Parade.com Interviews Sarah Wayne Callies

Parade.com got a chance to interview Sarah Wayne Callies recently, it’s mostly a puff piece but the interview gives us a closer look at Sarah Wayne Callies’ personal life, writing her first screenplay, as well as her views on her character and the show’s story.

On writing her first screenplay (of the children’s book Elena’s Serenade)
“I see it in the realm of Pan’s Labyrinth, it’s a magical realism-type of world. I had been reading the book to my daughter for like a year and a half before I went, ‘Wait, wait a minute, this 14-page book could be something much more.’ I reached out to the writer who has since become a friend. He’s an amazing man in his nineties and has lived a thousand lives. Whatever happens with the movie at this point, I am grateful for his presence in my life.”

Saying goodbye to Hollywood
“I will probably end up at a university, though probably teaching acting and drama at this point instead of cultural studies, which was my plan. I was on that track and all set to apply to Ph.D. programs in comparative religion. I did a fellowship in theology. I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe. At some point the business will be done with me or I will be done with it. Being a woman in this business is a tight rope walk and there may be a time I say, ‘To hell with it,’ and jump off into the net.”

On Lori’s story arc this season
“Rick and Lori have a divide and conquer, a partnership, when it comes to the best way to save [their son] Carl. He’s responsible for the group’s safety, while she’s responsible for their psychological well-being. That plays out on a larger scale when Rick takes more and more responsibility for the safety of the group and Lori takes more and more responsibility for their psychological well-being and their ethical decisions. She is the one who starts saying it’s not enough to not be dead, we have to be human and to really commit to what that means and to define what that means in a world where the ethics are changing enormously fast because the circumstances are changing enormously fast.”

Will she finally get in on the action?
“Lori will have to pick up arms this season as the threats grow. I think she is somebody who, before all of this started, would have known how to shoot a gun because they had a house and Rick would never have his guns in the house without Lori having a sense of how it works. Pacifist is too strong a word for her, but I don’t think Lori likes guns or using guns.”

To read the entire interview click here!

-Dane

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