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Spoilers ahead forSharp Objects.
there is no blocking, there is no rehearsals, there are no lights, she explained.
Theres no beginning, middle, end to a scene.
Had you readthe bookbefore you did the show?No, I had not.
It was an amazing movie.
I thought, Wow!
That is so fantastic.
But I dont think they wanted to do that with her.
We just had to give the impression that she was one of those people, you know.
Theres no beginning, middle, end to a scene.
So if there was a beetle suddenly in the middle of the scene, thats what he was shooting.
And he knew exactly how he was going to edit this, and its meticulous.
You have to give into that style, which is brand new.
We all just had to hold hands and jump into the water.
To use the example you just gave, lets say he starts shooting a beetle.
Do you still continue doing the scene?Absolutely.
Or hell find a spider, or hell find a word, and its all threads of a narrative.
He knew what words he wanted.
He knew when he wanted them.
It sounds like its improvisatory, but also very planned at the same time.Exactly.
He very much responds to his environment, and he picked specific environments to create that.
There are no happy surprises.
If it presents itself in the moment, it was supposed to be there.
If somebody trips over a log or something like that, thats supposed to happen.
And so, there really is an artistic quality to it unlike anything Ive ever done.
And thats why he didnt like rehearsal.
He wanted to see what was just going to happen.
For him, thats part of the experience.
At the same time, hes weaving together a story and he knows exactly what hes doing.
Nothing about this is false.
And Chris, you come in and sit wherever you want.
Everybody just do what they want, and lets see what happens.
Usually, thats a take he ended up using the one that was purely organic.
How was that to film?Purely organic.
The only thing I knew was that I was drinking and that I had a box of pills.
Everything else just fell into place.
[Camille] arrives, I bring her in, that was all we established.
We didnt even establish where we were going to sit.
What I love about that particular scene is, for Jackie, everything starts to make sense.
Theres no family, theres no children, theres no husband.
And she can no longer contain this story.
Either because of her own pain or for her love of Camille, she cant contain this anymore.
Its like somebody finally pulled their finger out of the flooding dyke.
Adoras life is the life that Jackie never had.
And I think she was willing to sit on the story because of her friendship with Adora.
But once Camille comes back, she cant sit on it any longer.
Once these girls die, she cant sit on it any longer.
Theres a line in the book that says something about emotional blackmail.
There was talk of exploring that in season two.
Wait, could there be a season two?Oh, no.
I thought they saidthere wouldnt be one.I cant imagine there being one.
But I think, in the long run, Jackie sits on it because she doesnt have proof.
She went for proof, she looked for proof.
Adora can crush anybody.
I love the metaphor of Adora owning the pig farm.
Adora has that control over the whole town.
I mean, even Gayla the housekeeper says, Well, its either this or the pig farm.
And so, even if she doesnt have anything over Jackie, she has something over the entire town.
Thats why theyre all drunk.
I did that to just show that she was hurting.
It was better than cracking my neck.
That was just a way to show that shes suffering.
But thank you, I do like to have a little bit of comic relief in everything I do.
She says to Jackie early on, You make me laugh.
Youre the same old Jackie.
And the only time you really see Camille smile is when she sees Jackie at the funeral.
I think the show benefits so much from that.
This scene ends on a pretty confrontational note.
Camille storms out and Jackies still yelling, I did what I could.
Whereas in the book, it ends more quietly and she basically tells her, Get out of town.
I think originally, I ended up throwing a glass across the room.
But [Vallee] stayed with Amy, because thats what he does.
Its important that you stay with Camille while she goes to confront her mother.
What about the sheriff?
Thats the emotional blackmail.
Its insinuated that theres a closer relationship between Vickery and Adora than what youre seeing now.
But in any event, shes holding the purse strings.
I let Vickery know that I know that: Hows our girl?
Well, not that one, the other one.
Like, I know who youre protecting.
It was interesting because that was a shorter scene.
Was the stuff at the gas station improvised?No, it was written.
Vickerys sitting on the same information that Jackie is.
Everybody knows that Adora had something to do with Marian.
Nobody can prove it.
When Chris Messinas character goes to the hospital and gets the records, my name is all over it.
Obviously, Vickery had the same information.
I dont think it was something that I kept from Vickery.
Im sure he did the same investigating that Jackie ONeill did.
Or maybe he didnt.
Maybe he didnt try hard enough.
But in any event, Adora got away with it and thats a testimony to her power.
And then, he says, Relax into it.
Once you relax into it, theres an incredible freedom to it.
But it was also really dangerous.
It set a tone of not knowing, and theres something dangerous and very fragile about that.
Im definitely much more of like, Tell me where to stand and where to look and Im good.
And I was like, Oooh.
He goes, Yeah, its pretty great.
Id love to do it again.
I dont necessarily miss it, but I do love the freedom it affords you.
Plus I was in muumuus and drinking.
Who doesnt want to wear a muumuu all the time?
