Maggie Siff Talks About Season 3
Here is an excerpt from the interview:
Tara also seems to get the strength to tell Jax that she’s not going to accept him telling her to go. Does she continue to show that strength throughout the season?
Maggie: I think so, yeah. What I’ve been playing with, and what Kurt’s been writing, is that she has a lot more conviction and certainty about her place in the world there. Her reactions to things are more visceral and immediate. There’s an emotional intensity to the character that had a control around it for the first two seasons, but that’s also fear-based. In this season, there’s a little bit less control over these knee-jerk reactions that she’s having to things. That’s strong, but it’s also more like these people who don’t censor what they say or check their violent impulses. In a way, she’s letting herself revert to something she’s probably been before, in her past, and that more resembles the world around her.
How did you see Tara in Season 1 when you first started playing her, as compared to how you see her now?
Maggie: I’ve always admired her, as a person. I like the character and I liked her from the start. I never saw her as timid. I saw her as someone who made brave choices to leave the world that she knew and get a serious education and become a doctor. She doesn’t have family. Everything she’s done, she’s really done on her own, even coming back to Charming. I guess I’ve always been attracted to characters who are incredibly strong, intelligent and self-motivated, but who have a real soft center. Most of her life has been dictated by other needs and other desires, and I feel like she continues to be her own, strong person. I’ve always thought of her as being incredibly self-guiding
What was it like to act with Stephen King?
Maggie: It was great. He was awesome. He had the best attitude. He’s a huge fan of the show, so he was like, “I can’t believe I’m hanging out with Gemma and Tara!
What was it like to act with Stephen King?
” And, we were like, “We can’t believe we’re hanging out with Stephen King, what are you talking about?” He played a really funny, creepy guy, and he just did it so well. I feel like, of anybody, who would understand the sensibility of our world.
Read the complete interview at collider.com.