Congratulations to yahya on his Emmy win for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series. Revisit his recent interview with W, here.
. And I thought that they did really dynamic character work with those roles. And the kids, also—to me, the show was about drama and suspense and trust and betrayal and teenage angst and the difficulty of being a single parent and being poor. There was such a wide variety of subject matter that it kept me on the hook. That was something that I could call my friends and family and talk about.
In terms of the words, I didn’t add anything; in terms of the story, the arc, I didn’t have to add anything. I think they were attempting to make a real slice of a love story between Angela and a version of Dr. Manhattan who was hoping to be vulnerable and who was open to receiving love. The story was also aided, outside of the excellent writing and directing, by the chemistry between myself and Regina. That’s my girl.
The theme was more so on my mind, and it was a theme that I was picking up. I learned that term from my sisters—one is a clinical psychologist, the other has a yoga and holistic wellness practice—who studied trauma, trauma in women and traumas in families, that’s passed on from generation to generation. So it was very high on my radar at the time, but I was makingonline—I would look up thehashtag on Twitter, and I would watch what people were talking about.
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