- Hailee, hello.
Although actually I feel like I should say
"hello Kate Bishop",
but you're probably gonna get an awful lot of that.
- (Hailee laughing) Thank you.
- Well congratulations on "Dickinson".
And of course up until the first season of "Dickinson"
actually your acting career
was very much geared towards movies.
Why did you make the move to TV?
And why "Dickinson" in particular?
- Well it seems as though a lot of things are
and have been shifting as far as the the TV space goes,
it's just been so...
I mean it's expanded so much in the last few years
and these streaming services are where it's at.
And as a fan of them,
it felt like just something
I was just genuinely curious about and interested in
and with "Dickinson" being "Dickinson"
and being as special as it is.
And being on and a part of the launch of Apple TV+,
just felt like something really special and exciting.
To have Apple TV+ be a whole new venture for them,
a whole new venture into the TV space for myself as well,
it just again was just a very exciting moment.
And I remember speaking to Alena Smith
the creator and writer of the show for the first time
and hearing her...
I mean, just amazing breakdown of what the show was
and felt like and looked like and all of that,
and I just knew it was something I had to be involved in.
- And of course you're staying with TV for "Hawkeye".
I wondered if it was something in the format as well of TV
that because you're dealing with a number of episodes
it allows you to dig a bit deeper with your character.
- It does you know it's funny,
I find myself comparing,
obviously experiences to previous experiences
and now having lived in this sort of TV space for a minute
and then like you said with the format
of Director's switching
and going episode by episode and having that opportunity
to dig deeper as you go
and make more discoveries as you go.
With "Dickinson" though,
they do feel like,
and maybe it's because it is what I'm more familiar with
as far as movie-making,
they feel like making a movie,
luckily with "Dickinson" we had all of the scripts
in advance and you're able to see the arc of the character,
but going episode by episode and having new Directors
and having a new clean fresh perspective
every couple of weeks is something that was difficult
for me in the beginning but I really learned to love it
and embrace it and appreciate it.
So it's definitely something in the format that's exciting
and different and new for me.
- Now Emily Dickinson in the series and indeed
in real life was very wary of being well-known and famous.
You on the other hand
have over thirteen million followers on Instagram.
What's that like for you and if Emily was around today,
how do you think she would react to that?
- It's a question that we've been asking ourselves
for a couple years now and I'm sure Alena
even more than that.
So I imagine she would handle it like a bad-ass.
I think she would have a very witty Twitter.
I think they would be tweets that I would retweet
all the time without question,
but more importantly I do think that,
maybe it's easy to think this way because Emily's poetry
is so appreciated now.
And to have this show be what introduces
or reintroduces people to her work,
I think that she would feel hopefully very proud
and loved and embraced because she is.
I think that what's so wonderful about season two
is we really dig into that thought process
of how scary it can be,
the idea of fame.
And I think a lot of people contemplate that now
because fame is much more easy to achieve
than it was in Emily's time.
And it's a scary thing.
It's an easy thing to ask for.
And it's a scary thing to sort of comprehend
and break-down and then possibly get rid of once you have it
if you decide you don't want it.
So the whole thought process of Emily
and seeing that in season two is what makes it
really exciting is just really being there for it.
- Hailee, lovely talking to you,
and like I said thoroughly enjoyed "Dickinson",
great series.
Thank you - Thank you.
- Very much indeed for your time.
- Thank you so much, you too.
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