"When you read the scripts, you are trying to figure out who this person is and why they do what they do and the way their mind works. All of her decisions were very much thinking of her children, as opposed to what is best for her," Boden said. "Put your kids first and they become your world.
These are the cards she had, and this is how she had to play with them."īoden doesn't have children, but looked to her own mother for inspiration as to how to play Alicia, a young, terrified parent imprisoned in her dead husband's home with his killer son and his conspiring wife. It's a completely different time, circumstances and opportunities. "But that is 21st-century me talking, not Nella talking from 1919.
There are many times in the script when I was like, 'Wooo, this would be a great time to go.' That is what is an anchor, her family," Williams added. "Although it is quite grueling for her to stay, it's what she has to do to survive - to protect and provide for her family because that's No. "Her being Black in that time, the position that she found herself in was actually quite a good job," the actress said. Williams plays Nella, the maid at Foxworth Hall who bears witness to many horrors over the course of decades. You sort of go, 'God, would I make that decision in that time?' A lot of them probably not, I hope," Rooper laughed, "but I can totally see why she does." "She continues to find different ways to survive. Olivia constantly tries to push back against the constraints of an era when it was actually legal for a husband to assault his wife. "She is quite modern for her time, which, hopefully, helps the audience relate to her a little bit, where if she had been more insipid, more feminine, more traditional, she may have been hard to connect with." "What I really enjoyed when I first started reading the scripts is that Olivia isn't a typical heroine or villain," Rooper told UPI in a recent Zoom interview. That leads to a twisted plot involving murder, rape, incest and imprisonment, which will haunt several generations of their family.
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