With the 2022 Emmy Awards nominations set to be announced in July, The Hollywood Reporter is getting the jump with a new roundtable featuring some of TV’s top drama actresses.
Sandra Oh, Rosario Dawson, Christina Ricci, Jung Ho-Yeon, Emmy Rossum and Lily James all sat down for a conversation about their work, their respective shows and the TV landscape at large.
Talking about the fan reaction to her character Misty from the hit show “Yellowjackets”, Ricci says, “I was like, this is what this woman’s been putting up with her entire life.” She continues, “You see a woman that’s that dismissible because she has no social currency, she’s not hot, she’s not powerful, and then I’m really little and I’m wearing pastel, kitten things and dorky glasses, and people’s natural reaction is to give that person a hard time.
It was amazing because I’ve never been on a set where people felt so free to give me a hard time.” READ MORE: Christina Ricci Debunks The Most Out-There ‘Yellowjackets’ Theory: ‘Nobody’s Eating Any Babies’ Rossum, meanwhile, recalls the reaction she got when she went to a key pitch meeting for her new show “Angelyne” dressed in full costume as the extravagant title character. “I walked across the Universal lot in everything.
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