Can you talk about Allison's motivation to make a secret deal
with her father? I mean, that is that's, that's stuck there.
Yeah. I mean, I think we spend the entire season with Allison
kind of spiraling the drain with the loss of Claire and Ray. And
then dear old Reggie kind of opens up a window. It was like,
Hey, you could change all of that and get not only Claire
back, but potentially Ray as well. And I think at that point,
she's so done with her family. And she's so done with Viktor
and she's so done with all of them that she's she's willing to
risk it all.
Yeah, it feels like you kind of open a door and go through it
without a lot of regret. Were you keeping that kind of layered
underneath? In a way? Because it is a horrible thing to do to
betray your whole family.
I think, um, I think in the in the moment where they make that
deal, I think, a lot. It's really malicious on her part,
and also very selfish. But then I think, from that moment on,
she starts to see the repercussions of that, like
Luther dying and not really knowing what Reggie's plan is,
and kind of feeling like, oh, okay, it might be spiraling out
of control. And now, like, the marbles are loose, and she can't
really gather them up fast enough to kind of get ahead of
it. Yeah. But I think she's still kind of that's still in
the back of her mind that, you know, this is his plan. If she
just trusts him. She'll have Claire and Ray. Yeah, even
regardless of how devastating it is, and watching, you know, her
brother die and the world fall apart and the people that she
loves get hurt. Yeah.
It's a beautiful transition you make as you go from that point
of ruthlessness, realizing "oh, no. What did I do" Really
catches up with you. Yeah,
totally. Totally. Yeah, I was really, I mean, I didn't I don't
think I really saw that coming until we were like actually
shooting us finding Luther. And just kind of, you know, I think
I obviously had like, read the scripts. And you know, it hadn't
marinated yet until we were actually shooting some of the
scenes, how much she just is kind of blindly trusting Reggie
and she gets kind of caught up in this like, and but then
there's nobody she can talk to about it. There's nobody she
can...
She just has to play dumb. Your own corner. Yeah. Emmy,
Allison's realization about her loss of Ray and Claire and how
they don't exist in this timeline was... it was
incredibly heartbreaking. And how you how you played it was so
beautiful. How did you approach portraying that very unique
version of grief.
Um, I think I think I just tried as well as I could to put myself
in, in her shoes and kind of use the source material of the
entire second season of everything that Allison had kind
of gone through and the traumas that she collected from being in
the '60s and her love, her deep and immense love for Ray, and
kind of finally finding herself without her family and without
her powers for the first time. And then making the choice to
leave him to find her daughter and to prioritize her
relationship with her daughter and truly losing that. It's like
that's, that's devastating. I can only imagine. And so I just
Yeah, I just I actually printed out the little girl Coco, who
plays Claire, I have a ton of photos of her and I from the the
couple times that we've been able to work together. And so I
had them like all over my trailer and pictures of me and
Yusuf who plays Ray, just to kind of constant reminder of
like the family and the reasons that you know, got Alison to
where she is just everyday at work. So that was really
helpful.
Yeah, there were so many layers to your performance. And you got
a double dose of it this season because of your storyline with
Viktor, which was Yeah, so heart wrenching too. How hard was that
to play?
I mean, I really enjoyed season three of Allison because she
ended up in her own way got to kind of be the villain of the
Umbrellas. I think she... This is a version of Allison we've
never really seen before. She's usually kind of the center and
the one that will go around and bring everybody together when
everybody starts to kind of fall off the train. And she's always
there to like, reach, you know, outreach your hand and get
everybody back on board and I think this is the first season
where she's like, You know what, I'm actually done with that. So
I think it was really fun to play the op and just a version
of her that we've never really seen before and and to play to
dive into her anger and to dive into her kind of her trauma and
her really fractured mental state.