Arquette earned her second Golden Globe for her role in the Showtime series. She previously won both a Globe and an Oscar for her supporting role in 'Boyhood.'
00:00Thank you what an incredible honor for this role I feel like I see a lot of Joyce in the world
00:24all over and I think Joyce is a little bit of an invisible person in the world I
00:31feel like she has low-grade depression and I think all of America's had a lot
00:36of low-grade depression for a couple years now but it was so exciting to work
00:45for Showtime on this because I never once heard this refrain that I've heard
00:50throughout my career which is but is she likable enough but is that attractive
00:58enough yeah that's what she really looks like but let's make her look like this
01:01like I felt so free part of that was came directly from Showtime none of those kind
01:09of boundaries or none of that input and a lot of it also came from Ben and from
01:15Benicio and Paul and Eric Lang my other co-star who are all very supportive and
01:23I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I know you can't take it back yeah I didn't plan that it
01:42was an unplanned f-bomb yes thank you I'm very sorry though I know this is a very
01:47elegant occasion and I'm sorry what yeah it does and dental dramas are true trust me
02:00it was really interesting the woman who took over from my character Tilly Joyce in the tailor shop they brought us into the tailor shop while the prisoners were in there walking around with these big shears and and and equipment they said once we bring you in one way we have to take you out we can't bring you back through because they could hold one of you
02:06hostage or something could happen and the woman who started to run the shop after Joyce took us to the actual prison how did that help you form your role it was really interesting the woman who took over from my character Tilly Joyce in the tailor shop they brought us into the tailor shop while the prisoners were in there walking around with these big shears and and and equipment they said once we bring you in one way we have to take you out we can't bring you back through because they could hold one of you hostage or something could happen and the woman who started to run the shop after Joyce took us to the
02:36back room where they supposedly had this affair and so on and then a couple weeks later she got arrested for having an affair in that same back room and what you felt being in that prison was first of all this prison was built at the turn of the century you're walking down halls and they're like dead ends and you don't know what's around the corner it's really cold in the winter there's people with untreated mental illness it's scary to work in there and it's scary to be a prisoner in there and you
03:06you start to see how important this kind of web of survival becomes between all of you and every guard I talked to in there was saying or a person who worked there I'm counting the days to my retirement I'm in this for my retirement and this whole building was looming in the middle of this town and the whole main street was closed down and all the industry was gone and they were all depending on this prison and just looking at the prison
03:36complex in America and the intensity of the prison system on everybody involved was really interesting
03:45Patricia over here in the back you're such a big feminist and that's amazing about you and I was curious if you feel that while you've been making a lot of progress in giving women and minorities top positions behind the camera as well as them as far as well as them as far as
03:59Well I think the Annenberg Institute just did a big report and it wasn't that great the results of that however I'm really glad to see that some of these films have been giving opportunities and and I think Hollywood always responds when they see a
04:16so much revenue coming from it so I think diversity has definitely started to pay off for Hollywood and it probably always would have so I'm hoping to see more of a trend towards that but it's not just Hollywood when I was talking about equal pay I was talking about 98% of all industries and we have a lot of moms out there that are sole breadwinners or primary breadwinners for families so we have to look at equal pay and opportunity and being in the boardroom and managerial positions
04:45and decision making positions across the board but I am excited about how many women we have coming into the house and coming into more positions of power and I hope in the future when I grew up if somebody asked me a riddle and they said you're injured in an accident and the doctor comes in and says this I would always assume that doctor was a man when I was a little girl so I'm hoping the
05:15world's changing so that we see senators and we see directors and DPs as women as well
05:22What also seems to be changing in the middle is more roles for women over 40. Can you speak to that?
05:32Well I was so excited about this part I mean I never thought I would get a part like this in middle age I'm 50 years old I get to play a woman without a typical body type in Hollywood
05:44who's a sexual person unapologetically sexual complicated wants love and I have friends who are
05:51don't have the typical body type they're bigger women and one of them has said to me very clearly
05:57hey I really want to thank you for this project everyone involved because the first time I as a big woman felt like I'm allowed to be a sexual being
06:07in not a fetishized or a joke of a way and I think that's important because if you look at America that's really America
06:14thank you
06:21thank you
06:23thank you
06:25thank you
06:27my mom was a teacher a poet and a civil rights activist and my dad was an actor so they all taught us that all of these things are a part of who we are and to I think to be an actor you also have to feel
06:34what's happening somewhat in the world with mankind and have empathy so it was an important part of our growing up and I think to be an actor you also have to feel what's happening somewhat in the world with mankind and have empathy so it was an important part of our growing up
06:41we were going to uh... a demonstrations we were on picket lines our parents took us to do those things
06:45to do those things
06:46so it was an important part of our growing up we were going to uh... demonstrations we wereop
06:54picket lines our parents took us to do those things and so I don't think that we actually have a one that we have an actor in the country
07:06demonstrations. We were on picket lines. Our parents took us to do those things. And my
07:11sister Alexis is a transgender hero, activist. My sister Rosanna does a lot of work in sex
07:18trafficking. My brother David has done a lot of work for prison reform and also for feeding
07:26homeless kids over weekends when they don't have food at school. My brother Richmond worked
07:31in Haiti and did a lot of relief work with us there. So I'm really proud of my whole family.
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