I enjoy reading and writing very much, and a large portion of my creation revolves along these processes. I find my inspiration often being text-based. You hold a Fine Art degree from the University of Oxford, do you think your creation and artistic outlook are more academic and research based? “I only told my my mom and my dog … and my agent.Kwan Q Li, Happy Hours, 2019. “Both times, there was lots of secrecy to keep it a surprise,” she says. Her two stints this season were stealth visits that would have made KGB spies Philip and Elizabeth (Keri Russell) proud. (Four episodes remain in this penultimate season, which ends May 30). Wright, who also has a role on Amazon's Sneaky Pete, won’t say whether Martha will make any more appearances on The Americans. "I feel like everything I'm doing is weirdly timely." "It's the story of hard-working, blue-collar Americans who have had the American Dream taken away from them," she says. Wright, 40, who has relied on her ear rather than a dialect coach to pick up foreign accents, is now on Broadway playing another American: a long-time factory worker who finds her livelihood in jeopardy in Sweat. "Maybe one day I’ll work with a real live American man.” “I wonder how many fake American men I’m going to work with," she jokes. She finds it amusing that both Rhys and Molina are also U.K. It definitely is part of the collective conversation we're having at the moment, especially since the election.” “The show brings to life how we haven’t come far enough in 50 years. Pauline, a whip-smart, competent assistant to film director Robert Aldrich (Alfred Molina), sees her directing dream quashed by Hollywood sexism, although she later finds success as a documentary filmmaker.įictionalizing Pauline enabled executive producer Ryan Murphy "to represent more than one woman’s experience and what happened to multitudes of women,” Wright says.
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Pauline was a composite character in a limited series in which other major roles were based on specific individuals, including movie legends Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon) and Joan Crawford (Jessica Lange).
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TV role, and is “an amazing platform for me,” she says, crediting the show for another prime supporting role, studio gal Friday Pauline Jameson in FX's period drama, Feud: Bette and Joan. “I’m sure it sprang from The Americans.” The Americans marks Wright's first big U.S. "She’s been putting all these pieces together and just guess about the reality of what her life has been for the past three, four years with him." “She's been there about nine months and I imagine she's done nothing but ruminate and go over every interaction" with Clark, she says. Martha, appearing sadder and wiser, has had time to figure out she was played by Philip, who wooed and eventually wed the naïve, lonely secretary as a way to gain access to FBI secrets. It’s eased their angst a little bit,” she says. Wright received an overwhelmingly positive reaction when Martha, who fans may bond with as their non-spy everywoman, was briefly spotted in a Moscow market earlier this season, proving she was still alive. “She's bracing herself for what version of awful is going to come out of his mouth.”īut Martha may be one of the first people Americans fans want to see. She doesn’t think it’s good news for a second,” Wright tells USA TODAY. Gabriel “is the last face she’d want to see. after her relationship with "Clark," the alias of KGB spy Phillip Jennings (Matthew Rhys), started drawing too much FBI interest. In the episode, she sits down with an unwelcome house guest, Soviet spymaster Gabriel (Frank Langella), who engineered her hurried departure from the U.S. But she struggles with the new language and isn’t making friends. Martha, played by British actress Alison Wright, has a Moscow apartment, food and other necessities, all supplied by her Soviet spy hosts. Poor, sweet FBI secretary Martha Hanson, shipped off to Moscow in the dead of night last season on The Americans, made a surprise appearance on Tuesday’s episode of FX's critically acclaimed 1980s spy drama.
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