One wouldn’t think that a gorgeous lady of wrestling would have much in common with a nun, but thanks to the physical comedy in Mrs. Davis, Betty Gilpin found the connection.
“GLOW was such a crash course in using [everything] from your skull to your toes — everything is involved in your character,” Gilpin, on the latest episode of EW’s The Awardist podcast, says of the Netflix series where she played a wrestler. And that series “totally” made her more comfortable playing a nun who’s on a mission to destroy a Siri-like AI technology in the Peacock sci-fi dramedy Mrs. Davis, where she gets caught up in a bit of action on her journey. “I mean, a onesie-panted habit is a wrestling costume in itself,” she says, laughing.
But Gilpin recalls one scene, though — episode 3’s rodeo and the Excalibattle, where people compete to see who can keep their hands on a large replicate of the sword Excalibur the longest — that she and costar Jake McDornan thought their physicality was going to get them in trouble.
“Jake and I would always tease each other, especially [in episode 3] where we were so far from each other physically, doing scenes together — he would be doing something on the rock that I couldn’t really see, and I would be doing something in the stands — and then on lunch breaks, we would see each other and I’d be like, ‘Did you see how big I was going with my hand movements?’ He’d be like, ‘Did you see what I was doing?’ And we’re like, “Are we going to acting jail? Is this too much?” Gilpin recalls as they tried to go bigger with their actions. But they ended up finding comfort in their surroundings. “We were very unsure how it would all land ’cause we were really swinging for the fences. Everywhere, especially at Excalibattle, you would turn and see a background character with horns and blood and screaming. It’s like, well, I guess if everyone’s going for it, we should go for it too.”
Source: Entertainment Weekly
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Betty Gilpin’s Simone is heaven-sent in Mrs. Davis, but is the A.I.-fighting sister due for a second act? It appears not.
Although a Peacock rep declined to comment, a source at the streamer confirms to TVLine that there are no plans for the acclaimed dramedy — which ended its inaugural eight-episode season on May 18 — to return for a second season.
The news was foreshadowed earlier this month with the reveal of Mrs. Davis’ abrupt Emmys strategy shift. As our sister site Variety reported, the show — which was originally set to enter the comedy series race — will now compete as a limited series.
Mrs. Davis followed Gilpin’s hero nun on a nonsensical quest to find the Holy Grail in the hopes of putting an end to the titular, all-knowing algorithm, which controls half the population. Last Thursday’s finale wrapped up the show’s Season 1 arc, making it ideally suited for the limited series race.
In addition to Gilpin, the series starred Jake McDorman (Dopesick, The Right Stuff) as Wiley and Andy McQueen (Outer Banks) as Jay. David Arquette, Elizabeth Marvel, Katja Herbers, Ben Chaplin, Margo Martindale, Chris Diamantopoulos, Ashley Romans, Tom Wlaschiha and Mathilde Ollivier rounded out the ensemble.
Tara Hernandez (Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon) and Damon Lindelof (Watchmen, The Leftovers) served as creators/EPs, with Hernandez handling showrunning duties.
Source: TVLine
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