Fox’s new hit drama The Following (Mondays, 9/8c) has only just begun, but already one key player in Joe Carroll’s nefarious cult-of-killers game has
But while the self-appointed boss of the follower pack may seem as
big and bad as her Poe-loving leader, her portrayer tells a different
story — one that may have you seeing the increasingly ruthless Emma in
a slightly less villainous light.
Curry spoke with TVLine about her character’s true motivations, how dark
things will become for Emma and the other acolytes — including her
boyfriend and his “boyfriend” — and why she still pinches herself with the arrival of each new Following script.
TVLINE | Let’s be honest: You definitely landed the juiciest role on The Following. Were you aware of what you were in for when you initially took the role?
I really wasn’t at all. Every new script I get I pinch myself because I completely agree. [Laughs] I feel like I won the lottery with this character. All three of us in the trio (including Nico Tortorella andAdan Canto) auditioned with dummy scenes and they were fairly open — we just knew we were followers. My scene did indicate this position of power she has with the guys, but that was pretty much it. I had a lot of freedom in that sense, to create a character who was manipulative and intellectual and controlling and all that, but the wonderful thing about Emma — and the way [creator] Kevin Williamson writes her — is that she is whatever she needs to be in any circumstance. So, I feel like I get to play 100 different characters over the course of a season, you know? In the beginning, I struggled with this idea of, ‘What’s the real Emma? What’s the lie? What’s the truth?’ But the scary and amazing and totally freeing thing about her is that it’s all true. She is manipulative and she’ll do what she has to do, but all of the people she cares for she really cares for. It’s all true, but the truth changes from one moment to the next.
I really wasn’t at all. Every new script I get I pinch myself because I completely agree. [Laughs] I feel like I won the lottery with this character. All three of us in the trio (including Nico Tortorella andAdan Canto) auditioned with dummy scenes and they were fairly open — we just knew we were followers. My scene did indicate this position of power she has with the guys, but that was pretty much it. I had a lot of freedom in that sense, to create a character who was manipulative and intellectual and controlling and all that, but the wonderful thing about Emma — and the way [creator] Kevin Williamson writes her — is that she is whatever she needs to be in any circumstance. So, I feel like I get to play 100 different characters over the course of a season, you know? In the beginning, I struggled with this idea of, ‘What’s the real Emma? What’s the lie? What’s the truth?’ But the scary and amazing and totally freeing thing about her is that it’s all true. She is manipulative and she’ll do what she has to do, but all of the people she cares for she really cares for. It’s all true, but the truth changes from one moment to the next.
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