Mireille enos big love

Then, a few weeks later they called and offered me the part of Kathy and that was during the second season. Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporter in his review said “It’s not until you watch Enos play Sarah for a while that it sinks in—there hasn’t been a female American character like her probably ever.” Enos received nominations for an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama, and three Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television.

The series ended in 2014, after four seasons.

After her breakout role in The Killing, Enos began her career in feature films. I’ve never gotten to watch that kind of stuff. She is the fourth of five children and grew up in Houston, Texas, where, following in her older siblings footsteps, she attended The High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.

I kept reading the last page over and over, thinking, because the writing and the language was slightly ambiguous, about whether she is fully dead or not. What was it like an actor in Season Two coming into that intense relationship?

Enos: Both Melora and Shawn are the most wonderful actors I’ve ever worked with.

Working on Virginia Woolf was a complete dream. What are the challenges involved with that?

Enos: The hardest part was at the beginning because I had time to figure out who Kathy was but with Jodean I was just kind of thrown it into it. I didn’t know what to say for a couple of minutes and then I started asking questions about who this new girl was and how she was different from Kathy and they didn’t know, they hadn’t mapped it out completely.

I think she has the balls to go head to head with some of the guys.

Q: Lastly, can you give us any hints about what the audience can expect to see with Jodean in the last two episodes of Season Four?

Enos: No, you just have to wait and see! It was long and grueling but it was really fun; watching the stunt of the car crash was really intense.

So probably those two would be my top picks.

Q: If Mark and Will could do anything with Jodean, no matter how crazy, where would you like to see them take her as a character?

Enos: Mary Kay Place [who plays Adaleen Grant] is a woman fighter on the compound but she is a fighter for the cause of the compound and I would love for them to have a strong woman fighting against the evils of the compound.

They sent me the script without telling me! So I wanted to make a moment with that scene between her and Joey and of course I hoped that she would turn into a regular character but it has exceeded my expectations completely.

Q: On that same note, were you surprised then by what an impact Kathy’s death had on the audience?

Enos: Actually, by the time we got to her death, it made sense that it would have that kind of impact because everyone else on the show—like most people in life—have both sides, have goodness and massive faults.

I hoped that she’d stick around and the first episode that I was in was when Melora Walters, who plays Wanda, had been taken to the psych hospital and Kathy shows up to take care of the baby and she and Joey have this scene at the car where there’s a potential for a connection. She is now married to actor Alan Ruck.