In order to play a detective who has the task of solving a murder at the White House and a housewife loaded with a past by Dark Secrets, Uzo Aduba and Melanie Lynskey leaned to comic moments in their drama series, “The residence” and “Yellowjackets,” More than one can imagine.
“It’s just honesty … I like to be able to find moments of levity in dramatic situations or something that feels real that can also be fun,” Lynskey told Aduba during a new part of Thewrap’s long -shaped video series VisionaryNote that “Yellowjackets” find a welcome mix of drama and comedy.
For Aduba, who especially won an Emmy in both the comedy and drama categories to play Suzanne “Crazy Eyes” Warren in “Orange is the new black”, finding the comic beats in “The Residence” was not difficult, and she liked the show’s fast pace.
“I think of comedy like it just … moves so fast – the pace is intentionally very fast – and I imagine it is inside the character’s head and how she processes information really quickly, so the interesting thing is … not to play necessarily in it but just move through it,” Aduba said.
It is Cordelia Cupp’s fast nature that makes her moments of silence the more powerful when she divides clues about the murder mystery. “These magic formulas where she is really quiet … It felt like,” Oh, this can actually be a really exciting exercise in silence, “said Adry.” As much as she can extrapolate from something she observes, she is also really good at observing people and extra -polishing information from that silence too. “
“There were only a few moments at the show where I looked at you in the silence and the silent, the thinking and how you showed that you thought was so beautiful,” Lynskey told Aduba. “It felt like a masterclass.”
Lynskey has woven a similar complexity in Shauna on “Yellowjackets”, which, three seasons in the Showtime series, continues to surprise with what Lynskey calls “constant” terrible choices, that she never makes it clear that they are ready for shock value.
“You get a little protective when you play someone for several seasons,” Lynskey said, leaving that every decision that Shauna makes sense for her, even if it is a complete deviation from how Lynskey would act himself. “I don’t make any decision easily … so it’s fun to play someone who gets 50% of the information and acts on it … It’s very different for me.”
Aduba and Lynskey witnessed each other’s anxious ability to create depths in their characters when they acted together with each other in FX at Hulus 2020 -series “Mrs. America”, who saw Aduba play politicians Shirley Chisholm while Lynskey depicted Rosemary Thomson, a follle. Lynskey points to the power, humanity and injured that Aduba brought to the table read about Chisholm-centered episode and called it “one of the most magical moments” in her life as an actor.
In the same way, Aduba applauded the unique elections that Lynskey made when her character saw a speech from Schlafly and beat several comic beats that were not in the script. “What is brilliant about your work is that we are constantly looking at the ever-changing movement of decision-that it is not as easy as we think it is to come to a position on a tough decision,” said Aduba, noting that the experience is more authentic for the human experience.
To hear the actresses bind over their humble actors and distinguishing what projects they want to conduct in the future, watch the full visionaries the video above.
Visionaries are produced by Jennifer Laski, director of video and photography for Thewrap.
