'Judith was crawling on the floor for 12 hours that day. She got down in the dirt. Epatha was ready to throw down.' PokerFace showrunners Nora and Lilla Zuckerman, as well as director Lucky McKee, unpack the latest episode for beastobsessed.
) are, in a word, badasses. They become fast friends with Charlie, who seeks them for guidance as she races away from being murdered, hiding out as a steward in the old folks’ home. The trio play croquet.
And then there’s the twist that they’re actually completely evil, and that they were planning to bomb a high school’s Model U.N. club when they were sent to prison. How did you bake that in as a big reveal?is that you’re always coming into these episodes through the eyes of the villain. If you aren’t making the audience empathize with a person who is about to commit this murder, then I don’t think the episode works.
I think the reason it worked particularly well in Episode 5 in the retirement home is that those two women were so devoted to each other. Charlie really was taken with them, so her discovering that they’ve done this thing and her having to take them down is actually really heartbreaking. That’s a really strong aspect.
Charlie is so beat up over them being villains. She starts crying so subtly, my favorite part in the episode—how did you shoot that?A big way you do that is just keeping an open dialogue with the actors and talking about how far you want to go with everything. We had takes where Charlie had a little bit more overt reactions to [it]. Natasha found a really, really good subtle balance. There’s a tremendous amount of hurt taking place there.
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