AMC’s Walking Dead Blog Interviews Jeryl Prescott (Jacqui)

AMC has posted up an interview with Jeryl Prescott who played Jacqui in Season 1 of The Walking Dead.  And while it is a short interview they do ask her some great questions like how she got the part and at what point she found out that her character was going to die among other things:

Q: You’ve been in several horror films. What do you think suits you to the genre?

A: It might have something to do with the fact that I’m an actress who comes to it as an older woman. There is something interesting about a face that has lived. When we had a couple days off, I played tennis and ended up getting hit in the face with a tennis racket. I showed up on set with a nice little scar. The make-up people wanted to know — do we want to try to hide it? We decided she’s been in a zombie apocalypse; it’s okay if she’s got a scar on her face. I love roles where it’s not about being perfect or being beautiful, where there is more of an interest in what’s going on inside the character.

Q: What did you learn about surviving an apocalypse from playing Jacqui?

A: You have to form new relationships. Even though she was a part of the group and cared about the group, she didn’t have anybody to give her a sense of starting anew. There’s research that people live longer when they have social relationships to keep that part of their hearts alive. I have this fantasy that Morgan came to rescue me and then he and I could raise his adorable son. That’s the kind of thing that keeps you alive.

Q: Jacqui knows a lot about city sewer systems. Do you have any surprising areas of expertise?

A: When I went to school, it was to be an electrical engineer. I graduated with a degree in a industrial management and worked in trucking for a couple of years. Then I decided that I was bored with the trucking industry and that I would go back to graduate school. I have a masters in African-American literature and I got a PhD in American Literature. I spent a number of years teaching as a professor in the university system. Then I turned forty and decided I was going to be the woman I wanted to be! [Laughs] As Emily Dickinson, one of my favorite poets wrote, “All but death can be adjusted.” If you don’t like some choice you made, change it.

To read the entire interview with Jeryl Prescott click here

-Dane



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