New Interview: Robin Tunney about The Fix
Following, an extract from a new interview with Robin about The Fix, from Madison.com
Starting a new series is like making dinner for 20 in a kitchen you’ve never been in, says actress Robin Tunney.
Tunney says she had to learn where everything was, how to relate to her character, and how to make cast and crewmates feel like family.
To get a sense of the character, Tunney grilled Clark. “I wanted to know what her nervous tics were,” Tunney says. “I wanted to know if she was superstitious or if there were idiosyncratic things I could use for the character.” “She bites her nails, which I thought was interesting,” Tunney says. “But there’s so much bravado in being an attorney, I wanted to see if there was something else I was missing.” Tunney didn’t want to do an impression of Clark. “You have to own your own character, so someone doesn’t come up to you and go, ‘No, no, no, I would never ....’ Nobody knows the story better than the writers, but nobody knows the character better than the actor.”
“There’s a ton of acting involved in law,” she says. “There’s performance in court – that’s why we’re so drawn to it – and, let’s be honest, it’s not telling the truth a lot.”
Unlike her long-running series “The Mentalist,” everything doesn’t wrap up neatly in 44 minutes. “The Fix” will take 10 episodes to show the details of the actor’s life, his family’s life and Maya’s life.
“It’s a much different rhythm,” Tunney says. “There’s more time for nuance and character development. It does humanize (the actor’s) character.”
If the series is renewed, Tunney’s character will tackle a different situation in the next season.
Tunney says it’s great to play a character in her 40s who’s vital. “She’s not just somebody’s mother or somebody who’s married to her job.”
She added her own tweaks to the show (she loves that Maya drives an old convertible); she sees a well-rounded relationship key to the show’s success.
“I had a great time making (‘The Mentalist’) with people who were at the top of their game,” Tunney says. “But I wanted to find a character that was different and definitely not a copy. Once you have success at something, everybody wants you to do the same thing again. I didn’t want to have a gun or handcuffs ... I wanted something new.”
In the process, she also gained a friend in Clark. “I don’t think Marcia feels she made mistakes in court. She knew the cards were stacked against her,” Tunney says.
To refresh her memory of the case, Tunney watched Clark’s press conference after the verdict. “I said, ‘Marcia, it looked like you were going to cry.’ And, quickly, she said, ‘Nope.’ What I learned was: You don’t get in an argument with Marcia Clark because you’re going to lose.”
You can read the whole article on Madison.com
Starting a new series is like making dinner for 20 in a kitchen you’ve never been in, says actress Robin Tunney.
Tunney says she had to learn where everything was, how to relate to her character, and how to make cast and crewmates feel like family.
To get a sense of the character, Tunney grilled Clark. “I wanted to know what her nervous tics were,” Tunney says. “I wanted to know if she was superstitious or if there were idiosyncratic things I could use for the character.” “She bites her nails, which I thought was interesting,” Tunney says. “But there’s so much bravado in being an attorney, I wanted to see if there was something else I was missing.” Tunney didn’t want to do an impression of Clark. “You have to own your own character, so someone doesn’t come up to you and go, ‘No, no, no, I would never ....’ Nobody knows the story better than the writers, but nobody knows the character better than the actor.”
“There’s a ton of acting involved in law,” she says. “There’s performance in court – that’s why we’re so drawn to it – and, let’s be honest, it’s not telling the truth a lot.”
Unlike her long-running series “The Mentalist,” everything doesn’t wrap up neatly in 44 minutes. “The Fix” will take 10 episodes to show the details of the actor’s life, his family’s life and Maya’s life.
“It’s a much different rhythm,” Tunney says. “There’s more time for nuance and character development. It does humanize (the actor’s) character.”
If the series is renewed, Tunney’s character will tackle a different situation in the next season.
Tunney says it’s great to play a character in her 40s who’s vital. “She’s not just somebody’s mother or somebody who’s married to her job.”
She added her own tweaks to the show (she loves that Maya drives an old convertible); she sees a well-rounded relationship key to the show’s success.
“I had a great time making (‘The Mentalist’) with people who were at the top of their game,” Tunney says. “But I wanted to find a character that was different and definitely not a copy. Once you have success at something, everybody wants you to do the same thing again. I didn’t want to have a gun or handcuffs ... I wanted something new.”
In the process, she also gained a friend in Clark. “I don’t think Marcia feels she made mistakes in court. She knew the cards were stacked against her,” Tunney says.
To refresh her memory of the case, Tunney watched Clark’s press conference after the verdict. “I said, ‘Marcia, it looked like you were going to cry.’ And, quickly, she said, ‘Nope.’ What I learned was: You don’t get in an argument with Marcia Clark because you’re going to lose.”
You can read the whole article on Madison.com
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