![]() ![]() Scanlen will portray young Eleanor Roosevelt. She had a complex and often domineering relationship with Eleanor, but the pair eventually grew close. Fiercely devoted to her only son, she commissioned a pair of houses as a wedding present for Franklin and his wife, on the strict condition that she could move in next to them. on HBO.Showtime Picks Up 'George & Tammy' Limited Series Starring Jessica Chastain & Michael Shannon In First Chris McCarthy Moveīurstyn will play Sara Delano Roosevelt (SDR), President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s (Kiefer Sutherland) mother and Eleanor Roosevelt’s (Anderson) mother-in-law. Doing those scenes really showed me a lot about Amma as a character and her unique ways of expressing love and affection expressing gratefulness for a lost sisterhood and a sisterhood that she’s never been able to experience until now. No answer is a wrong answer as to why she does things the way she does. Even thinking on it now I am still so baffled and perplexed by Amma as a character. You have to do bad things in order to be taken care of.”Ĭontinues Scanlen, “It’s this strange cycle of abuse and I think Amma is taking that on in her own perverse, warped way. I think that’s a result of how she’s been raised. ![]() For Amma, that’s a way of expressing her love for Camille and a lot of people don’t see it like that. “Doing those scenes with Amy, I think they reflect on Amma in such way. “Looking back on it now I felt dirty doing those things, and I guess that’s also so reflective about society today in how much women are made to feel dirty because of their sexuality or how they might even express their love for another person,” Scanlen says. And yes, Scanlen, too, was intimidated by Amma. “Amma is such an enigmatic character and it’s sometimes hard to decipher the motives to her actions, so when there were scenes that I wanted to delve into more and understand the inner workings of Amma when she’s doing the things that she does, i was a great way for me to write it out and flesh it out before I got onto set,” she says. “I think when we see these women who have suppressed their rage so much that they have to resort to self destruction or suppress it so much that they need to destruct other people and lash out on the world, it’s uncomfortable to see and it’s because it’s uncontrollable and it’s unexplainable.”Īustralia native Scanlen read Flynn’s novel toward the end of the audition process, and ended up using that highlighted copy as a guide while shooting. “Sometimes people can’t even pinpoint what it is about the show that makes them feel uncomfortable. While promoting the series before its premiere, star and executive producer Adams, showrunner Marti Noxon and author and executive producer Gillian Flynn discussed extensively the fact that Sharp Objects portrays female rage in a way rarely seen on screen. ![]() “I think that every family is dysfunctional in some kind of way, whether we know it or not, and in this case we do see a family that’s suffering from a multigenerational trauma that has passed three generations and manifested itself through violence and self destruction,” Scanlen tells The Hollywood Reporter of her character. These are layers to the character that aren’t often afforded to teenage girls in film. She’s sweet and scary, rebellious and obedient. There’s something going on inside her head, something complicated. You can’t stop them you just have to let them.”Īmma might look sweet, dressed like a doll for her mother and a Skipper Barbie doll for her friends, roller-skating through town, but she’s intimidating in the way that teenagers sometimes are. At the end of the night, the sisters wind up sneaking home and lying in bed together, where Amma tells her sister a haunting message: “Bad things are gonna happen to you. Against Camille’s instincts, she relents, and ends up bonding with her teenage sister in a way she never had the opportunity to before. In episode six, Amma and her friends convince Camille to join them for a booze- and pill-fueled party. Amy Adams' 'Sharp Objects' Makeup Artists Explain How They Created Her Scars
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