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What does that change for you in terms of press or anything else? We thought that “Genius” was going to be airing in that end of May slot for Nat Geo. GD: Tell me more about how the show was moved up. SEE Colin Stetson Interview: ‘Barkskins’ composer I want to stay with these people.” So if we do have other seasons, I think we’ll spend a couple years with these people and if people love the show, maybe eventually we’ll go on to the next generation, which means my character dies out. But he said, “No, these are really rich characters. I know that Elwood had the opportunity to write every year, a new decade so by the next time it would be Trepagny’s servants who carry this story forward. There’s a lot to take in, but by the time you get to 8, you’re like, “No, don’t end! How could you end right there?” So I’m really praying that there is a Season 2 or 3. By the time we get to Episode 8, it’s like a slow start, slow start and then it’s go, go, go, go, go. And then you kind of wait and see if people like it or not. We weren’t planning to premiere until November. I think right now everything is just so uncertain and our premiere got pushed up a bit. So do you know if there are plans to come back for a second season or if it would be with the same group of characters? As you were just talking about, the book spans centuries. GD: I don’t know much you want to say, but they call this a limited series. He literally gave me a line that said, “I will club your balls into your belly.” He wrote that after he knew that I was going to play it. I’m writing her completely.” And then he sort of took off and wrote this woman who’s incredibly strong and incredibly nurturing, but she’s also a real ball-buster. I said, “Elwood, this character is not in the book, right?” And he’s like, “No. So when I was speaking to Elwood about it, I felt like a dork. It focuses on the men, how they came over, the struggles they had, what a testosterone-driven environment it was. It really focuses, mainly the first 100 pages, mostly it focuses on the loggers, or the barkskins and the early pioneers, the settlers, the men. So it’s the first 100 pages of Annie Proulx’s book, and Mathilde is not in it. So that’s what the story is and you track them over about 300 years. that the native peoples didn’t end up with a lot and the billionaires were the people who sort of raped and pillaged the land. And we know that’s the true story of Canada and the U.S. And then the other indentured servant who’s a really loyal one marries a native woman and they go on to have nothing. It’s the story of how one indentured servant goes on to becoming a billionaire and he’s the kind of conniving one. And really, it’s a story of the haves and have-nots. She’s not, right? People will say it’s a story of the deforestation of America, the Americas, I should say, from the 1690s through to modern day.
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GD: Is she in the book, your character, Mathilde? It was kind of this scary, exciting time of exploration and battle and it wasn’t a hard decision, actually, to make actually to join it. I’ve never seen a television show that was going to cover this kind of thing. I don’t know this character in television. I want to be a part of it so much.” And she was just like a woman that I’ve never seen anyone like her. And then when I heard that Elwood and Scott Rudin were doing this, I was like, “OK, I’m begging. It’s based on a beautiful Annie Proulx book, which people may know her work from “Brokeback Mountain” or “Shipping News.” I love her writing and I was already reading the book and I loved it. It was a time that I know nothing about, a situation that I know very little about, which was the moment when people were coming from France to New France, which is in Quebec, in Canada, and trying to occupy it and they were fighting the English and the Hudson’s Bay Company and the native people there as well, the Iroquois, the Wyandots and they were all just fighting against each other for control of his land. Marcia Gay Harden: Well, first of all, I’m a working mom, so it doesn’t matter how long I’ve been working.