She’s going through that with a fine-toothed comb to try and find what the reality was. She’s ruminating on every phone call, every line he told her, everything that felt weird.
I think her brain is constantly turning and figuring out everything that happened from the moment she first met. She’s putting one foot in front of the next. She’s not drunk in Gorky Park with 10 bottles of vodka. But also she’s getting on with it - she’s not on the floor. It’s about what is her perspective now? How much has she been damaged? How much of her outlook has been shattered? What has she forgiven herself for? And what hasn’t she forgiven herself for yet? She’s really living in a state of turmoil and anguish on many levels. Does it feel any different for you playing Martha in Russia? But we’ve always had great communication between us about that, which is super necessary in these moments where we’re finally seeing her at the culmination of her story.įor viewers it looks like Martha’s life has been turned upside down. It’s not until I have something written that I can see what she’s saying and figure out how she’s feeling around that. As soon as they told me that she was going to be seen again and how that would work out, we had to get down to brass tacks about what’s been going on and what’s been happening. I have to know that ahead of time before we go in and shoot anything. I think everything I covered with the Js - going through it, talking to them about where they imagined she was now, emotionally, mentally, what her reality was - we established all of that before 3.
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I love that about the show.ĭid you get the full version of Martha’s story - what she’s been doing, where she’s been - before you filmed that third episode or did you learn a lot of it for episode 9? Just pop her in there and you better be paying attention or you’re gonna miss it. I thought it was so smart and so typically “The Americans,” to come in under the radar like that and not pander at all to the viewers. I loved that’s how they were going to show her. I came back from LA on two separate occasions to shoot 3 and 9. There were a lot of logistics to figure out, so I knew for a long time.ĭid you film that quick glimpse of Martha in episode 3 at the same time you shot episode 9? They had let me know ahead of time what was going to happen and when. How much and how early did you know about the plan for Martha this season?
Wright, who also enjoyed juicy supporting roles this year on FX’s “Feud” and Amazon’s “Sneaky Pete” and is currently co-starring in the Tony-nominated play “Sweat” on Broadway, spoke to Variety about reconnecting with the beloved character and what showrunners Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg (affectionately dubbed “the Js”) revealed to her about their plans for the season.