I want people to stick with it, because when we get to the island where they get their powers, it will be impossible for you to not think it’s the coolest shit you’ve ever seen. The thing about the show is that it’s constantly morphing and reinventing itself. And there’s something interesting in that gray area with the show.Īny particular highlights for you of the filming? We all have an Achilles heel and none of us have the answer. You can be the smartest person in the world, but you can’t figure out love.
But what we’re realizing is that you can be the strongest person in the world and be so weak when it comes to your children. It’s like Captain America coming in and saving the day or Lady Liberty coming in and taking the robbers away, making the world safe and it’ll be okay. Is this a world you’d been very familiar with?īy the end, she’s finding her voice and asking herself, “Where’s the fearless girl I used to be? What have I given up for this that maybe I don’t agree with anymore?” The set of rules that worked in 1929, just don’t work anymore and she experiences an awakening.Īnd it’s fascinating to see them questioning the beliefs they’ve always held, which is yet another reflection of where we’ve been in recent years. Again, the idealism of where they started. I just find it inspiring to see all of them around you and they give me those things I thought was important to set up in the first season. My trailer always has loads of pictures of them, but also incorporated are characters and people like Amelia, Kathy Hepburn… everyone laughed that I had Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones up there. I always have a lot of photos of my friends around, so wherever I go, I feel like I have family and friends with me. Also inspiring were people like Katharine Hepburn, Rosalind Russell, and Amelia Earhart. And looking at my mom led me to Grace’s beginnings.
Even if she’s scared, she’s going to talk her way out of it or find a way out of it. I always said my mom was like a cat on a hot tin roof she always landed on her feet. This is especially true for the first season, where it’s so important to show the idealism they once had. Her fearlessness in a world that was very male-dominated. What I incorporated, probably subconsciously, was the moxie she had when she was younger. And she was a truth seeker, and vibrant and alive and didn’t take shit from anybody. She was very career driven at a time when that wasn’t common for women. But she was the captain of a wrestling team.
On this show, I really love that they created this character who, in 1929, works in a male-dominated world when women weren’t working they were getting married and having kids.
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One of my first big jobs I got was this movie called The Spouseand I had a picture of Natalie Portman that I cut out of Vanity Fairor something, and there was a quote with it that said, “Be the fearless girl your mother warned you about.” That quote always stuck with me, and when I got this part, it really resonated with me, because Grace, as you’re seeing her in the present day, has forgotten the fearless girl she was.
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I’d never really seen a TV show do it, let alone a superhero show, but you get to see them change and how cool to create that moment where it starts to change. It reminds me of what Coppola did with The Godfatherand The Godfather Part IIwith the flashbacks. And then, when they’re older it is such a difference and you don’t usually get that perspective. You see them when they’re bright-eyed and bushy-tailed in their 20s and so idealistic. I got the show right after she passed away and what struck me about it were these characters, especially The Union.
Because I saw fear, I saw perhaps regret, I saw all of these things. To watch that change was heartbreaking and confusing and scary. My mom passed away unexpectedly a couple of years ago, and I remember being struck with how I saw her change how fearful she got as she got older.įear of mortality, how she changed ideals-I just watched her change drastically, and she was so different.