Did you have any mixed feelings about getting killed off The Bridge? That’s one of the great things about TV now, is that life cycles of shows are more concise.Īnd characters’ lives in some cases are more concise. But I don’t know if anyone could have, frankly, given Scully and Mulder chemistry, after nine years. I was a bit more ignorant to the attempt to try to uphold and extend that franchise, which we obviously didn’t do. Does this feel different because you’re not so front and center and trying to extend the franchise? You have a background in playing a law-enforcement officer on The X-Files, which you also joined late in its run. It’s pretty empowering to stand there with a badge - high and tight, man. There is something powerful about that uniform. For me, playing this cop, I had to stand and talk differently. The reality is, we’re all nervous and scared and insecure on some level about what we’re putting out into the world. Yes, as Tommy said to me last week, “I’m just a TV tough-guy.” I would say the same for the actors that I worked with as much as for the characters they play. One of the greatest things about this show is that while you do have a hypermasculine motorcycle club, you have these tender hearts underneath their kuttes. Yes, there is a lot of masculine energy, but it was never overwhelming to me. None of us are in an operating room performing brain surgery. We’re all there to do good work, but we also have the gift of play, so it should be fun. In general, I’m a pretty easygoing actor. Sons of Anarchy’s Jimmy Smits on Nero’s DecisionĪs an actress, how do you deal with all the testosterone floating around the SOA set? Are you one of the guys, or are you treated differently? I find it a very fascinating scene to play, and not one that’s typical to any relationship that’s normally seen on TV, which is why I was totally behind shooting it. She was the one who pushed him first and slapped him first. The way into her emotions is to be a scrappy, tough chick. Because Jarry is so lost emotionally - she’s not a therapized individual - she’s messy and scrappy. And sometimes violence is a way in and through their own emotional puzzles. I’ve read comments that said this scene was promoting domestic abuse, and while I always take that into the outside analysis of it, I’m playing a character. How was it for you to shoot those scenes, especially the more violent one? While I wouldn’t allow my 6- and 8-year-old children to watch that yet, I am not the moral police, nor do I judge the characters that I play. The Parents Television Council denounced last week’s episode, which included two graphic sex scenes between you and Tommy. She’s had her own willingness to break the rules. But Tommy and Kurt and I have wanted it to be a genuine attraction between these two people. Was that the nature of the initial attraction to Chibs - the forbidden fruit?Ībsolutely. It’s that realization that they’ve dabbled in this netherworld of each other, but in order to maintain their own identities, they have to go back to their traditional roles. Like he says, they can’t go walking down Main Street. And the writing is already on the wall that Chibs and Jarry can’t be a normal couple. Ultimately, she does want to keep Charming safe on her watch. She’s attracted to the dark side, but she’s really trying to do the right thing, in the wrong way. She likes the adrenaline of both the good side and the bad side. This is a cop and a woman whose own morality is confused. Have you created a backstory for when and how she went bad?Įarly in the season, I lifted up my shirt and showed Chibs that I have a bullet wound. Your character has been crooked from the get-go. It was so great to join the show in its last season, and in such a pivotal role. They cast such amazing actors who can transform. They use their actors like a kind of rep company - you see Walton Goggins on Justifie d and Sons. It was my good luck that I was killed on The Bridge and went directly over to another fantastic, provocative FX show. You seemed to make a seamless transition between FX’s The Bridge and Sons of Anarchy this season. The X-Files and Bridge alum spoke with Vulture about her controversial SOA sex scenes, her reunion with fellow West Wing–er Jimmy Smits, and the legacy of Mystic Pizza. There’s a new sheriff in town for Sons of Anarchy’s final season: Annabeth Gish’s Althea Jarry, a corrupt Charming, California, cop who’s been sleeping with the would-be enemy, SAMCRO gang-member Chibs (Tommy Flanagan).
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