There's definitely a luxury to the fluidity of not being a mega-star. I've done a ton of really, really odd, off-the-wall movies. There's this movie I did called 'Queens of Country' a couple of summers ago that is so bananas, and if I was at a certain level, I probably would not have done that movie.
Lizzy CaplanI was a weird tomboy most of my life. I didn't see the power in my own female form for quite a long time. Maybe that's a good thing.
Lizzy CaplanIt's a different thing with cable TV. You don't have to have your characters be lovely again by the end of the episode. And in this era of the male antiheroes on cable TV, you don't even need to make them likable; you just need to make them compelling. As opposed to film, where it's still those basic tropes of good versus evil. But for women, I don't think that has been widely seen yet.
Lizzy CaplanI wanted to see myself as something different, and I wanted to convince people that I was capable of something other than what they would expect from me.
Lizzy Caplan