Chloë Sevigny Disses Big Love Writers Again, For Old Time's Sake
With Katherine Heigl off Grey's Anatomy for good, which actress will be brave enough to take up her very specific mantle of insulting her television show's writers, apologizing, and then insulting them again? Consider this Chloë Sevigny's very public audition. You may remember back in March, shortly after winning the Golden Globe for her work on Big Love, Sevigny told the AV Club, "It was awful this season, as far as I'm concerned." The actress then recanted her dis to EW, saying, "If [the writers] said something about me, if they made a statement that they were disappointed in my work, I would feel awful."
Now, the cycle begins anew!
THR invited many of the actresses who are up for Emmy contention to participate in a roundtable, including Sevigny, Sandra Oh, Glenn Close, Kyra Sedwick, Claire Danes, and Elisabeth Moss. Oh and Sedgwick dominate the very interesting conversation, but periodically, Sevigny pipes in -- and it's always at the expense of Big Love's writers:
Sevigny: Sometimes it's difficult when you make certain character decisions and then they throw something at you. "Really, I thought she was like this?"
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THR: When you watch your performances, what bothers you?
Sedgwick: I watch the first cut because I have to give notes.
Sevigny: Lucky.
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Sevigny: [I'm bothered] when they do rewrites and they have to cut a scene and they just smoosh one scene to another scene, and it makes no sense.
Don't worry, though: Sevigny also has choice words for the men she acts with ("I find actresses more low-maintenance than actors") and the directors she acts for ("I really trust [Jeanne Tripplehorn and Ginnifer Goodwin], which is rare, I think, between actresses. It's always us against the director"). The funny thing is that I totally agree with Sevigny that Big Love got off the rails this season -- in fact, it's her candor alone that's providing the show with the most real drama it's had all year.
Drama actress roundtable: Sedgwick, Moss, Close, more [THR]
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I think that you can't single out Chloe Sevigny when all of the actresses were talking about the difficulty of dealing with the writing on their respective shows, especially when Elisabeth Moss and Glenn Close were being equally candid about their feelings regarding the writers.
Ethan, I would really like to hear what Glenn Close and Moss said about their respective writers. Can you please write it down here? Thanks.
This is REALLY stretching things...there is no story here, try again. In fact, DONT. Put the keyboard away, and find another line of work. When youre trying to create drama from something THIS thin, its obvious youre just petty and beyond tabloid. Movieline should be embarrassed by this "article" and its title. Low point here folks, low point.
You are really trying too hard to find trouble were there is none. I agree with Chloe, as a viewer it is frustrating when there are things you imagine for a character's backstory, or things have been portrayed a certain way and the writers come up wtih something else or decide to rewrite history for no good reason. It's frustrating as a viewer, I imagine it's moreso for the actor building the character.
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