Lizzy Caplan reflects on ‘Fatal Attraction,’ Fleishman Is in Trouble,’ and taking on two of the biggest roles of her career just as she became a new mom.
] And you know, I’ve been guilty of this in the past myself, like the, the first thing you say is, well, why would you remake that? Like, “There’s only remakes being made, there’s only sequels.” But I don’t know. I feel like we’re drowning in content. If you want to avoid remakes and reboots, there’s a buffet of choices and you never have to see a single remake, and you still would not have enough hours in your lifetime to get through everything.
You have said that you don’t exactly have the ambitions of a method actor, but that it doesn’t necessarily seem like an option for most working moms in the industry anyway. As you’ve gotten more of these longform, intensive opportunities, have you changed the way you work, though? You mentionedis eight hours, so I would think that as you’ve done more of these, you’ve had to adjust a little bit.
Yes, I’ve had to adjust for many circumstantial reasons—first and foremost, being a new mom, nobody needs to be dealing with Alex Forrest when you have to give your kid a bath. I don’t have any judgment towards people who do it that way. Everybody needs to do whatever work they need to do, to mean it and be authentic between action and cut, and however you get there, more power to you.
I think one season we shot 12 episodes; other seasons, maybe 10, but we shot it within the three- to four-month period, which was very true to a prestige television schedule. But it was very intense for me because of all the things you’re saying. It was the first really big opportunity of that caliber that I had been offered, and it totally consumed my entire life. I was not a method actor, but I ate, slept, and lived constantly thinking about Virginia Johnson.
I still kind of feel shocked that they picked a scrappy comedy actress to do that job. Now, I do have a mortgage to pay, I do have a family, I’ve really enjoyed trying to figure out that balance. I think I have experienced success in balancing it and also feeling like I’m failing both sides—my personal life and my professional life. That’s just the gig now. That’s just how it’s always going to feel.
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