this way. It’s a little lonely and it’s a lot more technical. If you’re playing twins, you miss out on the magic that can happen with another person in a scene. Lizzy, were there special challenges to doing that twice, to play twins?ĬAPLAN: Yeah. So, it’s figuring out how to make their journeys make sense, in their own minds. Everybody is the hero of their own story. ![]() I just need to figure out why, in this moment, this person thinks that their actions or what they’re saying is correct. So, I’m drawn to these types of characters, anyway, but I also don’t consider it my job to judge them or their behavior. I also think that, as you get a little older, luckily, those really aren’t roles you see as much, as you do when you’re on a teen show and everybody is playing this archetypal thing. I like the ones that are having trouble making their way through life. LIZZY CAPLAN: As an actress, I’m not particularly drawn to characters that seem to have everything figured out. ![]()
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