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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:Taboo(Tuesdays, 10 p.m.
ET) is an unusual show.
Credit: Robert Viglasky/FX
But of course, I’m often wrong.
And then her brother comes back from his mysterious trip, and that throws everything up in the air.
The friction between what you want and what you think you should want is really juicy as an actress.
The relationship between Zilpha and her brother is that what Taboo refers to?
We live in dark times right now.
So we have to learn to look our darkness in the face and honor it.
And I think this show does that.
Like, what is the most unexpected and fed up thing that could happen here?
And then it happens.
But on set, the makeup girls have a lot of fun getting everyone as dirty as humanly possible.
Every morning there’d be a queue of people waiting to get muddy.
They’d get caked in makeup, but sometimes they use real mud.
I’m not sure what they use on their teeth.
Hopefully not real mud.
He puts this wax on his beard, and it smells absolutely heavenly.
All the filth was kind of offset by his heavenly smell.
So Charlie Chaplin was your grandfather.
Has that connection influenced you as an actor?
Do you spend a lot of time watching old Chaplin films?My God, yes.
I think he was and is the greatest film creator of all time.
It’s sort of amazing.
He really did it all.
His work still shows us what the tenderness of the human heart is capable of and without being cheesy.
It’s a reference that I go back to over and over again because it’s still so relevant.
He’s a master.
I’m extremely proud to be related to him, although it feels very surreal sometimes.
I don’t quite believe it.
I think someone’s lying to me.
