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Suzanne

Interview with Robin Weigert of "Sons
of Anarchy" on FX 10/28/13
She was very nice in our call, and I'm happy that I made
her laugh :) Great show and a cool cast. It's always nice to
interview anyone from this show.
Final Transcript
FX NETWORK: Sons of Anarchy
October 28, 2013/1:00 p.m. PDT
SPEAKERS
Stephanie Kelly
Robin Weigert
PRESENTATION
Moderator Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for
standing by. Welcome to the Sons of Anarchy Teleconference.
At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode.
Then, later, we’ll conduct a question and answer session,
and the instructions will be given at that time.
(Instructions given.) As a reminder, the conference is being
recorded.
I’d now like to turn the conference over to our host, Ms.
Stephanie Kelly from FX. Please go ahead.
S. Kelly: Hello, everyone. Thank you very much for dialing in
and participating in today’s call with Robin Weigert from
Sons of Anarchy, who plays Lawyer Ally Lowen on the show.
Without further ado, I’ll introduce Robin and get started.
R. Weigert: Hello.
S. Kelly: Robin is now on the call. Go ahead.
Moderator: (Instructions given.) It’s also been requested, if
you can limit yourself to one question and one follow-up
question. For additional questions, you’ll need to queue up
again. Our first question from the line of Mandi Bierly with
Entertainment Weekly. Please go ahead.
M. Bierly: Hello, Robin, how are you?
R. Weigert: Hello. I’m good, thank you. How are you?
M. Bierly: I’m good. Thank you for taking the time. I’ve been
doing sort of post-mortems after each episode, so I won’t
spoil this online before today’s episode airs, I promise
you. I’m on the record. We find out in this episode
—assuming that she (Lowen) doesn’t know what exactly Tara
was planning. I was hoping you could kind of talk us through
what you think she did know and what your reaction was
whenever you sort of figured that out.
R. Weigert: Yes. I mean, I had built such a careful case and
this is a huge bomb that she drops right in the middle of
it. You can understand why Tara would want total security,
that she could keep Gemma away from the kids, but at the
same time she’s wrought havoc on my work to try to—my work,
as Ally Lowen, to try to prepare the way for us to have a
solid case in court. There’s so many ways in which in what
she’s done could potentially be penetrative.
I’m just thinking like a lawyer, you know, as I answer the
question. I mean, in so many ways, what she’s done could be
investigated and have, you know, and be punctured. If that
happens, then it damages all the rest of what I’ve carefully
orchestrated for trial. I think that’s a lot of what’s going
through my head, and I have no choice really but to stand by
her side in this chapter, but it’s a tough one.
M. Bierly: As a follow-up, I just wanted to sort of ask
looking ahead, is there anything you can tease, vaguely,
about I mean it seems like it’s something that could come
back and bite Lowen as well? We know that Gemma may not be
her biggest fan at this point. What you can say about that?
R. Weigert: Oh sure. Yes. The thing about the way the parts
are on this season is being a lawyer for a member of a house
divided is a lot more dynamic than being a lawyer from a
member house united, and this whole season has been about
the fracturing of that family. I think there’s no way—early
on, I had to take sides and it was said in no uncertain
terms in that scene with Gemma, you know, whose side I was
going to take. I think the line was, “I guess I’ll have to
figure out which innocent is in need of a good defense,”
with the word innocent loaded with irony. Really, none of
them are innocent and to be a lawyer and sign up for this
job, you’d have to know that you were doing a little bit of
a dance, a careful dance.
It’s the same as being a lawyer for the mob, I guess. You
are really working the law to try to help your client; and
at the same time, you know that your client will have done a
lot of things that are not on the right side of the law, so
you have to kind of almost play the game of law. It feels
like this has somehow gotten personal for her, for Lowen,
because of her investment perhaps in the kids—herself, her
investment in those kids, in a sense that their innocence
and even their lives are in danger.
There are so many issues this season. There’s legacy, the
audience is sort of I think at this point just rooting for
the light to stay inside of Jax somewhere. He’s done so many
dark, dark things; but for that light at his core not to be
extinguished and so much about what is the source of that
life and light is Tara. As we watch the relationship more
and more in danger, I think, we’re wondering ultimately what
will become of Jax’s soul, really, you know, his heart. I’ve
gotten all tied up in that storyline this season.
M. Bierly: Thank you. I appreciate it.
R. Weigert: Yes, yes.
Moderator: Our next question is from the line of Brent
Hankins with The Nerd Repository. Please go ahead.
R. Weigert: I like the name Nerd Depository. It’s excellent.
B. Hankins: Thank you. You know, over the course of Lowen’s
involvement with the Sons of Anarchy we’ve seen her pretty
much take everything in stride without ever even batting an
eye, but it really seems like the developments with Tara
have kind of gotten under her skin in a way that all of the
other past events with the Sons haven’t.
You know, I think we saw it a little bit last week in the
hospital room just like with the expression on her face when
she was looking at Tara, and then we see it in this week’s
episode with their kind of confrontation. Is Lowen, do you
think, she’s more upset from a personal standpoint or more
of a moral standing? Like she truly believes that Tara has
done something wrong, and she’s conflicted with how she
feels about it and whether she should do anything about it?
R. Weigert: Well, you know, these little points of light
characters like Unser and, to an extent, Lowen, who as
morally ambiguous as their roles are at times, they are on
the side of right somehow. They’re wanting good to prevail
over evil and are fighting that fight. I think what you’re
seeing is that these characters are more embattled this
season and have to make choices; and as soon as you have to
make choices, there’s no way not to become personally
engaged because these aren’t choices dictated by the law, in
my case or in his case, by you know the rules of being a
former cop. They’re dictated by one’s conscious; and as soon
as you start to make choices on that basis, you’re
implicated, and you’re involved in a different level.
She’s had to create a kind of hierarchy of what’s more
important than not and even at some risk to herself this
season, because, certainly, she’s been threatened. She’s
walking into deeper and deeper waters here where she stands
to be ever more threatened, because the situation is
becoming unbelievably volatile, and the potential for
volatility is just escalating. She has to recognize with
each step she takes that she’s committing more and more. I
don’t know if I answered your question.
B. Hankins: Yes. You did. Absolutely. Just a quick follow-up,
you know, as obviously, Gemma suspects something is up and
we have to assume at some point Jax will also find out that
things weren’t quite as they seem, do you think Lowen is
concerned about the fallout from that and what Jax or Gemma
may do to her due to her being complicit in these actions?
R. Weigert: Yes. I mean it is a question whether at this
point my fear is more for myself in terms of my literal
physical well being or more for the—it’s sort of more from
an ego place of having built—worked very hard on a case and
built a case and then watching it sort of crumble. I think,
in terms of just non-altruistic fear that she might have,
which for part of herself is coming from this sort of animal
survival part or is it coming from this sort of lawyer ego
part. I think it may be a mixture of both. I mean, surely,
she is not imagining that she is going to genuinely get
murdered because it’s such a—that would be such a huge
standing thing to do, just that outside of her usual turf
and be a thing like that.
But it can’t be outside of her mind, I mean, she’s seen for
the first time lists of the atrocities that have been
committed by various members of the club, because Tara’s
been building this case with her, she’s showed her evidence
and Wendy showed her evidence too of just exactly how
egregious her clients have been. I think she may realize for
the first time that anything is on the table. I think I just
talked myself in circles but there’s a piece of—I think
there’s a difference in terms of the intensity which she’s
been experiencing from past seasons. I think past seasons
have all been imagined power; and in this season, she may be
slowly perceiving her lack of power, because she’s dealing
with so many rogue elements that she can’t possible control.
B. Hankins: Alright. Thank you so much. I really appreciate
it.
R. Weigert: Sure. Thank you.
Moderator: Our next question from the line of Suzanne Lanoue
with the TV MegaSite. Please go ahead.
S. Lanoue: Hello. Thank you for taking the call today.
R. Weigert: Thank you.
S. Lanoue: I was wondering if coming into the show where some
of these people have been around for such a long time on
this show, were they very welcoming of you?
R. Weigert: Oh, God, yes. It’s such a good group. I think the
saddest thing about things lurching towards the Season 7 is
just that it really has become such a fraternity and
sorority, but such a sort of brotherhood over there. There’s
a lot of genuine love, and they’re very generous with that.
I mean, it’s built on that over there, so I have felt really
embraced and by the whole group of them. It’s really a great
set to work on.
S. Lanoue: Oh, that’s nice.
R. Weigert: Yes, yes.
S. Lanoue: I was going to say I read somewhere that a lot of
them actually do ride motorcycles for fun, and I was
wondering if you had ridden any motorcycles past or present?
R. Weigert: It is so tempting when you live in Los Angeles to
want to ride a bike, because you see them just getting away
with murder in traffic. You know, everything’s jammed up on
the 405 and they’re just running between lanes. I think it’s
kind of dangerous, and I’m a little bit maybe at this time
too conservative in my approach to life to want to risk it,
but that doesn’t mean it’s out of the question for the
future. It looks like so much fun.
S. Lanoue: Now, the guys are going to hear this and say, no,
no, you’ve got to try it.
R. Weigert: I know, I know, I know.
S. Lanoue: Alright. Thanks a lot.
R. Weigert: Yes. Thank you.
Moderator: Our next question from the line of Alex Yarde with
the GoodMenProject.com. Your line is open.
A. Yarde: Hello, congratulations on your IFP Gotham Board
nomination for ….
R. Weigert: Thank you so much.
A. Yarde: That’s really awesome. Also, I just must say that
I’m a big fan of Calamity Jane. I loved that on Deadwood.
R. Weigert: Thank you.
A. Yarde: How would you like to see Ally’s role expand this
season in light of Tara’s like predeal and the whole dealing
with the DA ... DA seems very tough? In the salvages of Ally
and Tara’s professional relationship is it conflict with
their friendship, do you think?
R. Weigert: Well, it’s interesting that it is a professional
relationship and yet the stakes have become personal. I
don’t know that they’re exactly friends. I mean, I think as
I begin to realize how much is being concealed from me,
elements of trust are being savaged in the process, so the
capacity to represent her well is being challenged and I
think if there’s one thing I want to be it’s a good lawyer.
A. Yarde: Yes.
R. Weigert: I want to be able to do well by my client in
whatever that would require. You know?
A. Yarde: Sure.
R. Weigert: I think that’s the thing that more and more on
the line as we move forward. Where would I like to see it
go? What’s the question?
A. Yarde: Yes. How would you like to see her role expand or
move on as Tara in light of her deal and it looks like she’s
wrecking the deal almost?
R. Weigert: Yes. This is something that there are one or two
roads that we either have to get on the same page or I’ve
got to get out. We’ve either got to get on the same page or
I’ve got to get out. I think that’s clearly what’s going
through my mind at this point. I cannot be at odds with my
client and still do well by her. I can’t be kept in the dark
and still do well by her. You know, we have to join forces.
You’re also starting to see in Tara a kind of wildness, I
think, because as much as she’s working to save those kids,
there’s just no way she doesn’t also love her husband, no
matter how much of a defense she has up against him.
A. Yarde: Absolutely.
R. Weigert: This is just so deep, season after season, you’ve
seen it and it just doesn’t get washed away. She’s really
plunging into the territory of unbelievably painful
ambivalence right now and you’re watching it. I think
Maggie’s work this season is so tremendous, and you can
really feel how fragmented she’s becoming inside. I think
that I as her lawyer am registering how extreme it’s getting
for her, as well, you know. There’s just to a lot to weigh,
a lot to measure in terms of what are the best steps to take
on forward.
A. Yarde: Okay. Thank you very much for answering my
question.
R. Weigert: Yes, yes.
Moderator: Our next question from the line of Earl Dittman
with Digital Journal. Please go ahead.
E. Dittman: Hello, Robin. How are you today?
R. Weigert: I’m very well. Thank you.
E. Dittman: Great. I have to say this season’s been fantastic
for all you and especially you, you’ve been wonderful. I
guess when you first got the role did you actually do
research and talk to lawyers? Especially lawyers who deal
with fringe element of the law likes of the anarchy or the
mob and stuff like that?
R. Weigert: No. You know what was really cool that it was
just sort of offered up to me that there’s a member of the
cast who actually was a Hell’s Angel and was talking about
how incredibly intense and important his relationship with
his lawyer was to me when I was on set. That was actually a
very useful conversation that was just sort of a gift.
You can read all you want to, but books are pretty dry and
fictional accounts tend to be over dramatized. I found out
when I was researching Jane as well it’s like people had
agendas with her, Calamity Jane, and it was very hard to
glean anything from what I read and only when I was able to
talk to Jane Alexander about her, who had interviewed some
people who actually knew her because she was young enough
when she played her that there was some people still living
that had done things like ... for Calamity Jane so that was
a similar thing here where a first hand account felt like I
just got so much more out of it. He’s a real tough guy and a
huge-hearted guy as well and just feeling the way he worked
that out through his lawyer was an important piece.
E. Dittman: Did you build a back-story for your own self? We
don’t get to see a lot of it in the show, but did you build
her a back-story?
R. Weigert: Yes. This is one thing that if I could ever plant
a seed with our wonderful showrunner, it would be this
thought; I think her life has been about her work. I think
she’s one of those girls and women who just works so hard,
studied so hard, and became a very high achiever and sort of
that there’s been a bit of a disconnect that she hasn’t
given—she’s so much about controlling that she hasn’t given
herself free rein to express her more passionate side, you
know, so I just don’t even see her in a relationship at all.
It’s almost like she’s married to her work.
I think it would be interesting if something happened to
upend that where she was suddenly caught not being able to
be in the driver’s seat because of a set of feelings that
she hadn’t chosen. That, to me, would be sort of like a
great next step for the character, if she continues on into
next season. I’d be very interested in that.
E. Dittman: Moments ago, you mentioned Kurt; I mentioned to
Maggie and to Katie that Kurt writes some really incredible
roles for women, especially in a testosterone-fueled show
like Sons of Anarchy.
R. Weigert: Sure.
E. Dittman: Incredibly deep, passionate roles. Is that one of
the things you like about doing it or—a lot of shows aren’t
like that.
R. Weigert: Here’s the thing, when you—again, I don’t mean to
keep drawing comparisons to Deadwood, but, obviously, Kurt
had an affection for that show as well because he keeps
cycling different members out of that cast ... but there is
something about how women emerge against a backdrop of
violence and roughness like this. How what women have
innately sort of pops, has focus in an atmosphere that’s so
sort of scary and male dominated. You really see what metal
they’re made of, and they’re really put to the test and
challenged.
I, actually, kind of like playing a female character in what
you’re calling a very ‘testosteroney’ show. I like that
because the imperative to sort of define what you are
against that backdrop makes interesting colors come forth.
E. Dittman: That’s wonderful. Yes.
R. Weigert: Yes, yes.
E. Dittman: Well, I appreciate it. Hopefully, we do plant a
seed. Maybe Kurt will do something for Ally next season; if
not this season, next season.
R. Weigert: Who knows, who knows? I mean it’s all so true
that I’m increasingly getting myself into trouble this
season, I as the character, so it’s a question like how on
earth would I continue to be able to ... the club, so we’ll
see.
E. Dittman: I appreciate it. Thank you so much.
R. Weigert: Yes. Thank you. Yes.
Moderator: We have a question from Hillary Atkin with The
Atkin Report. Please go ahead.
H. Atkin: Hello, Robin.
R. Weigert: Hello.
H. Atkin: Hello. You know, I really resonated with what you
said about your role being compared to a mob lawyer, because
I actually rank SOA right up there with the Sopranos. I
wonder more about Ally’s back-story, how she came into the
family, so to speak, what other clients she’s dealing with,
and court victories or legal victories that she’s most proud
of.
R. Weigert: Yes. I think she sort of loves working the clay
of the law; and if that’s your passion, than a certain
amount of moral relativism comes into play because you’re
seeing what you can make happen and that becomes your
interest more than sort of like the literal right and
wrongness of everything. That’s what makes me feel like
she’s someone who’s gotten way up into her head and has
almost by degrees lost touch with her viscera, you know, her
visceral self, because she’s excellent at what she does.
She’s almost at a certain point had to made sport out of it,
which is I think the compromise of certain lawyers make.
It’s like being really, really good at a certain kind of
board game or excellent at poker or something like that
where you just get good at it and you lose sight of the
bigger picture sometimes. This is a season where she’s being
thrust into a relationship to herself that she’s probably
not that familiar with over the long-term of having to
really decide where she stands as a human, so I think it’s
kind of cracking her open slowly. I think it’s why there are
little peeks of more emotion showing from the character. You
know, I can only imagine.
My brother’s a lawyer, not in this kind of high-stakes game,
but he’s a lawyer for the Environmental Defense Sector of
The Department of Justice. He’s had a couple of cases even
there where he got very caught up, because, you know, he’s
dealing with environmental pollutants and things like that,
but there was a case where they were pursuing some stuff in
Providence where it was a pretty mob-heavy situation. He was
afraid to ask certain people to take the stand because he
knows there’s consequences for them, and he really had to
weigh what that’d be like so that’s a little firsthand taste
of that.
I mean, as soon as the human stakes get really high, I think
you’re very much put to the test. It’s not for the faint of
heart, this kind of work. My God. I can only imagine.
H. Atkin: I know this isn’t in the script, but does she have
other clients that she’s juggling?
R. Weigert: Yes. I kind of loved—it was fun to sort of play a
little bit of that with the thought of like I sort of—I’m
forgetting which scene it was ... Kurt’s really dealt with
Tara, and I’ll be in court all day and I was on my cell
phone dealing with what was clearly other business, the idea
that this is just one case of many is an interesting piece
to play. I mean the stakes exist for her elsewhere in her
life as well; and on any given day, this is going to be
priority one or priority seven depending on what’s really
coming to head where. That’s been—not that I have a ton of
scenes to play that out, but I always look for opportunities
to sort of paint in that outside life as well. Yes.
H. Atkin: Thank you.
Moderator: Our next question from the line of Bruce Eisen
from Here is TV. Please, go ahead.
B. Eisen: Hello, Robin. A quick question for you; when you’re
not working I’m wondering what TV shows you like to watch.
R. Weigert: What shows do I like to watch?
B. Eisen: Yes.
R. Weigert: Oh, God. I sort of binge watch or jag watch
things, so I’ll pick up and watch a season of something. I
can’t help but be hooked this season by American Horror
Story. Part of it is I just have so many friends who are
actors who get to do sort of deliciously wicked things on
that show. I mean sometimes it’s beyond my ability to
tolerate the gore or the violence or something, but it’s
mostly just kind of, especially this season, it’s sort of
the deliciousness to it all, which is always fun. God, I
love watching Jessica Lange in that.
I’ve gotten, like everybody else who’s an actor, and I got
really into Mad Men at one point. I think that’s where I
first saw Maggie on TV being really great was in that role
she had on that show. I’m looking for places where there’s
really a high level of acting going on, I guess.
One show I regret not having tuned in on from the beginning
because I feel like I can’t watch it now until I go all the
way back is Homeland. I feel like I missed the boat on that.
I should’ve started watching it long, long ago, so I think
I’d be utterly lost now. I understand it’s a very
complicated plot, but there are some great people on that,
too.
I think there’s just some really good TV. I think TV is an
amazing medium right now. There’s just so much good stuff
going on. It’s not at all what it used to be. It’s such–some
of the best people are working in TV as writers and as
actors, and it’s just an exciting place to be right now.
Yes.
B. Eisen: Thank you. I appreciate it.
R. Weigert: I could go on, but yes. I could go on.
Moderator: Our next question will be from the line of Alex
Yarde with GoodMenProject.com. Please go ahead.
A. Yarde: Hello. I was interested in when you had spoke about
the back-story and how driven that Ally had been with her
career, and I was wondering if you think that that flavors
her concern? I know that Tara’s her client, but you know
there are children involved and maybe, as you said, if she
doesn’t have children of her own, maybe she feels protective
of Tara and her kids because ...
R. Weigert: Absolutely.
A. Yarde: Yes. I was wondering if you could talk a little bit
about that.
R. Weigert: Yes. This is where I really feel like the
character is being put to the test because I think up until
now in other cases I’ve represented, I’ve been able to stay
cleanly on the side of just being there as a representative.
Here as I’ve peered into sort of the hell of what these kids
have facing them, if they don’t get cleared of this club,
it’s starting to be a cause. It’s starting to be a real
cause for me, and it’s sort of impossible to not get caught
up and engaged.
I appreciate every little beat that’s outside the chief
functional storyline that allows me to fill that in. Even if
the moment of passing by one of the kids at a table and
smiling at them and touching them for a second, you know, it
just shows that my heart is starting to get wrapped around
those children. There’s no way it doesn’t have personal ....
Also having witnessed, really right at the beginning of this
season, Tara is so dismantled in prison and sort of helpless
right at the beginning so—
A. Yarde: Yes.
R. Weigert: I think that charged the character up, too. I
mean there’s a real difference between what its like to see
her behind bars and what it’s been like to see Gemma in
danger and so on, she just hasn’t felt like she has had the
teeth for it. She comes from such a different world. Even
though we’ve been watching Tara in some ways, you know,
become more like Gemma, it’s also quite clear that she’s
more sensitive and she’s more apt to get crushed than to
sort of become the she monster ....
A. Yarde: The hard edge. Yes.
R. Weigert: Yes, yes, yes. I think there’s no way that I ...
defend her. I’m not picking up on some of that and getting
sort of engaged also as her champion and rescue her even or
some of those feelings. I think it’s become very complex,
and there’s a certain point, too, at which when a lawyer
recognizes, the same as a shrink recognizes, that they’re
getting over invested.
A. Yarde: Yes.
R. Weigert: Where they have to weigh whether it’s—
A. Yarde: That’s a danger. Yes.
R. Weigert: —to the detriment of the client, you know? There
are all those things in play sub-textually. Yes.
A. Yarde: That’s great. Just a quick follow-up, when you were
talking about also, I was very interested in when you were
talking about how women like in the example of Calamity Jane
or in Ally, Gemma, and Tara’s roles within Sons of Anarchy
about the woman—the fellowship with the women that they have
to kind of band together and it’s a very kind of
male-dominated arena and that they will have to find ways,
either behind the scenes or to kind of have these alliances,
and how that kind of plays—and it really makes these
wonderful, rich female characters within this male-driven
show.
R. Weigert: If you look at Padilla and then you look at Gemma,
and you look at Nero; he’s in the female role. You know, I
mean traditionally. He’s the one bringing out the soft and
loving side of her, and he is having a profound affect on
her, no doubt, but she’s a warrior.
A. Yarde: Yes.
R. Weigert: She’s a warrior. He’s a feeler and he’s a lover.
He’s a gentle man caught in a rough life. I think there’s
some really interesting role reversal there. Typically, it
would be—I mean Gemma’s such a fantastic character.
Typically, the dynamic that exists between them with the
locus of love being in the female character sort of
softening the male character whose living ... that’s
typically the way that’s set up in these shows and this is
exactly the opposite. God, I think Jim is such an amazing
....
A. Yarde: Yes. He’s fantastic. Yes, he’s always been
brilliant. I mean, yes.
R. Weigert: He just brings so much—I mean it just breaks my
heart when I watch him in this because he’s so caught, he’s
so caught, and every turn you feel what he wishes his life
could be versus what his life is. It’s just beautiful.
Anyway, though, that’s sort of a sidebar. In other words, I
don’t think Gemma is like any other female character I’ve
seen on TV because you’re not looking to her to break. You
don’t think that she’s about to get broken. She’s tough—
A. Yarde: No.
R. Weigert: —to the point where she isn’t breaking anywhere.
You just wonder what her next move is going to be. Usually,
you’re thinking that about a male character, not a female
one.
A. Yarde: Yes. Absolutely. Thank you very much.
R. Weigert: Yes, yes.
Moderator: (Instructions given.) We’ll go next to Earl
Dittman with Digital Journal. Please go ahead.
E. Dittman: Hello, Robin. It’s me again. You know Kurt has
said that a lot of the writing he does is based on the
actresses he hires. They’re the muses for their character in
a way. So it begs a question, how much are you like Ally or
are you totally polar opposites?
R. Weigert: That’s a good question. I have really, really
contradictory sides to me; so if somebody chose to draw on
one side, they’d get a completely different character than
if they drew on another. Maybe that’s why I’m interested I
having there be somebody who puts Ally in to real conflict
with herself, as well, because that would actually be true
to me than the either/or of it. You can probably hear in my
wordiness, as I mention these questions, I’m fairly free
role, but I’m also apt to be swept up by a tide of emotion,
too. I’m sort of extreme in both ways. Just to say, I’m very
much a feeler and I’m very much a thinker and so far what’s
been drawn on for this character is in her mind, her logic,
reason, and her mind have been very much at the helm, so,
again, I’m curious to what she’s like when that gets
exploded somewhat ....
E. Dittman: Well, you mentioned television shows, and a quick
aside; you’ve been on some of my favorites of all time
Deadwood Life, which is one of my favorites of all time. You
have a great resume, and of course you’re still doing this
and I did see Full Circle. You have a film coming up called
God Behaving Badly?
R. Weigert: Yes. That’s the tiniest role I’ve played in my
entire career, but I do exist in that.
E. Dittman: What else do you have coming up? What are you
looking for—
R. Weigert: ... a tree. A talking tree. Literally.
E. Dittman: Is there a role you’re still looking to do. Have
you found your role?
R. Weigert: This part I’ve just played in this movie,
Concussion, was a major step for me because it was about 140
scenes to play of a movie, and I really was a very thorough,
character study piece and that was a wonderful departure and
it was really, really interesting.
E. Dittman: With it still available everywhere, Netflix, you
can still see it.
R. Weigert: Yes, yes. It’s downloadable everywhere ... too,
you know.
E. Dittman: Yes.
R. Weigert: Right now I’m doing a role in movie called Pawn
Sacrifice, which is about Bobby Fischer, and I play Regina
Fischer, his mother. This is more in keeping with some of
the roles I’ve played in the past in the sense it’s a really
interesting character part, a departure for me from who I
appear to be. She’s a Brooklyn leftie, a communist, you
know. Her life spans 1952 to 1972 in the film, so it’s
period peace. It’s just sort of delicious fun, and I love
this kind of stuff.
It’s funny I’m at a bit of a transition point because it
used to be that my favorite, favorite, favorite thing—and
Deadwood was an example of it was to totally vanish from
view and just become somebody totally unrecognizable, and
I’m still in love with that. I’m still in love with sort of
disappearing into a role, but I’m ever more interested in
the reveal aspect of it, as well, kind of like letting
private colors and emotions and feelings and textures of
subtler things just sort of shine through and let the
audience track you.
E. Dittman: Moments ago, you did mentioned Concussion, and I
did see—I loved it. How is it different working with Maggie
on that, as opposed to—do you change your whole attitude?
What is kind of the process?
R. Weigert: Well, I mean it was an utterly different backdrop
because it was sort of all women over there and it’s sort of
all men on Sons, and it just creates a different vibe. You
know, it was a great thing to be able to work with her in a
different context and also on two such different characters,
you know, we’re both these sort of in some sense bored or
frustrated suburban housewives in that, and she ends up
hiring me as a prostitute.
E. Dittman: It I was fantastic. It is fantastic.
R. Weigert: It was crazy, but yes, it’s just a joy to work
with a good actor. What can I say? It’s like she’s very
available. She’s very—one of the openers were free and that
was a really good experience.
E. Dittman: Thank you so much. Again, keep up the great work.
You have a knack for choosing fantastic roles.
R. Weigert: Thank you so much.
E. Dittman: Thanks a lot, Robin.
R. Weigert: Okay.
Moderator: I’ll turn it back to Stephanie Kelly. Thank you.
We have no other questions, so I’ll turn it back to
Stephanie Kelly.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I guess this will conclude our
teleconference for today. Thank you for your participation
and for using AT&T’s Executive TeleConference Service. You
may now disconnect. Thank you.
S. Kelly: Thanks so much, everyone, and thanks to Robin,
especially, for participating. Sons of Anarchy airs Tuesdays
at 10 on FX.
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