Warning: This article contains spoilers for the third episode ofWatchmen, She Was Killed by Space Junk.
After two episodes, viewers finally metJean Smarts Laurie Blake onWatchmenSunday night.
She definitely hasnt moved past her past as much as she wants people to believe.
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Have you ever done that genre before?
And I said, I dont know.
No, you must be confused.
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Im not doing it.
You know, made a complete fool of myself.
But to answer your question, no.
And I was not familiar withWatchmenat all.
But I am now.
Youre one of the few actors playing a character from the comics.
I loved the script so much and the way the character was written that I just went with that.
I mean, thats an interesting person.
Yeah, there was this palpable sense of loneliness in her extended phone call with Doctor Manhattan.
But also some defiance at the end of her joke, too.
What did you make of her jokes?I know the joke is very strange.
You could interpret it in so many ways.
She acts like shes trying to make him laugh or amuse him or something.
But yes, theres obviously her in that story.
Who did what to whom?
Have your feelings about the joke changed between shooting the scenes and now?It probably has subliminally.
I havent tried to psychoanalyze it too much.
I think it always has to have stuff thats kind of bubbling under the surface.
I think its more interesting if youre not entirely sure what it means.
Oh God… Yeah.
That didnt thrill me, but it worked out okay.
What does that say about a woman?
She only has black suits in her closet and a pet owl.
Thats kind of sad.
And you dont see it coming.
Its like, Oh snap!
But it starts out in such a bad place because first of all, Angela is a masked vigilante.
Laurie knows that and figures that out almost immediately.
And also the fact that shes one of the lead murder suspects when Laurie gets to Tulsa.
So its interesting to see how that goes.
They always feel like theyre just kind of fragile in a funny way.
But yeah, I think shes got such resentment for her mother, resentment for the Comedian.
Thats when she met Doctor Manhattan and fell madly in love with him, and she was so young.
I think theres tiny bit of mask envy.
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