I love playing her, I love her so much. There's so many ways in which she is hypocritical. You think of her as living in a time in which she was repressed and constrained and had this very overbearing husband, but she was guilty of a lot of flawed ways of thinking as well.
And she, along with all the rest of the ghosts, will slowly start to change and soften and there's a real musicality with the way I see this character being written and that I've enjoyed playing.
And the costume certainly helps a lot. I like to say of her that she is a woman of leisure who is doomed to be uncomfortable at all times.
And that says a lot about her. It says a lot about that period of history for women and it says a lot about the physical restraints that I, as an actor, am dealing with, wearing a corset and big skirts and a bustle.
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