'She's a character who felt like her story was unfinished more than anybody else.' Jean Smart and Damon Lindelof talk about adapting Silk Spectre for television in Watchmen
The Hollywood Reporter speaks with Jean Smart and Damon Lindelof about adapting the erstwhile Silk Spectre for television: "She mocks anyone wearing a mask.", "She Was Killed by Space Junk," as well as Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' graphic novel on which the show is based.
Smart's debut episode begins with Laurie walking into a bank and simulating a robbery, all as an undercover operation designed to draw out and arrest a Batman analogue named Mister Shadow. In the space of a single scene, the current"I think there's a part of her that enjoys the fact that people know who she was and what she was," says Smart, "but I'm still figuring out certain things about her.
"I think she's fascinated with [Angela] from the get go," says Smart. "At first, she thinks she's a murder suspect, and all of that. She knows who she is and what she is, of course. She figures everything out so quick. But I don't think it's often that Laurie doesn't think she has everything figured out — and here, I think she knows shehave everything figured out, and that it's going to be a real, multilayered mystery to solve.
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