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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]