Turns out crime does pays if you’re Felicity Huffman.
“American Crime is an actor’s paradise,” says the actress, who returns for the second season of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated anthology tonight. “I work with amazing people that raise the level of my game. I get to tell meaningful and challenging stories and I get a new character every season, so it is not boring.” But that doesn’t mean the gig is easy. Huffman admits the dark, intense subject matter tends to come home with you at night. She also had to say goodbye to Barb — the broken woman and grieving mother from Season 1, a role that might earn her a second Globe this Sunday — and find her groove with Leslie, the ambitious headmistress at a high school ripped apart by the alleged sexual assault of a male scholarship student by two privileged and popular basketball stars.
This is technically season 2, but essentially this is a whole new show. You are working with many of the same core people, but all of your characters are different and the relationships between your characters are different. Was that discombobulating?
I was just talking to [costar] Tim [Hutton] the other day about this. As actors and as people, even though we knew it was a different story and that we were playing completely different characters, we came back to something with a certain expectation of the familiar. What we were talking about the other night was just how different this entire experience has been. I think part of it is because we keep trying so hard to fit it into the context of Season 1.
“American Crime is an actor’s paradise,” says the actress, who returns for the second season of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated anthology tonight. “I work with amazing people that raise the level of my game. I get to tell meaningful and challenging stories and I get a new character every season, so it is not boring.” But that doesn’t mean the gig is easy. Huffman admits the dark, intense subject matter tends to come home with you at night. She also had to say goodbye to Barb — the broken woman and grieving mother from Season 1, a role that might earn her a second Globe this Sunday — and find her groove with Leslie, the ambitious headmistress at a high school ripped apart by the alleged sexual assault of a male scholarship student by two privileged and popular basketball stars.
This is technically season 2, but essentially this is a whole new show. You are working with many of the same core people, but all of your characters are different and the relationships between your characters are different. Was that discombobulating?
I was just talking to [costar] Tim [Hutton] the other day about this. As actors and as people, even though we knew it was a different story and that we were playing completely different characters, we came back to something with a certain expectation of the familiar. What we were talking about the other night was just how different this entire experience has been. I think part of it is because we keep trying so hard to fit it into the context of Season 1.
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