Chloe Sevigny disrespects Big Love, calls it awful
Chloe Sevigny is reminding the world of why we enjoyed those years when she did very few interviews. I have no idea why this is happening, but it seems like Chloe is doing a ton of interviews lately, and all of them are ten kinds of wrong. Now, I realize that some people like the Christopher Walken doppelganger, but I find her “I‘m too cool for this hipster scene” attitude tired and old. Plus, she can’t open her mouth without farting out something laughably ridiculous like “I love being a gay icon” (like she’s Cher or something) or “Men are intimidated by me, I want to be worshipped and adored.” Like men should be falling all over themselves to get with Christopher Walken’s younger sister.
Anyway, Chloe sat down for yet another interview, this time with The A.V. Club (full piece here). She talking sh-t about Big Love and how “awful” the past season was. Okay… I was going to rail against her, but now that I’ve read the whole thing, I still think she was disrespectful, but I also think the dude doing the interview was leading her in that direction. Eh:
AVC: This past season of Big Love has taken a lot of flak for being so over-the-top.
CS: It was awful this season, as far as I’m concerned. I’m not allowed to say that! [Gasps.] It was very telenovela. I feel like it kind of got away from itself. The whole political campaign seemed to me very farfetched. I mean, I love the show, I love my character, I love the writing, but I felt like they were really pushing it this last season. And with nine episodes, I think they were just squishing too much in. HBO only gave us nine Sundays, because they have so much other original programming—especially with The Pacific—and they only have a certain amount of Sundays per year, so we only got nine Sundays. I think that they had more story than episodes. I think that’s what happened.
AVC: It sort of became like Mormon Dynasty.
CS: [Laughs.] I know, I know. I’ve heard a lot of other things like that.
AVC: What was it like when they first laid out what they wanted to accomplish this season? What was your reaction?
CS: They don’t. We only get it episode to episode. We never know what’s going to happen in the next episode until we’re almost finished shooting the one we’re shooting at present. Me and the girls [Jeanne Tripplehorn and Ginnifer Goodwin] definitely were not very happy with where it was going—or more kind of, “We really hope it’s going to work. It seems like they’re really pushing it.” I think next season, they’re going to go back to more just the family. I think that the stuff with Ben and Lois and that stuff was really great in Mexico, but… [Laughs.]
AVC: A part of the show’s initial appeal was how it at least tried to stay grounded in some semblance of reality. Now that it’s gotten away from that, how do you keep things from turning into self-parody?
CS: I guess I just focus on it from scene to scene. Like, “Why is she behaving like this in this scene?” She’s a very particular, peculiar character, when you think of her circumstances. And this season, she was going through an adolescence that she never had, acting out, and vicariously living through her daughter, and realizing stuff she missed out on, and trying to find herself with the different looks. I think it was a very complicated season for her. And you know, the whole relationship with the daughter, and then J.J. [Laughs.] There’s always so much going on.
AVC: Like how J.J.’s trying to inject her with an incest baby?
CS: Oh God, I know. Oh, God. It’s too much. It’s too much. But I hope the fans will stick with us and tune in next year. There’s a lot of people who really love this season, surprisingly. God, I’m going to get in so much trouble. [Laughs.]
[From The AV Club]
In my opinion, it’s never a good idea for an actor to go public so spectacularly with criticism of their own show or film. I mean, of course that actor should go to the writers and producers with their criticism in private. I get that, and I’m totally not saying that every actor should be the perfect little soldier who just does what they’re told. But all I can really think when some actor mouths off about how “awful” a project was is how the other people who worked on it feel. The actor does not stand alone, and there are hundreds or thousands of people who make their livelihoods on a project that some actor deigns to call “awful”. On the other side, I think Chloe was not just speaking as an actor on the show, but as a fan of the show who was disappointed. So… what do you think? Disrespectful, or just a disappointed fan?
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