00:10Thank you what an incredible honor for this role I feel like I see a lot of Joyce in the
00:24world
00:26all over and I think Joyce is a little bit of an invisible person in the world I feel like
00:32she
00:33has low-grade depression and I think all of America's had a lot of low-grade depression
00:38for a couple years now but it was so exciting to work for Showtime on this because I never once
00:48heard this refrain that I've heard throughout my career which is but is she likable enough
00:56but is that attractive enough yeah that's what she really looks like but let's make her look like
01:01this like I felt so free part of that was came directly from Showtime none of those kind of
01:09boundaries or none of that input and a lot of it also came from Ben and from Benicio and Paul
01:16and Eric Lang my other co-star who are all very supportive and
01:29I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I know you can't take it back can you yeah I didn't plan that
01:41it was an
01:42unplanned f-bomb yes thank you I'm very sorry though I know this is a very elegant occasion and
01:50I'm sorry what yeah it does and dental dramas are true trust me thank you thank you
02:10it was really interesting the woman who took over for my character Tilly Joyce in the tailor shop
02:17they brought us into the tailor shop while the prisoners were in there walking around with these
02:21big shears and and and equipment they said once we bring you in one way we have to take you
02:27out we
02:27can't bring you back through because they could hold one of you hostage or something could happen
02:32and the woman who started to run the shop after Joyce took us to the back room where they supposedly
02:38had this affair and so on and then a couple weeks later she got arrested for having an affair in
02:44that
02:44same back room and what you felt being in that prison was first of all this prison was built at
02:50the turn of the century you're walking down halls and they're like dead ends and you don't know what's
02:56what's around the corner it's really cold in the winter there's people with untreated mental illness
03:02it's scary to work in there and it's scary to be a prisoner in there and you start to see
03:07how important
03:08this kind of web of survival becomes between all of you and every guard I talked to in there was
03:16saying
03:17or a person who worked there I'm counting the days to my retirement I'm in this for my retirement and
03:24this whole
03:24building was looming in the middle of this town and the whole main street was closed down and all the
03:30industry was gone and they were all depending on this prison and just looking at the prison complex in
03:36America and the intensity of the prison system on everybody involved was really interesting
03:58well I think the Annenberg Institute just did a big report and it wasn't that great the results of
04:05that however I'm really glad to see that some of these films have been giving opportunities and and
04:13I think Hollywood always responds when they see a so much revenue coming from it so I think diversity
04:22is definitely started to pay off for Hollywood and it probably always would have so I'm hoping to see
04:27more of a trend towards that but it's not just Hollywood when I was talking about equal pay I was
04:32talking
04:32about 98% of all industries and we have a lot of moms out there that are sole breadwinners or
04:38primary breadwinners
04:39for families so we have to look at equal pay and opportunity and being in the boardroom and managerial
04:45positions and decision-making positions across the board but I am excited about how many women we have coming
04:52into the house and coming into more positions of power and I hope in the future when I grew up
05:00if somebody asked me a
05:02riddle and they said you're injured in an accident and the doctor comes in and says this I would always
05:10assume that doctor was a man when I was a little girl so I'm hoping the world's changing so that
05:16we see
05:16senators and we see directors and DPs as women as well
05:21what also seems to be changing in the middle
05:24hello
05:27is that more roles for women over 40
05:31can 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
05:37in middle age
05:38I'm 50 years old I get to play a woman without a typical body type in Hollywood
05:43who's a sexual person unapologetically sexual
05:47complicated wants love and I have friends who are don't have the typical body type they're bigger
05:53women and one of them has said to me very clearly hey I really want to thank you for this
05:59project
06:00everyone involved because it's the first time I as a big woman felt like I'm allowed to be a sexual
06:06being
06:07and not a fetishized or a joke of a way
06:10and I think that's important because if you look at America that's really America
06:19thank you thank you
06:25thank you
06:43thank you my mom was a teacher a poet and a civil rights activist and my dad was an actor
06:49so they all taught us that all of these things are a part of who we are
06:53and to I think to be an actor you also have to feel what's happening somewhat in the world
06:59with mankind and have empathy
07:01so it was an important part of our growing up
07:04we were going to demonstrations
07:06we were on picket lines
07:08our parents took us to do those things
07:10and my sister Alexis is a transgender
07:14hero
07:14activist my sister Rosanna does a lot of work in sex trafficking
07:19my brother David has done a lot of work for for prison reform and also for
07:25feeding homeless kids over weekends when they don't have food at school
07:30my brother Richmond worked in Haiti and did a lot of relief work with us there so
07:34I'm really proud of my whole family
07:38thank you very much
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