Katherine Waterston, who recently had a bout with COVID-19, examines how she chooses roles and reflects on working with Michael Fassbender in 'Alien: Covenant'
, along with Casey Affleck and Chris Abbot. Waterston and Kirby play 19th-century farmers’ wives, Abigail and Tallie, whose unhappy marriages yield a friendship and passionate romance. Despite their obvious on-screen chemistry, Waterston and Kirby had little time to develop a bond prior to shooting Mona Fastvold’s drama.
“I just thought that was so incredibly strange and ambitious, and I wanted to see behind that curtain and just be a part of something I felt was ballsy and innovative in television,” Waterston explains. “Then, the global pandemic happened, and we’ve had to adjust what the live element is. But I think the pandemic led us to the best version of the live element.
Well, I think we were really lucky because we got along really quickly. We sort of fell into a friendship quite quickly, and e were lucky because we didn’t know each other. We met only once before we started shooting, and the shooting schedule was incredibly ambitious. We shot in two parts — the summer section and the winter section. I think in the summer section, we didn’t have a single day off. I think we shot through seven-day weeks, with rehearsal before the scenes in the morning.
It’s definitely a compliment since there are certain actors who are so recognizable and famous that their characters become interchangeable., is a lot of fun I must say. I’m still laughing over her “Oh God, butter” line.It’s actually not always hard to identify what the big draw is. When I read, there was a line, a voiceover, that wasn’t even a third of the way down the first page. And when I read it, I was in. Sometimes, that happens.
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