We spoke w/ Elisabeth Moss about 'Shining Girls' and why she enjoys playing characters in dark material.
From showrunner Silka Luisa and based on the novel by Lauren Beukes, the Apple TV+ series Shining Girls follows Kirby Mazrachi , the survivor of a traumatic assault who was never able to uncover her attacker’s identity until a recent murder is way too close to her own experience.
When we’ve spoken in the past, you’ve told me that even when the stories you’re telling are dark and the of characters are tortured, you actually have fun. What did you most enjoy about this experience? What was the most satisfying aspect of taking all of this on? You’ve also said that you always try to pull from your own life when you play a character, even if you don’t have a direct parallel to draw from. What was it that first connected you to Kirby? What was that first thing that you found yourself connecting to, and how did that help you build the character out from there?
MOSS: Yeah, that was a tricky one because we wanted to make sure things were believable. We needed to make sure that things were choices that the character would make, so she couldn’t, all of a sudden, have crazy spiky hair, or something like that. It had to be within the world of the character and it had to be grounded as well. We also were trying to find ways in the costume that maybe she changed, so it wasn’t just the hair, and ways in the makeup that she changed.
I don’t think it’s too spoilery to say that, by the end of these episodes, Kirby is able to fill in some of the gaps and holes in her life, and have a bit of a better grasp on what reality is. Is the ending that we see always the ending that the show had? Did that evolve at all, or did it always feel like the most satisfying way to end the season?
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