Hey, how are you guys doing today?
Great. Good, how are you?
Very good, thank you.
I just want to say congratulations on an incredible third season.
I can't wait for everyone to watch it.
Thank you.
I just wanted to start off, if you could, because it's
fresh straight into the Civil War.
And I just thought if you could start by explaining where your characters are
and how they're coping with the war at the moment.
Lavinia is in a moment of deep mourning and regret,
she is realizing that all of these, all of the eligible men
her age are being drafted into the war and that she has turned down
all of these marriage proposals in the previous seasons.
And she's really regretting those choices.
And her kind of personal grief
is fueled by the grief of the country in this very difficult moment.
So she really goes deep and exploring and
wanting to feel kind of connected to the depth of sadness of the moment and
and finds her way out of it through some wild performance art .
Emily is.
She's sort of at a loss.
She's in the middle of.
A very hopeless time that they are all living through,
and she can see that not only is
is the world hurting, but her the
the people within her home are all hurting and they're all experiencing
this, this pain and this sort of division that's happening between them
that she feels she has to mend
and she doesn't quite know how to do that.
She has only ever known,
you know, the answer to to
the majority of her questions have been her writing and in her writing.
And until she's able to realize that that can have
a positive impact on those that are hurting, she struggles with
how to kind of find that hope and keep that hope alive within everyone else.
Amazing and fanatically, it feels very prescient.
Even though it was hundreds of years ago, it feels similar to how we're coping
with the pandemic and all the political like wars that are going on right now.
How did that feed into your performances and your roles?
I think something that I have found really hard about this time is it
feels like things change so rapidly that as you're trying to wrap your head
around one massive social upheaval, there's another there's
a climate disaster and then another moment of social upheaval.
And I think the 1860s were very much like that.
We had this huge industrial
boom and
this technological boom before the 1860s.
And then we have this massive upheaval of fighting for the abolition of slavery.
And so I think that kind of that feeling of like, you can't
you can't keep track of everything and you really desperately want to.
Engage with those issues felt very true to both time periods,
so I think in thinking about the amount of grief
that Lavinia was experiencing, I had so many examples
in front of me of people that were feeling that way.
I mean, even there was a Tik Tok trend.
I feel like during the pandemic of people getting into their
sinks, singing like.
David and I was like.
Lavinia, that's living in this season.
So so there are always kind of little parallels to be found.
Amazing.
Well, thank you so much for talking to me today.
I can't wait for everyone to see season four.
It's truly wonderful.
And good luck with the rest of the day today.
Thank you so much. Thank you.