It seemed kind-of reasonable to a certain extent. It was sort-of typical, and she was a beautiful young girl, and I didn’t really think about that particularly. Oh, I certainly didn’t want to put on that outfit! Now you get to step out in black suits and looking all-business. Speaking of Malin, there was some criticism surrounding how Laurie was drawn in the comics and the movie, with the claim that Silk Spectre II was too objectified. I think I saw a scene from it, and it’s interesting because with Malin Ackerman, I actually played her mother on a pilot a few years ago. I’d agree that it’s not necessary, and it was a divisive movie as well, so there was potential to muddy your waters, so to speak. Damon actually felt that with his very different take on this story, that it wouldn’t be helpful to watch it. I believe you’ve said that you’re still digging through the expansive Watchmen graphic novel, but had you watched the movie beforehand? We can be very, very real but sort-of do what we want at the same time. So we don’t have any of those rules now in Watchmen. It’s just all that stuff you can’t do anymore. You can’t have people desperately trying to find a payphone to tell somebody something before the bomb goes off. You can’t have romantic goodbyes in airports when the person runs onto the plane and proposes. I think of all the things in movies we can’t do anymore simply because of cellphones or TSA or things like that. It’s kind of fun because Laurie’s very much a mortal, but she’s in this kind-of somewhat altered universe, so it’s kind of fun to ride the fence between those two worlds. Not that these women are villainesses, but like Clytemnestra and strong women who are in extraordinary circumstances.Īs with Legion, Watchmen doesn’t tackle the idea of superheroes in a typical way. I’ve played a lot of iconic villainesses in the theater. I’ve probably played similar roles in the past in the theater but not on camera. I’d have to tie Watchmen and Fargo for that.
Which of these roles seems like the biggest “I’ve never done this before” move? Fargo, Legion, and it’s unfair for me to throw in Dirty John, but I’m gonna do it anyway. You’ve really been pushing into new career frontiers over the past five years. And, yes, we discussed that big, blue sex toy, her extensive Watchmen monologuing, and where Laurie will go from here. Smart was gracious enough to sit down with us to discuss Laurie Blake’s hangups, which (and you knew this was coming) just happen to include Doctor Manhattan.
Watching Smart go toe-to-toe with Tim Blake Nelson‘s Looking Glass and Regina King‘s Angela Abar/Sister Night provided some real kicks for viewers, and the cagey Laurie-Angela showdown continued with this week’s episode.įrom Frasier to Fargo, the Designing Women actress’ career has gone to many wild places and now landed in the superhero realm, and to an even more surreal place than Legion a few years ago. Still, homage was the name of the game in the third episode, which introduced Jean Smart as an older version of Laurie Blake/Silk Spectre II, who’s moved past her vigilante days and is now, in fact, leading the FBI’s anti-vigilante task force. Right out of the gate, HBO’s Watchmen TV series proved itself to be an equally bizarre but wholly distinguishable beast from Alan Moore’s groundbreaking graphic novel and Zack Snyder’s movie.
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