How the 'Yellowjackets' star resisted pressure to make her sociopathic character more 'relatable.'
When I was a teenager, I read biographies of famous women, and they always seemed to have these mental breakdowns and they’d have to go to an insane asylum. I was obsessed with this as a child. Like, “Wow, it’s really crazy that women just were going insane all the time!” That’s what I thought. As I got older, I was like, “Oh, no, she was just having a normal reaction to her life but was not allowed to express rage, wasn’t allowed to express unhappiness.
You’ve been acting since you were a kid and have played so many interesting and offbeat characters, but I’m assuming those roles were not easy to find. Now there are projects like “Yellowjackets.” Have you and your castmates talked about the way things have changed for you as performers as the culture has changed?
We’re very aware that we’re getting to play more and more interesting characters because of the time where we are. We have discussed the way that things have changed just in terms of being an actress — what you’re allowed to request for yourself. A lot of the younger girls on this show are very much able to stand up for themselves and say, “No, I won’t do that. I don’t want to do that. I don’t like how I’m being treated.
I assume you were deemed “difficult” when you didn’t want to take on stereotypical roles. Was there ever a point where you thought of packing it in? I’ve done this my whole life, so there’s nothing else I’m really going to do. I’ve always felt that way. But there was definitely a period of time when I didn’t fit into anything that was being made. I was constantly being asked or having to go and audition for rom-coms and the things that were available for actresses in my age range, and I didn’t fit into any of them because, I don’t know, I’m just a different kind of actress. It was a very tough period of time.
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