![]() How it’s a real contradiction and a real struggle. We talked a lot about how you would go back immediately to where you imagined going, and then the reality of it. It all happened very organically as we went along. Because we’re playing people who have been estranged, it really helps. You do each episode in order, and that really helps. You’re building it with each other as you go along. What do you remember about collaborating with Krysten on the character and the mother-daughter relationship?īoth of us are very forensic. How TV Is Celebrating International Women's Day Someone who thought they knew themselves, and then they had this crisis, and they reinvented their lives in a certain way. The gateway to understanding her was her protectiveness, and what I just touched upon: the damage of someone who has had a crisis. We talked about how all of that could feed into the making of the character, so we have a fully rounded character, not just someone who gets cross a lot. What is it? What would it do to you? How could you compare it to something you could realistically relate to - like a brain injury, or a stroke? Something that would give you an anxiousness about yourself or society or the world, where you would find yourself in a position where you don’t know yourself anymore. We talked at great length about the IGH experiments. We talked very specifically about this: if you’re playing this particular character, who is so complicated and complex with so much big stuff, then it has to be rooted in a serious reality. What were your initial conversations with Melissa Rosenberg like? I hope people have enjoyed themselves with that! I know some people have been thinking, “Ooh, is she this? Is she that? Is she the other?” But I’ve hid behind my hands. Were you paying any attention to speculation about the character? Hopefully, that makes the watching experience better. The point of me not telling anybody - or nobody telling anybody what I’m playing - is so that when people watch it, it’s a surprise. It’s been great! I think some people get about the secrecy, but the whole point about the secrecy is to make it more enjoyable for the watcher. You go to your garden in Maine and you take your dog out for a walk. ( Laughs.) It’s so much fun to do a character where nobody knows who she is. How has it been, sitting on the secret of who Alisa really is? 'Jessica Jones' Star Krysten Ritter on Season 2's "Intense" Depiction of the #MeToo Movement
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